Clayton's Summer Reading Project

                      Books: The Contender,  Enders Game

        In down town Detroit, a kid named Alfred walks outside after training for a boxing championship. As he was walking home, he saw a blinking light, and watched it get bigger, until it crashed right in front of him.
"What's that?" he said, amazed.
         A kid walked out, he was no more than eighteen years old.
"I'm Captain Ender, who are you?" he asked.
"I'm Alfred." he said, astonished
          Ender walked out of the rubble that was once  a space ship, and held out his hand, for a handshake. Alfred picked up on this, and gave him a handshake.
"you need a place to stay" Alfred asked Ender.
         When they got to Alfred's, Alfred gave Ender a blanket, and a pillow.
"You cen sleep on the couch." Alfred said
Ender just plainly said"Thanks."
          The next morning, while they were eating breakfast, they saw the news that a military craft had crashed. Alfred looked at Ender and nodded. So they both went down to where the crash had been.
           When they got to the crash scene, there were the police, and the fire department there.
"Keep it movin', keep it movin', nothin' to see here, people!" A cop was saying.
"can you distract the cop?', Ender asked Alfred
"Yeah" Alfred replied
           Alfred walked up to the cop, and poked him. While he was doing that, Ender snuck onto the space craft, and got it to run. Ender flew to the next street, and Alfred followed.
            While on the next block, Ender picked up Alfred, and flew to a suburb out side of town. Alfred said he knew someone who could fix the ship.
"How close is the shop?" Ender asked Alfred
"What shop?" Alfred said " We're goin' to his house."
" How are we supposed to get there?"Ender asked, frustrated at this point
"We can call him, he'll come." Alfred stated
            Luckily, they found a pay phone down the road.
            After a little while, a red station wagon pulled up, and a man wearing jean shorts, a T- shirt, and sneakers got out of the car.
"You sure know how to pick'em." Ender said sadistically
"Hey, this guy can fix anything!" Alfred shot back
            The man didn't say anything, he just went to work fixing the broken space craft. About two hours later, he was done.
"Hey, thanks!" Ender shouted to the guy
 He just got back into the station wagon, and drove away.
           At that moment, the police arrived, and Ender and Alfred both jumped into the space craft. Ender managed to get it to run again, and fly it away from Earth. Back to the place he was trained
           When they got there, Ender was greeted by everyone.
"Who're they?" Alfred asked
"Just some old friends." Ender replied