Dying To Meet You

I read Dying To Meet You by Kate Kilse. It was a fantastic book. I think it was one of my favorite books. The one thing that I liked about this book was that Ignatius B. Grumply went on a date with Olive, a lady who owned the house that Mr. Grumply was staying in for the summer. He was writing a book and just happened to meet Olive, who had been dead for a long time, by seeing her glasses. This story was told thru letters going back and forth between Olive and Ingantius. Every time someone wrote a letter to a character in the book, I would predict what the person would say back. Sometimes my guess was wrong and sometimes my guess was right. In the end, the two main characters ended up living in the house together.

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism is about a ten year-old, gracious, but perplexed girl, that was dropped off at the doorstep of an orphanage when she was just a baby, and has been living there ever since. She can be very admirable and yet a devious little girl.

I really admire Molly because she is one of the most giving people. Molly grew up in an orphanage, so she was taught to share often, and give to others. Molly has demonstrated acts of kindness and humbleness including taking care of multiple younger ones and dealing with cooking and cleaning. Even when Molly used her hypnotic powers to get rich and famous in New York, she eventually packed her bags and returned to the orphanage in England, which she still feels is her real home. She made a hefty salary of forty thousand dollars a month, and gave it all to the orphanage.

Molly is a very thoughtful person, but there is a trade off. She deceives others in order to give to the less fortunate. She is very confused about how to use her special powers. Molly hypnotized everybody watching Broadway shows, and everybody working on Broadway to make herself famous and wealthy, but in the end, she used the money to help the orphanage. Molly also hypnotized a crook, but hypnotized him to be a loving person.

I think that Molly, like many orphans, wants to know who her parents are, and wishes that she has someone to look up to. Considering she has no role model, she makes some pretty logical decisions when there is nobody there for her. For the most part I see Molly as a giving girl, but I wonder how she will turn out in the next couple of books.

Dying To Meet You

I read Dying To Meet You by Kate Kilse

, it was a fantastic book, I think it was one of my favorite book I have read. The one thing that I liked about this book was that, Ignatius B. Grumply went on a date with Olive a lady who owned the house that Mr. Grumply who was staying in for the summer. The thing that I liked about the book was that the book was telling a story in letters going back and forth, which I liked. Ever time someone wrote letter to a character in the book, I would predicted what would the person say back. Sometimes my guess is wrong and sometimes my guess is ri
ght, but everthing life can be wrong or right.

BEST BOOK EVER

I’m reading the book the mysterious Benedict society. I’ve read this book twice this is my third time reading it. This book is a very good book, but a very long read, well its taking me a long time to read. This book really got me hooked it’s a mystery and a adventure all in one. The book is a little confusing some times. For example sometimes there’s a question and you know the answer but you think your wrong because the characters are suppose to be geniuses. I think that my favorite part is at the back theirs a quiz you can take to see how much you paid attention well you were reading. I think this is a book many people would like if they only tried it.

The Titans Curse

This book is called The Titans Curse by Rick Riordon. This story is about a boy named Percy Jackson, he has gone on quests during the first two book and they were very exciting. since I am only on the 63rd I hope and infer that it will be the same in this book.



Usually I stop when I am in the middle of a series if it is an average series but I am 100% sure that I am going to finish these books because they are so wonderfully written. It has the humor, excitment and action. It is also my reading level. I think that I am going to finish this series and wish it kepped on going forever. This is a great book.



In my perspective its like Rick Riordon made this book specifically made for fifth graders, because if for intance a second grader read this book he/she wouldn't understand it. This is a individual book, meaning that I can not think of a text to text. This is also the best book in the series in my perspective...so far.

SUMMER VACATION

I've been reading the book Summer Vacation by Erik P. Craft. I really enjoy the humor in this book because its definitely has my style of humor. I also like the way he described the characters so much because it made it easy for me to paint a picture in my mind.

I enjoyed reading this book because it had alot of descriptive language so it made it seem like I was right there at that spicific time. Something that I dont like about him is that he gives me a bunch of questions that make it hard to understand.

Jerimy Fink and the Meaning of Life

I was just closing the book Jerimy Fink and the Meaning of Life. And there were tears running down my face, because I was so surprised and it was sad to me but this girl is an emotional freak and I have problems with the movie Nancy Drew, because it is the most scary thing I have ever seen! I think this is also weird because in the end you will say "WHAT!" and as Maggie said "Don't give the book away!" Anyways the main idea of the book is A boy named Jerimy finds a box that says "For Jerimy to open on his thirteenth birthday." And he and his friend Lizzy were like "what the heck is going on!" So they found four key holes and they saw no keys. So obviously they try to find the keys.

The Mysterious Benedict Society

The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Steward, is about four ordinary kids named Reynie, George (Sticky), Kate, and Constance. The thing that makes these kids special is that they are all very smart and have special abilities. They all take a test from a weird man called Mr. Benedict who recruits them as secret agents. They end up getting a mission to destroy a device called the whisperer, which soothes fears and reads thoughts. They kids have to keep the whisperer from Mr Curtain, the bad guy in the story, who wants to use it to dominate the world.

Unlike the characters in the Harry Potter series, the Mysterious Benedict Society kids can't do magic and they don't have any mystical powers. I did find a lot of other things in common with the Harry Potter series though. This book reminds me of Harry Potter because Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance are all bound together by friendship just like Harry, Ron, and Hermione were. The are all brave and daring. Also, The Mysterious Benedict Society kids don't live with their parents, just like the kids in Harry Potter who live at Hogwarts. Both sets of kids go on all kinds of amazing adventures and have to keep things from getting into the bad guy's hands. All of these kids have to fight against evil in some form and solve mysteries. They also need friendship, loyalty and good leadership to succeed. Even though they are not all orphans, the children have all been left alone by grownups and have to learn to work together and to trust each other to survive.

Ender's Game

I am reading Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, right now, and it is fantastic! I am glued to this book, so of course, I am reading it really slow, because when I like a book a lot, I read it really slow, to make sure I get all the information to understand it.

Ender Wiggin, the mane character, is a 12 year old boy. Though in the beginning of the book he is 6. In this book, the world is different. People are only allowed to have 2 kids, there are buggers, which is a sort of alien, and there is something called the I.F, International Fleet, which is a big army that protects the world from buggers. When a child is about 2 to 3 years old, they have a monitor on the back of their neck, that can kind of tell what the child is thinking, and it protects them. When a child gets this they are being tested to see if they would be right for the I.F.

When Ender gets recruited for the I.F, he must prove that he has the guts to survive battle school. Everything is new to Ender, except trying to stick up for himself by older kids, his brother has already taught him that with his life threatening fights against Ender. Will Ender live up to be a commander of an Army team? Will he show himself smarter, stronger and a strategizing genius, or will he dissolve among the pressure of being picked on, and being away from the only person who loves him, his sister Valentine?

The reason I told you that people are only allowed to have 2 kids in this book, is because, Ender's parents had 3. They had Peter, Ender's mean older brother first, but the tests on Peter showed that he was too high tempered to be on the I.F. Then they had Valentine, but she was too soft tempered to be on the Fleet team, so the governor asked if they would have Ender, and so far Ender's tests have proved him to be a good soldier.

I am really liking this book! It is very intense, and surprising. I think it is surprising because when I think Ender is finally going to be happy with himself, he isn't because he thinks of something like, I am bullying people around, just like Peter, when all he did was grab a kid and push him to the wall. This book has some cuss words, and is not like your everyday read, but it really is a great action packed, very exciting, descriptive book.

The kid from Tomkinsville

I just finished The kid from Tomkinsville by John R. Tunis and I wouldn't say it was the best book but it was good.One of the things I liked about this book is normal Baseball books there not that good but this one actually had some action packed parts that got me to sit on the edge of my seat but not all scene's were like that.
Oh right The kid from Tomkinsville is about a kid named Roy Tucker that was a farm boy utill people started seeing his talent at baseball and surprisingly made it in to the major leagues and gets drafted to the Dogers.And right when he started make the team respect him he got in a freak car accident that was going to ruin his chances of pitching in the World series.
This book...is well come to think of it is a pretty good book.

Queste

Queste is the fourth book of the book series, the Septimus heap series. Queste is about a young boy who was in the young army and he was known as 412. 412 is a young boy with blonde hair and green eyes. If you haven't read the other books in the series, then Queste won't make much sense. In Queste Septimus is trying to avoid doing a queste, which is something that all of the extraordinary wizard apprenices have to do. Since it's only the beggining of his apprenticeship, he doesn't know why he has to dothe gathering yet. He decides to run away for a little while until the gathering was over, and then Marcia, the extraordinary wizard, would be able to find him and bring him back to the castle. Before Marcia finds them, Septimus, Jenna, the princess, and Beetle, Septimus's best friend, try to find Nicko, one of seven of septimus's brother. But on the way something strange is happening. All Septimus remembers is that he excepted something from Hildegarde, but Septimus has doubts that it's what he thought it was...

The Titans Curse

The Percy Jackson series are so intense and exciting. I love them! I am reading The Titans Curse by Rick Riordan. So far, I think it's the best book ever.
A few characters are in the first book,The Lighting Thief,Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Chiron, and some more. But as I was reading I notist that the character trait has really been expanding. The more pages I turn the more characters I know. To me, more characters make a book better, because there is more dialogue and secrets that are told. For example, action goes really well with the new characters. There are new weapons, such as bo and arrows, from the Hunters.
I don't really know who my favorite character is, but I think it's Artemis. She is super brave and she is kind of like a boss to the Hunters. But I am the opposite. For example, Artemis announced,''Zoe, we will rest here for a few hours. Raise the tents. Treat the wounded. Retrieve our guests' belongings from the school.'' And I am getting orders from my brother.''Audrey, put away my Lego's.''
Rick Riordan's series are so fun for me to read. I love the monsters and the fighting. When ever I get to a part were the page is full of fighting,I always change my position and make it comfy. I also read slow. I want to cherish the moment of description.
The Titans Curse is the best book ever.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

I am reading The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan, and so far it is a great book. There are so many things in this book that a lot of other people probably would not know. For example, who knew that corn is in every single thing we eat? When I say that, I don't just mean corn and things with corn syrup, I mean everything! If someone wants a book that does not tell a story, but instead has a lot of interesting facts and is fun, but not too easy to read, this is definitely the book for them! All I know, is that it was definitely the book for me. In fact, every chapter's title sounded like something I would want to know about--every time I got to a chapter, I read the title and just said to myself, this sounds so interesting!

The other thing about this book is that it doesn't really leave anything out when it's talking about something in a chapter. For instance, every time I had a question that I did not remember reading in the book, in the next two or three sentences it answered my question. Also, if more people decide to read this book, it may change the way we eat and it might change the way we look at food, and if it does that our diets are going to be much healthier in the future! So, by just reading this book you can become healthier and happier in your life! That's something that I think the author did a good job on.

This author also uses evidence from his own life. For example, he talks about the times when his family went to fast food places and what they ate there and other things like that. Another thing I like, and probably many other people would like about this author, is that he makes the reader, which in this case me, feel like I'm really in the story sitting next to him as he tells it to me. This is something lots of authors probably do, but what this author does, is that he tells where he got his information after he makes a statement about something.

I find this helpful, because if I wanted to know more then what he's told me about that topic, I can either buy the book he got the information from or go to the website he got used. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be a food detective and know the secrets behind what they eat.

Fever

Fever by Laurie Halse Anderson. I started to read this book because two of my classmates told me this book was "Great!" They were absolutly right. I love this book and I know anyone who reads it will agree with me. It is about a girl named "Mattie Cook" that lives in philadalphia at her dead dad's handmade coffee shop. When suddenly fever strikes. Now her and her grandfather struggle to survive this virus.
I think the author of this book did a great job intruducing the book to . In other words I loved the catch. I will not say the catch, because if I do Im going to retell the story and I want everyone that reads this to read the book themselves.

Copper Sun

I just finished reading the book, Copper Sun by Sharon Draper and I think it's one of the best books I have ever read.

The book Copper Sun is about a girl named Amari who was living in Africa when some white soldiers killed everybody in Amari's village except her and a few other people. When Amari gets sold to slaveowners, she has to learn how to speak English and learn how to be a slave.



I really enjoyed reading Copper Sun because it was so interesting and full of very descriptive words that helped me imagine what was going on. I really liked that Copper Sun was full action, had descriptive language, and had an incredible ending.



One of the best thing about this book was all the action. Almost every part of the book had action in it. I really liked that because I never got bored and I always wanted to keep reading. There have been nights were I have stayed up till twelve o'clock even though I was tired because there was so much action and cliffhangers. An example of a good part filled with action is where Clay finds Amari, Polly, and Tidbit and was threatening to kill them. That was one of the moments in the book that kept me on the edge of my seat!



Something else I enjoyed about Copper Sun is the descriptive language. There is so much descriptive language in this story, and I really liked that because it helped me imagine what was happening in the book. An example of descriptive language is the when Amari gets whipped. The words and phrases they used like "I felt like my skin was sizzling" were so intense that I felt like I was in the book at that very moment.



The best part of the book and the part that I enjoyed the most was the ending. I think the ending was one of the best parts of the book because it was very happy and most parts of this book are very sad.



I think that Copper Sun is a very interesting and well written book!

The Omnivore's Dilemma

I just finished reading a book called The Omnivore's Dilemma The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan. The book is about where our food comes from.

There are lots of interesting facts in this book like how non organic potatoes are grown with a pesticide so toxic to our nervous system that no one is allowed in the field for 5 days after its sprayed then after the harvest the potatoes have to be stored for 6 months so the chemicals wear off before they are safe to eat. The book explains how a lot of our food is made with corn. You think there is lots of variety of food but it's mostly corn. For example corn is in Cheez Whiz, frozen yogurt, tv dinners, canned fruits, ketchup, candy, hot dogs, salad dressing, and cake mix. The industrial farms are feeding there cattle corn instead of grass and that's making the cows sick and diseased and they can pass bad bacteria to us like e. coli which can kill people.

I would recommend reading this book for people that want to know where their food comes from and how to make better choices about what we eat.

Marley: A Dog Like No Other

Marley: A Dog Like Other is about the heartwarming, naughty bond between master and dog. It is the kid's version adapted from Marley and Me, the adults and original version.

Marley is really sad. I'm warning you. I was crying at the end, and my dad gave a big lecture about how everything dies. You know, that got me thinking. I've realized everyone, everything, every creature is going to die at some point. Some point, everything is going to die. Keep that in mind.

Anyway, John Grogan, the author did a really good job describing everything in the story. It seemed like I was there. I know it seems like every author does that and everyone tells about it in their blog post, but he did an especially good job. Thanks John!

Marley is a memoir, which is like a autobiography, but it doesn't tell an overview of the whole persons life, it just tells short, important moments. The dog dies, but it was pretty obvious that it was going to die. But hey, it's a memoir, so you can't really give away the story that well.

THE LIGHTNING THIEF

The Lightning Thief is a new book and cerise that I have started. This book is really goodfrom where I am at. The reason I like this book is because it is a book about Greek and Latin mythology. The book is about this boy named Percy Jackson. He is an orphan how lost his mom in a fight against a half human half bull. Now he is in this cap called Half Blood Camp where kids like him are sent, different kids are sent.

Now I know that a lot of people know about this book and I hate to bore somebody how has already read the book but it just happened to be the book I am reading.

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl is a great series anyway you look at it. It's a mix of modern day technology and fairies, dwarfs, goblin's and centaurs! Artemis is a 12 year old genius who unfortunately uses his massive brain for criminal activates. Soon Artemis discovers the existence of many new creatures previously only childhood storybooks. Knowing that they have been discovered, the fairies launch an attack on the Fowl mansion. Artemis Fowl is a great and exciting series that I recon girls or boys would like. I think that Artemis is similar to, a character in Eragon, Eldest, and Brisingr. That character being Murtagh, Murtagh is the son of one of the major bad guys in the story, but yet he is determined to fight against his dads army's and maybe some day hos dad himself. Artemis is the same sort of person in a way. Artemis used to be a criminal always wanting more and more money, but as the series progresses Artemis becomes less of a greedy kind of man, and eventually will want nothing in returning for risking his life on more than one occasion. So I think that Murtagh and Artemis are similar in a sort of way. I also think that tht author also did a good job of giving the character good such as Mulch, Foaly, Artemis, and Opal. I like the way that Eoin Colfer, the author, took a usually old and polite job such as a Butler, and gave a character that is extremely, fit, buff, a weapon master, and marshal-arts master the name butler I think that it is a funny little detail that seemed to catch my attention. I think over-all that Eoin Colfer did a great job writing the Artemis Fowls.

Al Capone Does My Shirts

I am reading the book Al Capone Does My Shirts, by Gennifer Choldenko. This Book is about a 13 year old boy named Moose who has an older sister named Natalie. She is 16, but she acts like she is eight, so Moose has to take care of her.
On Alcatraz things are not going so well for Moose, will he ever make any friends? I like this book because not many books are about jail or a sister with a handicap problem, and the setting is fantastic to!
My favorite quote from the book is, "Yep, but not the same school, remember? Your going to this nice place called the Esther P. Marinoff." I like this because it gives so much information about where she will go now. Sometimes it's hard for me to understand books that take place in another time, however this book is in 1935, and I can understand it. So that was a bonus feature for me. I still have not gotten to the part where Al Capone is in the story. I hope the story continues to stay as interesting as it is right now.

Charlie Bone and The Time Twister

I read Charlie Bone and The Time Twister. It was an amazing book that I really enjoyed. The book kept me on my tippy toes at every second. It was mainly about a boy named Charlie Bone who runs into lots of trouble.

 

I found this book, Charlie Bone and The Time Twister, very interesting. He's always in some sort of adventure throughout the whole story.This keeps you interested all the time. Every part of the book made me want to read more. Some times I would go to bed super late not know it was past 9:00. Even the chapter names would draw me into the story, some of them were: In To The Freezer, "You Can't Go Back", The Black glove, and "Take Him To The Dungeons". Those weren't the only things that kept me reading. There were much, much, more. I also really liked how the author described the settings in the story. This really helped me picture the time and place in the story.

 

                            This book, Charlie bone and The Time Twister, is very interesting in many ways, such as, in

the story Charlie has a gift. He can look at a picture and hear what the people are saying at that 

moment in time. People like him are called endowed children. These children are descendants of

the Red King (A man that had many different powers and was a magician. He had 10

children who each had one of these talent. These talents were passed on through the years.)  

I really love this astounding book. I love it so much I'd give it first prize out of all the books I've read.

The Lightning Thief

Some time ago somebody, more like everybody, recommended this book to me I finished the last series of "Inkheart" so then I just picked it up and read a couple of pages and got totally sucked in to the story.

Rick Riordan is a total genius. I can not wait to read the rest of his series, then another of his. I am only on like the 40th page and I cannot stop there, no way.

The book the Lightning Thief is a mix of adventure and exiting demons and monsters waiting to suck up Percy in his adventure. Percy being a eager boy for a little excitement outside his life waiting for the right time to turn around his life from blowing buses up with a canon to being at his house for a change.

I hope as I read on something even more exciting will happen! (If even possible) Although those three old woman were creepy Percy made the right decision by running from his friend I would if they were coming after me.

Savvy

I'm reading the book Savvy by Ingrid Law. I'm not so far into the book right now but it's still really good! Savvy is about a girl named Mississippi who is about to turn 13. There family is different than others. When a kid in their family turns thirteen they get their own savvy. A savvy is pretty much like a power, but I don't think they can ever loose it. When Mississippi turns thirteen she does not feel any change so she's worried she wont get a savvy. Her Papa is in the hospital and her mom and older brother, Rocket, are taking care of him. Mississippi has to have her thirteenth birthday with out her mom, dad, and Rocket. She is staying with her brother, Fish, and Samson, and her sister, Gypsy, and this friend of her moms, Miss Rosemary. She has one daughter named Bobbi and one boy named Will Junior.

Savvy is full of exciting things. It always surprises me. Savvy has brave, interesting, bratty, and loving characters, Mississippi, Rocket, Fish, Gypsy, Samson, Bobbi, Will Junior, and kids from Mississippi's Birthday party. My favorite character is probably Bobbi, Miss Rosemary's daughter, because she is kind of rude person and I like to watch how she interact with the other characters. I also like her because she is a nice and warm person in the inside, but on the outside she's a quiet, bratty girl. I also like Mississippi because she has a good sense of humour and is very brave. Mississippi does not really care what other people think of her and I like that.

I like the style Ingrid Law used. I thought she picked a strange subject but turned it into a FABULOUS story. I always wonder while I'm reading, why she named the characters such strange names like, Mississippi, Rocket, Fish, Bobbi as a girl, etc. I was also wondering how she came up with the setting and  how she thought of a savvy. I thought that was cool. 

As I said this book was really awkward and interesting, I thought It was very thoughtful, fun reading, and sad and happy at the same time. It was sad because the papa is in the hospital not able to wake up and how Mississippi is trying to help him. I was also happy reading Savvy because Mississippi was brave and how she and her friends cared about other people. This book is fantabulous. I highly recommends this book if some people are looking for a good book that is entertaining. 

The Last Olympian

I'm reading The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan, and it is the 5th and final book in the series. I think this one is very, very good.

The last 4 books, the Battle of the Labyrinth, the Titans Curse, which takes place on Mt Tam, the Sea of Monsters, and the first and my favorite that I've read so far, the Lightning Thief. These are all such great books except for this book just beats them out in fright, tension, and excitement. This book is the final book in percy Jackson's battle against the Titan Kronos, so, it gets a little more intense.

My feelings about this book are, wow, what a great idea. My feelings before these were, oh,
i'll just try this series. Man, I hope it's good. And it definaltley turned out to be great. Before my
when I was a little younger like 7 or 8 my dad would read the books to me and my brothers.
My brother, Aaron, usually suggests me books and this time no difference. He read them a long
time ago. So I tried them. Greek mytholigy really is interesting. But actully really surprisingly
creepy in my opinion. That is what makes them great. Creepy, but not too creepy like they give
one nightmares and it makes one not want to read them. It makes one WANT to read them and
take one onto the edge of their seat. It's really fun.

In these compelling books there's all this Greek mytholigy, Medusa, the Minatour, and snake women called draecene and much more mixed up monsters with different animal parts on them. There are many grudges in this book and rivalries which I find very interesting. And also rivalries as well.

These books might be my favorites ever because of the great content inside those great pages. Again, the Last Olympian is my favorite in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series.

The Giver

I just read The Giver. The Giver is about a boy, Jonas, who lives in a community with so many rules it is confusing. Such as; everybody has their birthday in December, someone who lives in community receives a general present that everyone in one's age group will get too. For instance, when someone turns eight the boys get a haircut and the girls get to take their hair ribbons out. Or when one turns nine each new nine year old gets a bike. He receives an assignment when Jonas is twelve, like everybody in the community. But Jonas doesn't get assigned, he gets selected. Until his mysterious surprise, he is clueless.

What I liked the most about The Giver is how Lois Lowry, the author,

made you figure things out when Jonas did, so it makes it feel sort of like a

mystery. In the community that Jonas lives in seems like it is in the future because nobody

knows what an animal is, their is no such thing as snow.

When I read The Giver I felt like I was in the story. I also feel sort of bad for the people

that live in this community because they don't actually get to experience life the way they

want to because they're held back by all the rules.

We have to read it next year for Sixth grade, but it is worth reading again so you can

squeeze out all the facts and important things someone could miss the first time they read this

wonderful book.

If you like to feel, smell and "see" what you are reading, I recommend that you read this

book, because you will enjoy it!

The Battle of the Labryinth

The Battle of the Labrynth was about Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson going in to a labrynth that went around the whole world. They were trying to stop Cronose's army from invading there camp, Camp Half-Blood.

Cronos is an evil god, the titan god. Him and his army are trying to destroy all of western civilisation. Percy and his friends went into the labrynth to get the string so Cronose's army don't now how to navigate the labrynth. The string is a magic string that navigates the labrynth.

I really like this book because it is always very intense. It is like I read my half hour of reading I want to stop and do something eles, but I don't, sometimes I want to keep reading.