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Post by The Lady in Black on Dec 4, 2013 4:32:45 GMT
The Lady In Black by Juan Sauvangeau
The lady appears on highway 141 and 281 in Premont, Ben bolt. Her name is Dona Leonora Rodriguez de Ramos. Raul Ramos is a rich landowner who married prettiest girls in Mexico. Raul received a letter asking him to go Spain. He comes back and his wife was 6 months pregnant. There were rumors that she cheated on him.
I don't like this story because Raul believes all the rumors that his wife Leonora Rodriguez De Ramos was cheating on him. It was obvious that the kid was his because he came at six months and his wife was six months pregnant. Why couldn't he believe that the kid was his?
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Post by The Hunger Games on Dec 4, 2013 4:35:59 GMT
The Hunger Games By: Suzanne Collins
Summary:
The Hunger Games is a book about a girl named Katniss who tries to support her mother and sister by hunting after her father dies. Every year the capitol selects a boy and a girl from every district to compete against each other. In "The Hunger Games" her sister is selected to compete in a murder game, but Katniss volunteers to go instead of her. In the game 24 people compete and only one can survive. In the contest, Katniss begins to speak with Peeta, who later confesses he has a crush on her. After the rules change two tributes from the same district could win.
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In my opinion, The Hunger Games is a great book. At first I didn't like the beginning because it was boring and hard to understand, but if you keep on reading it gets really interesting. I think Suzanne Collins did a great job with this book. She was very creative in her ways of putting the book together and was very detailed with her wording in the book which helped make the book a success-even though chapter one and two did need a bit of editing.
Patricia 7/8 A
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Post by Evermore on Dec 4, 2013 4:38:48 GMT
Evermore by: Alyson Noel.
Summery: "Evermore" is about a girl named Ever Bloom who, after a car accident, loses her family and moves to LA with her only aunt, Sabine. Since that accident happened Ever can hear other people's thoughts and see their auras or their whole life just by making physical contact with them- everyone's but this new and mysterious guy named Damen. She swears that she doesn't like him at all to her friends, Miles and Haven, but they end up being in a relationship and the more time she spends with him the more she falls in love; however, she also starts suspecting that there is something strange about him that she must discover. One of the advantages that Ever has is that she can see dead people and that is how she "hangs out" with her little dead sister, Riley, but for some reason she can't see her parents. In this book Ever has to find out why she has those powers, what's wrong with her gorgeous boyfriend, and also to say goodbye.
Review: In my personal opinion I loved this book because I wanted to find out all this mysteries and questions that the character and myself had. I kind of see it like the "Twilight" saga but I need to say that I liked this one better because it has more action and the things that happen don't seem obvious because seriously I never expected the book to end like this but it surely had a great ending. I am planning on reading the second book called "Blue Moon" and I believe there is a third one so I'm looking forward to that. I do recommend to people to read this book and I bet that they would love it as much as I did.
-Bazey Mireles 1/2 B
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Post by Breaking Dawn on Dec 4, 2013 4:41:29 GMT
"Breaking dawn" by Stephenie Meyer
This book is a fictional love story novel about a teenager named Bella and a vampire named Edward Cullen. Bella is insisting that she wants to be immortal like him and he agrees under one condition which is for them to get married. She agrees and waits till her graduation. They get married and have a little girl named Renesmee. A relative of the Cullen's sees the little girl and automatically thinks she was bitten, but she wasn't bitten. She was born as a vampire.
It's interesting how Stephenie Meyer chose the characters, and describes them really well and the ways she makes her stories sound so interesting and catching to the readers eyes. I really liked this book because it takes you to a different dimension. It's like if you were inside the story with them and you could see and feel what they're going through-especially when it describes what Bella sees when she is turned into a vampire. Stephenie Meyer does a great job keeping the reader interested in their reading.
Alba 7/8B
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Post by Twilight on Dec 4, 2013 4:43:16 GMT
Twilight by: Stephenie Meyer
Summary: "Twilight" is about a young girl named Bella who moves to a small town called Forks to live with her father who is separated from her mother. When it's her first day of school, she starts making friends and she meets a guy named Edward. Bella finds Edward really strange and she thinks he is hiding something. She tries to put all the clues together and she finally finds out that Edward is a VAMPIRE. Their love grows stronger and something bad is bound to happen. Will their love stay strong through everything that is standing in their way?
Review: In my opinion, I would say that "Twilight" is a very romantic story and if you are a girly girl like me, you would love this novel. My favorite character would be Bella. Bella is a strong and graceful girl who was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with Edward and she would do anything for him. And yes, this novel has a lot of drama that you would have to keep up with. This novel is filled with action and excitement. It is the kind of novel that will keep you on your tippy toes! This novel contains three books including this one and as soon as you start the first novel, you will not stop reading and you would want to continue to the next novel. There is also movies that follow up to these novels. The last novel called "Breaking Dawn" has a part 1 movie and a part 2 movie, so make sure you don't miss it. You will love this novel as much as I loved it. Enjoy!
-Alexandria R. 1-2A-day
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Lesly Oseguera 7/8B
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Post by Lesly Oseguera 7/8B on Dec 5, 2013 2:57:37 GMT
But I Love Him by Amanda Grace “Tonight was so much worst than anything before it. Tonight he didn’t stop after the first slap.” Ann was a really Intelligent student, a straight ‘A’ student; she was a star in the track team. Then she met Connor, handsome man with one defect he was hurt and a little traumatized. Only if she could heal him, his emotional scars; only if he could make her feel loved, wanted or at least needed. Just a little mistake, an error, a misunderstanding will make Connor explode. His rage will go off limits destroying everything and everyone who’s in his path with violence and senseless insults. I knew this book was about a damaged relationship, a couple with problems but it never crossed my mind that I was going to get so involved in the story that it would take me on this emotional trip of ups and downs. The book starts with Ann in her worst, the relationship consumed her, sold her out, she was hurt physically and emotionally as the story flashes back we get to know her hard love story and we get to understand why she’s so damaged and low-self-esteemed. When I first got this book I was a little confused, ‘But I Love Him’ is told in reverse order; in my opinion Amanda Grace (The Author) was brilliant.! When we start to read the book all we could think and ask ourselves is, Why not walk away? Why stay? You’re tired and weak, just leave! But then you get to read more and more, enjoying every page of the book, understanding Ann’s situation and even putting yourself in her position. Let’s not forget this story is about a couple, this story is about Connor too, What he does is inexcusable but as you read you get to feel pity for him. You get to understand Connor’s situation in the story too. Its easy to see the abuser as the bad guy of the story and not as a hurt person with lots of background. "But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong." — Amanda Grace (But I Love Him)
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Post by " Heart to heart " on Dec 6, 2013 16:26:58 GMT
“Heart to heart” by: Lurlene McDaniel
Elowyn is a young 15 year old girl, she met Kassey at a hospital checkup, they become bestfriends and Elowyn’s parents treat Kassey like a second daughter. Elowyn one night gets in a huge fight with her boyfriend and storms out of the house for a drive; while driving with rage, she swerves off the road and crashes into a tree. They immediately take her to the hospital and later find out that she is brain dead, their family later have to make the dramatic decision to pull her plug. Later they realized that on her license it stated that she was an organ donor so all of her organs were donated.
Arabeth is a young girl that has always had heart problems ever since she was a little girl, she was the girl that received Elowyn’s heart, after a few days of recovery she starts to notice a few changes in her way of acting and decides to visit her heart donors parents. On her visit to her heart donors parents’ house she meets with Kassey, Elowyns old friend, and there is an instant connection between them as if they’ve known each other for a very long time. Kassey starts to notice a few similarities between Kassey and Arabeth, even some of Elowyns old vocabulary slips out of Arabeth’s mouth form time to time. Kassey and Arabeth become best friends and some how the memory of Elowyn still lives on through Arabeth, making it seem as if Elowyn never left.
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I really enjoyed reading this book, its not the first book I read from Lurlene McDaniel that I really loved. I’m not going to lie, this book did bring quite a few tears to my eye but that’s how I know it was a good book. This would be a great book for young teens to read, and in my opinion Lurlene did a terrific job with making me feel connected with the characters and all their emotions. This book taught me not to take the little things in life for granted because in an instant they can all be taken away and we don’t know when. If I had to score this book from one through ten I would give in a ten plus!
Keyla rodriguez, 12/6/13
5th/6th prd
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perks of being a wallflower
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Post by perks of being a wallflower on Dec 17, 2013 23:09:31 GMT
the perks of being a wallflower by Stephen chebosky
this book is about a group of high school friends but Charlie is the main focus of it all. He is an incoming freshman and not very social which is why he writes letters to a "friend". At least not until he meets a boy and his step sister who are currently seniors. They become very close fiends and spend the whole year having a blast until Charlie realizes his friends will soon have to leave to collage. Charlie goes through a lot and it all happens his freshmen year.
I personally really enjoyed this book. I'm not much of a reader but it is very interesting. this book was very well written and I very much liked the fact that it kept me interested. I really recommend this book especially to teenagers because it is very similar to what any adolescent would go through. There is also which is almost as amazing as the book!
Overall this is an amazing book and you should really check this book out!
Maria Arellano 5/6A
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Post by Luna on Dec 18, 2013 0:07:03 GMT
Luna by Anne Peters
Luna is about a Boy named Liam who has a sister name Regina. Liam is physically a boy but he cant stand but he cant stand the person he is during the day. Liam has he perfect normal boy life through the day but at night he enjoys dressing up like a girl. Liam who wishes to be names Luna and to be a girl has to struggle with letting the world know who he truly is. After so many years of keeping I a secret he tries to find a way to let the world know.
I personally really love this book. its very much interesting and I suggest it to anyone. It has a little bit of everything like comedy, drama etc. I really liked how the character Liam/Luna showed the struggles of living his life. He shows how hard it was for him to show his dad who he truly is when he is always trying to get him to do sports and what not. overall its a nice novel and I really recommend this great book to everyone.
Maria Arellano
5/6A
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Post by Bazey Mireles on Dec 18, 2013 0:19:18 GMT
Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
Summery:
This book is about how Ever has to decide between bringing back her family from the death they didn't deserve or to save her true love Damen, and when she discovers that it's impossible to revive her family she goes back to Damen and decides to save him with the help of Roman; another immortal that poisoned Damen because Ever killed Roman's true love, Drina. But the antidote that Roman gives Damen has a trick, something so hurtful for Ever and him, knowing she shouldn't have trusted Roman.
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This book was just good and entertaining but I was expecting more from the "Immortal Series" since the first one was just spectacular but still I liked it. I got to know more from the so saved and painful of Damen's past and I comprehended the reason why he didn't want Ever to know and also it got me out of the doubt of how his pasts lives were and how every time Drina killed Ever without Damen suspecting. I must admit that I was surprised when Ever found out how much power she had and when she decided for her family but also disappointed because it was all fake. Maybe the whole book wasn't that exciting but the end sure got me intrigued to read the next one and found out how they solve their problem. I think that the author made this on purpose, she wanted the readers to stay shocked and desperately willing to read Shadowland (the third book in the series).
Bazey Mireles 1/2B
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Post by P. Ortiz 7/8 A on Dec 18, 2013 0:20:14 GMT
Tuck Everlasting By: Natalie Babbitt
Tuck Everlasting is a book about a family which consists of Mae, Tuck, Jessie, and Miles, which one day they were walking in the Foster's wood and find a tree with a water spring, they all drank from it, except the cat that was with them. As time past they started to notice that they weren't aging, and they had , had injuries that would have costed them their life, but it didn't, and the cat got old and died. One day when Miles and Jessie came back from their travel around the world they went to the spring to drink water, but Winnie Foster (daughter of the owner of the woods)was looking at them, then they saw her, and chased her down and took her home. While keeping her there winnie and jessie fall in love and he tells her that his family and him are inmortal and that the water of the spring made them inmortal. Winnie tries to drink the water to live forever but Jesaie convinces her not to, that living forever is not what he wants for her because he loves her.
Tuck Everlasting is an awesome book its a great story that keeps you reading until you finish it. I love this book because while reading it you cant wait to find out what is going to happen and it makes you think what happen if you could live forever. This book makes you wonder what would you do is this happen to you? Would you think it was a blessing or a curse? I think Natalie Babbitt did an awesome job with this book its very intresting and it catches the readers attention.
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Post by Alexandria R. on Dec 18, 2013 3:51:29 GMT
The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games is about a 16-year-old girl named Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the nation of Panem in North America. Every year there is an annual event called "The Hunger Games" where one boy and one girl, ages 12-18 from each district, is selected by a lottery to compete in a battle to the death on live television. It was the 74th Annual hunger games and Katniss' younger sister Primrose Everdeen and a boy named Peeta was selected to compete in the battle. Katniss had realized that she didn't want anything bad to happen to her younger sister so she volenteered to take her place. Will Katniss survive?
I think that this novel is full of action and some romance. If you like action, you will love this novel. There is also a movie that goes along with this novel and it's not the same as the novel, but you get an sense of how everything looked and how tough it was for Katniss and Peeta to do everything that they could to survive. There would be very sad moments and other moments that catch you off guard. You will love with this book and I hope you continue to read the rest of the novels written by Suzanne Collins such as, "Catching Fire" and "Mockingjay". Every page is filled with excitement and l recommend that you should read this novel so take a seat and start reading! Alexandria R. 1-2A
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Post by Daniela ramirez on Dec 18, 2013 14:08:41 GMT
The name of this book is secret by pseudonymous Bosch
Summary:
This book is a novel that talk about the story of two kids, a girl that want to be a survivalist, her name is Cassandra and a boy that talk to much and his name is Max-Ernest, and one day when Cass is in her grandfather’s store of antiques, a friend of his grandfather’ gave their a box that she discover in one of her cases like police, that box was for a magician death, the name of the box was the symphony of smells, this box have in a secret message that Max-Ernest discover after met Cass and when she show him the symphony of smells, the secret message said help, with tis message they begin to investigate about the magicians death and they discover more than they believe
Review: The character that I liked more is Max-Ernest because he try to make jokes and be funny but he is not fun, and when you ask him something he gave you a big explanation about that, that’s the only thing that make him funny. The setting of the story is in the beginning is a little town where is the magician house, then in the climax the setting is a spa with a pyramid in the center.
The conflict is that Cass and Max-Ernest discover a little box called the symphony of smells, this box have a secret message in code that said help, and they begin to search in what need the magician death (the symphony of smells is propriety of a magician death), and then they discover that are people who want the secret that the magician death discover and they to stop them. The symbolism of this book is the source of the youngest because the villains of the story want to be young and live forever.
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Post by Daniela Ramirez on Dec 18, 2013 14:09:57 GMT
The name of this book is secret by pseudonymous Bosch Summary: This book is a novel that talk about the story of two kids, a girl that want to be a survivalist, her name is Cassandra and a boy that talk to much and his name is Max-Ernest, and one day when Cass is in her grandfather’s store of antiques, a friend of his grandfather’ gave their a box that she discover in one of her cases like police, that box was for a magician death, the name of the box was the symphony of smells, this box have in a secret message that Max-Ernest discover after met Cass and when she show him the symphony of smells, the secret message said help, with tis message they begin to investigate about the magicians death and they discover more than they believe Review: The character that I liked more is Max-Ernest because he try to make jokes and be funny but he is not fun, and when you ask him something he gave you a big explanation about that, that’s the only thing that make him funny. The setting of the story is in the beginning is a little town where is the magician house, then in the climax the setting is a spa with a pyramid in the center. The conflict is that Cass and Max-Ernest discover a little box called the symphony of smells, this box have a secret message in code that said help, and they begin to search in what need the magician death (the symphony of smells is propriety of a magician death), and then they discover that are people who want the secret that the magician death discover and they to stop them. The symbolism of this book is the source of the youngest because the villains of the story want to be young and live forever.
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Alma Olivarez 1/2 A
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Post by Alma Olivarez 1/2 A on Dec 18, 2013 15:25:27 GMT
“This Lullaby” by Sarah Dessen The whole idea of love for Remy Starr, a high school graduate heading to the real world, did not exist. Being raised only by her mother that had several failed marriages in her past made it difficult for Remy to believe in love. Love for Remy Starr just meant to have fun with guys and let them know it won’t last long. Until she met, Dexter, a musician with big dreams, who challenge himself change her entire concept in love. “This Lullaby” is a novel that its main idea is having a little faith in love, as we can see with Remy situation she tried searching for the perfect boy for her but still wasn’t satisfied with the results, and having her mother’s failed marriages just encourage her not to fall in any kind of commitment. This is one of my favorite books of the author Sarah Dessen, because in my opinion when it comes to contemporary YA she is the one.
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