Welcome to Mrs. Demko's 7th Grade ILA Class

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• Justin Lipinski

  The book I just finished is called Grind by Eric Walters. This book is realilist fiction because the characters aren't real but you can do things they did for real. This book was about 3 friends Wally, Phill, and Lisa all three skate and they needed a job so Nelven who was a computer geek affored to help make a website and get sponsered.I would rate this book a 4.5 because it was about something I like to do plus it had a good storyline. I enjoyedthis book because you really didn't know what was going to happen next. I would recommend this book to anyone how enjoy cliffhangers or skating books.

  9/23/2009 9:59:29 AM
• Amanda Fabian

  My name is Amanda Fabian and I recently finished the book: The Mediator:Shadowland. The author is Meg Cabot. I would say that
  the genre is mystery. The book is part of a six book series. The first book was about a girl named Suze. Her father died a while back and her mother is ready to remarry. If her mother decides to marry again, the man she is going to marry lives in California so they will have to move. Her mother decides to
  marry him and so she flies Suze to California (aka her new home). Now is the chance for Suze to start a new life. What I mean by this is she was always the tough girl in her old school
  back in New York. She also didn't have many friends. She can change this and her mother encourages her to do so. Oh yeah,did i mention that she can see and talk to ghosts roaming the
  earth? That is called a mediator. There are very few of them around and she was chosen to have the gift to be one of the few. In her opinion, it is not a gift but a curse! She just
  wants to be a normal sixteen year old girl. That's what she plans on doing in California. She hopes that she can leave the so called "gift" behind and start a new life. But, things
  actually got worse. she had a ghost of a cute man haunting her room and at her new school, a very dangerous girl who Suze is taking her place. The plus side is that her principal is also a mediator so they can work together to cross dead people over. I would give this book a 9. It was an amazing book with detail
  and it was realistic. You could picture being in her shoes. I would recommend this book mainly to girls because the main character is a girl and mainly her problems growing up and not fitting in with the crowd. It is a great mystery book so anyone who loves a good mystery every once in a while will probably enjoy this book too. Overall, this was a great book that in my opinion should win an award!

  9/24/2009 11:55:17 AM
• Ridhima Sakhuja

  My name is Ridhima Sakhuja and I recently finished Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. Inkheart is about a girl whose mother left a long time ago and she lives with her father Mo. Mo had a special talent that whatever he reads aloud comes true. Seven years ago, Mo accidentally put the girl, Meggi's mom into the book. Seven years later they get kidnapped by some people Mo accidentally read out. The story is about Meggie and Mo's adventure.

  9/24/2009 3:12:00 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  Hi my name is Amanda Wortham. The book I just finished is called "Princess in the Spotlight" by Meg Cabot. I would say the genre is a fantasy. The book is about a girl named Mia who found out she was a princess when she was in high school. Her father is the prince of a small country called Genovia. So she is the heir to the throne. Then the Mia's grandmere as she calls her starts giving Mia princess lessons. So when she goes to school she has a bodyguard surrounding her. In the middle of the book Mia finds out that her mom is having a baby. And not just any baby, Mia's algerbra teacher's baby. When Mia finds that out she is happy that she is going to be a big sister. A couple weeks later her mom and her algerbra teacher decided to get married. Mia says that she is surprised because Mia's dad and her mom never got married. So when her grandmere heres about it she gathers this big wedding with celebraties and royal families. Mia's mom doesn't like this so her mom and algebra teacher elope on their wedding day. They got married in Cancun. When grandmere heard about this she got really mad and sad.
  I would rate this book a 4.5 because I was hoping for a better ending. Also I was hoping her mother would get married at the fancy wedding. Either way I enjoyed the book because it kept me hooked the whole time. If I had time to read more on some days I would. I would recommend this book to somebody because it is very interesting and a little bit romantic.

  9/24/2009 3:48:15 PM
• Amanda Fabian

  My name is Amanda and I just finished the book The Mediator:The ninth Key. It was about Suze and she got settled into her new house. The author is Meg Cabot. The genre is mystery. This is the second book out of six. This book had alot more action then the first one.Suze gets visited by a ghost of a lady in the middle of the night and she tells suze to tell red that he didnt kill her. Then she left. Suze had to figure out who this red guy was and tell him that he didnt kill the lady. She researched a little and found out that there is a mr. beaumont and people call him red. she thought it was him so she visited him and talked to him. He didnt believe her and sent her out. He kept thinking he was a vampire because he has medicine that makes him loopy. He invited her to dinner at his house but she really didnt want to because she was scared that he might try to kill her since the whole time she was there he kept staring at her neck. He tryed to grab her and so she took a pencil and jammed the led side up into his stomach and he fainted. His brother, Marcus, also his servant escorted her. She researched some more and found out that marcus murdered many people. Somehow, marcus found out that suze knew and so he took her from school and was about to drown her when she thought of a plan which was to break the fish tank and take a wire and electracute him. It worked but caught the room on fire and so she had to jump out the window. she was saved but marcus wasnt. I rate this book a 5! it was amazing and meg cabot's books are fabulous that i caant put them down!! I absolutely recommend this book to anyone who likes mysteries and ghost stories! I hope whoever reads this will enjoy it as much as i do!

  9/24/2009 7:22:00 PM
• Jacob Youssef

  My book is called The Swiss Family Robinson. The authos is Johann Wyss, and the genre is adventures. The Robinson family was got shipwrecked out in sea. They drafted onto a desert island. When they got on land they were woried. So know they had to start a new life on this land. they started to make a house in a tree and hunt. Their children started to hunt for animals. They were lucky they had guns to hunt alittle easier. They had two dogs but on died in a lion attack. At the end a ship came and said they can go with them back. Only two boys went and the others stayed on thy island. They have been on tha island for three years.
  I would rate this book a 5. I would rate it that because it is very life like. This book would make you feel like you were in these situaions. Like when they tried to kill a animal you would feel like you are in the shooting. Also this book would want you to think a little, like why did they do that.
  I think I enjoyed this book. I enjoyed this book because it is very adventures because it has like things that would make you go wow. I would reconmmend this book to people who like adventures books. This would be good for them. It is also a little misteris. This is my book that you would like.
  
  

  9/25/2009 6:48:04 PM
• Justine Barr

  The book I read was Scat. The author of this book is Carl Hiaasen. The genre of this book was a mystery. I liked this book because there are a lot of different things happening all at once. But, the big problem is that there teacher is missing. Deeper into the story you find out that there is a secret and illegal oil company stealing oil from the state of Florida. It also focuses on endagered animals.
  I would rate it a 4 out of 5. Only because I do love animals. But, it did loose my intrest because that I like reading books that i'm into doing after school, like what I enjoy( soccer, skateboarding, surfing, running, and of course shopping!) Since the book didn't contain any of those things, it wasn't one of my favorites. But, it still was an awesome book.
  I would reccomend this book to just about anyone. Just because it will keep you hooked. The only down side is that I think a lot of kids couldn't make connections to it, like me.
  It's definetly a book you must check out!

  9/25/2009 6:59:08 PM
• Michael Liu

  I have just finished reading Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz. All of his books are really good and I have read his Alex Rider Series. He writes a lot of books that have action and adventure. Raven's gate is the first book in the Gatekeeper series. It is about 5 kids who save the world from the old ones. Matt is the main character and he always dreams about the other 4. His life is boring so he decides to rob a warehouse with his only friend, kevin. Kevein kills the guard and Matt finds himself caught with blood from the guard in his hands. He is sent to a foster home where he will work for at least 1 year as a punishment. He finds out that there are many weird things going on in the Foster home he is in. As he is investigating, he finds someone who tells him to run away before they kill him. He tries to run but finds out that he can't go anywhere that the road or woods want him to go. Matt finds someone in a abandoned power station that gave him a necklace that let him break the spell of the trees and roads. Tom, the person living in the abandoned territory, tells Matt to come to his home so he can help Matt escape. But the next day, Tom is found dead in his home. Matt goes into the house and finds a wall with 2 words painted on it. They have been painted using Tom's own hands at the end of his life. The words were Raven's Gate.

  9/28/2009 10:42:12 AM
• Amiti Sinha

  My name is Amiti Sinha and I resently finished A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. This book is about Meg her little brother, charles Wallace, and her new friend who go on a scientific adventure to find meg's dad. I would rate this book a 4 our of 5 because it was very confusing in the begining which made me want to read on and find out what would happen. I enjoyed reading this book because it always had something interesting going on. When 1 thing was solved another problem would came up. I think everyone should read this book!!

  9/29/2009 4:03:02 PM
• Mariah Caise

  The book I read was "Letters to a Young Sistah" by Hill Harper. This book was informational but also mystery! This book was about Young Sistah who sent letters to Hill. They never met eachother but each of Young Sistah's letters would include a topic that Hill would respond to with some advice, and that advice was something i could use in my life! For example, it was about money, boys (by the way this book is for girls), and about these popular people who think they are so powerful. I would rate this book a 4, because it was inspirational but sometimes exciting. It was an okay book, but it taught me a lot. I was kind of in the middle of enjoying and not enjoying, because it was kind of boring, but then again I would always imagine i was the Young Sistah which made it more exciting! I would so recommend this book for girls, but not for boys, because it was meant for girls. They have one for boys though called Letters to a Young brotha! I would recommend this because you learn a heck of a lot, and it was kind of cool. You get to hear what other people think on the situation. For example i heard from Rihanna and Michelle Obama! AWESOME STUFF!

  9/29/2009 4:09:52 PM
• Phillip

  The book I just finished reading is called "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park. The genre of the book is adventure. It's about a young boy named Tree-ear who adores a pooter named Min and, eventually, works for him. Tree-ear lives under a bridge with a man named Crane-man. Soon, Tree-ear takes Min's work to the royal emissary in Songdo from Ch'ulp'o on foot. I was surprised because Ch'ulp'o is in South Korea and Songdo is somewhere in Noth Korea. Tree-ear got robbed by korean robbers and they smashed Min's vases. Tree-ear found the biggest piece which still showed the perfecly glazed color and a little of its shape. He finally gave the shard to the emissary and luckily, got Min a royal comission. When he returned to Ch'ulp'o Crane-man had died, but he was adopted by Min(and his wife). I rate this book a 5/5 because the book gave 2 or 3 examples of korean words, such as kimchee which is spicy chunky cucumbers (it tastes a lot better than it sounds). I enjoyed this book because the plot waas exciting and suspensful. I would reecommend this book for kids from 5th grade and up because the book is a liitle complicated to understand.

  9/29/2009 6:30:55 PM
• george

  The book that I have finished is called Babe and Me by Dan Gutman. I the story there is a boy names Joe who has magic powers of time travel by using old baseball cards. One day him and his father need some money so they get $1000 from his bank and uses them to buy 100 baseballs. When they went to the place where Babe was signing cards and balls he got in a pickle. Then Joe and his father help him from the problem from the fans. He repaid them by sighing the 100 baseballs and them taking them to dinner, the best thing he could have done because he, after he finished eating he put a powder in his mouth so that he can let the food pass through him. then athe worst thing that no one expected to happen, happened. Babe had fainted on the ground. Then the boys helped him up and then woke him up. To repay them for that he got them free tickets to the big game. When they got there, there were so many fans there. Then the president came and saw the bags filled with balls and thought it was a weapon. So the president took it away. But that didn't get to him because he caught one of his balls. But had no way to show it so then he and his son went home and then the father found a job. This book you must read.

  9/29/2009 9:17:45 PM
• Abanoub Guerges

  The book i just finished reading is Crash by Jerry Spinelli. the genre is realistic fiction. The book was about a boy named John Coogan AKA crash that has made fun of Penn Webb, an opptimistic quaker since kindergarden. His best friend took a prank a bit to far and he as to chose whether or not to tag along. I give this book a 4.5 because I felt like I was right there beside crash during the whole story that got a 3. Then, a 1 for the realism, and a .5 for a geart ending. The auther lost me a bit in the beginning but came back strong with the rest of the book. I enjoyed it so much because I think the moral of the story is stand for yourself not for others. I definatly recomend this book to others because all of the hardships crash faces some people have to go home and face them too. Finally I loved Crash and hope others read it and like it as much as I do.

  9/30/2009 3:45:09 PM
• Jordan Green

  The book I finished reading was called "The Boy Who Saved Baseball" written by John H. Ritter. The genre of the book is sports. I think the book was mainly about a boy named Tom Gallagher who is on his town's local baseball team. The team was set to play a game that would decide the fate of the towns future. If his team won, everything would be the same, but if they lost then builders would come and develop the town and put a lake where the baseball field is. Everything seems to be hopeless until a boy from Paloma named Cruz de la Cruz comes out to play for the team. He instantly becomes the best player, and wants to visit Dante Del Gato. Del Gato was a great baseball player, but walked away from the game just as his team was approaching the World Series. Nobody knows why, but Cruz believes that Del Gato discovered the secret of hitting. One night him and Tom go out to Del Gato's house at the top of the ridge and ask him to coach the team. His original answer was no, but the next morning at practice, he showed up to coach. Before the big game, Cruz and Tom develop a video game to make people a better hitter and programs it to pitch the best pitch that the pitcher they're facing throws. When the big game rolls around, Cruz is gone, the team is still happy because Cruz had lead them to being better all around baseball players. When the game was on the line, Tom comes up to bat. He takes a swing ans hits a towering pop-up and no one catches it and allows the winning run to cross home plate and the team wins. However, the landowner of the town had had a heart attack while the pop-up was in the air. Now, the mayor claims that he is in charge and they want to bring on the bulldozers. But, when Tom looks to see a letter that Doc wrote to him a while back, it says that Doc left everything to Tom and the town is saved. I give this book a 4. This is because I think it had a good ending and the author gave very good details to give the reader a better picture of whats going on in the book. I enjoyed it because of the reasons above and that the book is about baseball which is my favorite sport. I would reccomend this book to someone who likes baseball and realistic fiction because it includes a tremendous amount of baseball history and I feel like the characters actually exist. This was a terrific book.

  9/30/2009 4:26:13 PM
• Ridhima Sakhuja

  I recently read Ask Me No Questions.In the book, Nadira Hossein and her family move from Bangladesh eight years ago. They were illegal aliens, hoping to became citizens of United States someday. However, after 9/11, everything changes. After that, people began to think that being Muslim means that you are a terrorist. Nadira and her older sister, Aisha, are told to carry on as if nothing ever happen. But when their father gets arrested and detained at the Canadian border, it was impossible to lead a normal life. Her father told her mother to live in a shelter house near the jail and Nadira and Aisha to go back to New York and live with their aunt and uncle. They were told to live normally. Aisha, the one who was always in charge, began to fall apart. Nothing mattered to her, not even college or her dream of being a doctor. It was up to Nadira to bring her family back together, no matter what it takes.

  9/30/2009 7:00:13 PM
• Jenny Hoffman

  Hi, my name is Jenny Hoffman. I just finished a really good book called Peter an the Shadow Thieves by Dave Barry. This book would be fantasy. The book is all about this kid named Peter. In the book Peter flies to England to help Molly and her father return the starstuff. Everything is fine until the dangerous others get involvedl. They try to steal the starstuff from Peter, Molly, and Molly's father. To find out what happens in the end you're going to have to read the book. I really enjoyed reading this book and would recommend this book to my friends. I would do this because it was a really funny book and I think they would like it. If I had to rate this book I would give it a five. One reason is as I said before it was a really funny book. Also every chapter the author changes the character he uses in first person. Last, the book made me never want to stop reading. I think anyone who thinks this book might be interesting, should read it.

  9/30/2009 8:01:56 PM
• Charles Huang

  The book I finished was called Small Steps, by Louis Sachar. In the book, Theodore / Armpit just got back from Camp Green Lake, it changed his life a lot. He grew stronger and more realistic instead of just being a ghetto tough kid. At the time, he is working as a digger for $7.50 an hour. But then, his old friend X-Ray (also from Camp Green Lake) needs Armpit to help him scalp tickets for the concert by Kaira DeLeon. X-Ray said he would split the loot half-half. Armpit doubts that this is legal but he goes along with X-Ray. As he scalps tickets, he gets a chance to meet the famous Kaira DeLeon. As a chance arrives while watching a concert, Armpit falls in love with the singer. She turns out to be sweet and not diva-ish.
  Armpit and her decide to ditch her bodyguard and go out. But the plan is foiled and they have to go out another time. 1 week later Armpit gets a call from her asking to go to _____(forgot place) and stay with her. When he gets there, it was turning out pretty good. Until they reached a misunderstanding. So, Kaira is outraged and tells him to leave her alone. But when Kaira is in her room, there was a sudden attacker. It was her step-dad, he wanted all the fame and the fortune so he grabbed a baseball bat and started killing Kaira, wanting to take all the blame on to Armpit. As he is beating her, her bodyguard rushes in and attacks the step-dad. The step dad grabs a knife and shoves it into Fred's (Body Guard) stomach, making him automatically fall to the ground. Kaira's step dad was getting ready to take the final blow when Armpit rushed into save the day. He jumped at Kaira's step dad and started beating him until he was one the ground, not moving. The ambulance came and finally the story ended.

  9/30/2009 8:16:30 PM
• Ghil Joseph

  I just finished a book called "Now You See Them, Now You Don't" by Gordon Korman. This book is realistic fiction and is great to read.
  The main characters in the book, Aiden and Margaret, are faced with many obstacles. Their family was arrested, but Aiden and Margaret were able to escape from jail. Now the children are being chased by cops, even though their family is innocent. These children have the challenge of proving that their family is innocent. The only way that they can do so is to find their Uncle Frank who has proof of their innocence. Later in the book, the children find out that Uncle Frank actually framed them. Now they not only have to find him, but they also have to make him admit that he was the mastermind of the crime.
  I would rate this book a 5 because I really enjoyed it. One of my favorite parts was when the children were forced to jump off a hotel roof in a wheelchair because the police were close behind them. This part of the book was filled with amazing detail and was action packed.
  I would recommend this book to anyone who likes adventures. It was enjoyable and had a very satisfying ending. This should be the next book you read.

  9/30/2009 8:38:50 PM
• Jun Sun You

  The book I just finished reading is "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding. The genre of this book is adverture. This book is about british boys surviving in an unknown island. The main character, Ralph take charge of the boys, but one of the boys, Jack betray him and tries to kill him. At last the officer comes and rescue the boys. I give this book 4 because the author made me kept reading and to visulize in my head. I really enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend this book to someone who likes horror and adverture because it is about survival and it is very thrilling

  10/1/2009 5:57:54 AM
• Colleen Brennan

  The Vampire Diaries L.J. Smith
  
  Elena has fallen in love with trouble, and she doesn't even know it. Stefan has just moved to town thinking he can maintain a
  normal life. But he was wrong. He had sworn he wouldn't get involved with the humans, but when he falls for Elena that's when
  trouble starts. When mysterious killings start right after Stefan comes to town all heads turned to Stefan. But Elena knew that
  wasn't possible. He would never. But when Stefan tells his secret to Elena, that hes a vampire, Elena's not that sure. Stefan
  convinces Elena that it isn't him that's the killer. There's only one conclusion. Stefan's evil brother Damon has come back to
  town. Damon even tries to still Elena from Stefan. But when it doesn't work Damon gets angry and starts to hurt everyone Elena
  loves. Elena after a while couldn't take it any more, she got in a car and wanted to drive and get away from it all. But what
  through all the bad whether the car ended up sliding off the bridge into the cold icy water. When Stefan finds her his crushed and goes off to kill his brother.
  
  I would rate this book a 5. I think I liked it so much because it had a lot of action in it and it kept me on my toes.
  I would definitely recommend this book to others.

  10/1/2009 8:09:02 AM
• Grace Wang

  I have just finished reading an amazing book called “So B. It” by Sarah Weeks. It is Realistic Fiction.
  
  Heidi grew up with no father. All she has are Bernie, her neighbor, and her mom with a "bum" brain. Her mom can only say 23 words and knows only one color, blue. But there's one word that she says that's different from the rest. Soof. What does soof mean? Who am I? Who is mother? Heidi wonders about these questions everyday. Her curiousness starts gnawing at her. Heidi decides to find the answer to these questions. She uses her ability at being lucky and a driving will to find them. She travels from Reno, Nevada to Liberty, New York.
  
  I would rate this book a definite 5. I could feel Heidi's feelings. I could feel her homesickness when she's on the bus to New York. I could feel her worry when she can't reach Bernie on the phone. I liked this book because the ending was so much different from what I had expected. It's a really interesting book and I would definitely recommend it to others.
  

  10/1/2009 3:32:35 PM
• Rupa Mitra

  The book I've read was Confessions of a Middle Child by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel. It is Realistic Fiction. Julep is tired of being the middle child. Her older sister Harmony gets to do older stuff while Cooper gets all the attention because of his asthma. And Julep has to to all the boring things as a middle child. But one day the most popular girl in school Danica invites her to a Halloween party and Julep got so excited.

  10/1/2009 6:24:28 PM
• Steven Schuller

  By: Steven Schuller
  I just finished reading Amazing but true sports stories. The authors of the book are phyliss and zander Hollander. The genre of this storie is sports. This book was about all athletes breaking records and doing immpossible things. I would give my book a 4 out of 5 only because I don't like hockey or boxing. I enjoyed this book because I love sports and reading about all the records was cool. I would recomend this book to you but only if you are interested in sports because if your not you won't care about it.

  10/2/2009 8:21:55 PM
• Tom Berzok

  The book I just finished was The Last Olympian, by Rick Riordan. The book is a mix of fantasy mostly, but with a little realistic fiction in there too. The Last Olympian was the fifth book in the Percy Jackson series. It was by far the best. The book was about the 16 year old Percy Jackson who was the son of Poseidon. The Greek Titan Lord Kronos has just ecaped from tartarus and is on a rampage. He has taken over the body of Luke Castellien a son of Hermes, also one of Percy's friends. Kronos is planning to take over Olympus the 600th floor on The Empire State Building. So him and his troops attempt to invade Manhattan. Percy, Grover, Annabeth as well as many other half-bloods try to save it. Through the many battles and fights half-bloods keep reducing.But at the end... well... you just have to find out. I would rate this book a 5 because the action susoense and many other things always made me never want to stop reading it. It was very detailed and super awesome.
  I enjoyed the fact that Rick Riordan to Greek Mythology and turned it inot a childs life. It was like there was a movie in my head the whole time.
  I would totaly recomend this book. Well you can see all I said already. This book is one of the bokks for kids like me who absolutely hate reading this is the one you'll never put down.

  10/3/2009 2:11:27 PM
• Serena zhou(:

  
  The book Im reading is called The Clique By Lisa Harrison . Massie Block is the rich , popular girl . And A use to be family friend
  ( Claire) Moved into theyre guest house , till everything gets settled . Now claire had to leave everything behind her friends , her school , everything ! And Now Massie and her friends are the most popular girls in the school and theyre giving her problems , from name calling to pranks! In the middle of the story claire started to sneak into massies room and iMed people saying theyre bestfriends , and what to wear the next day so massie would feel left out . The next day massie blew up ! She was so mad , for a whole week this kept on going . Eventually Massie found out what happen , and Clair is still out of the clique , and hated more than ever now .
  In the end , shes in & out of the clique
  in , cause her and massie got a long preety well , out cause everyone wants her to be ? and massie doesnt want to loose her popularity !
  
  I Rate this book a 5|5 , Because this book has drama , its not one of thoose boring in the beginning books , its intresting throughout the whole book also I can relate to it too ! and im preety sure girls around my age can too (:
  
  I enjoyed it a LOT , because the drama was just so intresting to read it was like watching a reality tv shows ! And everyone loves a little bit of drama .
  
  
  
  I Deffinetly recommend this book to girls specifically aged from 10-13 for 13 & up it might be too easy . But they can stll relate to it , honestly any girl can .
  

  10/4/2009 9:07:49 AM
• Tirtza

  I just finished reading Miles to go By Miley Cyrus. This book would be a Autobiography. This book is about a famous girl named Miley Cyrus. Miley grew up in a small town and very unpopular. She tries out for cheer leading to get away from her unpopular reality, she makes it. A few months later, she gets kicked out of cheerleading for being absent 3 times because she went to LA to try out for Hannah Montana. She gets the part. She realizes that fame is something you should not take advantage of but use it for the good.
  
  I realy enjoyed this book and i would recomend it to anyone who is famous, wants to be famous, or hates Miley should definetly read this book.

  10/4/2009 11:05:44 AM
• Amanda Fabian

  My name is Amadna Fabian and i recently finished a book called the Mediator:Reunion. The author is Meg Cabot. The series is mystery. Suze is back for another thrilling ghost adventure, but this time it involves 4 ghosts. They are high school kids in the school that suze's school competes against. One of suze's classmates is very unpopular and he thniks that they just take up space and need to be gone. So, he thniks of a plan to make a car accident look like an accident but he really played around with it. There is a big turn that you cant see the cars coming the other way, so you have to honk your car horn when going around it so people know to stop. He loosened the guardrails there and waited on the other side of the turn. He knew they were coming because he did some research. when he heard their horn, he sped up and rammed in to them so they would hit the guardrail and go flying down the hill. They died that night. He knew that it was their car because they had a horn that played the macarana. Later, they figured out they were dead, and that he killed them, so they went out trying to kill him as ghosts. Suze got in the middle of this and saved him all the time from falling objects, and falling cars. I would rate this book a 5 because of the action and detail in this book. I could not put it down while i was reading. I would reccomend this book to others that like reading mysteries as much as i do!

  10/4/2009 12:28:20 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  The book I just finished is called "Princess in Love" by Meg Cabot. This book is about a girl named Mia how has a crush on Her friend Lily's brother. She doesn't want to tell Lily because she thinks she will get mad. Mia has a boyfriend named Kenny,but she doesn't love him like he does. Then Mia asked her friend Tina how to let Lily's brother Michael know. Tina knows all about boys, so Mia goes to her for advice. Mia decides to put secret love notes in Michael's locker and doesn't put her name on it. Eventually Lily finds out,but she doesn't tell Mia. Their school dance comes around and Kenny doesn't ask her to be his date until the day of. Then at a school carnival before the dance. Michael puts on a slide show just for Mia and it says that he knows that she was writing those secret letters and that he loves her too. She gets all excited, but then Kenny finds out and breaks up with her. At the end Michael becomes Mia's new boyfriend.
  Iwould rate this book a five out of five. I think this book had a lot of action and interesting parts. I would recommend this book in a heart beat. I could bearly put the book down the whole time. I think this book is awesome.

  10/4/2009 1:08:05 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  I recently finished reading the book “Circle of Magic Sandry’s Book” by Tamora Pierce. The genre of this book is fantasy because there isn’t a real thing like magic. The main characters, Sandry, Daja, Tris, and Briar, are very different kids. Sandry is a noble which means she is rich and has royal blood. Sandry loves to weave but nobody would let her because her servants were supposed to do all of it. Daja is a Trader which means her family sells goods. But Daja’s family died when her ship sank and she was the only survivor. Daja likes to work with metal but her mother used to tell her “Traders only trade things. We do not make them.” Tris is a merchant. Her family makes things. But Tris has been neglected by her parents and has been rejected by almost all school after a few weeks. Briar is a thief. He has been to jail three times. But has a love for plants. These four different people meet in Winding Circle, where they discover things they all never knew.
  I would rate this book a four out of five because it is very interesting but can be a little confusing. I enjoyed reading this because it was fascinating to learn how they all became good friends at the end of the book. I would recommend this book because it was fun to read. Also, I would recommend “Circle of magic Sandry’s Book” to anyone who likes fantasy. There are 3 more books in this series, “Circle of Magic Tris’s Book”, “Circle of Magic Daja’s Book”, and “Circle of Magic Briar’s Book”.

  10/4/2009 2:53:35 PM
• Frankie Wai

  Everlost by Neal Shuslerman was a great name. I would say the genre of this book would be scientific fiction because it is about what Neal Shuslerman thinks is between life and death and she describes it as the Everlost.So two kids named Allie and Nick get into a car accident where they don't survive. They end up in the everlost. Here they first meet a kid also in the everlost whose forgotten his name so they name him lief. The everlost is basically a shadow of the living world. So they venture together and get invited to stay in mary's kingdom. Mary is considered the queen of the everlost because she takes care of kids that cross over into the everlost as well. So after a while allie wants to find a way back to life so she confronts the Haunter to ask him to teach her how to haunt. The haunter is known for his ability to pull things out of the living world. allie brings nick and lief with her. The haunter tests them by having them try to move an object from the living world. when nick and lief fail they get forced into barrels and are locked away. Allie trys to get the haunter to let her friends out if she can move it. She gets the rock to move slightly. But she runs away in fear. The mcgill also known as the monster of the everlost comes to get the food that the haunter has pulled out of the living world so nick and lief get onto the mcgils ship. Allie sneaks aboard too and gets caught so is forced to teach the mcgill to take over the bodies of living beings. So Alie pretends to teach him. The mcgill has 1000 souls captive including nick,Allie, and lief and is given a chance to trade the 1000 souls for life again but he had to go to atlantic city. So he sails there awaiting to be replenished with life again. Mary meets him there and show the mcgill a picture of himself which makes him transform back into a boy. He became a monster because in the everlost if you forget how you look you change and he changed into a monster. So the mcgill returned to a boy and is taken down. I would give this book a 5 out of 5 because it was very interesting a kept me reading from cover to cover without me getting bored. I would recoment this book because it is very fun to read about how someone would imagine a place between life and death.

  10/4/2009 4:33:36 PM
• Tom Lanzano

  I just finished reading the book, "Al Capone Does my Shirts" by Gennifer Choldenko. It is about a family called the "Flanagans", who had just moved to a prison island called Alcatraz. The worst known convicts reside here. Moose Flanagan, a thirteen-year-old boy meets many other thirteen-year-old kids that also live in Alcatraz.
  
  Mostly, the whole book is about Moose trying to make things better at Alcatraz for himself and his autistic sister, Natalie. Natalie is actually sixteen-years-old, but still needs someone to take care of her. The Flanagans have been trying to get Natalie into a very good school for mentally-challenged children called the Esther P. Marinoff School. The one and only reason why Natalie has had a hard time trying to get into that school because she is a little too old-sixteen years old.
  
  The warden, Mr. Williams, had tried the best he can to enroll Natalie into the Esther P. Marinoff. Luckily, he did by talking to the school administrator, Mr. Purdy.
  
  Moose had also met many friends in the three months he was living in Alcatraz. First, he met Warden Williams' daughter, Piper, who Moose really hated. He also met a boy named Bobby, who Moose would play baseball with every Tuesday with. Lastly, he met a girl named Annie who he used to play catch with at the parade grounds on the island.
  
  I rate this book a 4 because I actually wanted to keep reading it. Not many books make me want to do that.

  10/4/2009 7:22:11 PM
• Justin Lipinski

  The book that I just finished is called Juice by Eric Walters the author of the other book i finished, Grind. Juice is about a star High School football player named moose who had won the chamionship game for the team. That summer the teams new coach got them all new stuff. During the summer the team visited the weight room. The coach had got them a stregth coach. During the middle-endesh the coach and the stregth coach are both forcing starrods on all the players including the Moose. I would rate this book a 9, because it had a lot of stuff that i liked reading about. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who likes sports and cliffhangers.

  10/5/2009 5:44:55 AM
• Amanda Fabian

  My name is Amanda Fabian and I just finished the book The Mediator:Darkest Hour.The author was Meg Cabot.This is the 4th book out of 6. I would consider it a mystery. Remember Jesse, the ghost living in Suze's bedroom? Well, his girlfriend fro a century ago whom he was supposed to marry, finds out that he and suze are in love. she trys to get in the way of them and so she first puts beetles in suze's orange juice but her brother drinks it first. Then, suze meets a younger boy who is also a mediator she babysits him at a hotel. The ghst of Maria aka jesses past girlsfriend tells this boy, jake that jesse is threatning suze and that he should exercize him. Jake doesnt know any better so he does. Suz must excerize herself in order to go up in heaven and bring jesse back. This is successful and he gives her what she has been longning for: a kiss! Later in the book, suze excersizes maria and her husband; Diego. This book is filled with tons of adventure and excersisiom!! I would rate this book a 5 because of the detail and show not tell in the book! This series is by far, the best i have ever read in my whole entire life! Anyone who picks uo one of these books would think the same of them too! i guarantee it!

  10/5/2009 12:42:00 PM
• Nicholas Mangarella

  The book i have recently read was called "World Series" by John R. Tunis. The genre of the book is realistic fiction which I love. THe book is about the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Cleaveland Indians in a World Series in the 1920's. The story is very interesting and it is from the point of view of the Dodgers Team so you are always rooting for them. THe managers onthe team put four to five thousand dollars on the line if they do good or bad. That was a lot of money back then and it could have been a third or a quarter of a player's salary. The players in the book suffer a plague by injuries and extreme exhaution.
  I would rate this book off a scale of one to five a five.
  I thought it was a really good book with amazing detail. It made me feel like Iwas almost there sitting in the stands.
  I enjoyed the book a lot. It was about the World Series with real teams.
  I would recomend this book definetly. It is an especialy great book if you like baseball like i do. Even if you don't you will won't to put it down once you start reading it.

  10/5/2009 4:37:17 PM
• Michael Liu

  I have just finished ready Evil Star by Anthony Horowitz. This book is part of the gatekeepers series and is the 2nd book. It is about a kid named Matt who has powers and someone who has been chosen and is part of 4 more. They have to stop the evil ones. In the first book, they stopped the evil ones from escaping from Raven's Gate. This book is about Matt hearing about a gate located in Peru. Richard and Matt travel to Lima, Peru and get ambushed when driving to the hotel. Richard is kidnapped and captured by 4 people. Matt escapes and is lost in a poor city with no one. While he was driving, he saw someone juggling balls and asking for money. He runs and runs and goes into a alley and fallls asleep. He wakes up finding the person juggling trying to steal his money. The kid, startled by him waking up looked at him. Since he was a poor spanish person, he only spoke spanish. Matt asked him in simple spanish where the hotel was. Pedro, his name brought Matt to the hotel for 10 pounds. At the hotel, there were many police men who were outside the door. Matt went into the lobby and a police man came over to him. He asked who he was and when he said bob, he smacked him. He started to kick and punch him until he told him his real name. He was really bloody and the policeman called 2 more people to go and pick him up. When the 2 policemen went outside to put him in the car, pedro came and launched 2 rocks using a slingshot at the police officers. Matt has just enough time to run away from them and follows pedro to his home: Poison Town. Many people had died living here but people living close to pedro never got sick. Pedro is a servant of a person who gives them food and shelter if they bring him money. He tells them to go find Salamanda, the richest person in south America. He owns a giant company with many satelites and must have bribed the police officers. He tells them to go to his headquarters to try to stop him. Matt and Pedro go to the headquarters and get caught by them. But, a truck comes smashing through the front gate and destroys a building. Then the driver smashes in and helps them escape. He gets shot and dies. They get chased again in the city and finally a dark hooded figure appears. He takes them into a secret inca passage way which takes them to a plane. They travel all night to the cloud forest. There they go to the ancient lost city of the incas. No one can go there because the road disapears. They find ricard in the city and the prince of the incas tells them to fight salamanda. Salamanda is in the headquarters that is super highly guarded and they go there. The incas help assasinate all the guards and find out that a beam will project from a sattelite destroying the gate. This will make the old ones come back. They find a control frame but it has been damaged. That leads them to finding that salamanda is at the gates entrance. Matt and pedro fly in a plane with atoc, the inca, flying them to the gate. The plane gets shot and starts tumbling to its doom. Then Atoc is found dead but pedro and matt are still alive. Pedro is too injured to go so matt goes and battles salamanda. Salamanda takes out a gun and shoots matt. Matt uses his powers to deflect the bullet. Salamada shoots another 5 bullets. There are too many bullets so matt deflects them anywhere and one bullet hits salamanda in the head. He falls to the ground dead with his head fractured. But it was too late the blast had already happened. Everything stopped as huge beasts arroze from the ground the king's fingernail was as big as matt. Matt used the power of pedro and himself to lash out a super powerful kick at the king which finds himself seriously injured. The king knocks out matt and diseapers with his minions. Matt almost dies but pedro, a healer, heals matt. THE END

  10/5/2009 5:37:23 PM
• Leena Kasa

  The book I finished is called Red Scarf Girl forword by David Henry Hwang. It is about a real girl named Ji-li Jiang. Ji-li wanted to be part of the revolution, but is held back by her family's past. Ji-li can't follow her dreams of going to the speacial school and has to go to the same school as everyone else. She gets happier in hunior high because no one in her class knew about her past. She kept it a secret and made sure no one found out. Later, some people found out that her grandfather was a landlord and made her grandmother work beacause of that.
  In the end everyone realised that the chairman was wrong to punish people for their relative's actions.

  10/5/2009 7:07:18 PM
• Amanda Evans

  The book i just finished reading is The Princess Plot by Kirsten Boie. It is a realistic fiction book. The main characters in this book are Jenna, Bea, Malena, Jonas, Nakira, and the regent, Malena's uncle. Jenna is just a normal girl being guarded by an extremely over protective mother. She is never allowed to go anywhere or do anything except go to her best friend Bea's house. However when "movie people" come to her school to find someone for their upcoming movie, Jenna really wants to be chosen. She knows she is forbidden to even go near such an event but she decides she's tired of her mom leaving her out of things and goes anyway. After all the auditions they pick Jenna! Jenna being thrilled of course at first, then remembers that her mom would have to find out about the movie for her to be able to be in it, but she wasn't even supposed to go to the audition! To her surprise her mom lets her do it! So she flys to Scandia where the the movie is taking place with all the movie people called Tobias, Mrs. Markas, and Rapheal. When they get there she is told she must take on the ultimate roll of pretending to be the Princess of Scandia for a day. She is shocked and wonders how the princess would agree to this but they lied to her and told her that the princess just wanted time away from the press on her birthday, which was when Jenna was scheduled to act as her infront of everyone in Scandia. But everything goes horribly wrong, it turns out she was lied to and they just wanted her to make an apperance because the real princess had gone missing and that the real princess was out amongst the rebels and hiding from her uncle, the regent, who took over after her father had died. Once she is kidnapped by the princess and her friends from the north, she learns how all of this had just been a plot and all the movie people and the regent had just been using her. Now being completely against all of the people that had tricked her she goes along with the plan to take Malena's uncle out from the ruling posistion especially when all of them, Malena(the princess of Scandia), Jonas(one of the kidnappers and also a northern rebel), Nakira(a northerner rebeling against the south), and herself realize that the father or Malena had not actually died, but infact has been held prisoner by the regent so he could oppose against giving the north rights. The king had wanted to give the north equal rights as the rich south Scandia to stop war and riots from forming but the regent did not like this idea so he pretended to have the king killed so he could go through with his plan of marching into the north and forcing them to be slaves. Eventually through their planning they find where the king was hidden and rescue him, destroying the regents plans. After that all of Scandia had been saved. But an unexpected twist comes when Jenna learns exciting news, she is actually a real princess of Scandia! This is why she looked so similar to Malena, she was indeed her cousin! She had wondered her whole life about her family and her mother had never told her, but now she knew she would one day rule Scandia.
  
  I would rate this book as a 4 out of 5 because for the most part it was a very good book and I just wanted to continue reading with all the action and I never knew what was going to happen next. Unfortunately at some points it did get quite confusing so that is why I gave this book a 4 instead of a 5. However I did enjoy this book and would recommend it to many girls I know.

  10/5/2009 9:30:41 PM
• Jacob Barry

  The book i finished reading is Benedict Arnold's Navy by James L. Nelson. It is a biogrpahy of Benedict Arnold's command during the Revolutionary war. This is before he became a trader. He was given cammand of soldiers to take fort Ticonderoga and to man a navy to help win the war. He was also given command to defend Lake Champlain. It also talks about what had happend in between those battles.
  I would rate this book a 4.5 out of 5. The reason i rate this is because it does get off topic and start talking about other military commanders like Ethan Allan. Also it is mostly about his time commanding his navy before he became a trader. Other than that the book was excellent. It described the battles and what had happend very well. As you are reading it you can picture it in your mind, as if it was unfolding before your eyes. Another reason I gave it a 4.5 was because it was a little difficult but i like a challenge. I would reccomend this book to anyone who likes to read about American history or about Benedict Arnold. Overall it is a great book.

  10/6/2009 6:02:31 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  I just finished the book Animal Attraction by Jamie Pounti. It's about this girl named Jane who just wishes to have a change in her life. One day, her wishes came true. Her coach forces her to tutor a "unexperienced boy" and also forces her to work at Magic Waters(A water park) as Eager Beaver. Not soon later she realises that the boy she's tutoring is named Alex and has a major crush on him. Meanwhile, at Tragic waters, she makes friends with Grayson, Another character at the water park. One day, Alex tells her depressing news. He was going back to Britian. On their last day together, they spend a day at a party. There, she see's Grayson. Right after the party, she realizes that Grayson really liked her. Now, she had to choose between two boys.She didn't have to wonder long because Alex moved to Britian that following day. Suddenly, she suddenly notices that the guy that was just right for he was Grayson. He encouraged her when times went wrong. She only fell for Alex before because she was the first guy she saw that was cute. She didn't look deep inside herself. She realizes what she did wrong and apologizes to Grayson. Later, the end up together.

  10/6/2009 6:19:24 PM
• Phillip

  The book I finished is called Cryptid Hunters by Roland Smith. This book is an adventurous genre and it is about 2 twins going on an adventure that changes their lives. There's sweet, little Grace and wild (but artistic and a great chef) Marty. Their parents have gone missing in the Amazon so they get shipped to their unknown uncle Wolfe. Wolfe is a special scientist that studies cryptidzoology. Cryptidzoology is the study of organisms thought to be extinct or mythical such as "Nessie" the Loch Ness monster. some urgent newws arrive to Wolfe soon after Marty and Grace arrived. They were supposed to head back to Switzerland (their hometown) and stay there until furthur notice. They had to get Bo, a scout monkey, back into its cage but ended up falling 5000 feet into the Congo. There they find Mokele-mbembe eggs(a dinosaur thought to be long extinct) and the truth of everything happening. It turned out that Grace is Wolfe's daughter, not Marty's sister. They also find out that Grace's mom died from a Mokele-mbembe when she was 2 years old.
  I rate this book a 5 because i enjoyed the action and suspense. Plus, I recommend this book to 4th graders and up because the book is hard to understand from time to time (or is it page to page?). Also, this book is great for people who like suspensful andventures.

  10/7/2009 8:19:57 PM
• Giana Nguyen-Demary

  I just finished the book Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh. The typed of genre is funny. It's about this girl named Harriet. She
  spies on people like from school or stores etc. She writes these things about people in her notebook. In her notebook she writes
  some mean things about here classmates. One day Harriet lost her notebook and one of her classmates found it. Her classmate showed the whole class what mean things Harriet wrote about them. Then they got mad at Harriet and they start to sabotage her.I rate this book 5 because it makes you wonder why that happened. I enjoy this book because it makes wonder what is going to happen next. I would recommend this book because it's very funny.

  10/8/2009 6:53:25 AM
• Peter Eskander

  i have just finished the book ((Among the hidding))for Margaret Peterson the story says that a shadow boy called Luke he was living in the wood owned by his father but the government took it and they made it a street for barons but Luke saw a girl in on of the families houses and he went to her, they talked about the shadow children, she gave him a book and two papers hand in. There was a rally for all the shadow children but Luke didn't go to it ,Jen-the girl-did ,the population police killed her , Luke didn't know, he went to her house and Jen father made him a fake I.D

  10/8/2009 9:01:36 PM
• steven schuller

  I just finished the book Diary Of A Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. The type of genre is comedy. It's about a 12 year-old kid named Greg thinks being a kid stinks. His brother blasts his music and bullies him, his parents tell him that he can't do or play anything violent, and his best friend, Rod never likes to play. Then when him and Rod went trick or treating hiis parents went with him and made sure they don't go to any scary houses. If I was Greg I would think that being a kid stinks to, but I think it's only going to get better. I would rate this book a 4.5 becaused I loved it and it was funny, but it was pretty easy. So I would still recomend it though. Overall this was a great book.

  10/9/2009 5:18:51 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  My name is Amiti and I just finished the book Bloomability by Sharon Creech. The book is a realistic fiction. It is about a 13 year old girl named Dominica Santolina Doone, aka Dinnie, who is sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle at an international boarding school in Switzerland where her Uncle is the new headmaster. Even though Dinnie misses her old life in America, she loves being in Switzerland and makes many friends. Such as Lila, Guthrie, Keisuke, Mari, Fadi, and Belen, they are from all over the world. I would rate this book a 5 because it is very descriptive and surprising. I liked reading Dinnie’s dreams because they gave away what she wanted to happen. I would recommend this book to 5th graders and up because it is hard to understand at times and you have to read between the lines. On the whole this book is outstanding and marvelous.

  10/11/2009 12:48:07 PM
• Abanoub

  The book I just finished reading is Fink's Funk by Sarah Weeks. The genre is realistic fiction. There are two best friends that love to make up games Nat and Fink. They made a new game called faboo facts the point of the game is to find a better fact than your opponent. When Fink takes the game to seriously their friend ship can be gone forever. I give the book a 3.5 out of 5 because it had to many problems like all the problems sucked up the whole plot. I enjoyed the book but it lacked something that I just can't put my finger on it. I would defiantly recommend this book to someone that is having friendship problems or just for some light reading.
  
  Sincerely,
  Abanoub :)
  

  10/11/2009 3:43:52 PM
• ghil joseph

  Hi, I'm Ghil. The title of my book is "The Mediator: Shadowland" by Meg Cabot and the genre is fiction.
  In this book, the main character Suze can see ghosts. She just moved from New York to California and is now living in an old house. The house that she lives in is old and used to be a hotel. There is also a ghost named Jess living in the house. Suze goes to a school where there is a girl named Christina who just died and her spirit is still in the school. Suze performs an exorcism, which lets Christina into the afterlife.
  I would rate this book a five because I enjoyed it. One reason I enjoyed it was because the descriptions were intense, especially the description of when the ghost was destroying the school during the exorcism. The description was my favorite part of the book.
  I would recommend this book to anybody who likes books with suspense. This book is a nail biter.

  10/11/2009 7:16:27 PM
• Julie Vargas

  Hi Mrs.Demko, It's Julie. The book im reading is "Series Of Unfortunet Events" The Bad Beginning". The book is fantasy, because none of this stuff can ever happen in the real world. I rate this book a 5 because it was easy to read for me and I also love to read fantasy books. I would love to recommend this book to all my frineds. The reason why is beacuse while I was reading this book it inspried me to read me much more books, also because its a very good book to read and it's on a very good level. Well goodbye, see ya tuesday

  10/12/2009 8:29:15 AM
• Dhiraj Peddu

  hello! my name is dhiraj and I finished reading a book called Alanna the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. This book is about a girl named Alanna who disguises herself as a boy so she can be a knight. Thats because girls were suppose to be sorcerers and since her brothrer wanted to be a sorcerer they traded places. So then little Alanna goes through an adventure trying to become a knight and at the same time trying to hide her feminity from others. If you want to find out more just read the book.

  10/12/2009 3:01:40 PM
• Grace Wang

  I have finished another book called 'Stargirl' by Jerrry Spinelli. This book is realistic fiction. It is about A new student at Mica Area High School in Arizona named Stargirl Caraway with Leo Borlock narrating the story. She wears weird clothes, she carries her pet rat, Cinnamon, around with her in a bag, and doesn't wear makeup. She sings birhtday song to people and keeps flowers on her desk.When Hillari Kimble, the most popular girl in school before Stargirl came, demands Stargirl not to sing to her on her birthday, Stargirl keeps her promise so she does not sing to Hillary, she sings to Leo, only she says Hillari's name. When Leo's best friend, Kevin, asks Stargirl, "Why him?", she responds by saying, "He's cute."She just doesn't fit in. Later people start getting used to her behavior and they start coping her. Soon her popularity rises and everyone loves her. She got into the cheerleading squad. Before no one attented any of the games and now tons of people are coming just to see her. She always cheers not caring which team is winning. Then people start turning on her. They stop taliking to her and ignoring her. Her popularity ends and then Leo and Stargirl begin to date. Later Leo realizes people are now also ignoring him. They only ignored him when he was with Stargirl but now no one talks to him and everyone acts like he's not there except his best friend, Kevin. He feels lonely even if he has Stargirl so he forces her to try to be normal. She becomes obssesed on trying to be normal and to fit in she forgets her real self. Even with her being normal people still hate her so she quits. She goes back to her "weird" self and Leo breaks up with Stargirl wanting to have people accept him. When Stargirl goes to the Ocotillo ball she regains her popularity. Stargirl is dressed beautifully and impresses everyone as she walks out of the limo. She has the DJ play the "Bunny Hop". Hillari Kimnble becomes outraged. At first only a few people start joining her then almost everyone joined her except Hillari Kimble and her date. Hillarit the went up to her and told her she ruined everything and slapped Stargirl. Hillari paused and stood there eyes closed waiting to be slapped but instead she recieved a kiss on the cheek. The next day Stargirl moved.
  
  I would rate this book a 5 because the story really moved me on how Stargirl did everything for Leo and how in the end she didn't slap Hillari and how kind she is. I would recommend this book to anyone.

  10/12/2009 3:46:50 PM
• Jenny Hoffman

  My name is Jenny and I just finished a book called Peter and the Secret of Rundoon by Dave Barry. It's about a boy n named Peter. In the book Peter and his mates are kidnapped by the evil Lord Ombra. Now Peter has to risk his life and every thing that he belives in to save his friends. If I had to rate this from a 1 to a 5 I would give it a 5. I would do this because the book was really funny. For example one of Peter's friends, Tubby Ted, can't say anything without a hint of sarcasm in his vocie. I really liked this book because it always kept the reader reading. I mean It was so exciting I never wanted to stop reading until I was done. I would recommend this book to all my friends. I would do this because most of my friends really like adventure stories. Over all, this was a really great book.

  10/12/2009 6:18:35 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I just finished reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. It would fit under the category of realistic fiction. The book mostly revolved around Kate who was diagnosed with leaukemia when she was two. Her sister Anna was brought into this world to serve as a donor for Kate. She gave her marrow, blood, cells and much more to help Kate's body function. Anna had been doing this for thirteen years. From the time she let out her first cry and until that thirteenth year. Anna didn't like the fact that she was only known as Kate's donor and that people were nice to her because her sister had leaukemia. There was so much more to her than that. She was also getting tired of having to go with all this medical things to help her sister stay alive. She loves her sister very much but would like to make her own decision for once. So she files a law suit against her parents and sues them for making her go through all this trouble all the time. The family goes through a lot with this law suit and they already have enough on their plates worrying about Kate and what might happen next. Anna and her father even move out for a little while just so Anna can have some alone time to really think this through. In the long run Anna still goes along with not being her sisters donor anymore, even though it means sacrificing some things. Also, in the end it turns out that Anna just wanted to be herself. She wants everyone to see her more than just Kates survival tool. Anna wants to stand out and be herself. Now here comes the sad part. You might think that Kate dies but it's the other way around. Anna is the car with her lawyer Mr.Campbell. Anna's dad is a fireman so he is called to a drastic scene. Anna happens to be in the car with Mr. Campbell. He suffers injurys and so does his dog Judge. Anna suffers major head injurys. It doesn't work out and she is sent to a happier place:heaven.
  
  

  10/12/2009 6:39:46 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I rate My Sister's Keeper a 5. Although it was extremely sad it was a very interesting book. It had a great hook that always kept me reading. I reccomend this book to people to read.

  10/12/2009 6:41:12 PM
• james

  I just finished the book,''Help! I'm Trapped In My Teachers Body'', by Todd Strasser. Jake Sherman,( the main character), hates school especially his science teacher Mr.Dirksen.He WAS an ordinary 12 year old. But not untill he went in Mr.Dirksen's garage and lightning hit the human switch a roo machine he made. Their bodys were switched! Jake had to learn how to be Mr.Dirksen,and Mr.Dirksen had to learn how to be Jake. During that experiance Jake notices that Mr.Dirksen's life is hard. Now he wants to turn back to normal, but the only way is to go back in his garage and switch them with his machine. Jake and his sister go to Mr.Dirksen's house with Mr.Dirksen ant switch them back. Now Jake wont spit spitballs or talk during class any more because he know how annoying it is.

  10/12/2009 7:07:02 PM
• Mariah caise

  I just finished a book called Lily Dale: Connections by Wendy Core Staub. The Genre of my book is Mystery. It is mostly about this girl named Cally who is trying to find out how her mom died. She doesn't know exactly how her mom died because one day she walked through her front door and her mom was there laying on the floor at the bottom of the stairs. She also doesn't know who killed her mom, if it was her mom, her mom's husband, or whoever. She is trying to find out clues about who it could be. I would rate this book a 4 because it was a little confusing about how she got to Lily Dale. i didn't read the first or second book, and that's probably why it was a little confusing but I understood it. I am reading the first book now, to see when her mom died, and how she got in Lily Dale. This was an enjoyable book because it was suspensful all the way through! you were always wondering what was going to happen next. I would so recommend this book because even though it is a little sad about her mom dying, it is a phonaminal book!

  10/13/2009 1:32:20 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  The book I just finished is Prom Crashers by Erin Downing.A girl named Emily is in a huge crisis. She doesn't have a date to senior prom! She was working at the Leaf Lounge when she notices a cute boy waiting to get a drink. She chats with him for a while and they plan to go to prom together.She finds out his name is Ethan.They get each others digits and then he leaves. While she's working, her cousin, Charlie, spills whipped cream on the counter and wipes it up with the paper Emily writes Ethan's digits on! Together, her cousin, her and her two friends Sid and Max vow to help find Ethan. They found out they had to crash nine proms. They named themselves the prom crashers(steal the spotlight and search for Ethan. Then they leave)Finally, they found Ethan. But the trouble isn't over yet.Maw seems to have developed a crush on Emily. She can't pick who to choose. At the end she picks Max. Friends are more important than anything. But finds out she has been misinterpreting the signs. She goes to her own prom without a date.Suddenly has a unexpected surprise. Ethan decided to crash Emily's prom. Emily is overjoyed. She should have stuck with ethan in the beginning.I would rate this book a five because this is a very unique book and has many details. How many books do you know has four people go to nine proms? I recommend this book to many people who like strange twists.

  10/13/2009 1:37:54 PM
• Finn Ebersbach

  recently I had finished Midnight for Charlie Bone, by Jenny Nimmo. It is about a boy named Charlie Bone and he is endowed. This means he has a power. But this is not a normal power like flying or strentgh, he looks at a picture and immidiatly he can hear what happend at that very moment. With his power he goes on a mission to find a child that has turnt into a preteen. His adventures trying to get this girl are amazing I would most definatly recomend this book.

  10/13/2009 2:26:51 PM
• Sam Friedman

  My name is Sam and I just finished the book Miricle on 49th Street by Mike Lupica. It is a realistic fiction book. This book was about a 12 year old girl, Molly Parker. Her mom has just recently died but before she died, she revealed Molly's fathers identity. It turns out that he is a famous basketbal player for the Celtics, Josh Cameron. When Molly first tries to tell Josh that she is his daughter, he just drives away. But when she sneaks into his car, she gives him letters that his mom wrote to Molly. He still doesn't beleive her. Thats when Molly got mad. She left and didn't come back. Josh appeared in front of the appartment building she was living in and apologized. At a hotel in New York (they both live in Boston) Molly hears Josh talking to his agent about getting rid of Molly. She stormed off again. When Josh caught up with her, he apologized again but she just revealed his identity to all of New York. She finally forgives him but Molly forgot to tell him that she was moving to LA with her foster family. They agreed that they should visit and they lived happily ever after. I would give this book a 4.5. I would do this because it has a good story line, good deatails, but it ended too sudenly. Overall, I enjoyed this book and anyone that likes sports books or books that you dont know what will happen next will, too.

  10/13/2009 2:56:13 PM
• Billy Shparberg

  I read Artemis Fowl the time paradox. It's about a child genius named Artemis who discovers fairies and gets magic powers. His powers let him hypnotize people and make blue sparks come out of his hands. He got theese powers while being in the time stream trying to get out of the past. Side effects from the time stream trip were nausea, magic powers and he switched an eye ball with his best freind, Holly. Holly's a fairy police officer. Artemis came back with one blue eye one brown eye and magic. His parents know nothing about his adventures so he hypnotized them with magic to not notice anything wrong. But when he hypnotized his mom she caught a magic disease called spelltropy. It stops your organs slowly and painfully. The cure is brain fluid from an extict lemur. Artemis sold the last one of those lemurs 5 years ago to help pay for an expedition to Russia to find his kidnapped dad. Failure expedition by the way. So he went back in time to steal the lemur from himself, clone it several times and get the brain fluid from one to cure his mom. the past artemis successfuly got the lemur back from the future artemis when he tried to steal it. then the past artemis sold it to the extictionists who sold it to opal koboi. an evil pixie who needs the lemur brain fluid as an ingredient in a potion. so future artemis infiltrates her lair and steals it back and goes to the future. He takes past artemis with him but opal follows them. It gets sort of confusing at this point
  Opal takes over artemis' mom's body and pretends to be her just to get the lemur but they saw that coming and didnt give it to her. She had a whole buch of booby traps though. She captures past artemis but future artemis flys away in a plane with opal following him and he tricks her to crashing into a giant rock formation while the fairies cloned the lemur and saved Artemis' mom. And it took 3 highly trained teams to dig her up from the rocks. It was an awesome book

  10/13/2009 2:59:37 PM
• Vivian Nguyen

  I am in the middle of reading "The Host" by Stephenie Meyer. This book is basically about when "souls" conquer the planet Earth. These souls take over human's bodies, and Melanie Stryder was next. After the transplant,they both have to get used to living with each other. Soon enough, the soul, named Wanderer, can't take it anymore, so she travels to Chicago to get Melanie removed. But along the way they get into a situation where Melanie's relaitves find her. They aren't really sure if it really is Melanie or isn't. Melanie's companion, Jared, is also try to figure it out. Is it really her? Or isn't? My favorite scene in this book (so far) is when Jared finally comes back from searching for food in the desert, and finds Wanda (who is really Wanderer, but they gave her a nickname) working just like everyone else in the cave. This is my favorite scene because anger just runs through Jared's veins and its just action packed! I would rate this book a 4.5. The book was a little bit hard to understand at first, but then you get pass that and you start to get it more. I really enjoyed this book. The plot was just so interesting and so "mystical". I would definitely recommend this book

  10/13/2009 3:00:52 PM
• Gurmaher Arora

  My name is Gurmaher Arora and i just finished a book called Fink's Funk, by Sarah Weeks. This book is a fiction book and I thought that it was exciting! I thought it was exciting because the author of this book did a really good job making a interesting conflict.
  
  This book is about two friends that are thinking of making thier own invention, sitting outside on a warm, sunny day. Their names are Nat and Boyd . The thing is that Nat's real name is Nat Boyd and Boyd's real name is Boyd Fink. Everyone calls Boyd Fink, Fink because they don't want to get Nat Boyd and Boyd Fink confused. Let me get back to the summary now. When the two boys were sitting outside, they wanted to make their own invention. So Nat decided to invent a game with Fink. So the game was to see who could find a better fact and bring it the next day. They had two judges, who were their classmates. Their names were Jessie and Marla. Jessie and Marla are really close friends. Another main character in this story is Mad Dog, the bully. After school was over, every day the two girls and the two boys would meet to the bench in the playground and they would see whose fact is better, Fink's or Nat's? To find a they would ask someone for a great fact, or search the computer or even, check the book of warld records. In the first round Nat won. Marla liked Nat's vote and so did Jessie. The next day on the second round, Nat won again. Fink got really upset. At their third round, nat won. Fink is not such a losing type of person. Things got harsh between Nat and Fink. For example, Fink thought that Nat payed Marla and Jessie to pick him. So their friendship was breaking step by step. When I read this, I felt terrified! Then I read more and I found out that Nat tried to help Fink in getting out of this vile situation. Soon Fink realized that he was in a terrible Funk and he stated to listen to Nat. The game was over because it caused Fink to realize that he was being a sore loser. Then Nat and Fink remained friends forever!
  
  I would rate this book a 4.5 because I thought it was really good and interesting, but it just was a little easy for me. I also loved the part on page 46 in the book, where Fink misses the carton of milk in the garbage when he tries throwing it, and it lands on Mad Dog. I thought that this book was a little easy for me because the vocabulary words were words that I already knew. Next time I want to read a book that has some challenging words in it. I enjoyed this book a lot because I thought that it was really fun to read about and that I could imagine what happened in the story. I would strongly recommend this book because it is really fun to read. For all the Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans, think this book might be interesting to you because I love the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series too and I thought that this book was interesting. Right now I am reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone which also seems to be a great book. I can't wait to read more in this book!

  10/13/2009 3:28:56 PM
• Andre Smith

  The book I read was SummerBall. It's about a twelve year old boy named Danny. He is smaller then other kids his age. He loves the game basketball though. he likes it so mudh he plays it everyday.One day his father had asked Danny if he would go to a camp called right way. Danny was scared because he was to small and was not good enough to beat kids taller than him. Danny desided to go to rigth way but not alone he went with some friends. He went with his friend Ty and Will. On the plane he met a kid named Tarik. He was on his way to Rigthway as well.When they got there the camp was huge. That nigth danny didnt like the camp. Then he found out that a kid named zach did not even want to be at Rightway. He said his dad made him come and he didnt play basketball anyway. Danny talked to zach and told zach a story his dad told him, about doing stuff you dont like to do but ending up likeing it after all. then one day in a basketball game a kid Rasheed hit when he was going for a layup. Danny faked an injery,all he had was a bruce on his knee. When he was back on his feet he went to go practice with zach. when out off nowhere a kid named Lamar pop zach only ball. Zach throw the ball at his face. Lamar punched zach in the stomach. So Danny punched Lamar in the face.Then befor Lamar could ract Resheed steped in and steped in andstoped the fight.After that Danny and Rasheed became friends. They were now on the same team and had gottin some off there play time was taken away because of the fight.When it came to the playoffs they got more and more play time.Then one day a playoff game a friend of danny's named Tess. After the game her camra was smashed into peices.Danny thought it was Lamar. The next game they beat Ty's team and got in to the championship.And they were facing the Laker's. The team that Lamar was on.The next day danny's mother had came with tess. His mom wasso happy to see him she gave him a death hug. At 8pm it was time for the game. The first two quarters were not good for Danny's team. Then they were tied in the forth quarter. with five seconded lefted on the clock Danny's team was ahead by one point. then lamar had the ball and was going for the layup. Danny had to stop him from winning the game. so he sprinted down the quart and stuck his arm up and smacked the ball right out of his hand. And Danny had won the championship for his team

  10/13/2009 5:23:03 PM
• Jacob Youssef

  My book is called Claws. The author is Dan Greenburg. The genre is fiction. This book was about a boy named Cody. He has been running away from his mother for a long time. Cody kept on looking for jobs. He finally found one and went to try it out. It was called Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. It then said trespassers will be eaten. When he enterd he meet a lady named Sunny. He got used to tigersand they got used to him. Codys mother finally found him and told him to come with her. He said no because she would treat him badly. She left and went back home.
  I would rate this book a 5. I would rate it that because you could feel the emothions of people. when you wold read the book it would feel like you are the main charcter. I would recommond this bok Claws. I would recommond this book because it has a lot of action. It also has a lot of adventures. To people who like action and adventure you would love this book.

  10/13/2009 5:34:28 PM
• JO$H BARKOFF

  hello this is josh barkoff, and the book that i have just finished is Small Steps by Louis Sachar. This book is a realistic fiction book. The book is about a kid nicknamed armpit, who lives in Austin, Texas. He had just come back from a juvinille detention camp, called camp green lake, they named it that because they want kids to think that it was going to be nice and have a lake but realy there was no water or lake around for miles because it was in the middle of a hot desert. so anyway once he camp home from the camp he said to him self that he want to start a new life and be good, but there is only one thing stoping him, his friend from camp green lake named x-ray. x-ray is stoping him because he came up with a get rich quick idea and when ever he comes up with an idea it always ends up going wrong. then X-Rays moneymakeing idea leads armpit into a famous teen sensation who is known as Kaira Deleon, then armpits life goes spin out of control like a ride at a carnival that makes you want to hurl. but the one thing we found out after that is that armpit will never ever be the same again. I would recomend this book to anyone because it has some comedy and because it is very interesting, but before reading this book you should read the book hole, which is the first book and still by the same author. if you don't read that book first you will find this one alittle confusseing. all and all i think that this a marvelous,outstanding , and a new york times best seller. (hahaha)
  
  
  
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  10/13/2009 6:37:16 PM
• Amanda Fabian

  My name is Amanda and i recently finished the book The Mediator: Haunted. This is the 5 book out of six. The genre is mystery. The main characters are Suze, Jesse, and Paul. Jesse is the ghost that has been living with Suze in her bedroom. Well, mainly shes living with him because he has been in that room for over 150 years! She doesnt mind having him around because she has a crush on him. He is like her father, always looking out for her, and warning her when things smell fishy which is mainly all the time! Paul, is a whole other story. He and Suze met over the summer in a hotel resort where suze worked as a babysitter and paul was a hotel guest.Suze and Paul share one thing in common. They can see, hear, and talk to ghosts, making them mediators. In the last book he tried to kill suze. Mainly, this book is about paul teaching suze some of the things she can do while being a mediator that she never knew including changing bodies and going up to heaven without exorcizing yourself or dying. This book doesnt really have suspense. I would still recommend it to anyone who read the 1,2,3, and 4 book because it leads up to what happens in the 6th book. It still had alot of good detail so i would rate it a 3.5.

  10/13/2009 6:47:52 PM
• Amanda Fabian

  I recently finished the book The Mediator: Twilight. The author was meg cabot. This was the 6 and last book in the whole Mediator series. I wish Meg made 20 more of these books! This book was AMAZING! Paul is back and he has a crush on Suze but she likes the ghost in her bedroom, jesse. So, he has a plan to go back in time and prevent jesse from ever being killed and meeting suze so she and paul can date. Well, suze finds theis plan out and go back in time with paul and she decides to prevent him from being killed it woyuld be selfish of her otherwise. But, when she gets ready to go back to modern times, she touches him and he goes back with her. this was not supposed to happen so she thought he was dead, then he fathers ghost tell jesses spirit that is body is at the hospital. He meets up and sees his boddy and it sucks him into it. Luckily, he is alivve!! that means that they can really date and not hide it and seem like she is talking to herself. they go to a bunch of dances and out to eat together! This was an AMAZING series! i would absolutley recommend this to every girl in thw world!!! i would rate this book a 5 billion!!! i hope anyone who reads the sereis will enjoy it as much as i did!

  10/13/2009 7:04:28 PM
• Amanda Evans

  The book i finished reading is Dark Secrets by Elizabeth Chandler. The genre of this book is a mystery and partially a realistic fiction novel. In this book, the main character Megan is asked to visit her grandmother, Helen Scarborough in the town of Wisteria. She had never been to the house before or even seen her grandmother in person because her grandmother had wanted nothing to do with her her whole life because Megan was adopted. However now all of a sudden she finds herself in her grandmother's house with her cousin Matt that lives with her. Matt doesnt seem to like her very much at first, but eventually they get used to eachother and get along okay. When in the house however, creepy things start occuring that seem to connect to how her Aunt Avril died. Avril was her grandmother's sister and at the time Avril and her grandmother were fighting over a boy named Thomas. Helen(the grandmother) had been Thomas's girlfriend first but soon Avril steals him for herself and Thomas does love Avril. Helen getting jealous, finds a poison that will just make Avril sick enough to not be able to go see Thomas one night. However the person who she had gotten the poison from, deliberately gave her too much and Avril died of an overdoes later that night while meeting with Thomas. This is a background of how Avril had died. Avril had died when she was 16 and Megan was now sixteen and it seemed as though she was starting to live Avril's past. She would unknowingly move everything in the house back to the way it was when Avril had lived there, seeing Avril's ghost, hearing people calling her, dreaming of things and events she had never heard or experienced before and then seeing them or experiencing them in the next few days. For example she had had a dream about dieing in a mill with huge water wheels and a musty olg basement where water leaked everywhere. Within the next three days she visited the mill behind her grandmother's house and found it was exactly as it had been in her dream. Afterwards she also finds out the mill had been where Avril had died, just as Megan had imagined. She was living the life of Avril, she was Avril reincarnated. Matt had been Thomas in her past life, Thomas being the love of her life before she died. And her new friend she meets in Wisteria, Sophie that she seems to have so much connection with like they had known eachother forever was her best friend when she was Avril. Eventually she figures all this out and decides to make everything go back to the way it was before she died because people did say the main reason for reincarnation was to finish or accomplish things that had not been done in a previous life.
  I would definitely give this book a five because it is filled with suspense and drama, along with alot of action that makes you want to read more. This book is probably one of my favorite books I've ever read.

  10/13/2009 7:12:37 PM
• Ridhima Sakhuja

  My name is Ridhima Sakhuja and I recently finished reading So B It. This book is about a girl, Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother and her neighbor, Bernadette. Her mother knows exactly 23 words, not including the one word only she says, soof. Everytime her mother came across a picture or she saw something strange she would say soof. To find out what this means, Heidi finds herself in New York where she learns the secret to her past.

  10/13/2009 7:20:41 PM
• Zachary Nazario

  The book I read is Skelton key by Anthony horowitz. I rate this a 4/5 because in the book Alex has to go on a plan to a small island where he has to find the Skelton key before a man who lost everything takes his revenge out on the world and will stop at nothing. I reccomemend reading this book

  10/13/2009 7:53:03 PM
• Erik Berger

  My name is Erik and I just finished my book called Lord Of The Rings Fellowship Of The Rings. It is by J. R. R. Tolkien and is a fantasy book. In my book, Frodo received a ring from Bilbo. Later on, he found out from his friend Gandalf, that the ring contains evil powers. He is in danger as long as he has that ring. The ring is part of the enemy and he needs it to regain full power. Frodo must destroy it by burning it in The Cracks Of Doom. The enemy has sent people to get the ring from Frodo and bring it back. Throughout his adventure to the Cracks Of Doom, he makes new friends and goes through very dark and dangerous adventures on the way. I give the book a 4.5 because it was great, but had some boring parts where they just talked and didn't do much. It is very entertaining to read about the things that happened to Frodo. I would recommend it because it is very fun and you just want to find out what is going to happen next, but there are two more books after it in the series, and you would have to read those ones too.

  10/13/2009 7:56:11 PM
• Jacob Hanna

  The book I finished reading was called "A Gathering of Days" written by Joan W. Blos. The genre of the book is historical fiction. It is written in the style of being a diary. The book is about the story of Catherine Hall, a 14 year old young girl living after the revolutionary War in New Hampshire. In the diary, Catherine describes her daily life, her school ,the chores on the farm, sewing, cooking, her friend Cassie, and the changes during the different seasons. She has a sad life especially after her mother's death, especially all of the chores she had to take over responsibility for, like running the household and caring for her father and younger sister. She talked about trying to do her best without complaining. In the journal she expresses her feelings about the changes taking place that year, including her father's remarriage, and meeting a runaway slave who asks for help, and the death of her best friend, Cassie. The end of the book includes a letter from the main character when she is in her 80s, written to her granddaughter and in it she writes about what happened to the other characters she wrote about when she was a teenager.
  I give this book a 3.0 To begin with,because this book is a journal and not really a story, the main character's life goes on and there is not really a definite ending. Secondly I found it very slow paced and quite boring. Maybe because it was written without any humor and it was all about a girl in the 1800’s so it was very hard for me to relate to the story.
  I would not recommend this book because it is more like reading a text book than an interesting entertaining book.

  10/13/2009 8:24:27 PM
• Justine Barr

  The book I read was Hoot. It was a very good book! It was definelty a mystery, but at points throughout the book you can realate to your own life. My favorite character was Officer Delinko. I think he was my favorite character, because he reminded me of my Dad! He is sort of like him because he is a police officer, and also Officer Delinko is a little bit, forgetful. My family and I always joke that my Dad fogets way to many things. And in the book Officer Delinko screws many things up, from sleeping on the job(which my Dad dosent do, he's actually really into his work). Carl Hiaasen is a really interesting author. And I think that this is just another example of how his imagination can make a book almost seem magical!

  10/14/2009 12:59:22 PM
• Justine Barr

  The book I read was The Secret Life of the Bees. It was about and took place during the slavery time period. It gave you a full inside look on how african american people were treated back then. It was just amzing how Lily would do anything for her father's slave. They were best friends. They even embark on an adventure that would forever change their lives. And reopens some old wounds of the past, that started with 1 pull of the trigger, This book and the lesson will stay with you forever, cause I know it will stay with me!

  10/14/2009 1:03:38 PM
• BRIAN WOLVERTON!!!!!!! XD

  the book i just finished was Point Blank. This book is the second book of the Alex Rider series. This book is about the 14 year old spy who works for M-16 sortof like the secret service in england. He has to find out what exctally is going on at point blank. A school where they say they will turn your criminal child into the perfect kid. Alex has to fight his way through guards and sneak around the building and report back to m-16. He gets caught and hes gets in a whole lot of trouble. Thats is some of the story without giving it away. I would definitaly recomend this to my fellow students. I'd give it a 5 out of 5. Great book

  10/17/2009 9:24:16 AM
• Amanda Wortham

  The book I just finished is called "Princess in Waiting" by Meg Cabot. This is about a girl named Mia. Her bestfriend Lily told her that she had a talent. Mia thought that she didn't have a talent eventhogh she is in gifted and talented. She keepsa trying to figure it out, but she can't seem to find it. Her friend and boyfriend are smart, so she felt left out. Then her grndma tells her she has to go to a ball on the day of her first date with her boyfriend. She tries to convince her, but it doesn't work. So when she is at the ball Her cousin and Mia make a plan to escape from the ball to her date. When Mia makes one up it works and she goes to her friend's house in her white ball gown. Her boyfriend Michael lets her in and they watch Starwars. Then Mia goes to the bathroom to write in her journal. And when Lily sees her she is surprised Mia still hasn't found her talent. As soon as Mia gets back from the bathroom she asks Michael if he knows her talent. He says that her talent is writing. Mia always writes in her journal, so that was her special talent.
  

  10/17/2009 8:33:09 PM
• Ethan Weerasinghe

  Hey Mrs. Demko!! The book that i have just finished is The People Of Sparks. It's about these people who have come from an underground city called Ember. They had NO idea idea what the surface world looked like. Then , there was this village called Sparks. The people had befriended the people of Ember. They were very needy though. And that was a trigger of a minor village war. people threw tomatoes, set things on fire, and even blew up things!! Toward the end of the book, there was a madman who actually blew up the town hall in sparks!!! But the people of Sparks and Ember both worked together, even though the people of Ember didn't know what fire looked like. But it all ended up OK. Everyone was safe!! As you can tell, I think that this was a very interesting book. And i highly recommend this book to people who enjoy books filled with conflict and action.

  10/18/2009 1:14:58 PM
• peter eskander

  i have completed the book Robinson Crusoe for Daniel Defoe.this book talks about a man who was on board of a ship,during a hurricane, he suddenly find his self on a strange island, so he starts to live, he made a savage be his friend ,lastly he went bake to England after he spent 23 years in the wood withe two houses

  10/19/2009 3:08:07 PM
• Tom Lanzano

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I had just finished the book "Soldier X" by Don Wulffson. It is about a 16-year-old boy named Erik Brandt who was just drafted into the German army in World War II. He didn't go through any training. He went straight to Russia, the German army's fist place to invade. Many of the soldiers in the army were much older than him.
  One day while Erik was in battle in Russia, he and many other German soldiers were severely injured. From how much he was hurt, he later passes out and the nurses went to save him and a few other Germans as well. When Erik woke up the next day in a hospital bed, he was hopelessly confused. he was suffering amnesia. He couldn't remember a thing about his past. Later, he asked the injured soldiers with him at lunch where he was. They said, "You're in Russia." Erik was extremely scared. He started to remember everything now, and he was so unaware that he was in the wrong territory. He was a German. Germans and Russians hate each other. He was in big trouble.
  One of the nurses at the Russian hospital was Tamara. Erik had a crush on Tamara. He knew that the only way that Tamara would like him was if he was nice, and especially if he didn't tell her about him being German. One day, Tamara went to Erik to check on his blood. "Aleksander?" she called out. Then she walked over to Erik. The Russians thought Erik was a soldier named Aleksander! This was horrible. The next day, Erik got a letter from the real Aleksander's parents! this couldn't get any worse for him. Not telling the truth, getting a false identity,and getting a letter that really wasn't his.
  Erik got the name "X" from Tamara. He and Tamara grew close to each other the whole two weeks he was a patient in the hospital. One day, Erik went to fight with the Russians. Tamara went with the group as one of the nurses. By a German, on their way to the battle sight, Tamara was wounded herself. She had to be rushed back to the hospital. Erik went with her. Tamara went through a whole operation to get the gangrene out of her system. Fortunately, the operation was successful. Tamara was saved. When She woke up, Erik told her about him really remembering his past and that he was truthfully German. Tamara really didn't care and still loved him. At the end, they get married and have three kids.
  I give this book *** stars. I really liked the background of what the story was about. The part a don't like about it was I got a little bored at times when I read this. Otherwise, it was a good book to read.

  10/19/2009 4:01:52 PM
• peter eskander

  hi again Mrs Demko!! i have just completed the book ((the good dog)) for avi. It begins when a dog named mackinly met a wolf named Lupin, this wolf wanted all the dog go to the wilderness, so they can live independently, but the hunters wants to hunt this wolf, they shoot her twice, she didn't die but the was bleading very hard mackinly saved her, he put her in an old house, she wanted to escape so she ran to the wilderness

  10/19/2009 7:31:12 PM
• Mariah Caise

  The book I am reading is Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub. The Genre is mystery or fantasy because it deals with ghosts and people being able to see into the future. But, it is mostly about a girl named Calla and her mom died. She had to go live with her grandma Odelia because her dad couldn't afford for the both of them to live in the same house. In Lily Dale, which is where is living right now with her grandmother, there are a lot of psychics and Calla is one of them. She can see the spirit of dead people but other people can't. It's freaky because she might be speaking to the ghost and other people are watching her! The ghosts give her clues to how her mom died. They give her clues and she finds out slowly. She is gradually getting closer but right now she is out there. i hope in the next book she gets a clue to who might have killed her mom. I rate this book a 5 because it dragged me in. I definitely enjoyed it, because I'm reading the whole series of the books. I read book 3 first, now I just read book 1, and the last one I am going to read is book 2! I would recommend this book to someone who doesn't get freaked about or sad about a person's mother dying and reading about ghosts.

  10/19/2009 9:50:42 PM
• Michael Meikle

  The book I'm reading is called The Tomorrow Code. Written by Brian Falkner, The book was realistic fiction.
  This book was definatly interesting. It keeps you on edge through the whole book. There are lots of sad momments that you will find out if you read this wonderful book. Mainly, it's about a boy named Tane and one of the smartest girls in america, Rebecca. They come across a sequence of 1's and 0's from a gamma ray burst picked up by NASA satelites. They try to dechiper what it could possible mean when they stumble upon the idea to use morse code. Thats the key. They figure out that the message is next week's lottery numbers, and soon, their rich! But the fun is not to last when they dechiper the last bit of information. It say's, SOS STOP THE CHIMERA PROJECT. They don't know what it is but they are afraid. Why would someone from the future send an emergency help call to them? If you want to know more you will just have to read the book. I would rate this book at 5 because of its great suspensfulness. It just made you want to keep reading on and on. Although you may have to read the end a few times it is slightly confusing and its best to compare the last chapter to the first chapter to figure out the way the book ends correctly. I enjoyed this book very much. Though i enjoy most books this is definatly one that stood out. It was so very suspensful and it was hard to stop reading at times. I wish it was a series so i could read on but sadly it isn't. I would recommened this book to anyone who finds scary mysteries interesting. This book is definatly spooky when it talks about the strange mist. I think anyone who loves a suspenful book would love this one. It's so exciting and I don't think anything i will read for a while will be able to compare
  

  10/20/2009 8:34:16 PM
• Justin Lipinski

  Hi again, this is the third book I've finished so far. It is called All-Star Pride by Sigmund Brouwer. It starts off that he is a minor league hockey player that was chosen to play in the Russian all-star games. It was a 7 game set winner gets $100,000 as a team. During the series Burnell, Chandler, and Nadia go to the black market with a package. They delieve the package to a guy with a eyepatch. On a game he had to sit out he saw Nadia with that guy again. I would rate this book 8 out of 10 because it was apilling to me. Hope to right more.
  

  10/21/2009 4:00:44 PM
• steven schuller

  I have now finished the book Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. The genre of it is mystery, action, and suspense. This book is about a 14-year old kid named Alex Rider. The police told him that his uncle Ian died in a car accident, but Alex thinks otherwise. Alex goes to do some investigating, but suddenlly finds himself caught in a deadly mission. I rate this book a 5 because I really liked all the action in it. I would recomend this book to all people who like action and mystery.

  10/22/2009 3:57:29 PM
• Rupa Mitra

  Hi! I read the book The Clique-Best Friends For Never by lisa Harrison. I guess this book would fit into Realistic Fiction. This book is about a girl name Massie and a girl name Claire. They're kind of the main characters. Massie is tired of Claire hanging out with Massie's old friends and she doesn't really like her because they don't get along. At first they didn't really like each other. But at the end, They found a way to get along better. I would give this book a 4.7 because The book is descriptive and I can undrestand what's going on. Byyyyyyye!!!!!!!

  10/22/2009 5:10:57 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I read The Clique by Lisi Harrison. Claire Lyons just moved from Orlando in her kiddie overalls and Keds. Massie, the alpha, doesn't approve. Neither do her friends Krsiten, Alicia and Dylan. They always make fun of her and this bothers Claire but she doesn't show it. But there is a chance they can all be friends. I rate this book a 5. It's a chick lit which I loved and it always kept me on my toes. I definitely reccomend this book to all girls because it can very much relate to us girls.

  10/23/2009 4:11:26 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  I just finished reading Vampire Kisses by Ellen Screiber. It's about this girl who's name is Raven and is goth. Her life's dream is to become a vampire. So, one day she hears these rumors about this new boy who just moved into the haunted mansion. Alexander, the supposed vampire. She very curious and explores the mansion. Suddenly she meets him at a store and finds out he's goth, just like her.She gets this invatation and is asked to join Alexander in the mansion. That's when she beleives he's a real vampire. On the prom night, she and Alexander go. Trevor, her worst enemy bails her out and breaks them up. Then, they come back together at a party held by her parents. At the end, Alexander leaves the town and abandons Raven.

  10/23/2009 4:51:40 PM
• Tirtza Romano

  Hi. This is Tirtza Romano. I read the book Dewy By Vicki Myron. The genra of the book is realistic fiction. This is because the stuff in this book could really happen in real life. This book is about a cat named Dewey that was found in the drop box at the town library. Dewey turned intothe librarys offical cat. He turned into a really famouse cat. People came from all over the world to see Dewy. Vicki is the lady that found Dewyey and named him. So Dewey is truley Vicki's cat. Every weekend Vicki takes Dewey to her house and Dewey LOVES Vickis child. Shes 16 but they still love eacholther. But then Dewey got older and Vicki had to decide whether to put Dewey to sleep or not. So she did because Dewey was 18 years old.
  
  I would give this book a 3 out of 5. This is because it got really boring at some times but the other times were really funny and interesting.

  10/24/2009 11:21:38 AM
• Frankie Wai

  I have just finished reading the book Brainboy and the deathmaster by Tor Seidler. I would say that this book falls in the category of action. It is about a boy named Darryl aka MDK (Martin Darryl Kirby) Darryl lives in an orphanage and he is 12 years old. he is very good at a playing the gamemaster which is a video game system. He meets a kid named boris at the orphanage which atempts to steal his gamemaster and suceeds. One day Keith Masterly comes to the orphanage to adopt Darryl and he does. They first return to Mr.Masterly's mansion.Darryl is intruduced to a bunch of other kids that are living in his mansion that are about his age. He also meets the other 3 people that work here. Hedderly is in charge of cooking,Snoodles is in charge of cleaning, and Abs who is in charge of the exercise programs who all seem to have a crescent scar on their foreheads. Darryl is brought the paradise lab where all you do is study and experiment with various things. Darryl is given his first master pill which is supposed to stimulate the braincells and give you all the vitamins that you need. He is intruduced the g17 compound that they've been experimenting with. After a few days into his new life Darryl becomes friends with a fellow lab partner named Nina which convinces Darryl to not take his pill for the day. his head starts hurting so Darryl gives in and takes his pill. until Darryl finds out that the pills dull your emotions he doesn't stop taking them. once he was off the pills They started to plot their escape plan and decide to climb up the chimney to safety so they train for the first few days. on the day that they would do their final session of training before they made their escape the next day Darryl discovers the use of g17 compound to reverse aging. Keith masterly offers Darryl to be his permanant son because currently they were just testing how Darryl liked it. Darryl refuses and finds out about what mr.Masterly was going to do to them. They were going to kill them once he got what he wanted which was how to reverse aging which he did so he was going to kill them. Nina notices the other kids about this and they all take Hedderly, Snoodles, And Abs to escape. They all get into their own separate plastic pods which were transparent. Everyone escapes and keith Masterly catches Darryl and locks him into the building while he activates the self-destruct sequence. Darryl climbs up the chimney with all the strength left in him and starts thinking about his friends that will suffocate because the pods were air-tight and unbreakable and could only be opened from the outside. Boris and his family had gone on a hiking trip so he freed nina and the others and darryl escapes to safety.. i like this book mostly because it had to feeling of danger from the moment Darryl entered the house which kept me reading to the end. Also for this I would give this book 5 stars out of 5. I would recomend this book for anyone who would like to read about action

  10/24/2009 3:59:16 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  Hi! The book I just finished is called "Project Princess." This book is about a girl named Mia. Over her spring break she decides to volenteer to build a house for the less fortunate. Mia and her friends go to West Virginia to build the houses. When they get there Mia realizes she is not good at anything that deals with building. So Mia holds up all the wood that her team needs. She realizes that holding up wood is very hard. Mia is not strong so she struggles to hold up the wood. When her team finishes thay build a three bedroom house for a poor family. Mia was proud of herself because when she did hammering she only hit her finger a couple of times.
  I would rate this book a 10. The book had a lot of weird and surprising events. I would recommend this book to my friends. I think they would like the book.I think this book is great.

  10/24/2009 7:43:40 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  Hi! The book I just finished is called "Valentine Princess." This book is about Mia. It is close to Valentines Day and
  Mia was hoping to get a Valentine from her boyfriend Michael. When Mia asked him about Valentine's Day he said he thought it is a stupid holiday. Mia's grndma thinks this is not the right boy for Mia. Mia was hoping Michael would get her a valentine from him. Either way Mia was going to give Michael a valentine to Michael. Then Michael told Mia he believes in Lupercalia on Februay 15. So, Michael sang Mia a poem he wrote called "tall Drink of Water." Mia proved to her grandma that Michael is a good boyfriend, and that he cared about her.
  I would rate this book a 9.5. This book is a bit romantic and exciting. I would recommend this book to some of my friends. I think they would like it. Some of my friends read this book before and said it was a good book. I liked this book a lot.

  10/24/2009 9:01:10 PM
• george

  Hi Mrs. Demko. It's me George. I have recently read a really exciting and thrilling book! It is called The Swiss Family Robinson by J.D. Wyss. It is fiction because it tells about things that I doubt would happen in real life like how they made friends with the wildest of animals like gorillas and wolves. Anyways, in the story, a family called the Swiss family with their last names as Robinson, get stranded on an island and they can't find a way off. They got there in the first place when they were on a cruise when a horrible storm took place and got them off course. They were the only people that didn’t drown and survived. When they regained their conscience, they found themselves stranded on a mysterious, deserted island. The first thing they did was calm down from panicking and find a contrivance, or technique to finding food, shelter, and a source of protection like weapons. They found food on nearby bushes and trees and drank the water from the fruits and coconuts. After a few weeks of living on the island, they were attacked by gorillas and elephants the following week. The way they defended themselves was using the emergency guns that they had from the boat. They ended up killing more than ten gorillas and elephants. And finally after a couple of months of living on the dreaded island, they were saved by another boat passing by.

  10/24/2009 9:18:15 PM
• Ghil Joseph

  Ghil Joseph
  The book I read was "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen. The genre of the book is realistic fiction.
  The main character Brian is going to visit his dad, when suddenly, the pilot in the airplane has a heart attack and is unable to steer the plane. Brian tries to take over and land the plane. He sees a lake and lands it there, but he falls out of the plane and the plane ends up in the lake. Brian is now stuck in the middle of nowhere and must survive on natural resources.
  I would rate this book a five because it was interesting to see a city boy out in the wild, adjusting to depending on nature. I also liked how the author put many problems for Brian to conquer, for example, he gets attacked by a bear, is sprayed by a skunk, and is poked by a porcupine.
  I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a nail-biter where they constantly wonder if Brian will survive in the wilderness. The book definitely kept me on my toes waiting to see what will happen next.

  10/24/2009 10:26:54 PM
• Amanda Fabian

  hello my name is amanda fabian and i recently finished a great book called the tale of desperaux. this would probably fit into the genre of fiction. The main characters are desperaux,and the princess.To start off Desperaux was born early, with his eyes open. He also had big ears and a very small body. As he grew older, he still stayed the same size. His parents knew that he was an oddball from the start. To add to the differences, he enjoyed humans and one day sat at the foot of the king and listened to him play his guitar and sing while his daughter, the princess of the castle would also sing along. he started to like the princess and let her pat him on the head. This was one of the many rules he broke as a mouse. One of the other things he loved to do was read. He would pick up a book, in particular a happily ever after one and read it over and over and resite the words and they lived happily ever after over and over and wish he could be brave and save the princess and live happily ever after with her by his side. And one day the test of his bravery came when the rats who lived in the dungeon kidnapped the princess and desperaux had to risk his life for her! The story ended up with desperaux and the princess living happily ever after after all. this ending was desirable because throughout the story you learned how discriminated desperaux was because of his physical appeareance and noone focoused on what really mattered; his heart. You felt for him and anyone could relate to how he was being treated so you were on his side and wanted the best for him! this was a fantastic book that anyone would enjoy!! i would rate this book a 5/5!!

  10/24/2009 10:52:11 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  Recently, I finished the book Much Ado About Anne by Heather Vogel Fredrick. The genre is realistic fiction. The book is about 4 girls in 7th grade, Megan, Cassidy, Emma, and Jess. The girls are in a book club together and are reading Anne of Green Gables. They are best friends but they get into a fight when Becca Chadwick, the school’s most popular girl, tries to ruin their friendship out of jealousy. But Cassidy has her own problems; her mom has started to date an accountant named Stanley. Cassidy wants her life not to change. She thinks if her mom marries Stanley, she will forget about her dad, who is died. I rate this book a 4 because it is surprising an interesting. I would recommend this book because it is surprising and fun to read!

  10/25/2009 12:25:14 PM
• seanglasgow

  The book iam reading is called danger Zone by David Klass.the main character is jimmy doylye is a great athlete and his best sport is basketball.He was so good at basketball he got recommended to play for the teen USA basketball team. When he moved from the cold and snowy Wyoming to the sunny and hot California it was very unasaul for him. On his old basketball team he was the best player but know since he dealing with the best players in the country it becomes very tough and hard for him. He did'nt even think he was good at basketball anymore. Later in the season he builts up his skills and helps his team win the national tournement. When he returned back to his girlfriend and family he remmebers all the fun and excitment he shared with his teammates and now he's in the NBA playing with grown men that have been playing basketball for years but that didnt stop him from averging 16 points a game leading hos team again to victories.

  10/25/2009 5:54:06 PM
• Jennifer Hoffman

  My name is Jenny. I just finished a book called Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli. I think it belongs in the realistic fiction genre. It's about a girl named Stargirl. She lives in Mica, Arizona. After 11 years of being homeschooled, Stargirl strats publicschool. At first all Stargirl's classmates loved her. For three whole months she was the most popularest kid in Mica High. Then slowly they relized how different she is from them and Stargirl soon becomes unpopular. Stargirl tries a couple thing to regain her classmates affection. She tries acting normal winning a speech compitetion and many other things. Unfortunately none of her ideas work. Then at the school dance she starts doing the bunny hop and everyone follows her. They acted just how they did when she was popular. All the kids that were there thought it was the best dance ever. The next day at school everyone finds out how Stargirl moved away. If I had to rate this book on a 1-5 scale i would give it a 3. It was a really good book except that it took a while for the book to really get started. Also, I didn't think it had a really good ending. It left the reader hanging which I never like. The book was funny. For example when when everyonr is at the big football game, Stargirl cheers for both teams when they score. I would recomend this book to only girls. I would do that because it's more of a girl kind of book and I don't think most guys would find this book interesting. Overall, I really did enjoy reading this book.

  10/25/2009 7:20:34 PM
• Mariah Caise

  The book I recently read was Lily Dale: Believing by Wendy Corsi Staub. In this book Calla thinks she knows who exactly killed her mom. It was a man by the name of Darrin. She thinks he killed her mom because she had a dream about it, and Darrin was there. He creeped up behind, wrapped his arms around her, and through her down the stairs. Calla wasn't sure if that was true of fake, but that's how she thinks her mom died. I would rate this book a 4 because some parts were just out there. Like they didn't need to be there. I definitely enjoyed it because it was about who she thinks killed her mom, and it involved killing and blood, and that is AWESOME! I would recommend this book, because even if you don't like romance, ghosts, mystery, or blood, you will love this book!

  10/25/2009 9:10:26 PM
• Giana Nguyen-Demary

  My name is Giana Nguyen-Demary and the book I read was The Cat that Ate My Gymsuit by Paula Danziger. This book is about a girl named Marcy. She doesn't like the fact that she is fat and has pimples. She thinks of herself as a blimp. Marcy never wants to change in here gymsiut at gym. So she fails gym. Marcy makes many excuses why she doesn't have her gymsuit on. One day her english teacher Mr. Edwards gets replaced by a new teacher Mrs. Finney. Marcy really likes how she teaches and she learns a lot from her. But the pricipal finds out that Mrs. Finney doesn't pledge the pledge of alegence. So the pricipal fires her. Marcy is very disappointed. I rate this book a five because the interesting part was when Marcy and her friends got suspended from school for a week. I really enjoy this book.

  10/26/2009 4:41:04 PM
• Sam Friedman

  The book I just finished is called Shoeless Joe and Me by Dan Gutman. It is a fantasy/ book because it is about time travel and baseball cards. This book was about a kid who could travel through time using baseball cards. He did it a couple of times before and almost got killed in one of his time travels. Someone told him about the Black Sox scandal, and after that, he wanted to travel back in time to stop it. He met Shoeless Joe Jackson and warned him about the scandal. He just laughed and said that the World Series couldn't be lost on purpose. Joe Stoshack (the time traveler) tells Shoeless Joe that seven other players are in on the scandal. He overheard the gamblers talking about the scandal, and they caught him. Right before they shot him, he dissappeared and came back to his time. I would rate this book a 4.5 out of five. I liked everything in the book except for the fact that it ended too suddenly. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes a good fantasy/sports book.

  10/26/2009 6:19:31 PM
• Zachary Nazario

  Hi my name is Zachary Nazario. And the book I recently finished is called ravens gate by Anthony Horowitz. In the book the main character Mattew Freeman was punished for vandalizing someones property but was framed and didn't really do it. So Matt was given a choice go to jail or go live with an old woman named mrs. Deverill in a small town called lesser mailing. He chooses to live with her but shouldn't of had because the woman has a strange and evil plan to to try to make him disappear and or die. It all ties in to an evil place named ravens gate, a place whose destiny is horrible intertwined with matts. An ancient doom is to be unleashed.and Matt is the only one who can stop it. Read the book to find out more. I think the book was very detailed and I highly reccomend it.
  

  10/26/2009 6:24:49 PM
• Leena Kasa

  The book I just finished is "The Trumpet of the Swan" by E.B. White. It is fiction book about a trumpeter swan named Louis, who can't make any noise or sounds. Louis decides to learn to read and write. When Louis falls in love, his father goes to the city and steals a trumpet, so the woman he loves will notice him. He works hard to pay for the trumpet his father stole and then he lives happily with his wife and cygnets. I would rate this book a 5 because it kept me really interested. I would recommend this book to everyone because it is very exciting and is a book everyone will love.
  

  10/26/2009 8:48:31 PM
• Ellen Lee

  The book I am reading was the Wolf Rider by Avi. The genre of this book is mystery. I like this book because it gives reasons why that person killed her, But the problem was that nobody listened to him they thought he was lieing. His life changed just because of a phone call. I rate this book a 5 because the author kept me reading this and gave me clues, and made me suspicious about what will happen in the ending. My predictions were "what
  if Nina Klemmer really died?" But she didn't die because the young man Andy, who helped her. The book Wolf Rider surprised me because the first sentence on the first page made it seem so
  interesting how it said "I just killed someone" I wanted to know who killed that person. The reason how I got this book on my mind was that my friend tolled me to read this book and thought it would be a good reading book for me. I noticed that the main character really cared about this girl Nina Klemmer. I knew that the main character emotions changed a lot, since his father said to forget about it. But he kept going his own way. I really enjoyed reading this book and I would definately recommend this
  book to others.

  10/27/2009 2:46:58 PM
• Jacob Barry

  The book I finished reading is Sunrise Over Fallujah by Walter Dean Myers. It is the sequel to Fallen Angels. The story tells you about Robin Perry. The nephew of Richei Perry, who is the main character of the book Fallen
  Angels. Robin or as his squadmates call him "Birdy" is serving a tour in Iraq. While serving he meets another person named Jones whose dream is to open up a blues place. While thier you see letters he had written about to his parents and uncle.
  I would rate this book a 5 out of 5. It is very detailed and if you read Fallen Angels than you would know how much detail their is in this book, but if you didn't I would compare it to actually being thier and reliving the moment. He also doesn't just say "he walked in" but explains what is going on as he walks that caused them to enter the building. Also he gives each of the characters an identity. This is why i give this book a 5 out of 5.

  10/27/2009 2:47:16 PM
• Phllip Park

  I just finished the book Tentacles by Roland Smith. It is about two cousins, Grace and Marty, going on a risktaking adventure. In the last book, they search for dinosaurs, but in this book, they search for the GIANT SQUID! This time, Marty's friend, Luther, tags along for this wild ride to New Zealand. they brought the dinosaurs with them for safety. Theo Sonborn (Ted's disguise)was the temporary cook. Ted is really suppose to build Wolfe's technology. Noah Blackbeard (Grace's evil grandpa)goes after Grace and the dinos and he is willing to steal them no matter what. I would rate this book a 5/5 becauseit gives great detail and moves the plot along smoothly and well. I reccomend this book to 5th graders and up because 4th graders will keep rereading it to understand(not all 4th graders).

  10/27/2009 4:58:38 PM
• Amanda Evans

  The book I have just finished reading is Gifted by Marilyn Kaye. This book is about a girl names Amanda Beeson and she thinks she is the best of the best. She is pretty, clearly the most popular, and has everything going for her. However there is one thing no one know's about her.....she's "gifted" as some call it. She has the gift that if she feels sorry for someone she is put into their shoes, feeling exactly what they feel and living their lives. So in this story she switched bodies with a girl named Tracey. Tracey is an outcast or a misfit and nobody likes her or talks to her. Amanda knows that she shouldn't feel sorry for her but she some how ends up doing exactly that. She experiences exactly what it's like to be Tracey and realizes how horrible it is. She learns that she even though she is popular it doesn't mean she should just ignore other people and be mean to them if they aren't exactly like her.
  
  I would rate this book a 4 because it was a good book but it didn't have as much action or detail as I would like. I also wasn't ever that excited to read it.

  10/27/2009 6:08:52 PM
• Dhiraj Peddu

  Recently, I finished a book called "In the Hand of the Godess," by Tamora Pierce the genre is fantasy. This book is a sequel to one of the books I've finished. It is about a girl named Alanna who pasees her school and becomes the first lady knight in this generation, that is because girls aren't aloud to be a knight but she disguised herself as aboy and didn't tell anyone until she finished the school and became knighted. So after she becomes a knight and she goes on the adventures she has always dreamed of. I would rate this book a five because it was so captivating I couldn't put it down. I would recomend this to anyone. It is not an easy nor hard book and anybody would be able to enjoy it.

  10/28/2009 4:57:29 PM
• Peter Eskander

  hi MRS.Demko!! I have just finished the book ((the good dog)) for the author AVI begins when a dog named mackinly met with a wolf named Lupin this wolf wants all the dogs to go to the wilderness with her, but she can't escape from the hunters who shot her twice, but at the of the story she escapes away. I give this book a rating(3) because at first i didn't understand the book and still there is some tricks in the middle i can't understand . and i don't recommend this book at all
  see you at class!! bye!!

  10/28/2009 9:53:05 PM
• Melissa Perdomo

  The book I just finished reading was The Garden of Eve by K.L. Going. The genre of this book is mystery. I liked the book because it is ironic and kept me reading more. The main character is Evie who moved to Beaumont, New York. This house was a property her father had bought and it came with an orchard with dead trees and gardens. Her house was old, weary and next to a cemetery. In this story Evie meets several people and a kid named Alex (She find out later that he was acting like his dead twin brother Adam). She receives an apple seed as a gift from one of these people and plants it in the orchard next to a grave that belonged to a previous owner. When the seed grew (within seconds), she and Alex ate an apple and immediately transferred to what they later found out, a different dimension. Everything was beautitul around them like the orchard and the gardens. Here, they discover how the a woman disappeared. Now they have to eat another apple to return to the other dimension before the tree disappeares, but Alex does not return. Her mission now is to bring Alex back but has to find another seed.
  
  I recommend this book because it is entertaining and full of twists. I rate it a 5 out of 5.

  10/29/2009 9:12:27 PM
• Tom Berzok

  Hi my name is Tom Berzok. I just finished the book Diary of A Wimpy Kid; Dog Days. It was written by Jeff Kinney. This book was hilarious. Diary of A Wimpy Kid is a realistic fiction book that I could really relate to. THe book was about a boy named Geg who's summer is coing to an end and he has done absolutely nothing with it. So his mom tells him to get more involved and go outside more. The thing is his friend Rowely and him got into a fight and they hate each other now. So Greg haqs no one to hang out with. A couple of times Greg's mom tries to make him go to the pool with Manny nad her but he kepps stalling and stalling until one day he finally goes. The thing is you have to take a shower before you go in and That krepps out Greg to no end. But one day manny goes into the shower to go take one and Greg has toi "save" him from the guys. Then they get out and he realizes that Heather Hills is a lifeguard there and he thinks she's really coll. So he goes thre every day just to be with her even thought she's in high school and he's not.
  Out of 10 I would rate this book a 10. I think this because it was a great comedy which I love and it's funny in way that kids can relate too.I really enjoye it because of that and the fac that Greg create so many hard-ships for himself and never really tries to resolve them. So he always whineds up getting into trouble.This is why I enjoyed the book.
  I would definately recomened this book. There are so many reasons that it's so hard to pick just a few. I would recomend it because it was truley a funny book. Yet it was to the point where it was funny enough so it didn't kill it. Also this book to me, was really easy to make real life connections to it. It feels like Greg's a real person living in this world. If you're lokking for a fun, and really funny book than you should totally read this one.

  10/30/2009 4:25:01 PM
• Nolan Choi

  I recently finished a book called Test of Time. The author’s name is Charles Harrington Elster. This book was truly mysterious and time compelling. Test of Time is a combination of both realistic fiction and science fiction. This book was about time warping, Earth’s cons, and transportation through DMI. DMI is known as Dynamolecular Intelligence. It is used to teleport things through the computer. Orlando, Aimee, Hank, and Angela are Hartford College students that got warped through a machine that named itself TWAIN. Hank managed to hack into TWAIN’s firewall and was tracked by Merle Paige. It transported the college students from Hartford to Hadleyburg. Next, they meet up with Mark Twain who also got transported from the 19th century to the 21st century along with has world famous manuscript, Huckleberry Finn. They then meet each other at the Rotunda in Hadleyburg. The gang splits up and tries to solve this problem and to reverse its effects. Hank goes to find Merle Paige, the extreme scientific hairy geek, to find a way to reverse TWAIN’s effects on them. After talking about Earth’s cons, they move onto retrieving Hank’s laptop through DMI. They many hours to find it and teleport it through the computer, but they managed to get it back in one fully operational piece. Hank and Merle call everyone to his room in the basement of Irvington Lab. They teleported Huckleberry Finn from his mom, Blanche Paige, the book burner that takes watch for the university’s library, and gives it back to Mark Twain. Followed by his angry mom being all dreadful and thrashing about finally decides to do the right thing. Merle makes a deal with her and she accepts. A portion of that deal was to reverse the effects and send everyone back to their original places.
  I’d definitely give this book a 5+ for such amazing visuals. For example, the mighty masse, the cue ball rolled at the end of the table, bounced off the cushion, and rolled most of the way back coming to rest about six inched from the eight ball. I could picture many visuals just like this one very clearly. It never was a blurry vision. It also had words I didn’t know until I read this book. For example, philodax, meaning someone in love with their own opinions, lucubration, meaning laborious study, and resistentialism, a philosophy founded on concepts that things are against us.
  I enjoyed reading this book because of its twists and turns. I also like how it switched between characters when the five split up and each chapter focused on one character. It was really outstanding and stunning.
  I would recommend this book because of its large capacity for more vocabulary, and if you’re stuck on a word, there’s a glossary for that.

  10/31/2009 10:21:59 PM
• ghil joseph

  Hello!I'm Ghil Joseph and I read Brian's Winter by Gary Paulsen.This was a realistic fiction book and an alternate ending to the book Hatchet. This book tells you what would have happened if the main character, Brian, wasn't rescued.
  Brian must survive the winter and take the skills he knows to a whole new level.All the things he learned to survire in the summer will be his building blocks for the winter.Brian realizes that if he wants to survive the clothing and other tools from summer must improve severely.I would rate this book a five because I liked how Gary Paulsen explaines all Brian's trials and errors. This made the book more interesting because one error can lead to serious problems.When Brian make's an error it really makes you wonder if he will survive.A few days into winter Brian realizes the more mistakes you make the harder it is to survive.I enjoyed this book because Gary Paulsen made it so that you wonder how Brian was going to use what he had to survive.It made me want to skip right to the end and see if Brian was going to survive because the suspense was killing me.I would recommend this book to anybody who likes suspense and a happy ending.:0 :@
  
  

  10/31/2009 11:50:21 PM
• Faris Alkhatahtbeh

  I have just finished reading the book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. This book was written by Jeff Kinney and is a realistic fiction book. This book is about about a boy named Greg Heffley trying to spend his summer at home playing video games. But his mom tries to get their family to go outside to do something fun. Her mom made a book club with everyone children in the neighborhood, but all the kids bailed out except for his friend Rowley. But Rowley also left to go to this country club. But soon the next day Rowley's father came over there house and showed gregs mom a bill of smoothies of $80 dollars. So now they had to pay it off. They made a lawn mowing business that soon backfired. They had a fight because Rowleys was doing all the work while greg was not doing anything. Because of that one fight they didnt speak to each other for a month. Soon Gregs birthday came but was in a total disaster. Greg got checks from his family members that his mom took to pay off the bill of the smoothies. Greg got a cell phone but only had two buttons: to call home and to call 911. and then Gregs uncle Joes dog, Killer, ate Gregs cake. His mom felt bad so she told greg to come and he'd pick out something he wanted. So he picked out this rainbow fish. Gregs brother, Rodrick, also got a fish but it was a bit dangerous. Thats because Rodricks fish ate Gregs fish. But he couldn't feel bad because that was father's day. After a while Gregs dad was telling him about how his dog ran into a butterfly field. But then Gregs grandpa said the truth and said that he ran over him. So Gregs got ticked off and then an hour later Gregs dad came back with a DOG. Greg really wanted a dog for his birthday, but soon, he was having second thoughts. The dog slept on his bed, right in the middle, but greg is too scared to move him because he thinks the dog will bite his hand off. But luckily, Gregs grandma's dog died a while ago and was feeling lonely, so gregs dad gave her the dog. No one really was going to miss the dog anyway. So as you can see, Greg has many obstacles in his summer life.
  If this book was being rated out of 5, i would definetly give it 5/5. It is a hilarious book. Some things i could relate to the book to my everyday life. It had many problems in the book that Greg tryed to resolve so i wondered how he was going to solve them so i continued reading to find out.
  I would reccomend this book 100%. One reason would be because of how funny it is. If anyone is looking for a laugh in a book, this book is the one.

  11/1/2009 2:13:29 PM
• Andre Smith

  I jIt about a just finished reading the book Football Hero. Its about a boy boy named Ty who lives with his old drunk uncle. Ty has a older brother named Thane who just got drafted for the Jets from the NFl. When Ty haers he go to dinner with his his brother. Then he tells his brother that he going to join the spring football team as a WR. when his uncle comes up with an idea to get money. He thought if he used Ty to get Thane to give him some information about the jets so he could win in fanesy football. Ty thought if it would get uncle gus off his back he would do but then it got to far and he got in some serios danger with serious money his uncle got him included him included in with the mofia. when the FBI find out they trie to stop Ty from geting him self killed. So they set up a trap for the mofia then when came for the trap it work they fell for it. After that Ty firsts game Started An hour ago they were down by 7 pointes Ty went in the game an scored the tochdown and then they went for two more points to win the game Ty won the game by caching it in the back corner of the endzone. Then Thane asked Ty if he would like to go live with him. Ty said yes
  
  I would recommend this book because it is a very intrusting book. And it has alot of excitment.I rate this book a 5 out 5

  11/1/2009 4:29:24 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I read The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. It was realistic fiction. It was about 4 girls; Tibby,Lena,Bridget and Carmen who discovered "magical pants". These "magical pants" at first belonged to Lena but they now belong to all of them. The Pants somehow fit them all. That summer they had a ceremony for the Pants. The Pants had 10 rules. Some of the rules were that you couldn't wash the Pants, you couldn't double-cuff them, you must never say the word "phat" and you must also not think you're fat while wearing the Pants. Those were a few rules. That summer all 4 girls would be all around the world for the first time. Each girl would have a little time with the Pants and then they would send it off to the next girl. They each probably got them twice all summer. Before you sent the Pants off you had to write one exciting thing that happened to you while you wore the Pants. The girls had their ups and downs with the Pants.
  

  11/1/2009 7:54:55 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I rate this book a 5. I rate it a 5 because it was an outstanding book. The author used a lot of vivid language and in almost every setting I picture what was going on and what the place looked like because I had never visited any one of the places in the book. Like the last book I read this book was a chick lit. I couldn't really relate to it that much but it was still interesting to read. There was a lot of drama and suspense in the book. I would reccomend this book but mostly to girls. In my opinion, I don't think boys would enjoy reading it. Girls, if you ever happen to read this book I hopr you enjoy it.

  11/1/2009 7:58:22 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  Hi the book I just finished is called Princess in Pink by Meg Cabot. This book is about a girl named Mia who wants her boyfriend ot ask her to the prom. The senior prom is coming up and she wants her boyfriend to ask her. Her boyfriend Michael is a senior so she wants him to ask her. She loves the prom. It gets close to the prom and Michael still hasn't asked her. She gives up and asks him and he says thinks the prom is lame. Michael says the only way he would go if his band plays. She wants to ask the head of the prom committee until she found out it was her enemy Lana. Before she got the chance to ask Lana the prom was canceled. Then her grandma saved the prom by finding a good spot. So Lana had to let Michaels band play in order to have the prom. Lana accepted it and they had the prom. Before the prom ended Mia had to leave it. Her mom was having a baby so she had to leave. Mia had to miss the end, but she was happy she got to have it.
  I think this book is a fantasy. I liked this book a lot. It was funny and a little awkward. Over all it was agood book. I would totally recommend this book to my friends. I would rate this book a eight out of ten.
  

  11/1/2009 8:08:17 PM
• Sam Friedman

  i just finished the book Babe and Me by Dan Gutman. It is almost exactly like the book i just read, Shoeless Joe and me, also by Dan Gutman. It is a fantasy/sports book. It is fantasy because it is about time travel. it is sports because he uses baseball cards to travel back in time and meet famous baseball players. This book is sort of like the last one i read. In the last book, he tries to stop a scandal. in this book, he wants to see if something really happened. He heard about the home run the Babe Ruth called in the 5th inning of the 3rd game of the 1932 world series. He meets Babe Ruth and goes a lot of places with him. He sees the called shot but a lot of people dont beleive that it happened and that he pointed to the pitcher. Out of 5, i would rate this book a 4.5. I liked the plot, details and surprises. The only thing that i didnt like was how suddenly the book ends. It ended even before the end of the game! I would definately reccomend this to anyone who likes a good sports/fantasy book with a lot of twists and turns!

  11/2/2009 8:00:57 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  The book I am reading is Miss Match by Wendy Toliver. Miss Match is about a girl who beleives she is very unlucky. She thinks she's not fit and constantly feels bad for herself. Then she meets Derek Urban. He is the guy of her dreams. But apparently, he only thinks of her as a friend. He likes her sister, Maddie.Since Derek registered to be set up with her sister Maddie and go to the prom with her, Sasha has to fulfill his dreams because it is her job. At the same time, Kevin is going to try to ask Maddie to prom. Sasha has to do all she can to stop kevin- even if she has to be a stalker.At the end, she ends up with Derek and he realizes that Sasha has been the person for him. I rate this book a 5 because there is a lot of drama.

  11/3/2009 1:33:48 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  The book I'm going to book blog about is Gettin Lucky. Gettin Lucky is about a girl named Cass. She went to visit her grandparents during the summertime and when she came home to Vegas and found out that her boyfriend was double dating her best friend, Alana. Would she let that stop her? No. She made new friends and started to play poker. Sometime in the middle, her exfriend and boyfriend started to play too. What was strange was that her exboyfriend was winning every round. She videotapes him and finds out that he has been cheating on the cards. At the end , her former friend dumps him and Cass and Alana are friends, but not as close. I would rate this book a 4 because the beginning and ending was excellent but the middle was ok

  11/3/2009 1:51:01 PM
• Rupa Mitra

  Hi! I just finished a book called The Beacon Street Girls- Worst Enemies/Best Friends. It's about a new girl name Charlotte Ramsey who moved to Brooklyn, New York. She moved to a lot of places like Paris, Australia and Africa. So now she's stuck in New York. When she got in her new school at lunch, she sat next to a group of girls name Kantani, Avery and Maeve. Charlotte did the most embarrasing thing ever. When she was done with her lunch, she got up and accidently spilled her lunch all over The group of girls. They were so mad-especially Kantani. Avery wasn't mad at all. She was laughing. And Maeve got a little mad but not as mad as Kantani. Charlotte felt so embarrassed. She didn't really want to stay in New York, but at the end, things started to change. I wish I could tell the ending, but I don't want to spoil it. I rate this book a five because it has a lot of sensory details. I recommend this book to girls who like reading about friendship. Bye!!!!!!!

  11/3/2009 2:34:45 PM
• steven schuller

  I'm now finished with the book Raven's Gate by Anthony Horowitz. The genre of this book is action and suspense. This book is about a kid named Matt. Matt got punished for a crime that he didn't even commit. He was given a choice to either got to jail or live with the evil Mrs. Deverrill. He shoulh've chosen jail though. After Matt moves in, a strnage and siniter plan starts to happen and Matt is in the center of it all. When his friends try to help him him escape they all dissapear or die. An ancient doom is about to be unleashed and Matt is the only one who could stop it all. I would rate this book a five because it had a lot of action in in it and it also was a little bit eerie, so I liked that. I recomend this book to people who like action and suspense.

  11/4/2009 9:48:16 AM
• Jacob Hanna

  The book I recently finished was called the 39 Clues Book 1 ‘The maze of Bones’. It was written by Rick Riordan and is the first in a new series of adventure books. The main characters in this book are a brother and sister Dan and Amy Cahill, who are orphans. All they have is their grandmother but she passes away. In her will she tells the family how they are connected throughout history to every famous people all over the world like Benjamin Franklin. They are sent on a scavenger hunt with other members of their family, which will give them the source of all the Cahill power or take a million dollars. They all go in search of 39 Clues. Many of these clues were left by Benjamin Franklin. This book is filled with intrigue, action, and adventure and sometimes it’s a little funny too, like when Dan tries to lead the group but ends up arguing with himself. I really recommend this book. I would give this a 4 ½ out of 5. I can’t wait to read the next in the series.

  11/5/2009 5:00:13 PM
• Jacob Barry

  The book i just finished is Pearl Harbor by Newt Gingrich and Willaim R Forstchen. The book tells you about the days leading up to Pearl Harbor and the attack. It tells you about the events and the realtionship between America, Britian, and Japan. It aslo talks about the attack on the USS Panay. Another thing is the training the Japanese took and the modifications to thier torpedos. Also the precations they took to protect thier mission. They aslo used selective targeting and decided to bomb the ships trying to exit the harbor and block the exit and trap the ships from exiting. They also mad a second wave to attack dry docks and oil farms.
  I would rate this book a five out of five. It is full of action and it makes you imagine the attack and the events leading up to it. It also is full of action. It describes the Arizona being bomb and where it hit and what happend. I would reccomend this book to anyone who likes reading about World War two or is going to Oahu or Pearl Harbor.

  11/5/2009 6:29:42 PM
• Tom Lanzano

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I had just finished reading the book called "Football Hero" by the former NFL linebacker Tim Green. This story is about a 12-year-old boy named Ty who had justed moved into his Aunt and Uncle's house. His parents died in a car crash so, Ty was forced to move in with his Aunt and Uncle. Also, Thane, Ty's superstar football playing brother, was drafted to the Jets in the first round of the draft. Ty wants to live with his brother in the new house, but his parent's will stated that he should live in Aunt Virginia's and Uncle Gus's run down house. Additionally, Ty is playing on his Middle School football team. He plays wide receiver, like his brother, and is extremely fast, also like his brother. Thane tought Ty many things about how to be a great wide receiver just like he is. Anyway, Thane brings Ty into the Jets clubhouse and shows him everything in it and all of the famous players. Also, Ty tells Uncle Gus about all of the injury reports for the Jets so he can win a lot of money on his bets. He always bets on Jets games because he takes advantage of Thane and Ty to know everything that is happening with the Jets. So one day, the FBI goes to the Jets clubhouse and finds out about Uncle Gus and Ty about their betting thing. Thane has an intense talk with the FBI and they don't get in trouble. But, Uncle gus now has to give the decision to Ty about where he wants to live. Ty happily says he wants to live with Thane and everything is okay.
  I give this book a 4 because I first of all love sports books, and it had an interesting storyline. Bye!
  

  11/5/2009 8:00:36 PM
• Erik Berger

  I just finished the second book in the series of The Lord Of The Rings, called The Two Towers. It is by J. R. R. Tolkien and is a fantasy book. In my book, Pippin, Merry, and Boromir are attacked by Orcs. They kill Borormir, but capture Pippin and Merry. Strider, Legolas, and Gimli pursue the Orcs trying to save their friends. Pippin and Merry escape from the Orcs and become friends with an Ent that they found called Treebeard. Treebeard is the oldest thing that is living on the planet. They go off with him to go to Sauroman, one of the bad guys. He is a wizard, and they were going to destroy him. Treebeard goes with all the other Ents to Sauroman. They have surrounded his castle and are staying there to makes sure that he does not do anything bad. Strider, Legolas, and Gimli find Gandalf their friend, who is also a wizard. They all thought that he died, but he actually survived and is back. They all go to Rohan and meet the king Theoden and help him defend his castle from the Orcs. After that they go to where Pippin and Merry are and Gandalf breaks Sauroman’s staff. The Ents stay there, but Strider, Legolas, Gimli, Gandalf, Pippin, Merry, and Theoden now travel to Minas Trith to help them in a big war that is happening soon. While all that is happening, Frodo and Sam continue their journey to the Cracks Of Doom. They find Gollum, who used to have the ring, and now he wants it back. They capture him and make him their guide because he knows this land well. Along the way, they find Faromir, who is the younger brother of Boromir. Frodo and him become great friends, and he helps them out as much as he can. He also tells them the news of Boromir dieing. Then they part from him and continue their journey onward. That is the summary of my book. I rate this book 4.5. It was a great book and throughout it there was always something exciting happening. It kept me reading and I was not bored. That is why I rate it a 4.5. I would recommend this book. I would because it is very interesting, and you will have a lot of fun reading it. You have to read the first book before you read this one, or nothing will make sense. The first book is call The Fellowship Of The Ring, and is also great. The book called The Two Towers has many things that surprise you, like Gandalf returning from the dead. That is why I would recommend my book.

  11/6/2009 3:01:22 PM
• Amanda Evans

  The book i have just finished reading is Alphas by Lisi Harrison, which is a realistic fiction book. It's about a girl, Skye Hamilton that has been trying her whole life to please everyone. Through dance, friends, and grades she had to be the best of the best. She is the most popular girl at her school in New York and almost everyone likes her and thinks she truly is the best. However this is not good enough for Skye because the two people she cares about most dont think this, her parents. So when she gets accepted into the exclusive Alpha Academy she realizes this is the chance of a lifetime to make them proud. When she gets there it is amazing with great technology that is found no where else and beautiful surroundings like the beaches, palm trees, and gardens. Although everything seems great at first life gets a lot harder. The headmaster of the school, Shira, has five extremely cute sons that go to the school. However the rule is you can't talk to them at all except about classes and you can't see them anywhere outside of class. The consequence for breaking this rule, being immediately expelled. Skye realizes how serious Shira was when students do break this rule and get thrown out. She also realizes even though she is tempted she simply must obey these rules if she ever wants to make her parents proud. Plus what would it look like to her friends back at her old school if she got kicked out of this brand new elite school? Alpha Academy was supposed to be for training of great talents such as singing and dancing and to become successful in the world not for boys. So she focuses on becoming a better dancer, getting herself noticed and going straight for the top.
  
  I would rate this book a 5 because it was filled with suspense, always wondering if Skye would follow the rules or be thrown out of the school.

  11/7/2009 9:06:33 PM
• Billy

  I read The Wish List by Eoin Colfer. It's a fantasy book about a girl and her friend that got blown up in a gas explosion. Her friend, Belch, was evil so he went to hell and while he was there his body merged with his dog's body so he became a half boy half dog freak. Meg, the girl, however couldn't go into either side. While she was in the spiritual tunnel she met a guy named flint who had to mine the rocks there forever as eternal punishment. flint explained that Meg's aura was purple.It needs to be blue for heaven. flint gave Meg 2 rocks he said they would work as extra fuel. since meg couldnt go to either side she went out and came back to earth as a ghost. more acurately, she crashed into an old guys house. she got ghost powers like going through things and mind control. when Lowrie McCall, the guy who lives there, saw her at first he freaked out. then when Meg told him her story, he knew how she could get her aura blue. Lowrie regretted a lot of things and he wrote them in a list. a list of stuff he should of done, a Wish List. If Meg helped him do all four things on the list he would of lived a full life and she would of done a good deed to get her aura blue. The first thing on the list was to kiss a girl named Cicely Ward. She's the most famous TV grandma in Ireland. When Lowrie was a teenager they went on a date but he was too nervous to kiss her. They haven't seen eachother since. To prepare he goes to a salon and gets "the works" and buys a new suit. he looks like a million bucks. Then he sneaks backstage to one of the shows and Meg mind controls the guard let him in. After they get in they find Cicely and she recognizes him and they make out on live television. The next thing on the list was to kick a soccer ball over the bar in a famous soccer stadium. When he was a kid in boarding school a bunch of kids snuck out at night to go to the stadium nearby so that when they were adults the can gloat and say that they've played in that stadium. Lowrie chickened out at the last second and got everyone caught. They take a bus there and Meg takes out the security camera and Lowrie climbs the fence. Then when they're in the stadium they see the brother of the guard backstage. the guards brother is a guard aswell. They tell him that they know his brother and he lets them kick a ball over the bar. Lowrie was too weak to kick it over the bar so meg possesed him. She imagined the ball was her evil step fathers head and kicked insanely hard. The next thing on the list was to punch Bendan Ball, a bully who tormented him at boarding school. He always regrets never punching that guy. Meanwhile in hell Belch was given orders to go back to earth and capture Meg. The devil thought she was special and wants her on his side. Belch got a computer chip in his head that let him tell a small portion of the future. He knew that Meg would show up at her stepfathers house. Meg and Lowrie showed up at Brendans house. Lowrie thought before he punched him they should atleast talk a little. And they talked and drank tea and became friends and Lowrie didn't even want to punch him even tough Brendad wanted him to. Meg thought since Lowrie didnt punch him they could punch her stepfather instead. Meg's stepfather was abusive, lazy, and stole all of Megs money and the ring Megs mom left to her after she died. He used that money to buy a TV. Meg filmed embarassing videos of him and sent them to all the people who worked with him and she destroyed the TV. She still felt like he deserved a punch. They went to his house and punched him. The last thing on the list was to spit over the cliffs of Doer. There was a song that said all the things you have to do to have a fullfilled life the last thing the song said was to spit over the cliffs of Doer. It was Lowrie's favorite song. While Megs stepfather was unconscious Belch possessed his body and stole a motorcycle. Lowrie drove to cliffs and started climbing unaware of Belch following him. When Lowri

  11/8/2009 3:28:35 PM
• Frankie Wai

  I have recently finished The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I think this book would fall in the action genre. It takes place in the future in North America which is no longer called North America. Their are 12 main towns or villages called districts and in the center is the capital city. Katniss is 16 years old and lives in district 12. Every year they hold a competition in the Capital city called the Hunger Games. Each district is required to send one boy and one girl from their district to represent them. These people are now called tributes. The 24 tributes are trained for survival etc and then enter a huge glass dome with trees and a lake. The last one standing wins. This year Katniss volunteered to be a tribute. She meets her superviser, Haymitch and her stylist, Cinna. After the training the games begin. After the first day about half the tributes are knocked out leaving 13 tributes. The second day nothing exciting happened and no one died. The gamemakers are cruel and the audience was getting bored of watching no one die so the gamemakers set a fire in the dome. Katniss just manages to get away with a scorched calf and burnt hands. The third day Katniss receives a gift from Haymitch. They send gifts by a silver parachute with the gift and she got burn ointment. She quickly applies it and her burns start to heal. The next day Katniss comes across a trackerjacker nest. They are designed to track down anyone who disturbs it. Its stings give swells as big as a plum and hallucinations. Katniss manages to chop the branch supporting the nest to opposing tributes but gets 3 stings. She is knocked out for the next day from the halluncinations. She then forms an alliance with Rue. The next day they take out the resource supply of a group of tributes all working together but at the cost of Rue's life. Katniss then recieves notice that now if the last two tributes standing are from the same district they are both crowned winner. Katniss forms an alliance with Peeta, the boy from her disctrict and heals him up. It carries on like this until three are left. Peeta, Katniss, and Cato. They hunt Cato down only to join him running from a pack of hounds that are actually the dead tributes muttated by the capital scientists. In the end Peeta and Katniss are left but are informed that only one cna win. Since they both could settle with killing the other they decided to suicide together because they had fallen in love. Actually the falling in love thing was an act to confuse the gamemakers and to get them to send more gifts. They were both planning to swallow berries called Nightlock that would kill them. They gamemakers tell them that they both won just before they suicided with the berries. They would be taking the victor's tour in a little while after they recovered. I would rate this a 5 out of 5 because the book kept me reading from cover to cover with the action. I would recomend this book to anyone who would like to read about an annual game where they put 24 kids into a dome and see who the last one standing is.

  11/8/2009 4:18:24 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  I finished the book My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult. It is a realistic fiction book about a 13 year old girl, Anna and her 16 year old sister, Kate who has leukemia. Anna has been giving blood and cells to her sister ever since she was born. Finally Anna decides she doesn’t want o be a donor for her sister anymore and files a lawsuit against her parents and sues them. Throughout the book, Anna and her family go through a lot of problems with Kate and have many flashbacks.
  I rate this book a 5 because of its surprise ending which I don’t think I should tell you. i enjoyed this book to the very last page of it. I would recommend this book to everyone, eventhough it is sad.

  11/8/2009 5:21:09 PM
• Billy

  I read Diary of a Wimpy kid Dog Days. It's abpit a kid named Greg who wants to play video games all summer but his mom wants him to do out door stuff. So he starts hanging out with his friend Rowley at a country club but they get an $83 dollar drink bill which he has to pay for with his birthday money. Then at a family reunion Greg's dad finds out his dad ran over his dog and it didn't go to a butterfly field. That REALLY ticked him off so he got a new dog. The new dog was really annoying. It barked at the TV and slept on Gregs bed and kicked him every morning. In the end the family was so fed up with the dog they gave it to grandma. Then his mom starts making him go to the pool more often. Greg doesn't want to do that because before you go into the pool you have to take a shower and he doesnt like being around big old hairy dudes. But he starts having fun there when the girl he has a crush on becomes the life guard. Rowley and Greg haven't talked to eachother since the drink incident so their mom's make them hang out when they invite Greg to go on a week long vacation to the beach. It's actually a log cabin 5 miles away from the beach with no TV. All there is to do there is read and Greg wouldn't want to read over the summer. To make matters worse Greg and Rowley have to share a bed which is akward. One day they decided to actually go to the beach and Greg wastes all his money on one game. Then he asks Rowley's dad for one more dollar to go to the arcade with. He says yes but Greg really uses the dollar to trick people with Rowley. What he did was he put the dollar in between the boards of the board walk and right before someone could grab it he would pluck it from underneath. After doing that for about an hour they come back up and when they find Rowley's parents and they were mad cause they were looking all over the place for them. It was the first time Rowley got in trouble with his folks. The next day Greg and Rowley pass the time by having a rubber band war. Then Rowley gets injured and his parents are fed up with Greg so they send him home early. Then when Greg enters in a video game tournament he gets his thumb hurt and he cant play and looses.
  
  
  I give this book 5/5 It's insanely funny and it has a lot of pictures to help the reader follow along.

  11/8/2009 5:58:34 PM
• Ethan Weerasinghe

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I have recently finished the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days. It was VERY interesting!! That was the first book out of the series that I read, but now I'm reading the first book. That book isn't AS interesting, but I still really like it.
  The book is mainly about a boy named Greg Heffley, and his mom's "quest" to make Greg and his two brothers play outside, and not play video games or watch T.V. Greg's mother is one of those moms who wants their kids to like reading and appreciate it. She evren starts this neighborhood group called "Reading is Fun". Towards the end of the book, Greg goes on a family vacation with his nerdy friend Rowley. His parents are really boring. They take the fun out of everything! So Greg practically ruins a lot of the trip trying to fun at lesst SOME fun. And then, he slaps Rowley with this rubber thing, and Rowley screams and cries, and his parents call Greg's parents and Greg's dad takes Greg home.
  I really enjoyed this book, and i give it a 5/5 definitely! And I do recommend this book. Bye!

  11/8/2009 6:27:37 PM
• Leena Kasa

  I finished the book "The Revenge of the Wannabes" by Lisi Harrison. It is a realistic fiction book about a group of girls who want to throw a boy girl party. One girl, Massia, uses her dad's friends daughter, Claire, to get her parents to agree to let her throw a boy girl party. On Halloween Massie and her friends get in trouble for not following the school dress code. Now the principal wants to have students where uniforms, but Massie talks the principal into deciding to let the uniform become a contest. Massie pairs with Claire while their friends, Alisa and Olivia paired up. At the contest, Massie and Claire win, but Alisa cheats and switches the boxes at the last minute. Clair and Massie become angry at Alisa, so Massie gets her dad to make the school not make them where uniforms. I liked this book because it is interesting. I can never put the book down. I would recomend this book to everyone because its funny and a very good book. I can't wait to read the next book in the series so I can find out what Massie does to Alisa because of how angry she is at her.

  11/8/2009 6:42:51 PM
• serenaaa zhou (:

  Serena Zhou
  
  The book I finished reading was The Clique : Revenge of the wanna-bes
  
  This books amazing , I recommend it to any age , mostly girls ! Cause this book has it all , drama & boys & school stuff ( kinda drama )
  This book is about a clique , the clique includes Massie Block , the head of the clique , Dylan Marvil , Kristen Gregory , And Claire Lyons . Alicia who was an ex clique member decided she wants to start her own clique to become more popular than her.
  To find out what else happens next read it! its amazing book espically for girls around our age .

  11/9/2009 4:00:13 PM
• jordan green

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I've just completed the book "Babe and Me" by Dan Gutman. This book would be considered a sports book and an adventure because it is about baseball and how a boy uses baseball cards to travel through time.
  This book was about how a boy named Joe Stoshack and his father travel back in time to the 1932 World Series to see if Babe Ruth really did "call his shot" in game 3 of the series. While they are there, his dad deides to try and gamble on the series because he already knows the result. While they are there, they also convince the Babe to sign a bag full of baseballs so they could sell them when they returned home. After a while of walking around, they finally head to game 3 in Chicago, home of the Cubs. While there, he notices that when Ruth steps up and points, however Joe can not tell if he is pointing to the center field bleachers, or to the pitcher, Charlie Rue. Later, they are forced to leave the stadium and decide that it is time to head home.
  I would give this book a 3.5 out of 5. This is because it had a well developed plot and gave a lot of background knowledge about the characters and the setting. Also, because it was a little short and I didn't feel that the author extended the story as far as he could.
  I did enjoy this book. This is because it involed sports and adventure which are 2 of my favorite genres. Another reason why is because the story was very exciting and entertainig.
  I would reccommend this book to anyonewho enjoys sports and adventures. And if someone likes fantasy. this could be a good book for them. This is because I enjoy the things that I listed above and like the book. Lastly, I think that this book is worth reading.

  11/10/2009 6:54:04 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  The book I just finished is called Princess in Training by Meg Cabot. The main character in the story is Mia. Mia's friend Lilly nominates Mia for school president. Mia doesn't nwant to become president , so she gets mad at Lilly. Another girl in Mia's class votes for Lana, Mia's enemy. Lana is the most popular girl in school. Mia tells Lilly that she will get creamed by Lana, but Lilly says she won't. Mia doesn't want to win either, and Lilly says she won't win. Eventually Mia finds out that she will win the election, but then resign and her vice president Lilly will become president. Last time Lilly ran for president she lost by a landslide so the pricipal won't let her run again.
  I think this book is a fantasy. Iwould rate this book a 9.5. This book is romantic and funny. The book has a lot of interesting parts. I wooould recomend this book to my friends any time. I think it was a great book.

  11/11/2009 6:14:05 PM
• Brian Park

  The book i have just finished is called The Maked Monkey. This book is a book from the hardy boys series. The book is about a family neamed the Retsons. Their son Graham one day suddenly just disappeared. So Grahams father called the hardy boys to find his son. They search for clues and go to brazil. The father said that his son is there. But graham was not there but it was a goose chase eventually they find graham and they solve the mystery. I would rate this book a 5 because i really enjoyed it. I recommend this book to anyone who loves mysterys

  11/11/2009 7:11:09 PM
• Zachary Nazario

  The book I have just finished is Zoobreak by Gordan Korman.Griifanand his friends are the main characters.The genre of this book is realistic fiction.In Zoobreak, Griffin's class visits a floating zoo where his friend Samantha finds her own recently stolen capuchin monkey. Planning a break-in to retrieve the monkey requires the talents of all Griffin's friends, and a lot of last-minute changes to make the plan work. But when they reach the zoo boat, Samantha becomes determined to help all the animals escape their terrible conditions, making the plan much more complicated. Dividing up the animals and keeping them safe in a variety of ways, the kids soon realize they will need to stage a completely different sort of break-in.Eventually they get caught and learned what they did was wromg but the guy was caught for stealing the monkey and went to jail.thats all about my blog.I reccomend this book one hundred percent.I rate it a 5 because I enjoyed it and wanted to keep reading.
  

  11/11/2009 8:05:23 PM
• Nick Mangarella

  The book I have just finished is called "My Team" by Larry Dieker. the genre it is under is nonfiction like I have said before I really like. The book "My Team" is about Larry Dieker and his life as a baseball reporter. He talks about how he met a bunch of legendary players and players today that will probably become legendary. He also talks to hall of famers and future hall of famers. His life is all about being a baseball repoter and all of the quotes he hears from all of the players. There are some quotes that really chanes Larry's life because they really mean somthing to him. Even though he writes down these quotes they still mean a lot to him. I would rate this book as a five because it is an amazing book that kept me wanting to read it and listen to the new quotes that mean something to me as a baseball player. I enjoyed the book because it was almost inspirering to hear what the professional baseball players have to say about all of these different cituations. I would recomend this book to people who understand baseball and people who can relate to the quotes like me and Larry Dieker were able to do.

  11/11/2009 8:58:22 PM
• Vivian Nguyen ! :)

  The book I just finished reading was "The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening" by L.J. Smith. The genre of this book is fantasy.
  The main character, Elena Gilbert, lives in Fells Church, Virgina with ther Aunt Judith and brother, Jeremy. Elena would be considered probably the "queen bee" of the school. She is pretty, smart, and the most popular in the school. She has two best friends, Meredith and Bonnie. On their first day of school, Bonnie claims that she is pyschic, and she says she learned to read palms over the summer. She read Elena's palm and it said that she will meet a "tall dark stranger". Eventually she does, on that same day. She meets Stefan Salvatore, who stands out from everyone, because well he's a VAMPIRE! But Stefan is hurt when he meets Elena for the very first time. To him, Elena was probably a reincarnation of Katherine, who was his love when he was human, which was about in the fifteen hundreds. Katherine was the one who transfered Stefan and his brother, Damon, to vampires. Katherine loved them both very much, and gave them rings. These rings were supposed to let them go out in the sunlight without dieing. Katherine was in a dilemma; she had to choose between Damon and Stefan, her two loves. She eventually couldn't choose, and died. She took off the ring and went out into the sunlight. Stefan claimed that if he and Damon never got into a fight over Katherine, she would have never died. So technically, he said that they both killed her. Stefan is now brought to Elena as his companion, and they both like each other very much. But now Damon is back, he's here to take Elena for himself too. It's basically the "Katherine situation" all over again. I enjoyed this book very much and would rate it a 4.5. I would also recommend this book to people who like to read about love, drama, and vampires. Perhaps readers who enjoyed the "Twilight" saga by Stephenie Meyer. If you choose to read it, I hope you enjoy it. It is a very exciting and tempting book to read ! :)

  11/12/2009 4:29:54 PM
• Serena Zhou

  Serena Zhou Period - 1|2.
  
  The book i currently am finished with & blogging about is The Clique : Revenge OF the WannaBEES !
  This incredible book is written \ author is Lisa Harrison! The genere is Young Adult Novels .
  
  This Book is about The Clique which includes , Massie , Dylan , Kristen , Claire , and Dylan.
  Alicia has been kicked out of the pretty committe because by Massie since shes been hearing that Alicia has been throwing sleepover parties !
  But Alicia doesnt care she tries to start a New Clique Herself , But you dont always succed when you try , now do you ?
  Claire is finally " in " and Cam the boy who really likes her but claire screws up , by lying , and saying she has a boyfriend - wich she doesnt! Than cam became really mad .
  
  I really enjoyed this book because it has it all , drama boys & everything else in a girls life .
  It shows me , the things i do wrong too .. and the things i do right ! I think any girl around theyre pre-teen to teenage years should read this book and realize what goes on around them and infront of them & with them .
  
  
  

  11/12/2009 7:24:47 PM
• Jun Sun You

  The Book that I read is called "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar. The genre of this book is realistic fiction, and the main character is Theodore. This book is about Theodore meet a singer named Kaira and then his life totally changed. After Kaira realized that Theodore only wants money, she decided to not to see Theodore again. When one of her worker tried to kill her, Theodore save her life. Then they became to never see each other again. I would rate this book 3.5 out of 5. The story was good but it was not a story I really enjoy. I would recommend this book to who likes realistic fiction.

  11/12/2009 9:19:00 PM
• Ridhima Sakhuja

  My name is Ridhima Sakhuja, and I recently finished reading Sense and Sensibility. Sense and Sensibility is by Jane Austen. It is about two sisters, Elinor and Marrianne, who live with their mother and younger sister in 17th century Britain. In the story, Elinor and Marrianne are very different from each other. Elinor is practical and mature. Marrianne is quiet and very romantic. However, they both have the same dream: to get married to the person of their choice. Although,while trying to find a suitable husband, Elinor and Marrianne both faced many difficulties. Elinor was attracted to someone who was already engaged to someone else. Marrianne liked a man who was rude and insolent. Also, the person she liked did not like her very much. Theis story is about Elinor and Marrianne's problems and troubles while trying to ful fil their dreams.I think everyone should read this book.
  

  11/13/2009 8:12:22 AM
• Mariah Caise

  The name of my book i just recently finished is Tangerine by Edward Bloor. In my book Paul Fisher plays on the soccer team in Tangerine but he live in Wake Lindsor! They didn't find out because he didn't tell them. Also, Paul's brother Erik is a bad guy. He ended up murdering somebody with a gun. He hit the guys head with the gun and knocked him unconsious which led to his death! Paul began not to like his brother that much, so they didn't get along. In the meantime Paul and his soccer team have been undeafeted and they went to the world championships agains a team that was 9-0-1. Paul's team was 10-0-0 for there record. If his team lost the game than the other team would be the champions. If his team won his team would be the champions and if his team tied his team would also be the champions. The end score was 1-1 so Paul's team won! This book was really good. I would really recommend this book to everyone. If you don't like sports i would still recommend it because it is about soccer, fighting, disabilites, and murder. It is really interesting and i think everyone would enjoy it a lot. Speaking of enjoying it i would rate this book a 5 because of the outstanding way the author wrote the book. She used voice, dialogue, and gave everything in the book a perpose. Nothing in the book didn't have to be there. If even one thing was taken out the book would change dramatically.

  11/13/2009 10:31:30 AM
• Finn Ebersbach

  I have recently finished Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets. It is from the Harry Potter series. obviously. Any way it is about a teenage boy named Harry Potter. His parents were killed which makes him an orphan. But when he goes to Hogwarts he starts to hear strange sounds piercing throught the walls. Also he is starting to familiarize himself on the mysteries of the chamber of secrets. People keep spreading rumors that Harry himself might be the leader of slitherin. I believe this is a mystery book. I would rate it a 4/5 but read the book to find the suspences solution

  11/13/2009 2:49:42 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I currently just finished reading The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares which fits into the category of realistic fiction. This is the sequel to The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The second summer of the Pants the girls go through many problems. Carmen's problem in the book is her mother's new prince-charming David. Her mom goes out with him almost every night and is madly in love. She's dressing like a 14 year old. Carmen doesn't like this. She gets very angry at her mother and she wrecks the relationship by not telling her mother David called one morning while she was out. But in the end she worked it all out and they lived happily ever after. Tibby had multiple little problems in the book. One major problem was with her friend Brian. He suprise visited her when she was at this college(not for good though). She spends a lot of time with and their best buds. But one day when she is with her new friends alex and Maura they kick Brian out and he ignores her for days. Could this ruin there friendship forever? Nope their still best buds. Bridget's problem involves her grandma. She found old letter she had sent over the past five years that her dad never showed her. He didn't show her becuase he wasn't in good hands with her grandmother. So Bridget flies out to Alabama to see her. But she tells her grandma her name is Gilda Tomko. In Alabama she meets up with her old friend Billy and cleans out her grandmas attic; finding memories form her mother before she had died 6 and a half years ago. But later on when Bridget and her grandma are talking Bridget finds out her grandma knew it was her from the second day Bridget was there. Then it was time for Bridget to leave. Lena's problem in the story is Kostos her Greek love. They met in Greece and had kissed before left Greece. Then Lena finds out Kostos has a new girlfriend and this doesn't sit well with her. Then suprise! Kostos is in America staying for a month because he will be working. Lena and him spend a lot of time together just as it was meant to me; them together. But then Kostos has to go back to Greece for some urgent emergency he doesn't really know about. This breaks her heart and she is upset for days. When she goes to Greece for her Bapi's funeral she finds out Kostos has a new bride and his bride is having a child. Poor Lena is devistated.
  I would rate this book a 5. It was filled with mixed journies and drama. I never wanted to stop reading. I would reccomend this to only girls because it's more of a chick flick then a guy's book.(If you ever read this I highly reccomend reading The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants first because that book comes before this one and if you read this one first you will be kind of confused.) Well enjoy!

  11/13/2009 4:38:07 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  I have recently finished reading the book Dear Pen Pal by Heather Vogel Frederick. The genre is realistic fiction and it is the third book in its series. The forth hasn’t been published yet. This book is about Cassidy, Megan, Emma and Jess, best friends since they started the book club. Jess, a super smart 7th grader got selected to go to Colonial Academy, a private school, on full scholarship. But Jess doesn’t want to go because she thinks snotty rich girls go there. Finally her mom convinces her and she goes to Colonial Academy away from all her friends for most of the week. On the other hand Cassidy’s mom just got remarried and is having a baby! Cassidy doesn’t like change she could barely adjust to having a new dad. Megan’s grandma, Gigi, comes to her house and her mom and her get into big arguments. Gigi is the total opposite of Megan's mom. Gigi is stylish and loves to cook meaty things while Megan's mom is cheap and only cooks vegan foods because she wants to save the environment. Emma’s school uniforms aren’t helping anyone and as editor she writes an article to tell students that wearing uniforms doesn’t help grades and too expensive for some families. I would rate this book a 4 because it was interesting and fun to read. I really enjoyed learning about the characters feelings; it helped me understand all the characters properly. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read fun realistic fiction books!

  11/13/2009 5:06:05 PM
• Joshua Barkoff

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I have just completed the book "Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life" written by: Wendy Mass. This book would be considered a realistic fiction book. In" Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life" There are many interesting parts but the most intriguing part was when a mysterious wooden book shows up in his mail.according to the writing that was located on the box, it holds many meanings of the word life! Jeremy is supposed to open it on his 13th birthday which was comeing up soon. The conflict was that the key the the box was missing, and the box was made that only one key would open it with out destroying what waqs inside. If you would like to find out what happens next read this book.=)I would rate this book about a 9 out of ten because at some point you just cant stop reading it.I would recomend this book to ANYONE who has a sense of humor and also to people who love to read.All and all i thought that this was a magnificent and superb book.
  By:JOSH BARKOFF

  11/13/2009 6:31:33 PM
• steven schuller

  I have now finished reading the book Fink's Funk by Sarah Weeks. The genre of this book is comedy. This book is about Fink Boyd and Nat Boyd. The two of them are best friends and they are fighting over a name of a new gane they just made. This game starts to get a little too serious though. Fink starts taking the game too seriouswhen he starts losing, that's when he gets in a funk! Nat suddenlly finds himself in a decsion he has to make to save his best friend and saving his friendship. I enjoyed the book because it had a desirable ending. I definetlly give this book a five and recomend it.

  11/13/2009 7:03:38 PM
• Melissa Perdomo

  The book I recently read was the Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart. This book is about a girl named Frankie who had recently broken up with her boyfriend, Porter, because she caught him cheating with her friend, Beth.
  During the summer she went to the boardwalk and met a boy that she never got his name. He promised they would meet again, soon.
  When she went back to school at alabaster boarding school, she ran into the grass with her bike and the boy she now liked, Matthew, helped her up and introduced her to his 2 best friends. One was the boy she met at the beach.
  While they were going out, Matthew canceled most of the dates. So now she is making all these master schemes to find out why, but some went too far. Like following him to where he would run off to or send fake emails to his friends telling them what to do. Frankie thought she was messing around with the 3 of them only, but she was really involving with the whole school with her actions.
  
  I would rate this book a 5 because of all the drama and action of the schemes Frankie did.

  11/13/2009 7:41:07 PM
• Charles Huang

  
  
  I am reading a book called Brothers Majere by Kevin Stein. It is about two brothers named Raistlen and Caramon Majere in desperate need of money so they embark on the quest of finding out why all the cats disappeared in the city of Mereklar. Caramon is a warrior and Raistlen is a mage, a great spellcaster that has went through great troubles into gaining his arcane powers like passing the Test of High Sorcery, a extremely adept test for only the greatest spellcasters there is (he was also the youngest person to pass it). But the after effects of the test left the young mage frail and weak. As they try to find out why the cats have disappeared, they find a greater evil, demons have arrived as missionaries from the Queen of Darkness, Takhisis. As the quest unravels, Raistlen gains knowledge while Caramon gains his strength. But it is still not enough to destroy Her minions. So Raistlen Majere is ready to take his own life to save the city of Mereklar..! Read this book to find out what happens next!
  
  
  

  11/13/2009 8:47:06 PM
• Grace Wang

  I have just finished reading a book called "Shadow land" by Meg Cabot. The genre is fiction. Suze is the main character and she’s a mediator. That means she can see and talk to the dead. She really wants to be a normal girl so once she moves the sunny California she decides she’s going to start fresh. Her room is the best in the house with its own en-suite private bathroom, four-poster bed and beautiful view over looking the town and the sea. But there’s one thing that’s been bothering her there. That’s there’s a ghost living in her bedroom named Jesse. Once she gets to school she expects to find a lot of ghosts but surprisingly there’s only one named Heather. Over the break Heather had shot herself because she wanted the get married to her boyfriend and then he dumped her and when she tries to make up he isn’t there. So now she haunts the school, her old locker (which is now Suze’s), and her ex-boyfriend. Heather regrets dieing and wants her boyfriend to die with her. When she tries to kill her ex, Bryce, and Suze rescues him and suddenly she becomes the most popular girl in school. Suze gets closer to Heather’s old friends, including Bryce, and Heather want her old life back. She wants Suze to butt out and leave the school but Suze won’t because she needs to protect Bryce. So at midnight she sneaks into the school and tries to talk Heather into “moving on”. But the opposite happens. Heather wants her old life back and then goes into rage because Suze tells her “you’re dead and you can’t have your old life back”. She tries to kill Suze but then Jesse, the ghost in her bedroom, saves her. The good thing is that Heather still doesn’t know how powerful she is right now because she could’ve just run out and picked up a tree and hurled it at them. The next day Heather goes up to Father Dominic, also a mediator, and Bryce and severely injures them. So now it’s only up to Suze to get rid of Heather. She tricks Heather that she found a way to get her old life back and tells Heather not to open her eyes but what she really is doing is performing an exorcism. But Heather opens her eyes and sees what is happening and goes into a fight and eventually Suze wins and Heather gets sucked up into the other side. But before she was sucked up she used the last of her kinetic energy to make the breezeway fall on Suze. Suze is unconscious and luckily Jesse asked her stepbrother to go find her since he’s a ghost and he can’t go since she’s performing an exorcism and saves her life. So now David who’s Suze’s stepbrother and is only 12, also knows about her secret.
  
  I would rate this book a 5. The plot was very interesting and it made me keep on reading. I loved the problems that Suze had to go through and the adventures she faced. If I were Suze I probably would’ve already gave up and Suze was really brave.
  

  11/14/2009 10:17:12 AM
• Abanoub Guerges

  I just finished reading Miricale on 49th Street by Mike Lupica. It is about a 12 year old girl named Molly, and she loves Josh Cameron, she knows everything about him. At the peak of his career he finds out that he has a daughter, and his girlfreind form college died from cancer. Molly finds out that Josh isn't the Josh she sees on TV. I wold give this book a 4.5 because the ending was growing strong and than just fell short and the book is done. I really enjoyed this book because it has the perfect balence of drama, comedy, and sports. I would definantly recommed this book to basket ball lovers.

  11/14/2009 12:16:54 PM
• John F Kominkiewicz

  The book i have just Currently finished was "Tribes" written by Arthur Slade.It is about a high school senior in his last week of public education.His name is Percival Montmount his only Friends are Ellissa and his recently deceased Friend Will. Will Killed plunged off the school building. The real sad thing Percival challenges is the recent death of his father. Percival (AKA Percy) uses very literate terms. For Example instead of calling someone stupid he calls them Neandertal (according to Percival " it comes from the German and now the drop the silent h) also instead of saying people he says Hominids. Since his father was a anthropologist he feels like he needs to be one to. there are many "cliques" in his school, to Percy they're tribes (the main cause is that his father studied tribes in the wild). there are Tribe such as the "Jock Tribe" the "Ge the 70's were great even though we weren't born yet Tribe" the "Cosmetic Tribe" the "Smoker Tribe" and many More tribes. Percival and Allissa do not belong in a tribe but they observe and Percy has a field Journey which he won't Show to Allissa util it's Finished. I Give this Book a 10 out of 5this book is Amazing. Just when you think everything will go well it takes a turn for the worst. I don't want to give away the climax. I would recommend this book for anyone in a Secondary school. I don't Relate to
  Percival but he's a interesting Character.

  11/14/2009 2:51:13 PM
• Gurmaher Arora

  Hi, mi name is Gurmaher Arora and I have just finished the book, "There's A Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar. The genre of this book is fiction. To me, I think that this book is a humor book.
  This book is about a lazy kid named Bradley Chalkers, who never does his homework and never pays attention in class. Though to this obviousley you realize that he is getting bad grrades. If I were him, I would try to get better grades by doing my homework and paying attention in class. Oh yeah, I almost forgot rest of the summary. Continued, Bradley Chalkers sits in the back row and in the back seat of the class. While Bradley was in class, his teacher(Mrs.Ebbel) announced that there was a new student in their class. His name was Jeff Fishkin. He was a kid from Washington D.C. When Jeff entered the class he had to pick a seat to sit in. Guess what? He picked the seat right next to Bradley Chalkers. Nobody likes Bradley Chalkers because they think that he's weird and annoying, that is why he has no friends. Jeff was new and he had no friends either. Jeff started to become friends with Bradley and that started everything. Since Jeff was a new student he had to see the new counsler. The new counsler is also new to the school. Her name is Miss Davis. When Jeff saw Miss Davis, he was glad to have her as a counsler. Since Bradley is such a nonsense, he has to see Miss Davis. Bradley loves Miss Davis too! Miss Davis wants Bradley and Jeff to call her Carla. The only person that likes Bradley in school is Carla. In the middle of the book. Bradley gets beaten up by a kid named Melinda, a girl! Melinda beaten up Bradley because Bradley told Melinda to stop saying hi to his friend Jeff. Later on in the story Carla helps Bradley a lot. Since he never did his homework, Carla helped him in trying to do his homework. After she did that, Bradley did all his work. He even read a book. It was a book from Carla's room. Bradley loves Carla, so anything that she gives him is like treasure to him. Since the title of this book is unusual, you want to know why that is its name of the title, right. Bradley and Jeff both got stuck in the girls bathroom once, so I guess that is why that's the name of the title of this book. In my opinion, I think that think the author of this book gives a very significant life lesson. The life life lesson I think this author gives is that if you try you can accomplish anything. The problem in this story is that Jeff doesn't want to be Bradley's friend because he sees other friends that were like his friends in Washington. Then Jeff becomes their friends which makes Bradley mad. So throughout the story, Jeff and Bradley both get black eyes from Melinda. When Jeff fought Bradley (because of Jeff and his friends(gang) become ignorant while Bradley gets mad about that) they all become friends again when Bradley and Jeff say "hi" to each other(meaning sorry). As you can see everything got back to normal and Bradley started to do his homework.
  I would rate this book a 5 because I thought that it gave a great life lesson and because I thought it was interesting when Jeff and Bradley weren't friends anymore, I wanted to see what would happen next. Also when I saw Carla giving support to Bradley, it sent me a life lesson. For example when she said that you can do anything you want to do! Another reason I would rate this book a 5 is because I love Louis Sachar's book and he never disappoints me. I really did enjoy this book because I thought that it was very interesting to read about. I would recommend this book because I thought that it was great. If you like Jerry Spinelli books then you'll enjoy this book a lot. Now I am going for another book by Louis Sachar.
  
  
  

  11/14/2009 4:38:44 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  The book I just finished is called The Princess Present. The book is by Meg Cabot. Thyis book is about Mia who is a princess that goes to Genovia for Christmas. She invites her boyfriend Michael and his sister Lilly. At Genovia Mia wants to get something special for Michael since it is there first Christmas together. Mia buys this Star Wars poster online for seventy-five dollars. When Mia and Michael traded presents that was the poster Michael sold to get Mia a Christmas present. Michael got Mia another doll of her collection and that was supposed to be the last one she was missing. Mia sold one of her dolls to get Michael his poster.
  I think this book is a fantasy. This book was very funny. I would rate this book a ten. I also think this book was sweet. Iwould recommend this book to my friends. Over all I think this is a very good book.

  11/14/2009 9:54:03 PM
• Michael Liu

  I have just finished reading tentacles by Roland smith. Togs book is about a character named grace who has a dad that works at a crypid research center. Her dad is planning to catch a giant squid using the coelcanth, a haunted ship. Grace is invited to join with her friends, Luther and marty to go and join the voyage. Everthing seems to be fine until some mysterious things happen such as when the helicopter suddenly breaks off and falls into the ocean. When the crew look at the straps, they suspect that someone on purposely detached the straps. Grace and her high tech dragonfly spy, she and her friends have the job to capture the intruter and bring justice onto the ship. They believe that the intruter might have been workng for someone named Noah blackwood. Noah is believed to help protect endangered species but he actually has a exotic collection in his mansion. He has also tried to kidnap grace because Noah is actually grace's grandfather. In the end grace finds the intruder is actually a employee of noah blackwood.

  11/15/2009 11:21:10 AM
• Colleen Brennan

  Colleen Brennan
  Fantasy
  
  Vampire Academy
  by Richelle Mead
  
  The Vampire Academy was an awesome book! It is the story of Rose and Lissa.
  Rose and Lissa are best friends who share a stronger bond than most vampires. Now, after time spent on the run, they have been forced to return to the school that they escaped from to face danger.
  
  St. Vladimir's Academy is a private high school for vampires and the half-bloods who are bound to protect them. The Moroi are vampires, and the descendants of Moroi royalty are the social elite of St. Vladimir's. The Moroi are at constant risk, though. The Strigoi, the fiercest vampires, are out to get them, any way they can. The Moroi are protected by Dhampirs, guardians who are sworn to lay down their lives to assure that the Moroi bloodlines continue.
  
  Rose is a Dhampir and Lissa is the last of the Dragomir line of Moroi royalty. Rose and Lissa share a special bond; one that nearly assures that Rose will be Lissa's guardian for life. Returning to school proves to be more difficult than either of them imagined. Things have changed while they were gone and Rose and Lissa are both the topic of several rumors. Their sudden disappearance, their time on the run, and their return are all subjects being talked about.
  
  Lissa may be in even more danger than anyone could have imagined. In addition to being Moroi and royalty, Lissa seems to have special abilities that haven't been seen among the Moroi in centuries. Abilities that make her even more of a target to the Strigoi.
  
  This book was definitely a 5. VAMPIRE ACADEMY is a great adventure that draws you along and makes you continue to turn the pages. As the danger to Lissa gets closer, it gets more difficult to put the book down. This book did not have an ending because it continues to the next book. I suggest reading this book if you like reading about vampires.

  11/15/2009 1:49:27 PM
• BRIAN WOLVERTON!!!!!!!!!!!

  I have recently finished Bone: Rose written by Jeff Smith.The genre of this book was fiction.
  This book was about princess Brair And princess Rose on there journeyto Old Man's Cave to begin their training that is focused on their dreams. BRair doesnt quite beleive in the whole concept of the dreams becasuse she just hasnt had that one special "dream" that will change her life or had one theat affects her life itself. Noe Princess ROse on the other hand has alot of expirence with dreams. She can even talk to her 2 dogs Clide and Elcluide. Their teacher is called the "headmaster" he is basically the cheif of the Ven- Ye- Carren. A very large group of warriors and villages that belive in the dreams even though they dont experience such powerful dreasm as the headmaster or the princesses. But one night after a long day of training Rose has a dream. There is ar river dragon who is very small and is stuck in a stream. He is crying for help so she helps the defenseless creature out of the stream. This is one of those dreams that will affect the outside world. She is traveling out on a walk and she meets the dragon. Only this time he is much much bigger and more powerful too. He spares her life and ( i think this was really stupid of the dragon) and tells her were he is going to attack. She warns the headmaster and they send an army after it. But Rose knows that this is her fault and sets out before the army goes. She reaches the dragon and runs to draw him away from the town. So she finds a Big ragging river.(yet agin the same one in the dream but this time bigger). Once there She cuts off his head with her sword. THe beast has been slayn and everything is back to normal. Brairbecomes jealous of Rose and is planning something. That was basicallyt the end of the book at that point.
  I would rate this book 5/5. I like all the action and the suppense that the author sqweesed into every page. I would definitaly recomend this book to my fellow readers. If you like action and suppense on every page...,This is the book for you!
  

  11/15/2009 5:52:48 PM
• Mariah Caise

  I recently finished reading Soccer Chick Rules by Dawn FitzGerald. In my book the main conflict was that Tess' school was going to have a vote on whether to keep after-school activities. Since Tess loves to play soccer, than if the vote didn't pass they would take away soccer! So, Tess, her friend Bo, and her best friend Ibby went around the neighborhood to ask people if they would say yes. Then they would ask them if they could stick a sign in their yard! So, that people would vote yes. The other main conflict was that halloween was coming up and Tess wanted to have the best halloween party, so she told Ibby to ask her parents. Ibby said they would say no, but it turned out they said yes. When the halloween party came, everybody was wild, and Ibby started to get all scared, but then she joined in, and she got in trouble, but she became one of the coolest people in the school after that! After reading this book, I would rate is a 4.5 because it was a AWESOME book! The reason I didn't give it a 5 was because there were some parts i didn't like when these two boys fought. I am not a big fan on fighting and wrestling. I would recommend this book to everyone! It deals with sports and wacky parties that teenagers have these days!

  11/16/2009 4:57:47 PM
• Rupa Mitra

  Hey! I just recently finished a book called "The Beacon Street girls- Crush Alert". The author is Annie Bryant. The genre of this book is Realistic
  fiction. This is about five girls- Charlotte, Kantani, Maeve, Isabel and Avery. There is a big Valentine's Day dance and all the girls are trying to get dates. Especially Charlotte and Maeve. Charlotte wants Nick to ask her to the dance. Also, Maeve wants Dillion to ask her to the dance. Love is in the air at the school. And everyone wants a date fast. I rate this book a four and I recommend this book to girls who like reading about romance, humor and friendship. Bye!

  11/16/2009 5:26:21 PM
• Giana Nguyen-Demary

  I just finished reading the book The "Pistachio Prescription" by Paula Danziger. It's about this girl named Cassie that thinks pistachios cures everything. She has one sister named Stephanie who she hates. Also she has one brother named Andrew. Cassie's parents always disagree with each other. One time Cassie's mom bought some expensive clothes. The dad saw the bill and he yelled at the mom. Then they started to both get into an argument. Sometimes it goes crazy at Cassie's house so she goes to her best friend Viki's house.
  I would rate this a five. It's about many struggles Cassie faces. It makes you want to read more.

  11/17/2009 3:49:46 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  I just finished a book called Party Princess. The author is Meg Cabot. The book is about Mia and Michael. Michael decided to have a party at his apartment on Friday. His parents eren't home ,sohe invited some of his college friends and Mia. Michael's sister Lilly decided to invite some of her friends too. At the party Mia decided to have a bottle of beer. She saw other college kids doing it, so she decided to try it. It tasted bad so Mia took little sips. When she was almost done she went a little crazy. Mia went into the living room and started dancing to the music. People stsred at her, but Mia didn't stop. Her friend J.P. went up to her and started dancing so she did not look like a fool. Mia's boyfriend Michael was standing their watching them dance. Then Michael's parents came in and went right to their bedroom. Michael knew something was up, so he followed them in. Mia thought she did something wrong and left the party.
  I would rate thois book a nine out of ten. I think this book is a fantasy. This book was romantic, funny, and weird. I would recommend this book to my friends. The book I am reading is a series, so it doesn't have a big solution. I liked this book a lot.

  11/17/2009 6:54:39 PM
• Ethan Weerasinghe

  I have just recently finished the book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg Heffley's Journal. I think that it was VERY interesting. I highly enjoyed it. It was the first book out of the series. I thought that the newest book "Dog Days" was a lot better and a little more interesting. So, this book was mainly about the main character, Greg Heffley's first year in middle school. He thinks that everything has changed. For example, being popular. In 5th grade, he said that if your the fastest kid out of everyone, your the most popular. But now, its all about the nisest clothes, or the richest person. And he's trying his best to to become popular. But as always, his not-so-cool friend Rowley ends up becoming popular all because he created this comic called "ZOO WEE MAMA". And Rowley won't admit that he AND Greg both created it, even though Greg thought it was stupid. And Rowley got crowned "Class Clown" in the "Most talented" section of tyhe yearbook.
  In conclusion, I would rate this book a 4.5/5 and I do recommend this book to others!

  11/19/2009 7:20:18 PM
• Phillip Park

  I just finished the book "The Magic Thief" by Sarah Prineas. The book is about a thief and gutterboy named Connwear. It started out with him stealing a magical stone called the locus magiculus. It attacked him and nearly killed him, but Nevery, the victim, saved him because the stone was supposed to kill him, but didn't. Nevery took Conn in and he became his servant. Once Conn found out he wasn't Nevery's apprentice, he quit, but Nevery gave in to his courage to be a thief again. Conn went to school to learn english and he had a time limit of 30 days to find his locus stone or he will be expelled. In the next day after being expelled, he found his stone and they decided to let him learn at their academy. Pettivox works for an evil man (and secretly Conn's relative) named Crowe. Crowe is stealing all the magic from the land so he could rule he country (the world has too much magic to capture). Conn and Nevery stop their plans, but Conn's locus magiculus was destroyed in the process. Conn was still accepted as a wizard and his new goal is to find another stone. that's where it stops. I think this book is a fantasy/adventure. I would also, rate this a 4/5 because the book is short for 7th graders so i would recommend this book to 4-6th garders. This was still a great book though.

  11/20/2009 2:47:47 PM
• Peter Eskander

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I have just finished the book the diary of a wimpy kid: dog days. It talks about a very usual kid, his name is Gerg Heffley. Hehas problems we may have it, like if we like to play on the PC or anything else, our mothers will find this a problem but we don't see it. I rate this book as 5 because it is very funny and exiting, i was very exited while i was reading it. I was exited what is gonna happen next or what is he gonna do next?
  
  see you next monday

  11/21/2009 10:12:57 PM
• Ghil Joseph

  Hi,it's Ghil and the book I'm reading is the Mediator:Ninth Key by Meg Cabot. This was a fiction book.At the beginning of the book an upset ghost tells Suze to tell Red that he didn't kill her and it wasn't his fault.When Suze goes to find Red she researches him and his brother and finds out that Red's brother is a killer. While trying to tell Red the message she meets his brother Marcus who later finds out Suze knows more about him than he thouht.Now Marcus is trying to kill her.Later in the book Suze finds out that the ghost meant for her to tell a different Red.
  I would rate this book a five because you always were wondering if Suze was ever going to be able to tell Red the message or was Marcus going to kill her first.The problem in the story was definently agood one. It kept me on the edge of my seat.I enjoyed this book a lot because of how suspenseful it was.
  I would recommend this book to anybody who likes a suspensful,fun,entertaining book. this book had all of these characteristics in one package.

  11/22/2009 8:44:06 AM
• Jordan Green

  Hello, I have just finished reading my book, Satch & Me by Dan Gutman. It is and adventurous and sports book. The book was about how Joe Stoshack and his old friend Flip Valentini and how they go back in time to see Satchel Paige and use a radar gun to see if he was the fastest pitcher ever. While they go back, Flip goes from being an old man to a young man and he meets a girl and falls in love with her. They go to the Negro League World Series to see how fast Satch can throw, but when they get there the radar gun isn't working. They do not get a chance to see if Satch was the faster pitcher ever, but it was a great expericence for Flip because he fell in love and Satchel Paige taught him how to pitch and when they return to current time, Flip is elected to the Hall of Fame. I give this book a 4 out of 5. This is because it was about sports which I enjoy and that it wove together history and fiction making it a great story. I would reccomend this book to people who like adventure and sports. This is because it had a well developed plot and the characters were all realistic except for the fact that no one can travel through time using baseball cards. I think that this is a great book that many will enjoy.

  11/22/2009 10:47:38 AM
• Mariah Caise

  The book that i recently finished reading was Hoops by Walter Dean Myers. Hoops is about a boy named Lonnie and his basketball team who are in the basketball tournament to advance to the championships. While playing, there are scholars who are watching the players play, to see who they might want to send an application for a college basketball team to. In the season Lonnie's team got a new coach by the name of Cal. Lonnie didn't like Cal at all. He never listened to him because once while Lonnie was on a basketball court practicing he remembered seeing Cal there with a beer bottle. Cal was drunk and he didn't want his team to have a coach like Cal. But in the end Lonnie began to like Cal because Cal told Lonnie that he cared for him and he wanted to make Lonnie and his team better, so they can win. Also, during the basketball season Cal changed a lot. First he was seen on the basketball court by Lonnie, drunk. Then he wasn't drunk anymore, and had total confidence for Lonnie's team. A few weeks later Cal disappeared;nobody knew where he was. Not even Cal's wife knew where he was. Later, they found out that Cal was in jail for getting in a fight with another strong muscular man. However, Lonnie bailed Cal out, and Lonnie told Cal that they needed him for their basketball team. But, Cal couldn't do it, and that ended their basketball season. I would rate this book a 4 because there was this one part that was inappropriate, and I didn't like it at all. But, most of the book I did like. It was very mysterious and cool! I would suggest this book to someone who likes sports because someone who doesn't like sports would this book completely utterly boring!

  11/22/2009 3:18:34 PM
• Zachary Nazario

  The book I have just finished reading is Chasing the Falconers by Gordan Korman. The book is about a fifteen year old boy Aidan Falconer and his younger sister Meg,elevan who goes to Sunnydale Farm, a so called minimum-security rehabilitation alternative for delinquet kids. Although Aiden and Meg haven't commuted any crimes, their parents, Drs. John and Loise Falconer, both professors and criminologists, have been found guilty of treason months before and are now serving life sentences in seperate prisons.they both worked for the C.I.A.trying to locate terrorist. The terrorist found them. And know there children have to pay the price for contacting terrorists. And so there children run and get caught. But go to court and the judge feels bad and gives them foster parents until there real parents are found. I reccomend this book because it was very entertaining and interesting. I rate this book a 4 out of 5.

  11/22/2009 7:49:34 PM
• Amanda Evans

  The book I just finished reading is Just Listen by Sarah Dessen. It is a realistic fiction book. This book is about Annabel Greene, the girl who supposedly has everything. Atleast that is what everyone thinks based on her many commercials that portray this. Actually it is quite a different story, her life being far from perfect. Sure she is a model, but she doesnt want to be. Also her sister's don't get along and one of them, Whitney has an eating disorder which takes a toll on the whole family. Another thing totally affecting her life is her friendship with Sophie, her old best friend. It ended bitterly over the summer and now seeing her in school has been terrible. Another thing is she has a very hard time hurting people's feelings, which usually means she holds back the truth and keeps everything that bothers her trapped inside. For example, she wants to quit modeling but she can't bring herself to tell her mom since she knows it makes her happy to see her model. Basically everything is going terribly, completely unlike what she portrays in her modeling shoots. That is, until she meets Owen. Owen Armstrong is a tough, "music-obsessed" boy that she would have never thought could be so different from what she first assumed. She used to think that he was a bully that thought he was too good for everyone else and never wanted to ever be friends with him. Turns out though that he isn't exactly what she thought. Yes, he is music obsessed but he is very nice and truthful. Once she meets Owen she learns to "listen to herself and she gains courage to speak honestly".
  
  I would rate this book a 4.5 because most parts of the book were very interesting and made me want to keep reading.

  11/22/2009 8:30:11 PM
• Tom Lanzano

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I had just finished the book "Eager" by Helen Fox. This wasn't the best book I have ever read, but I still liked it at least a little bit. This book is about the Bells, a family existing in the beginning of the twenty-second century, trying to look for a general needs robot. Their current general needs robot. Grumps, is getting rusty and old so he can't do as much as he used to. This was a really hard for the Bells to do because they have had Grumps ever since Mr. and Mrs. Bell got married. Their two options are the BDC4 robot, the one their neighbor Marcia has and says it's great, and the EGR3 robot, also known as Eager. The BDC4 and Eager are two very good and technologically advanced robots, but the thing is, they are pricey. Eager costs about a thousand dollars less than BDC4, so they go with Eager. Also, Grumps doesn't leave the Bells. He stays with them throughout the whole story because the Bells thought bad if they let him go and possibly be thrown out. So, Eager fits in with the Bells very well. He is very loyal, motivated, and happy. But Eager has a quirk that is very weird. He doesn't know what it means to live. He would sometimes stare down when he was on a plane or on a bridge. Later in the book, Eager just loses it and doesn't think he deserves to live. He jumps down a cliff by the Bells' house and Gavin Bell was outside with Eager and he saw him jump down a cliff. Gavin goes into his house and tells his parents out what has happened. Mr. Bell calls 911 and the firemen come. They reach down and save Eager. Now Eager knows that life is the most prized pocession to a human being. That is what the moral of the story is.
  I give this book a 3 out of 5 because it was a good book, but I got bored with some parts. For example, some parts in the chapter where the author ells how it is in the 22nd century, I yawned a little bit!

  11/23/2009 4:49:29 PM
• VIvian Nguyen :)

  Hey, Mrs. Demko! I just finished the book, "The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle" by LJ Smith. Basically this book is a continuation of the first volume. It continues with Elena and Stefan being together finally. Damon is beginning to start interferring with their live so they are trying to stop him. Caroline, Elena's enemy in school, has stolen her diary and plans on reading it at Founder's Day. When she does, Elena's diary is not in her purse, but she finds her own. Shocked and confused, she runs off stage. Elena then got in a huge fight with her family, so she sort of ran away. When she runs away she feels some type of dark vibe is following her, that could only mean one thing: Damon was "stalking" her. She gets in an accident by driving Matt's car into the river, and temporarily passes out. Stefan is really mad now, and he and Damon are in a huge fight. This was an okay book. I would rate it a 3 out of 5 because at some parts it just got plain boring, but at some parts it got really exciting. I enjoyed it though. It makes me want to read more of this amazing series.

  11/23/2009 7:00:18 PM
• Charles Huang

  Hi Mrs.Demko i am reading a book called Babe and Me by Dan Gutman. It is a realistic/historic fiction book. It is about a kid named Joe Stoshack that is able to travel through time. Through-out this story Joe learns about his dad's love for money and his curiosity about The Great Depression. Joe also learns a lot about Babe Ruth, for example; his caring for kids and the poor and that Babe Ruth lived a hard life when he was little. The story is basically about how Babe and Joe both teach each other, especially about being caring and charitable people, also to believe in-yourself. Also in the story Joe tries to figure out if Babe Ruth CALLED his shot or just made a lucky pointer. As the story goes on they learn a little bit about each other.
  If you like this book READ IT now im gonna read another book by Dan Gutmannnnn! :DDDD

  11/23/2009 8:44:47 PM
• Jacob Barry

  The book I just finished reading is My Men Are My Heroes by Brad kasal. The story is about Brad Kasal's career in the military. It starts out telling you just before he actually decides and goes to boot camp. It tells you about what he would do with his friends and alittle about his life. The story really takes off when he goes to boot camp. He immeadeatly has a problem. He can't swim very well.the problem is solved when his friend teaches him in a pond. In the end he learns and passes boot camp. The climax is when he is on a mission assigned to him to find hidden weapons and bomb making materials. It ends with him and most of his squad or a small group of soldiers wounded and one kia or killed in action.
  I rate this book a five out of five. I rate this because i thought that it tells and describes the story very well. I really liked how they described his dilema after this tour. He had to get a painful procedure done to fix his leg. It was described as being one of the most painful procedures done or having his leg amputated due to the would and thier bieng a hole that he could fit a hand into. He roughed it out an got the procedure. It makes your spine tingle and you can see the pain he suffered but yet he still stayed positive. Also before this when the author is describing the battle you can hear it and see what is happening and how stressful the situation is. This is why I rate this book a five out of five

  11/24/2009 2:41:53 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  The book I'm going to write about is Vampireville by Ellen Screiber.Vampireville is about this goth girl who has a dream boyfriend named Alexander. But Alexander has a dark secret of being a vampire which means they could only see each other at night. Now, they have to be extra careful with Jagger and her sister, Luna in town. They have to search for Luna and Jagger because Luna seems to be wanting to turn Trevor into a vampire. They can't afford to have another vampire on the loose.They find out that Trevor is having this ceremoney and Luna's trying to bite him there. They arrive at the ceremoney and Alexander pretends to be Trevor. Raven tries to lure Trevor out of the cemetary. At the last moment they realize that Luna wanted Alexander all along.The person Raven really was holding was Jagger in a s mask. Raven escapes because the real Trevor and Alexander knock Jagger to the ground when he was going to bite her. They try and Together- Raven and Alexander quickly drive Luna and Jagger out of town before it's too late. I would rate this book a 5 because it is very detailed and has a twist in each chapter. At the end, you'll keep on wanting more.I would recommed this book to people who like to read about vampires and romance. I would also recommed this to people who have read the first and second book.

  11/24/2009 4:54:23 PM
• Rupa Mitra

  Hi! I read the book "Love in the Corner Pocket" by Marlene Perez. The book is Realistic Fiction. The main character Chloe, finds it hard to find true love. She would like a boy if he can actually understand her feelings. Also the kind of boy who can just be himself. When she finds out that Bridget is going out with Alex, things start to get a little edgy for Bridget and Chloe. Because since Bridget and Chloe were best friends, they trusted each other and they did everything together. They were best friends. Now they are just enemies. I rate this book a 3.7 because it a romantic/humorous book. I recommend this book to girls who love romantic, humorous, friendly book. Bye!!!!!!!!

  11/24/2009 5:43:31 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  The I just finished is called "Sweet Sixteen Princess." This book is by Meg Cabot. This book is about a girl Mia. She is turning sixteen in three days, and she hasn't sent invatations for her sweet sixteen party yet. Her friends ask her and Mia says she doesn't want a birthday party this year. Her last year birthday party didn't turn out so well. Lilly decides too throw Mia a surprise birthday party. Mia thought that Lilly and Grandmere were going throw her a huge birthday party. Grandmere decided to give Mia her sweet sixteen party in Genovia with one hundred of her closest friends. Mia rejected her grandmother's offer. Mia's friends really wanted to go. On her birthday her boyfriend Michael invited her for a dinner. Instead he took Mia to her surprise birthday party. When she entered the tent were her party was in she was surprised. Even though it was spring they made it look like a winter wonder land. There was iceskating ion an actual rink. Mia was so happy.
  I would give this book a nine out of ten. It was funny at some parts, but also interesting. I would recommend this book to other people. Overall I liked the book.

  11/24/2009 6:04:33 PM
• Jennifer Hoffman

  Hey, I'm Jenny. I just finished reading "Secret, Lies, and Algebra" by Wendy Lichtman. I think this book is a realistic fiction book. It's all about a teenage girl named Tess who must deal with normal teenage problems. The worst part is that Tess thinks about stuff in a different way then everyone else. You see Tess thinks everything can be applied to algebra. Slowly through the story Tess find out that not everything can be applied to algebra. Now Tess has to figure out how to deal with things that does't get the help from her handy sidekick, algebra. If I had to rate this book I would give it a five. One reason is that I can totally almost relate to everything that happens to Tess in this book. For example when Tess told a secret to one of her best friends and then she totally told someone else. I've had that happen to me once before. I really enjoyed reading this book. One reason, as I said before, I can relate to alot of what happens to Tess. Also, I thought it was really funny being that I'm taking algebra this year. I would definatly recamend this book to my girl friends, especially my friends that are in algebra. I would do this because I think they would enjoy it and it's a total chick book. Overall, I really enjoyed reading this book.

  11/24/2009 7:42:14 PM
• Leena Kasa

  The book I finished is "Al Capone Shines My Shoes" by Gennifer Choldenko. It is a historical fiction that takes place in Alcatraz in the early 1900's. The main character is Moose. In the previous book, Moose askes Al Capone if he could help his sister to get in to a special school. Al Capone agrees, but now he wants to get even. Al Capone wants Moose to give his wife some yellow flowers. Moose does it. Also, Moose has problems with his friend Piper. She's made that he gets all the attention along with her unborn baby brother. Moose doesn't understand her, but in the end Piper forgives him and dicides that she likes her baby brother. I would give this book a 5 out of 5 because of it's amazing detail and it's interesting information. I would definely recomend this book to everyone no matter how old you are.

  11/24/2009 7:57:58 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  Recently I finished the book “Flipped” by Wendelin Van Draanen, this book is realistic fiction. It is about two neighbors who misunderstand each other. Juli a bold and outgoing girl likes a guy named Bryce a shy and cowardly boy, but Bryce absolutely hates Juli and he thinks she is a weirdo. During the course of the book Juli starts to relies that Bryce isn’t a great guy and she tries to stop liking him and she successes until the Basket Boys at their school. Read the book to find out what happens to Juli and Bryce relationship.
  I would rate this book a 4 out of 5. I would recommend this book because it has a surprising ending and an unusual plot.

  11/24/2009 8:06:10 PM
• Amanda Fabian

  i recently finished the book Wait till helen comes by mary downing hahn. This book is about a girl named molly and her brother Michael. Their mother decides to remarry and so they have a new father and stepsister named heather. Heather is not the nicest person to start off with because she has been hiding a secret that holds her back from living a happy life; when her mother died in a house fire, it was because of heather....she started it by accident and got out when her mother went back looking for her, she died. Heather has never told anyone including her father. When David(the father) and their mother get married, they decide to move into an old church in the country. In the back behing this house, is well a graveyard! Heather makes a visit every day as a part of her daily routine. She brings flowers to a grave marked with the same initials as her;H.E.H... she claims that she has alot in common with this person and that they both started the fire that killed at least one of their family memebers. Heather also says her name is Helen. How does she know this? She also claims that the ghost of helen tells her this and that things will be better at the bottom of the lake. Helen was just trying t kill her. Molly tries to convince her mom and dad that heather is being possessed by this ghost but they wont believe her. She follows heather to the graveyard one day and sees helen. Heather spots molly and says you will be sorry when helen comes for you... and she does she messes up her room and said it will get worse if she continues being mean to heather. At the end, molly has a heart to heart conversation with heather and helps her get rid of helen and they live a happy life. I would give this book a 5 out of 5 because it was action packed and very interesting...i could not put it down! That is what the book Wait till helen comes is about. I would recommend this to everyone!

  11/25/2009 3:38:44 PM
• steven schuller

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I have now finished the book "Holes" by Louis Sachar. It was a great book. The genre of this book is mystery. It's about a teenager named Stanley Yelants who's under a curse. Stanley hates his grandfather very much, in fact he called his great-grandfather a "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealin-person!" Anyway, Stanley is under a curse by his great grandfather and he thinks he knows where the curse has started from. Stanley looks for the curse at his camp under the dried up lake there. Every day he goes to the lake and digs holes exactlly five feet deep in the ground. He's determined to find the curse, but will he really get to the bottom of this? I'd rate this book a four out of five and I would recomend it to the people who like mystery.

  11/25/2009 4:30:47 PM
• Melissa Perdomo

  The book i recently finished was midnighters - blue moon by scott westerfeld. It was about a girl named Melissa and she has a boyfriend named Rex. Melissa and Rex have special powers and those types of people are called midnighters and there are only 5 in existence. Melissa is a mind reader and Rex is a seer which is a person that knows everything about anything and can see farther and better than a normal human.
  
  While they are learning there powers they are protecting the plant from a type of dangerous time called the blue time. Inbetween them having powers and protecting the earth, they have to deal with school and problems a regular teenager deals with.
  
  i'd rate this book a 5 because of all the action Rex causes. I'd recommnd this book because this book has a lot of action and drama

  11/28/2009 8:56:45 PM
• Nick Mangarella

  The book i have finished reading is called "Jakie's Nine" by Sharon Robinson. Sharon Robinson is Jakie's daughter in in this book dhe talks about how her life was when her dad played Major League Baseball. The genre of this book is nonfiction. This book is a really good book that I enjoyed reading. I only finished it in a week but it was still a great book anybody should read. This book was also about the struggles that Jakie had to face and his nine characteristics that told who he was. I don't have the book with me but some were determination, courage and resilentsy. He had face many problems with fans throwing things at him and people booing him and stuff like that. All of the bad things that happened to him just motivated him to keep going and get better. As Jakie gets better at baseball the fans and people do begin to cheer for him even though he is black and that is what this book is about. Even if people are putting you down you should still come cack up and keep trying until you suceed at what you are trying tio acomplish. I would give this book a 5 because it really tells you good things in your life that can help you become a better and more sucssessful person. I said before that i did really enjoy the book because it gave me some hints about what Sharon Robinson was talking about. I would recommend this book because anyone can learn something from it.

  11/29/2009 11:43:20 AM
• Tirtza Romano

  HII!!! I just finished reading Secrates of my Hollywood life: on Location. It was a really good book. This book is about a really famous actress named Katie. Katie has a really NOT famous boyfriend and thought that nothing could go wrong. But now she has to work on a movie with her exboyfriend and excostar. So she tries to hide that from her boyfriend. but how can somone hide something that big when their famous. So she tells Drew (exboyfriend) off at, a girl named, Skys house. Wich is now all over the press. Drew and Sky try to get even with Katie but it doesnt work.
  
  i rate this book a 4. its so dramatic.. i love. and so will someone eles out there!!

  11/29/2009 11:59:07 AM
• Amanda Wortham

  Hi! I just finished a book called Princess on the Brink. This book is by Meg Cabot. This book is about a girl named Mia and her boyfriend Michael. Michael invites Mia to dinner because he needs to tell her something important. When they asrrive at Number One Noddle Son where they are going to eat, he tells her that he is moving to Japan. He is moving there because the people at Japan want him to make another mechanical arm. He built one that could preform open heart surgeries. Mia had as lot of noodles in her mouth when he told her, so she spit them out and started to cry. Then she ran from the restuarant and ran to the playground near by. Then Michael got up and ran after her. When he found her she was crying on a swing. He told her it was a way to prove himself worthy of her. Ididn't work, and she kept crying. After a while he calmed her down and they walked home together.
  I would call this book a fantasy. I would rate this book a ten out of ten. This book was sad, funny, and romantic. I would recommend this book. I liked this book a lot.

  11/30/2009 8:42:55 PM
• Nolan Choi

  The book I recently finished is The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick. Its genre is mystery. This book was about Hugo Cabret, an orphan being a clock keeper and a thief. He keeps the station clocks in the right times and fixes a mechanical man. He is hoping that the mechanical man will unlock all his questions. Surprisingly, it did. His future came perfectly at him after the movie shown by Etienne and Monsieur Tabard. He became a magician.
  I rate this book a 5 for outstanding details and plot. The pictures were very vivid and were able to connect to the story even without text needed to support what was going on. For example, the old man opened the chipped green door with a large key. Another example, they soon arrived at a decrepit apartment building across from the graveyard.
  I enjoyed reading this book because of its vivid descriptions in the text followed by outstanding black and white colored pictures. I extremely enjoyed the ending. I love how the author blends in a summary of the ending up into a couple pages and then the pictures of the moon and its different crescents to end the book.
  I would definitely recommend this book because it’s an easy extra 10 on your grade and it also has some twists that may pop out here and there.

  11/30/2009 9:12:00 PM
• Frankie Wai

  I've recently finished a book named "The hunger Games: Catching Fire." by Suzanne Collins. I would say that it is definitely in the action genre. After Katniss Everdeen wins the Hunger Games she is caught in another problem. Her attempt to suicide with the Nightlock berries.The capitol is not so happy about that incident so now they are trying to prove that her attempt was out of Rebelious feeling and not out of love so she has to prove that her attempt was out of love for Peeta. So back in the victor's village Peeta and Katniss are engaged. So now the electric fence surrounding district 12 is now full with electricity 24 hours a day. Because of this change Katniss broke her leg while trying to sneak over the fence. So the 75th Hunger Games are marked with a quarter Quell which is basically the games with a slight twist. One year on the quarter quell they made each district send in twice as many tributes. So this year each district will send their past victors in as tributes and since Katniss was the only female victor of her district she was going in the arena again.
  But this time they don't get training. So she meets up with Cinna again. So the district 12 team have come up that Katniss and Peeta were going to the arena again while Haymitch will try to sustain them. So the day of the games Cinna is killed by the peacemakers. The games begin once again. Katniss and Peeta
  immediatly team up with Finnick and Mags. On the first day after the bloodbath at the cornucopia around 11 and 13 people are killed. Their alliance with Finnick and Mags sustain. Soon they meet up with Joanna, Wiress, and some other tribute. They soon come up with the theory that the arena is following a clock
  pattern with different destructive weapons at each section of the clock. They have gone through a toxic fog, blood rain, Waves, and
  yet to come. So the games carry on with this pattern. And on the last day the final tributes are killed. But with the capitol's advanced technology Katniss, Finnick survive. (But the book said nothing about Peeta so he could be alive). I would give this book a 5 star rating because with the capitol chasing Katniss into
  corners the book kept me reading. I would defenitely recomend this book to any one who enjoys action.

  12/1/2009 8:59:37 AM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I just finished Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares. The genre is realistic fiction and chick-flick. The book is a sequel to The Second Summer of the Sisterhood. In the third book it's the last summer before the 4 girls; Lena, Bridget, Tibby, and Carmen set off for their freshman year at college to start their futures. The girls face many struggles in that summer. Tibby sees what she didn't know about her friend Brian and she feels more compassionate and more strong feelings towards him. There's little sparks between them. Carmen's struggle was looking after Lena's old, cranky grandmother for the summer but for she was getting paid, too. Along the way she meets Win; a helpful, kind guy. He helped Carmen when Lena's grandmother fell in the ice cream shop. Carmen pretends to be someone's she's not when she's with him. Well that's what she thinks. Her other struggle was her mother having a baby. This caused her to rethink her dream college Willamson because she wanted to help with the baby. She also didn't want to be cut out of the picture of the family because a new member was coming along. Lena's struggle is not only her mean grandmother but her own father. She has a big passion for art and wants to go to an art school called RISD. Her father dissaproves but Lena gets a scholarship and shows her dad how much the school means to her. Bridget's struggle is staying in the "friend zone" with Eric. They had a "fling" two summers ago at soccer camp when he was a coach and she was a player/camper. There is a couple year difference. It's hard yo pass it by and talk about what happened. They see each other everyday. After discovering he has a girlfriend named Kaya, it's not only harder but things may change. I would rate this book a 5. Out of the other 2 books I think this one was like the climax in a way. There was a lot of tension and suspense. Especially since the girls would be starting a new life in fall and they don't want nothing to come between them. I couldn't stop reading. I would reccomend this to girls only. It has a lot of drama and stuff teen GIRLS could relate to. Boys wouldn't be interested. I can;t wait to start reading Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood and also the final book of the series.

  12/1/2009 6:12:19 PM
• Ridhima

  I have recently finished reading After the Funeral by Aghata Christie.In After the Funeral, Richard Abehrtine had died suddenly, and everyone was attending his funeral.Soon after his funeral, strange things started to happen to his family members. His sister's daughter, Cora Lansquent, was murdered on late afternoon. Then, a few weeks later, Richard's second cousin recieved a cake filled with arsenic. After many of these strange things happened, the family decided to call their family detective, Hercule Poirot. I would recommend this book because it was very suspensful and mysterious.

  12/2/2009 11:27:25 AM
• Abanoub Guerges

  I just finished reading Fight Game by K. Wild. The genre is fiction. It is about a young gypsy boy called Freedom Smith, that is cursed with great streangth and fighting abilities. He was blackmailed by the police, if he doesn't help them he will be arrested. He is than forced to join an underground fight club called the Bear Pitt. But the problem is that once in you can never come out. I give this book a 6 out of 5 because just like the Bear Pit once in you can't come out. I loved the book and would defenatly recomend it to action lovers.

  12/3/2009 4:14:44 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  The book I'm going to be writing to you about is called Dance with a Vampire by Ellen Schreiber.It's about a girl named Raven who of course, has a vampire boyfriend named Alexander. Luna and Jagger, 2 mysterious menaces from the underworld,mysteriously disappeared in the last book. Then what is their little brother, Valentine, doing here?Shouldn't he be with them, celebrating or something like that? Valentine becomes a full time troublemaker when he befriends Billy, Raven's sister.While Raven protects Billy, the biggest night of the year is coming up-prom.On prom night, Alexander and Raven found out that Billy was in Valentine's cave, preparing to bite Billy. Luckly , Raven and Alexander arrive in time and pull Valentine off.TThe good thing is that Billy's safe. But Alexander will have to leave Dullsville for a while until he returns Valentine back to Jagger.I would rate this book a 4.5 bacause it was having a lot of action but stalled a bit at some parts. I would recommed this book to people who like vampire books.
  

  12/3/2009 4:15:41 PM
• Ethan Weerasinghe

  Hey Mrs Demko!!! The book i recently finished is Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules. I think it was a great and very interesting book, and that's why i chose to use it for my literary essay!! Its mainly about Greg Heffley's second year in middle school, 7th grade, and how much his brother Rodrick tortures and bullys him almost everyday, or any chance he gets. I feel really bad for him because basically his whole family is "messed up" and they never have any fun, just a little though, when they can at least!! Overall, i rate this book a 4.5 out of 5 and i do recommend this book to others!!

  12/3/2009 6:30:28 PM
• George Youssef

  Hi Mrs. Demko, it's me George I have just finish the book Treasure Island by Howard Pyle and the book is realistic fiction. In the story there is a boy named Jim Hawkins who is at his fathers inn when a strange man named Billy Bones comes in wanting a room and pays it off with gold coins. Billy Bones was a man of great wealth because he was the most well feared pirate of his time. He comes in the inn trying to hide from his no good rotten crew who wants to kill him for his treasure. It was not a long time until they found him and then killed him, but Jim being the smart boy he is was able to get the map from him before the crew came. Then Jim takes a couple friends to find the treasure, but he is unaware that within his crew lyes a traitor who will make his trip to Treasure Island a living nightmare. Once they get there they begin their search for the treasure, but are not able to because they don't have the map Jim does, but they don't no that. Until one of Jims honest crew members accidently tells them then they go hunting for the boy. Then the war begins, jim was in a serious problem. Him and his honest crew were able to fight the traitors and win. Then they find the treasure in a cave, take it all and go home.

  12/3/2009 8:31:17 PM
• James Chiarello

  The book that I'v recently finished was "Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days," by Jeff Kinney. In my book, my main Character, (Greg Heffley) makes a dramatic change in the story. In the beginning, Greg only use to stay on the couch, play video games, and eat junk. Everybody in his neighbor hood knew him as a lazy, indoor person. But around the middle of the story, Greg's dad got the family a dog. Having a dog helped Greg become a little bit more responsible. Also, he was starting to talk to his crush (Heather Hills). Towards the end of the book, Greg went on a camping trip with his best friend Rowley, a summer house with his family, the beach with his family, and a fishing trip with his dad. As you can see, greg has changed to an adventurous young man.
  While reading this book, I realized that anybody can change if they put their mind to it, or it can just happen.
  I would rate this book a 5/5, and I would recommend it to any body with a decent sense of humor.
  
  

  12/3/2009 8:32:33 PM
• Zachary Nazario

  I have recently finished a book called How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found.This book is about two children Sophie and Marget who don't feel aprecated or respected so they pick on a girl named Lizzie who picks on them the most but never works.They find a comic book that explains how to disappear and do what it says and both run away from their struggles and when they get caught by a local policemanthey explain themselves and the police officer brings them home was for two reasons because of his job and feel bad for them.When they both end up home both there parents were worried sick. They were suprised and thankful at there parents were actually worried. I rate this a 4 out of 5 and highly reccomend it.

  12/3/2009 11:11:30 PM
• Vivian Nguyen

  I recently finished the book "The Vampire Diaries: The Fury" by LJ Smith. This book would go under the category of fantasy and drama and romance.
  
  This book is about when right after Elena died. She woke up discovering that she was a vampire, but everyone else thought she was dead. Since she is recovering from the transformation she sleeps for about 4 days. After that she breaks the news to Meredith, Matt, and Bonnie. Then Elena begins to wonder who was that "Other Power" that made her drive Matt's car into the river (Which is how she died). Then one night, when Bonnie goes in a trance (She is pyschic) the voice that is taking over her, leads them to the tomb of Thomas and Honoria Fell (the founders of Fell's Church) in the cemetary. When they and their history teacher, Alaric, go inside the tomb they discover a crypt. Then they enter the crypt and meet the ghost of Honoria Fell. She gives them a piece of advice of that they should be careful of the other power. Then a white tiger appears. The humans escape and Stefan, Damon, and Elena stay to help fight it. They were too weak and blacked out. THey wake up to find Katherine; the one who was the Other Power, and the one who was causing all the chaos in Fell's Church all this time. But how can Katherine be alive? She's dead right? Wrong. She faked the whole thing to make Damon and Stefan stop fighting. But her plan did not work out. She is now jealous that Stefan is in love with Elena, and that he gave Elena Katherine's ring. So she threatens to kill them, and all three of them go unconcious once again, because they got hurt. When Elena awakes they are all tied up, and that Kathering took all their rings. without a talisman they would burn into ashes in the sunlight. So Elena loosened her ropes and pushed Katherine into the sunlight. She knew that she would die, but Elena did it to protect Stefan and Damon. Katherine immediately flamed to ashes but Elena was in Stefan's arms slowly dieing. The book ends with a journal entry from Bonnie. Everybody terribly misses Elena.
  
  I would rate this book a 5. I think this was the most exciting book out of all the book in the series that I have read so far. I would recomment this book to anyone who likes these kinds of books.

  12/4/2009 4:29:56 PM
• Erik Berger

  I’ve just finished the last book in the series of The Lord Of The Rings called Return Of The King by J. R. R. Tolkien. It is a fantasy book, here is a summery of it. Pippin starts off the book with Gandalf in Minas Tirith while Merry is with the King Théoden. Merry goes into battle on the way to Minas Tirith and the king died and Eomer became the new one. Faramir returns to Minas Tirith and tells Gandalf about when he saw Frodo. Faramir’s father, the king committed suicide in panic when the city was being attacked and he knew it was the end. Faramir was injured and had to go to the house of healing. Merry won the battle and Aragorn, Eomer, Gimli, and Legolas made it back to the city with the survivers of the battle and helped in the other battle and they won. Meanwhile Sam was following the Orcs that had Frodo. He even crossed into Mordor to save him. Sam found him and they fled trying not to be found because they were wanted. They climbed Mount Doom to get to the Cracks Of Doom. On the way up the mountain they met Gollum and he stole the ring from Frodo and fell into The Cracks Of Doom therefore destroying the ring forever. Frodo could not have destroyed the Ring if Gollum didn’t fall in because the Ring was overwhelming him with its power. Gandalf came From Minas Tirith riding an Eagle and saved Sam and Frodo. Pippin, Merry, Sam, and Frodo return back to the Shire and fixed the town because while they were gone bad things happened. That is a summary of my book. I rate this book a 4.5. It was a great book that kept you reading and was very fun. I enjoyed it because it was full of nonstop action and adventure. I would recommend this book because it is very interesting and I know who ever reads it will enjoy it like I did.

  12/4/2009 10:42:02 PM
• Mariah Caise

  The book i have just finished is "Dairy Queen" by Cahterine Murdock. My book is a romance, and sports book. It has to deal with people falling in love while at the same time these two people are training for football. This book was about a girl named D.J. who lives on a farm in Red Bend, Wisconsin. A boy named Brian who is her dad's friend's son, came one day to help out D.J. on the farm. At first, he was annoying and kept on complaining about the heat, and how everything was disgusting. He was a very harsh person, and then he got so mad and frustrated he just left. He left D.J. on the farm all by herself doing the rest of the work. But, as the days went on, he was getiting more used to the fact that this is what work takes. Then it got even more fun when D.J. became his personal trainer for football. They went jogging, played on D.J.'s football field on the farm, and worked. Then eventually they kissed and went out together. But, then D.J. decided she was going to try out for the boys football team at her school! She never told Brian, and when he first found out, it was when his team was versing her team! He was fired up and furious. He didn't even make eye contact with her! In the end Brian's team lost to D.J.'s team, but Brian's dad Jimmy told Brian to not be mad at D.J. because she was just giving him even more of a challenge! So, he wasn't mad, and they were friends again!

  12/5/2009 8:46:53 AM
• faris alkhatahtbeh

  i have just finished reading the book, "The Janitors Boy" by Andrew Clements.The genre of this book is fiction. In this book, it is about a boy named Jack, who has a dad being a janitor. jack has a hard time having his dad be a janitor in his school, because everyone is making fun of him. He used to love his dads job until what happened in second grade. Everyone was asked by their teacher what they want to be when they grow up. Kids said stuff like a lawyer, a doctor, a policeman or something like that. But not Jack. Jack said he wants to be a janitor when he grows up. The class laughed at him. Ever sense then he took his dad as an embarrassment. Jack also started making a few messes in the school every once in a while for his dad to clean up. But one time the Vice Principal caught him. And now he has "Gum Patrol" in school for 1 hour for the next three weeks. Jack went in his dad's office and found keys for the entire school. He took a key for the room number 501. He then went to that room and just sat there and started writing in his notebook, about reasons why he wont turn out like his dad in the future. At the end of the story story Jack stopped being embarrassed his dad being a janitor. His dad told him about him going to war when he was a kid and couldn't go to college and so he had to be a janitor. Jack never realized that before now knows why his dad is a janitor. i world rate this book a 4 out of 5 because the book tells about how a kid of how jack bonds with his dad. I would reccomend this book to anyone because it is enjoying to read.

  12/5/2009 6:59:07 PM
• Jacob Hanna

  Dear Mrs.Demko I have recently finished the book called The Downsiders, by Neal Shusterman. This book is about a civilisation that lives under New York City, and how one boy named Talon almost gives away the secret to a girl,'a topsider' named Lindsay, who discovers the other world below. This book is mainly a love story that "blossoms" as the time these from opposing worlds, spend together results in their love growing. I would give this book a 3 out of 5 because even though it had a good plot the author didn't make any great or interesting use of it.

  12/5/2009 7:01:30 PM
• Jennifer Hoffman

  Hey, I'm Jenny and I just finished the book "Behind the Curtain" by Peter Abrahams. This book is definatly a realistic fiction story. In this book the main character, Ingrid, is kidnapped. There are many people who could be possible kidnappers, exapt that no one in the town believes her about being kidnapped. After doing her own investigation, she finally thinks she knows who it is. She thinks it is the people who she found out was selling steriods to children who play slorts. Ingrid suspects that they only kidnapped her because they found out that she knows what they're doing and if she tells the police they could get in some serious trouble. Ingrid then set a trap for the drug dealers and possible kidnappers. To find out if she catches the bad guys, you'll have to read the book. If I had to rate this book I would give it a five. I would do this because the book was in some parts pretty funny and some of Ingrid's problems any teenager can relate to. I really did enjoy reading this book. One reason is because as I said before Ingrid has problems that any teenager can relate to. Also, I just really love to read mystery books. I would recomend this book to my friends, but only some. I would do this because only a couple of my friends really enjoy reading this book. Overall,
  "Behind the Curtain" was a very enjoyable book to read.

  12/5/2009 7:27:54 PM
• Peter Eskander

  Hi Mrs. Demko!!!! i had finished th book shredderman by Brian Biggs, Bubba bixby is a bully he cheats, steals, cuts in line, and terrorizes little kids, so Nolan try to stop him by making a website for everyone to see, and he hid a camera in his backpack, and he started to take pictures of Bubba, and he posted what he got on his camera on the website, and he made flayers in the school about "shredderman.com", and people started to visit and sending messages to Nolan, he got on from Buuba saying in it that he knows him ad he is gonna punish him. Nolan knew that Bubba is out of school for 3 day, and he saw him with his parents on the way home and he saw Bubba's dad shouting at him so he said "maybe Bubba is not born bad but his dad made him a bully"
  i rate that book as 5 because it is like the book "the diary off a wimpy kid" by Jeff Kenny but in a different way with less pictures and more words. See you on Monday!!

  12/5/2009 11:20:32 PM
• Rupa Mitra

  Hello! I just finished a book called "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney. It is a Realistic fiction book. It's about a boy name Greg Heffley who is very unpopular at Middle school and has a very boring personality. He also has a weird family. His dad is very energetic, but is very strict. His mom is laid-back. And his older brother Rodrick is really rude and he's the prank- type. And Greg's little brother Manny gets all the attention and never gets in trouble. Greg wants to make more friends at Middle school, but for now he has only one friend name Rowley. Rowley's personality is a weird, awkward kid who loves to play video games, just like Greg. That's probably the only reason they are friends. At Middle School Greg has a hard time blending in with others. If he tries to joina really cool group, no one really cares. People just treat him the same way. I recommend this book to people who like reading journals and humorous books. I rate this book a 4. Bye!

  12/6/2009 8:27:40 AM
• Grace Wang

  I have just finished reading “The Wedding Planner’s Daughter” by Coleen Murtagh Paratore and its genre is realistic fiction. Willa, a twelve-year-old girl, is swept away to Bramble, Cape Cod by her widowed mother. Bramble was actually where her mother was born. Willa has been moving from town to town but when she arrives at Bramble, where her grandmother also lives, she actually seems to fit in. Since she moves a lot it’s kind of hard to find a real friend but at Bramble she actually finds her first-ever best friend! Also, there’s a boy in her class that she can’t possibly ignore. Her mother, Stella, is a wedding planner but she’s probably the least romantic person in the world ever since her husband had died just because he wanted to give her a surprise. On the very next day of their wedding Billy, Willa’s father, had asked Stella to wait for him at the park. But he had never came. It turns out he was on a hot-air balloon wanting to surprise Stella but he had lost to a flock of birds and drowned. Now Stella is determined to keep herself and her daughter’s feet on the ground. But Willa doesn’t have the same thing on her mind. Especially since she had found out that their next-door neighbor, Sam, who is Willa’s English teacher is not only handsome but also a poet and most importantly a perfect dad material. But when Stella’s secret about planning a wedding for the two soap opera stars Duke and Dora is let out and the wedding turns into a disaster Stella gets sued. Of course she gets scared again and gets her suitcases ready to go to Maine. Willa on the other hand refuses to go. But what can she do? Stella has already decided and there’s no going back. Willa’s life in Maine is horrible. She can see Stella is trying to forget about Bramble and is trying to make the best of it but Willa’s just ignoring her. On Friday the 13th it’s her 13th birthday. She’s dreadful the whole day and refuses to go to school. But then Willa knows what she has to do. She leaves a note and goes back to Bramble. When she’s there she doesn’t know whom she’s waiting for. Then she realizes she wants her mother. When her mother comes they hug and pour out each other’s feelings. Willa realizes that what she really wanted was her mother to really know her, not a father. Stella risks being hurt again and agrees to marry Sam. Since Stella can’t work as a wedding planner again they rebuild the famous Bramble Inn and Willa gets to stay in Bramble.
  
  I would defiantly rate this book a five. It had many lines from poems and classic stories in the beginning of the chapters that kind of told what was going to happen and that was really interesting. It had a lot of thought and feelings of the character which made me able to see things from her eyes. I would recommend this book to any girl I know.
  

  12/6/2009 1:10:13 PM
• Leena Kasa

  The book I finished is "Sammy Keyes and the Art of Deception" by Wendelin Van Draanen. The book is a realistic fiction and the main character is Sammy Keyes. Sammy has an art project so see goes to a reception to interview someone. She sees a robber, so she attacks him. Then she meets the artist the robber tried too steal from. Sammy likes her, but her grandmother doesn't. Her grandmother finds out that the artist tried becoming an artist before and failed. Sammy snoops around and then learns that the robber was the artist's brother trying to take back the paintings that belonged to their father. He said that their father painted them and that his sister changed the name on it. Sammy tells everyone and then realizes that the artist will try and get rid of the proof, which is the paintings. Sammy and her grandmother go save what remained of the paintings and revealed the truth and evidence to the public. I would give this book a 3 because of the unique plot, but it was pretty boring at first. I would recommend this book o anyone who likes a enjoys mystery and an unexpected ending. This is what the book is about.

  12/6/2009 7:45:43 PM
• Amiti

  I just finished reading the book The Sisterhood of The Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares. This book is realistic fiction and a chick-flick. This is the first book of the series of the traveling pants. The Pants were an unexpected finding by four friends, Lena, Carmen, Bridget, and Tibby. They found it on the day when they were going to be separated for the whole summer. These pants mysteriously fit all of the friends which is unusual because they are all different sizes. Bridget is really tall, Lena is very thin, Carmen is very short and Tibby is a little chunky. But somehow the Pants fit them all so they believed that they were magical pants. Over the summer the girls face many challenges and difficulties. Tibby didn’t go anywhere and is feeling lonely until she finally found someone to talk to. Carmen’s dad is getting married and she absolutely hates the new family. Lena is in Greece and her grandmother wants her “to get to know” a guy she really likes named Kostos. Bridget is going to a “girls only” soccer camp in California but falls in love with the coach, Eric. She did whatever she could to get to talk to him. I can tell that throughout the book she was very daring and brave.
  I would rate this book a 5 because it is very descriptive and keeps me interested the whole time I read it. I would definitely recommend this book to girls because they can relate to it. Boys probably wouldn’t like to read it. I already started reading The Second Summer of The Sisterhood and it is amazing. I can’t put it down!

  12/6/2009 8:04:17 PM
• Mariah Caise

  The book i have just finished is "Dairy Queen" by Cahterine Murdock. My book is
  a romance, and sports book. It has to deal with people falling in love while at
  the same time these two people are training for football. This book was about a
  girl named D.J. who lives on a farm in Red Bend, Wisconsin. A boy named Brian
  who is her dad's friend's son, came one day to help out D.J. on the farm. At
  first, he was annoying and kept on complaining about the heat, and how
  everything was disgusting. He was a very harsh person, and then he got so mad
  and frustrated he just left. He left D.J. on the farm all by herself doing the
  rest of the work. But, as the days went on, he was getiting more used to the
  fact that this is what work takes. Then it got even more fun when D.J. became
  his personal trainer for football. They went jogging, played on D.J.'s football
  field on the farm, and worked. Then eventually they kissed and went out
  together. But, then D.J. decided she was going to try out for the boys football
  team at her school! She never told Brian, and when he first found out, it was
  when his team was versing her team! He was fired up and furious. He didn't even
  make eye contact with her! In the end Brian's team lost to D.J.'s team, but
  Brian's dad Jimmy told Brian to not be mad at D.J. because she was just giving
  him even more of a challenge! So, he wasn't mad, and they were friends again!
  I enjoyed this book mostly because of how D.J. and Brian resolved their problems on their own. I would rate it a 5 because i really liked it a lot, and i liked how i understood it better this time; since i read it last year! I would definitely recommend this book. It is a seventh grade book for boys and girls! It has to deal with sports, romance, farming, and friendship issues. This book was definitely a pleasure to read.

  12/6/2009 9:24:30 PM
• Billy

  i finished Airman by Eoin Colfer. Its about a boy named Conor, who was born on a hot air balloon. Ever since he was nine he had a dream to build a flying machine. This book takes places in the early 1800s. His family was rich so he was always hanging out with the princess. Once they were playing games in a tower and they accidently lit some explosives. Conor used his wits and quick thinking to get out quick and he saved the princess's life. Then a scientist named Victor was impressed and became his tutor. He tought him about fencing and aeronautics (the study of flying). Victor was also the pilot of the hot air balloon conor was born on. After three years of training Conor had enough fencing skill to beat Victor and knew so much about aeronautics that he and Victor had a dream to build a flying machine that they already designed. Off the coast of the Great Saltee islands that they live in theres a diamond mine for prisoners called little Saltee, it was a cruel place where they would nearly kill eachother daily. It was run by marshall Hugo Bonvilain. One day Conor was eavsdropping on Victor and King Nickolas having a conversation when Bonvilain comes in and shoots them both. He sees Conor watching and he puts him in a different outfit and rolls him around in mud so he's unrecognizable. He tells the guards that he has a different last name than he really does. He tells the authorities that Victor killed the King and Conor and that himself was a hero for shooting Victor. Conor was stuck in that jail for 2 years untill he escaped during a coranation party. By the time Conor was 17 he had invented a glider. He uses it to fly back to the jail because his prisoner friends took some of the diamonds they stole from the mine and buried them in the garden. At first he was going to use the money to take a ferry to America and start a new life. But in a bar he meets his former cellmate Linus Wynter and they developed a plan to defeat Bonvilain. It took Conor 3 trips to get all nine bags of diamonds at people saw him in his glider suit. They spread around word that he was the Airman that was a half man half bird hybrid. He was "appartently" 10ft tall and killed 50 people. Conor was about 6ft and didnt kill anyone yet. Whenever a prison guard saw him stealing diamonds he would talk to them in french so when they report it to Bonvilain he would go insane. He's afraid of french people he thinks they're all spies. Word was going around that there was an evil frenchman that wanted to kill the queen, they still called him the airman. After several days of work with many assisstants Conor built a helicopter like flying machine. On the night of having Bonvilain having a party with Conors parents and the princess, who was now the queen. He planned to poison them all and even himself slightly to make it look like he didnt do this. With all other eligible people gone Bonvilain could be king. Conor the Airman wentin his vehicle and flew into Bonvilains castle but he was expecting that and got a whole bunch of sinpers to shoot it down but Conor was expecting that so he brought his glider and when the helicopter crashed he used his glider to fly the rest of the way. It was night, the glider was black and quite so noone saw him coming. He crashed in before anyone but Bonvilain could eat their poisoned food. Then he exposed his face, friends and family shocked because they thought he died back when the king was killed many years ago. After that he tells them what Bonvilain did and then Conor stabbed him with a samurai sword. At the end Conor makes out with the princess and then moves to scottland to go to a really good college. the last words of the book were "some people look up, down, left, or right, But people like Conor and Linus they were visionaries.
  
  I give this book a 4.5 out of 5. It's really epic, but the downside is that its 400 pages long. What i like about this book it documents Conors life not just like a month of it but 17

  12/7/2009 6:26:21 PM
• Charles Huang

  Hi Mrs.Demko! The book i'm reading is called Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson. It is a realistic fiction genre. It is about teen called Tyler Miller which is struggling against physical and emotional problems. Some of which are to small to be mentioned. Anyways he is a emo-nerd and a goody-two shoes, when he decides one day to...BECOME popular. He tries so hard but it won't work so he goes into limits he never expected. He decided to graffiti his school's wall. He was found out and was almost arrested but since it was his first offense all he got was a probation officer and having to have to work for the school janitors + Mr.Pirelli's Carpenting. It wasn't that fun but he gained some muscle strength which helped him rise as a semi-bad boy instead of some nerdy unpopular kid. Some other kids looked up while the nerds looked down at him. But he didn't care. I would reccomend this book to any person i know. Cyahhh :D

  12/7/2009 8:00:53 PM
• Sam F

  I just finished the book Shiloh by Phyllis Naylor. It is an animal book. Marty finds a dog outside of his house and tells his parents. His parents bring the dog back to his owner, Judd Travers, who gets drunk and abuses his dogs. Soon enough, the dog comes back again. Marty is not giving him back because he knows the truth about Judd. He keeps Shiloh (the dog) hidden in the mountains. Its only a matter of time before his mom finds out about the dog. And then Marty's dad finds out, and then his sisters, and finally Judd. Before Judd finds out, Shiloh is attacked by a German Shepard. Marty tells Judd that he is not giving Shiloh back because he loves him too much. For two weeks, Marty works for Judd for money and after the two weeks, Marty gets to keep Shiloh. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5. First of all, i liked the story. Another reason in the details. I would reccomend this book to anyone who likes a good book or an animal book.

  12/7/2009 8:43:26 PM
• steven schuller

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I'm now finished with the book "My Team" by Larry Dierker. This books' genre is sports. This book is about many great baseball players. Some are Cal Ripken JR., Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Derek Jeter, and many more. This book also talks about thier supporters and how they made into the pro baseball league. I'd rate this book a 5 out of 5 because I love sports and I enjoy reading about them. I reccomend this book to who ever likes sports.

  12/9/2009 7:17:38 AM
• Tom Berzok

  Hello! I just finished the book Eragon by Christopher Paolini. This fantasy was great and filled with action. The main character in the book was Eragon. He lived with his uncle and cousin on their farm. One day while Eragon was hunting in the woods the blue stone magically appeared. Eragon of couse took it home. After many days of questions and frustration the stone revealed itself to be a dragon. Her name was Saphira. ONe day while Eragon was out with her these two men burnt dow n his farm because they wanted the dragon. So then Eragon hooked up with Brom, a past rider. So they traveld through city to city trying to reach the Varden where they can beat Durza. AS they went to one of the cities the met up with two urgals. So this ment a fight. Then Eragon realized he could use magic. Which would prove him good later. AS they reached the Varden they befriended the people and planne how the would attack. If you want to know more you should go ahead and read the book.
  I would rate this book a 7 out of 10 because though it was filled with action but it was a little hard to keep up with. WHen the went to Varden it was like three pages until they fought Durza. It was a really great book thought READ IT! I would recomend this book to all the fantasy lovers but if you don't care for fantasy that much get a different book. Thanks! Tom Berzok

  12/9/2009 6:48:57 PM
• sean glasgow

  Hello Mrs.demko its sean. I just finished a book i was reading and i would like to tell you about it. The book iam reading is called life after football. THe author is Joe Dayden. This book is non fiction .This book explains about NFL players lives after football. The players include Joe Montana, Emitt Smith, Dan Marino and Deion Sanders.I really liked reading this book because it gave me a clue of what NFL players do after football. Which helped me to rate this book a 5. If i could reconmend this book to anyone it would be Aaron Mcsweeny. Aaron Mcsweeny is one of my best friends and he loves football just as much as me . Thank you for reading my blog and i hope you enjoyed it.

  12/10/2009 2:29:56 PM
• TiRtZa RoMaNo :D

  HIIIII!!!! I just finished reading twelve by Lauren myrical. It was a good book, realistic fiction. It is about a girl named Winnie that just turned twelve and is going into a a new school building. She and her best friend just got in a big fight and now they are exfriends. First she had to deal with her sixth grade graduation. then she went to camp and the counsler hated her. She also got 37 bees stings then relized who her true friends were. Then she got a new boyfriend and everything was perfect again. i loved this book. Dianah was my favorite character. Dianah was the true best friend.
  
  I would give this book a five out of five. i would also recomend it to anyone going into 7nth grade. I LOVED TTHISS BOOOK!!! :DD

  12/10/2009 4:47:14 PM
• Tirtza Ro. :)

  I just finish reading thirteen by Lauren Myrical. It was so much better than twelve. i could relate to thirteen more because i just have the same problems as she does. In the begining of the book winnie and her friend diahanah start the 8th grade. They say its scary but its not. They also have boy probl;ems and not being invited to big partys... bar mitvahs. hrye also have t find out if hollween is still cool. and that is a HUGE nightmare. Winnie once ditched school and she got busted because her mom called in to bring in an english paper but she found out they ditched. She got grounded forever but it was worth it.
  
  Rhat book waas great... 5 out of 5. i loved it.
  
  The reason my name isnont on the lista a second time is because Mr. Simon didnt have the sign up sheet out so i wrote my name on team eli and i just decided to do it.
  
  

  12/10/2009 4:58:25 PM
• josh barkoff

  hello ms. Demko, how are you? The book that i have just finished is called The Contender which was written by Robert Lipsyte. The genre of my book is non fiction. This book is about a boy named alfred brooks who is a very shy and unconfident. Alfred is a high school dropout and his grocery store job leads him no where. some bad kids are after him so he diceds to join a local gym. He wants to by a championship boxer but his best friend is stopping him because of his best friends drug addiction. if you would like to learn more about the book you should read it. I would rate this book a 4 out of 5 because at some points it was boreing. all and all i would reccomend this book to people who love to read and to 6th and 7th grades.
  By:Joshua Barkoff

  12/11/2009 4:06:51 PM
• Michael Meikle

  I just finished reading yet another book! It is called "Skulduggery Pleasent". Written by Derek Landy. The book is Fiction and VERY interesting. The book was about an Irish girl living in a small town with crazy relatives except for her uncle Gordon. She is bored with her un-eventful town and seeks adventure. Once her Unle mysteriously dies, a strange man shows up at his funeral. This man is completly covered head to toe one thing or another. One day, after the funeral, after Gordon (the dead and beloved uncle) left the girl, Stephanie, his house. There was a flood one night and she got stuck at the house alone while her parents were away. She recieves a strange call while investigating the house from a even stranger man. He asks for a key of some sort. After Stephanie says he doesn't know what the heck he is talking about and hangs up on him she hears a knocking at the door. All of a sudden it bursts open and the man from the phone comes in. But, strangely the man from trhe funeral appears just as the intruder is about to kill They brawl it out inside the house while all Stephanie can do is gape as the man from the funeral throws fireballs and the intruder. they get into close comabt and te man from the funeral's hat is knocked off. Fort he first time, Stephanie sees he is a skeleton. He finishes off the intruder by scaring him away and stares at Stephanie.
  Skulderggy Please, living skeleton and ace dectective, he says when she asks who he was. She is astounded and she happens to faint at that momment. Thats hoe she met Skulduggery Pleasent for the first time. I found this book quite interesting after I got past the begining, I rate it 4/5. I enjoyed it a lot because it had a lot of mysterious things to be solved and I love it when you the author creates a lot of suspense. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes fictional adventure stories, it is definatly a great one!

  12/11/2009 5:15:13 PM
• Mariah Caise

  I just finished a hilarious just for fun book by the title of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Dog Days" by Jeff Kinney. This book focused on Greg's summer and what he does. He said he hates going outside to play with his friends. His normal day is staying inside in his pajamas all day, playing video games, and having the curtains closed. But, of course his mom wouldn't allow that. His mom created a "Reading is Fun" club and everybody who had a son in the neighborhood made them go to it. However by the second meeting everybody bailed out, so it was only Greg and his best friend Rowley. But, then the next day Rowley bailed out, so the "Reading is Fun" didn't turn out so well, however Greg's mom still made him read at least 30 minutes a day. Then Rowley and Greg had to do a lawn working business because Rowley's dad owns a club where they used to go everyday, and while they were there they used Rowley's dad's credit card to buy smoothies every single day. They didn't know that they actually pay for them! I would rate this book a 4.5 because even though it was so hilarious and stupid, some things made no sense. I definitely enjoyed this book, it was a little low level, but i needed a little laugh in my book. I would suggest this book to anyone who needs a little break from harder level books! If you need a good laugh, then read this!

  12/11/2009 7:57:01 PM
• Tom Lanzano

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I have just finished the book "Raven's Gate" by Anthony Horwitz. It is about a boy named Matthew Freeman, a 14 year old boy who was justed adopted by a lady named Mrs. Deverill. He lives in the town of Lesser Malling. Matt is a secret agent for the U.S. Government, and he was just assigned onto the project called the Leaf. It investigates what Raven's Gate is and it studies to find more information on it. Matt's first mission on the job was to sneak in to an electrical warehouse with his fellow colleage and friend Kelvin. The day before, Matt was walking home down the streets of Lesser Malling and out of nowhere, a random man interrupts Matt and tells him to get out of Lesser Malling immediately. Of course, Matt just thinks that this guy is just a mad man and has literally no clue what he is talking about. So, Matt sneaks in to the warehouse easily and hacks on to their computer. Then, a man who was on patrol spotted Matt and Kelvin and he told them he was sending them to the police. But, they didn't go to the police. The man let them off the hook. Was the man the mad man from the streets?
  Matt's last and most important mission was to sneak in to a museum to get the rest of the facts he needed on Raven's Gate. As usual, he got in easily, and got caught easily. He was caught by a night guard named Dravid. Matt told him what he was doing and Dravid conveniently told Matt all he knew about Raven's Gate. Raven's Gate is an assemble os very, very tall stones in a circle. There was also lots of history behind them. They both went on to the computer and found out all they needed. But, there was still a problem. A man named Sir Michael, who wanted to pass off the discoveries as his own. He was at the museum pretending to be a night guard. He took his very sharp knife and tried to kill him. He really just wanted to prove he was better than everybody else. But, he couldn't do it. He nkew it was bad to do it. Hence, the dicovery was past off as the government's.
  I give this book a 5 because it never bored me when I read it. I was entertained the whole entire time.
  

  12/11/2009 10:17:48 PM
• Justin Lipinski

  Hello, I just finished the book Halo, The Fall of Reach, by Eric Nylund. This book was one of the hardest books I've read this year. This book is about a boy named John who was chosen by the UNSC army to be one of the armys greatest creations... a spartan(super soldier). As his training progressed he was upgraded to master cheif. Out of 5 points I would give this a 4 because it had my attenion but then lost me but then got me back again. I would recomend this book to anyone that likes the video game Halo, Halo2, Halo3, or Halo3 ODST.

  12/12/2009 9:49:27 AM
• Amanda Fabian

  i currently finished reading the book Flush. This book was excellent!!! the genre was fiction. A boy named noah and his father love nature especially the oceans....his father was a professinal boat toursman. He found out about a casino boat named the coral queen that was illegally dumping waste into the ocean after eveyone went home....the owner was very sneaky and was never caught. Noahs father knew about this and so to get back he sunk the boat. He was caught and put in jail. Noah, his son, wanted to help his father get out of jail and the owner of the boat in jail. so, he his sister and a aworker on the coral queen got a bunch of cake icing and flush it down the coral queens toilets. When the owner went to dump the waste, the water around it would turn magenta. This happened and noah and his father called the coastguards and they got the coral queen shut down and a pretty big fine got sent to the owner while he was in jail.
  I would rate this book a 5out of 5 because it was action packed....and at the end a feel good story. I would recommend this book to people who just want to read a great book about the oceans. This book was amazing!!
  :D

  12/12/2009 11:04:21 AM
• Dhiraj Peddu

  I just finished reading a book called the Adventures of Blue Avenger by Norma Howe. This book's genre is realistic fiction. This book is about a 15 year old boy named David who changes his name to Blue Avenger and becomes the school of San Pablo high's super hero. He is the hero because he solved the lemon meringue issue, and he saved a teacher from a swarm of killer bees. If you want to learn more I suggest you read this book, it is amazing and well written. I would rate this book a five because the author keeps the reader interested and never bores you. I would recomend it to any one who loves to read awesome books.

  12/12/2009 11:39:35 AM
• jacob youssef

  My book is called Claws. The author is Dan Greenburg. The genre is fiction. This book was about a boy named Cody. He has been running away from his mother for a long time. Cody kept on looking for jobs. He finally found one and went to try it out. It was called Sam Houston Tiger Ranch. It then said trespassers will be eaten. When he enterd he meet a lady named Sunny. He got used to tigersand they got used to him. Codys mother finally found him and told him to come with her. He said no because she would treat him badly. She left and went back home.
  I would rate this book a 5. I would rate it that because you could feel the emothions of people. when you wold read the book it would feel like you are the main charcter. I would recommond this bok Claws. I would recommond this book because it has a lot of action. It also has a lot of adventures. To people who like action and adventure you would love this book.

  12/12/2009 5:25:51 PM
• Frankie Wai

  I have recently finished the first book in the Golden and Grey series by Louise Arnold. This would fall into the mystery/action genre. Tom Golden is just any regular kid going to school and getting good grades but everyone seems to keep picking on him at school. Putting notes on his back, Beating him up, and all sorts of brutal stuff a bully would do. Meanwhile Grey Arther is a ghost that can't seem to do any of the regular jobs a ghost would have like sadness summoner, poltergeist, or screamer. These two miserable beings will soon conquer their problems in life Together. Grey finds Tom and decides to be his invisible friend by helping him with things only Tom can't see him. Sure enough one day Tom gets hit by a car but survives. His hit in the head has enabled him to see ghosts. So he meets Grey. The next day Tom doesn't think that he saw what he saw yesterday until he finds Grey to jump out of the closet at him. These two work well together to solve Tom's problem and Grey's. When tom's parents hear him talking to Grey they think that something is up so they call in a doctor. Eventually Tom has to ask Grey to prove that he really is there by performing all sorts of tricks with Dr.Brown. One day Dr.Brown kidnaps Tom and makes a deal that if he used his ghostly powers to help him win the lottery he would release Tom. Grey accepts but finds out that his ghost friends were going to take care of the problem. Together with the screamers a bunch of ghosts take care of Dr.Brown and rescues Tom.I would give this book a 5 out of 5 because with the idea of having a human see ghosts kept me reading. I would definitely recoment this book to everyone who would like to read about a human that can see ghosts.

  12/12/2009 7:37:41 PM
• Leena Kasa

  I finished the book "Green Angle" by Alice Hoffman. It is a fantasy about a girl named Green. Green is a happy , shy girl who loves to grow things. Then Green's family died in a fire while in the city. Green mourns their death and changes greatly. She cut her and covered herself in thorns. Her eyesight become covered in ambers from her grief, she can't see. But she can tell what she is holding by touching it. To match her new personality, she changes her name to Ash. Ash spent her time in her destroyed garden with her sister's dog Onion. While in her garden, she saves a few baby birds whose mother died in a fire and cures a hawk, whose beak was burned. At night she dreams of her sister who doesn't recognize her. When Ash helps her neighbor, she starts to care for her, even though she won't admit it. Ash then meets a traveler looking for his mom. She starts to understand his pain and he changes him. Soon the neighbor starts to notice changes in Ash. When the traveler, who Ash refers to as Diamond, leaves Ash for to look in the city, Ash changes back to Green. In her dreams, her sister starts to recognize her. All of the black ink on her skin turns green and she becomes happier. She gets rid of the thorns on her clothes and starts to see better. I would give this book a 5. It is a good boo and had a lot of feeling to it. As I read it, I thought of the many people who went through sadness because of a death of someone they loved. I would recommend this book to other because it is very interesting. It makes you think about your life and makes you thankful for everything you have.

  12/12/2009 7:56:26 PM
• Gurmaher Arora

  Hello, my name is Gurmaher Arora and I have just finished the book called, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 3 (THE LAST STRAW). This book is about a boy named Greg who has major problems in life. For example, his dad wakes him up extra early before school because his dad gets cranky that he gets less time to sleep so it’s fair for Greg to wake up early too. Another problem he has is that he is in love with a girl named Holly Hills and he is trying really hard to get her. Also, Greg is trying to get out of soccer practice because it is so hard. His father wants Greg to try out for soccer because he thinks that Greg is lazy. Lastly, a problem Greg faces is that he has to walk to school because the bus has to go to another street since that street has a bigger capacity. Which meant Greg’s pick up spot is rezoned. So Greg just walks to school instead. So with all these conflicts, Greg has to try to solve them all, which becomes really hard for him. This book is about Greg trying to face all these problems time by time. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 because this book is a really good humor book. On page 120-121 Greg’s coach says to get his butt over here so Greg points his butt right at the coach and he walks directly to him. I enjoyed this book because it really reminded me of my friend who is just like Greg. I would recommend this book to everyone out there because it is really exciting when you want to figure out what happens next to Greg!

  12/12/2009 9:53:05 PM
• Melissa Perdomo

  the book I recently finished is Coraline by Neil Gaiman. This book was about a girl named Coraline and she just moved into a new home. Coraline goes to explore the house, but then sees a room that had a brick wall dividing the room in to two. The next time she opens the door the brick wall was gone and a woman with button eyes was there saying she is her other mother. when she leaves, she notices her parents are missing and knew the other mother took them so Coraline can live with her. A cat helps her look for her parents and tells Coraline all the things she needs to know about other mother. One thing is that the other mother is really a monster that wants something to love. Meanwhile, Coraline runs into all sorts of obstacles that she could imagine.
  
  I rate this book a five becausse of all the irony that this book holds.
  
  I would recomend this book to anyone who loves ironic and scary things.

  12/12/2009 10:31:45 PM
• Jordan

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I have just finished reading Abner & Me by Dan Gutman. I would consider this book to be a sports book and an adventurous one too. What happens in the story is Joe goes back in time to 1863 in the Battle of Gettyburg because Abner Doubleday is there. Abner Doubleday has been rumored to may be the person who invented baseball. While looking for him, Joe and his mother befriend a few Union soldiers that take them to Doubleday. Joe then finds out that Abner Doubleday didn't invent baseball because he thought the game was stupid in the book and that he wasn't very good at it. When Joe returns home disapointed, he learns that his mom wants to go back and try to save President Abraham Lincoln from being assassinated, however that plan fails. Joe learns that you can't change history by going back in time. I would give this book a 3.5/5 because it was very exciting while they were in the crossroads of the Civil War, the book made Abner DOubleday seem like a bad guy and a spazzy loser. I do not think that that was who the true Abner Doubleday was, but no one will ever know for sure. I would reccomend this book to people who enjoy history sports or adventures, because this book includes references to all three of them. That is all I have to say for now. C ya later!

  12/12/2009 11:50:03 PM
• Michael liu

  I have just finished reading crocodile tears by Anthony Horowitz. It is about a kid named Alex rider who is a spy of the British secret intellegince service. In his next mission, Alex has to invesigate a company who makes gm crops. The mi6 first suspected that something was wrong when a employee of the company wanted to talk to the mi6about something mysterious going on in the company but was murdered at the last second. Alex rider will sneak into the
  building in disquise as a studnt in a school group. As Alex gets the info in a computer but a guard notices that he is doing this and puts the red alert on which means that any unauthorized was killed. Alex runs for his life and makes it back the school bus just as it was going leave. Someone noticed and they chase Alex to his home. Then when he wakes up 5 proffesionals inject Alex with a sleep inducer. Then they start to inject poison into his bloodstream so that people see him as if he has a birth defect. They ship him to Kenya and alex stops them from poisioming all the wheat crops of Kenya and wiping outnthe population.
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  12/13/2009 11:04:11 AM
• ellennnnn lee(:

  The book that i just finished is Killing Briteny by Sean Olin.
  This book was amazinggg ! it starts of at a party, with her friends. Everyone is wanting to kill her like her boyfriend. Shes the girl everyone loves TO kill. The reason why was that long ago she was the most popualar girl in school, but now she isnt people is just wanting to kill Britney. I wouldnt recomend this book to little kids maybe in our age. I rate this book at 4 because it was pretty corny in the ending. But i would recomend this book to people who likes drama and sad stories.
  

  12/13/2009 12:02:32 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  Hi. The book I just finished is called Princess Mia. The book is about a girl named Mia. Mia won't get out of bed. Michael left to go to Japan and he says that he just wants to be friends. When her mom and her stepfather try to get her out of bed to go to school she refuses. Her father comes and tells her to get out of bed and get dressed. Mia says no. He asks her again and Mia still refused. Her father told Lars(her bodyguard) to pick her up. Mia started to scream as Lars to her to her dads limo. Lars throws her into the limo nicely. Her dad takes her to a psychologists office. When she left the office the psychologist said that Mia was depressed.
  I would rate this book a nine out of ten. The book was weird and funny. i would recommend this book.

  12/13/2009 12:31:36 PM
• Amiti Sinha

  I finished the book The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares wich is a realistic fiction book. Tibby, Carmen, Lena, and Bridget are separating again this summer and are in need for the Pants. Bridget is going to her grandma’s, but not like herself. She dyed her yellow hair a dark brown and changed her name to Gilda. She meets her old friend Billy and cleans her grandmother’s attic, finding many memories of her mom. Tibby entered in a film making college over the summer and is having no trouble fitting in until Brain, her best friend, came to visit her and her new friends, Alex and Maura, kicked him out and he didn’t talk to Tibby for the longest time but at the end they made up and they are still best friends. Carmen’s mom stared dating a guy named David and dressing like a 14 year old. Carmen destroys their relationship by not telling her mother David called when she went shopping. But Carmen realizes that they were meant to be and helps solve all the conflicts between them. Lena’s problem is trying to forget Kostos. They had meet in Greece but when Lena had came back to America they had to break up. When Lena found out that Kostos had a girlfriend, she lost all hope for loving him. All of a sudden Kostos is in America and Lena spends lots of time with him. When it is time for him to go back to Greece for an emergency Lena is miserable again. She goes to Greece for her Bapi’s funeral she finds out Kostos is getting marries to another girl and she is going to have a child. She is tore apart now and doesn’t know what to do with herself.
  I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 because it was amazing. Also I would recommend this book to girls because it isn’t a boy kind of book. But read the first book before you read this one.

  12/13/2009 4:47:17 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I finished Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares. It was the end of girls first year at college. In the book Lena meets Leo who is compassionate and nice guy. He's also an artist. They switch on and of to paint a portrait of each other for a portfolio. He could be the "one. But when she is in Greece with her 3 friends because her sister Effie lost the Pants she reunites with Kostos. It turns out he is going to London again so i guess they are officially over. Also, Carmen is into acting. She got a big part in a play and her so-called friend Julia is using Carmens happiness and wrecking it. Julia was super nice to Carmen and helping her with her lines. She isn't worth it. Tibby goes through a tough time. She broke up with Brian and she thinks that it was a mistake. Then Lena's sister Effie asks permission to go out with Brian and Tibby says yes. Seeing them together makes Tibbys heart ache. After really thinking hard she goes to Brian, they talk for a while, and then Effie's heartbroken. (Brian breaks up with her but he didn't even like her.) Last but not least, Bridget. She goes to an archaeology site in Turkey and meets Peter who is married with kids. Bridget starts feeling an attraction for him but shes dating Eric. When Bridget is back home and sees Eric she realizes she really did miss him and she loves him. Also since her mom died six and a half years ago, her, her dad and her brother Perry weren't very close. She changes this. She cooks dinner with them like the old times, bike rides with Perry and even buys him rabbit. It's a start. The tragedy in the book were the lost Pants. Effie had lost them in Greece when she took them from Lena because she was mad. It wasn't her fault in fact they had actually blown away. All 4 girls set for Greece but found no luck in finding them. They think it's because they depended on them too much. The girls were seperated for a while and were starting new lives. They depended on the Pants because whenever they had them it was like they each had a little bit of each other which caused them to be away longer. They had lost fate in the Pants almost. I would rate this book a 5+++. It was the final book of the Sisterhood series and it was simply one of the best. It was intense and dramatic and a little sad, too. I really really enjoyed it. I would only reccomned it to girls because its more about drama and girl stuff. Things boys wouldn't enjoy nor understand. Enjoy if you ever read it:] (But read the books in order.)

  12/13/2009 5:40:39 PM
• faris alkhatahtbeh

  The book I just finished reading is "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" by Jeff Kinney. This book is realistic fiction. In this book it talks about a boy named Greg Heffley going through his year of middle school but faces many problems along that way. One problem that he faces is that during Halloween him and his friend rowley get hunted down by teenagers. luckily they escape, but Greg's dad throws a trash can full of water at them, which wets all their candy that they collected. Another problem is that his comic strips get into the school newspaper, which should be a good thing, but then he realized that the teacher rewrote it so it sounded like he was a teachers pet and he couldnt get it out. He also was able to become in the safety patrol, but he started messing around with some kindergartners, and rowley got blamed for it, but Greg eventually got caught. lastly at the end the teenagers came back and were going to teach Greg and Rowley a lesson by putting this rotten cheese in there mouth. I would rate this book 5/5 because it is very funny. I would recommend this book to anyone who feels like reading a funny book.

  12/13/2009 6:46:58 PM
• Andre Smith

  It starts out with Peter and his friends.Who are orphans that live with mean man that always hit them if they do something dumb.then peter saw two men carrying a box and it had shiny dust come out. but he didnt care. When they got on the boat Peter saw a girl named Molly. Peter thinks she pretty but he didnt say it out load so his firends could hear. Then when Peter thought the place could get any worst they had to eat worms and they were alive.Peter saw the same two people with the same box and they put it in the room nexts to his. so one day he planed to go and see what was in the box but he was stoped by molly. She told him about this starstuff and the power it can do. She also said it can make you fly. the day after that they were attacked by pirates. The chest went over bourd and peter jumped to save it then molly used the starstuff to fly and catch peter. Peter tried to hold on to the chest but it fell and the starstuff ran outand they crached on a island.When they gained consciousness then went to the tallest place on the island to see if the trunk was on the island. They had no luck. But they found Peters friends. then one day got lost and found a mermaid who was bleeding. he looked over and saw the trunk he opened it and grbbed some and poared it on the mermaid the some more to poar on him self but he held it to long and fainted when woke up the mermaid was still there and it was not bleeding anny more and Peter gained the mermaids trust. Then molly was on shore and one of the pirates grabed her then Peter told the mermaid to get the trunk and bring it back to him. Then he made another trunk aand put nothingin it and then tricked the pirates into takeing the fake one.but did not know that he now can fly with out starstuff and he shall remain a boy for the rest of his life
  
  I rate this book 5 out of 5 becauseit was full of action and adventrus

  12/13/2009 6:49:45 PM
• Amanda Evans

  Hi Mrs. Demko! I just finished the book Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen. It is a realistic fiction book. This book is about a seventeen year old girl named Ruby who has been abandoned by her abusive mother. She left with her new boyfriend when Ruby was at school with all of her belongings. She thought she could live on her own since she is almost eighteen anyway. She was doing a pretty good job, or so she thought anyway until the washer broke and the landlords or the apartment complex found out she was living by herself. So they send her to live with her older sister Cora and her husband Jamie. Ruby is not too pleased with this since she is still under the impression that her sister left and never tried to contact her and her mom when she left for college. That she had just abandoned her with mom who was not the best person to be living with. This is definitely untrue though. The truth is she did try to contact them many times but their mom kept it a secret for whatever reason. So she does gain a good relationship with her sister through moving there and also makes many new friends at Perkins Day, her new school. It took her a while and through many struggles but eventually she learned to adjust and leave her past behind.
  
  I would rate this book a five because it was a very well written book with strong details.

  12/13/2009 8:44:20 PM
• Amanda Evans

  I have currently also finished The School for Dangerous Girls. It is another realistic fiction book. This book is about a teenage girl named Angela Cardenas who is not a very well behaved girl. She was expelled from almost every school she has ever been to and was recently accused of murdering her grandfather. This wasn't true, however she was still sent by her parents to Hidden Oak, a school for dangerous girls. Theres a few problems with Hidden Oak that no one really knows though, it's if they dont think they can help you, you're basically thrown into a prison. It's in an rundown old gymnasium where girls can do whatever they want and are unsupervised. They are given no education like the parents are paying for and no guidance. Angela was thought to be able to recover so she was sent to the nicer school where they actually did get an education. However she was so curious about the "purple-thread girls" as they called them that she misbehaved enough to become one. After seeing how badly they are treated with abuse and little food she sets out to get the school shut down. This is no easy task but eventually she gets the word out and they are forced to treat the girls with better respect and better learning environments.
  I would rate this book a four because it was a good book but it had some confusing parts within it. Also it didn't always make me want to continue reading. However it was a pretty good book.

  12/13/2009 9:05:16 PM
• Jun Sun You

  Hi Mrs.Demko, the book that I just finished reading is called Zoobreak by Gordon Korman. The genre of this book is realistic fiction. This book is about a boy named Griffin tring to find his friend's pet who got lost. When the school went to field trip to the zoo, Griffin found out that his friend's pet was locked in the cage. Griffin and his friend tried to get the pet out, but it didn't worked. Finally, they decided to zoobreak and save all the animals in the zoo. I would rate this book 7 out of 10 because it was little confusing in the plot. I would recommend this book to the people who like animals.

  12/13/2009 9:12:23 PM
• Finn Ebersbach

  Hey whats up Mrs. Demko, I just finished the book Halo: The Fall Of Reach. I would have to say this book is a mix of sci-fi and adventure. This book is about a teenager named John also known as spartan 117. Anyway it is about him and his adventures throughout space and boot camp. But on his adventures he figures out the world isn't all about him and his needs. He makes new friends and even becomes a squadleader. Now everyone looks up to him and he cares about his squad too. Finally he becomes master chief and he goes on an epic battle between him and the covenent. I rate this book 12 out of 10 because it was totaly awsome. I recommend this for any person who likes war.

  12/14/2009 5:36:06 PM
• Vivian Nguyen(:

  Hey, Mrs. Demko! I have recently finished my book "The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion" by LJ Smith. The genre of this book is fantasy.
  
  This book is told in Bonnie's perspective. Elena has died (in the last book), and Stefan and Damon had fled to Florence, Italy. Caroline Forbes, Bonnie, Meredith, and Elena's former friend, had invited them both to a surprise party for Meredith since it is her birthday. After the party, Bonnie, Meredith, Sue Carson, and Vickie Bennett stay behind to hang with Caroline. They take an Ouija board to try to communicate with Elena (since Bonnie is psychic). Elena sends back a message saying that they should make a summoning spell to get Stefan back to Fell's Church. To make a summoning spell, you need the blood and hair of the person you want to summon. Then all of a sudden the lights go out. Vickie and Sue are upstairs, struggling, and Caroline, Meredith, and Bonnie are downstairs, all holding hands. Caroline they finds the front door and escapes to safety. Bonnie feels a large sweaty hand grab her wrist. And she screams. Then they both hear Sue screaming shattering glass. The electricity comes back and they run upstairs to Caroline's bedroom to find Cickie stunned and Sue's dead body outside the balcony covered in blood and glass. Poor Sue...
  So now Bonnie, Meredith, and their friend Matt go to the tomb of Honoria and Thomas Fell at ruined church in the graveyard (which is where Elena had died) to get the blood and hair. They knew to go here because this is where they faught Katherine and Stefan, Elena, and Damon got really hurt. So the got the stuff and made the summoning spell, and Stefan comes back with Damon. They wonder why Damon is here. THey find out that they accidentally took some of Damon's hair and blood too so that is why Damon is here. But that is not a big of a deal. The five of them want to figure out what has been going on in Fell's Church since Elena died. Since Elena died, so many strange things have been happening. On the day of their senior graduation, Meredith runs out to the graveyard ALONE (that's not a good thing). She meets Tyler Smallwood there, and he attacks Meredith by surprise. Stefan, Bonnie, and Matt come to the rescue. They then all find out that Tyler is a werewolf, and that Klaus, one of the "original vampires" and the vampire who changed Katherine is the one behind all the killings and chaos in Fell's Church. So they arrange a battle between themselves and Klaus. Stefan thinks the only way to kill him is if he drives a white ash stake through Klaus. So they are going to battle. They fight until everyone is down except Bonnie. She has no idea WHAT to do! And at the last minute she just starts screaming Elena's name as if Elena is actually gonna magically come and help her. But actually, that does happen. And she's not wearing any clothes...which is weird... So they fight Klaus and he dies. But Elena, she's actually THERE. She ALIVE..AGAIN! Everyone is happy and that's how the book ends
  
  I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 because it was so good! i would definitely recommend this(:

  12/15/2009 4:12:41 PM
• Rebecca Sun

  The book I'm going to tell you about is called The Coffing Club by Ellen Schreiber. The genre is romance. Ever since alexander left Dullsville in order to return Valentine back to Jagger, thoes 2 overnight planned trips turned from 2 days to a month. Because Raven's impatient, she finally decides to go after him. Using her sources, she knows that he's at Hipsterville, where her aunt Libby is. She quicky arrives there and found Alexander.While she was there, she couldn't resist her favorite hideout, The Coffin Club.While she was there, she found a different club inside the Coffin Club where real vmapires hangout. While she was there, she met her worst enemy, Jagger and a mysterious new guy named Pheonix, who everyone thinks is going to overthrow the club. But Raven is somehow attracted to him. Raven soon finds out that Jagger's the real one who is trying to overthrow the club. One day, the club decides on voting on who will take control of the club. When she votes, she has to prick her finger to vote. Little did she know that it almost turned into the most life changing accident in her life. At the end, Pheonix won. But Jagger soon found Raven's vote and claimed that she was a mortal. All the vampires tried to bite her. But Pheonix came to the rescue. After drops her off at her house. She quickly pedals to Alexander's house and finds out that he was disguised as Pheonix. He saved the club. Together, they return to Dullsville. I would rate this book a five because it was very suspenseful and not like any book I've ever read. I would recommend this book to people who like building plots and people who like to read romance books. Also to people who like to read about vampires.

  12/15/2009 5:56:51 PM
• Colleen Brennan

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  In the book Spells and Sleeping Bags, Rachel may seem like an ordinary city girl but in reality she is a modern day witch! She's on her way to camp Woodlake for what is supposed to be a fun-filled summer. It starts out good until she meets Liana. Rachel doesn't know why Liana hates her, she just does. When all of Rachel's friends and sister start ditching her for Liana, that's when Rachel gets angry. Rachel finds out a huge secret about Liana. Liana is her cousin! Liana is the daughter of her mother's evil twin sister. A cousin who's trying to steal Rachel's life. Liana put a spell on all of Rachel's friends so they would like her and not Rachel. Rachel finds her spell book and reverses that spell before it is too late.
  
  I would rate this book a "5" because it was very exciting and kept me wanting more.

  12/15/2009 7:04:45 PM
• Jordan Green

  Hello. I have just completed reading Summerball by Mike Lupica. It is a realistic fiction/ sports book. The story is about how a boy named Danyy Walker goes to a basketball camp for the best kids in the country. He has to prove he is good because his size and the fact that his father Richie, was a pro until his knees gave out. The camp is in Maine which is extremely far from Danny's hometown in Middletown, NY. When Danny arrives he reunites old rivalries and begins new ones. Danny is set to try and prove that even though he is small, he has a big heart and that his will is stronger than anyone else's talent. Now, Danny has to help his team get to the playoffs. I would give this book a 9.5/10. I really enjoyed it because the theme was that no matter how much talent you have, if someone has a bigger will they will always come out on top. Also I would reccomend this to people who like sports and stories about how the underdog wins like Hoosiers and the Mighty Ducks. This was a very good book.

  12/16/2009 3:36:01 PM
• Melissa Perdomo

  the book i recently finished was the series of unfortunate events - the carnivorus carnival by Lemony Snicket and the genre of this book is a mystery. This book is about orphans named Violet, Klaus and Sunny Bauldelaire who are working at a carnival and wearing rediculis disuises so they wont get recognized by a man. The mans name is count Olaf, that wants to take their fortune away since their parents left behind when they passed away in a house fire, but they've been collecting information that someone survived. At the carnival, Count olaf made a new attraction with lions and that one of the workers would go in and get eaten. the one who fell in was Madame Lulu who was the owner of the carnial and was the only person who would know that could help them find their surviving parent. Since Olaf can't recognize them, he offered them a spot in his troop so they did because it was the only was to get where their surviving parent would be.
  
  I would rate this book a 5 because of the trageties this book holds.

  12/16/2009 4:51:37 PM
• Nicole Shaffery

  I finished reading Mates,Dates, and Inflatable Bras by Cathy Hopkins. The genre was realistic fiction and it was a chick flick. The main characters were Lucy, Izzie, and Nesta. They are from London. The book was about Lucy who couldn't find her image. she was fourteen but categorized herself as a twelve year old. She's petite and doesn't really look like her friends. In school they are going to be picking her subjects. They have a project called "What makes me "me"." She doesn't know anything and she is all shaken up about what she wants to be when she grows up. She trys to change her image. First her hair: nope unproffesional cutter and it was all uneven. But then she went to Nestas house and her moms haircutter fixed it to make it look fab. It upsets Lucy that no guy ever looks at her. But then she shes Mr. Magic. It happens to be Nestas brother tony. She really likes him and he really likes her. Next comes her clothes. She takes a bunch of her moms old stuff that is packed away and sews some nice outfits. Lastly she thinks her best friend Izzie is being taken away Nesta. They were hanging around a lot and Lucy felt left out. One day they tried getting into a movie which I think they were too young for. Izzie and Nesta looked the age but Lucy think she ruined it for them because she looks young. She layed off a bit but then realizes Nesta really wants to be her friend but thinks Lucy hates her. In the end they help Lucy to find that she wants to be a designer and Lucy gives Nesta a chance. Now they are like the 3 musketeers. Everything turned out right. I would rate this book a 5. It was very enjoable and always kept me wanting more. I could definitely make connections with the girls as they are only a few years older. I would reccomend this book to girls. It's all about boys, teen drama, mood swings also known as girl stuff. Stuff boys would hate. Enjoy:)

  12/16/2009 6:01:37 PM
• Zachary Nazario

  The book I have just finished reading is Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz. This book is about a 14 year old male teenager found out that his uncle Ian Rider died in a car accident.but knows it's a lie. So ivestigates and sees bullet holes in his uncles car.but nothing prepares him for the news that his uncle that he always thought he knew was really a spy for m16 britians top secret intelligence agencey. He then has to find his uncles killers and complete his last mission because he was recruited and wants to be successful and honor him.but Alex feels shy and trapped because he's new to being a spy but eventually overcomes it and embraces his destiny as a spy. I strongly reccommend this book because it's very interesting and not hard to follow along. The genre is realistic fiction.

  12/17/2009 4:24:05 PM
• frankie wai

  I have recently finished a book named The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S.Lewis. This would fall into the fantasy genre. Four siblings named Lucy, Edmund, Susanne, and Peter move into their uncle's house. In a game of hide and seek, Lucy wanders into the wardrobe and enters into the world of Narnia. She is greeted by faun named Mr.Tumnus and he explains everything about how the white witch took over Narnia and cast a neverending winter on the land. When she comes back and tells everyone about Narnia, out of curiosity Edmund sneaks into the Wardrobe and enters Narnia. He is greeted by the White Witch who lies to him and tells him that she is the queen of Narnia. When he comes out, the four decide to go in. When they enter Narnia, they find talking beavers who invite them into their home/dam. After they eat and are all on the same page, they set out to find Aslan. Edmund sneaks out and returns to the Witch's house. The group finds Aslan and they rescue Edmund from the witch. during that night the witch slaughters Aslan. The next day, Aslan revives from his death and they gather up an army. In a all out war, the witch is killed and the 4 are declared the kings and queens of Narnia. I would rate this book a 5 out of 5 because when I would finally put down this book, I have read more pages than I would normally so I really enjoyed it. I would recomend this book to anyone because it is a fascinating imagination.

  12/19/2009 2:09:38 PM
• Amanda Wortham

  The book I just finished reading is called Princess Lessons. This book is about Mia and her friends and family. This book is by Meg Cabot. A bunch of her friends and family were talking about a proper way toact like a princess. Also other things like school. After fter somebody talked about a lesson Mia had a comment or an example. Sometimes she made a compliment and sometimes the comment was not so nice. She gave her opinion about what somebody said. The book had a lot of lessons that was about being proper and clean.
  I would rate this book a seven out of ten. The book was good, but it talked a lot about how to be a princess than anything else. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to be formal.

  12/19/2009 6:18:25 PM
• Ridhima Sakhuja

  Recently, I have read Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontee. Out of a scale of five, I would give this book a four. Wuthering Heights is an obscure book about Heathcliff Linton and his childhood friend, Catherine Earnshaw. As they get older, Catherine and Heathcliff fall in love. However, an immense and heartbreaking forse pulls the two apart. I recommend this book because even though it was a bit confusing, the story was filled with emotions and love.

  12/19/2009 6:42:56 PM