Are you a purple star?(iNdIgOs STAR!!!)

i will finish this post we are now doing touch pebbles!

Tragic

A girl named Parvana is living in Afghanistan,
her father was arrested and is in a damp prison,
dogs are chewing bodies that are lying on the ground
where the rest of her family has traveled to,
the Taliban has taken over,
and tragic has fallen everywhere.
If you are interested, read The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis.
But do not be afraid of reading this book.

-TwilightSky

Lights... Camera... Smile!

Hello people of the USA! I am here to tell you about a AWESOME comic book called... "Drum Roll Please?" Smile by: Raina Telgemeier! This is a true story that happened to Ms. Raina Telgemeier. She trips and falls and injures her 2 front teeth very badly. At the dentist's that night, she gets a "cast" for her 2 front teeth. The next day, she doesn't go to school. But she doesn't go to school until like, 1 week ("Lucky Duck!" I thought about it and heres to the help of this quote: losthero!) ! In 7th grade, a little bit of "romance" happens. Lets head back to 6th grade! So, um... let see... oh yes! After a week of "vacation", she goes back to school. In one of her classes, a boy named Juan asks her what the white stuff was on her teeth. That made Raina probably nervous. I gave you a lot of details when she was in 6th grade! Don't tell me I didn't tell you anything about the book! Just warning you. Oh yeah! Raina gets br (mmph!)... never mind. Make sure to read this wonderful comic book by Raina Telgemeier. ~Cherry Pop Book Photo is from: barnesandnoble.com

DEATHNOTE

The book I have just finshed is called Deathnote by Tsugumi Obha. This is a manga book which means that you read it backwards because manga is Japanese. The book is about a straight A student whos name is Light Yagami soon finds out that a shinagami death god has dropped his note book. The Light learns that whoevers name is written in the note book will die. Soon Light realises that he can use the book for good and tries to kill criminals with the book. OR will the note book make Light turn into what he fights? Later the police find out that a person is going on a mass murder spree. Also a unknown detective who nobody knows his name or face starts on the act and his nickname is known as L and the person who ownes the notebook realizes that he has to eliminate whoever is trying to catch him. Light might even have to kill his own family. Light will soon have to make live saving decisions. Who will win L or Light?????????????????

Calling All People!!!

Ciao! I'm reading this book called Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai. It's about a 10 year old girl escaping South Vietnam or Saigon because of the Vietnam War, her father was in the Navy and was captured by the communists about a couple of years ago and she never heard from him since then. She had to lose alot of things from her loved home and move to America. And by the way, when she's in school, and it's lunch time, she eats candy in the bathroom because she's so new and all the stuff are overwelming. What you should know about this book is that it's a pauble. Read and enjoy!! -Twilightsky

Are you a Loser...? or a Queen?

I would like to recommend the book Loser/Queen by:Jodi Lynn Anderson.

The book is about this girl named Cammy. Cammy lives with her grandparents because her parents weren't there...

Cammy isn't really known for being cool/pretty/smart etc. She's known for embarrassing herself and doing foolish things, half of the time people don't even notice her. But that ALL changes.

One day she gets a mysterious text from an unknown number telling her to do all these things and that it'll help her. Cammy does everything the texter says, even when she has no clue who it is. Soon everything changes. "Cammy's trading up, and people are talking." Will this mysterious texter give Cammy everything she wants? Or will the texter go too far?

Also if anyone wants a book that fills with suspense, mystery, life changing events (this book sort of changed the way i thought of things) and drama, read this bored-filling book. Note: i spent about 3 hours straight reading this. That is how grabbing the book is.

Also this book is a bit.... inappropriate, For many many reasons so if you think you can't handle it/isn't ready, don't read it.

I got the picture from barnesandnoble.com. Also one of the sentences, was in the the actual book.

Forever....

Hello,PEOPLE of America!,

I would like to recommend a book called: Forever by: Judy blume!It is this girl and her name is Katherine. ( be mature about this !) But Katherine has a miny-diny crush on Michael!

Anyway, like i was saying ( or not!) Katherine wants to change this something about her for senior year. She wants to changer her look , her attitude, her style, her smartness and her life !

She believes that she can e who she wants to be . Everyone this year is calling her a geek and a nerd!!!!!! so she wants to change her self. So when she meets Michael changes her life.He makes her feel like she is beautiful, smart, funny, has a nice swag to her ! So one day when it was winter break Micahel invites her to his ski lodge that Michael's family owned. So something happens if you want to know READ THE BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO GET UP and GO TO THE LIBRARY and SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for your cooperation!

whales

I have just recently finished a book called Whale by Vassili Papastavrou. The book is all about whales and facts and relatives of whales and everything about the whale. There are some very interesting facts like the Sperm whale eats Giant squid and one of the giant squids a sperm whale ate was thirty seven feet long. I like the book because it has many weird and interesting facts. The book also makes you have sympathy for the whales by saying that we kill so many whales, and one of the spiecies and the biggest animal of all time we killed so many there are only 400 left in the whole world so it makes you feel sad. Overall good book for non-fiction readers you should read it.

Double Dutch!

Hey guys, I am reading a book called Double Dutch by Sharon M. Draper, the author who wrote out of my mind. It's about an 8th grader who has been keeping this secret since ? grade, and I think you will be horrified if you hear it. Anyways, something terrible/ good happened that can be connected to what we did today, 3-31-11. And, of course, Delia LOVES double dutch. If you read out of my mind by Sharon M. Draper, also read this! You can also learn alot of important things from this book, and it has to do something with empathy, truth, lies, and fearrrr. -Twilightsky P.S. The characters in this book are going through hard things. So please be aware. Well, that's teenage life.

What would you do if you can't walk or talk?

What would you do if you can't talk or walk? It would be frustrating!!! Out of my Mind by Sharon M. Draper is about a girl almost 11 being fed, being pushed to here and there, getting help from someone when she needs to use the toilet, and much more. The cover may look really boring and you might think the main character's perspective is from a fish. But it's actually not. There really funny parts in the book, to. Like when her dad takes a step on the stairs and fart. So funny! I can relate to that! My grandpa does that too. Just imagine... Step, fart, step, fart, step, fart! Enjoy reading! Twilightsky

Time Traveling... AGAIN?!

Readers, I now present to you... Sabotaged by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Remember coolair24 and Pegasus wrote about Found and Sent? Those are just the start. I want to give you the most recent one. S-A-B-O-T-A-G-E-D. This is book is ALSO about Jonah and Chip. And time traveling too. Jonah and Chip help out a girl named Andrea. Andrea has to go back to her time and fix things up. But JB chose Jonah and Chip to help. It turns out that Andrea is actually... VIRGINIA DARE! Towards the middle, Gary and Hodge(the bad guys) send 2 more kids into Andrea's time. These 2 kids get into their tracers(like ghosts. But MUCH more different). These 5 kids are on a mission in this book. If you want to read this book, make sure to read Found and Sent before you even read Sabotaged!! Just a reminder.

Make sure to read The Missing Series by Margaret Peterson Haddix!

And, don't abandon ANY of these books in the series! Pegasus, coolair24, and me, Cherry Pop REALLY WANT YOU TO READ THIS BOOK!!! And a little something for you :)lolsmileyface:). Try out reading Found again. PLEASE!!

~Cherry Pop

Howdyyyy

Hey there people I'm hear to talk about a book called Charlie and the chocolate factory. Do you like chocolate then this book can be yours by just loving the sweet and sour the tasty sugar. This book is about a boy who doesn't have alot of money goes into a factory full of candy sweets. And it tells you about the adventures that they have, the worst people to have in there. Just one nice little boy who would love to get that grand prize! you got to read this book. WARNING: only people who LOVE candy and sweets!

medicine book

Right now I am reading the book THE HISTORY NEWS MEDICINE. The book is about wierd medicine discoveries and tricks in modern times and back then. There are also some wierd facts like cavemen back the thought that when you were sick they thought demons were in your head so they would drill a hole in your skull to let the spirits out. Also there were some more wierd facts like when a soldier got cut on the nose a famous doctor would cut a flap of skin and put it on the nose so they would heal together. Overall good book wierd facts. I love this book hope you read it.

"Hope is the thing with Feathers..."

I happily finished Feathers by: Jaqueline Woodson. This is told from he perspective of a nine year old girl named Frannie, there is no segregation at this time so it's happened after the 1970's.
This fantastic book is about this girl named Frannie (as i said) and shes African-American and she lives on one side of the highway where all the African-Americans live and the other side is where the Americans live. One day there was a new kid, he is American and he enters her school, as i quote from our book club, "You can actually feel the awkwardness". They start to call him "Jesus boy" . As i write an excerpt please enjoy!

"It's just all so surreal," Samantha said again. "You wake up one day and it's wintertime and there's snow falling. You wake up another day and there's a new boy in the class with wild hair, named Jesus."

As this delicious soup filled with carrots of romance, potatoes of change, and the noodles of Hope canned in this beautiful book!

Love,
:)lolsmileyface:)!!!!

The Underneath

I have recently fineshed a book called The Underneath by Kathi Appelt. The book is about A cat mother who gives birth in fron of a dog and they become unlikly parents. Then all of a sudden the cat gives birth and the kittens are in trouble because there is a evil man named GarFace and he is trying to capture an alligator, and he traps two of the cats for bait. Meanwhile there is a snake who has just met her daughter but soon gets betrayed by and owl who loves the daugter. Also the cats son soon looses his mother and is trying to find his way back home and get revenge for what the evil man did to his mother. Good book in all.

AN EXCITING SIGHT TO SEE!!!!!

Hello there! We have been reading The Golly Whopper Games by Jody Feldman. Intresting book, isn't it? About a young boy named Gill Goodson is competeing in.... THE GOLLY WHOPPER GAMES! He is in the top 3 so far. Lavinia vs. Rocky vs. Gill. Since I have finished the book, I'm not going to tell you much. BUT WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN?!! Comment and tell me who's going to win.
~ Cherry Pop


I got this picture from:http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Time Traveling?????

Hello fellow readers, Pegasus here with an AMAZING book... Found!!! by Margaret Peterson Haddix.

It's about 2 boys, Chip and Jonah who are receiving strange letters that they don't even understand. Eventually, they find out something important about themselves. There is a possible theory that they...

Time Traveled!!! OOH.

If you want to know what happens, read this book.

Picture from barnesandnoble.com

if you read this book you will get hooked

right away and if you choose to abanded it thats your problem for missing the fun and some funny parts and the very dramatic some people might get scared and but i recomened to read the whole series it will change your life forever so read this book!!!!!

coolair24

i forgot to give the title sorry? its.... the missing sent by: Margeret peterson Haddix, you could also read the missing found, and the missing sabatage the missing found is the first book the missing sent is the secound book and the missing sabatage is the third book of that series.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sent/Margaret-P

eterson-Haddix/e/9781416996446/?itm=1&USRI=the+missing+sent

14... already?!

Hello fellow readers! This book is a book after Thirteen by Lauren Myracle. This book is called Thirteen Plus One by Lauren Myracle. So far, it is about a girl named Winnie that turns 14 on her birthday. Her best friend, Dinah, was getting accused for shoplifting, but instead, a girl named Mary Woods had been shoplifting the whole time and put the stuff she shoplifted, in Dinah's locker. That is as far as I have got to. I'll get you hooked up on the book when I finish it! (Don't worry. I am not going to give away the ending.)
~Cherry Pop

How o How Should We live

There's a world full of mice and there's one nasty evil villian trying to take over. So this boy is getting bullied untill he finds his best friend is a robot! But the robot is controled by the mean nasty evil villian so how o how should we live. I'll tell you the robot likes the boy because he likes him for who he is not what he's capable of. So if your having trouble with friends you should read this reall really good book about friendship. It's called The Mighty Robot. You need to read this please.

What's up readers! SaltySwagger here! I wanna show you this cool book i've been reading called If You're Reading This, It's Too Late. The book is about a girl named Cassandra, Cass for short. With her friend, Max Ernest, on a adventure trying to find out who took this kind of pearl or orb. They meet this magician named Pietro and his twin named Dr. L. Dr L is evil and is one of the people who stole the pearl or orb. The other one is Ms. Mauvais. Well I gotta go. Peace out!

Out of the dust

I am reading a book called out of the dust. By: Karen hesse.This book is about a girl who lives in the dust bowl and all the trouble her and her family gose threw. I really like this book i would reaally recomend this book.

New School, New Life

Hello fellow readers! Cherry Pop here.The title and author is Twelve by Lauren Myracle. I really want the girls to read this book since it is more appropriate for them. It is about this girl named Winnie and she is starting 7th grade at a middle school.  Her sister, Sandra, got her driver's license. That is all I'm gonna tell you about the book. Read the book to learn more!
But first, read Eleven by Lauren Myracle. This is the 1st book of the series!

The Worst Year Ever

Have you ever been in the old days, lonely and sad. Well this girl has that all she is a piano player who's mom has died because of and accident. It's just sad to think that isn't it. The good thing is that she is really good at playing piano. She and her mom get t0 play in a concert but something happened to her hands. Her dad is so sad he don't want to talk about it. I can feel the pain in her eyes on the cover it just makes me want to go back in time and erase the part of the world to make it better and put it back. If you want to read this book then you should read this it's sad and good. o yea i need to tell you that this book is bast on during the depression time that's why all of this book is so terrible to this people. This girl's name by the way is Billie Jo. Her dad wanted a boy. Her mom was pregnant too is that sad or what. Well go to go but seriously you have to read this book it is the best book in my opinion.

News Blog Now Open

I know, I know....this is not about a book, but I thought we could make one exception.

The class news blog is now up and running.

If you want to check it out, here it is http://elpapelcaliente.blogspot.com/

Be sure to read the guidelines. Click HERE to check them out.

Just in case you are trapped at home for a couple days, I thought you might enjoy writing a story or two.

Hitler's Coming!!!!

The book I'm reading right now is called When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr.
It's about a 9 year old girl and her family going through a time when Hitler is in charge of Germany. That's pretty much of how much I've read so far, don't worry, I'll read some more.
But I'm predicting that thy're going to die!!!!!! Because Something happened and everybody has to vote for him, and the worst of all... the family are jewish!!!!!

Hello, I'm Mrs. Whatsit

Hi everybody, it's me, Minimax! I'm going to recommend a book called A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. It is an AWESOME book about time travel or "tessering" as they say in the book. I am reading it a second time and I recommend this book to Science Fiction Fans because there is some science involved, BUT DON"T WORRY TO YOU PEOPLE THAT ARE NOT SCIENCE FICTION FANS because it is a fun book. I will finally tell you about the book. The book starts out as "It was a dark and stormy night." (I know, I know, I know, that this lead may be boring to some of you, but the lead is not the whole book you know.) and Meg gets up and is scared because of a hurricane. She goes downstairs and sees her brother Charles Wallace and then her mom wakes up and the next thing you know, an old woman named Mrs. Whatsit enters the house. Join Meg and Charles Wallace and Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which as they travel and tesser to different lands and the battle between It.as they look for their missing father somewhere somehow. Read this book to find the true meaning that science isn't that boring at all!

Digging for Success

Hey Guys, it's me The Alien.

I want to recommend a book called Holes by Louis Sachar. It is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who gets sent to a detention camp called Camp Green Lake, and this camp is not at all like summer camp! Stanley and the others must dig holes all day. The Warden says that digging holes helps build up character but Stanley knows that's a lie. Stanley must go through a lot at Camp Green Lake and must overcome Mr. Sir, a strict bossman, deadly lizards, vigorous holes, the mysterious K.B., and the teasings of his cabin mates. But when Stanley digs a very special hole, he finds an object that has the initials of K.B. Will Stanley solve this mystery?

Well, will he..........

book

There is a book called ancient china that I just read. The book is about how people in china lived a long time ago so it says about the government, food, army, families, and just anything about that time in china. I mainly like this book because most of the time I like non fiction and I like looking how people lived and how they traded and just about anything about non fiction. Hope you read the book bye...................

Welcome to Kit's World A informational text about the great depression

Dear Book Enthusiasts,

I was reading a book called Welcome to Kit's World. Sounds like a story does'nt it. But if you think so it, is'nt! This book has so many facts about the Great Depression. If you're wondering what that is, it's a long story. Before the economic downturn, people abused money like they were never were goin to run out of it. Well...you're going to feel so bad for those people. One day on Wall Street, (the stock trading area in NYC) Stock Traders came to trade and sell their share of stocks. No one...BOUGHT OR SOLD ANYTHING! The bank was going to close so everyone rushed to the bank to withdraw their life savings. They called that horrific day BLACK TUESDAY!!!!! People could'nt pay their mortgage so you know what that means...FORCLOSURE!(when the bank takes away the house). Over time it got worse. People became homeless. Also...I'm sure you heard the word hobo from television shows. But hobos were men that were homeless during the economic plunge. They were also sometimes girls. Tramps and Bums are different names for Hobos. People were very afraid of them and often thought they were dangerous people. Well you better read the Book to find learn about that time of history.

Courtesy for picture:Barnes and Noble.com

The Ultimate Prank

How would you feel if you can bug your teacher for 101 days? Well you should get this book because it has so many facts about how and when to bug your teacher. One of the ways is to eat food in class, Chew really loud and then swallow hard. If your the people who likes bugging your teacher then you definitely get this book for some detention and troubleness. Well got to go Bye!!.

Drift House

I want to recommend A Drift House Voyage: The Lost Cities by Dale Peck.

It's about a drift house in the Sea of Time, but there's gotta be something that perks up the book!!! A little boy and a parrot named President Wilson is left behind. They got no food, no shelter, no nothing. Except, a book. Yeah, a book. Sorr-Actually, I don't even feel sorry. That's all I got so far. Read on.

Guess who.

*swish* *swish*

Is that what I think it is? NOOOOO

When the house goes down, you take the life vest. Put it over your shoulder, do the little kids 1st. You can do it manually, or you can pull the string. If you can not keep up, keep up.

OKAY, the house goes down, a little boy and President Wilson is left behind. There's no food, no shelter, no entertainment, all there's left, is, a book...

Change is Coming!

Starting this week - all student blog members must change their name to an internet safe name. Some examples are already visible. Your new name can be as cool as you want. It cannot reveal any of these things:
your age
where you live or go to school
if you are a boy or a girl
any address or phone information

We are making our blog more authentic and realistic...and we may soon start our news blog.

We will eventually make a chart that you can use to figure out who is who.

Hey you guys! Over winter break i finished a book called Rules for Girls by: Meg Cabot. its about this girl named Allie Finkle, and she uses rules as guide lines, and listens to them. But she's not so happy about moving. She believes that her new house is haunted, with a scary hand that is in a box up in the attic. It turns out moving is one of her problems, she tells a secret to someone who she is not suppose to tell, apparently she also let a dog out! Her friendship is not really going well. What is she suppose to do?

I got this picture from barnesandnoble.com

WHO IS IT?

Hi everyone! I want to recommend a great book from the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. If you have read the previous books from the series, you will understand me better than others. In the beginning, Percy wants to very much go on a trip with his mortal friend, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, to St. Louis. But he has to help out defeat the evil titan Kronos. Luke, the son of Hermes,went to serve Kronos. He has a ship that has kept demigods and others that serve Kronos. Charlie Beckendorf and Percy has to destroy the ship. As I have said, the ship kept demigodand others, that have been kept in the ship so they can get Kronos back to life. Well, if you really want to know who the last olympian is, then read this very intresting book!

Do you like scary mystery's? Well here's the book for you. This book is about a girl named Bethany. One normal school day her dad takes her waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyy out of town and they drop her off at her aunt's house but she doesn't know about it. Then her parents start talking in secret about Elizabeth. Then one day a man named Dalton Van Dyne who just got out of prison starts chasing Bethany's dad. Trust me this book is so interesting that I stayed up just to read it. If you want to find out more read this book. It's so out of this world get it? Even if your not interested already just get the book and read the back because right after you do you will be interested.

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A strange spring water

Hello fellow readers! I just finished a book called Tuck Everlasting By: Natalie Babbitt. It's about a girl named winnie who wants to explore the wood, even though her parents don't let her. Early in the morning she goes exploring in the wood. She sees a boy drinking water from a spring. The spring causes someone to live forever. They stay the way they are when they drink it. Winnie finds out that a whole family drank that water. The family kidnaps her and tells her to promise not to tell anybody. She nods her hed terrified.

Will she keep the secret or BLOW IT!

Read the book to find out.

the most intresting book ever "you should try this book"

If you need a good book do I have a good recommendation for you this book is called The missing found and this book will get you hooked till you finish the whole book. Then after you tried the missing found try to read the missing sent I have it so you cant read it till I'm finished.
so back to the missing found when you usually don't read about adoption and mystery's and this book has a lot of action going on, where I'm now this boy Jonah is meeting his real dad the birth parents as some say it and he really feels mad because his dad is criticizing his parents and I think Jonahs real dad should stop criticizing and think about how they helped Jonah and he hasn't really done anything to help Jonah so if he starts helping Jonah out maybe he should tell Jonah sorry for all he's been through and about all this adoption thing. cool air

Where the Red Fern Grows

Hi, Readers --

Have you ever wanted something so badly you saved up your pennies in a tin can for over a year? In this book, the author, Wilson Rawls, writes of his boyhood dream and his adventures of owning two hound dogs. One of my favorite memories of fifth grade is reading Where the Red Fern Grows and discussing it with my friends and teacher. I must've read and reread this book 15 times throughout my life, sometimes aloud. Caution: you may want to run out and buy a dog or take one home you find on the street. Please ask your parents before doing this. I recommend reading Where the Red Fern Grows, but I do not recommend bringing home a dog without talking with your family first.

Small Steps

I would like to recommend the book Small Steps by:Louis Sachar. It is sort of like a sequel to Holes but it's about Armpit. When everyone got out of Camp Green Lake, they went into their separate ways. This book is about Armpit. He doesn't have the best life. No one really trust him, only his next door neighbour Ginny. Then all of a sudden, one day X-ray (guy from Camp Green Lake) comes and asks Armpit if he wants to be involved in a plan to get money fast. Armpit wasn't sure at first but then agreed to help. His agreement will change his life, most likely forever.

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