Kim Aebly gets some treats from McBride's Bakery

Kim Aebly, Grade 11 Eagle Butte High School, participated in this reading initiative and got some unexpected treats today.

She's a millionaire! Well...she has millionaire bars from McBride's Bakery.

Kamina Moore gets a box of Millionaire Bars from McBride's Bakery!

Kamina Moore, MHHS Grade 9.
Thanks Kamina for participating in the reading initiative!

Trojan Odyssey -- reviewed by Shpend Kerqeli

Trojan Odyssey
By Clive Cussler

The author of this book is known for spinning a yarn of action, suspense, and adventure in his novels but this may very well be the best novel of the DIRK PITT™ series. The story begins when our hero DIRK PITT™ when he meets the children he didn’t know he had. Everything goes south when his children are stuck inside of a research habitat 50 feet below the surface in the middle of the most chaotic hurricane in 60 years and their air is running out! DIRK PITT™ saves his children from the hurricane before saving an ocean going hotel! He is then sent on to investigate a mysterious substance called “the brown crud” that is killing marine life in South America and Haiti. He soon finds out that a mysterious billionaire who goes by the name of specter is creating the brown crud for his own profit. He is sent on an investigation where he cheats death numerous times and foils specters plan. This book will have you hooked in the first chapter guaranteed. This book is one of the best books I have ever read. Do yourself a favor and sign this book out.

Swim the Fly -- reviewed by Josh Rumble

Swim the Fly
By Don Calame

Three best friends go to a school. They are on a swimming team. Each summer off school they always have a competition where whichever one is the bravest one to accomplish that challenge. One of the challenges is that one of them has to see a naked girl before the summer is over. Three years ago they had to ask out a girl that was the most popular of the school. I think this is a great story because it has cliffhangers every end of the chapter. When I read it I wanted to read more and more. I really want to read more swim the fly books. They are so interesting and teens only kind of book. I think they done a good job writing these books, people would really enjoy them if there more copies and more places to sell. I would recommend this book if someone asks. Swim the fly is a great book to read for teenagers

Luna -- reviewed by Tashina McIntyre

Luna
By Julie Peters

This book is about a boy named Liam who is transgender and nobody knows accept his sister Regan. Regan helps her brother hide that he is transgender from their parents. Every night Liam would wake Regan up at 2 in the morning and transform himself into a girl and put on skirts and dresses and wigs. Liam wanted to tell his dad that he didn’t want to play guy sports like football or baseball. He wanted to be like a girl he wanted to have sleepovers, do makeup and paint nails but he couldn’t let his dad find out or he would be sad. Regan was having a hard time with her boyfriend named Chris because she didn’t want him to know about Liam and that he is transgender but Chris wanted to know everything about her life. Liam had a hard time not telling his best friend Aly because he wanted her to know everything about her but one day he had to tell her because he didn’t want her to hate him if he didn’t tell her. On Liam’s birthday he decided he didn’t care what his dad thought of him. So he transformed himself into a girl. Liam’s dad was mad. He was so mad he almost punched him. So the next morning Liam woke Regan up and they drove to the airport. Liam said he was going to move with terri-lynn the girl she talked to online that was trans gender and helped Liam be ok with it. So when the airplane came Liam left and Regan got everything that Liam left behind. Regan hasn’t seen Liam in a long time after that

The Dark Tower -- reviewed by Tyrell Eresman-Berglund

The Dark Tower: The Wind Through The Keyhole Review
Stephen King

By Tyrell Eresman-Berglund

Now I really don’t know how to start this off, but from my experience of reading, “The Dark Tower” series, Stephen King has done a fantastic job, especially since he originally decided to stop writing the series after 2004 with the seventh book as the climax of the tale. Now the secondary part of the title, “The Wind through the Keyhole” comes from a childhood story that Roland Deschain’s mother told him, when he was a child. Now if you don’t know who Roland Deschain is, he has been the protagonist of the series & is a gunslinger, which in his “world” is basically a knight who is of from the Line of The Eld, basically descendants of Arthur Eld (In our world known as King Arthur). Now Roland & his ka-tet (his posse) Jake Chambers, Eddie Dean, Susannah Dean & Oy begin their story arriving at a river on their journey to the Dark Tower, where an elderly ferryman named Bix offers a ride across the river and also informs the Ka-tet that a starkblast (severe storm) is going to hit and that they must seek shelter nearby. Now from there, Roland’s ka-tet shelter themselves in the town center of River Whye and begins to tell the second part of this story starts with Roland and Jamie De Curry traveling to the town of Debaria to hunt a skin-man (shape shifter). After going to a gruesome massacre in Debaria of one of the local families, they find a sole survivor, Bill. After bringing Bill back to Debaria’s jail to keep him safe from a vengeful skin-man, Roland decides to comfort Bill by telling him a childhood fairy tale his own mother read to him as a child, which leads to the third part of our story and the title of the story.
Now this part of the story, is where we get the artistic design of the cover and the title The Wind Through The Keyhole, which is about Tim Ross, the son of Big Ross (A lumberjack) who was supposedly murdered by a dragon but actually murdered by his woodsman partner Big Kells, who ends up marrying Tim’s mother because Tim’s mother couldn’t afford the price of taxes that the Covenant Man collects for himself every year. Now Tim goes on a quest to find a cure for his mother’s blindness after Big Kells brutally beats her. Now I’ll leave the summary of the story so I don’t ruin the ending for you. Now for the entire amount of the series I’ve read and of the amount of Stephen King books I read, this novel is very action packed, surprising and obviously it’s not Stephen King’s typical horror/thriller genre he tends to fall into, but his fantasy universe “The Dark Tower” & his in-between novel The Wind Through The Keyhole, is a fantastic addition to the series and I honestly put it in my top three reads.

Impulse -- reviewed by Faith Straub

Impulse
By Ellen Hopkins

The book I was reading is called Impulse; it had some interesting detail and some not so interesting detail. Impulse is about a few teenagers that have been through some hard struggles throughout life and have been majorly affected by it. The actions these teens chose to deal with the situation were not very good decisions, they chose self-harm or harm towards others. After choosing the decisions of suicide attempts, these three teens quickly became locked up in a psychiatric facility. They each live with a dark past filled with abuse but slowly they begin to open up to one another and build tight bonds. One of the main characters ended up killing his abuser, one character had sex with a teacher and the other watched his mentally ill mother die. Also in the story there is cutting, abortion, bi-polar disorder, over achieving and a character who thinks he is gay. At the end of this story it became pretty intense because one of the protagonists dies a really violent death. I myself didn’t like this book because it wasn’t something that popped, it wasn’t anything special. It got boring at points of the book, but the one thing that I did like about this book was the free verse writing, which was an interesting thing because it made the book easier to read and a bit easier to follow. One part that I did like about this read is the detail they put in when talking about what they have done to harm themselves and the detailing of what happens in a psychiatric facility. Like I said, the book itself wasn’t the best but some of the detailing it. Ellen Hopkins is an amazing author and she has some really great books, but this one just isn’t for me.