Jocelyn

Jocelyn - 5-26-10 I recommend the book ** Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters!! ** (I know its a long title!!!!) AUTHOR: ** LESLEY M. BLUME!! ** It is about a girl who has a terrible life and she gets new neighbors and they are crazy and she ends up going there every day and her personal life is sad but when she meets this unique lady, the lady tells her about the adventure of her sisters (the somerset sisters!!) **# 1 ** is that I read it at camp because my mom sent it to me as a surprise and I loved it! ** #2 ** is that its so adventurous that it makes you want to take a adventure :)!! ** #3 ** is because it wasn't a book that made you want to keep and keep reading it till you can't put it down, which in this situation where its summer and you don't really want to spend all of your time reading when its so nice out but at the same time its an amazing book!!!

sarah L 5-25-10 Jocy, I have read the 1st book of the English Roses but it was not a chapter book! it was really good and I loved how all the girls have different charicteristics!

Noah 5/23/10 Why is the book called English Roses? It sounds good!

Mr. Shaw 5.13.10 Good response, Jocelyn. Who is the author of this book? It sounds like Amy would be a great friend to have. It would be helpful to know a little more about her, though. What kind of dancing does she do? Who are her friends? How was she forgiving? I will give the purple team three house points for your response. //** Jocelyn 5 **// **12** **// 10 I just finished a book called English Roses and it is very good! I would want to lean on a one of the girls Amy because for r eason number one she likes dancing just like I do!! And number two reason is because she likes to be with friends and all and so do I!! So being with someone like that is nice to have to be with. The third reason is because she is a forgiving and I will always want a forgiving friend because everyone makes mistakes so when I made a mistake she would forgive me!!

Emily 5-9-10 I have never heard of rules Is it good or sad? I knew someone who had a brother, who had autism and it's really sad.

Jocelyn5-4-10 Umm well The book that I just finished is called Rules and it is about autism and other problems like that. And in the Egypt game book one of the main characters dad kinda is like messy and sometimes doesn't hear you and says something else and much more. And when the boy (one of the main characters) disappears the dad gets worried. And in the the book rules when the boy has autism the sister has many responsibilities.//** Meredith 5-2-10 Jocelyn I have a great connection. When Emily and Hannah moved here Emily Shimanovsky and I went to bring them cookies but they weren't home. If that book is like what happened to us they will become best friends. It sounds like a very good book. 
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Jocelyn 4-29-10 For two truths and a lie #1 was the lie. Vicky has 2 brothers and 1 sister. But now I am reading Rules! It is about a girl named Catheline and she has a autistic brother and she has a new nieghibor that as a daughter her age and Catheline is VERY excited but before she gets to bring the new girl cookies and say hi for the first time Cathelines brother David has a tantrum and the new nieghbor sees and says "is he okay?" So will she become best friends with her new nieghbor or will they become enemys?

Samantha 4-28-10 I too think it is #1!! I hope I am right! Your book sounds really sad, so I am not going to try to read it. SORRY!! Hope I am right though. //**

Mr. Shaw 4/26/10 I'm not sure which book you're writing about, Jocelyn. **Ring of Endless Light**? I think that the lie is #1, based on what you wrote on Apr. 14th. (You mentioned a brother.)

Jocelyn 4-25-10 Two truths and a lie 1) She is a only child 2) Her Grandpa is dieing 3) She met three dolphins out in the wild __** I DONOT RECOMMEND **__ THIS BOOK!! ITS ALL ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH AND ITS SAD, but it's still a great emotional book that COULD make you have nightmares!!!

Jocelyn 4-18-10 I am still reading the book, a Ring of Endless light. The girls name I forgot last time I did the wiki(last week) I remember now!! The girls name is Vicky and her old boyfriend somehow found Vicky and is acting like nothing happened. Though a year ago Vicky's old boyfriend named Zachary moved to California and went out with a bunch of different girls and then finds Vicky and just says hi and asked if she can go to the beach with him as if nothing happened. But she says no cause her mom wanted her to be home for a little bit. Then the next day Vicky goes down to the beach with Leo and things begin to change. Jocelyn 4-14-10 I am just started a book called __The Ring of Endless Light.__ I would rate it three stars. 1 because it sounds like something exciting and scary is going to happen. 2) Because when they start the book it is during a funeral and everybody is serious and sad and then they go back home. I think that something might happen to the guy and that there was a purpose to having the funeral n the book and happen. 3) Something is DEFINITELY going to happen with Dolphins, in the story the main character is a sixteen year old girl and loves Dolphins, right now I don't remember her name but she was asked to do see Dolphins babies with this guy that works with her brother. I think that is when something interesting is going to happen!! P.S. On the front cover is a picture of a girl riding a dolphin. So that makes it even more reasonable for their to be something with a dolphin and I think that the girl on the cover is the sixteen year old girl in the book. AND The Ring of Endless Light is a Newberry winner with the silver sticker!!!!!

Jocelyn 4-9-10 Something happened and when I was typing and when I was typing it started to erase what Samantha had commented on, I know she wrote it but a don't remeber when. Mr. Shaw could you please go back and fix it?? SORRY SAMANTHA!!!

I just finished a book called __The View from Saturday__ It was great!!!! Each one of the Souls,(the teams name is the Souls and their are 4 of them)had they're own story about something that happened to them or how they had learned the word or information they needed to know to learn for the Spelling bee. Each year the school had a spelling bee. The Souls had been picked to represent Mrs. Olinskys class. They won over both the sixth grade classes and a few of the teacher thought that the Souls could win over the seventh grade class!! That had never been done before but when they reach up to eighth grade and almost doubble their score people start asking why Mrs. Olinsky had picked this team and why they had been so good. The thing is that she doesn't even know why she picked the team she did. And she also didn't know why such different and exotic kids would get so well together.As the Souls move on to higher and more challenging spelling bees Mrs. Olinsky finally realized why she had picked who she had picked. YOU SHOULD READ IT SOMETIME!

Samantha Jocy, I would agree with you I am in love with that series! I read the first and the second and thats it because there is know more. If there was more than I would read them! I read the second book this year and the first book last year. I remember them of course because I couldn't put them DOWN!!! They or as your talking about the first one were GREAT! I love your comment because it describes the book so well! So, I would recommend thsi book too!!!! BYE BYE!

Jocelyn 3/23/10 I would recommend the book;__The Penderwicks.__ It is a very good book about a family trip. (a connection with sprind break is that you might be going on a trip. In the story the mother had died and the father was going to take the family to a little cottage. (i don't remember where the cottage is) The cottage is right next to a large mansion. In the mansion is a little boy who's mothers boyfriend had a large plan of sending him to millatary school the next year. The mother was so deeply in love with the guy that she didn't really care. The boy really didn't want to go, and the family had to help the boy to get the courage to tell his mother that he didn't want to go there. Another problem is that the oldest sister almost lit the house on fire when she was baking cookies in the oven. The Penderwicks also find that there is a gardener too! Then the gardener causes a many problems and mishaps with the Penderwicks. If you really like the book then you should read the sequel after it. I would reccomend this book to anyone who likes a book about adventures and problems. I REALLY RECOMMEND THE BOOK!!!

//SarahL (late) Jocy, I agree with you that I would not want to live in that time and that they could get killed easily because the solders come and go every day.//

//Samantha 3-22-10 Jocy, I agree with you 100%!! I would never want to live in that time! I wrote the same thing!

Jocelyn 3-17-10 I am reading the My brother Sam is dead. I wouldn't like to live in there time because I would probably get killed easily. I also wouldn't like to call somebody sir all the time!

Samantha 3-9-10 Hey Jocy! I think I have read that book before and I think I remember liking it! I think you wrote a great comment and I know I am not here to judge it, but, I LOVE IT! You explain your ideas and your thoughts that connect to the story. Well, I love your comment and I think I loved the book too! So, I give you a A+!! BYE BYE//

Jocelyn 3/8/10 I am reading a book called Beezus and Ramona, it's by Beverly Cleary. The book is about Beezus (her real name is Beatrice) and her little sister Ramona and throughout the book it is how Ramona ruins everything of Beezus life because Ramona is four and doesn't know any better and is so rude. I think that the author, Beverly Cleary wrote this book to tell about all the times that her little sister was annoying her, but I am not really sure if she has a little sister or not. I reccomed this book to people with sisters, (which I happen to not have)!!!

Jocelyn 3/2/10 am reading/was a book called __Savvy.__ I think what made me like it is because that it is a adventure and that it is about humans. My favorite kind of books are the kinds that are either a mystery or a adventure, and this book was a mix of both! Also because the reasons I said that I like that it was about humans is I don't like reading about nonhumans for some reason. I don't know why.

//Andy 3/2/10 for the week of Feb.21-28 (Late). Why did he get sent there in the first place. It doesn't sound like he did any thing wrong did he just move there or go to jail.

Mr. Shaw 2/23/10 Yes, Alcatraz is real. The island it's on is near San Francisco. It's closed now, but you can still go there on a tour and see what it was like. Al Capone was also a real person. He was a gangster from Chicago who made a fortune selling liquor when it was banned in the USA.//

Jocelyn 2/23/10 I am not reading The sequel to the Egypt game anymore, I finished it. Now I am reading a book called Al Capone Does my Shirts. The setting takes place at a real place named Alcatraz (a place on a island near California), it is a place for the worst of the worst criminals and how a boy named Moose has to fit in to Alcatraz. Moose has many problems that he has to face like having his dads boss like him and think that he is able to live there, and his daughter named Piper is very rude and does exactly what his dad trys not to do like telling about Al Capone. I am not sure if Al Capone is really a person or not though.

//Mr. Shaw 2/23/10 Thanks, Jocelyn, for writing a thoughtful comment and sharing your connections and movie opinions. Are you still reading the sequel to The Egypt Game?//

Jocelyn 2/17/10 For Danielles question, I think it said that they had let her on the tour once before and she was just another person that had to be cared for on the tour. But I agree, it is sad that a mother would do that to somebody. I connect the girl that I said in my coment before that The girl named April, with a person I know named Abigail. At first in the book you think that April is a weird girl because she used to like to wear fake eye lashes and real fur shals and since she was new and her mother performed and was a bit famous she acted really different than she really was but Melanie was nice and found the actual April. At first when I met this girl named Abigail she acted to me at first a bit like a show off. Though after awhile I got to know her and she was a really nice girl that i definitely had misunderstood. Also Mr. Shaw said he wanted me to respond about how I felt about The book the Lightning Theif and the movie. The book was so much more entertaining and they give you more details about the story, also in the movie they skip the part where they have the capture the flag and find out that he is the son of Posieden, but later in the movie they have a capture the flag thing and Percy wins it! Though still you can tell they put alot of effort into making the movie and it came out okay.

//Danielle 2/13/10 Jocelyn I like your comment. Why couldn't she bring her on tour with her that is so sad. How do you play the Eygpt game? Who is the book by so i can go check it out. I really like your cause and effect. Happy Valentines Day.//

//Jocelyn 2/10/10// I am reading a book called __The Eygpt Game.__ The cause is that a girl named April's mother is a pop star named Doreathea and is going on a tour, the effect is that April (Doreathea's daughter) had to move into her grandmother's house because her mother couldn't bring her on the tour. Another cause is that since April is new in the town a african american girl named Mellisa and her 4 year old brother comes to greet her to the new town and Mellissa invites her to her house for lunch on the first day, April and Melissa find that they both have a extremely great interest for old and historical Eygpt. They become friends and start a game called the Egypt game. Things get scarry after somebody kills a little boy and they think it //might be// the man next to the yard of the egypt game.

//Mr. Shaw 2/7/10 Jocelyn, you seem to be enjoying The City of Ember. I am looking for an example of cause and effect in this book, but I don't see it in your entry.

2/7/10 Danielle I started reading the City of Ember once and I didn't like it very much but I liked the idea of the book I just pictured the book being more like I thought it would be. Since I didn't finish it do you know why it is called City of Ember? Do you like the book so far? Who is the author so I can see if there is any other books he or she has writen to see if I like them?//

** Jocelyn 2/7/10!!!! I am reading __The City Of Ember.__ It is very good. I really like the way the author describes everything and hoe you can easily picture the City of Ember and even though it gets complicated because they switch from inside Lina's head to Doon's head. Though throughout the book you get to understand it easier. Anybody should read it.

//Sarah Lehman 1-31-10 I think they will get the mayor will get arrested because he was stealing all the food and supplies that they can be using for the lights on the road and apartments!!! like Izzy said I think another way is the letter that will lead out of the city! What do you think the people will do after they find the way out?

Izzy 1/31/10 I think that Lina and Doon will save the city by figuring out what all the letters say,and then they can lead everyone out of the city. What do you think will happen if every one in Ember gets out of their city and what kind of city they will go to next.//

Jocelyn 1/24/10 Hello. I REALLY like the book called " The City of Ember." It is about a city that is normal, and at age 12 you are assigned a job for the rest of your life till you retire. You cannot leave, when you leave the door of Ember it is completely dark and their are huge monsters. All of the sudden the city runs out of supplies and light bulbs. Shorteges of everything really. Two kids Lina and Doon, have to save the city, but how? Jocelyn 1/24/10 Yes, I think they will find the key. I really enjoyed reading chapter 13. It so far was the best in my opinion. What I really liked about that chapter was that they were trying to find a very important looking peice of writing that had been ruined by Poppy the little baby that had chewed on it before Lina could get a hold of it. Though it was really cool because the chapter was like a mystery, their were clues, but some parts were completely weird. I have know idea how they would help in the ending of the book. I guess I reallly like myseries. I hope that anybody who likes myteries like me will love this book cause its all a big mystery.

//Sarah Lehman 1-24-10 Do you think that Doon or Lina will find the missing key to the door? What do you think will happen if they do find the key and why?

Izzy 1/23/10 My favorite character in the book is Poppy because she is always happy.Where do you think the key is?// //Sarah L. 1/18/10 My favorite character in the book would have to be Lina. She is nice and she likes to investagate if she finds anything locked up or something. I agree with you that she also is adventrous! What is your favorite chapter so far and why?//

Jocelyn 1/17/10 My favorite chapter is definately the chapter where Lina and Doon go under ground into the pipeworks to go to the door Doon described, and they find that a guy walk in and out and then he leaves and Lina remembers the walk but can't remember exactly who it was. It made me want to keep reading.

//Izzy 1/16/10 What is your favorite chapter so far? My favorite is the 1st because you get to meet all the characters. My favorite character is Poppy because she is always happy. Who is your character and why?

Noah 1/11/010 I want to know about the trip Sofie will take. Do you think she knows as much about boats as she says? It sounds like a very interesting book.

Meredith 1/7/10 That sounds like a great book I love the noises of the waves crashing too. Who are you reading this with? Is it a good book?//

Jocelyn 1/07/10 I am reading a book called The Wanderer. It is about a girl named Sofie that loves the ocean, the smell of it, the noise of the waves crashing, absolutely everything about it. S ofie finds out that her Uncles and cosins are going across the ocean in a boat. Sofie convinces them that she knows things about boats. Finally they go on a trip and things intresting.

//Samantha1/6/10 Jocelyn, the book u gifted to Izzy sounds really interesting. Maybe sometime when i am done with my books that i am reading now, i will check it out!!//

//Sarah W. I don't know if I was supposed to gift this on my page or the other person's page, but I am doing it on Jocelyn's page. I would like to gift a book called The Mysterious Benedict Society to you because I know you like books that are not realistic and you would probably also like mysteries. I hope you like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!// **

//​// 1 Jocelyn 12/15/09, I would gift the book I have read called __Runt, to Izzy.__I would gift this book to Izzy because she would be the kind of person that I think that would enjoy a adventurous and exciting book. Even though it is a short length you have to read carefully so you don't miss a detail that might be important later. It is also the kind of book that you would never want to put down once you get to about the second chapter.

//Andy 12/9/09, I would want to know some of these adventure he went on with the other wolf pack and also// //I heard this was a good book by someone and recommended. Also I think it would be scary if you got lost in the middle of a forest but he is a wolf.//

Jocelyn-12/07/09 ​ ​ ​ I am reading a finished a book called //__Runt .__//It is about a wolf and when he was born he was so small and tiny. His father (called King) named him Runt because that he was the smallest in the pack. When all of the hunter wolves go out to hunt Runt wants to prove that he isn't runt that he should be named something else. Runt tries to follow the hunters but since the grown up wolves can move so fast and he cannot he ended up lost in the middle of the forest. Though a wolf that belongs to a different pack comes and finds him and leads him to his pack again. Runt goes on many adventures throuout the story. he finally at the end proves to king the he can do many things and is very good at doing one certian thing and that becomes his name instead of being Runt. //Mr. Shaw 12/2/09 (Sorry, Jocelyn. I cleared the color style on my comment and it changed yours, too.) I haven't heard of True Talents before, but it sounds like a very creepy book. Is it a graphic novel?//

Jocelyn 12/01/09: The book I am reading is called **__True Talents ​.__** It is about a boy named Eddie, his nickname is Trash. Though he and his friends aren't normal people. Trash can move things with his mind, all his friends have powers like that also for a example Cheater can read minds, Toucher can turn things on fire and all stuff like that. Though a big problem has come up. For some reason he all of the sudden turned really sleepy and fell a sleep. When he woke up he was in a weird room with gorillas on the walls that were painted, Trash feelt drowsy and had a hard time staying awke. Then a man came in with a sandwitch. Trash relized he was really hungry. I wouldn't have eaten the sandwich from the guy but Trash was drowsy so he pobably wasn't feeling right. When Trash finished the sandwich the weird guy brought out a game with marbles. Trash thought when the man said to get the marble at the target Trash was to pick up the ball andhit it at the target, but when he picked up the ball the man slapped him. " do it the special way." The man said. Then I knew what he ment, to move it with his mind. Trash thought hard and the ball move up and halfway till it just dropped. Trash keeped trying and trying but he couldn't get the marble to move again. he tryed so hard he felt so tired the he feel back asleep. Then later when he wakes up it is because the man is coming in with a bottle of liquid. The guy was saying " Medicne time." he said. trash knew that the medicne was the thing that was stopping his powers. He tripped the man and the medicne spilled. The man went back to get more medicne. Trash left and went outside. Once outside he traves to his house. He finds that his parents and his mom and all of his friends were missing.

Jocelyn 11/26/09: The book I recently finished is called **//__Criss Cross.__//** The Genre in Criss Cross is realistic fiction. It is realistic fiction the story could actually happen in real life. I don't remember reading anything that was actually that could happen in real life. It definetly wasn't my favorite book. It was hard to read causeit constintly kept changing Characters.

//peter 11/20/09: jocelyn i think the lightning thief is a good sieries but i'll read it when i'm done whith my book.//

// **Sarah W. 11/18/09 I also read that whole series and it is a action book. There is so much going on and sometimes you don't want to stop because there is so much going on and you want to see if anyone is going to get hurt, or go on a mission, or get in trouble, etc. I wish that The Last Olympain was not the last book. Even your thing that you wrote, I want to see what is still going on with Mrs, Dodds, even though I already read the book! Good job Jocy!!!**

I like your comment I may read it after I read my book.//

November 17 2009: I am reading __The Last Olympian.__ It's the fifth and last book in the series The Lightning Theif. If you don't read the books before it you would not be able to understand the book. The reason for that is because they relate and tell a back about the books before it and it would confuse you alot so I am going to start from the beggininng. So the main charachter is Percy Jackson. He wasn't a good student. But his teacher Mr. Brunner expected him to be the best in the class. At first I thought that was weird but is just becomes weirder. His enemy at the time was a girl. She got Percy really mad saying percy was terrible and stupid. He got so mad and couldn't control it and the next thing he new he was sitting on the ground and the kids were screaming saying, "The water grabbed her!!!!!". Percy thought that the recess supervisor would give him another detention. But instead Mrs. Dodds the supervisor took Percy buy the hand and leads him into the meseum which was weird because it was right next to the school. Mrs. Dodds lead Percy through the meseum. I would have run away by this time. Mrs. Dodds lead Percy till there was a room with nobody in it.