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= ﻿﻿Lily's 5th grade reading wiki for the year 2010- 11! =

Nice work, Lily. I see five good suggestions here, with some explanations, so I am awarding your team eight house points!
 * Mr. Shaw 6.6.11**

Lily 5. 25.11
=== My favorite book that i have ever read is __//**Harry Potter**//__ the whole serise! My favorite things about the books is that it is all a huge mystery! there is a twist at the end of every book. I love how the book has your eyes glued to the page and you cant stop reading. It is also a great experience because i used to hate to read, but when i read the first word of the first page of the first chapter in the first book i all the sudden loved reading. === === My favorite thing in the first book was when Harry found out he was a wizard and his whole life changed, also i liked the part when Harry went to Ollivanders store to get a wand. I also liked when he harry met Ron and he showed him how to get to plat-form 9 3/4. === === My favorite thing in the 2nd book is when Harry goes through the flo powder in the fireplace to get to Diagon Alley and also like the part when Harry notices the voices in the coredors. I like when harry finds Tom Riddles diary and goes inside of it and sees Tom. === === My Favorite thing in the 3rd book was when Harrys anut Marge Blows up and floats away! I also like when Harry sees the black dog that people call the grim outside of his house. i also like when Hermione is taking doudle classes each day and Harry finds out how. === === My favorite thing in the forth book was when the tri- wizard championship and Harrys name some how got into the godlet of fire. I also like when Harry does the second task and he has to decide wether to save Rons or hermiones life but ends up saving ron and Flur Delecors sister. i really liked when at the very begining of the book, Harry has a really scary dream adout an older man dieing. === === My favorite thing that happened in the fifth book was when the memders of the Order of the Phoenix came and took Harry to the Headquarters. I really liked the end of the book when Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, and Nevil go tho th ministery to save Sirius Black and end up getting caught by death eaters and then the Order comes and saves them but someone gets killed by Bellitrix. === === My favorite thing that happened in the 6th book was when Harry finds the half-blood prinecs book and gets the luck potion. I really liked when Katey Bell gets curesed because she touched a neckless that was cursed. But when dumbledor died it was really sad. === === My favorite part in the 7th book was when Harry hermione and Ron dont go to school that year to look for all the Horcroxes and they work pretty hard to get them. I also liked when Harry and his friends go to the Malfoy Manner and free Ollivander, a elf and Luna Lovegood. i really liked the end were Hogwarts has a big battle with the death eaters and lots of people die then Voltemort comes. ===

Lily 5.21.11
=== ﻿I Finished HOW I SUR VIVED MIDDLE SCHOOL 9, and 10 and i am on the 11th one. In the 10th book jenny and her friends are going to a science camp field trip. The camp is called camp Einstine. They are staying at the camp for 5 days and there are 5 people in each cabin. Jenny is in a cabin with her two friends Chloe and Sam, But she is also with Dana and Addie! ( addie and Dana are Jennys arch-emeims!) OH NO! Looks like camp isnt going to be that fun after all. but then at dinner the science teacher anounced that everyone is going to do a trust exercise. The exercise is going to be: you get paired up with someone and you guide your partner thought the woods blind folded! Well guess who Jenny gets paired up with, ADDIE! Carylan ( jennys friend) is paired up with some one even worse, Claire ( Claire is the rudest pop EVER!) When the exersice is going on and Jenny is trying to get Addie to the other side of the woods, they here a scream. Claire had triped over a tree stump! she was holding her ankle so tight that she looked like shr was trying to keep it from falling off. Claire was taken to the hospital and so got it bandged. But at camp she was bossing Carylan around tell her to get her food, and her drinks and everything. But as jenny and her friends were walking around camp they saw Claire walking fine on her ankle, but that was untill she saw Jenny and she started complaning about it. then Chloe has a plan to see if claire is really faking it or not. Well Claire is terrified of mice so Chloe pretends there is a mouse under Claires chair at dinner. does she jump up and run away and then everyone will know she is lieing or with she stay loyal to her "Broken ankle". === === I am also reading PICTURES OF HOLLIS WOODS. it is about this little gril who ran away from her family and is now in a foster home. She does go to school like a normal girl, she is in kindergrarten and the teacher asked the class to draw a picture with something that starts with W. A girl in the class drew and washing machine but Hollis drew her family that she used to have. The teacher came over to Hollis and said " Thats a brother, B a sister, S a mother ,M and a father, F where is there a W?" Hollis thought to herself, How about W, wish W, want and W wouldnt have. This book makes you relize how lucky you are to have a family, It is also a really good book. Giuliana, there is 12 books in the Middle school serise. I like the google docs, they are helpful. ===

Giuliana 5\15\11
Wow Lily, you must be interested in those types of books. How many books are in the series?

Lily 5.12.11
=== I just finished HOW I SURVIVED MIDDLE SCHOOL 8 and i started the 9th, so i will tell u about the 8th. In the storey jenny is about in the middle of the year and it has been smowing. Jenny is really hoping there would be a snow day and school would be cancelled! Lukcily, there's a huge snowstorm and all of the roads are blocked and school is cancelled. But the only downside is, Jenny has nothing to do because the roads are blocked and she can't do anything. And the worst thing in the whole entire world happens: Addie (Jenny's arch-nemesis) is walking distance from her house and Addie's mom called Jenny's mom to ask her if she can watach Addie becasue Addi'es mother has to go to work. Addie is a "Pop" (popular) and Jenny's not. Addie would never be seen with a non-Pop, so Addie and Jenny are locked in Jenny's room and Addie's on the phone with her Pop friends and Jenny's bored out of her mind. Then Jenny's phone rings and its one of her best friends, Marc. He invites Jenny to come sledding with him at the park, but ofcourse Addie would never go sledding with a non-Pop. Jenny is the sixth grade president and the next day of school, she gets to decide what the winter field trip is. Jenny thinks skiing would be a great idea, and so does the eighth grade president, but Addie has another idea (Addie's vice-president): she thinks they should go ice skating - again, for the second time in a row. But they take a vote, and the skiing trip wins. At the ski trip, Jenny's having such a great time skiing that she gets really tired from all of the skiing and she decides to take thebeginner hill down to the lodge, and as she's walking to the trail she hears somone crying. Addie was hiding behind a bush whimpering. Jenny asks her what's wrong and it turns out Addie's too afraid to go down the hill by herself. So Jenny has to take Addie down the hill like she was a toddler. But Addie denies that she was skiing down with Jenny after all of her friends ask her about it. Now i feel like i want ot write some more about the series, so i will tell about the 9 th book so far. In the story, Marc sees this wedcast on the computer and tells Jenny and her friends about it. The Chloe ( One of Jennys friends) has a brilliant idea, she thinks that Jennys group of friends and her should make a webcast! Well Jenny doesnt think its that bad of an idea because Marc has always wanted to be a director and Marylin and Carylin ( the two twins) look exactly could do a really cool mirroring act, And rachel and Felicia could show off some basketball act and Chloe has always wanted to be famous so she wants to sing a song and do a dance, and Liza showed people how to make flip-flops with feathers on them. The show ended up going great! The next day at school every girl was wereing cool feathered flip-flops and and complemnting Chloe on her singing voice. But the pops couldnt stand that Jenny and her friends were taking all the attention away from the pops, So Addie starts her own webshow woth the other pop, but all they did was show off their cool cloths and pretty make up, jenny thought it was so boring. It might have been boring but there sure was a lot of people were watching. So Chloe, Marc, Jenny, Craylin, Marylin, Rachel and Felicia come up with a plan to make the best webcast ever! ===

Kayla 5.10.11
I love how your page is so colorful! = Molly 5.9.11 = Lily I read the first book of that series. Are they good? And also do you plan on reading The Clique﻿ series? I would recommend them to you. They are about a group of girls who have their own "Clique". = Cameron 5/8/11 = I am so exited to read those book they seem really good to read!!!!!

Lily 5.7.11
=== I just finish the book HOW I SURVIVED MIDDLE SCHOOL 7 and i am on the 8th. In the book it is sprit week at Jenny's school and Jenny and her friends are trying to be the peope in the school with the most sprit, but the pops are at it again. The pops also want to the most sprited people in the school. So The pops and Jenny and her friends are haveing a competion. The school maskcot is a lion and someone dressed up in a lion costum but no one knows who it is. also there is the science fair going on and Jenny and her friend Chloe are doing their prodject together, and Jenny has the idea of makeing a small maze for he 2 mice to race each other in. One side of the maze had regulare water at the end and the other side of the maze had sugar water at the end. But Chloe is scared of Jennys mice and she wont dare to thouch them,so Jenny is trying to have Chloe get used to them. Then it was the day of the science fair and chloe was feeling confedent that she could now touch but when she trys to take one of the mice out of the cage he jumps out of Chloes hand and runs through the cafeteria and every one is screaming and freaking out! ===

Lily 5.1.11
=== My topic th ! at I am reasurching is Slavery and the Underground Railroad. My sub-topic is how the Underground Railroad was operated. So far, I have learned that people in the South needed and forced slaves to help them farm and grow cotton. Nearly 4 million African Americans became slaves for people in the South. Then the abolitionists set up the Underground Railroad to help free the slaves. The Underground Railroad wasn't really "underground" or a railroad (I thought it was!), but a network of places and people who wanted to help the slaves to freedom. These people set up their houses to be "safe houses", the safe houses are places where the abolitionists hide and feed the slaves. Some houses where marked with a lantern to tell people that that house was safe. The abollitionists and the slaves thought of creative ideas to get to freedom. One man named John "Box" Brown sent himself in a box. Another group of people pretended to be dead to cross to safety and freedom. Harriet Tubman was probably the most famous person to help with the Underground Railroad. After escaping from slavery to freedom, she made 13 missions and saved 70 slaves. Harriet returned to rescue her family in Maryland in 1849. She brought relatives and friends slowly out of the state. Large rewards were given if someone found any slaves trying escape. But for Harriet, the reward was huge - $40,000! That's A LOT of money back then. Harriet brought the slaves to Canada where slavery is illiegal. The Underground Railroad was a success - by 1850 nearly 100,000 slaves were able to secretly gain their freedom by using it === Maddie G. 5/1/11 I am now really excited to read the HOW I SURVIVED MIDDLE SCHOOL sires. The 4th book sounds so good and so do the rest.

Lily 4.23.11.
=== I finished HOW TO SURVIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL # 4 a little while ago so i am going to write a description. Jen e a pop (popular girl).Jenny ran for president againsrt Addie and Jenny won so now Addie is V.P and Jenny is the president of 6th grade and Addie and Jenny have to think of a fundraiser together even though they are enemys! They come up with an idea for a canival and Addie and Jenny made a bet on who evers booth makes less money has to go to school in their pajamas on the day after the carnival. But as that was all happening now a new girl moved in from England, her name is Sam. Addies to followers ( the other pops) Dana and Claire thought that they were too cool for Addie and went to let Sam the new girl be their new (pop) leader. When Sam moved to America she was hopeing she could learn our ways of life, but instead Dana and Claire want to learn how to be exactly like Sam. Addie invited Sam amd Jenny over to her house one day and Addie is a very girly girl, so she wanted to do make overs. But instead of real make overs she made Jenny look like a dog and Sam look like a snake! Then Addie took a picture of Sam and Jenny and posted it on line. So now Dana and Claire think Sam is really wierd because her face looked like a snake and they go back to being Addie's friends. So Sam gets upset and she is now friends with miss non-pop jenny and all Jenny's friends. So now i am on the 5th middle school book and they are all realy good. ===

Lily 4.17.11
=== I am reading **__//How to survive Middle school, I heard a rumor.//__** My first cause and effect is, Chloe's dad lost his job (cause) so Jenny and her friends help Chloe earn money to help her dad. Another cause and effect is, Madam X is writing rude rumors about the 3 pops (the popular people) in the school newspaper about thier sercrets but no one knows how she is finding them out, and know one knows who she is either. (cause) Each pop is blaming the other two for telling their secrets to Madam X (effect). My 2 causes and one effect is, Madam X is writing about Jenny and her friends and they still have no idea who Madam X is and they are still wondering (1st cause). When Madam X wrote about the pops and they are all avoiding each other (2nd cause). So everyone is mad and confused, people are scared that who ever Madam X is, is stalking people (effect). ===

Lily 4.4.11
=== I am reading HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS and I am almost done with it. The person who would be my hero isn't in the seventh book-- he is in the 1st through 6th. My hero is Albus Dumbledore. He is my hero because he is a smart and caring person. He is smart because he is wise and he uses his wisdom for good things. He's very experienced, and he has seen a lot of things and learns form them. Another reason Dumbledore is my hero is that he is a very caring wizard. he has good leadership, he is the headmaster of Hogwarts and he teaches all his students to be good and that to me is good leadership. He is a positive role model. Harry looks up to him and so do the other students because he is most powerful good wizard in the world. People respect him because of his accomplishments. He helps his students and he wants them to learn and be successful witches and wizards. He helped Harry in all the books when Harry needed it. ===

Kayla 3.22.11
Your correct its Earthquake Teorr!!!

Lily 3.20.11
==== I am at the very end of the Harry Potter series. I just finished the sixth book and I am a quarter through the seventh. these are my top 3 favorite Harry Potter books. #1 Harry Potter and the Half-blood prince was a really great, mysteerious book.The book had one mane, big really sad part but thats that. my favorite part was when harry and Malfoy had a duel in the boys bathroom. The 6 book is one of my favorites because there are so may details and there is so much action and lot of things happened. #2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was a long book but i stuck with it even though it seemed like it took me forever to read, but every moment it cought my attention. My favorite part was at the end were Harry and his friends went to save Sirius Black, but they ended up fighting Death Eaters. The 5 book is one of my favorites because there is a lot of action in the end at a problem they have to solve. #3 harry Potter and the Chamber of secrets. I like so much because there is a big secret and it was fun trying to solve it by myself. There is something in the 2 book that come up again in the 6 book. My favorite part in the 2 book was when Harry went to save Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets, but was it too late?? All the books are so amazing! they all have twisted at the end that make you think, ooo thats why! or i thought she was a good guy. One of the best things about each book is they all are different, they all have a different story to go with it. ====

Lily 3.9.11
==== My two characters are Dumbledore and Harry. They are alike because they are both very smart, thoughtful, and good people. They will both risk their lives to save others. They have both had to go to Azkaban because sometimes they are a little foolish or silly, but it's to save their own lives or someone else's. They are different because one (Dumbledore) is much older and wiser and the other one (Harry) is younger and still learning. Harry will break the rules but Dumbledore will follow them. Dumbledore and Harry find out that one of them must give up something for the other and Dumbledore volunteers to do this. The author says that Dumbledore will do anything to save Harry, even if it means making a big sacrifice. I still recommend the Harry Potter series to everyone! ==== **Lexi 3.5.11**

Lily 3.5.11
==== my two characters are Hermione Granger and Harry Potter from the Harry Potter serise. Hermione and Harry are alike because they are both really good, smart wizards. They are both clever and and can solve any mystery. They both break they rules sometimes but its mostly to solve a problem. They are different because Hermione will try to talk Harry out of doing someting dangerous even to help someone. Harry will try to do anything to help anyone no matter what. Thats why i think Hermione and Harry are alike and different, I like GREEN EGGS AND HAM the best because it is funny and creative! ! ====

Maddie G. 2/27/11
How you explained HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE is making me really excited to read it. Even though you only said a little about the book.

Lily.2.27.11
==== I am reading Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (the sixth book). So far in the book, Harry has just arrived at Hogwart's but his arch-enemy, Malfoy, has given him a hard time on the train and caused him to be late to the opening feast. There is a new defense against arts teachers, but I'm not going to say who because some people are also reading the books. In defense against dark arts, Harry gets a detention but Dumbledor pulls him out of detention becasue he wants to talk to him. Harry and Dumbledor stick their heads into a little bowl of water called a pensive. A pensive is a memory that is kind of like TV--you can see something that happened in the past over again. Dumbledor shows Harry a time where Dumbledor met someone that had broken a wizard law. I am, as usual, liking the book. I recommend the books to everyone, because each book has a little bit of everything, from comedy to mystery to adventure to comedy again. The Harry Potter series are just good books in general. ====

Lily 2.20.11
==== the book i really like is the first Harry Potter. I really like it because it is very adventurous and very mysterious. I also like it because it is a start of a fantsatic serise! once you read the first book you have to read the rest of the serise. And the last reason i like it is because it has a of the things i like in a book, mystery, horrer, adventure, and lots of things that arent in many other books. ====

Kayla 2.14.11
Great details!!

Maddie G. 2/13/11
You had a lot of good comparisons.

Lily 2.11.11
==== I was reading My Brother Sam Is Dead and it is like Jacob's Rescue because they are both about wars where lots of people died. They are different because in Jacob's Rescue the story is focusing on discrimination and bullying while My Brother Sam Is Dead is focusing on the war and Tim's decisions and his brother in the war. The settings are similar because I am pretty sure the are both in a ghetto (a sad looking place). Also they both are smaller areas but they have lots of people they know in it. The settings are different because in Jacob's Rescue a ton of people died because others just wanted them dead, but in My Brother Sam Is Dead people died for a reason, a lot of people were hung and shot. The charaters are alike because the main charaters are both young boys going through a hard time and had to grow up quickly. The plot s are alike in both books beacues the main charaters are going through a hard time like i said and there a loses of family memebers and not a lot of food. The theme would be lose because people lost people they love and war beacause thats what the whole story is based on ====

Lily 2.6.11
==== I just finished **//__my bother Sam is dead.__//** i really liked the book! It was very intresting but violent. A lot of people died in it but i still thought it was good. my favorite part was when father and Tim go to Vertext Park and they run in to the "cow boys" ( the cow boys are big and tough and the are just like robbers) but Tim is to smart for them and gets away. The book is still very tradic and sad because the title isnt called the My Brother Sam is Dead for no reason. i recommend it even if you are not in my reading group for reading at home. ** (3 HP) ** ====

__ Lily.1.28.11 __ __ Right now i am getting to the end of Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix. In the story a lot of exciting things have happened to Harry and his friends. I don't want to give away too much to people who are in the middle of the series (Maddie!) or haven't read it yet. So, I will just say that Voldemort was inteferring with Harry's life and now is interferring in his dreams. Harry had a dream that he bit a man but Harry was a snake, and he saw the dream from the snake's point of view. Harry was having a normal dream one night and then in the middle of that dream Harry became a snake a bit a man lying on the ground. The man looked like he was sleeping. But Harry found out that it wasn't a dream and that it was really a vision of something that really happened. So the man is in the hospital now and he is okay. Harry has been having dreams that have to do with Lord Voldemort and his scar hurting a lot. His friends Ron and Hermione have been trying to figure out why this is happening. They think that maybe Harry can read Voldemort's mind or Harry can read his emotions. The books are really good so far. I can't stop reading them and I recommend them to everybody! __** (4 HP) **

__Kayla 1.25.11__ __Thanks for commenting on my page and your book sounds interesting and awsome details!!__

__Maddie G. 1/23/11__ __You had a lot of good details.__

__ Lily 1.20.11 __ __ I recently finished Harry Potter and the Goblet if Fire. First Harry,Ron and Hermione go to the Quidditch world cup ( quidditch is a game that witchs and wizerds play on broom sticks) and some one cast the dark mark! The dark mark is a mark in the sky that looks like a skull with a snake coming out of its mouth, the mark repersents Lord Voltemort! ( he is a bad guy.) Then Harry and his friends return to Hogwarts a new professor came to Horwarts, his name is Professor Moody. Moody is a strang looking man, He has a fake eye and leg, his face is all scared up and he has a deep voice. As soon as they got to Hogwarts Dumbledoor told the shcool about The Triwizered competion. the Triwizered Competion it a big and dangerous competion, if you get into it you must fight different creatures, be brave and you must know a some sort of way to get though the turnement. To enter the turnement you must put your name in a goblet and the goblet will decied if you have what it takes to enter, but as i said it is a very dangerous competion so Dumbledoor put an age line around the cuo so if you are not 17 you will be able to enter. for the Triwizered turnement two other magical schools come to do the turnement with Hogwarts and one campion is picked from every school. So Flur Delecure is picked from one school, Victor Krum is picked from one other and from Hogwarts Cedric Diggeroy is picked. There are only supose to have 3 campions but a forth name came out of the goblet and the name said Harry Potter on the peice of paper! But how!? Harry is only 14! how did he get his name in there? Did Harry somehow put his name in or did some one put in for him or did the goblet just some how get his name? Well Harry cant turn back now, he has to now face the dangers of the triwizered turnement! But h also has to figure out who put his name in! The only way to find out is to read the book! ...... __

__ In the beginnig of the school year it took me a littel while to read a whole book and now i read 3 in the month of Novmber! __
====__ i love to read! i used to hate to read and now it is the funnist thing ever! The book that is most memorable to me is probley the first Harry Potter book because it was the first of an amazing serise. the next on my reading list is the ligtning thief serise!! __====

__Maddie G. 1/9/11__ __What you wrote about makes it so that I can't wait to read the fifth book.__

__ Lily 1.6.11 __
====__ I am reading Harry Potter and the Order of th Phonix. Harry, Hermione, and Ron are the people who always get in trouble. They alway run in to the bad things and the mysterys that they end up solving. But the problem is about them solving them is, it is hard and scary. Lord Votemort is out looking for Harry and he wants to kill him! Harry always seems to get away! __==== =__﻿__= =__ Joni 1.4.11 __= __ Lily, the Harry Potter books sound like good books. I have already seen part one of the seventh movie but thats all that I have seen or read about Harry Potter. __

=__Lily 12.14.10__= __ Yes all of you were right! This week I want to give the book "Luv Ya Bunches" to Cameron because it's by the author who wrote the book she is reading now and it's in IM language and I think she would like it. It's about four girls who are all different. One is named Yazmin, she is shy and quiet. Then there's Camille who is more popular and always has the newest clothes. Then there is Violet, she is the new girl who loses her way in the hallway. And then there's Katierose who's very energetic, she reminds me of Katie Friedman! The second book I want to give is the whole Harry Potter series. I'd like to give it to Joni because it is kind of like the Lightning Thief Percy Jackson series which Joni enjoyed. The booksare about wizards and are full of mystery, adventure and interesting characters. There's always a new adventure waiting for Harry each year at Hogwarts and he has good friends, Ron and Hermione, to help him. It also can be scary, but interesting scary. __ __ The books get longer as the series goes on and they also get scarier. Actually, I would recommend these to anybody! __ =__Liam 12I/8/10__= =__know it! The lie is number three. Numbers one and two are the truth.__=

=__Maddie G. 12/7/10__= __Since no one anwsered the last week question for you. Is it HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERERS STONE?__ =__Will 12/7/10__= __ Is the lie number 3? __

=__Maddie G. 12/6/10__= __Is the lie number 3?__ =__Iily 12.6.10__= =__﻿__= =__ Two truths and a lie: __= =__ I am reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire __=

__ 2.there are 3 main charaters __
=__ 3.the main,main charater's parents died __= =__ 4. there is a stone involved __= =__ 5.there is a really really really dark kind of man __=

__ Lexi 11/21/10 __
__ He is very brave and risky. Great character. Maybe from your paragraph I think I want to read Harry Potter. I love these books. __

__Maddie G. 11/20/10__
__The first time we did this question the person I chose was Harry Potter the second person was Ginny Weasley.__

11.20.10
==== I just finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. The chareter i picked is Harry Potter. Harry is brave because he went in side of the Chamber of Secrets where the basikil ( a giant snake) lives. He is heroic because he risk his life to save Ginny. Harry is smart. He solved the mistery of the Chamber of Secrets. He did all that to save Ginny's life becase someone in the Chamber was taking over her and had her do something to risk her life. taht tells me that harry is a hero to Ginny and he is determind to do something risky the help someone eles. ====

Mr. Shaw 11.20.10
__What are Hermione's motives? What causes her to try to be so helpful all the time?__

__Liam 11/16/10__
__Terrific job describing Hermione Granger. Keep reading the Harry Potter series, I guaruntee that once you are done with the first book, you will probably want to read the next.__

__ Tyler 11/14/10 __
__ Great job describing Hermione Ganger! __

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i am almost done with Harry Potter The Sorcerers Stone. My chacator that i picked is Hermione Ganger. Hermione is a know-it-all she checks Harry's homework when he finishes it. Hermione is also a big help. she pays attentoin in class so she nows all the spells and tricks. Hermione is a big help when Harry was in the Quiddich mach ( Quiddict is a game the play on broomsticks, they tri to throw a ball threw a hoop or the seeker, wich is Harry tries to catch a littel gold ball called the snitch.) When Harry was looking for the snitch his broomstick started flipping out and Hermione relized why. They thought It was Snape ( A teacher) Who was putting a spell on Harry's broomstick, so Hermione went and put Snape;s coat on fire and saved Harry. Ithink Hermione is going to be a succceful witch. ===== Cameron I did not read this book but is seams really interesting and good explaining.

Lily11.4.10 I read the book Jacobs rescue. My favorite character was Alex. Alex is the dad. I like him because he is very brave to risk his family to save Jacob. He also had to sell his apartment to pay for Jacobs ear. Alex is very generous to do that and to risk his life, but it payed off because Jacob and Alex survived the holocaust. That is why i like Alex.What the connection in the holocaust museum was that there were painting of what looked like what happen with Jacob. There were poeple tring to get out of the Holocaust.

__Hey! I love that book and if it is okay with you can I please also share it with different details?__
__Reply back on my page Oct 31 and the 30th too and Mrs.Baskin also read the book to use and I loved it,it was my Favirot book throw the whole 4th grade.__ __Great job at telling what your favorite book is and scareist book is. Awsome job and keep it up!__

__ Lily 10/26/10 __
====__ The scariest story I ve ever read was The Old Willis Place By Mary Dowing Hahn. It was so scary because tow childeren die in a celler. But in the book the childeren are goasts and they were living like that for a while. But at the end it is happy (even ghost storis have happy endings)because the childeen find their parents. i loved the book! i totally recemmed it. ( below is a pictuer of the book.) __====

__﻿ Mr. Shaw 10.25.10[[image:http://www.sunprairiepubliclibrary.org/images/TheOldWillisPlace.jpg width="132" height="128"]] __
__ You're right, those are two very different books. I like how you were able to make a connection. __

__ Lily 10/24/10 __
====__ I am reading The Anybodies ( i am almost done ) and Jacobs rescue. There isnt really anything alike in the 2 books except that Fern and Jacob are both on an adventure. There is a bad guy in both stories to, in jacobs rescue there are the Nazis and in The Anybodies there is the Miser. What is different in the books are: Fern is looking for a book, but jacob is tring to stay alive during the holocaust, there are fairies, and talkind rabbits in The Anybodies, and in jacobs rescue it is a ture story and doesnt have talking animals. __====

__Giuliana 10.13.10__
__ You miss spelled some words..... I like Bone. __

Lily 10/12/10 I am almost finished with the book The Anybodies. Anotheroerson in my book is the Bone. He has short curly hair, tall and brown eyes, about the same as Fern. The Bone is curios of his powers of being an anybodie (he is not an good hypnotizer) and he doesnt give up. He is useing his daughter to help him find a book that he needs. I think the Bone is a bad guy but not like a villan, he has been in jail. His prodlem is the same as Ferns, he is trying to find a book but the Miser (the bad guy) could get it frist. I like the Bone he is very corious (like i said) and he looks out fo Fern.

__Kayla 10-12-10__ __Awsome job at describing Fern.__

__Mr. Shaw 10.10.10__ __Nice effort on your entries, Lily. You really wrote a lot last week! I think Fern is a character from The Anybodies, but I'm not sure. What do you think of Fern?__

L﻿ily 10/9/10 My charecter that i am explaining is Fern. She is in 5th or 6th grade. She has brown curly hair and brown eyes.She is very tall and skinny. Fern is very adventureous and she is good at figuring things out, codes and things. She is trying to help her dad find find a book that was Ferns mothers favorite. The book is calles The Book of Being an Anybodie. Ferns problem is that she cant find her mothers book and she keeps looking for it but doesnt find it. Fern has to find the book be for the bad guy tha Miser gets it. I think Fern is caring and is very smart. I think she is caring because she is helping her dad find the book they need.

Lily 10/3/10 I am almsot done with the book The Anybodies. So far Fern and the Bone went to Fern's grandmothers house but fern's grandmother does not like the Bone (Ferns dad is the Bone) So the Bone turned into a guy named Mr. Bibb and Fern pretened to be Ida Bibb. (the Bone is an Anybodie, he can turn into anyone he wants) Ferns grandmother's house is like a hotel she lets people stay there. Her house is made of books, all the walls are filled with books all the drawers and the cadnets are filled them and every thing. Ferns mom used to live there but then she past away. There is only 3 people staying at the house made of books. The Miser and the Bone and Fren. The miser is the bad guy of the story. The Bone and the Miser are tring to get a book too, but they are not working together, the want the book for them selfs.The book is called The Art of Being an Anybodie.The book has codes in it and the Bone thinks Fern can decod it. That is the only reason thet they are at Ferns grandmother's house. Right now in the story Fern found this book on her bed and she looked at it, then she accidentelly shoke the book and a small fairy fell out! The fariy looked at Fern the ran away. Then The Bone relized that Fern had the power to shake things out of books. When Fern was walking back to her room she tripped on a book, she looked at the book and relized it was her moms old diary! She toke it to the Bone and he said she sould try to shake it and see wat happends. so she tried to shake it, nothing happend. She tried again, still nothing and again and a movie ticket fell out. then she tried again and 2 pieces of toffee fell out. Than she tried again and her mothers old hair brush fell out.Fern relized that the idems were getting bigger as they fell out. Fern thought that if she shoke hard enough that The Art of Being an Anybodie or her mother would fall out, but it was late at night and if her mother fell out it would be a noisy apperance, so Fern went out side ( the Bone was sleeping) Fern went out side and sat up on her grandmother's peach tree. The Miser happend to be outside and saw Fern. The Miser got mad so he went over to Fern and told her she had to go inside and that she should'nt be out there. Fern got scared and fell out of the tree. Fern dropped the diary and the Miser picked it up and walked inside. Fern chased him inside tring to get her mothers diary back, by Fern and the Miser arguing, they woke Ferns grandmother up she came down stairs and told the Miser to give Fern the diary back so the Miser did and Fern went up stairs to bed. the next night Fern stayed up late reading and right when she put her book down she saw a big posianess spider on the Bones face, the Miser had warned Fern about those spiders, they can kill you he said. Fern was thinking if The Miser had turned into a spider and was tring to kill th Bone! ( the Miser is an anybodie too) so Fern throw a book at the spider and killed it!  I killed the Miser! she yelled and The bone woke up. What? the Bone said  You did not kill the Miser. He told her. The Bone told Fern why she counldnt of and Fern said ok and they went to bed. So that is what is happening so far i am almost done with the book and i cant wait to read the next one. I am really liking the book. it is the kind of book you cant put down. It is very advencherous.

__Giuliana 9/25/10__

__I might want to read the Anybodies.__

__Kayla 9-23-10__ __Awsome job with deatails and it sounds like a good book to read__

__Lily 9/22/10__

__I'm still reading the book The Anybodies. The main characters are Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, The Bone, Howard, Marty, and of course Fern. The story takes place in the Drudgers' house, then in The Bone's old car. The book is about a a girl named Fern who was switched at birth with another baby (the nurse accidentally gave each set of parents the wrong child). So now Fern, who is very adventurous and interested in weird things, lives with the boring Drudgers. The other child, who is dull and boring like the Drudgers, lives with Fern's real dad, The Bone. Fern's real mom died. The Bone came to the Drudgers' house to get Fern and teach her how to be an "anybody" like him. An "anybody" can change into anybody they want, and they have other powers too. This story tells all about what happens to Fern. So far, I really like this book. It's a good book for people who like action, adventures and a little bit of mystery and fairy tale, like me! The vocabulary word I chose is "heritage." It is used in the sentence as explaining why The Bone and Howard are so different from each other, they have different heritages, or different ancestors and pasts. Heritage means where you come from and what family members you are descended from.__

__GRACIE 9-21-10 THE ANYBODIES SOUNDS GREAT!__

__Mr. Shaw 9.21.10__ __I like how you described the plot of The Anybodies, but I don't see your opinion about the book. Are you enjoying this book? Why or why not?__

__Maddie 9/18/10__ __I really want to read THE ANYBODIES. The book sounds interesting!__ __9/18/10 Lily__ __I am still reading The Anybodies. The author is N.E. Bode (seriously, that's what it says!). I think the connection to Rope Burn is that Fern is learning things about herself that she did not know and in Rope Burn Richard is learning things about himself he didn't know, like that he could actually climb the rope. "Switched at birth" means that when Fern and another boy, Howard, were born, on the same day in the same hospital, the nurse gave each baby to the wrong parents. The weird things only happen to Fern, but I don't know why yet. In this story so far, Fern's real dad came to her other parents' house and switched her and Howard back so now Fern is with his real dad. Fern's mother died when Fern was born. When Fern's real dad came to her other parents' house he came with the nurse who accidentally switched the babies. In the car ride home Fern learned that her dad is an "anybody" and so is his assistant, who was pretending to be the nurse. An anybody is someone who can change into anyone they want. Fern's mother was really good at being an anybody. Fern's real dad tried to teach Howard how to be an anybody but it didn't work, so now he is going to try to teach Fern. Fern's dad was in jail, but I don't know why yet. Fern's dad's assistant stayed with Howard while he was in jail.__

__Mr. Shaw 9.12.10__ __The Anybodies sounds like a fun book to read. Who's the author? Also, what kind of connection to Rope Burn can you make? ____Lexi 9/12/10____I love how you explained the book called The Anybodies and how you used good words like dark clouds.____Joni 9/10/10-____I like how you described The Anybodies. What do you mean by "Fern was switched at birth"? Why do all of these weird things keep happening to her? Does it only happen to Fern?__

__Lily9/8/10__ __I am reading a book called The Anybodies. In the book a conflict is that the main character Fern was switched at birth! Fern figured that out because her parents are dull, and boring but Fern is adventurous, curious and intresting. Fern is intresting because weird things keep happening to her, like a dark cloud keeps coming down from the sky and trying to suck her in and she keeps seeing this nun turn into a lampost. Then anther conflict is a man with transparent hand came to her house asking for exact dates of brithdays.__

__Mr. Shaw 9.6.10__ __Thanks, Lily, for telling us about 12 Finally. You also need to describe your reading habits. See the "5-Shaw" page for details. You have earned 2 house points.__

__Kayla 9/5/10__ __Awsome summer about the book I wonder is anyone is is going to save her befor her 12th birthday. It is kind of of like you don't know what is going to happen next so you would have to keep reading on to find out and that sounds like a really good book read some day.__

__like it from ryan 20/25/10__ __Lily 9/2/10__ __I am reading a book called 12 finally. Its about a girl who is turning 12 in 52 hours 36 minutes and 27 seconds. Her name is Rory. Rory and her class goes on a field trip to the nature center. The class goes outside to the beach behind the nature center and Rory wonders off. She wonders in to the forest by the beach. In her head she was thinking that she would run into a rabbit hole or a house made of candy. She keeps walking and she steps down into a little hole in the ground and she thinks it nothing but then, BOOM! she falls, into a drain pipe. She is stuck in the drain pipe thinking if she will have to spend her 12th birthday in there, the day she has been waiting for her whole life, the day she gets a cell phone, and a giant birthday party, stuck in a drain pipe, like cant move stuck, that kind of stuck.__ __20/3/10 like the book lily from ryan i like the boo u are reading from ryan__