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= **Joni's reading comments for the 2010-2011 school year!**﻿ =

Kayla 6.6.11 I love all the ideas that you put in and I also like how you put your time to think about it!

Will 6/5/11 Joni this is amazing. I think that you deserved all those house points.

Tyler 6.5.11 Outstanding job Joni! I can tell that you put a lot of effort into writing this. You for sure deserved the twenty house points!

Mr. Shaw 6.2.11 Wow, Joni! This is an outstanding list. (You must have been listening when I was giving out my advice this year.) For your extra effort, I am rewarding the blue team with 20 house points.

**Joni 6.1.11** I have a lot of advice for future fifth graders. Here are some of my tips to help them survive fifth grade.

**First**, be responsible! Do your homework and get it done on time. If you have an assignment that isn't due the next day, don't save it until the last day because if you can't figure it out you won't be able to do your homework on time. **Second**, don't sign up for too many activities. I know that there are a lot of different opportunities in fifth grade, but you don't want to be involved in too many activities or else they might overlap times. **Third**, when you talk, use proper grammar! You're in fifth grade so don't talk like you're four years old. **Fourth**, don't mix up there, their, and they're or to, too, and two and use correct capitalization and punctuation. If you don't know when you use different forms of words, ask an adult or a friend who knows which word to use. Capital letters begin sentences and proper nouns and punctuation has a lot of different places that it can be. **Fifth**, use your time wisely. Sometimes you get free time during Panda Zone. Sometimes during that time you can do your homework. Don't mess around doing nothing during this time, use it wisely. **Sixth**, always write your assignments down in your assignment notebook. If you don't, you might forget to do some of your homework. **Seventh**, don't go to bed too late. Just because your in fifth grade that doesn't mean that you should stay up until midnight ever single night. **Eighth**, put your best effort into all your work. You never know when a teacher will check your work for neat handwriting. **Ninth**, follow the six pillars of character. You're the big kids so you need to be role models for the younger kids in the school because they look up to you. That doesn't mean that you get to be rude to them and boss them around. **Tenth**, have fun! There are so many fun activities and opportunities for fifth graders. Fifth grade goes by in the wink of an eye, and before you know it, you'll be walking into Elm Place to go to your first day of middle school. It's your last year at Sherwood so make it a good one. The year is based on your decisions, so if you make the right choices, this will be the best year yet.

I hope that you use my advice for fifth grade and I hope that you have a great time in fifth grade just like I did.

**Joni 5.25.11** The book that has meant the most to me this year is **The Diary of Anne Frank**. This book describes what it was like to be in hiding during World War II in Amsterdam in great detail. Anne Frank was an eloquent writer. The book had the perfect characters, too. There was an annoying lady, the boy she think she likes, the person she will always trust, and the person who she doesn't like even though they are very closely related.

**The Diary of Anne Frank** stands out in my memory because of its history. If some people didn't survive World War II, then it would be very likely that nobody would know her story. After the Franks were arrested by the Nazis, one of their helpers, Miep Gies (who died recently in 2010) went through the place where they stayed and found Anne's diary so she held onto it in one of her desk drawers. When she found out that Otto Frank (Anne's father) survived, she gave him the diary. Years later, it was published in many languages and it was a very popular book all around the world.

I loved reading **The Diary of Anne Frank** for many reasons. It inspired me so much. It made me think about how different things were for her and how much she and her family had to give up because they had different beliefs. It makes me think about how grateful all of us should be because we live in place and time where things are different from what they were in 1939-1945. I think that every single person should read this book because Anne Frank is one of the only people who can describe what happened in the Secret Annex during World War II with such detail.

Very interesting observations about technology. Just think how much things have changed in **my** lifetime! :-) I also appreciate your Google Docs comments. I am really excited about the possibilities that Docs can offer to students and teachers, especially for the kind of research project we're doing right now.
 * Mr. Shaw 5.19.11**

**Joni 5.19.11** This week I am going to write about technology and what I think of it. Computers, TVs, phones, and other technological things have changed a lot since they first came out just like TV shows. (I wrote about that last week.) Computers come in different sizes, shape, color, and you can buy them from multiple companies. Computers used to be a big box that got narrower towards the back with a screen at the front. Sometimes it also had a box that would go next to it. Then computers didn't need the extra box or all of the big part behind the screen and some keyboards became wireless. Now we have laptops that we can take anywhere with us and we have regular computers that are think with a nog screen with a touch-pad mouse. Some computers can go pretty much anywhere because they are so small like the 11 inch MacBook Air which weighs only 2.3 pounds. TVs have changed a lot, too. They used to be like computers, small screens with big box-shaped attachments behind them. Now, a lot of TVs are super thin and are about three feet long. Many people used to have car phones- not cell phones. They were phones in the car. Now we have phones with two cameras thanks to the iPhone 4. We also have a lot of phones which are completely touch screen or phones that slide into a full keyboard and are touch screen. As you can see, technology has changed a lot of the years. I hope you liked my entry.

I like Google Docs a lot because you can share documents with other people. You can also e-mail through Google Docs which I like a lot because you can communicate with others if they are in a different place then you are. You can make presentations, too, which is great for projects like the Civil War one that we are currently doing. I don't know if I like Google Docs or Microsoft Word better because I haven't had as much experience with Google Docs as I have with Microsoft Word, but so far, I like Google Docs a lot more than I thought I would.

**Joni 5.17.11** **ATTENTION!!!!! THIS MESSAGE IS ABOUT THE T.V. SHOW POLL!!!!!** I think that bulls has either two or twelve votes. If you know which one it is can you please tell me? For now, I am going to say that Bulls has two votes. To make the voting numbers less complicated, just write a capital "I" in this font so it looks like a tally mark. (Don't worry about the fifth mark which is usually on a diagonal it can just be straight for this poll.)

**Joni 5.16.11** So far Bulls Games are winning in the T.V. show poll, but you can keep voting until June 8th which is also the last full day of school this year.

**Jacob 5/14/11 Joni that was very well written i like how you come up with the idea of T.V. shows.**

Maddie 5/14/11 I think that the Bulls games are really fun to watch. That was a good idea to do the voting on T.V. shows.

Lily 5.12.11 I voted for Modern Family Because its the funnist show i have ever seen! I like the T.V voting idea, its really creative!

Mr. Shaw 5.11.11 I like watching the Bulls, so that's what I voted for in your poll. (I don't watch the other shows on the list.) You are right that there have been big changes since Disney made Fantasia, but I think it's wonderful that we can still watch and enjoy those old movies. If they tell a good story, people still respond to them, like we did today when we laughed at the dancing hippos.

**Joni 5.11.11** For this week's entry, because it is super free choice week, I am going to write about TV shows. I know that a lot of people like Glee and Make It or Break It. Another very popular choice is Bulls games. Some of my favorite TV shows are Modern Family, The Voice, Glee, and Victorious. I think that it is weird how much TV has changed since Walt Disney made his first movies 70 years ago, when The Brady Bunch first premiered 40 years ago, and even when shows were filmed 10 years ago. Things like sound, color, and high definition were added to movies and TV shows over those years. I think that TV and other forms of film have come a long way from what they were 70 years ago. This week for my wiki I am doing something special. Instead of just ending it with a closing, I am going to have a poll which you can respond to. I am going to list 5 TV shows down below. If you like that TV show put the next number (123 etc.) after the colon next to the title of the show that you like. If there is a TV that you absolutely love and that a lot of others will like too, you can add it to the list. (I am not going to vote on the poll.) Next time I write an entry (most likely next week) I will write the scores from the poll.

Modern Family: I The Voice: Glee: I Victorious: Bulls Games: II

**Chloe 5.8.11** Joni, I absolutely loved that book. When I was reading it I started to understand what it was like to have a brother with autism. You did such a good job describing the book, and now kids who haven't read the book will be able to read a detailed summary!

**Joni 5.4.11**
Right now I am reading the book **//__Rules__//** by __//**Cynthia Lord**//__. So far a lot of events have taken place in my book. I am going to go in order and tell you what events have taken place so far, but first I am going to tell you some needed information before you read this entry. The main character, Catherine, has a little brother, David, and he has autism. Catherine gets very embarrassed by David so she made a list of rules for him. David loves rules and makes sure that other people follow his rules, too. When Catherine's elderly neighbor tells her that a girl her age is about to move into her house, Catherine gets very excited because she could possibly have a best friend who lives right next door to her. Catherine has a best friend who lives in the neighborhood, but during the summer she goes to California to live with her dad. David goes to occupational therapy (OT) and Catherine has to sit there with her mom while he goes to his appointment. During one of the appointments, Catherine decides to take out her drawing utensils and tries to think of something to draw. She ends up picking this 14 or 15-year-old boy named Jason who is in a wheelchair adn he can't speak. Jason is at the OT place because he goes to speech therapy which is in the same building. Jason has a word book which he uses to communicate with others by pointing to words in his book. When Jason notices that Catherine is drawing him, he points it out to his mom who gets mad about it and tells her to stop. After that, Catherine starts to sketch a picture of a house which Jason likes very much so she gives it to him. Later on, Jason likes having company like Catherine so they sit next to each other in the waiting room at the therapy place. Catherine ends making more pictures with words for his book- which includes the word Catherine. A little while later, Catherine finally gets to have an actual conversation with her new neighbor and she goes over to her house.

**Joni 4.27.11** For our Civil War project, my topic is Slavery and the Underground Railroad. So far I have learned, why Southern plantation owners needed slaves, what an abolitionist is, who some famous abolitionists were, and how slaves were treated on their way to America from Africa. Southern plantation owners needed slaves to harvest cotton and other crops that the farmers grew. Cotton suddenly became very popular in 1793 because a man named Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The cotton gin's job is to quickly separate seeds from the cotton fiber. That was important to farmers and plantation owners because they used to have to separate the cotton fiber from the seeds by hand which would take a long time. After the cotton gin was invented, cotton was on very high demand because it was so much easier to separate the fiber from the seeds. Since more cotton was needed, more needed to be planted and harvested and that's what the slaves did. An abolitionist is a person who is against slavery and someone who wants to end slavery. White and African-American people could be abolitionists. Some famous abolitionists were Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and John Brown. They were all very against slavery and wanted to put an end to it. Slaves were treated very poorly when they worked in America but the were also treated badly on their way to America. The Africans were shipped to America on a boat across the ocean. The were chained together and had to lay down on the floor the whole time. The people on the boat had very little room-barely enough to move around. On some ships, the slaves-to-be got only a tea cup of water every three days. They were underneath the deck on the boats when they were brought over to America. About 12 million Africans were forced to come to America to become slaves between the 16th and 19th centuries and over 2 million of them died on their voyages over the ocean.

jacob 4/24/11 That poem war really good and creative.

Lexi 4/24/11 I love the poem you had great words to rhyme with. Great Job!

Giuliana 4\23\11 My, my Joni how did you do that, your so good at poems.

Maddie G. 4/23/11 i think your poem was very good. I wrote a poem for my wiki this week.

**Joni 4.20.11** For this entry, I am going to write a poem for the book __//**Here Lies Bridget**//__ and I will share the story's main idea and its moral

When the popular girl, Bridget, is being rude Her friends ignore it and don't try to intrude When her snotty comments become too mean A trusty Michelle spills the beans, She said, "It's not nice and nobody likes it." but Bridget says, "I wouldn't care if they threw a fit." So that's how it went at Bridget's party the next night, Until Michelle got the flu which made her face turn pure white.

The moral of __//**H****ere Lies Bridget**//__ is that being rude to everyone isn't the answer, and that if you think it is you might have to pay.

**Joni 4.12.11** Giuliana, Yuki's father was taken away because he was a Japanese-American man who, I think, owned a business and lives on the West Coast. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor all Japanes-American people like him were taken away by the FBI, and later the rest of the West Coast's Japanes-American population was sent to relocation camps to keep them in a secure place. The government decided to do this after Pearl Harbor was bombed. The book that I am currently reading is called **//__Here Lies Bridget__//**. In my book, Bridget was rude to a girl who asked her to come over to her house and play board games with her. The effect of that was the snapped back at her and walked away. One cause and effect example in my book is when Bridget was beingrude to her teacher, he sent her to the headmaster's office and her stepmom had to have a meeting with the teacher. That example has one cause an two effects. Since Bridget was mean to her friends, Michelle and Jillian, they left her house and neither one of them stayed the whole time.

Giuliana 4\4\11 Wow what Yuki did when her dad was taken away was like a grown woman would do! Why did the FBI take away her dad?

Maddie G. 3/23/11 The character Yuki sounds very different from the character I chose, Hermione Granger. Yuki sounds like a really kool character.

**Joni 3.23.11** In the book that I am currently reading, //__**Rising Voices**__//, there isn't really a main character because every poem/essay is written by a different person. The charcter that I am going to write about is Yuki from __//**Journey To Topaz**//__. Yuki was very brave when FBI men came to her house and took away her father. (She was the one who got the door for them too!) Yuki is determined to get through all of this terrible event (being separated into a relocation camp) without having to think about it too much. Yuki is loving and caring becasue whne her friend, Emi, had TB she wanted to go visit her very badly but she wasn't allowed to becasue she could catch the disease. I admire the charcter Yuki very much and from reading this I hope that you do too.

Kayla 3.23.11 Thats the correct answer!! I love your rhyming poem!

**Joni 3.22.11** Lexi, I meant to write story so I just corrected it. Thanks for telling me that because I didn't notice it. Maddie, the book that I am reading is very different compared to other books that I have read this year and I don't know how to compare them because they have completely different styles of writing.

Lexi 3.22.11 I LOVE your rhyme about the book. You rhymed good words together like Stroy and glory. Is it stroy or story?

Lily 3.20.11. Awesome poems! I like the rhyming. Very creative.

Maddie G. 3/18/11 I think that your poems were really good. Is the book you are reading a good book? I also did my wiki this week about a book. But i read it in January.

Wow Joni you are **VERY** good at poetry. I love how you made two poems instead of one.
 * Giuliana 3/18/11**

For this entry, I am going to write two poems about what I am currently reading which is called __//**Rising Voices**//__.
 * Joni 3.17.11 **


 * Here is a hiku: **

Indian children Share their feelings through essays And write poems too.


 * Here is a rhyming poem about the same book: **

Native American children share their story Not all of it - uplifting and glory. Some are happy, some are sad In some of them the children are mad. A common thread is shared by all Fairness and equallity should always stand tall.

Joni, I'm only on book 3 right now but I do agree that Percy and Annabeth are both determined. Oh that makes a lot of sense why Felita's mom is over protective.
 * Giuliana 3\12\11 **

**Joni 3.8.11** For this entry, I am going to compare Percy and Annabeth from **//__The Percy Jackson series__//**. Percy and Annabeth are both determined to stop Kronos (head titan) from taking over the world. They also both will do whatever they can to save all of the other half-bloods and the mortals who could be harmed by Kronos and his army. An example of that is when Kronos started to take over Manhattan while all of the mortals were under a spell which made them fall asleep Percy and Annabeth tried to save as many mortals as the could by moving them out of the way. (Those mortals include Percy's mom and her boyfriend.) At first, Annabeth didn't like Percy very much but throughout the series she becomes less harsh on Percy and they start to like each other more. When Percy first arrived at Camp Half-Blood Annabeth was in the middle of her fifth year there. Annabeth and Percy are both good at fighting monsters and practicing against others at camp during activities. An example of that is when the two of them were fighting a group of monsters on the Brooklyn Bridge the kept killing monsters over and over again. As you can see, Percy and Annabeth are both different and alike in many ways.

**Joni 3.6.11** Maddie, the books that I compared are realistic fiction (//__**Going Home**__//) and historical fiction (**//__Journey To Topaz__//**). Giuliana, Felita is the youngest in her family and she has two older brothers. Maybe her mom is over protective because she is her parents' little girl.

Maddie G. 3/3/11 These books sound really good. What type of genre are the books? I think I might read them.

Oh. Why do you think Felita's mom is over protective?
 * Giuliana 3\3\11**

**Joni 3.1.11** I am going to compare Yuki from **//__Journey To Topaz__//** and Felita from **//__Going Home__//**. Both girls are eleven years old (like me). Both girls are being treated unfairly because of where they come from. In Going Home some of Felita's relatives make fun of her and her brothers and call them names like Nuyoricans (New York and Puerto Rican because they live in New York but their heritage is Puerto Rican). Yuki and her family are being treated unfairly because their heritage is Japanese. Both girls wish that they could live a better, or more normal life. Both girls have at least one brother (Yuki has one and Felita has two). Both girls have two parents, a mom and a dad. Felita feels like her mom is to protective of her while Yuki doesn't say anything about that except for the time when she couldn't see Emi because she was very sick. I like the books **//__The Lorax__//** and __//**Green Eggs and Ham**//__ by Dr. Seuss. Chloe, the author of //__**Going Home**__// is Nicholasa Mohr Giuliana, I don't know if Vinny is cute but Felita and her friends think he is.

Chloe 2.27.11 Joni you made this book sound very appealing to me. You made Felita sound like a girl that we would all want to be friends with if she went to our school. I really like the way that you described the situation that Felita is going through. You made it feel like I already read the book. Who is the author??

Hmmmm I've never heard of that book but I may want to read it because you like it so far! How do you know if Vinny is cute?
 * Giuliana 2\27\11 **

**Joni 2.27.11** Right now I am reading the book //__**Going Home**__//. This book is about a Puerto Rican girl named Felita. She lives in New York with her parents, Mami and Papi, her older brothers, Johnny and Tito, and her grandmother's brother, Tio Jorge. Felita and her brothers found out that they are going to go to Puerto Rico this coming summer. Mami, Papi, Johnny, and Tito stay for two weeks, but Felita gets to stay for the whole summer with Tio Jorge. When Felita goes home Tio Jorge will stay to live in his village in Puerto Rico. Most of Felita's friends think that a new Colombian kid, Vinny, is really cute. Felita and her best friend Gigi don't get why everybody else is making a big deal out of it. Vinny's home is near Felita's appartment so they walk home from school together. One day, Vinny asks Felita if she can tutor him is English because he wants to know how to have a conversation with the other kids and because the boys at their school make fun of him. Felita asks her mom who says that it was ok to have lessons with Vinny. Over time, Felita notices that she likes Vinny and that he likes her too. Felita was glad to get to Puerto Rico because she gets to see her family and because of the beaches and warm weather. Felita has a great time while she is staying in the house with her family. One day while she is in the ocean she realizes that when her family leaves in three days that she will have to leave where she is and head over to Tio Jorge's village for the rest of the summer. So far, I think that __//**Going Home**//__ is a great book.

Lexi 2/21/11 I like how you put the book and the author in **bold** and __underlined__

Danielle2/21/11 I like how you started out your wiki. :) Rick Riordan is a great author! I agree with your points about how the Rick Riordan books are very interesting, and how there is rarely a pause when the book gets boring. I also say that Number the Stars is a great book.
 * Liam 2/21/11**

**Joni 2.16.11** My favorite authors is... Wait a second, before I say who my favorite author is I want you to try and guess who it is based on what books I have read so far this year. If you guesses **//__Rick Riordan__//** you guessed correctly! __//**Rick Riordan**//__ is the author of the __//**Percy Jackson**//__, __//**Kane Chronicles**//__, and **//__The Lost Hero__//** series. (There might be more books that he has written but I am not sure.) The way that **//__Rick Riordan__//** arranges the words in the sentences, it feels as if you are there with the characters in the book. Once I started reading __//**The Lightning Theif**//__ I couln't put it down so I kept reading the rest of the series. Something new and exciting was always coming. The book was never boring because something is always going on. There aren't any pauses where the book is boring, something is always happening so I couldn't stop reading. **//__Rick Riordan__//** makes the book come to life and it feels like you are there fighting monsters with __//**Percy Jackson**//__. **//__Rick__// //__Riordan__//** describes everything with such detail. When you get a picture in your mind from the book it feels real because the settings and characters are described very well. My favorite book is **//__Number The Stars__//**. Like the **//__Percy Jackson__//** books, in **//__Number The Stars__//** something is always happening. There is always something new and exciting that is going to happen. It feels like you are actually sitting in the Johansen's apartment watching the Nazi's look at the kid's baby pictures that Papa showed them. This book takes place during a very complicated period of time, World War II. I like this book a lot because there isn't just one hero, everyone who helped save the Rosen's and the rest of the Jews were heroes. Annemarie showed great examples of how to be an upstander and ways to never give up hope. Even though the Nazi's had taken over town Annemarie and the rest of the Jews' supporters didn't give up and they kept trying to save their friends and neighbors. Mr. Shaw, Yuki is a Japanese-American and the government was treating Yuki unfairly because they sent her and her family to relocation camps.

Nice job comparing these two books. What is Yuki's heritage. Who is treating her unfairly, and in what way?
 * Mr. Shaw 2.16.11**

Will 2/13/11 I think that you did a great job comparing and Contrasting the two different stories I did read Number the Stars too but only with Mr. Shaw

In my reading group we are going to read multiple books, so I am going to compare //**__Number The Stars__**// to they book that I finished for the reading group. It is called **//__Journey to Topaz__//**. In both books the main characters are girls around our age who are going through a time where people who are different cultures or religions are treated very unfairly. Both books take place during World War II, but in **//__Number The Stars__//** the main character, Annemarie, is helping someone who is being treated unfairly and in **//__Journey to Topaz__//** the main character, Yuki, is the one who is being treated unfairly. **//__Number The Stars__//** takes place in Denmark while **//__Journey to__// //__Topaz__//** takes place in the United States. Yuki is being treated unfairly because of her heritage and Annemarie's friend, Ellen, is being treated unfairly because of her religion. Both **//__N__////__umber The Stars__//** and **//__Journey to Topaz__//** are great books. If you haven't read them yet I recommend that you do.
 * Joni 2.8.11 **

Right now I am reading **//__Journey to Topaz__//** which is a book about a Japanese-American family during World War II. This family has had their father taken away by the FBI and they have been sent to Tanforan which is a temporary camp to relocate Japanese-Americans who live on the west coast. While they are there the family becomes very close with their new neighbors. After a couple of months, the family goes on a train to Topaz, Utah where they have another relocation camp. At this camp Yuki (the main character) becomes very worried about her sick friend who has TB. ** (3 HP) **
 * Joni 2.1.11 **
 * ALERT! ALERT! THIS ENTRY INCLUDES A SPOILER! **

**Joni 1.27.11** I finally finished //__**The Diary of Anne Frank**__//! It was an amazing book!

**Joni 1.25.11** Right now I am reading //__**The Diary of Anne Frank**__// and I have a little less than ten pages left in my book. I am excited about that I always think it feels good to finish a book and my book is long with small font and big pages. I am sad about that because I loved reading //__**The Diary of Anne Frank**__// a lot and I think that it is a great book that I will definitely put on the Booklist when I finish reading it. In my book Anne and the people in hiding with her got a lot of strawberries which they hadn't eaten in years. They ate some fresh, some on their cereal in the morning, and some in jam that they made themselves. There hasn't been a robbery for a long time now and Anne has been talking about new things that are happening in the outside world and things that are happening in the Annex. I am also reading the book //__**Journey to Topaz**__//. That book is about a Japanese-American family who lives near San Francisco during World War II. The main character, Yuki, is eleven years old. She was very brave when the FBI arrived at her front door and when they took away her father. I am only on page nineteen in that book but a lot has happened so far. I got most of the books that I said I wanted to read in my entry from January 11th. After I finish reading //__**The Diary of Anne Frank**__// I want to read the book **//__Here Lies__ __Bridget__//** which I already have at home. ** (5 HP) **

Right now I am reading **//__The Diary of Anne Frank__//**. In the beginning of the book Anne is alone in the Secret Annex with her mother ,Edith, father, Otto, and her older sister, Margot. As about a week passes by a family of three joins them in hiding. Their names are Mrs. van Daan, Mr. van Daan, and Peter van Daan. A little while later an eighth person named Mr. Dussel comes into hiding, too. In the beginning of the book Anne tries not to feel sorry for herself and to be grateful because she has a place to stay for a while. Some of the others who are living with her don't seem to appreciate what they have. Anne tries to keep a smile on her face and she tries to think positively so she and the people who are in hiding with her won't be so negative. It usually doesn't work. As I got closer to the middle of the book the eight people started to snap at each other, be negative, and not appreciate what they have. Anne feels that the people who run errands for them and get food for them should be appreciated more, but some of the others don't show a single sign of appreciation towards the people who help them. Throughout the book Anne thinks that she is becoming more independent because she has to do things on her own. Most days in the Secret Annex are very similar compared to the days before. In between the end and middle of the book a burglar tries to take stuff from the warehouse. The men scare them away by yelling POLICE! When all eight of them are hiding in the attic, they hear footsteps through the office, then the kitchen, then up the stairs. When they reach the top of the stairs they rattle the bookcase in front of the door! When the police left everyone said that they thought that the police would open the bookcase and arrest them, but they didn't. The police saw a light through a crack in the door. From that point on there haven't been any robberies. I have about 20 pages left in my book and I can't wait to finish it!
 * Joni 1.20.11 **

Molly 1.14.11 Good job Joni! I have heard //Trading Faces// is very good.

Throughout this school year I think that I have grown as a reader. I have started to consider reading as something that I do for joy, not because I have to for school. I have liked all of the books that I have written about on my wiki page, but my favorite so far is **//__The Diary of Anne Frank__//**. When I read **//__Number The Stars__//** it made my wonder more about what life was like during World War II, but from a Jewish person's perspective. In the future I would like to read the books __//**Smile**//__, **//__Trading Faces__//**, __//**Rules**//__, **//__Genius Files__//**, and **//__Small Steps__//**. (Not all at the same time!) I read descriptions of these books on other classmates' wiki pages and they all sounded like great books to me!
 * Joni 1.11.11 **

Giuliana, Anne's mom isn't being mean to her. She is just tough on her for some reason and we aren't sure why. Maybe Anne's mom wants her to work harder or to try harder than she usually does. In the book Anne said that her parents "spoiled her rotten" a lot of the time before the war started.
 * Joni 1.10.11 **

I feel bad that Anne always got punished, she has a mean mom.
 * Giuliana 1.8.11 **

**Joni 1.8.11** Right now I am reading __//**The Diary of Anne Frank**//__ which is as long as a lot of chapter books but instead of chapters there are days. In my book Anne sort of favors her dad because she doesn't think that her mom is does a good job at being a mom. Anne says that her mother makes fun of her if she does something wrong when she should've done it right. Anne also says that her mom scolds her a lot because she messes everything up and because she is the youngest out of the eight people who are in hiding with her. Anne thinks that her mother should be more loving and caring. Anne thinks that a boy named Peter who is in hiding with her is really cute. She wants him to come out and say "I like you a lot" so she can say "Me too" and then they could both be happy together. Anne's sister, Margot, also likes Peter but not as much as Anne does so Margot becomes the third wheel whenever the three of them are together. I have about three and a half months left of Anne's entries until the book is over.

Joni, I'm surprised to learn that you haven't tried the Harry Potter series. You should definitely put the first book on your "must read" list, and take it from there. You might get hooked!
 * Mr. Shaw 1.4.10**

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Joni, Thank you for giving me a book. Its actually a coincidence I am actually starting that series, I finished the first book.
 * Giuliana 12.30.10 **


 * Joni 12.14.10 **
 * DING DING DING! Maddie, Giuliana, Chloe, Molly, and Danielle all guessed my two truths and a lie correctly. The correct answer is number two. **
 * The first book that I have chosen to give is Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume and I would give this book to Chloe because when we did the Holocaust reading unit she seemed very interested when we read our essays and answers to questions. This book is a bout a girl named Sally who just moved to Florida and she doesn't know anybody.She is kind of neervous because she is a Jewish girl during World War II and even though she is in America she stil feels very unsafe. When she moved into her apartment building she met a girl who lived in the same building and they became friends. Sally's friend isn't suspicious, but Sally thinks that a man who lives near by is Adolph Hitler in disguise. I think that Chloe would like this book a lot. **
 * The second book (series of books) that I chose to give is ﻿The Percy Jackson Series (1-5) ﻿by Rick Riordan and I would give these books to Tyler and Giuliana because I think that they would like all of the action in these books. The percy Jackson books are about a boy named Percy who finds out that his dad is Poseidon, the god of the sea. When he gets to Camp Half Blood he learns the ways of the campers and how to be a demigod. (A child of a god or goddess.) The rest of the books are about Percy's adventures and how he deals with life as a child of a Greek god. (Most of percy's adventures are in entries that I have written in the past.) I think that Tyler and Giuliana would like all of the action and adventures in this series of books. **

Danielle 12.12.10 Is it number 2??

Molly 12.9.10 Is it line number 2?


 * Chloe 12.9.10 **
 * Is it number 2?? **

Joni, its obviously number 2.
 * Giuliana 12.8.10 **

**Is the lie........ number 2?**
 * Maddie G. 12/7/10 **

Joni 12.7.10 Will, Giuliana told me that Hephasteus and Aphrodite are actually married, and not siblings.

Since not many of you have ever read the book that I am reading I am going to do a book that I have read in the past called Number The Stars by Lois Lowry. Here are my two truths and a lie! 1. Annemarie would do anything that she could to help save the Rosens. <span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. Annemarie is glad that her life isn't ordinary anymore. <span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. Annemarie's younger sister's name starts with a K. <span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">See if you can guess which number (1, 2, or 3) is the lie!
 * <span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Joni 12.7.10 **

<span style="color: #00a6ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Since it is Sunday I will give away the answer to my Book Trivia. If you guessed **//__The Report Card__//** by Andrew Clements you guessed correctly!
 * <span style="color: #00a6ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Joni 12.5.10 **

Liam 12/3/10 Is it __The Report Card?__

Kayla12.3.10 Is this book the Report card?

Lexi 12.3.10 Author Andrew Clemets and is it the book The report card?

I am not giving away the answer until Sunday night, if I remember. If I don't remember ask me at school on Monday.
 * Joni 12.3.10 **

Danielle 12.2.10 Is it the Report Card?(I liked the highlight thing at the bottom)

cameron 12.2.10 That what i was going to say!!!!!!! and haha Joni u made a thing that said high light the space below and i did and it said no way!!! i would give u the answer that cracked me up hehehe xD

Will, Giuliana told me that Aphrodite and Hephasteus are both children of Zeus (god of lightning, sky, etc. and king of the gods) and Hera (goddess of marriage and I think love and the queen of the gods) so they are brother and sister.
 * Joni 12.2.10 **

Chloe 12.2.10 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Is the book The Report Card???

Joni is the book the Report Card?
 * Giuliana 12.2.10**

<span style="background-color: #ff4c00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Joni 12.1.10 <span style="background-color: #ff4c00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Here are my five clues! <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1. The author is Andrew Clements. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">2. I recommended this book on the Booklist. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">3. It is about a smart girl. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">4. She made up a plan to do something with her grades. <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">5. Her plan made people think that she wasn't smart so she had to work with a special teacher. <span style="background-color: #ff4c00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">See if you can guess correctly! <span style="background-color: #ff4c00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To figure out if your answer is correct highlight the black space below. <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">You really thought that I would give away the answer! No way!

<span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Joni 11/29/10- <span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Right now I am reading **//__The Diary of Anne Frank__//**, but I have the book **//__The Red Pyramid__//** sitting on my shelf for when I am done with the book that I am reading now. <span style="color: #8500ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Will, All of the Greek Gods are realted to each other in some way, but I don't know how Hephasteus and Aphrodite are realted.

I enjoyed hearing about Piper and Leo, and I thought you did a good job of identifying their traits and reasons for their behavior. What's next on your reading list?
 * Mr. Shaw 11.20.10**

Will 11/17/10 Is Hephasteus related toAphrodite.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">For this entry, I am going to do one of Piper's (the character from my last entry) friends. His name is Leo Valdez. Leo is a son of Hephasteus, so he is good with machines and tools. Leo is courageous because he wanted to go on a quest without knowing anything about the whole being-related-to-a-god-thing. He is also funny because he is good at cheering people up and he never acts serious. Leo likes to say whatever is on his mind, even if he is talking to a god or a goddess. He likes to make his point anout things very clear to everyone. Leo wanted to be a hero, or a role model. He didn't want to be the kid who was just there to tag along with the group. Leo wants to be the person who shines above everybody else. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Liam, I am almost done with the book (about 50 pages to go) and I am definitely going to keep reading. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Chloe, I agree that a lot of daughters are like their mothers. I chose Piper because she was very different than everybody else.
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Joni 11/16/10- **

It is funny that you did your wiki entry on Piper, because I did mine on Jason. If you are still reading the book, keep reading. I read that book and Piper does help Leo and Jason but not the way she wants to.
 * Liam 11/16/10**
 * Giuliana 11-12-10**

Chloe 11/11/10 You did a really good job explaining Piper. I really like the part about how she sees herself as the complete opposite as her mother. Most girls in my opinion are like there mothers but in this case I guess not.

Joni 11/10/10- For this entry I am going to write about a character from the book **//__The Lost Hero__//** by Rick Riordan. The character is a girl named Piper who is a child of Aphrodite. Piper sees herself as the complete opposite of her mom because she has never cared about the way she looks. Piper is on a quest with her friends Leo (son of Hephasteus) and Jason (son of Zeus). She feels that whenever she has a chance to fight because the boys would need help, she is unable to fight. For an example, when Jason was looking for Leo but instead he found a cyclops, Piper was unable to go with Jason because she hurt her ankle badly. Another example is when the King of Wolves spotted them in a cage and Piper could not help fight because she had hypothermia. Piper keeps going because she wants to fight and she wants to be a part of the group. She doesn't want to be the kind of person that stands around and does nothing to help them team succeed. I finally saw __//**The Lightning Theif**//__ movie. I recommend reading the book first like I did. I thought that the book is way different from the movie.

Joni 11/9/10- Giuliana, I liked the frog game, too! It taught us how to be an upstander in our own communities.

I agree Annemarie is an example of an upstander. The game we played at the Holacaust museum you and your group had to be upstanders... That was fun!
 * Giuliana 11-4-10**

Joni 11/3/10- The character that I admire the most in the book **//__Number The Stars__//** is Annemarie Johansen. Annemarie is a great example of an upstander. She stood up for Ellen when she was stopped by the Nazi soldiers on the street corner and she believed that the Jews should not have been able to be treated the way that the German soldiers treated them. Annemarie shows that she supports and cares for the Jewish people when she says that after Ellen's necklace was fixed that she would wear it until the Rosen family got back from Sweden. Those are my reasons why Annemarie Johansen is the character that I admire the most in the book __//**Number The Stars**//__. Annemarie relates to what we saw at the Holocaust museum for different things. One is that she was definitely part of the Holocaust during World War II. Another is that on one of the computer screens they had Holocaust survivors tell their stories on the screen. One of the ladies was not a Jew but she was part of a resistance group and Annemarie had the same feelings for the Jewish people as the people in those groups did. Giuliana, I agree that the book __//**Starins Sally J. Friedman as Herself**//__ relates to the book __//**Number The Stars**//__ (I don't know about __//**Jacob's Rescue**//__ because I haven't read it yet). That is one of the reasons why I chose to write about that book. Another reason is that it is a really good book.

That book relates to Number the Stars!
 * Giuliana 10.31.10**

Joni 10/27/10- I love scary stories but I don't know any that I would be able to write because the ones that I know don't have an author (I actually don't know if they have authors) and they are way too long to write as a wiki entry so I am going to recommend a book. The book that I am goin to recommend is __//**Starring Sally J. Freedman as**// //**Herself**//__ by Judy Blume. This book takes place during World War II in Forida. Sally is a Jewish girl who just moved to Florida so she is the new kid who doesn't know anybody. If you were at one time the new kid in school (not me) you know that it is very hard. That is how it was with Sally. She didn't know anybody when she moved to her new school and she didn't know where all of the stores and shops were. Sally, her mom, and her sister live in an apartment building wiht a lot of friendly people besides one person who Sally thinks is Adolph Hitler in disguise. The rest of the book is about Sally's adventures as she starts to adjust to her new life in Florida. I read the book a long time ago so I don't remeber a lot of the details. This book gave me a great idea about what life was like for Jewish people in America.

Thanks for your interesting comparison of these two books. Joni.
 * Mr. Shaw 10.25.10**

Joni 10/23/10- In this entry I am going to compare the Percy Jackson series with Number The Stars. Annemarie and Percy are both very brave and courageous heroes. Annemarie saved Ellen when the Nazi came over to her house and Percy saves Olympus from the Titans and monsters in the fifth book in the series. Anne marie and Percy both fight for what they believe is right. Percy fights against Kronos' army to save the gods and goddessses. Annemarie stands up to the Nazi so the Jewish people can be free. I think that both of the books are written very well and that Lois Lowry (author of Number The Stars) and Rick Riordan (author of the Percy Jackson series) used great words to describe what is going on and what the scene is at the time. Will, What do you mean by "Annemarie is just like us".

Will 10/17/10 Annemarie is just like us.

Joni 10/16/10- The character that I am going to write about is Annemarie from the book __//**Number The Stars**//__. Annemarie has blond hair and blue eyes. She is one of the Christian-Danish people. In the the book she is 10. Annemarie has a mom, a dad, a little sister Kirsti who is 5, and an older sister Lise who is dead. Annemarie is a very brave girl who wishes that her life could be ordinary but that is kind of impossible when it is 1943, the middle of World War II. Annemarie's family, the Johansens, are hiding her best friend, Ellen, who is a Jew. Their relasionship changes from being two normal 10-year-old girls to having one of the girls hiding the other because if she doesn't the Nazis will take her away. Annemarie's problem is that she wants to know what will happen next but when the German soldiers are in town there is no way of knowing what will happen next. I like the character Annemarie becauses she will do anything to save her best friend's life. She is brave and she knows what to do if anything goes wrong.

I see a lot of information about Percy Jackson here, but I'm not sure what problems he faces, or what you think about him? Could you please explain?
 * Mr. Shaw 10.12.10**

Joni 10/7/10- The character that I am going to write about is Percy Jackson and the book that I am reading is __**//The Last Olympian//**__. Percy is going to turn 16 in five days. He has black hair and green eyes. He is sort of an only child because when you have one, or two, god parent(s) they will move on and find somebody else so Percy has a lot of half siblings. He has a mom, Sally, and a dad, Poseidon, who is the god of the sea. He has a friend Annabeth who is really, really close with him even though sometimes they can't be around each other for more than five minutes without hitting each other. He also has a Cyclops half-brother named Tyson and a friend who is a satyr named Grover. Percy also has a lot of enimies who are half-bloods who have gone over to Kronos' side and all different kinds of monsters. Percy's problem is that he doesn't know how to react in different kinds of siduations. He doesn't know if should charge at a monster or let it get close to him so he can swing his sword and he doesn't know if it is a time when he should comfort a sad friend or leave them alone. I think Percy is a great main character for this book because he is funny and when his is fighting monsters he knows what to do, sometimes.

Oh Joni wow you are reading the Percy Jackson books like a maniac phew.
 * Giuliana 10/3/10**

Joni 9/30/10- I am almost finished with __**The Battle of the Labyrinth**__ and so far there are many times when you think that you know what will happen next but something else really happens. The Labyrinth is a maze that is under the whole U.S.A. It is constantly changing shape and when it doe sthat it's entries move around. Percy, Annabeth, Grover, and Tyson (Percy's half-brother cyclops) are in the maze because their used-to-be-friend Luke is trying to get into Camp Half Blood by using a Labyrinth entry. Luke is helping the evil Titan god, Kronos, reform from being cut into pieces. Kronos wants to destroy the camp before he ruins anything else. Princess Ariadne's string helps lead someone throught the maze to their destination without getting into any traps. Luke wants to get the string so he can get into the camp and Percy and his friends are trying to prevent that from happening.

Jack 9/27/10- Soren gets kidnapped by a place called St. Aggies, and if I tell why it will spoil the books. The animals do talk in the book because there are no humans, it's like an owl world, it's a little confusing. A mentor like a role model or a leader or teacher. I also like the Percy Jackson series and I think the fifth book is the best. I saw the movie too and it is really good but it's not exactly like the book. Lily 9/22/10 You always do a really good jod of describing your books that you are reading, You make them sound like really good books, and books that i would want to read. i really want to start reading the Percy Jackson series, and see the movie.

Joni 9/22/10- I just finished The Titan's Curse and tonight I am goin to start The Battle of the Labyrinth. In The Titan's Curse Thalia, Annabeth, and Percy make it saftley back to Olympus where the Greek Gods decide not to kill the three of them. Thalia became a Hunter right after her Annabeth, and Percy found ou that they wouldn't be desrtoyed. Zeus said that since they will not be killing the heroes that they would have a party for them. During the party Percy gets to have a talk with his dad which made happy because he hadn't seen him in one and a half years. Alexis, Giuliana, and Cameron, I haven't seen the movie, but I hope I will be able to when I finish the whole Percy Jackson series.

Alexis 9/21/10 sounds like a great book !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is it diffrent from the movie ??????

Giuliana & Cameron 9/21/10 This is Giuliana & Cameron. We have seen the movie is really different?

Joni, I really appreciate the time and effort you're putting into your comments! Keep up the good reading and writing.
 * Mr. Shaw 9.21.10**

Joni 9/20/10- Giuliana, I have been "Reading the Percy Jackson books like crazy" because I am alway interested to see what will happen next. I also like the books where there are normal kids, but they are also abnormal in special ways. As an example I am going to use Percy. Until he was twelve Percy was a normal kid who didn't do very well in school. During the summer, when he was twelve, his mom took him to a camp and said that he might never come back home from there. He didn't know that he was a half-blood until he got to camp, and then he knew that he would never be the same ever again.

Giuliana 9/20/10 Wow you're reading the Percy Jackson books like crazy!

<span style="color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Morgan~I feel so sad! The books sounds so good but not at my reading level!

<span style="color: #00a6ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">Joni 9/15/10- <span style="color: #00a6ff; display: block; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">The book that I am reading is called The Titan's Curse. In all three of the books that I have read in this series there have been, big and small adventures, new characters, and several monster attacks. The main characters in my book are Percy, Thalia, Nico, Annabeth, (half-blood campers) Zoe, Bianica, (Hunters) Chiron, (centaur) Mr. D, (god/camp director) and Grover (satyr). So far in this book many events have taken place. One of them is when Grover discovers that Bianica and Nico di Angelo are half-bloods who are in a lot of danger because their principal, Dr. Thorn, is waiting for the right time to attack them because he is a monster. Percy, Thalia, and Annabeth went save the half-bloods and the Hunters came and shot the manticore (principal monster) with their bows and arrows. Sadly, when the manticore falls off a ciff, so does Annabeth. Nobody knows what happened to her yet. Another big event is when the Oracle (the mummy that gives people their fate if they are going to go on a quest) gets out of her box and comes down to the field to give Zoe her answer after the Oracle just ingnored Percy. He was mad because the Oracle hadn't walked in hundreds of years! Other smaller events had occurred in my book but those are two of the bigger ones. <span style="color: #00a6ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">I reccommend my book to anyone who likes action and fantasy. I also reccommend this book because you can't really guess what will happen next because the situation will probably conclude differently than the way you thought it would. There are also many different parts that I think all tie together in the end of the book. If you read the books in order throught the series they always pick up where left off in the previous book. Those are the reasons why I like the Percy Jackson series so much.

Joni﻿ 9/15/10-Morgan, I don't know if it is at your level for reading, but if you want to start reading it I have one tip. If it is too hard then there will be four or five words on every page that you dont know. If it is too easy then there will be either one or no words that you don't know the meaning of. If there are two or three words that you don't know on every page, it should be the right level for you.

Morgan 9/14/10~Joni, these books sound really good, do you think it is at my reading level?
<span style="color: #ad003e; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">Joni 9/13/10- <span style="color: #ad003e; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Giuliana, Annabeth was fighting a manticore. It is kind of like a lion or a tiger. I also think that you would REALLY like this series of books. It has spines in its tail that he can shoot anywhere he wants to. Tessa, why did you stop reading //**__The Lightning Theif__?**//

Giuliana 9/12/10 Colton is doing a research on pumas for school, the reason why the book is called Smoke is because Colton's cat is named Smoke. What Monster was Annabeth fighting?

Tessa 9/12/10 Ha I read the lighting theif well kind it was good but I stop they sound intresting

<span style="color: #00a6ff; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">**Joni 9/10/10-** <span style="color: #00a6ff; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">So far in the book **__The Titan's Curse__** (the third book in the Percy Jackson series) there have been multiple conflicts. One of them was when Percy and Thalia's friend, Annabeth, fell off a cliff with a monster by a private army school. They don't know what had happened or will happen to her. Another one is when Camp Half-Blood plays a game of Capture the Flag against the Hunters while they are staying at camp temporarily because their leader, the goddess Artemis, is hunting one of the most dangerous monsters that has ever been heard of.

<span style="color: #00a6ff; display: block; font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">The series of books I am reading relate to Rope Burn because in the first book Percy's mom drops him off at Camp Half-Blood with his guardian satyr, Grover. When he gets there he doesn't know a single half-blood camper. (Satyrs are not half-bloods, they are half goat and half human.) By the end of the first day Percy had a friend. In Rope Burn Richard goes to a brand-new school where he doesn't know anybody, until he meets James.

Thanks, Joni, for telling us about the Percy Jackson books and your reading habits. You have earned 4 house points for your efforts!
 * Mr. Shaw 9.6.10**

<span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Maddie 8/29/10 <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Joni, Beverly Cleary wrote Ramona and her Father. Her father won't stop smoking because it is a habit for him. But Ramona and Beezus try to stop his fathers smoking habit, so his lungs don't turn black.

<span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mr. Shaw 8.29.10 <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Joni, you are off to a great start on your page! I like how you summarized the beginning of the Percy Jackson series. I started reading The Lightning Thief, but never quite got around to finishing it. Did you see the movie version?

<span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Giuliana 8/29/10 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffff00; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It must have lots of action in it.

<span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kayla 8/29/10 <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sound's like a very exicting book to read and I like all the detail's you put in. It makes me want to read the book. Brooke isin't ice to Jemma because she wants Tammy all to her self. Jemma likes about camp is that Tammy her best friend is there but Jemma did not know that Brooke is coming to camp with <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ff00; display: block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tammy. Hope that answered all your questions.

<span style="color: #8500ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Joni 8/28/10-** <span style="color: #8500ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Right now I am reading a book called The Sea of Monsters. It is the second of five books in the Percy Jackson series. I have already read the first book and I am planning on reading the whole series. The first book is about a boy named Percy who is different in a way that very few other people are besides the fact that he does not do well in school. He finds out why he is so different when he is on a field trip to the New York History Museum. Percy's algebra teacher talks to him about his bad behavior in another room, away from the rest of the class, then suddenly, the teacher turns into a bird-like creature with long wings, big beak, sharp teeth, and talons. She lunges at him as if she would destroy him. Soon after more monsters attacked so Percy's mom drove him to a camp called Half-Blood Hill. There, he would be protected from most monsters. His mom was killed by a monster on the way, but when she died she disolved into gold sparkles. At camp Percy finds out what made him different from everyone else. He is the Sea God's son! He learns the way of life at camp and then he goes on an epic adventure to find Zeus' missing Master Bolt. Percy goes on this quest because he is one of the suspects who might have stolen it. Percy's dad, Poseidon, and Zeus don't like each other very much, that is why he is one of the suspects. Does Percy find it, or does he fail? Did he really steal it in the end? Read the book to find out! My reading habits are pretty good. Whenever I don't have any other home work or only a little bit then I will read for an hour or 40 minutes. If I have a regular amount of homework then I will read for 40 or 20 minutes. If I have a ton of homework then I will read for 20 minutes or not read at all.