New Moon

Dear Ms.English and class,

I am reading Twilight New Moon, and it is a very good book! Right now I am at the part where she just got home from telling the Cullen's that she wanted to become like them. (vampire) Everybody said yes except for Rosalie and Edward. Edward says he will do it in a year or two or even more. And that just won't work for Bella.

While I was reading a few questions popped into my head. The first one was Why doesn't Edward and Rosalie want Bella to become a vampire? And How could any other vampire hurt her except for Carlisle?

Sincerely,
J.A.

Forth Grade Rats

I'm reading the book Forth Grade Rats by Jerry Spinelli. So far in the book Suds and his best friend Joey are sitting on the monkey bars when a little boy comes over and called them a rat. Joey said he was proud to be a rat but Suds said he still wanted to be a 3rd grade angle. At lunch Suds brings in his baby lunch box and Joey laughs and shows Suds what type of lunch box he should have. When Joey sees his lunch he laughs at Suds again. And says he needs to start eating meat and pb&j.



One of the questions I had was why did it matter so much to Joey what Suds had for lunch and what type of lunck box Suds had.



My conection was people used to laugh at me because i got bad grades and they got good grades when i first moved here.

The Kidnapped King

Dear Ms. English,

I am reading the book The Kidnaped King. This book is a really
good book and I suggest that you to read it!
This story is about
a king and queen of Costra are kidnapped!! For his protection ,
the prince is sent to Green Lawn to hide out with dink`s family.
Dink, Josh, Ruth Rose promise to help their royal friend recue his parents.
But then the prince is kidnapped too!!!!! Read to find out what happens!
While I was reading
some thoughts popped into my head. One was that I predict that Joan Knickler the touter of Sammy the prince is the one who kidnapped Sammy.Another one was that Why did the ennimies of the king kidnap the king and queen?Was it true that Sammy is a prince? How could Joan kidnap Sammy because she at Dinks house while Sammy was kidnapped? However read to find out what happens!

yours,
PT

Loser

   Dear Class,
       The book I'm reading is Loser by Jerry Spinelli.  The book is about a first grader named Donald Zinkoff.  Zinkoff was having fun at school because he loved the teachers.  But the teachers didn't seem to like him back.  Probably because he laughed to much, or he would be a huge distraction to the class.  Over the years this has been going on and he had
 no friends.  In fourth grade, at Field Day he was on the running relay, and he was the anchor.The person in front of him gave their team the lead by half the track. When the person before Zinkoff tagged Zinkoff, Zinkoff was running but when he was halfway done the other teams had taken the lead.  When Zinkoff finished in dead last his teammates came up to him and said,"you loser" over and over.  That's how far in the book I'm on right now.

  One of my questions was why did the running coach put Zinkoff in the  anchor position?  I also was surprised the teacher said, "YOU'RE NEVER ALLOWED IN MY CLASSROOM AGAIN!!!!!!"

Sincerely,

RJM

     

Ryan's Response

Dear Class,

The book I'm reading is Wringer by Jerry Spinelli. It's about a nine year old boy Palmer who knows when he turns ten he will become a wringer. Every Family Fest in his town on one day they bring in 5,000 pigeons and each shooter shoots 5 pigeons each. After every five pigeons killed a wringer comes out and picks them up. If one is not dead the wringer wrings their necks. One day after school Palmer comes home and sees a pigeon on his window and he kept it as a pet. Soon some of his friends got suspicious and snuck in his house. So he gave the pigeon to his other friend and he said to let the pigeon go. So she did, but accidentally let him go where the pigeons are captured for pigeon day. So at pigeon day he recognized the pigeon and took him and ran home.
I had a reaction and that reaction was I was surprised that Palmer tried to let him go instead of hiding the pigeon. I also had a connection and it was once I tried to shoot a pigeon with a BB gun. I had a question and the was why did people in the town like to kill pigeons? Scincerly, RJM

Myth of the great war questions

Dear Ms.English and class,

My book is called the Myth of the Great War. It's about World War 1 mostly on the Western front. From the fall of Namur to the german surrender. It has many facts, tactics, and people. It has many odd things though.

My first question is what does Demonic mean? It was used in the section about a place called the Vauquois. It was used " the remains of the Vauquois are one of the 7 Demonic wonders of the world" . That was because it was blown up so much the top is gone except a little rim and lots of craters. Still I don't know what Demonic means.

Another question is how long did it take for the French to dig a tunnel, fill it with mines, and blow it up? The French lacked heavy artillery and used mines as a substitute. It took time for them to dig a tunnel and move the the explosives ( which weighed about 1 ton each ) and then blow it up? It took lots of time and I think it would take a day.

Relating a little to the previous, why didn't the French have decent high explosive shells? They didn't have good ones and they didn't have that many Howitzers to shoot them at high enough angles. Same goes for Mortars who the French 58 millimeter was worse than even the German light 78 millimeter Minenwerfer ( mine thrower in German ). Nor did they have good numbers or good shells.

Sincerly,
DQ

Spy force

Dear class:

The book im reading is spy force mission vortex.As i was reading, I came up with a few questions along the way.My first question was, will Max be able to jup the volcano?How will Max beable to get out of the vortex?So far, this book is about a girl Max, whos trying to be the top best spy in the spy force.Along the way,the evil team v.a.r.t is making an interseption to destroy the spy force team.When Max and her three friends lindion,and ella get sucked up in a vortex, they have to conquer there fears and get out of the vortex before time runs out.When time runs out, then the spy force facilaty will be destroied.So far,I think this book is great because of the action pack chapters that blow your mind away.

Sinceraly,

Mark Hartmann

The House on the Gulf

Classmates,

Im reading The House on the Gulf by Margret Peterson Hadix. It is about a boy named Bran,a named Britt, and their mother. They move to Florida and Bran gets a house-sitting job. They decide to move into the house Bran is house-sitting for. While they are there Britt makes some astonishing discoveries. When I was reading this I was wondering why Bran was acting so weird and why Britt was always onto Bran. Guess Ill find that out when I finish the book. I chose this book because I love the author and when I read the back of the book my mind was full of suspense.

AK

The Babysitting Wars

Dear Classmates,

I am reading the book "The Babysitting Wars". It is very entertaining as I read along in this humerous book. This book is by Mimi Micoy, she is a very good auther and describes things very well. As I go along with this book it makes me wonder how the auther published this book. It always ocurrs to me that when I read really good books I always get a good picture. That is what is happening with this book.

This book is about a girl named Kaitlyn and her two friends, Liesel and Maggie. Kaitlyn basiclly never hangs out withher friends because she is always babysitting.

The last olympian

I am currently reading the last and 5Th book in the Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon) series and it is called the last Olympian. In the book it is the last war of the gods and the titans and percy must help protect mount olympus.

I believe that he is going to win but possibly lose someone too (like in the second and forth book)

I think percy jackson is VERY brave and I wonder how the great prophecy will end. I also wander what clever tricks he Annabeth (daughter of athena), and grover (the satyr), will have up there sleaves...

My reaction for this book was a mixture of: *sob*, COOL!!, OMG, and ZZZZZZ.

I love cheap jokes and THE LAST OLYMPIAN is full of 'em