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Explain why you chose this book. Be specific, and explain in detail.
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Do you like the beginning? Has it lived up to your expectations? Explain why or why not using specific examples from your book.
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Shug
Jenny Han
page 192
I chose this book be cause it sounded very interesting. The story line about a little girl who thinks she's in love and it's all about how she deals with growing up. So far Shug the main character is expiriencing the hardships of "being a woman".Shug's never been a girly girl so middle school is strange for her. She faces peer pressure and difficulties at home. On top of all that Shug thinks she's in love with Mark. Her best guy friend from when she was born until now. The only problem is he doesn't love her back. Middle school is all brand new for her and Jack isn't helping her any. To get her grade up in english she has to tutor someone...and Jack is the only one left. Jack and Shug have never really gotten along but now they're starting to. Shug is finally discovering who she is and exactly where she fits in. I loved the beginning of the book it really lived up to my expectations. I loved it because you can really relate to the facts of growing up and finding out who you really are.
Shug
Jenny Han
I chose this book because i wanted to read something different and this book looked interesting. I have finished the book. Shug is about a girl named Annemarie Wilcox, nicknamed Shug. Shug has been best friends with her neighbor Mark since they were little babies. One day, while they are sitting under 'their' tree, Shug relizes that she has a big crush on Mark. But, things go down hill from there. She and Mark start Junior High. He doesn't want to ride bikes or hang out with Shug anymore. He only wants to hang out with the 'guys'. Shug wants to spend more time with Mark, but, he never wants to. This book was a great book. I enjoyed this book so much. It was even better than i expected! next tome your at the libary check it out!
-Jacquelyn D.
I am reading the book The Cupid Chronicals by Coleen Murtagh Paratore. I'm on page 29 so far. In the book so far Willa the main character is in 9th grade. The person that she likes has just moved back from Minnesota and she is so happy. Willa is the leader of the commonity service group. She is trying to put together a Halloween party so every one can get back together. One of the old snobby girls has moved back. Her name is Ruby Sivler and Willa invites her to the party but Ruby is making one of her own. Now Willa feels like shes going to put toghether a bad party because shes not inviting all of the older classmen like Ruby is. I chose this book because this is a sequal to The Wedding Planners Daughter and that book was great.
Amanda S
I am reading the book Ark Angel by Anthony Horowitz. I am on page 72. I chose this book because i have read the book before it in the series (Stormbreaker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, and Scorpia.) They are all amazing books and i thought this last book had to be good because the other ones were. So far in Ark Angel, Alex Rider got shot from a sniper on a roof as he was walking out of the MI6 building. Alex stepped off the side walk as the bullet hit him, so it got lodged in hm right above his heart. Alex was in the hospital for about a week and in the room next to him was another kid named Paul Driven. One night, Alex was dieing to get some fresh air because he had been inside for a whole week. When Alex was outside, 4 guys walked in the front doors of the hospital at early hours of the morning. The men asked to see Paul Driven and the guy at the front desk said it was too late to visit. One of the men pulled out a gun and got the room number and shot the man at the desk. They were on their way to Paul's room when alex switched the room numbers with his room so he could protect Paul from being kid napped. Alex took out the 4 guys but forgot about their driver. The driver then took out Alex and brought him to an abandoned building. In there Alex met the leader of Force Three. After they had found out that Alex was not Paul, they locked Alex in a room and lit the building on fire and left him. Alex made his way out onto the roof but he couldnt jump because it was 15 floors high. He had noticed that there was a line connecting to another building he could slowely walk acrossed. So far i like this book and it was exactly what i expected.
Jess H.
I am currently reading a book called, On the Brightside, I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, by Louise Rennison. In the book i am currenty on page73.
I chose this book because it looked interesting. Also because my finds told me the first book in this series is pretty good o i saw this bok and just decided to pick it up.
So far in the book there is a girl named Georgia. Gergia had just become the girlfriend of the sex god(aka Robbie). Something good has finally hapened in Georgia's life(Robbie), but Robbie went out of town for a little while so shes waiting for him to come back home. While Robbie is gone Georgia discovers the fact that her parents want her to move to a town in New Zeland called Kiwi-A-Gogo. Georgia freaks out and explains to her mother simply that she just cant move and she wont. Her mother dosnt take it, she tellls Georgia that shes moving no matter what. Georgia is crushed, she cant believe that while her boyfriend is gone shes going to end up moving! Robbie comes home the day before she leaves and her and Robbie hang out together for a little while. Georgia is as happy as ever that night, but then remembers that she is soon leaving. Georgia mopes around for a while trying to convince her mom that she simply just cant go, not that now she is the girlfriend of The Sex God. Her mother although still dosnt care. Georgia gets awoken the day that theyre supposed to move and her mother tells her the wonderful news that theyre not going to move anymore and that her father will be coming back home instead of having them move to New Zeland. Georgia is absoltuly estatic! That is what has happened so far in my book.
So far i have liked the begging, and it has lived up to my expectations. Thats because the book is pretty funny and as a lot of wierd kind of things in the book like Georgias cat, Angus, gets into a lot of trouble with the next door neighbors, like Angus attacks the neighbors. Or Angus likes to eat birds so he always brings Georgia a little feather or something as a present. The book is very funny and i am most certainly glad that i picked it up.
-Jessica Z.
Gillette G.
I just finished the book, 'Larklight' by Philip Reeve. I chose Larklight because the title and the name looked interesting and the paragraph on the back was very intriguing. In the book, Art and his sister, Myrtle, get their house (which is a space ship) attacked by giant spiders who capture their father. Later they find out that the spiders were looking for the key to larklight, their ship.With the key, they would destroy the solar system. Art and Myrtle escape from their house to the moon and meet Jack. Jack and his friends help them out, but when Myrtle learns that they are pirates, she is angered. The book is set in the early 1800's, in an alternate universe. I really liked the book because there is a lot of adventure, even in the beginning. Like on the moon, they find clay-like pots, and in them are skeletons, some of them are really old, but some seem newer. But then a giant moth comes and puts them in pots for food for its children. Jack and is crew saved them from their impending deaths by cracking the pots and shooting the worms. The characters are very interesting, and it has a very unique plot.
I am currently reading The Cupid Chronicles by Coleen Murtagh Paratore. I'm on page 60, chapter 9. I choose the book because I read the first book in series. So far in the book Willa the main character, a freshman in high school. Willa has a major crush a boy named Joesph or J.F.K. (he just moved back form Minnesota) Tina Willa's best friend came up with an idea to have a halloween party in the barn behind the Inn Willa parents own. They have a party and charge five dollars to get in for community service (Willa had be selected to be leader). J.F.K. was the only boy who showed up besides they band. When Willa and J.F.K were talking she found out that the only library in bramble was being closed down. Now she has to find away to save the library I can't wait to find out what happens.
Siobhan G.
Tylr anominous,
i am readin Winter Hawks Star. this book is a good read. i read 40 pages. this book is a good book about a hockey player, and team. so far there is a hockey player that is the best hockey player in the WHL. he plays the the winter hawks hockey team. theres another kid who plays for the same team but he is not so good. the good player riley tries to show off and the coach benches him. the coach than has a meeting with the bad player tyler. tyler has to step up or else he will get fired. they have to go and hang out with a bunch of kids at a youth organization. all the kids there are orphans so riley and tyler have to go and hang out with the kds and plsy eth them. they meet a girl there named sam and tyler likess here. he could barly speak but riley was being slick and talking about anything she would like. hats all i read now so
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Corey L.
Im reaging the book "REAL TIME"
a Novel By PNINA MOED KASS.I am curently on page 6 out of 186 I chose the book because the book had flames on it and the title was real time. In the book Thomas the main character got stoped by the airport security on his way to a kibbutz for the Broshims and this guy comes over and whispers in the guards ear and walks away. Thomas Wanningeris the main character and he is fling to Isreal for a kubbutz.
Matt A
Ia'm reading the book called Rasing the chains, with Tom Brady. Im on page 63 in the book.
I chose this book because i like tom brady and the Patriots. Also i picked it because book because it looked interesting and that, on the back of the book it gave a rely good discription of the year Tom Brady stated to play for the partiots in 2000. There is no charecter in the book because it is an biography about Tom Brady and the team from 2000 to 2005.
The beginning of the book has been interesting because it talked about how he was a studant that did not meas around during class but helped his micagan college team with school work and football. so yes this book has held upto my expectations.
Jess M
Violet On The Runway
By:Melissa Walker
currently on page 82
I chose this book because "runway" was in the title and the back of the book talked about how an ordinary girl was becoming a model within a few days. I don't necessarily want to be a model when i grow up but i do want to become a fashion designer so this book looked really interesting to me. So far, a girl named Voilet was working at the movie theater and a model agency lady came up and gave Violet the buisness for her buisness. Ever since then, the ordinary girl in high school has been wearing designer clothes and working the runway. She has even been to NYC to have a makeover and a photoshoot!! Will she get the modeling job she wants?? Will her friends still accept her for who she is?? I guess i will have to keep reading. So far i have really enjoyed this book and it has lived up to my expectations. I like fashion, and it has to do with fashion. I like designer stuff, it mentions designer stuff. It's perfect for me.
The book I'm reading is called "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti. I've read 78 pages. I do like the book so far. The only thing that I don't like about the book is that there are no official chapters. The book takes place right before the Holocaust and Hitler has won Chancellor. Helmuth(he's the main character) is a Mormon. The school he goes to is "Anti-Jew". One night when he was going into a Jewish store, a storm trooper stopped him from going in. On the store across the street is another Jewish store that has a yellow star on the window. The owner,a man who Helmuth knows, went outside to wash off the yellow star. Then the storm troopers told him to stop, but he didn't and the storm troopers beat him to death. The book is a little confusing because it isn't told in the 1st person and it begins in a prison cell. I really clicked into this book. I higly recommend this book to read right now because we are learning about World War Two in social studies, and it helped me understand a little more about what was really oing on in that time.
Im reading "Darkness Creeping; Twenty Twisted Tales" by Neal Shusterman. I am on page 185, and I am eagerly looking for more books from Shusterman. This book is actually a collection of short stories he has created. At the beginnning of every story, he explains his inspiration for every story. And he has come with some amazing stories, from simple everyday things. I chose this book because I have already read one of Shusterman's books before, "Everlost", and I was impressed. It was really captivating and imaginative, and I was curious to see if he could do it again. My favorite story so far is "Who do we appreciate?". The main character's name is Danielle, and she is a junior referee for pee-wee soccer. She is called early one morning to referee a soccer match, and she brings her brother Cody, along with her. She notices the teams are a lot different from regular seven year olds. One of the Coaches, happens to be her old teacher, Mr.Apfeldt. She continues to notice that things are getting stranger; the weather gets rougher, the players get nasty, and they seem to know more about her than they should. At half time, Danielle takes Cody to meet Mr. Apfeldt. When approaching him, Cody tells Danielle that he was killed in a car crash over the summer. Mr. A also tells Danielle that this was no ordinary match. That it would decide the fate of the world. But when one of the players get hurt, Cody offers to take his place. At the very last minute, Cody scores the winning goal, by it hitting his face and ricocheting into the goal. It was a very fun and imaginative story, and I hope to expect more from the rest of the book.
Tori F.
Trevor R.
Flames of the Tiger by: John Wilson. I am currently on page 59. I chose this book because it talks about Hitler and I am currently learning about Hitler in socal studies. Dieter is a boy and Greta is his little sister. So far Dieter and Greta have got to allied lines and found a wounded soilder that is dieing. They are trying to keep him alive by telling him Dieter's life storie and so far it is working. The setting is at night after two soilder blow up a tiger tank. I like the beginning of the book. Yes it has lived up to my expectations. The book is exciting and you never know what is going to happen next kind of like a thriler.
Miles Bliss
Currently the book I am reading is The Magicines Nephew by C.S. Lewis. I'm reading this book only because my sister thought I would like it. But so far I find the beggining to be very slow and at the same time a very interesting beginning to what I believe will be a good read. I think It will be good read because of the adventuraus and mystereous theme the first few chapters have taken on. So far a boy named diggory and polly both recently discovered there friendship and on onne rainy day they decide to walk in the attick of there apatments wich are attached. when they stumble across a door digory and polly discover digory's mad uncle's expierimentation room. Although digory's uncle is kind he sends the childeren on an unexpected and un whanted adventure to a place where any world you can imagion has a portole leading to it.
The title of my book is "Tuck Everlasting". The aurther is Natalie Babbitt. I am currently on page 50. I choose this book because the cover looked interesting and i haev seen the movie. So far the book is about a girl Winnie Foster and she meet a boy named jesse. He was drinking out of a spring and she wanted to drink from it to but he didnt let her because because if you drink from it you will never grow again. But she still wanted to drink from it because she didnt know what it was.SO far i like the book. It is very interesting. i liked it because the beggining isnt boring like most books
Svetlana B.
To: Jess M.
From: Jess S.
Violet on the runway sounds like a great book and I'm going to read that book as my next independent reading book. I am interested in all the things you described and I'm anxious to read that book!!!!
To: Jackie D.
From: Siobhan G.
Shug sounds so good. I think I'm going to read it. Shug sounds like something that could really happen!
To:Jess M.
From:Sydney J.
That book sounds very interesting and something that you would like. That reminds me of the book Dial L for Loser that I read a little while ago. In that book, a girl named Claire was asked to try out to be the main character in a new movie. She got the part and became a huge star. But as her carrer went on, it pulled her farther away from her friends, so she quit and went back to being the same old claire with the Keds. I'm wondering if that might happen to Violet in your book.
To: Zagari
From: Rose V
Hey nice book title. I read that book and I liked ti too. Its very funny. Are you going to read any fo the other books in the series?
To: Victoria F.
From: Victoria R.
HI!!! This book, Darkness Creeping; Twenty Twisted Tales by Neal Shusterman sounds interessting. I've read other scary story books, like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, but they were old stories that I've heard before and I didn't find the stories scary. But this book might be different. Neil Shusterman sounds like ha is creative when writing his stories. Maybe, (after I finally finish the Twilight series), I'll read this book and check out how scary it is!
Bye Bye for now!
to: trevor
from: miles
trevor I think that the book sounds good because the life of a person who lived through ww2.
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