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Mr. Shaw 6.7.10 Thanks for sharing your thoughts about the wiki, Noah. I agree that separate pages for each student is the way to go. Five house points for green!

//6/6/10 I dropped Edenville Owls and started The Chaos Code. It is about a kid named Matt who is reluctent to stay with his annoying archeologist father but when he finds that his dad is missing he must solve clues from a mysterious letter to reveal the truth about what treasure his dad is.... looking for. I thought the reading wiki was a very good idea for reading this year. I think that the way we each have our own page is good so we our comments don't get messed up while other people are using the wiki. I think it's reasonable to do two comments on other people's pages and to make other pages such as the book recommendation page. I wouldn't change anything about the wiki except the wiki mail. I don't see a reason to use it but it is a wiki.

5/31/10 I dropped Out of the Blue and started a book called Edenville Owls. It's about a made up basketball teams and a new school teacher. The basketball team isn't very good and they don't have a coach. The new teacher.... well .... one guy on the team, Bobby, finds this man and the new teacher arguing. He wants to help.

I would recommend Over the Wall because it's full of baseball/summer.

5-23-10 Andy Noah a couple days ago i read this book. It was just some articles about the cubs. But the name was out of the blue too.

5/23/ 10 I started a book called Out of the Blue. It is about a boy named Stu, whose mom is a colonel in the Air Force. Stu moves to new places daily and this time it's Minot ND. So far Stu is getting used to Minot and he found a friend named Billy.// //Mr. Shaw 5.18.10 Noah, I'm wondering how you know that Kevin likes computer games and basketball. Was that an important part of Kevin's character?//

//Mr. Shaw 5.16.10 Sounds like a serious story, Noah. Please remember not to give away too much when you're telling about the plot. Other people may want to read this and not know how it ends or who the real killer is!//

5/16/10 I finished //My Father's Son//. In the end, Kevin goes to his grandparents's house to find out more information about his dad. Kevin's grandfather is angry because his super smart son dumped his dreams of going to Harvard or Stanford to run off with Kevin's mom. Kevin stays for a while while his mom is in Albaquerqe. After she returns, Kevin punches his best friend, Jason for dating the person he liked. Anyway, things are figured out and it turns out that Kevin's dad's boss, Jared Johntson was the real killer.

In this book I would want to be Kevin's friend because he believed in his dad in the beginning and even though he doubted him in the end, he tried 100% in the beginning. He also likes to play basketball (which I like). Finally he likes computer games.

5-13-10 I think he will find out from his mom. Or if the police tell him or something. But I think it is because you would reconize him and he did. But if i was him i would be scared.

5/9/10 I did not finish Cover Up. Instead, I started a new book called //My Father's Son//. The main character's name is Kevin Windor and his parents are divorced. He and his father, Greg, are good friends and they have lots of fun together. After coming home from his dad's, he flips on the television to find out that his dad is a serial killer who just got caught. Kevin is sure that it is someone else.... but how can he prove it?

I think this story is similar to a book I read once where an old woman was killed and the boy was the only witness. The murderer now had to kill the boy. I think this because for one, it is a mystery and two it involves a victim, and a real murderer and the framed one.

5/2/10 I stated a book called Cover Up. It is NOT the sports book. Far from it. The main character's name is Brad. His parents are on a trip somewhere and Brad is the man of the house. He and his friend go to a party and he drinks a lot. When he wakes up the next morning he feels like something terrible has happened to someone. His parents? His friend? He doesn't have a clue yet. I think the major conflict is that Brad thinks something bad happened. The story is half mystery and half scary to me.

Danielle 5/1/10 I have heard that that series is grea and almost everybody has read it but I am not interested in stories like that. Also how can 3 people Annabeth,Grover,and Percy stop Kronos from destroying the modern society?

//Jeremy 5-1-10 Noah, the Alex Rider books are nothing like the movie, they have more going on. If you liked the movie Cody Banks you would like this this book reminds me exactly of it!!! I think you would really enjoy this series because of the intensity.

Brian 4/29/10// //I am pretty sure that The Last Olympian was the fifth book in the series. I am going to have to say number 3 is the lie. Have fun reading!//

Jack M 4-28-10 Iread the book and thought it was great the percy jackson series gives you a taste of today and the past witch gives a taste of andventure. also great job with they epic ending ( reminds me of movie previews ).

4-26-10 Josh I think it is number !.

4/25/10 I was reading "The Last Olympian". It is the 5th book in the Lightning Thief series. The evil titan, Kronos, is reforming by the second and Percy and his friends, Annabeth and Grover, need to find a way to stop him from destroying the modern society. Armed with his sword, Riptide, Percy goes out with his fellow campers from Camp Half-Blood..... to face Kronos's evil army.

TWO TRUTHS .... & A LIE 1. Percy's friends are Grover and Annabeth. 2. Percy's sword is Riptide. 3. "The Last Olympian" is the 4th book in the series.

Jeremy 4/25/10 Noah, I challenge you to find my lie in my new comment. Do they really force citizen's to fight in the hunger games even if they don't want to? This sounds like a good book I might read it after I finish the series I am reading!

4/18/10 I'm readin "The Hunger Games" right now. The city that the main character (Katniss) lives in sends one boy and girl out to the annual Hunger Games to fight other people to the death. Katniss is very high right now but she is afraid for herself......and angry at the people who force the citizens to do this. My rating is ***.

Joey 4/18/10 I own Baseball Great but I never read it. Should I???? I also love Tim Green's writing.

Danielle 4/14/10 Noah that sounds like a cool baseball book. I think that Josh should practice twice as hard if he is playing All Star Mickey Mullen's team so he can win the game and make his dad proud. I think I would like this book because I like baseball and I like watching it with my dad. I also like playing it, but I play softball. See you tomorrow.

Noah 4-11-10 late I am reading Rivals by Tim Green. It is a sequel to Baseball Great. It is a boy named Josh wh o goes to Cooperstown to win a championship. This championship is very important to Josh and his dad but how can they win when All Star Mickey Mullen's son's team is paying the ump to make bad calls.

Jack M 4-8-10 this book seems very depressing sigh...But some books have parts like that but have happy endings.

3/25/10 I finished "War Comes to Willy Freeman". It ended with Willy finding her mother, but her mother was really sick. Willy tried to get a doctor, but the Ivers came and Willy's mother died. Willy attacked Ivers and Ivers hit her. Jack Arabus slugged Ivers and was caught and jailed but Willy went to Mr. Goodrich and the matter was in court........

A book I would recommend for vacation is "The Lightning Thief", "The Sea of Monsters", "The Titan's Curse" and "The Battle of the Labyrinth" because they are such exciting books with twists and turns at every corner.

Jeremy 2/21/10 Noah, you are right Sarah's Key is a lot like Devil's Arithmetic! I think that Sarah's Key was better though. I think you should read this book!

Jack M 3-25-10 this book really sounds like it involves alot of death and I have a question. What do you think is going to happen at the end of the book? Also how old is willy in this book.

3/17/10 I am reading "War comes to Willy Freeman" for the novel thing. It is about a girl (who disguises as a boy) who is an African American. Willy's father Jordan got their freedom by joining in the militia. Anyway a battle breaks out at Fort Griswold and it ends with lots dead including Willy's father. After barely surviving the battle, Willy returns home to discover that her mother was taken by the British and takes her father's jolly boat to search for her aunt and uncle. Willy finds them and quickly leaves after noticing that the man who owned the aunt and uncle, wants to have her back in slavery. After that, Willy is found, and taken aboard by American sailors who are about to raid a British island. Willy gets away from the americans and goes through many towns to find her mother .....

I would not want to live in Willy's time.

2/28/10 I have been reading "Travel Team". It's about a boy named Danny who really likes basketball and is trying out for the travel team. So he tried out and the coaches didn't want him. Danny is very angry and sad. His dad is Richie Walker who led the same travel team to a title, went to Syracuse, and got a career in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors. Unluckily, Richie's career ended soon due to a car crash. One way I think this book is similar to "Gym Candy" is because both of the main characters's (Danny, Mick) fathers were athletes and because both of them had short careers. Anyway, Danny's dad decides to make his own team. Danny is quick to learn that his dad's team really stinks! One day Richie recruits a girl named Colby Danes who the whole team thinks is really good. Can she do well? Will Danny think like Richie?! Will they win???!!!

I think the main setting of this book is on a basketball court.

//Mr. Shaw 2/23/10 Glad to see Andy, Jared, and Joey contributing to this page. Where are you, Noah? Give us an update, please!

Andy2/21/10 I think it's not unfair that he got kicked out of the league to be in the NFL you have to be really good also Mick is just playing football to make his Dad happy.

Jared 2-21-10 I think Mike was really dissapointed because he got kicked out.

Joey I wonder if Mick really wanted to do it or if his Dad made him.

Abhi 2/14/10 Noah, that is unfair that he got kicked out.//

2/14 I am reading "Gym Candy". It is a realistic fiction book about a kid named Mick Johnson, wh ohas loved football since he was a little kid. Mick's dad Mike was an NFL running back for the San Diego Chargers. However, he got kicked out because he wan't good enough. Mike doesn't want Mick to waste his talent like himself. So over the years, Mick is a running back for a football leauge. He dominates, but when they get a new coach, that changes. Mick isn't the huge star anymore. Drew Carney, the quarterback, is. He has the attitude and skills that the new coach wants. Mick gets back on track though and soon enough the QB and the RB are friends.

One cause and effect I noticed was that when the new coach came, Mick wasn't the hero anymore, Drew was.

//Danielle 1/13/10 I feel so bad for Brian that is so sad that his girlfriend was killed. Who's dad was it do you think murdered her was it Brian dad or her dad? If I were Brian I would take my friends advice and try not to think about it because if i did it would make me really really sad.

Jocelyn 2/10/10 I fell bad for Brian, must have been hard. What kind of father would kill somebody, it is just discusting and mean. Focusing on basketball was nice of the friends to segjust, but still I think that it wouldn't take his mind off his girlfriend.//

//2-7-10 Sounds like a great book. I don't blame Brian I couldn't consentrate on basketball. Also whos father and i don't think any father would do that.//

2/7 I am reading "The perfect shot". It is about a boy named Brian whose girlfriend got murdered in the summer. His friends tell him to move on and focus on basketball. But Brian cannot. The police think that the murderer was the father.

//Jack M 2/5/10 Jeremy me and Noah where reading the sign of the beaver and I ( maybe Noah ) think it took place in the early 1900s or late 1800s because that is when the new world had more peopole moving to the USA and in the start of the book they have no nabors but I am not going to spoil the ending

2/2/10 Jeremy What happens in The Boy In The Burning House? What time of century do you think the sign of the beaver happens in! I think these books sound good i might check them out one day.

2-1-10 Andy Is this book The boy in the burning house part of a series of Sign of the Beaver or just a another book that you another book you and jack are reading also what do you mean where it took place. Do you mean Sign of the Beaver can happen here and the other book in the set of Line Drive.//

1/30/10 "The Sign of the Beaver" and "The Boy in the Burning House" are only 2/3 of the books I have read with Jack M. I think they are both similar because their settings both have a "past" feel to it, though "The Boy in the Burning House" may take place in the 21st century. They are also similar because the main characters (Matt, Jim) both have a friend in the story (Attean, Ruth Rose). "The Boy in the Burning house" differs from "Sign of the Beaver" because it's genre is mystery while "Sign of the Beaver" is historical fiction. Another way the books are different is the "where" part to the setting. "Sign of the Beaver" would probably take place in a place like Highland Park except there would be no houses or schools ect. while "The Boy in the Burning House" might take place in a small town like "Line Drive" in StoryTown.

1/24/10 Jack and I have finished "The Boy in the Burning House." So we started our third book which is "The Sign of the Beaver." This book is about a kid named Matt whose dad left him all alone when he went to get the rest of Matt's family in Quincy. Matt's dad said he would be back in a couple of weeks. Anyway, Matt is doing a decent job of living alone. One day a man named Ben comes to Matt's cabin and gets a whiff of the food Matt had just made. He said that he hadn't eaten for a while and asked Matt if he would invite him in. Well, Matt remembers his manners and invites Ben in to eat. Matt gets a little annoyed when Ben decided that he was going to sleep in Matt's cabin for the night. When Ben is sleeping, Matt has these awful thoughts about Ben being a criminal or a murderer so he keeps his father's rifle with him. When Matt wakes up, Ben and the rifle are gone! The next thing you know is that Matt is climbing a tree and falls into a lake where a swarm of bees are waiting to attack. Luckily Matt gets rescued by a Indian named Attean. Attean is about the same age as Matt. It starts out a little rocky at first, but Attean and Matt are getting to know each other.....

Jack Motzko 1/21/010 if my dad was murdered I would try to arrest him (and hurt him) and I have a question for toby His dad was murdered and how does that sound really great because I think it is horribly sad.

1/20/10 Jack M. and I have started a new book called "The Boy in the Burning House." It is mainly about a boy named Jim. One day when Jim is taking his beaver out to help with the damn. Suddenly he spots a girl in the woods. Her name is Ruth Rose and she tells Jim that the preacher of the town, Father Fisher, is a murderer. Not just any murderer. A murderer who Ruth Rose says killed Jim's father, Hub. Ruth Rose wants Jim to help her catch Fisher and to put him behind bars for a while. Can Jim help?

Wow toby 1/21/10 that sounds great

Jack M 1/15/010 If I was tony I would have never gone in the stream in the first place because tony cant swim and screamed I CAN'T SWIM! to joel it was a little nerve racking

1/14/10 I am reading "On my Honor." It is about these two friends named Joel and Tony. Tony always comes u p with these crazy ideas that Tony wants Joel to do. But most of the time Joel wants to go swimming and doesn't want to do Tony's ideas (such as climbing the bluffs). So Tony comes u p with the idea to climb the bluffs at the park. Joel's father says to Joel "On your honor you and Tony won't go anywhere exce pt the park?" Joel says he is on his honor to that. On the way to the park Tony also wants to go swimming in a lake. Joel warns him not to but Tony goes in anyway........and never comes out.

Jack 1-11-10 That book sounds intense! I feel bad for Michael because his parents died. What was Ramon stealing? I might read that some day.

1/11/10 I started and finished a book called "Heat" by Mike Lupica. Its about a kid named Michael Arroyo. The main problem Michael faces is that both of his parents are dead and his older brother and a neighbor named Mrs. Cora look out for him. The problem from that is that they don't want any officials finding out. Anyway Michael has a great arm and is a really good pitcher. He used his arm in the beginning of the book stop a thief named Ramon. As poor as they are, Michael still plays in a leauge with his best friend Manny Cabrera. If you want to find out more, read the book!!

Andy 12/17/09 Sounds like a great book. I wounder what really did happened to the Dad and who will make it back and who will not.

Jeremy 12/15.09 Wow, that book sounds really sad and sort of scary! I fell really bad for Ben because it was probably hard to stay alive with no money or food! I hope the storm is not bad and I hope they will survive.

//Danielle 12/14/09: That looks like a really great book. I really want to know what happens about the storm when you get to that part tell because I want to find out what happens. If somebody dies though don't say because if I read this book I don't want to know everything that happens. You wrote a really nice comment.//

12/13/09 I started and finished a book called "The Great Wide Sea." It is about three kids and the oldest is the main character. His name is Ben and he has two brothers whose names are Dylan (11) and Gerry (5). Their mom had died in the beginning of the book and everyone is really sad. Their dad decides they are going to sail around the world on a boat named CHRYSALIS. After they leave, Ben realizes that this trip was really a nightmere and didn't want to continue after almost seeing Gerry drown. When he says to his dad "I am not continuing" his dad tries to convince Ben to stay and go with the trip. Ben still didn't want to go and said something to them all and then dived off CHRYSALIS and swam to the nerest island and practically stayed ther until the next day when CHRYSALIS came back to get him. Then, one morning, the find their dad is missing and thinks (because of a note he left to Ben's mom) he commited suicide. A storm is coming and the three kids find themselves in a big problem. Will they be able to navigate through the storm without their dad?

//Shale 12/8/09 Noah, I feel really bad for Jake to hear what he has to go through. Like Jared said I hope he will get the basketball hoop. By the way he must be annoyed by the train. 4 in the morning I could never wake up that early.

Jared 12/8/09 The train that wakes them up at 4 in the morning must be annoying, but at least Jake is not in the house that is in worse shape then his. I think Jake will get the basketball and the hoop and that will make his summer way more exciting.

12/6/09// I started a book called "Tracktown Summer". It mainly is about a kid named Jake who is going to spend the summer with his dad. Jake thinks that he will have a good summer (because his parents are divorced) and get to live in a nice house near the lake, like his friend, Stephen. Jake is wrong about his summer and ends up living in a in-bad-shape house with a train that wakes them up every morning at 4 pm. So anyway Jake is very bored and then he sees a house that is in worse shape than his, but the basketball and the hoop Jake is getting his hopes up about his summer. Will these hopes last?

//Joey Noah sounds good. First of all I think a lot of people think their family is weird. Second I think his life would be worse if his parents left him to live on a house boat. What do you think?//

Tyler I think that book sonds good can i pleases see it when you are done.

12/2/09: Again I started and finished a book called "Deliver us from Normal." It was about five kids and the second oldest, Charles (Charlie), is the main character. He thinks his family is sort of wierd and NOT normal. For one thing his family has to rent a house (kids at his school think its wierd) and his younger siblings are not normal and embarrasing to him. His last name is "Harrisong" and to Charles, if your a Harrisong you mess up easily. Actually he is not the oldest. He has one sister in 7th grade who likes to paint. But one good/bad thing is that his younger brother, who is eight, is the class joker. He can make hilarious jokes. Kids that were not from the neighborhood came just to start laughing. One day Charles's dad came and told all the kids that he and Charles's mom were gonna move far away to live on a houseboat. Do you think Charles will get a better life? Find out by reading the book!

//Mr. Shaw 11/22/09 Hi Noah...Good to see you reading and posting comments this weekend. Please remember to put your newest entry at the top of your page, not the bottom.Thanks!//

11/22/09: I started & finished another baseball book. It is called "Choosing up Sides. " It is about a preachers son named Luke Bledsoe. The setting is in the early 20th century, and Luke's family is a VERY strict family. They eat animal meat, read the bible, and dont allow things like dancing, movies, or sports. They think that the left hand is the Devil's hand and have forced lefty Luke to use his right hand. Anyway Luke has a very strong left arm and can throw it so that it gets a couple dozen boys oohing and ahhing, but the problem is his family. So can Luke get to play baseball? If you want to find out read the book!

I think the genre of this book is realistic fiction because it could of happened but didn't.

//Mr. Shaw 11/19/09 Wow, Noah! You are really putting a lot of effort into describing this book in great detail. That's good, but I would rather see you put your time and energy into telling what you thought of the book, or focusing on one of the characters. Tell us just enough to get us interested. You don't want to reveal everything that happens in a book; others may want to read it and discover the story for themselves.//

Noah: I finally finished "Over the wall." So in my last comment I left off at a part where Coach Trioli wanted to meet Tyler at a doughnut place. He said that he wanted to show Tyler something. He met Tyler in the doughnut place but the thing he wanted to show was something that happened once in a place near the doughnut shop. He said that once someone burned an American flag, and there was a big fight at that place. Meanwhile the pitcher of Tyler's team, Tony, and Louie an more of Tyler's friends were nagging him to get back at a kid who kicked Tyler in the stomach and threw a baseball at him. After Tyler was walking home from one game (any game) he saw baseball players playing with wooden bats! Not metal ones. So the guy who is up to bat hits the ball and breaks the bat. After the game he gave it to Tyler. That later gave Tyler the idea to make a little memorial in D.C. What Tyler would do was to collect fifty broken bats and carve fifty Vietnamese names from the war into it. Then he would go to D.C and put it there. The whole reason Tyler would attempt to do it was to show to people that Veitnamese died to and that the American side was not all that mattered. In Tyler's baseball games, Tyler is doing well and still has a chance of making "All Stars" also found out something he never knew about his dad from his Aunt Chrissy. What he learned was that his dad was a hippie, a protester of the war and that he painted too. Tyler is doing well in his games, and has two more left. Two more to get revenge on "Dumbo" the name he calls for the kid who beat him up. He is doing OK in his memorial project. Breena asked Tyler to watch her last soccer game (Tyler likes Breena and wonderes if it is OK to kiss your cousin) I think Tyler was a little reluctant but said OK. But then he found out that Dumbo was coming too and his sister Tina played on Breena's team. Breena said that "Dumbo" was really a kid called Carmine DeLucca. So Tyler went in disguise at the soccer game. It went all right and Breena's team won. Louie thinks Tyler's project is stupid. Tyler thinks the opposite. That is, until Coach Trioli says that Tyler has a chance of making All Stars ...... NEXT YEAR!!! Tyler is very mad and sad. He decides to quit the project. But Breena comes in Tyler's room while Tyler is playing "Home Run Durby" It is when you throw a tennis ball at the fan and you try to make it around the room in time. Breena tells Tyler that he should keep on going with his project except Tyler says he doesn't have enough cracked bats. But Breena says that she could make up for it by making clay birds. Before some of this, Tyler got his revenge onCarmine DeLucca. He kicked Carmn't ine in the knee but made it look like a slide. Carmine got hurt BIG time. So after Breena and Tyler finish the project they get on a train (without telling Tyler's aunt!) and on the train Tyler askes Breena if he can kiss her. After those four words, Tyler thought he was the most stupid person in the whole world and I agree with him too. But Breena says that if Tyler doesn't ask her something like that again ahe will forget about it. So they get to D.C and Tyler tells Breena togo in the tree with a camera and take a picture of the project incase somethig happened. And it happened big time. While Tyler was setting it up a park ranger came and told Tyler that he had to stop and clean up his project. She told Tyler several times to stop but Tyler refused them all. He tried to explain to the park ranger what he was doing. The park ranger spoke into her walkie talkie and a big crowd came hoping something bad would happen to Tyler. So eventually police cars came and they handcuffed Tyler. The crowd applauded. After the "arrest" Breena speaks up for Tyler and Tyler asks her if she got the picture. Breena said she got ten of them. When they got home, Aunt Chrissy was very mad and disappointed in both of them, mostly Breena but Louie now thought that Tyler's project was cool because what happened in D.C was in the paper! The second to last setting is the All Star draft. They would do it in alphibetical order which menas Tyler (Waltern) would be close to last. When his turn came he was not selected. At first Tyler was mad but cooled down quickly. After the draft Coach Trioli asked Tyler if he wanted to go to the same doghnut place (again). Coach Trioli told Tyler that he had resinged as a baseball coach. Tyler was mad and sad but it was revealed to him that he hade made the All Stars. Tyler was very confused. Trioli said that the president of Tyler's leauge had chosen Tyler but dropped him after he had learned what had happened in D.C. So basically Trioli gave up coaching for Tyler but the best news was that Trioli was starting a San Deigo tournement baseball team. He said he made a pretty good roster and asked Tyler if he wanted to join. Well of course he accepted but in the middle of that he had learned that in all of the years wher his dad was feeling down for what happened with Alyssa he had never oncee asked his dad how he was doing or feeling. So he went home and did just that.