Chapter+Summaries

=Chapter Summaries= A good title for chapter 1 is "Trying to Get By" because Rick is always getting into trouble. Rick, the teenage main character, has been getting in trouble since his parents abandoned him and his grandmother died. This time, it is serious. Rick has been sentenced to Blue Canyon Youth Detention Center, where the murderous kids are sent. Will he escape or stay?- Jeremy
 * ==Chapter 1==

A good title for chapter 2 is "It Sure Is Hot In Here" because the janitors have been stealing the air conditioners making everyone in Blue Canyon sweaty. During this chapter it basically tells and descibes what Rick does at Blue Canyon. Lifting weights to be strong, if needed for fight, gardening, to avoid potentially bad people, and reading, to get away from Blue Canyon in his mind.- Whit
 * ==**Chapter 2**==

A good title for chapter 3 would be "Running Away from Cigarettes", because Rick is going to run away from Blue Canyon. Killian, another kid from Blue Canyon, tells him that his name is on the cigarettes. This means that the guards will give a pack of cigarettes to whoever beats up Rick. Rick runs away at night so he he will not get beat up. He climbs over the fence and starts to run. -Hans
 * ==Chapter 3==

I think that a good title for chapter 4 would be “On The Run,” because overall Rick is hitch hiking all over the place to get away from Blue Canyon. The chapter starts when Rick just escaped from Blue Canyon and is running to the interstate. Soon he hitchhikes a ride to Arizona and then Rick hitchhikes a ride to Utah and gets dropped off at a gas station where he meets Nuke Gunderson. Rick jumps into the back of a truck full of dead calves and after hours in the truck he arrives in the desert with two strangers. -Donald
 * ==Chapter 4==

I think chapter 5 should be titled "Back on the Road of Crime". This is because Rick, the main character in this book, steals the man near the maze’s truck, to get out of the wilderness and back on the high way so he can travel away. This chapter is interesting because Rick shows he will do anything to survive. This new character might end up helping Rick or hurt him for stealing his truck. -Matthew A good title for chapter 6 is "Friend Or Foe" because in this chapter Rick finds a person named Lon who is studying birds. When it is dark Rick steals the man's truck and runs away with it and comes to a dead end. That is when he figures out that there is only one way out of the canyon. Rick goes back to the camp and up the road he came in on and the man is sitting on a roadblock. Lon takes him back to the camp and asks what he was doing and where he came from Rick makes up a lie. Lon lets hem clean up a cut that Rick had on his face. Lon invites hem to spend the night and Rick accepts. - Preston
 * =Chapter 5=
 * ==**Chapter 6**==

A good title for chapter 7 is "The Intruders" because two intruders come on to Lon's campsite while Rick is alone at the campsite and Lon is higher up on the mountain. Luckily Rick sees them coming and is able to hide before they see him. Rick realizes that they are up to no good and that he and Lon could be in danger. In this chapter Rick realizes that Lon has changed his name and Rick starts to get suspicious about Lon. - Josh
 * ==Chapter 7==

A good title for chapter 8 would be "Seeing M4” because Lon and Rick see the condor named M4 fly high above them for the first time. M4 is a baby condor, but he is very special. He can fly further than any other baby condor his age that Lon had ever seen. This chapter had many other important events in this chapter including: Lon doesn’t turn Rick into the Sheriff, and Rick told Lon about the two men he sees in the maze. Will we meet M4 again? What about the two men Rick saw in the Maze? - Evan
 * ===Chapter 8===

I believe that the most fitting title for Chapter 9 is "Driving Lessons". This is because Lon lets Rick drive up the dugway, then the swithbacks to the plateau. This amounted in a total of 800 feet. Along with this a few more mysteries become clear. Rick finds out that Lon is actually rehabilatating an Eagle named Sky. Also, Rick finds out a little more about animal behavior. Plus watching a Condor in action makes everything even more worth while. I looks like this is the adventure that Rick was looking for. -David A good title for chapter 10 would be, " Local pilots" because Lon goes flying on the hanglider with Sky. Rick starts to have the flying dreams again because Rick feels free and carefree. On the way over to the takeoff zone Rick holds Sky. Soon after Lon launches off the cliff and some ravens come and do acrobatics. That is why I think the chapter should be called "Local Pilots".-Donald A good title for chapter 11 would be " The Maze Ranger" because in this chapter the ranger comes to talk to Lon and Rick. He tells them that he might not be the ranger anymore. The sheriff also talks to them about Nuke, and how he hates the government. Nuke hates the government because they took his graze permit. This was a good chapter in the story. Will there be a new sheriff in town?-Watty
 * ===Chapter 9===
 * ===Chapter 10===
 * ==**Chapter 11**==

A good name for chapter 12 is “Catching a Dinosaur”. In this chapter M4, a huge Jurassic bird, a condor, flies away from his safe home .M4 is so far away he may not be able to fly back home. He is in a dangerous place where coyotes could eat him. To save M4 Lon and Rick get ready to captureM4 Lon and Rick first get some sleep and a bite to eat before the big capture in the morning- Woody
 * ==Chapter 12==

A good title for chapter 13 would be Tracking M4, for it is a very exciting chapter about Lon and Rick tracking the condor called M4 that strayed about 5 miles from camp. There is 1 very exciting part of chapter 13 during which Lon attempts to catch M4 with a net. All he ends up doing is scaring the bird to a higher perch and give it the spooks. This chapter ends with Rick and Lon packing things to try to catch M4 on his perch the next day. This ending had a kind of “We’re going to do this, and we’re going to do it right” attitude. Chapter 13 was great.--Robert
 * ==Chapter 13==

A good title for chapter 14 is "Capturing Maverick" because in this chapter Lon and Rick set out a calf for the vultures to eat and hope that Maverick will follow the other birds. Lon and Rick wait for a very long time until finally Maverick comes down and starts eating with the other birds. Lon makes him move and captures the bird and puts him in a cage to take a good look at him see if their is anything wrong with him. While Lon was doing all of this Rick found out that he was very fascinated in birds and wanted to learn more about them. - Owen
 * ==Chapter 14==

I think a good title for chapter 15 would be “Cut from the Same Cloth,” because Rick discovers that he and Lon are very similar. Just like Rick, it turns out that Lon had been sent to many foster homes because of the way his parents treated him, which reminds Rick of how Killian’s (a kid from Blue Canyon) parents treated him. Also in this chapter, Lon Gives Rick some advice about life, which is a real help for Rick because the advice is coming from someone who knows what Rick’s going through. - Ryan
 * ===**Chapter 15**===

A good title for Chapter 16 would be "Maverick's Memorial Flight". As Maverick takes of flying Lon and Rick are amazed at Maverick for catching a lot of thermals. When Maverick is soaring in the air a eagle appears and crashes Maverick on to the ground. On the ground there was a vicious dog that attacks Maverick and eats it up and kills him. In memorial of Maverick there going to go fly.- William W.
 * ===Chapter 16===

A good title for this chapter would be “First Fly” because Rick takes his first real flight on a hang glider. Lon decides to take Rick on his first hang glider ride and Rick loves the feeling of flying and the scenery of the earth below him. They get to do a thermal while on there flight and make a successful landing. When they get back to camp Lon tells him he already has a ride out of camp for him the next time Josh comes in. -William R
 * ==Chapter 17==


 * ===**Chapter 18**===

I think a good title for chapter 18 would be “Rick’s Turn,” because in the last chapter, Rick and Lon went up hang gliding in tandem, and in this chapter Rick starts learning to fly solo. In this chapter, the author does a good job of describing hang gliding. This was a very interesting chapter. -Ryan

I think a good chapter title for 19 is "Escape from Death". I think this because Rick is about to get washed down the because of the big storm. Nuke and Gunderson are there, but they wont help him. He finally escapes and tells Lon that they are making illegal wepons. At first I thought he was going to die. -Tay
 * ==**Chapter 19**==

I think a good chapter name for chapter 20 is "learning to fly". In this Chapter Rick learns how to fly. he starts off at the lower dunes then moves up to the higher dunes. He asks lon about flying off the cliffs and he says he will be able to do it about in a week. At the end of this chapter M1 flys up over chimney rock, that is where Carliles camp is, and Lon and Rick pack a day pack so they can go over there and try to catch it.-Paul
 * ==Chapter 20==

I think that a good title for Chapter 21 would be "Think Before You Act". This is because when Lon hears a gun shot, he all of a sudden thinks that Carlie shot one of the condors. So Lon travels down into the canyon to look for the bird, but this is a bad decision because a storm is coming and Lon can't get back. Lon dosen't allow Rick to come with him, so Rick is forced to stay at the camp and ponder on whether Lon is going to be ok. This story could be over fast, and the sad thing is, nobody can do anything about it. A good chapter title is "To The Rescue". In this chapter Rick flies the hang glider out in the Maze to search for Lon. Before he takes off the pitbull Jasper runs after him to stop him from taking off to save Lon. The pitbull can't reach Rick but grabbes onto a bag atached to the hang glider. The dog pulls the hang glider down slowly, but when the dog tries to get a better grip it can't get ahold and falls down and down. -Teddy
 * ==Chapter 21==
 * ===**Chapter 22**===

I think a good chapter title for this chapter is " The Rescue" because Rick flies off on the hanglider to try to save Lon. It turns out Rick had no sled run but he had a big thermal. When the storm was about to hit Rick saw Lon on the side of a cliff and went down to save him. Rick saved Lon and they both got back to their camp site safe. - Alex
 * ===Chapter 23===

A good name for this chapter is "back in the courtroom". i think that is a good title for chapter 24 is because Lon and Ricky both are back in the courtroom since a long time. Here Rick gets assigned to live in the Page group homeand go to the Page school and works for the Page condor project. - Pau**l**
 * **Chapter 24**