Meredith

//**Meredith 5-31-10 HOMEWORK COUPON **

mikenzie 5-30-10 that book sounds great.

Izzy 5.29.10 I wouul probably want to be friends with Kristen too. How is Kristen secretly friends with Layne? Kristen knows that Massie will find out soon. What sport does Kristen play or do?//

Sarah L 5-25-10 Meredith, I agree with Samantha that you have benn reading this series for a long time and it's really good!!!! I stopped at the 3rd book because of the books that we had to read with a partner. Like you said, I would want to be friends with Kristen because what I think she is nice and she likes sports (like I do) and smart! Enjoy readinjg!!!!!!

Samantha 5-25-10 Meredith, I know you have been reading this series for a long time and I have heard that it is really good! All of your comments on these books have been really good and they make the books sound good. Thats great and keep reading those books until your done with the series! Well, see you at school! BYEEEE

mikenzie 5-21-10 wow that sounds like a great book really i may want to read that.

//Mr. Shaw 5.18.10 Sounds like Kristen would be a good friend to have. In what ways is she athletic? Your entry is worth three house points for green!// ** Meredith 5.16.10 I am reading P.S I Loathe You by Lisi Harrison. I would most want to be friends with Kristen because she is not a spoiled snob like Massie and Alicia. She is athletic just like me. I think we would be good friends because she is not mean to the LBRs like Massie, Alicia and Dylan are. In the book it said that Kristen is secret friends with Layne. That shows that she has other friends out side the pretty committee and is not to afraid is Massie doesn't approve. 

mikenzie 4-16-10 wow that book sounds graet.

Jocelyn 5//12//10 Samantha I disagree with your comment because sometimes when I read a ghost story I get scared to read further, just like when you go into the library and you only want to pick out a book that has a good cover and the ones that has a cool name!! I do it a lot but I found it is not like that because I once I read a book called The ring of endless light looked so great and all but it really wasn't, it was about life and death and so many people die or hurt themselves badly and might die. Is wait till Helen comes sad like does someone die or are they close to? Is Wait till Helen Comes and Time for Andrew by the same author cause maybe the author just likes writing ghost stories and thats why you compared them and the author kinda made them kinda alike not knowing it!! MAYBE?? I have read Time for Andrew and it was amazing and I loved it but it wasn't like a book that I had to keep reading till I finished and that you couldn't put down as I remember but I might have forgotten!! But I have never read Wait till Helen comes but I have heard that it is! By YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! Also it sounds like you might like ghost stories, certainly not me but you might, maybe you should try one????? TRY IT AND MAYBE YOU WILL LIKE MYSTERY BOOKS!! 

Samantha 5-12-10 Meredith, I have read Wait Till Helen comes and it is really scary!! I bet Time for Andrew is too! I love ghost stories because, you always want to read more so your aren't scared! Well, thats all for now! BYE 

Sarah L 5-9-10 Meredith, I've never read any ghost stories before, but they sound really cool and creepy at the same time.

Mr. Shaw 5.9.10 Meredith, check your messages!

Meredith 5-9-10 I am going to compare Wait Till Helen Comes and Time for Andrew. They are both ghost stories. Both books take place in a new place. In both books there is only one person who knows about the ghost at the beginning. At the end of the book other people find out about the ghost. Even though Time for Andrew goes back in time and Wait Till Helen Comes the ghost is in the present they are very similar. ** **

Samantha 5-5-10 Meredith, I am glad you are finishing your series because I love your comments. What book is this for you?? Well, have a great time reading it!! BYEE!!!  Meredith 5-2-10 I am reading //__Bratfest At Tiffany's__// by Lisa Harrison. I know I have been reading this series a lot, but I want to finish the series. Right now Alicia has been kicked out of the NPC. The main conflict is that the NPC has been split up, Alicia is at OCD and the rest are in an overflow facility. Alicia made sure that she was not with them because there is a rule of the NPC that she didn't like and if she was still at OCD and they were in the overflow facility she didn't have to follow the rule, (well thats what she thought). When they found out what Alicia did she was kicked out.  Sarah W. 5/??/2010 I have not read any of these books either so I think that number 3 is wrong but I am not sure because it could be like a quiz, Here are three facts. ONE is not true. So either 1 or 3 is wrong... I think. 

Samantha 4-28-10 Meredith, I have never read any of these books so I am just going to make a guess. I think it is #1. I am not sure though it's a guess! Hope it's right!! BYE!!!!! 

Meredith 4-25-10 I just finished Sealed with a Diss. I am not gonna answer the questions. Here are the three facts one is not true so you have to read the book to know what the false one is. 1. The girls got the room taken away from them. 2. Brierwood got flooded and they had to come to OCD. 3. They form a new pretty committee. There are the three facts so write witch one you think is the lie? **

Jocelyn 4-25-10 How many books are there in that series? What will happen if the room is taken away for good? Who s the person saying the mean things and what are they saying in the story? Plus if you have to read two chapters each time then how long are the chapters? I have heard that the books before that are amazing so I'm guessing that one is too. Is it a Newberry winner even? or is one of the books in the series a newberry winner? Or did she write a different book that is won it? Sounds like a GREAT book!!! SHOULD I READ IT? 

Samantha 4-17-10 Meredith, all those books sound really good. Know wonder why you gave them a 4! After I am done finishing my book, I might want to read that series!!! See you soon! BYE

Jeremy 4/17/10 What is the room is it something that the girls made up? I have seen the movie and I thought it was very GIRLY. Wou;d only girls read this?

Meredith 4-13-10 I am reading **Sealed with a Diss **  by Lisa Harrison. I am not going to tell you too much about the book today. I would rate this book 4 because I cant put it down, I have to read at least two chapters per read. All the books in this series are that way for me. Mikenzie I have saw the movie, before I read the books. I picture the girls in the book the way they looked in the movie. Another reason why I cant put this book down is because Sky is telling Massie if she doesn't do the task right the room will be taken away for good. The last reason is there is a kind of mystery part in the part where I am. Claire and Massie heard what someone has said and its kind of about them so they are trying to figure it out.

mikenize 4-10-10 I read the clique but i didnt like it i stop after the first one and have you ever saw the move it's about the first book but i like it better then the book.

Emily L 4-10-10 I never read the clique series! Is it good? How many books are in the series?

Sarah L 4-10-10 Meredith, Right now I stopped reading the Clique series because I wanted to read a different book but the last Clique book sounds really good and I hope they find the key to the secret room!

Meredith 4/10/10 I am reading ** Sealed With A Diss ** one of the books in the clique series. In the last book the clique found the key to a super cool room in the basement of OCD. The key is passed down by eight grades who are the Alfas. Who ever gets the key is really lucky because it means they will have the best time in eight grade. I think that the book is good but I am not that far yet so I don't have much opinion yet.

Josh 7-4-10 I think I would like this book because I like mysteries, infact i am readin a mystery.

Jack Z. 3-26-10 Missing Since Monday sounds really good. Especially since it's a mystery and I love mysteries! I wonder how the kid went missing? I will try to read the book.

Danielle 3/25/10 Meredith people keep telling me that this is such a great book and that I should read it so when I come back from spring brake I am for sure going to check it out at school. It sounds like a mystery book to me and I like mysteries so I think I will enjoy a lot. Thanks for recommending it I will definitely read it.

// shale Is missing since monday a mystery it sounds like it because of its title. I might read thanks for the great reccomendation.

Meredith 3/24/10 I have recommended this book before but I think it is really good. The book is **Missing Since Monday**. It is a mystery so if you don't like mystery books I suggest don't read it. The book is about a these kids whos parents go out of town. The two older kids are in high school and are watching over the younger one. The little kid goes missing and it is a long story you should really read the book. I loved it.

Jack Z. 3-21-10 I do agree with you that the British were really aggressive with the Patriots. I think its kind of dumb that they sliced Ned's head off just because he is a Patriot. I think this book is really fun and exciting.

Meredith 3/21/10 I am reading **My Brother Sam Is Dead.** One thing that has surprised me was what the British did to some of the Patriots. The British took a sword and cut off Ned's head and ned was killed all because he was a patriot. I have learned that life during the war was heard on both sides the Patriots have the British coming after them and the Tories had the Patriots coming after them. In this book you get a look at both sides of the war. You have sam who is fighting as a Patriot and Father who is a Tory, then there is Tim who isn't on a side but is more on the Patriots side after he sees what the British did to Ned.

Bella 3/1/10 Hi Meredith I've read the whole series and I really liked them I think I will read them again! To me I think the first 1 was the best tell me wich 1 was your favorite book so far I also really liked bratfest at tiffanys!! But that one comes later!! I hope you like that one once you get to it!! I like how in this book Dial L for Loser they don't expect the person who gets the part!! Well bye bye!! //

//mikenzie 2-28-10 that book sounds good. it doesn't sond ike the book for me but maybbe i will try it somtime//.

//Joey 2/28/10 Meredith, the book reminds me of something where a bunch of friends try out for something and only one makes it. So if they do end up trying out I think they are all gonna get in a fight about who deserves more. but that's just what I think!//

I am reading** ** Dial L for Loser by Lisi Harrison (one of the clique books). I will not tell you to much about what is going on in the book. This book takes place in modern time in New York, Westchester. In the book it goes thought the months of March and april. The setting has a little part in the book, the only part is that they live can go see shows live like they do in this book. Now I will tell you about the book. After Massie, Alicia, Kristen, Dylan, and Claire get expelled for OCD by braking the rules on at Lake Placid they are having fun. The girls go to see Dylan's mom in her show, they are having two gust stars that are in a movie. When one of them quit the movie all the girls were invited to try out. Only one will make it. There is only one problem, the girls got expelled and most of their parents got mad at them and said they can't have a lot of fun. That's all I have for now so I got to get back to reading! **
 * Meredith 2/28/10

//Joey 2/21/10 I also have a murmer in my heart. A connection is that even in real life people who have a dead family member like to highly protect their other kids.//

mikenzie 2-21-10 I have a murmer in my heart to we have so much in comen but the book sounds great.

Jeremy 2/20/10 This book sounds really sad. Since the book is called Paper Heart and she has a murmer in her heart can she not do certain activities that other kids can do?

Meredith 2/18/10 The book ** Paper Heart ** by Alieen Arringont got very interesting in the middle and end. I don't really have a conection for what I recently read. So I will just tell you what I read. Nadia saw her charts and saw that nothing was wrong anymore and it has been that way for a while. That means that her mom has been lying to her. Ever since her dad died and Naida's mom saw that Nadia had a murmmer in her heart she got a scared and wanted to keep her safe. A lot happens but you will just have to read the book. P.S- people said that it was a bad book but it is not it is very good.

//Joey// I fell bad for Nadia. I think we can all relate to this because we all have a friend and classmate who recently went through a similar experience and experienced the same thing and was limitde to what physical activities he could do.

2-14-10 Jack Z. I feel really bad for Nadia because she can't do the regular things that normal girls do. What heart disease does she have? This book sounds very emotional and hope it gets a little more happier.

mikenzie 2-14-10 if i was NADIA i woud not get to play any sprts or things like that, i feel so bad for her. she most have a hard life,she seem's brave and not scared and doesn't feel bad for herself.

shale 2/13/010\ i feel bad for Nadia and what she had to go to through. I hope nshe survived and i hope people still like her. They should never judge a book by its cover

Jocelyn 2/10/10 It looks kinda like Nadia had a hard time with her heart and how her mom says no, but since that she had heart problems she probably really wanted to be like the other girls and that she wanted to be able to be active. It sounds kinda sounds depressing but I guess it would make you greatful!

//Meredith 2/10/10 I am still reading Paper Heart by Aileen Arrigton. The main cause and effect of the whole story is that Nadia has a heart problem and she can't do what most girls do. She can't play with other girls or do active things. Every Wednesday Nadia's aunt would pick her up at school and Nadia would stay with her till her mom would come home from work. Nadia asked her mom if she could go to a friends house and her mom said no. On Wednesday Nadia said that her mom said she could go to the friends and her aunt took her. Later when her mom found out that she went to the girls house her mom got mad. When the night of the play came Nadia felt cheated by her teacher and she was mad, because she was the sick girls.

2/7/10 Mr. Shaw Meredith, I'm looking for an example of cause and effect in your book. Can you think of one? What happened to Wail Till Helen Comes? Did you give up on it?

2/7/10 Danielle Meredith that book sounds so sad. I wonder why Nadia is so sad about the parts? Did you get this book at the school library because it sounds like a great book that I want to read? Does Nadia have any siblings or a dad? Do you like the book? Have you finished the book yet? Did Nadia's mom find out about the play? If you got it from the school library and you are returning it be sure to tell me so I can check it out.//

Meredith 2/7/10 I am reading **Paper Hear****t** by Aileen Arrington. This book is about a girl named Nadia who has heart problems. She can't play with the other girls at recess or do any active things. She used to just have to stay inside. When her teacher announces that there is a play she thought that she would be able to try out. She told Mama and she said no it will be to hard on the heart. Nadia doesn't care she tries out for the lead and her Mama doesn't know. When they announce the parts Nadia gets upset. I won't tell you why. I feel so bad for her because she can't participate in activities like all the other girls.

//**Sarah W I definately agree that Time For Andrew is similar in a way. I feel soooo bad for Molly because her mom never sticks up for her but she sometimes sticks up for Michael and she ALWAYS sticks up for Heather. Figures, right? I really like Molly because she reminds me of one of my friends and her name is Molly... but I think that her mom is nicer then Molly in the books mom. Knowing you, I bet you like Molly the best, also. By the way, I am stopping reading it because I hate the book soooo much and also we don't have to read partner books anymore... But if you want you can keep reading it with Danielle if she likes it and if you like it!

mikenzie The book you are reading sounds good. plues you said it happens in a new place now thats creep. i can't weigh till you read more. keep me updated.

Sarah W Meredith, Do you like the book so far?? I surely know that I don't! I really liked Time for Andrew a LOT more! Which one do you like more?? Don't you think that Molly and Michael's mom favor Michael because she makes Molly play with Heather more and she knows that Molly does not like Heather... But that also could be because Heather and Molly are both girls so the mom thinks that they with play better together because they have the same gender... Well, when you write your comment, please answer my questions and also ask me some on my page so I have a lot to write about!! BYE!**

1/30/10 Danielle: Meredith how do you like the book so far? I love it a lot. What is your favorite part so far? I am scared to find out if Helen is really real or not. What about you? I wonder why Molly's mom doesn't ever stick up for her or Michael it just doesn't seem right?//

I am reading Wait Till Helen comes by Mary Downing Hahn. I think that this book and Time for Andrew are similar because they are both ghost stories at a new place so they don't know everything at the house. They are different because in Time for Andrew, Drew goes back in time and that hasn't happened yet, and I don't think it will. The book is good so far and I can't wait to read more. P.S- I am reading this with Sarah W. and Danielle. //
 * Meredith 1/28/10

Bella 1/27/10 To me it sounds like all the books you have been reading are mysterys I personly LOVE mystery books! To me mary downing hahn is very good at writing mystery books like the two books you and danielle and sarah w have read together and also the old willis place is a great mystery book too!I think you describe these books very well and I would like to read them as soon as possible!

Samantha 1/26/10 Meredith, that book sounds really scary!! It does sound a bit interesting though. "Time for Andrew" sounds great! I read your comment about that before. You, Sarah & Danielle are all reading mystery books like Mikenzie and I. Let's all talk about our books together sometime. Both of your books sound really interesting. I might try to read them sooner or later. Bye! //

Meredith 1/24/10 I am reading Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downinig Hahn. This book is a ghost story like Time for Andrew. There is a grave yard in the back of the house and the house is in the country. I think this book and Time for Andrew are very alike (they are by the same author). In the book I am not that far but it is good. Heather the little sister, her mom died in a fire and her dad got married to Molly and Michael's mom and now they all live together, but heather doesn't like Molly, Michael or their mom. In the graveyard there is a grave that Heather found and it has never been seen by the grave watcher. On the grave the initials H.E.H were carved in and Heather said that they were her initials. I think that that is forshadowing on the book later because the book is called wait till Helen (H) comes and it is a ghost story. This book and Time for Andrew are similar in many ways. P.S- I am reading this with Sarah W. and Danielle. **

Sarah W Yes. Wasn't Time for Andrew great?? What was you favorite part of the first five chapters?? The front cover on the book scares me every time I pick it up! I just can't stand that there is a freaky ghost!! I feel bad that they have to move but maybe something good with come out with it!!

Danielle 1/23/10 Meredith how is Wait till Helen comes? Who is you favorite charactor? What was do you think the scariest part? Why do you think that Heather is so mean to her new family? My favorite part so far was when Heather and Molly went on a walk and they found the graveyard and Heather wasn't even scared at all.

mikenzie 1-23-10 how was it did you like becuse i shere did i might read it again maybe somtime.

1/14/10 Danielle: When i finished Time For Andrew i had a couple questions for you. My favorite part was when they switched places and all of the adventures started. I wanted to know what was your favorite part of the book and did you enjoy it. I enjoyed this book a lot this is my favorite book i have ever read. Do you like ghost storys like this because i love ghost stories. Have a good night and Sarah you and I can discuss what we are going to read next at school. Goodnight.

// ** Sarah W. I finished Time for Andrew, also. I really loved the part where they switch and have totally different lives and I also REALLY love the part where they kind of have a reunion type of thing. Its really funny how they keep the secret from Aunt Blythe!! I was laughing. I also would be scared to jump off the tresil because I am really scared of heights and it said in the story that it was high. It was also funny how Drew was pretending that he forgot things from his fever and how sick he was. I never would have been able to top that off... would you? Oh, and by the way, what are we going to read for the next partner book? Me, you and Danielle can discuss that at school, okay? Well, have fun tonight and I will see you tomorrow!!!

Meredith 1/14/10 I have finished Time For Andrew by Mary Downing Hahn. It was soooo great. In the book after the switch happens Drew who is playing Andrew is starting to become Andrew and be tough like him and start not wanting to leave Hannah and Theo (Andrew brother and sister). Hannah has been teaching Drew how to play a game of marbles called ringer. Andrew is very good, but Drew is saying he forgot from the feaver. Andrew said that he will only switch back if Drew can beat him in a game of ringer.There is a hight board called the tresil and Edward (Andrews cousin) tries to convce Drew to jump off in to the river witch is a dangerous place to be jumping. Drew is very scared. Drew and Andrew are getting more like the person they are pretending to be each day untill finally on night when the met to play ringer Drew won. Andrew told him if u see my grave in the graveyard by the house I am dead if my grave is not there I am still alive and I will see you again I promiss. If you want to know the rest witch is very good you should read the book. P.S- I am reading it with Sarah W. and Danielle **

Bella 1/12/10 I personaly love mysterys so to me this book sounds great! I would love to hear more about it! Maybe i should check the book out of the school librery!Bye Bye!

Samantha 1/12/10 Meredith, I just finished a book that was a mystery too! That book sounds very interesting to me. Also I am very interested in finding more about the marbles, so maybe you can tell me more. That book sounds really great and maybe sooner or later I will read that book.

Brandon 1/7/10 Meredith I am also reading Time For Andrew I think it is also good I cant wait till I finish then I will know what happens I think anyone would like it.

Jocelyn 1/07/10, I have read the book called Time for Andrew. At first I thought it was weird that they had the same name and looked exactly alike. But then I got addicted with the book also, I can't blame you and Sarah W. for reading 5 extra chapters. It's a great book!!!!!!!!!!!!

1-7-10 I just read a mystery book and I really like it so possibly I will try this.

Jared 1.7.10 I might try reading this book because I love mystery books. I wonder what will happen since the aunt took the marbles?!?!?!

I am reading Time For Andrew by Mary downing Hahn. It is about a boy named Andrew (Drew) whos parents are going on a trip to France and Drew is staying at his great aunts and she lives in there ancestors house. Drew was scared when he thinks he sees a white flash in the window that looks like a boy. Drew'`s aunt takes a pack a valuable marbles found in the atic with a note that said do not take they belong to Andrew Joseph Tylerif you take them you will be sorry 7 June 1910. Drew was in bed sleeping when he hear a noise in the atic then the atic door starts to open and a boy that looks just like him comes out only in a white shirts and long shorts. After a while the boys switch places and Drew goes and pretends to be Andrew and Andrew pretends to be Drew. If you ant to know why they switched and what happens after you should read the book it is sooo good! P.S- I am reading this with Danielle and Sarah W.
 * Meredith 1/7/10

Joey I would have loed this book because I really like mystery books.

SarahL 12/17/09 From your comment, even know I don't like mysteries it sounds like a really good book to me!

Shale 12/16/09 Meridith your right about your comment to me. This book really does sound like a mystery. A scary mystery

Bella 12/16/09 Meredith, I loved this book.I finished it in the last week of november! By the way it is by Ann M. Martin.I also agree I read this book so muck.It was very interesting and also scary!

Samantha 12/15/09 Meredith, I have read that book and LOVED it. It is one of my favorite books. I love mystery books. I forgot who wrote that book. Can you please tell me the author again? I agree with your comment that you can't book the book down. It affected me that way too. I love it and it is a great book. I agree with you 100%!!

12/14/09 Meredith There is one book that I loved it is called Missing Since Monday. I would really give it to anyone who likes books that you cant put down. I was reading it and thinking who kidnaped the girl and why???? It made me think that how scary would it be to be her older sister and brother who had to watch her while her parents were on vacation. They put her on the bus to school and then she never came home. I will not tell you the rest but if you want to know you should read the book and it is not that ling of a book to.

Danielle 12/9/09: Meredith that sounds like a great book do they have it at the school library. I want to check it out? I wish we had a NPC that way you and I could be in it together. If I were Alicia I would want to be chosen if my friends had to move. Are there any other books in that series or is it just one book that is about that? I wonder how Alicia could make sure she was not picked to move away. Meredith you wrote a really great comment.**//

That sound pretty good I may check it out sometime.
 * Brandon 12.08.09

Meredith 12/7/09 I am reading The Bratfest at Tiffany's by Lisi Harrison until I get a new book. Massie, Dylan, Kristen, Alicia, and Claire go to Octarien Country Day (OCD) a private only girls school. When there neghiboring school Brierwood a only boys school get a flood from there pool the boys move in and all the girls go crazy. Massie thinks that the other girls might become cooler then her, so she tells all her friends to go off the boys for a long time so they become the NPC (new pritty commitee) and only focus on fashion and being the best. The princeable thinks there is too many kids so he pick some kids to send to a new place and Massi, Kristen, Dylan, and Claire were chosen. The conflict is that they are not with Alicia but Alicia made sure that she was not in the overflow (the kids that had to move) because she wanted to hang out with the boys without Massie knowing. The NPC is trying to get back to there own school so that they can get out of the trailers and rule the school.

SarahL 12/3/09 Hey Meredith, I read the 1st Clique book and it was really good. I agree with you abut that the genura is realist fiction because like you said people don't stay in fights forever, and if that happend I would be really mad!

11/29/09 Meredith I finished Revenge of the Wannabes by Lisi Harrison. I think that it is a pretty realistic book because all of the thing that happen in the book could happen in real life. I knew that Alicia and Massie couldn't stay in a fight forever. I thought that the book was really great because they explained the problem like it could have really happened in real life, and that made me keep wanting to reading. It was funny that it took Massie, Kristen, Dylan, and Claire until the end of the book to find out that Alicia was making wannabes of them, like how she found girls who liked the same thing that her other friends like, and looked like her other friends too. ** Hi great book I will tfinisry to read it after I //Bella 11/27/09 i love these books i have read them up to the third book.

Mikenzie 11/20/09 sounds like a good book i should try it one day.Good job

Jeremy 11/20/09 This book sounds great I might have too check it out sometime. Did you like this book Meredith? Danielle: 11/20/09 I think that, that looks like a really cool book about Massie, Dylan, Kirsten, and Alicia. I think I will read it after I finish my book. **//

11/17/09 I am reading REVENGE OF THE WANNABES by Lisi Harrison, one of the clique books. Alicia doesn't want to be a follower of Massie Block and she wants to start her own clique. Massie is not ok with this she thinks that Alicia might become more popular then her. I think Alicia has the right to be on her own with some different friends not just her Massie, Dylan, and Kristen. I think that Dylan and Kristen are in a tuff problem, they have to choose between Massie or Alicia. Will Massie and Alicia be friends again, I have to wait and s