If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.
~Toni Morrison


A good book has no ending.
~R.D. Cumming

domingo, 22 de abril de 2012

The popularity papers

Julie and Lydia are best friends even though themselves and their families are totally different. Julie and Lydia are observing the popular girls so they can become popular! It starts off as Julie and Lydia being best friends forever! They have observed that the popular girls have totally awesome cell-phones! So Julie and Lydia start begging for cell-phones. Julie and Lydia decide to run away so their parents will buy them totally awesome cell phones. They didn't think it would harm anyone. When Julie and Lydia got home from "running away" their parents thought something went terribly wrong...... After the cell phone incident Julie and Lydia went to Buck's Valley for a school trip. When Julie and Lydia went to Buck's Valley something went terribly wrong. After the incident at Buck's Valley, something happens to Julie and Lydia's friendship. Will they be mad at each other forever? Or will they make up and become friends again? Find out what happens next when you read the book The Popularity Papers.

One Day and One Amazing Mourning on Orange street

This book was about an orange tree. This tree is on a street called orange street named after all the orange groves that have long disappeared except for this last tree. But this tree is on an empty lot which gives you more questions to ask and answer. Who used to live in that lot? Why was it empty? What is burried in the ground under the lot. Lots of mysterious things are indeed burried under that lot with secrets and stories and questions. 


For instance an old doll's head... Who would bury just a doll's head? What happened to the rest of the body? And there's a glass jar with a mysterious note inside. What does the note mean? What about a old stone. Is it a wishing stone? Someone on Orange Street sure thinks so. 


Who are the kids who live on orange street? The empty lot is used as a special meeting place by the kids on orange street. Each one loves the orange tree and each of them has a special wish and worry. Ali and Edger: Ali wishes that her sick little brother edger who loves to swing from the orange tree will laugh again. Robert: Lonely Robert wishes for someone to ask him what is in his old shoe box. Nobody ever does and he hopes that a magic orange from the tree will help to make him more popular. Leandra: Grumpy Leandra wishes she could be less grumpy when her new baby sister comes and hopes something in the orange tree can help. Bunny: Superstious Bunny wears her Dad's wrist watch to make sure to be on time to watch her mother's plane fly by. She climbs up the orange tree and waves at the plane to make sure her mom is safe. Ms. Snoops: Ms. Snoops watches every thing from her window through her benoculars. 


One day 2 things happen on Orange street. The kids wake up to find a plastic orange cone sitting in front of the empty lot. What does it mean? What's going to happen? They notice that a mysterious stranger is lurking around the empty lot drawing things in his notebook. What is he doing? Everybody wonders. All of the questions are awensered on that one amazing mourning, all of the mysteries are solved and like the juice in the orange everything becomes connected through the magic of friendship and community and love and hope. I hope you enjoy reading this novel as much as I did.

miércoles, 4 de abril de 2012

The pull of gravity

Nick's family is falling apart. His mom and dad fight all the time and are on the verge of a break. So then his "big fat dad" takes off on some crazy quest to walk all the way to New York. Even worse is his best friend Scoot is dying from a weird disease. Then one weird girl and her impossible plan to fulfill Scoot's dying wish might turn every thing back around. On their journey they are guided by the wisdom of wise Yoda, and the knowledge of the famous author Steinbeck and his book Of Mice And Men. They set out to fulfill Scooter's dying wish which will become the journey of their lives. But along the way they might learn a bit too much that they needed to know about themselves and others.


I thought this book was completely awesome and everyone should read it. It makes the heart ache and the mind stretch. This book is so cool!

Nightmare Academy

Remember when you were a kid and your mom always told you there were no monsters under your bed even if you insisted that there were monsters. Well she lied... When a boy named Charlie sleeps the monsters wake up. Read this awesome book and help Charlie fight the monsters that come through when the lights go out. Read Nightmare Academy and you will be up all night. One night I read this book till 2:00 am. This book will change your dreams.