Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I am reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. So far I like this book. It is Harry Potters sixth year at Hogwarts and Lord Voldemort has returned to full power. Here is basically what has happened up to where I am at. Cornelius Fudge the minister of magic has been replaced with the former head Auror Rufus Scrimgeour. Professor Snape made an unbreakable vow with Draco Malfoys mother to keep him protected and to help him with the task voldemort has given him. Harry fallows Draco Malfoy into Knockturn Alley and decides that he is up to no good. Horace Slughorn becomes the new potions teacher and Snape gets defense against the dark arts (his most favorite subject). Harry becomes captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Professor Slughorn makes a group called the slug club that is for the relatives of famous witches and wizards and for students that are very good at magic. Harry has to barrow a potions book from the school and the previous owner was the half blood prince. The potions book has short cuts and tips for potion making and spells which allows him to be the best potions maker in his class which makes Hermione very jealous. Katie Bell was cursed. Ron and Hermione are fighting because Ron is going out with Lavender Brown and he is making it public. Harry finds out that Snape has made the unbreakable vow with Malfoy's mom which adds to harry's suspicion. The sixth years get to take apparition lessons after winter break. Oh ya and Dumbledore is giving Harry secret lesions about Voldemort's past and Harry secretly likes Ginny Weasley.

The Little Boy

This picture caught my eye because of the little boy in it. It caught my attention because it makes me think of what life would be back then. What happened back then that had resulted to today’s present? Why did history change? This picture makes me wonder so much about the differences of today and yesterday [figure of speech (in the past)]. This picture is so wonderful that it makes me want to travel back in time and discover how it was back then.

The man on the right of the little boy probably indicates that back in the old day’s family had to share beds. This picture can tell you so much that it makes me wonder. You can tell that this is very different because people back then had put there shoes on the end of the bed (under the boy’s feet) and how today we leave our shoes either inside or outside of our front door. To me, the little boy looks between the ages of 2-4. His look is so calm that it makes me wonder.

Maybe back then they didn’t shower that much because of how dirty the little boy is. And maybe back then they didn’t have that much clothes because the clothes that the little boy seems to be wearing looks a bit worn out. What caught my very first attention in this picture was the little boy because the way he looks in his eyes seems much distanced. And to my conclusion of this ‘wonder’-ful picture, I would like for you to comment me back about this picture.

Birdy, Birdy, Birdy

I've read through Ch. 4 so far, so the characters are still being introduced and stuff. I like the book so far because I like learning about the history of the South, especially since I was born in Alabama. I don't understand why Scout and Jem call Atticus by his name, and I also don't understand why Scout is starting school in first grade instead of preschool or kindergarten. I'm kind of intrigued by the Radleys, and I wonder what their big secret is - there has to be one or everyone wouldn't be so afraid. I feel kind of bad for Miss Caroline because of her hard time during the first week of school, but she seems a little too "by the book" and uptight. Hopefully Boo Radley will come out soon, because this has been postponed for four chapters so far, and it's time we find out what he's all about.

Baby Betty =)

I think this picture is really cute.

This is Baby Betty Rothwell. She is one years old in this photograph. She's drinking orange juice. This picture was taken in April of 1943.

I don't know why this picture caught my eye.

The bottle sitting next the Betty isn't any type of alcohol, its actually orange juice. I think its pretty crazy the way it used to be packaged.

I think its unique the way the picture is taken from the side of her. i really like her wooden toy. =)

To Kill A Mockingbird

In my opinion, i dont like the book so far. I know that there are lots of people that really like the book, and Mrs. James LOVES it so i really thought it would be good. Maybe that is one of the reasons why i dont like it as much is because i was expecting a really great book and so far i havent found much interest in it. I'm going to give it a chance because i've also heard that it gets better as you get further into it. It's just hard to follow, it gets confusing. Hopefully by this weekend i will be far enough along in the book that i will have a totally different opinion on it for monday. :)

Picture Activity!

Today in class we had what was an easy activity. We had to find this picture from the Great Depression and write about it. The picture also had to be related to the book, To Kill A Mockingbird. The picture I wrote about was a picture of an old school house in a country scene. It was a simple picture, but it showed how the school buildings have changed from then to now. In the picture the building is small, made of this rotting wood, and just very isolated in the trees. When I looked at it I wondered what it would be like to learn in a school building like that. I can tell you it would be a big and drastic change from now! If I could ask the photographer two questions about the photograph, I would ask him if he had the chance to go inside the school building? And I would ask him after that what the condition of the building is in the inside and outside?

Well I hope everyone has an awesome weekend!

I'm out.

Awww, cute little kids =]

Ok well i thought this was a really really cute picture to pick. And the cool thing is these kids are from our area. It ties into our story Because it's just a bunch of kids hanging out. I noticed that they don't have any shoes on and i think it's pretty cool that they ran around pretty much carefree. I mean, there parents probly never worried about creepy old men kidnapping them. That was just something that didnt happen very often. My mom is very protective and this picture makes me feel like i missed out on the fun and careless lives these kids lived.

I wish life was as simple as it was then.

To Kill A Mockingbird

This book has really interesting characters. Harper Lee did a good job of filling out the characters and making them really life-like. Jean, Jem, and Dill are all described really well. That usually makes the distinction between good and bad books. I like all of the side characters too. Such as Atticus Finch (Jean and Jem's father), Miss Maudie, Calpurnia, and all of the others. I bet that the book will really take off now that the author has discribed all of the characters.

To Kill A Mockingbird

This book has really confused me so far. I dont understand who all the people are and then i dont understand why Miss Caroline would get mad at Scout for being able to read and makes Scout feel guilty. I also am kinda confused about the Boo Radley game. I want them to meet Boo radley i thing that people think he was crazy but he really isnt and he is a nice guy. I guess we will find out!

Today we searched the library of congress for pictures of the time period of To Kill A Mockingbird. I chose this picture because it showed what looked like a very close family. I think that this time period was basically looked at as just a bunch of familys in poverty. This was mostly true but i also think that it wasnt so bad for other familys. This picture shows a family that didnt seem to have it too bad. I like how they are dressed as if they just got back from church. I also feel bad for the mother because i imagine it wasnt too easy to raise 4 children during this time. I bet the father is probably working and trying to feed the family. I guess i just chose this picture because it looked like a well groomed family that lived on a nice farm in a nice house.

To kill a mocking bird

I am goin to start chapter 6 of to kill a mockingbird.So far it has just kind of told about the characters and what they do.I figured out Jem and Scout are brother and sister and Atticus is the dad.I alos figure out that Dill comes back every summer and plays with Jem and Scout.The book is a little confusing though because the kids call there parents by there first names and it's hard to tell who is there mom and dad.I can't really figure out Boo Radley[Arthur]. Pretty much every character has his or her own opinion and story about Boo.Some of the people said Boo was a ghost by now since he has lived in the house for one hundred years and never came out but some people think he just likes his privacy and decides to stay alone in the house so i don't really know if he is alive or dead or what is really happening with him.Ialso don't get why the teacher told Scout to stop reading.Since she is only in first grade she must be smart since she can read on her own already so why would the teacher want her to stop reading and learning?Thats pretty much where I am at right now with the book but so far I think its kind of boring because not much happens.

Schools From Back When

I really liked this picture when i saw it, because even though it probably does not show the worst, it shows how grateful these kids were to be able to go to school.

A lot of them probably had hand-me-downs, and had probably never gotten a new pair of clothing. I really like how one of the girls are running up the steps into the school house. Who knows if she is trully eager to go to school or what, but I believe that it is an example for us to not take anything for granted.

School for us is just an everyday thing, but for them it usually ment that their parents had enough money to hier help so their kids would not have to stay at home and work instead of getting an education.

When I first looked at this picture, I noticed all of the trees around it. The whole schoolyard was surrouned with them. I was thinking of how we drive to school and it probably only takes most of at the most 25 to 30 minutes, probably not even that. But these kids all walked to school and they probably did not live right next door. They probably lived a mile or more away.

This picture also reminded me a little bit of To Kill A Mockingbird. It reminded me of this book, because many of the kids who went to school did not have shoes, and some like Walter Cunningham had hookworms because of it. Whick is nothing that we experience in school.

Teaching Back in the Day...

This photo was taken in 1903 in Transylvania, Louisiana. I thought it was cool because it shows how life really was for sharecroppers back then. I also thought it was interesting because a lot of African Americans (and a lot of other people too) were uneducated. It mentions in To Kill A Mockingbird that Calpurnia was a lot "more educated than most black people", especially since she taught Scout how to read and write. And, since a lot of people were uneducated during this time, it amazes me that these people (being sharecroppers) could find the time to learn numbers and the alphabet. I wonder how old the boys are in this picture, and how often they have "school". It would have been cool just to see what it was like back then, which is why I found this photo quite interesting indeed.

MOCKINGBIRD!

Right now, I don't really like it. But I've heard a lot of good things about it, so I'm really hoping that it gets better. It's just really slow, and kinda hard to follow. I don't really understand who all the characters are, and how they all tie in. I guess I'll just get used to them, and start to recognize them as I keep reading. I have a lot of reading to do this weekend, though. I need to read the required chapters for Mockingbird.

But I also want to finish the book that I'm reading called Runner. It's really good. I recomend it . It's about a guy named Chance who works for this guy and ends up smuggling drugs. I'm afraid that if I say too much, I'll give it away. I only have a couple more chapters to read, but I can tell it's going to be a 'ten' on the scale. It's really good and I recomend it :]

♠BOOK♣

hey what's up guys. I'm about done with my book and I don't know any other good books so I wondered if anybody had a good one that would be good to read. Comment to me because I'm lost.

Tennant farming is BALLIN'!!!!!

These are pictures of A family living on a Tennant farm in Alabama during the great depression. It is a mother and her kids, and they are all frowning, which makes me sad.

I think they are sad because they are tennant farmers, which means that they probably don't have much money. With that many kids, you need money to support them, and without money, you might be living in a house that looks kind of theirs. Their house is basically a shack, and it would be hard to raise a family in a shack.

I also noticed that there was no dad in the picture. Maybe he is working on the farm all day, but I worry for them if there wasn't a dad, because that would make it almost impossible for this family to make it, since back in those days, women couldn't get very many jobs, let alone good paying ones.

I feel sorry for this family, because their life probably wasn't cool or fun, and just filled with struggles. but this is how most families lived in the Great depression, so I thought this picture would be a good representation of the time period that To Kill a Mockingbird was in.

Enjoy.

Beefy manwich. BALLIN' !!!!!!!!!!

To Kill a Mockingbird

When Ms. James handed us this book I was almost for sure that i wouldnt read half of the book. I still didnt think so untill i got done with a test early today and i picked it up. I was actually suprized that it was better than i anticipated. Im not goin to say its the best book i have ever read but like i said its not that bad. Its interesting how the whole town is almost oblivious to the Radley house. I didnt understand the whole situation with Boo though. It was a little confusing. Its kind of sad how many of the school kids didnt really have any thing. Its fun to read when the kids are playing games with the Radley house. I think it puts a fun aspect to the book. Im wondering if the book will get better or get worse just like my first impression. It seems like the class has mixed opinions on it. What do u think?

♣I would ♥ to kill the book To Kill A Mockingbird!!!!♣

I can not stand this book im sorry Ms. James. This book i can not read because firrst the font and text of this book is way too small! Second this book is not in the genre i like to read. The genre i like to read is fantasy, mystery, teen, dating, etc. etc.

The book is so little with all these tiny words that it is confusing. Maybe if the author or somebody could rewrite this book so that teens and people in general could read it more easier! Sorry if you can't read this i decided to use different colors so it could look nifty. I don't know what im supposed to do but i can not read this book. Im going to have to go to the library and find a book with bigger font size and structure!

I read some summaries and so far and i think this is what happening. In chapter one Scout talks about her town and they meet Dill who tells them about Boo Radley a littlle boy who is kinda emootionally disturbed and stabbed his father and was abused etc. etc. Well everyone says that he has not left his house since after his father died and he lives with his brother Nathan Radley.

Dill dares one of the kids to touch Boo's house and they do it. Chapter 2 Scout's first day of school. Scout does not like the first day of school and she doesn't want to go back again. Scout says her teacher doesn't know how to teach and that she criticizes how scout can read only in the first grade. Also Walter her classmate has no lunch money and the teacher wants to give him a quarter for lunch but
but he refuses because he knows he can never replace what she gives him. Also he gets scout in trouble.

Later on the Finch family invites Walter over for dinner and he has a nice meal while scout complains about his manners and gets in trouble by Calpurnia. Thats all i know? Some help please! Luv Ya ♥

To Kill A Mockingbird...

At the beginning, I thought I was going to kill the book. It doesn't really seem to be getting any more exciting, but I'm keeping hope alive! Hurrah for hope, no matter how distant it may seem, huh?

Anyway, I'm still really confused about why they call their dad by his first name, and why the teacher said she couldn't read. I mean, if she told me that... She'd have a piece of my mind. You take my books away from me, and that'll be your biggest regret! But I'm sure I'll never have that problem! =]

picture picture picture!

So i really liked this picture (obviously, if i picked it out.. haha) It may look like the family lives in a poor household, maybe not too many rooms or anything too special, but i love how you can see that the mother and little boy on her knee are grinning really big if you look closely. One of my questions to ask the photographer or the subject in the photo is; What are the mother and boy smileing about? In the picture, I also take it that the child in her arms is sleeping. Maybe it was warm outside that day, a little droggy and humid? Who knows? haha. The boy on her knees also looks a little dirty and sweaty, maybe he was playing outside earlier that day? Come to think of it, I have a lot of assumptions and questions about the picture. I think that's about it for now, hope you all have a great weekend:]!

SO sad =//

In class today, we looked at pictures. For such an easy activity, it was very depressing. All the people in the pictures looked worn down, tired, hurt and ready to give up.

I found a picture of an old man around 70, in what looked like an old moldy shed. He was worn to the bone with a mustached and un-groomed hair. I felt so sorry for him. Then i started thinking, what if I had lived back in that time? I would not have survived more that a year without electricity and running water.

It really makes you think about how lucky you are to live like we do.

If i could ask the photographer about the picture he took, i would say, "Where was this photo taken?" "How well was the old man holding up?" and "How long did it look like he would be around for?" It breaks my heart to see people like this old man. No one deserves to live poor and in pain.

More later.

Have a GREAT weekend everyone... I know i will :D

Mock! Yeah! Ing! Yeah! Bird! Yeah!

Mock: Yeah! Ing: Yeah! Bird: Yeah!

Yeah: Yeah!

So far I think Mockingbird is allright, but it is a little slow. I hope Boo Radley comes out someday, at the point where I am at right now they haven't talked about him in a while. I used to live in a small town when I was in kindergarten and first grade, so I compare myself to the narrator a lot. It took me while to figure out she was a girl, from the way she acted I honestly thought she was a boy. The more I read the more I like Atticus. At first the book didn't talk about him much, but he's a very good role model. He still doesn't seem like the greatest hero of American literature. He might be in the top ten, but so far he has yet to earn that title. The one thing about this book that is different is that until about halfway through the story you have no idea what the main plot of the story is about. Anyway this is my opinion of the book, and I hope the book gets better.

To Kill A MB.

So far I don't really like this book. Im on chapter 10 and its still rather boring. At the beginning it was kinda complicated to read. but now its like... Bla. So what do you guys think about the book?

IT'S THE WEEKEND!

Yes it is :). I am excited because it's been a stressful week at school thanks to KB! Just kidding, I'm pretty sure it was my fault. Also, my boyfriend is leaving soon :(. For 2 and a half months :(!! But I am still excited for the week to be over so I can take a break from track! Also, we are one week closer to spring break.. YAY!

Anyway, as far as my reading goes. I got a new book. It's called Notorious. It's an 'It Girl' Novel. Also written by the author of the 'Gossip Girls' series. I don't like it very much, but it's OK. I'm waiting on the book, 'I have live a thousand years' to get here so I can read it. It's also a book about the Holocaust, and I'm excited to read it. Have any of you read that book? If so, than did you like it?


A'IGHT! Enjoy your weekend as much as I'm hoping I willl :).

Hesitant Fan

Well, so far I like the book. While the characters seem so real and the writing is so beautiful, I have yet to actually find the storyline. Is it all going to be about Boo? I hope it gets more involved. I admit to reading ahead just a bit. Most of my friends say that it isn't their kind of book. I have to say, I usually read more exciting books for pleasure reading. I guess that's why I'm hesitant; I'm waiting for the excitement.

Too sick to kill a mockingbird.

I went home sick yesterday so i'm not quite sure what happened.

I am not able to get into this book. It's just not something i can get into. I just can't really picture things as it happens and her writing style is not something i am used to.

Usually, my dad and i like the same books, but this time, i guess this book is a bit different.

I have to look up every other word and it makes me feel like a dumb little blonde girl, like what my brother calls me. And this book is just confusing to me. I am still struggling getting through the first chapter without having a dictionary to guide me through it.

How can I make book easier to read?
How are you guys doing reading it?

Have you read it before?

to kill a mockingbird is...

not my kinda book.
I hate to say this but i just can't get into it.
i need to find another way to read it.

And i have a few questions about.

1. Why do they call their dad, Atticus?

2. Or is he even their dad?

3. How is the narraor chick?
(She seems reall smart for a first grader.)

4. What is up with that Boo kid?

To Kill..

After reading what we have so far of our new class book. It seems to juts be introducing everyone. For example, i have come to know the Cunninghams, how they are very poor, and would never take anything that they would not be able to pay back.
This book seems very intricit, a lot of detail, and hard to understand without really concentrating. No matter, it is still interesting.
I have not even heard the slightest mentioning of a mockingbird, so i do not know what will happen there.
But that is all i have for tonight. I am not feeling to well, so i am going to settle down and read.

Goodnight:D




P.S. What is everyone elses impressions on the book?

Brave New World

Right now I am reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I'm not very far in it yet but so far it has been pretty good. At the part that I am at the main character is giving a tour of a cloning facility. Or at least that's what I think it is. He showed them how they decided what class to put the clones into. I thought it was really wierd because they would make sure that the lower class clones would get barely enough oxygen, when they were still growing, to make them not as smart. Then they would give the higher class clones stuff to make them smarter. Also when the clones were young they would basically brain wash them. They would show them certain objects, and then when the clones got excited they would shock them and make really loud noises. This was to make them not like certain things like books and nature. I thought this was really messed up. They pretty much decided what job you would do, what class in society you were, and a bunch of other things. I think that this is what Aldous Huxley thought would happen to our society in the future. I read a book a while back called 1984 which was pretty much about the same thing, the future being really bad. When I read more, I will post about "Brave New World" again.

25 things about me

• My screen name is SoccerStud23
• I have 3 dogs.
• I like the ocean
• I play soccer
• I have an older brother.
• I am a freshman
• My favorite color is blue
• My favorite food is bread
• My favorite sport to watch is soccer.
• My parents are both doctors
• I was born in Salem, Oregon
• My favorite restaurant is Red Robins
• My favorite animal is the Bengal Tiger
• My role model is my father
• I like to hang out with friends
• I have been to Alaska and Hawaii
• I like to go rock climbing
• I also like to go canoeing
• Another one of my favorite activities is camping
• I really like to go on road trips
• My cousin plays baseball for a Vermont team
• Two of my other cousins have gotten scholarships to play basketball at college

Grace In Thine Eyes

I have been reading this book called, Grace In Thine Eyes. I loved it since I started reading it, but it has recently gotten really interesting, making me want to keep reading it to find out what will happen next.

So let me catch you up a little. This named Davina, I think that is a really cool and unique name, well anyways, had an when she was a little and became mute. She is a wonderful fiddler, and her dad says that she plays like she used to talk. She had been playing the fiddle ever since she was a little , and her grandpa taught her before he died. She has three brothers, two of them are twins and are younger than she is, and the other is older than her and is "courting" this other . (This book takes place in the 1800's and around Ireland). So, Davina's brother get sent off to the best college around, and the boys are mad, because they do not tust anyone else to take care of their sister and not being able to look after her. They actually get into fights with people who tease her about being mute and try to get her to talk. I think they sound like some really good brothers. So, when her brothers go off to college, her dad gets the idea that she should go to spend the summer with her cousins in Arran.

When she gets to Arran, some very unexpected event happen. I do not want to give them away because it is all part of the suspense, but lets just say a very smooth guy who can get just about any to do what he wants, and a very beautiful who can not speak nor is strong enough to defend herself meet one night at this dinner party for "His Grace", some things happen that lead to another and another. I am going to be finishing this book this week, and I can not wait to find out what happens.

If you like stories with alot of drama, then this would be a good book.

Story Behind the Name

A lot of you are probably wondering why I decided to pick the name kicking fin for my blog name. Well the story goes, in the summer, when I was about 12, I was fishing with one of my best friends JJ, his dad Dwayne, and my dad. We were at one of my favorite "honey holes" down at Deny's pond. Things were move fast that day and I reckon I had about thirty in the basket in the first fifteen minutes or so. I started felling bad for Jay though because he was catch anything. So I lend him a small little old red and yellow lure to him that I didn't think much of.

Day became dawn and I knew the bite would pick up at any minute. Around a hour before dark, I wipe my head over and see Jay pulling in a nice three pounder, the only thing that could have made me smile wider is if it was me pulling in that nice bass. About five minutes pass and I look over and see him pulling in another one. Then JJ hit a spot that I knew was full of perch and bluegill. I was worried for a minute he might catch something big so I started pressuring the fish, putting the bait right in front of there noses. This worked for a little bit but then, CRASH! A monster five pounder hit Jay's bait and knocks it clear out of the water. Lucky for me JJ doesn't know how to set the hook in this situation and misses the fish. This is starting to make me a little angry because he was using my lure! A few minutes pass and Jay caught one perch after another by this time I was good and mad because time after time I had to stop fishing and unhook his fish. While taking out the hook out of a tiny bluegill that kept flopping around and hooking my fingers it finally fell off the hook and I gave it a little kick back into the water. Little did I know that little kick would send me to the emergency room.

About a week later, the pain was unbearable and on my right foot you could it start to swell up like a small grape. Mom ran me to the ER. There almost all of the doctors looked at it and couldn't figure out the problem it appeared that there was nothing inside it. After Four hours of waiting that doctor gave me some pain medication and see if it would get better. Three days later I went to a foot doctor to see what he thought. He took a X-ray and confirmed that the fish spin broke off and was in my foot.

Two days later I went in for surgery. They gassed me up and I drifted to sleep.When I woke up I didn't remember a thing. The doctor gave me the fin and sent me on my way. As you my see I was off my foot for a while, mainly watching Joe Dirt and Tombstone. JJ, Dwayne, and I were watch Joe Dirt and came across the name kickin wing. They started laughing and Dwayne said, "If he is kickin wing than I guess that makes you kickin fin." I just laughed and for now on my Indian name is kickin fin. That's why I pick kickin fin for my name.

Hooked!!!

I don't know about the rest of you but i am really excited to read To Kill a Monckingbird! I have heard from a lot of my friends that it is a really good book. My brother who does not really read a whole lot also told me it is a good book. Well today Ms. James started reading the first chapter and just listening to her read made me want to keep reading it. Though, I did get a little confused on some parts. These questions will probably sound really stupid, but i had no idea what the book was talking about.

For example on page 6

When the book said, in the fourth paragraph from the top, "He was middle-aged then, she was fifteen years his junior."

I do not know what Harper Lee means by (his junior). There are some other sentences in this first chapter just like this, and i don't know maybe i am not reading it clearly enough, but it really got me confused.

So if anyone knows hows to interpret this, please let me know.

There is also an example at ther bottom of page 7:

".........he was a year my senior.........."

Once again what do they mean by "my senior".

-thanks a lot

Grammar Grammar Grammar!!

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i217/Yourblondy321/dfdfsfdsfsd.jpgToday in class we started reading, To Kill A Mockingbird. Mrs. James gave us three minutes to search throughout the book and hypothesize what the book would be about. Right as the timer started, i flipped the book open to the middle. I was dissapointed to find old english, words like ain't and such. I dislike reading books that almost give you a headache trying to figure out how to go about saying things like this, and taking the time to go back and have to figure out what they mean. Then after doing this, I flipped over to the backside and was pleasantly suprised. Now I quite excited to read it. The grammar will bug me for a while but I will have to get used to it.
I am getting ready to go read the first two chapter right after i am done. So next blog I will update on what i have found out!

Chao :D

To kill a Mockingbird?

What I have read so far of the book “To kill a Mockingbird” is or was a bit confusing at first, to be honest with you. But after I had read the next couple of chapters I started getting fascinating with the book.

It is really interesting to me because these kind of books are usually boring to me, but I got interested because of how the little town’s ecosystem works (I read a bit far in the book). An example to my statement is how the Cunningham’s are placed in the town as poor but good people. The Cunningham’s do not get something if they cannot pay back the person. I find this quite interesting because it is so rare to find people who are like that today.

What I do not like about the book is that there are so many ginormous words in this book, causing me to look back into the dictionary next to me and looking up the word. And that is all I have to say until I read more into the book.

¿Justo?

Our justice system is NOT blind. There are many ways to persuade the court to go one way or the other. The biggest deciding factor of a court case is your lawyer. If you can afford to pay Mr. Big Fancy Pants a million dollars to defend you, then you will win your case. Millionaire's seem to be able to get around the law because if they get sent to prison, they can pay the hefty court cost or the bail to get them out. Racism is also a form of discrimination inside our court systems.About a hundred years ago if there was a case between a black and a white man, there would be no need to go to court because the verdict would always be that either the white man was innocent, or that the black man was guilty no matter how much evidence pointed in the opposite direction. I'm ashamed to say this, but I believe that this such thing still happens today; but it is now just kept a little quieter.
~If a rich man and a poor man went to court who would win? Is justice truly blind, or has money and race been the deciding factor for ALL cases in history?

What if...?

In my personal opinion, I think that girls should NOT have to act like girls. Think of it this way:
What if you (if you're a woman) were expected to wear a dress and fancy yourself up every day, or you'd be shunned? What if you had to only stay at home to clean and cook for you beloved husband? What if you were stuck at home, your husband bearing arms, while you bear sons?

Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Does to me *rolls eyes*.

You can be a woman and not have to do all that stuff. People will still know you're a woman, but you don't have to be forced to do that sort of stuff. That would make the world a little better, wouldn't it? Some of us, however, would not object to that at all. My opinion, you're really strange, but I'm a "tom-boy", so our sides would differ greatly.

I would never want to have to go through that. I mean, sure I want to get married and have kids someday, but I still want to be able to wear jeans and t-shirts, have a job, and be happy without being expected to have to resort to acting "like a girl"

Alright, I'll talk to you all later! =]

Ch.1and 2 To Kill A Mockingbird

I just started reading To Kill A Mockingbird today. I don't really know if I'm going to like it yet, but it seems alright so far. There is a lot of Southern accent. So this is what's happening so far. There is a boy named Finch and his friend Jem. At least I think that's what it is. The book is kind 0f confusing. Anyways they meet a boy who goes by Dill. Dill dares Jem to touch the Radley Place home. The Radly Place is supposed to be haunted and the family (or what's left of them) keep to themselves. The Radley's have a son who hangs out with the wrong crowd and is known as a kind of bad kid. So eventually Jem gathers up enough courage to go through the gate and touch the house. After they all run home.

In the next chapter Jem brings Finch to school for the first day of first grade. Jem is in fifth grade. Jem amazes his teacher at his reading ability and she tells him that his dad should stop teaching him to read-becuause that's the teacher's job. Finch gets in trouble three times and the teacher can't handle him. Finch doesn't understand why. Then the teacher, Miss Caroline, is yelled at by a teacher from across the hall becuause her class is being too loud and Finch can't help but not feel sorry for her becuause she had not been very friendly to Finch.

Well that's what is going on.
Tell me what you think!!!

I finished it already!

So you know the book I blogged about Monday? I got the book 4th block on Monday, and finished it today in 4th block. It was such a good book, I pretty much read it non stop the past two days. Alot changed as I read. In the beginning it was mainly from Hilary's (the girl in the neo-Nazi gang) point of veiw. But as it went on almost all of the chapter's were from Chana's (the Jewish girl in the ghetto) point of veiw. She went through SO much. Her little sister was sent to live with people who weren't Jewish so she could live. Her and the rest of her family was torn from their home and sent to live in the 'ghetto'. 6 people living in one TINY room. They we're barely fed. Eventually Zayde and her grandfather died. So two new people moved in with them, but they were very rude. The husband was fat and in the middle of the night got up and stole their food. He, later on, got sick and died which led to his wife jumping out a second story window and killing herself. Then they called for all children under the age of 10 to get sent to other camps. They ment Chana's sister had to go, and her mother went as well to take care of Anya. That left Chana, her 'bubbe', and her brother alone. Her brother made an excape plan for them. They made it out and got away then ended up getting sent to Auchewitz (sp?). It goes on and on but in the end Hilary understand that her hatred for Jews is ridiculous. She tells the cops where the Simon boy is and they all live happily ever after:].

If someone killed YOUR MOMMY

What would you do if someone killed your mom, and he didn't go to jail for it? Well, i personally would hate him, and the court system for not putting this murdurer in jail. If this happened, i would Hunt him down, and break his arms and legs, so he could feel the pain that I had felt emotionally. I wouldn't kill him, because that would be inhumane, so I would just injure him severely, and make him feel sorry for what he did to my family and my mom's friends.

So i think that we should be allowed to do that, because the court system doesn't always catch the bad guy, and somebody needs to stop people like that if the Gov. can't.

dis blog rulz,

Beefy manwich

"GIRLS SHOULD ACT LIKE GIRLS"

I said this statement was false because in my opinion, it shouldn't matter what girls act like. It seems like today in the real world boys get to do whatever they please because "he's just being a boy" Girls can act how they want i think, as long as they have manners and respect for others. If girls want to be perceived as a tomboy, then let them be. People should be able to express themselves how they want without worrying about being socially accepted. Even though it's more polite to be ladylike and "girly", girls can act how they want even if society disagrees. I know I probably feel stronger about this than most guys because I'm guessing most guys want a girly prissy girl..right?

GOODNIGHT!

Under our justice system,all citizens are treated fairly in our courts of law????

The statement our justice system,all citizens are treated fairly in our courts of law is thought to be true by most people.But if you really think about it its not true because if you are in a high position in government then if you do something bad you can usually get people to cover up for you and you wont get in much trouble.Also racism is a part of how long the sentence or what the jurisdiction is.If someone looks bad or poor then they will most likely be punished differently than a wealthy rich looking person.People who have more money can afford better lawyers and pay bail easier than people who have less money.

Busy Busy Busy!!

Just a few minutes ago, i was thinking about how I plan out my time. It seems that i have scheduled everything right after another. Straight from school, to dance, poms, then any other event that needs to be squeezed in. Don't get me wrong, I love having things to occupy my time...it just seems like i make no time to sit down and read a good book. From a week ago to now, i realized that becuase of this blog, i have made the time. It has really opened my eyes to a lot of things. Things like, quotes and hidden meanings that I have really started analyzing what they mean.
In my book, Divine, these chances come up very often.

Emma didn't really hear the prayer, couldn't focus on the words coming from Mary's mouth. but as soon as she started praying, the voices stopped again. And once more the feeling filled the room, working its way through Emma's fingertips and skin, easing its way to the center of her soul.

Emma is a young mother, addicted to drugs thinking about death all the time. She was reluctant to find help, but realized she needed it more than anything. After this paragraph, Mary (the counselor) goes on to tell her life story (which is MUCH worse than Emma's). halfway through the story, Emma is already realizing how selfish she is to be doing this to her two young children.
This book has been awsome so far. Making time to read it is no drag whatsoever.

What books are you all reading? :D

Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words DO hurt me

When i first thought about this saying...(the real saying being "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me") i thought it was true. Although now that i've thought about it i believe that its false. People want to believe that words wont hurt you and you believe in yourself enough to not care, but deep down you do care. No matter what, words affect you. They can actually hurt more than a physical injury. A broken heart takes longer to heal than a broken bone.

????????????????????

Is anyone reading a really good book that they would suggest me to read? I really don't know what to read after my current book.

A Quick Read

Today I just finished reading Double Helix. I read amazingly fast so I'm already done. But it was an awesome book. There is a lot of suspense and and secrets you learn about as you read on. And if you like science there is obviously a lot of that because the name, "Double Helix!" Double helix is the shape DNA makes. Anyways the book was great and it stays interesting so I would recommend it to most anyone I guess.

Also today we just received a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird. I don't know if it's any good but it's a classic so it might be good. I don't know what to expect, except that I will be reading that for a while.

The other thing I'm reading today is my SLAM magazine. It's a basketball magazine that goes into depth about what's going on in the basketball world. There is a lot of good articles and pictures. I just got the issue today and A.I. is on the cover. If for some strange reason you don't know who that is, (ha ha) his real name is Allen Iverson. He's on the cover because they magazine is talking about his trade and his new fresh start with the Denver Nuggets.

Well that's all I got so later.

All man (woman) should be created Equally!

I do think that all men are created equal. I think that women and men should be created equal. Some races won't accept others, for an example the Ku Klux Klan did not accept the African Americans during the past and still won't except them today. And what I mean by today is that, there are actually still some KKK leaders today. This is very disappointing to the world. And from a person with a different heritage, I think that there should no longer be any discrimination in the world.

Impulse

This book was a little confusing at first, but I soon found out that it was rather intriguing. It also has mature content, so for those who giggle at something sexual, this is not the book for you.

Throughout the book are journal entries made by the main character's (Rafaella Holland) mom. By reading them, Rafaella finds out all about her father. Basically Rafaella's father (Dominick Giovanni) is this illegal major arms dealer guy in the Caribbean who ditched Rafe's (as she is referred to many times) mom when Rafe was born. Someone tries to assasinate him and he's got this manager guy (Marcus) who is a double agent and part of the CIA. Rafe's mother gets in a coma because of a car wreck, and Rafe is determined to seek out her mother's revenge on Dominick by writing a "biography" on him...except she is going to expose him. While in the Caribbean, there is also an assassination attempt on Rafaella and Marcus, and both try to get to the bottom of it.

There are twists and turns and quirks all throughout the book, which probably why I read it so fast. It's filled with mystery and suspense and a little bit of romance, and it pretty much just a really good book.

Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix

Hey everyone! I had the quick opprotunity this morning to blog before going to breakfast, so I did =]
Anyway, right now, I'm reading Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix! (That book up there) It's a really good book, but the movies make the books look shameful. It makes me so mad! The books are much, much better than the movies, and I think that people should read them before they judge the book. Can't judge a book by its cover, can't just a book by its movie.

This book's just basically describing the 5th year at Hogwarts after Harry gets out of some trouble. He has to deal with all these new challenges, such as teachers, Quidditch, and the most evil and vile wizard of the century coming back to power! Sounds like fun!

For those of you who have seen the movies and not read the series, (I'll pick on the 4th movie worst, hehe) Do you remember Winky the house-elf? You remember the Weasley Twins recieving all of Harry's winnings for their joke shop? Do you remember Arthur Weasley and the boys coming to pick Harry up by floo powder, only to realize that the fireplace was blocked? Remember the ton-tongue toffee? Percy judging the Tri-wizard Tournament when Crouch couldn't? Sirius meeting them when they go to Hogsmeade? Or in the hospital wing? It's because they didn't put that into the movies! They left half the book out. I'm not saying that they didn't have money or time problems, but they could try and get closer to the books.

Alright, I've got to head off, so I'll see you all in class later! See ya! =]

If I should die before I wake.

This is a book I just started reading today in class. I read like one or two a week, and this book seems really interesting so I should be finished with it soon. It's called "If I should die before I wake", and was written by Han Nolan. I'm only on page 56 but I think I'll really like it. Also, since like 5th grade my favorite kind of book to read are the ones about the Holocaust. So far it's about a girl named Hilary who is basically one of the biggest neo-Nazis you'll ever meet. So is her boyfriend, Brad. She's developed this HUGE hate for Jewish people because when she was 5 her dad was killed. His boss was Jewish and made some people mad, so they blew up his building causing her dad to get killed. I'm not sure what time era this is in, but it's seem to be pretty recent. Hilary, her boyfriend, and their little 'clan' of neo-nazis even kidnapped a little Jewish boy and put him in a locker at school. The sad part is, is that it's over springbreak so NO ONE can find him. So far in the book he has been missing for five days and it's in the newspaper & everything. ANYWAY! Hilary is on her way home from a neo-Nazi group meeting where they initiated another girl into their group, (Which by the way was a weird ceremony. They basically just made her promise to torture and make-fun of all Jewish people & then cut their hands open) and she gets into an accident! She was on the back of her boyfriends motorcycle and they got in a wreck on their way home. She wakes up in an all-Jewish hospital without her boyfriend. He walked out of the wreck just fine. She can't see anything, but she can hear her mom reading verses from the Bible. Then, she starts spinning and having these dreams. But they aren't REALLY dreams. They are real. She is re-living the life of a girl named Chana. Chana was Jewish and lived in Poland during WW2. Her father was shot by some Germans for no reason. Her brothers best friend was shot for no reason. All their old friends now hate them, all because they are Jewish. AHEM! That is all that has happened so far, but it is a good book & I'm excited to see how it goes:].

NIGHT!

Velocity. BAM.

Velocity. What an amazing book. It is part suspense/thriller, part mystery, part murder book, part awesome. Basically the story line is a bartender, just a regular joe, and BAM, he is thrown in to a mess he definetely didn't want to get in.

One night after his shift at the bar, he gets fo his car, and on the winshield, a note is stuck that says "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, i will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher somewhere in Napa County. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill and elderly woman active in charity work. YOu have six hours to decide. The choice is yours."

He thinks it is just a joke, but when the next day he finds another note on his winshield with another decision, and he seeson the news that a blond school teacher was killed the night before, he is plunged into a ride that he will never forget, if he even survives. Searching for the author of the notes while making decision after decision on who's life to spare and who whe madman will victimize next, this book will grab you by the throat and pull you in, and it will make you look over your shoulder when walking alone at night, because you never know whos watching.

I my self find myself looking over my shoulder, making sure nobody is there, because i feel part of the book and i feel a great connection with the characters. Dean Koontz is a great thriller writer, and this book is no exception to that. Hurry now, and get Velocity, before it gets you.

but seriously, this book is amazing. Get it now.

reader of the greatest book EVER,

beefy manwich.

I read a book called "The Rise of a Star"-Lebron James. It was a really good book just because I like basketball and I followed him and still like to watch him play. He is one of the most exciting players in the NBA and just fun to watch. It is just cool to see how a player like Lebron was raised and grew up. It nice to see that people can overcome hard times to be as good of a player as he is, then it helps when you have that much talent! It would be amazing to win 3 out of my 4 state championships and go straight to the NBA out of high school is incredible!

Double Helix!

Today I went down to the library during class and got this book. It's called Double Helix by Nancy Werlin. So far I have only read 30 pages. Based on what I have read this kid named Eli Samuels is at the Wyatt Transgenics. It is a company where this legendary molecular biologist, Dr. Wyatt works and does all his work. So far I know Eli gets a job there. I don't really know how he got the job, except that Dr. Wyatt did know his mom. It seems like a good book so far. I will update you guys as I read on!

Twilight

I'm currently reading the book Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I started the book last week and I'm about halfway through. I really like it, it's about a girl named Isabella (Bella) Swan. She moved to a small town called Forks, because her parents are divorced so she decides to live with her dad for the school year and to go to Forks High School. At first, she doesn't really know what to think about school, but then she meets a boy named Edward Cullen, and he changes her perspective of pretty much everything throughout the book. First, Edward ignored her and he doesn't seem to have much interest in her, but after all they end up having a relationship, and they start liking each other alot. There's a major twist about Edward though, that makes him completely different than anyone Bella as ever met. That twist, well you'll have to find that out by yourself:] The book is very suspenseful and mind grabbing. I don't have any questions really, because the book seems to answer them on its own. I would highly recommend this book to all of you.

Soo that's about it.

Have a nice rest of the day:)

Books Books Books!

Currently i am reading three books. None of them are amazing, but still able to read. One of them is Journey to Nowhere. I have read this book about five times, i don't know why, it isn't that amazing, but i just seem to keep reading it. Every time i start it over, i find a new detail that i never saw before.
Another book i am reading is, The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore. It also is not too exciting. It seems like they are repeating everything they say two or three times just to call it 10 pages.
And yesterday i just started a new book called, Divine, by Karen Kingsbury. For being on page 41, it has a powerful beggining. It is about a lady who was once a drug addict who was abbused everyday by her hushband, she owns a shelter and tries to save other mothers that she was once like from wanting to kill themselves. Not only does she make a difference, but she also has started a chain in schools on the topic of abstinence by convincing kids to think twice.
On the back of the book, there is a phrase that really catches my attention. It reads,
"At the crossroads of her life,
only one power set Mary free
and gave her a lifetime of love and hope.
A power that could only be Divine."

This is one of the strongest few sentences I have ever heard in my life.
She really knows what she is talking about. She has suffered the pain and hardships that half the woman in America have, but instead of keeping quiet...she has exposed everything to the world. I respect her for that, the fact that she is strong enough to save other lives as well as her own makes her The Idol for all women.

I will keep you all updated on what happens. ;)


Bye-Bye :D


LAURA!

26 Things About Me

1. I had black curly hair till I was 2.
2. I broke my collar bone in a car crash.
3. I have long toes.
4. I threw a rock at my cousin and blamed it on my other cousin ( never confessed to my parents)
5. I lived in Puerto Rico for 3 years.
6. I won the spelling bee in 2nd grade.
7. I used to be deathly afraid of dress-up characters in real life like Santa, Chucky Cheese etc.
8. my right foot is longer than my left foot
9. my grandparents own a stable so I used to own 4 horses and still interested in them.
10. My childhood fear was alligators under my bed.
11. I love to read!!! Have read a 400 page book in a day.
12. I crashed my grandma’s car in a field with some friends and my cousins.
13. I went 3 weeks without drinking soda.
14. My 1st day at Caribbean School I went to my class and everyone started speaking Spanish so I started crying and had to leave. It was sad.
15. I had to act out a play all in Spanish for a project called “Don Quijote” and at the very end I yelled “oh my god, I did it!!” before the curtains closed in front of everyone.
16. I’ve ran into an ATM machine sprinting.
17. I pushed a boy off the slide into a mud puddle at recess in 1st grade.
18. My lucky numbers are 6, and 18.
19. I lived in republic till I was 4 years old.
20. I have 2 step-sisters.
21. I love to swim.
22. I love music. I listen to it ALL the time.
23. My nervous habbit is biting my nails.
24. I don’t know how to wink.
25. I have 2 Siberian huskies. One is all white and his name is napoleon, and the other one is Zarra, she black and white. Both have pretty blue eyes!
26. I’ve scuba Dived before

Chicken Noodle Soup

I just read part of a Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul book because I don't have a free reading book. The first part was love stories, and some of them were kinda dumb. But others were pretty funny...like this one about this girl who wanted this guy to kiss her, except she was too nervous. The first time he tried, she put a pillow in front of her face and he kissed the pillow. The second time, she turned away, and the third time she stood up. She was finally ready and had a big smile on her face with the guy coming right at her, and he kissed her teeth. She saw him later in life at a bar or something, and kissed him unexpectedly...But the dude was married.

25 things about me =]

1. I love music, from death metal to techno. I love it.
2. I prefer going to a small hardcore show over a big concert where you sit in seats the whole time.
3. I play guitar.
4. I am straight-edge, which means I am drug free, I don’t drink or smoke and I will not have sex before marriage.
5. I love anything with a checkered pattern on it.
6. I am a Christian.
7. I am a vegetarian.
8. I enjoy skateboarding but pretty much suck at it.
9. My friends are really important to me; I would do almost anything for them.
10. I want me lip pierced.
11. I have pierced my ears 3 times myself.
12. I love writing songs.
13. I met Scottie, the guitarist from a band called Norma Jean.
14. I have met Dallas from a band called Maylene and the Sons of Disaster.
15. I have four boxers (dogs) and one cat.
16. I love making bracelets.
17. Moshing and hardcore dancing is fun.
18. I have an awesome boyfriend.
19. I love the Nightmare Before Christmas.
20. I love 80’s movies like 16 candles and the breakfast Club.
21. I love magazines.
22. I can’t live without myspace.
23. I love stupid pointless movies.
24. I love going anywhere as long as my friends are with me.
25. I play violin.

♥Breathe♥

Im reading this book called Breathe by Anne-Sophie Brasme. It is very interesting!
In the beginning of the book it is going backwards from the present then she retells everything that has happenend. My book is about this girl named Charlene who is in jail and it recounts what happens but you dont know why she is in jail. CONFUSING! Well class is almost over so i better go.
♥Luv Ya♥

A Million Little Pieces

I'm just about done with this book.

It's called A Million Little Pieces by James Frey. Everybody has their own opinions of James Frey, my opinion is that his book is very good. Even though he embellished many events that happened in this book, i think it's a great story.

"One of the most compelling books of the year... Incredibly bold... Somehow accomplishes what three decades' worth of cheesy public service announcements and after-school specials have failed to do: depict hard-core drug addiction as the self-inflicted apocalypse that it is."

---New York Post

I agree with this review. and if you like books about people struggling to get through a problem, you should most definitely look in to this book...

Only a few more months.

I haven't seen my dad since around July and I miss him and my brother so bad that it makes me cry to read this book. In The Truth About Forever, Macy's dad had died and she talks about her time about a year and a half after his death. If my dad died, it'd be really hard for me to even think about the word: spaghetti. My dad mad the best spaghetti in the world, i promise. If he died, I wouldn't be able to eat anything Italian without crying.

My Dad still lives in California and I only see him in the summer. I miss him so badly right now because I am reorganizing my bedroom and I found my photo album. Most of it has the last vacation i took when I lived in California. We went to Disneyland, the ocean, Lake Tahoe, and Hollywood. In the book, Macy comes across many packages that her dad was a gold member for. She stored all of the boxes in the attic.

Macy and I both do the same thing, but in different ways. I have a shelf in my bedroom of everything my dad has bought me since my 10th birthday. It includes a Digital Camera, a picture of my Nana and him, a broken locket of him and my Nana, the candle he bought for me at my Nana's funeral, and even a rock he grabbed for me from this levee near his "mobile home", he doesn't want people to call them trailers. I am holding back tears even typing this. I have never out loud said that I have missed him because i have to pretend, especially around my mom, that i could care less. Macy, in the book, did the same thing. she held it in so long that both her and her mom were overcome by it.

I relate the that book even though my daddy is still alive.

I highly suggest reading The Truth About Forever because it is so easy to relate to it.

~~Mrs. Michael Way <3

An Awakening Book

Okay, this book I'm reading is amazing but its so sad. It's called All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It has truly awakened me to what war is really like from a soldier's point of view. If you have a weak stomach, please don't read the following excerpt.

"We see men living with their skulls blown open; we see soldiers run with their two feet cut off, they stagger on their splintered stumps into the next shell-hole; a lance-corporal crawls a mile and a half on his hands dragging his smashed knee after him; another goes to the dressing station and over his clasped hands bulge his intestines; we see men without mouths, without jaws, without faces; we find one man who has held the artery of his arm in his teeth for two hours in order not to bleed to death."

It is an incredibly sad book, but the writing is so beautiful. Here's another bit, after the writer's comrades have died.

"The days, the weeks, the years out here shall come back again, and our dead comrades shall then stand up again and march with us, our heads shall be clear, we shall have a purpose, and so we shall march, our dead comrades beside us, the years at the Front behind us--against whom, against whom?"

JUDE

A couple of weks ago i started a book called JUDE.It is a bout a kid whos dad dies because he sold drugs. After his dads death he is finally reunited with his mother who he was stolen from by his father as a baby.Jude goes to live with his mother the D.A.Then his mothers boyfriend plots to put Jude away in jail.His scheme works and Jude is sent to jail for five years for selling drugs.After Jude gets out of jail he is now twenty-two and decides to try and go to college and become a lawyer so he can make his mother proud of him.That is as far as I have gotten but so far I like the book because it tells how Jude was tricked into being sent to jail for five years all beacuse he wanted his mothers approval.

ICE: A Frozen Wasteland. A Desprate fight for life. A Mistery for the ages.

The story goes that the Apollo 19,successfully lands on the moon's south pole. Commander Gary Lucas and pilot Charlie Shepherd set out in the icy wasteland where temperature reach 334 below.They are looking for crystalline bedrock for the scientist back home, but something happens. I don't know what because I'm not that far. It is really getting good i got it from my friend and he recontaminated it.

El Libro

The book that I'm reading right now is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Here is an excerpt from part of the book that I read today that I thought was funny:

"For a split second, Harry thought how absurd it was for Tonks to expect the dummy to hear her talking that quietly through a sheet of glass, when there were buses rumbling along behind her and all the racket of a street full of shoppers. Then he reminded himself that dummies could not hear anyway. next second his mouth opened in shock as the dummy gave a tiny nod, beckoned its jointed finger, and Tonks had seized Ginny and Mrs. Weasley by the elbows, stepped right through the glass and vanished."

The Harry Potter books have to be my favorite books because they are suspensful and very interesting. I can read one of these books much faster than other books because of the fact that on every page there is something new that sparks my brain to think that I have figured out another clue to the entire series. I give all of the Harry Potter books a 10 on a scale of 1-10!

Invisible

I just finished reading Invisible by Pete Hautman. It's a really good book and it's become one of my favoirte books!

It's about a boy named Douglas who has a model train, and he's obsessed with making a town for the train, dowstiars in his basement. He calls the town 'Madham'. He got into an acciedent with his bestfriend, Andy, and you find out something very..odd, as you keep reading. It's a really good book, and I just kept wanting to read it and not put it down.

Anyone have any sugestions for a new book? Let me know.
:]