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Sunday, November 18, 2012
The Beginning
It's great to hear what you are reading this month! I'm excited to read your journeys with your books. I'm sure that you will meet interesting characters, fun events and even many twist and turns on the plot. Tell me what you have read so far.
The book I chose to read is “The outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. The book portrays the story of two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. The characters so far in the story I have read about are Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Steve Randle, Two-bit Mathews, Dally & Johnny Cade. Their the Greasers group that rival with the Socs. In the story Ponyboy, a member of the Greasers gang, is leaving a movie theater when a group of Socs jumps him. His older brothers Darry and Sodapop save him. The next night, Ponyboy and his friends Dally and Johnny meet Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in movie theatre. Then Ponyboy realizes that Cherry is nothing like the Socs he has met before and that's how much I read so far in this story.
Envy by Gregg Olsen is about a twin who has some kind of power that they can see the future or can talk to the dead or something. It started out with this girl name Katelyn Berkley. She was some sort sad already when the book started for no apparent reason. It was Christmas Eve in Port Gamble and she was having dinner with the parents, Sandra and Harper Berkley. Her grandma, Nancy is supposed to be paying for her college fund but the grandma can't anymore and her parents used up all their money for the family's restaurant. Katelyn's mom was looking for her espresso machine cause it was missing for how many days already. Katelyn had the coffee machine and been drinking cause she was somewhat stress with everything plus the college fund adding on to her problem. Being sad about how the grandma promised to pay for her college fund, Katelyn went up to her room and took a bath. Her mom called out for her and she didn't answer. Sandra got curious and went up her room. She saw the window open and she heard the bathtub faucet running. She opened the bathroom door and she saw her daughter in the bathtub lifeless. She shook her and all, but nothing. She cried her heart out, but as if someone is going to hear her cause nobody was home. Harper went out to get some more logs and Nancy had left home already. As Sandra was turning off the faucet water holding her daughter in her arms she noticed something in the water. She picked it up and it was the espresso machine. She followed the cord and it was attached to the outlet. The 15 years old girl was dead.
Clean by Amy Reed is about teenagers who are in rehab. In the first few pages, it describes the characters’ personalities and where they came from. For me, I really enjoyed reading this book. Due to the fact that you can somewhat relate it to reality. Such as the stories the characters' shared during group meeting. For example, how most of their parents don't support them in what the did, how they got into rehab and addicted to drugs, how there was a 15 years old girl who was prego, and so on. It was crazy yet exciting. For me, the characters that I enjoyed reading about were Kelly and Jason. Mostly Jason though, because the reason he got into rehab was the cause of his sister’s brain damage. One day, he decided to be a man and wanted to drink beer. So he had to go to downstairs to grab it, but little did he know he was suppose to be watching his little sister. He forgot that the fence of the baby area was opened. So as he walked downstairs, he didn’t know that his sister was following him until he heard thump, thump, thump and silence. For Jason, the scary part was the silence. From that moment on he was scarred for life, but the only reason why he did that was due to his parents. His dad was so full of himself that he kept making Jason feel like a runt and never appreciated what he did. Unless it was something bad like beating up someone. As for his mom, she was even more scared of her husband that she can’t even stand up for her family. And so on. Until next time... I'll update you on what happens :)
In the first 15 pages of The Great Gatsby, I’ve learned that Gatsby is a wealthy man who lives in a mansion. I’ve read about Tom Buchanan, and how hulkish he is. I believe the story is being told from the perspective of Gatsby’s neighbor, Nick. Nick participated in The Great War. He had a dog once. The setting is in West Egg in the 1920's. In the pages I’ve read, there are about five to six characters. Nick knew Tom from College and Tom’s wife, Daisy, was Nick’s second cousin. Tom was a football star in New Haven.
I’m not really sure if his name is Nick. He hasn’t really introduced himself yet. The book is very descriptive and uses a great amount of imagery. There are so many details that it gets distracting. Nick and the Buchanan’s were having dinner and began talking about Gatsby. I looked book at the pages and his name is definitely Nick, or Nicholas. Miss Baker was also at the Dinner. I have no idea who she is. I’ll probably re-read the pages when I’m not too distracted. I’m not really interested in the book at the moment but I hope I will be as I read more in the future. So far, the book is just introducing the characters into the story. Nothing has really happened yet.
The book is Hatchet and it is about a boy named,Brian Robeson a sole passenger in a Bush plane who gets stuck In The Canadian woods by the plane crash. He is 13 years old. His parents were divorced. He was on way to his father To visit him on the summer. His parents have agreed that Brian will visit his father in the summer and his mother stays with him during school. The pilot was flying the plane then he felt chest pains and later he had a heart attack. He was alone in the plane and he wanted to get help from the radio. He made emergency trasmits and couldn't get in the strong signal. His mother had given a Hatchet and A twenty dollar bill that it will help him on the first visit. The plane was confusing to Brian because of all the controls, meters and buttons he sees. He knows some of the controls and flies at auto pilot. Several hours have passed and the plane will soon run out of gas and will soon drop. He has to find a way to land the plane in the middle of no where in the Canadian Forest. The pilot is gone and Brian does not know what do do With him. Brian continues to fly the plane and think that the best way to land the plane would be near a lake and has seen a a lot earlier in the flight.We will later find what will happen to him with the plane.
House Rules is about Jacob, a boy with Asperger's. Asperger's is a form of autism that is on the smart spectrum but lacks social skills. Jacob has a brother named Theo, who is 2 years younger him. His mom is Emma, a free-lance editor who works from home so that he could make sure that she could take care of Jacob. Jacob is now a senior in his high school but he only has few friends. In fact, he is an outcast. Jacob is very smart though. I'd like to see how this book plays out.
Okay, so I’m reading “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”. The first couple of pages just gives you a recap on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Even though they gave us the recap, it wasn’t very helpful because the recap was talking about the ending of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, an ending in which I don’t remember seeing in the movie. The difference in the movie and the book suggests that maybe the movie cut the book short. The recap basically talked about the last few scenes of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and how Willie Wonka gave the chocolate factory to Charlie. Then the REAL story begins as Charlie goes home to his family to tell them of the big news. Charlie then took everyone back to the glass elevator to return to the chocolate factory. The elevator launched off and they we’re on their way there… or so they thought. They were going tremendously high, and everyone began to panic. When asked why they needed to be so high, Mr. Wonka explained they needed to make a hole in the roof of the factory in order to get in. Wonka also explained that to make a hole in the factory, the elevator has to go at amazing speed. Everyone was frightened as they got further and further away from the ground. Mr. Wonka was focused on a green button that was supposed to stop the elevator. Grandma Josephine couldn’t take it anymore and attacked Mr. Wonka. While he was getting attacked, he screamed for Charlie to press the green button…but it was to late. They were now floating in orbit.
"Dope sick" by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a drug trade that goes bad. The characters in the story talk in a old school gangster tone. The first few pages were amazing. It starts out in a street and this guy is running away from the cops. The cops are looking for him cause he is accused for shooting up a cop and killing him. He runs into this abandon building and heads for the roof. On his way there he sees light seeping threw the bottom of a door. He barges into the room thinking to find some dope heads shooting up but, instead finds a man sitting on a chair watching television. He holds the gun up to the man's head and demands him to tell him a way to the roof. Unafraid and calm, the man offers him a seat to watch television with him. What happened next blew my mind.
The book I read is "The Girl Death Left Behind". The book is not so exciting like other books, but you know how it's always boring in the beginning til it gets to the middle and there is where the exciting part is usually at. This book is about a girl name Beth who has a freaky, messed up, weird family. They always pick on her which really irritates her and make her really mad.
She has friend named Teddy that she go play basketball with whenever she gets stressed out because of her family. Teddy actually has a crush on Beth's best friend named Marcie. And she has a cousin name Terri that she really dislike because snotty. Beth doesn't think she'll ever have friends or even a husband because of how she is. Terri is coming over her house for summer.
I'll keep reading this book till something exciting or amazing that comes up and I'll you guys know.
The book, "Dead is so Last Year" By Marlene Perez is about a girl named Daisy. She just came back to a town named Nightshade. She just came from a vacation in Italy for 3 weeks. She goes to surprise her boyfriend Ryan at his football practice finding out that he looks way different from 3 weeks ago. Also a girl was trying to flirt with him while Daisy wasn't around making Daisy mad.
After Daisy and Ryan hang out, she comes home to her sister named Poppy who is quite weird or kind of crazy. Poppy's boyfriend died a few years ago and has been moping his tombstone ever since. She's been doing that since then and is freaking her sisters out. So Daisy and her older sister Rose plan to have a party to cheer her up. And that's what happened in the first 15 pages of this book.
The story I`m reading is the Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings. The story starts out with Brady, who enjoy his average day as a young boy with his friends and family and he has working on his dad`s boat. His best friends are Digger and J.T., who talked about how DiAngelo family are so rich and they don`t have to worry about money problems. One day on the dock Brady saw Mrs.DiAngelo with her son Ben were out in the waters in their red kayak. Later n that day he finds out that Mrs.DiAngelo and Ben have not come back and now been missing for a couple hours and sent a search part to find them. Couple hours later they found Mrs. DiAngelo, but not Ben.
Brady goes on a bot to look for Ben by himself. It toke awhile, but found him barely alive near the creek. The next day Brady was the town hero and everyone was saying "Good job", but it ended bittersweet when he comes home a finds out Carl had died and Mr. and Mrs. DiAngelo separated. He gets depressed and blames himself for the death of Ben, but is cheered up by Mrs.DiAngelo, who thanks him for all he did. A few days later while Brady was racking near the boathouse he finds his dad`s drill hidden in a pile of leaves. He later on suspects Digger of drilling holes in the kayak, so he goes to T.J. to ask about it. When he confronts T.J. about the drill, he`s shocked to find out Digger did it and he was in on it too.
So in the next 15 chapters I`ll find out what Brady do about his friends` little secret
The story I'm reading is Jumper by Steven Gould. The Story starts of when the main character a 17 year old boy named Davy. He was sleeping then his dad came inside the room and shook him awake, because he didn't throw the trash, I guess he was bieng abuse because the dad kept hitting him with the belt and chocking him, all of a sudden he woke up inside the library. After the library he teleported in the Dinery. He ordered a cup of tea. A guy all of a sudden said introduced himself, he said my name is topper. Then he was bieng so nice and stuff he bough Davy some food and all of that, after he offered Davy a ride home but dave was like no thanks you bought and gave me soo much alrady ,but topper insisted so then they wer in the car Davy fel asleep, Then when Davy woke up they were in a super dark abandoned looking place, then they stopped at a abandoned gasoline station there where 2 trucks parked, Topper said he just had to meet up with those guys really quick then Davy was like its ok ill just stay in the car. But topper was like be a good sport and all of that, so when Davy was going down the car Someone just punched him in the stomach,Then Davy reached for the handles he slipped They carried him to the bed of the truck and tied him down he heard the guys saying why didnt you get a girl? and Topper said This is Fine get the vaseline ! Omg My facial expression was like WHAT THE :O !! and then they ripped of his pants and got the vaseline and Im not sure if he got raped or he teleported to teh library on time. Well yea thats the story i read so far
The book I'm reading is called "True Believer" by Virginia Euwer Wolff. It tells the story of 15 year old Verna La Vaughn. The story is about the struggles that she has to go through in school to get better grades but at the same time she has to work to to save money into her account for her college funds. In the beginning of the story, some of the struggles that she has to go through is to continue to keep her head in the game by knowing what her college plans are. In the beginning of the story, her mother sits her down and asks her if her if she still remembers her college plans. La Vaughn's mother then tells her that she has a new job. Because of the mom's new job, the mom can now put more money into La Vaughn's college funds, but because of this, La Vaughn can't go through trouble and that she has to keep up her grades and to stay safe because the mom will be busy and she won't be there to save La Vaughn. La Vaughn then agrees, but her mom reminds her that one of the biggest mistakes that La Vaughn could make that would stop her from her future plans is by having a baby. La Vaughn profusely denies that she will have a baby. However, as time passes, La Vaughn dreams of having a boyfriend or that someone who will become her husband.
After reading the first couple of pages of this story, I realized that a lot of young teenagers who are in La Vaughn's situation will be able to relate. After reading the first few pages, I hope to understand more of her situation and how it relates to others.
My book is "WANTED" by Caroline B. Cooney, and the main character's name is Alice. It starts off with a phone call from her dad. It didn't sound like his dad yet the man from the other line claims to be the dad. He used a different number, that she didn't even recognize it's Caller ID. Then he suddenly told her to leave the house as soon as she can; bringing the disks from his room with her. Her dad told her to go to that place where they get their milkshakes at and meet him there.However, before she even left the house, a man came inside and Alice thought it was his dad. Though she then thought it wasn't him because she thinks he has other intentions. so she hid; she hid under their car to be exact. The man looked for her and the disks everywhere but he couldn't find it. The strange man then went into the computer for awhile and shuts it down, and left the house without harming Alice.
The book that I'm reading is The house on Mango street. the person who wrote the book is Sandra Cisneros.In the beginning she talks about how they moved around a lot and that they didn't live in the street of Mango.she names her family like her brothers Carlos,and kiki ,and her sister Nenny ,and her.she talks about everybody's hair in her family. In page 10 she talks about how she go her name she got it from her great grandmother. her name in English means hope and in Spanish it means to many letters.
The book that I'm currently reading is "Halo". The entire book is basically about various storylines produced from different writers. There were also many comics that were made as well. Many art work were drawn and painted by artists of different aspects of this particular story. Most of the portraits painted were about Master Chief who is the superior hero of all time. I will be posting more details of many idea and suggestions that were given to Bungie help make Halo phenomenal.
The book I read was Lie by Caroline Bock. It was really interesting because it started off with the main character in the police station. The cop wanted to know where or what she was doing Friday night. Her boyfriend was in jail because of an incident that happened when they were hanging out. The book is like basically about racism. The main characters name is Skylar and her boyfriends name is Jimmy. Jimmy dislikes Hispanic people a lot. So in the beginning, everybody that was with Jimmy that night or knows Jimmy were being questioned because he put a guy in ICU. The saying they had going around was " Everybody knows. Nobody's talking."
Sarah Dessen along for the ride the book that I’m reading right now it talks about Auden West, she is just a typical high school student, but ever since her parents got divorces she was having a hard time to fall as sleep so she develop a routine for the whole night and wait till the sun comes up. Before she starts collage, she decided to spend her summer with her father, step-mother and her baby sister. Her father is a writer, he just stay home and doesn’t do anything except write his novel. In the other hand Heidi has it own shop that she manage. Her mother Dr. Victoria West is a professor in a local university. Auden has a brother two years older than her Hollis. She received a letter from her stepmother Heidi. In the letter Heidi was asking about her last few weeks of high school and she also talk about her father how they doing and her baby sister. Heidi was also inviting Auden to their beach house to spend her summer with them. Auden is not really thrilled about Heidi and she thinks she is annoying. Heidi and Auden dad got married and at the same time Heidi was pregnant. While her mother in the other hand was not surprised because ever since their divorce she’d been predicting it. Her mother always hosting a get together graduation party for her former student they will start from having dinner then end up drunk.Hollis is having the time of his life he is traveling around Europe.
" Hate List " by: Jennifer Brown The beginning of my book starts off as an investigation report . The scene is Garvin High School on May 3, 2008. The report is being down by Angela Dash . She has stated that on this day Garvin High School cafeteria, known as the Commons has gone through a tragedy today . A shooting has broken out . The students were preparing for their first class and at least six students dead and countless others were wounded . Angela Dash also stated that there were two main people who were head of the tragedy . Valerie Leftmen,16, was the last victim shot before the alleged shooter , Nick Levil , reportedly turned the gun on himself . Witnesses report that Leftman was a victim , others say she was a hero , and some say she was part of it . The story then jumps into modern day time (after the shooting). The alarm clock rings and rings , but Valerie doesn't want to wake up . Her mother then comes into the room and yells at her to wake up . It is Valerie's first day back to school . She starts to get ready for school . She takes a pair of jeans and t-shirt off of then ground and puts it on . The takes the new backpack her mom bought her during summer because her mother threw her old one away because it had blood all over it from the shooting . Then Valerie reaches in her drawer , as far back as she can . Grabs a picture of Nick and slid it into her back pocket and heads downstairs .
The book I'm reading is "Looking For Alaska" by John Green. This book is targeted towards teens as it includes very familiar words and behaviors that we, teens, use and have. "Looking For Alaska" starts off with a setting of Miles, the main character's home in Florida. He is preparing to go off to Alabama to go to Culver Creek Boarding School. His first experiences in this school are meeting his roommate, nicknamed "The Colonel" and adjusting to dorm life. Miles then meets the Colonel's friend "Alaska", a girl he found so beautiful and fascinating from the moment he saw her. Although she had a boyfriend, she became very friendly with Miles. And although he knew he had no chance, he let himself get closer to her. With the beginning of that friendship, Miles subjects to greater adventures with a group of new friends he met at Culver Creek. They introduce him to drinking and smoking discreetly in the school's campus, as well as planning mischievous pranks against the rich kids at their school aka the "Weekend Warriors", who pulled a prank on them prior. Miles and his friends' plans consist of putting blue dye in the rich kids' hair gel and them being obsessed with their hair will surely freak them out and make it a good prank, as they hope. As finals in school come to an end, they now await for the day of the prank.
The book I'm currently reading is "PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS" by RICK RIODAN. The book I'm reading starts off with Percy doing a lab in his class. Then he looks out the window and see's an old friend more like an old enemy from demigod camp her name was Clarrise. Anyways she was being attacked by black birds the size of Ravens. So then Percy runs out and helps her and they kill all the black birds. After the battle Percy ask Clarrise what is she doing here when she leaves so far. Then she explains to him that her brothers (Phobos "fear" & Deimos "terror") are pulling a prank on her.
Hi,Shark's!!! The book I'm reading now is all about 'THE ANNEXED' by: Sharon Dogar. and it's all about the Holocaust in Anne Frank's lovers perception. I really like this book because it's getting exciting and is not kind of boring story. This how much I read so par.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I chose to read is “The outsiders” by S.E. Hinton. The book portrays the story of two rival groups, the Greasers and the Socs, who are divided by their socioeconomic status. The book takes place in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1965. The characters so far in the story I have read about are Ponyboy, Sodapop, Darry, Steve Randle, Two-bit Mathews, Dally & Johnny Cade. Their the Greasers group that rival with the Socs.
In the story Ponyboy, a member of the Greasers gang, is leaving a movie theater when a group of Socs jumps him. His older brothers Darry and Sodapop save him. The next night, Ponyboy and his friends Dally and Johnny meet Cherry Valance and Marcia at a drive-in movie theatre. Then Ponyboy realizes that Cherry is nothing like the Socs he has met before and that's how much I read so far in this story.
Envy by Gregg Olsen is about a twin who has some kind of power that they can see the future or can talk to the dead or something. It started out with this girl name Katelyn Berkley. She was some sort sad already when the book started for no apparent reason. It was Christmas Eve in Port Gamble and she was having dinner with the parents, Sandra and Harper Berkley. Her grandma, Nancy is supposed to be paying for her college fund but the grandma can't anymore and her parents used up all their money for the family's restaurant. Katelyn's mom was looking for her espresso machine cause it was missing for how many days already. Katelyn had the coffee machine and been drinking cause she was somewhat stress with everything plus the college fund adding on to her problem.
ReplyDeleteBeing sad about how the grandma promised to pay for her college fund, Katelyn went up to her room and took a bath. Her mom called out for her and she didn't answer. Sandra got curious and went up her room. She saw the window open and she heard the bathtub faucet running. She opened the bathroom door and she saw her daughter in the bathtub lifeless. She shook her and all, but nothing. She cried her heart out, but as if someone is going to hear her cause nobody was home. Harper went out to get some more logs and Nancy had left home already.
As Sandra was turning off the faucet water holding her daughter in her arms she noticed something in the water. She picked it up and it was the espresso machine. She followed the cord and it was attached to the outlet. The 15 years old girl was dead.
Clean by Amy Reed is about teenagers who are in rehab. In the first few pages, it describes the characters’ personalities and where they came from. For me, I really enjoyed reading this book. Due to the fact that you can somewhat relate it to reality. Such as the stories the characters' shared during group meeting. For example, how most of their parents don't support them in what the did, how they got into rehab and addicted to drugs, how there was a 15 years old girl who was prego, and so on. It was crazy yet exciting. For me, the characters that I enjoyed reading about were Kelly and Jason.
ReplyDeleteMostly Jason though, because the reason he got into rehab was the cause of his sister’s brain damage. One day, he decided to be a man and wanted to drink beer. So he had to go to downstairs to grab it, but little did he know he was suppose to be watching his little sister. He forgot that the fence of the baby area was opened. So as he walked downstairs, he didn’t know that his sister was following him until he heard thump, thump, thump and silence. For Jason, the scary part was the silence. From that moment on he was scarred for life, but the only reason why he did that was due to his parents. His dad was so full of himself that he kept making Jason feel like a runt and never appreciated what he did. Unless it was something bad like beating up someone. As for his mom, she was even more scared of her husband that she can’t even stand up for her family.
And so on.
Until next time... I'll update you on what happens :)
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ReplyDeleteIn the first 15 pages of The Great Gatsby, I’ve learned that Gatsby is a wealthy man who lives in a mansion. I’ve read about Tom Buchanan, and how hulkish he is. I believe the story is being told from the perspective of Gatsby’s neighbor, Nick. Nick participated in The Great War. He had a dog once. The setting is in West Egg in the 1920's. In the pages I’ve read, there are about five to six characters. Nick knew Tom from College and Tom’s wife, Daisy, was Nick’s second cousin. Tom was a football star in New Haven.
ReplyDeleteI’m not really sure if his name is Nick. He hasn’t really introduced himself yet. The book is very descriptive and uses a great amount of imagery. There are so many details that it gets distracting. Nick and the Buchanan’s were having dinner and began talking about Gatsby. I looked book at the pages and his name is definitely Nick, or Nicholas. Miss Baker was also at the Dinner. I have no idea who she is. I’ll probably re-read the pages when I’m not too distracted. I’m not really interested in the book at the moment but I hope I will be as I read more in the future. So far, the book is just introducing the characters into the story. Nothing has really happened yet.
The book is Hatchet and it is about a boy named,Brian Robeson a sole passenger in a Bush plane who gets stuck In The Canadian woods by the plane crash. He is 13 years old. His parents were divorced. He was on way to his father To visit him on the summer. His parents have agreed that Brian will visit his father in the summer and his mother stays with him during school.
ReplyDeleteThe pilot was flying the plane then he felt chest pains and later he had a heart attack. He was alone in the plane and he wanted to get help from the radio. He made emergency trasmits and couldn't get in the strong signal. His mother had given a Hatchet and A twenty dollar bill that it will help him on the first visit. The plane was confusing to Brian because of all the controls, meters and buttons he sees. He knows some of the controls and flies at auto pilot. Several hours have passed and the plane will soon run out of gas and will soon drop. He has to find a way to land the plane in the middle of no where in the Canadian Forest. The pilot is gone and Brian does not know what do do With him. Brian continues to fly the plane and think that the best way to land the plane would be near a lake and has seen a a lot earlier in the flight.We will later find what will happen to him with the plane.
House Rules is about Jacob, a boy with Asperger's. Asperger's is a form of autism that is on the smart spectrum but lacks social skills. Jacob has a brother named Theo, who is 2 years younger him. His mom is Emma, a free-lance editor who works from home so that he could make sure that she could take care of Jacob. Jacob is now a senior in his high school but he only has few friends. In fact, he is an outcast. Jacob is very smart though.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see how this book plays out.
Okay, so I’m reading “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”. The first couple of pages just gives you a recap on “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Even though they gave us the recap, it wasn’t very helpful because the recap was talking about the ending of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, an ending in which I don’t remember seeing in the movie. The difference in the movie and the book suggests that maybe the movie cut the book short. The recap basically talked about the last few scenes of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and how Willie Wonka gave the chocolate factory to Charlie. Then the REAL story begins as Charlie goes home to his family to tell them of the big news. Charlie then took everyone back to the glass elevator to return to the chocolate factory. The elevator launched off and they we’re on their way there… or so they thought. They were going tremendously high, and everyone began to panic. When asked why they needed to be so high, Mr. Wonka explained they needed to make a hole in the roof of the factory in order to get in. Wonka also explained that to make a hole in the factory, the elevator has to go at amazing speed. Everyone was frightened as they got further and further away from the ground. Mr. Wonka was focused on a green button that was supposed to stop the elevator. Grandma Josephine couldn’t take it anymore and attacked Mr. Wonka. While he was getting attacked, he screamed for Charlie to press the green button…but it was to late. They were now floating in orbit.
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ReplyDelete"Dope sick" by Walter Dean Myers is a book about a drug trade that goes bad. The characters in the story talk in a old school gangster tone. The first few pages were amazing. It starts out in a street and this guy is running away from the cops. The cops are looking for him cause he is accused for shooting up a cop and killing him. He runs into this abandon building and heads for the roof.
ReplyDeleteOn his way there he sees light seeping threw the bottom of a door. He barges into the room thinking to find some dope heads shooting up but, instead finds a man sitting on a chair watching television. He holds the gun up to the man's head and demands him to tell him a way to the roof. Unafraid and calm, the man offers him a seat to watch television with him. What happened next blew my mind.
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ReplyDeleteThe book I read is "The Girl Death Left Behind". The book is not so exciting like other books, but you know how it's always boring in the beginning til it gets to the middle and there is where the exciting part is usually at. This book is about a girl name Beth who has a freaky, messed up, weird family. They always pick on her which really irritates her and make her really mad.
ReplyDeleteShe has friend named Teddy that she go play basketball with whenever she gets stressed out because of her family. Teddy actually has a crush on Beth's best friend named Marcie.
And she has a cousin name Terri that she really dislike because snotty. Beth doesn't think she'll ever have friends or even a husband because of how she is. Terri is coming over her house for summer.
I'll keep reading this book till something exciting or amazing that comes up and I'll you guys know.
The book, "Dead is so Last Year" By Marlene Perez is about a girl named Daisy. She just came back to a town named Nightshade. She just came from a vacation in Italy for 3 weeks. She goes to surprise her boyfriend Ryan at his football practice finding out that he looks way different from 3 weeks ago. Also a girl was trying to flirt with him while Daisy wasn't around making Daisy mad.
ReplyDeleteAfter Daisy and Ryan hang out, she comes home to her sister named Poppy who is quite weird or kind of crazy. Poppy's boyfriend died a few years ago and has been moping his tombstone ever since. She's been doing that since then and is freaking her sisters out. So Daisy and her older sister Rose plan to have a party to cheer her up. And that's what happened in the first 15 pages of this book.
The story I`m reading is the Red Kayak by Priscilla Cummings. The story starts out with Brady, who enjoy his average day as a young boy with his friends and family and he has working on his dad`s boat. His best friends are Digger and J.T., who talked about how DiAngelo family are so rich and they don`t have to worry about money problems. One day on the dock Brady saw Mrs.DiAngelo with her son Ben were out in the waters in their red kayak. Later n that day he finds out that Mrs.DiAngelo and Ben have not come back and now been missing for a couple hours and sent a search part to find them. Couple hours later they found Mrs. DiAngelo, but not Ben.
ReplyDeleteBrady goes on a bot to look for Ben by himself. It toke awhile, but found him barely alive near the creek. The next day Brady was the town hero and everyone was saying "Good job", but it ended bittersweet when he comes home a finds out Carl had died and Mr. and Mrs. DiAngelo separated. He gets depressed and blames himself for the death of Ben, but is cheered up by Mrs.DiAngelo, who thanks him for all he did. A few days later while Brady was racking near the boathouse he finds his dad`s drill hidden in a pile of leaves. He later on suspects Digger of drilling holes in the kayak, so he goes to T.J. to ask about it. When he confronts T.J. about the drill, he`s shocked to find out Digger did it and he was in on it too.
So in the next 15 chapters I`ll find out what Brady do about his friends` little secret
The story I'm reading is Jumper by Steven Gould. The Story starts of when the main character a 17 year old boy named Davy. He was sleeping then his dad came inside the room and shook him awake, because he didn't throw the trash, I guess he was bieng abuse because the dad kept hitting him with the belt and chocking him, all of a sudden he woke up inside the library. After the library he teleported in the Dinery. He ordered a cup of tea. A guy all of a sudden said introduced himself, he said my name is topper. Then he was bieng so nice and stuff he bough Davy some food and all of that, after he offered Davy a ride home but dave was like no thanks you bought and gave me soo much alrady ,but topper insisted so then they wer in the car Davy fel asleep, Then when Davy woke up they were in a super dark abandoned looking place, then they stopped at a abandoned gasoline station there where 2 trucks parked, Topper said he just had to meet up with those guys really quick then Davy was like its ok ill just stay in the car. But topper was like be a good sport and all of that, so when Davy was going down the car Someone just punched him in the stomach,Then Davy reached for the handles he slipped They carried him to the bed of the truck and tied him down he heard the guys saying why didnt you get a girl? and Topper said This is Fine get the vaseline ! Omg My facial expression was like WHAT THE :O !! and then they ripped of his pants and got the vaseline and Im not sure if he got raped or he teleported to teh library on time. Well yea thats the story i read so far
ReplyDeleteThe book I'm reading is called "True Believer" by Virginia Euwer Wolff. It tells the story of 15 year old Verna La Vaughn. The story is about the struggles that she has to go through in school to get better grades but at the same time she has to work to to save money into her account for her college funds. In the beginning of the story, some of the struggles that she has to go through is to continue to keep her head in the game by knowing what her college plans are. In the beginning of the story, her mother sits her down and asks her if her if she still remembers her college plans. La Vaughn's mother then tells her that she has a new job. Because of the mom's new job, the mom can now put more money into La Vaughn's college funds, but because of this, La Vaughn can't go through trouble and that she has to keep up her grades and to stay safe because the mom will be busy and she won't be there to save La Vaughn. La Vaughn then agrees, but her mom reminds her that one of the biggest mistakes that La Vaughn could make that would stop her from her future plans is by having a baby. La Vaughn profusely denies that she will have a baby. However, as time passes, La Vaughn dreams of having a boyfriend or that someone who will become her husband.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the first couple of pages of this story, I realized that a lot of young teenagers who are in La Vaughn's situation will be able to relate. After reading the first few pages, I hope to understand more of her situation and how it relates to others.
My book is "WANTED" by Caroline B. Cooney, and the main character's name is Alice. It starts off with a phone call from her dad. It didn't sound like his dad yet the man from the other line claims to be the dad. He used a different number, that she didn't even recognize it's Caller ID. Then he suddenly told her to leave the house as soon as she can; bringing the disks from his room with her. Her dad told her to go to that place where they get their milkshakes at and meet him there.However, before she even left the house, a man came inside and Alice thought it was his dad. Though she then thought it wasn't him because she thinks he has other intentions. so she hid; she hid under their car to be exact. The man looked for her and the disks everywhere but he couldn't find it. The strange man then went into the computer for awhile and shuts it down, and left the house without harming Alice.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I'm reading is The house on Mango street. the person who wrote the book is Sandra Cisneros.In the beginning she talks about how they moved around a lot and that they didn't live in the street of Mango.she names her family like her brothers Carlos,and kiki ,and her sister Nenny ,and her.she talks about everybody's hair in her family. In page 10 she talks about how she go her name she got it from her great grandmother. her name in English means hope and in Spanish it means to many letters.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I'm currently reading is "Halo". The entire book is basically about various storylines produced from different writers. There were also many comics that were made as well. Many art work were drawn and painted by artists of different aspects of this particular story. Most of the portraits painted were about Master Chief who is the superior hero of all time. I will be posting more details of many idea and suggestions that were given to Bungie help make Halo phenomenal.
ReplyDeleteThe book I read was Lie by Caroline Bock. It was really interesting because it started off with the main character in the police station. The cop wanted to know where or what she was doing Friday night. Her boyfriend was in jail because of an incident that happened when they were hanging out. The book is like basically about racism. The main characters name is Skylar and her boyfriends name is Jimmy. Jimmy dislikes Hispanic people a lot. So in the beginning, everybody that was with Jimmy that night or knows Jimmy were being questioned because he put a guy in ICU. The saying they had going around was " Everybody knows. Nobody's talking."
ReplyDeleteSarah Dessen along for the ride the book that I’m reading right now it talks about Auden West, she is just a typical high school student, but ever since her parents got divorces she was having a hard time to fall as sleep so she develop a routine for the whole night and wait till the sun comes up. Before she starts collage, she decided to spend her summer with her father, step-mother and her baby sister. Her father is a writer, he just stay home and doesn’t do anything except write his novel. In the other hand Heidi has it own shop that she manage. Her mother Dr. Victoria West is a professor in a local university. Auden has a brother two years older than her Hollis.
ReplyDeleteShe received a letter from her stepmother Heidi. In the letter Heidi was asking about her last few weeks of high school and she also talk about her father how they doing and her baby sister. Heidi was also inviting Auden to their beach house to spend her summer with them. Auden is not really thrilled about Heidi and she thinks she is annoying. Heidi and Auden dad got married and at the same time Heidi was pregnant. While her mother in the other hand was not surprised because ever since their divorce she’d been predicting it. Her mother always hosting a get together graduation party for her former student they will start from having dinner then end up drunk.Hollis is having the time of his life he is traveling around Europe.
" Hate List " by: Jennifer Brown
ReplyDeleteThe beginning of my book starts off as an investigation report . The scene is Garvin High School on May 3, 2008. The report is being down by Angela Dash . She has stated that on this day Garvin High School cafeteria, known as the Commons has gone through a tragedy today . A shooting has broken out . The students were preparing for their first class and at least six students dead and countless others were wounded . Angela Dash also stated that there were two main people who were head of the tragedy . Valerie Leftmen,16, was the last victim shot before the alleged shooter , Nick Levil , reportedly turned the gun on himself . Witnesses report that Leftman was a victim , others say she was a hero , and some say she was part of it . The story then jumps into modern day time (after the shooting). The alarm clock rings and rings , but Valerie doesn't want to wake up . Her mother then comes into the room and yells at her to wake up . It is Valerie's first day back to school . She starts to get ready for school . She takes a pair of jeans and t-shirt off of then ground and puts it on . The takes the new backpack her mom bought her during summer because her mother threw her old one away because it had blood all over it from the shooting . Then Valerie reaches in her drawer , as far back as she can . Grabs a picture of Nick and slid it into her back pocket and heads downstairs .
The book I'm reading is "Looking For Alaska" by John Green. This book is targeted towards teens as it includes very familiar words and behaviors that we, teens, use and have. "Looking For Alaska" starts off with a setting of Miles, the main character's home in Florida. He is preparing to go off to Alabama to go to Culver Creek Boarding School. His first experiences in this school are meeting his roommate, nicknamed "The Colonel" and adjusting to dorm life. Miles then meets the Colonel's friend "Alaska", a girl he found so beautiful and fascinating from the moment he saw her. Although she had a boyfriend, she became very friendly with Miles. And although he knew he had no chance, he let himself get closer to her. With the beginning of that friendship, Miles subjects to greater adventures with a group of new friends he met at Culver Creek. They introduce him to drinking and smoking discreetly in the school's campus, as well as planning mischievous pranks against the rich kids at their school aka the "Weekend Warriors", who pulled a prank on them prior. Miles and his friends' plans consist of putting blue dye in the rich kids' hair gel and them being obsessed with their hair will surely freak them out and make it a good prank, as they hope. As finals in school come to an end, they now await for the day of the prank.
ReplyDeleteThe book I'm currently reading is "PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS" by RICK RIODAN. The book I'm reading starts off with Percy doing a lab in his class. Then he looks out the window and see's an old friend more like an old enemy from demigod camp her name was Clarrise. Anyways she was being attacked by black birds the size of Ravens. So then Percy runs out and helps her and they kill all the black birds. After the battle Percy ask Clarrise what is she doing here when she leaves so far. Then she explains to him that her brothers (Phobos "fear" & Deimos "terror") are pulling a prank on her.
ReplyDeleteHi,Shark's!!! The book I'm reading now is all about 'THE ANNEXED' by: Sharon Dogar. and it's all about the Holocaust in Anne Frank's lovers perception. I really like this book because it's getting exciting and is not kind of boring story. This how much I read so par.
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