The Boxes- Eli Vande Griend
The setting of The Boxes, takes place in a modern day city, unnamed throughout the book. This causes some little problems for Annie and Henry that involve moving around and traveling to certain places. One of the places they have to go to and from is the Crutchly building. Here they are interrogated and asked questions about the lord (a clock that can stop time). Multiple times they are either kidnapped or taken by force, and asked how they can use the lord for their own devious purposes. Another place the story mainly takes place, is Annie’s house. Since Annie lives in a mansion, it is very easy for her to hide the boxes. In the basement, is where the creatures live and where she goes to talk to them. Also her room she has the lord in it hidden from anyone who may walk in. A small part of the story, takes place a Henry’s house on the hill at the top of the neighborhood. Here Annie finds Uncle Margo on Henry’s roof frozen in time (he wakes up latter and helps them).
The Westing Game – Jordan Cutaia
The setting in the book The Westing Game takes place in Westing Town but within the town it takes place in Mr. Westing’s house. Also, the book seems to take place in the early to mid 1900’s because they have cars but also talk about mansions which are more seen in older times. Mr. Westing’s house is less of a house and more of a mansion while the heirs to the fortune are using it as a hotel. While the heirs are given clues and trying to find the murderer and who is going to get the fortune they go about roaming Mr. Westing’s mansion. Also, the murderer is supposedly one of the heirs which means the murderer is in the mansion with the rest of the heirs. The heirs are trying to find out who the murderer is before it’s too late.
The Hunger Games- Kayla Cashen
This story takes place in District 12, there are 11 other districts. District 12 tends to be one of the poorest ones. It’s in a post-apocalyptic time, after the bringing down of the United States, the country of Panem arose. The Capitol was the capitol of Panem, but a little while after Panem came, a rebellion started from the thirteen districts. During the rebellion, the District 13th district was destroyed. The district has coal mines, and very few businesses.
Ship Breaker (Claire Hovde)
In the book Ship Breaker, the characters Nailer, Pima, and Lucky Girl, are on an island where they are waiting for the tide to go down so that they can return to their homes. The current setting of the story is significant because Nailer and Pima have just found a dying Lucky Girl inside of a wrecked ship. They rescued her and right now she is trying to convince them to keep her alive with the promise of wealth and the opportunity to never work again. This part of the story is dark and intense because Pima and Nailer have to decide Lucky Girl’s fate and that is represented by having them around a campfire. The book doesn’t specify what exact year the book takes place in but it is sometime in the future.
Peak (Nathan Wagner)
In the beginging of Peak, Peak Marcello starts off climbing up the Woolworth building. He is then detained and sent off to the Juvinial Detention Center. After spending several days there, Peak is sent to Nepal to meet up with his father. Is sent because his father sent for him to atempt to climb Mt. Everest before he turns fifteen. This book does not say when exactly when the story is supposed take place, but I would assume it takes place during modern times.
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