its kind of a funny story
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Post by its kind of a funny story on Feb 20, 2014 19:05:00 GMT
It's a Funny Kind of Story
A boy named Craig, who is 15 years old is in a very professional high school. He becomes overwhelmed by the schools academic pressure. He eventually has and eating disorder and has sleeping habits. He attepmts to comit suicide due to the fact that he thinks he has depression and he hates life in general. He leads himself into a psychiatric hospital where he meets a mad who ends of bing a very close friend of his. He then feels like life is getting better and he has no depression.
I recoment this book because many teens can relate to alot of the things that are said in this book. It is very well writen and there is a film to watch once youre done reading this book.
Maria A. 5/6A
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Post by Jennifer escobar on Feb 21, 2014 3:14:07 GMT
Title: diary of a wimpy kid Dog Days by jeff kinney In The Diary of a Wimpy Kid Greg Heffley wants to spend the summer before eight grade playing video games and maybe, if he can finagle it, getting closer to his crush Holly. The former plan goes out the window when his dad Frank decides to ban video games from the house. In order to connect with his young son, frank schedules a number of fishing trips and signs the boy up for scouts. Greg has more luck on the girlfriend front when his best friend Rowley invites him to go to his family's country club, where Holly works as a tennis instructor. Soon, in order to avoid spending so much time with his dad, Greg lies to his parents and says he works at the club, a deception that his older brother Rodrick uses to blockmail him and gain acess to the establishment. Review: the book was really good and interesting i like everything about the book and this book is simply the best in the series. It is easy to read and fun, having lots of pictures and comics. By: jennifer escobar 3/4B
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The Last Song by: Nicholas S.
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Post by The Last Song by: Nicholas S. on Apr 8, 2014 23:17:48 GMT
"The Last Song" by: Nicholas Sparks Summary: "The Last Song" is about a young troubled girl named Veronica "Ronnie" Miller who wants to live her life on her own and is trying to ignore her divorced parents: Kim, who lives in New York, and Steve, who lives in his hometown of Wrightsville Beach, NC. Her mother thinks that it would be good idea if Ronnie and her 10-year-old brother, Jonah, spent the summer with their father in Wrightsville Beach. Jonah is real excited while Ronnie is not so thrilled that she is stuck with her father for the entire summer. After a couple of weeks, Ronnie starts to like being with her father and she falls in love with a guy named Will. As the days go by, Ronnie finds out some bad news about her father and is devastated. Will she stay with her father to face all the obsticles?Review: When I first read this novel, I was literally having mixed emotions throughout the whole thing. This novel is like a rollercoaster with many events going on. I guarentee that you will fall in love with this novel like I have. You will get real attached to this novel and want to read on and on. From the beginning of the novel to the end, you could see the transformation of Ronnie from troubled teenager who wants to live on her own to a caring, sweet, and selfless girl who wants to be with her father. Every page is filled with romance! This is one of my favorite novels and I think that you should consider on reading it. You won't regret it.... So take a seat and start reading!
Alexandria R. 1/2A
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"The Notebook"- Nicholas Spark
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Post by "The Notebook"- Nicholas Spark on Apr 9, 2014 1:15:19 GMT
Summary: Allie and Noah met one summer and fell in love but were separated by Allie's parents because of social class. Allie went to school and became a volunteer nurse and Noah joined the military going to WW1,while writing letters to Allie everyday for a year. Allie thought Noah had forgotten about her because she never got any letters but her mom had hid them from her, and found her fiancé Lon. Then she saw a picture of Noah with a house he built and she went to go visit him and asked him why he never wrote and he tells her he did. Later, she brakes off her engagement and went with Noah.
Review: The Notebook is a really good book since you start reading it, it catches your attention and you don't want to stop reading. This story is a beautiful love story that does face a couple of obstacles but that's what makes the story very interesting and makes want to keep reading. During the story old Noah is telling the story to Allie who has Alzheimers and this addition to the story makes the story better because its telling the love story of this couple and what is happening to them in present time. Nicholas Spark did a wonderful job by organizing the story that way. In my opinion this one of the best books and I highly recommend this book to everybody.
Patricia O. 7&8 A
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Post by The Alchemyst on Apr 9, 2014 19:53:03 GMT
The Alchemyst (The Immortal Nicholas Flammel Series) By: Michael Scott
Summary: Josh and Sophie are twin brother and sister, who were spending their summer in San Francisco working while their parents were off on an archeological dig. When Josh walks in on a battle between his boss and an unknown man, little does he know that his whole life was about to change. He had landed in the middle of a battle of magic. The unknown man, who he later learns to be John Dee, has found Nicholas Flammel and is there to retrieve the Codex, a powerful book with all the secrets of the world including immortality written inside. Sophie seeing the commotion occurring inside the shop rushes to help her brother, both siblings have now been witness to magic. John Dee manages to escape with the book but Josh managed to tear out the last two pages that are vital to Dee’s plan. His plan is to bring back the Dark Elder race and return the world to how it was, where humans were either food to or slaves to the Dark Elders. The true identity of Nicholas Flammel is revealed, he is immortal and has been the guardian of the book for hundreds of years, in order to prevent Dee from completing his plan. Now that Dee knows who Josh and Sophie are he will not stop until he has the last pages of the Codex. Flammel must now keep the twins alive and retrieve the Codex before it’s too late. Along the way the twins meet all types of creatures and people that either want them dead or alive. They may also be very well the twins of prophecy that states that: one twin will destroy the world while the other will save it. They will enter a world of magic where everything they thought to be myths are real.
Book Review: One of the main things that go my attention from this book was the magic. I have always loved fantasy and fiction and anything with the word magic in it. I really enjoyed how the magic that the book uses is based on the elements and how it’s not limitless. This makes the action scenes from the book 10 times more exciting because although the characters have magic they need time to regenerate and cannot use it forever. Another key aspect that I liked about the book was the way the author interwove the stories of mythology together. All the stories were connected in some way and in the book you actually got to meet some of the people from the legends and myths, or people that were supposed to be long dead but turned out to be immortal. Lastly I found it interesting that there was no romance involved, most books I have read involve romance between the main characters but in this case the main characters were brother and sisters. However even with the lack of romance it was a very refreshing book that I would recommend to anyone who loves mythology and magic, and little to no romance.
Alyssa Villanueva 1/2A
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Post by Bazey Mireles on Apr 9, 2014 22:59:50 GMT
Marked By P.C Cast & Kristin Cast
Summery:
Zoey Redbird is a sixteen-year-old who gets chosen to become a vampire when a "tracker", a vampire who goes and look for potential vampires, marks her forehead with a moon. She thinks her life will be ruined since not all the people who get picked get trough the transition and eventually die. When Zoey gets to the vampire school, since in this book everyone is aware of vampires existing, she notices that her moon tattoo it's different from anyone else's and thinks she is a freak, but instead she has a gift; she discovers she has vampire powers and she is destined to be big since her grandmother explained to her that it's on her blood to be something magical-related. She makes a several friends but then gets invited by the Dark Daughters, kind of the most powerful and popular girl-vampires in the school, to join them and finds out that they're using their powers in a dangerous form. Now Zoey had to find a way to stop them without being the enemy but also has to make her way being a vampire and to try to discover who she is destined to be.
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Even though this books looks like the typical vampire story, but it is so not. I enjoyed this book because it gives you a new vision of vampires, like how they are not a secret and the whole school subject. Also, it involves the high-school-drama although it may be a bit different since it's about misusing vampire powers but still. Zoey Redbird's life as a vampire it's really interesting since it makes you afraid of vampires but at the same time it keeps you thinking how cool they are and wishing they'd exist. This story involves drama, mystery and experiences that will keep your mind focused just in the book. I really recommend this book because there are so much things to find about and gives you a chance to visualize vampires in another totally different way.
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Post by pseudonymous bosch on Apr 10, 2014 2:53:45 GMT
“If you are reading this is too late” by pseudonymous Bosch
This is the second book of the second series , in his book Cass and Max-Ernest get to a new mission of the Terces Society, now with a new friend Yoji, he is new in the school he just came from japan, in this second book of the secret series the Midnight Sun stole the “prism”, with this object they are going to be able to contact the “homunculus” the only person that know where is the secret of “king pharaoh “, he was created by “king pharaoh” in a small laboratory a long time ago and save by a jester , the jester create the Terces society to protect the secret of king from all the bad people .
In this second book of the secret series my favorite character is Yoji because he came from japan, and his personality is so cool, at first I thought that he was a spy from the Midnight Sun but at the end he just wanted to be friend of Cass and Max-Ernest. This new book take place in the same town at the beginning but at the middle of the story they went to the mountains to find the homunculus that is the only form of life created in a laboratory, this story symbolize that it doesn’t matter how the person is physically the only thing that matters is the feelings
Daniela Ramirez 1/2A
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DOAWK: The Last Straw
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Post by DOAWK: The Last Straw on Apr 17, 2014 15:54:26 GMT
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney
Summary: It was that Frank Heffley believed that he could whip his son into shape and so he tries to engage him in "manly endevors," like participating in rec league soccer teams. But of course, Greg is able to side step his father's doings. His "number is finally up" when his father decides to ship him off to a military academy. Greg escaped only becuase he helped his dad at Seth Shella's half-birthday party. He also met Trista during summer vacation.
Review: The wimpy kid never fails to make me laugh. Kinney has a great sense of comic timing. In these books and the pictures really do make the story what it is. What bothers me about these books is the main character's attitude and the way he treats others. I hope that kids see that the reasons Greg gets himself into trouble all the time is because of his attitude. Instead of looking up to him, it's my hope that kids who read this book say, "Man, if Greg just treated people with a little more respect then maybe he wouldn't always get himself into these bad situations."
--J.E. 3/4B
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Post by City of Bones on Apr 17, 2014 15:59:09 GMT
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones
Summary: City of Bones is the first of three books in my favorite fantasy trilogy, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is about a fifteen year old girl named Clary Fray, whose search for her missing mother leads her into an alternate New York called Downworld filled with mysterious faeries, hard-partying warlocks, not what they seem vampires, an army of werewolves, and the demons who want to destroy it all. She also finds herself torn between to boys -her best friend Simon, for whom she's developing new feelings, and the mysterious demon hunter Jace. She becomes a part of the secret world of the demon hunters or Nephilim, and as she does she discovers that rescuing her mother might mean putting their whole world in jeopardy.
-S.M. 3/4B
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Post by Javier Perez 3/4B on Apr 17, 2014 16:22:25 GMT
Wicked (The Wicked Years series) By: Gregory Maguire
Summary: This book is about the life of the Wicked Witch of the West before Dorothy. It begins in the Vinkus (a country in the land of Oz) where an odd green-skinned baby girl had been born into a family of power. This baby was named Elphaba, Elphie for short, and was the child of Frex, a preist, and Melena. Since the beginning of Elphie's birth she had been thought to be evil and was forced to be apart of her father's work with religion and theology. Elphie was a wild baby and lived in a small house with her parents and eventually her Nanny and a man named Turtle Heart. Turtle Heart was a man who blew glass and was Melena's secret lover since Frex would leave to other cities to preach. Due to this, when Melena was pregnant with her second child she did not know whether it was Frex's Child or Turtle Heart's. Nonetheless, the child was born and was a girl again. However, instead of being born green she was born with no arms and was named Nessarose, Nessie for short.Nessie was the only thing that would calm Elphie and since the beginning she would care for her. In addition, another child was born later on, this one a boy. He was named Shell and their mother died during this birth. Eventually, Elphie goes off to college in Shiz, another country in the land of Oz. Here she became interested with the idea of Animals and animals and leave her sister and her friends. one of them being Glinda, at college and would go to the Emerald City to fight for Amimal's right. Howver, during an event, that was supposed to be for Animal's rights, where she was supposed to participate her lover was killed and she went into a sort of depression. She went to live with nuns and maunts to try to relieve herself of her pain. She eventually went to the house of her lover to meet her wife and tell her what happend, however, his wife would not allow talk about her husband. Elphie lived here for several years and her Nanny eventually came to live with them as well. One day she got a letter from her father saying the problems that was happening in her home country with Nessie as the Eminent Thropp, a ruler. Her home country had seceded form the land of Oz and this could lead to a full blown revolution. What is gonna happen next? How dos this lead to the life we know they live when Dorothy comes?
Review: One of the things that I found interesting about this book was that it told us a story that we always assumed and never really thought we'd hear. If you like the Wizrd of Oz you'l definetly like this book. It not only tells the story of the Wicked Witch of the West, but also of the Wicked Witch of the East, and a little about Glinda the Good Witch. This fantasy story acts like an excape from the real world for me and letes me enter this world of strange things. It seems that Witches could also have normal lives like the rest of the world.
Javier Perez 3/4 B
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Lesly Chantal Oseguera
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Post by Lesly Chantal Oseguera on Apr 18, 2014 1:46:12 GMT
"I heart you, you haunt me"
Summary: "i heart you haunt me" its a story about a girl named Ava who has just suffered though a huge loss, her boyfriend's. Ava's grief is consuming her inside out and her family and friends don't know what to do to help her. One day she starts to hear voices in her head, her belongings move, the radio starts to play by it self and soon Ava realizes that she's not really alone, Jackson, her boyfriend is still around. At first she starts to make excuses to sit around at home and wait to hear about her boyfriend, Jackson. until her family and friends start to convince her to go out and gain her old life back, at that point she starts realizing that jackson its really not that friendly. he starts haunting her so she'll never forget about him.
Review: In my opinion this book its great! its written in verse which it makes it easier to read. it talks about one of the hardest things in life, death. Ava its a great character i can relate with her a lot in the way of how may i react if i was in that situation. She blames herself for her boyfriend's death and takes a lot of time to get over the situation. Im in love with the antagonist, its brilliant! Ava's dream guy, jackson... he won't stop haunting her. he reminds her every minute of her life that he died and that she shouldn't keep going with her life. i find it amazing that they put a protagonist as an antagonist.
Lesly Chantal Oseguera 7/8B
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Post by A.A on May 5, 2014 20:18:17 GMT
Lovely Bones By Sebold, Alice Summary: Susie the main character of the book dies because she was raped by a nieghbor and she becomes a ghost. She is in between heaven and earth.
Review: I didnt like the details in her rape. I also did not like hope she became a ghost. As an author i whould have added a twist to the story. For example, maybe susie could talk to her crush and haunt the person who killed her. I also would have made her crush help solve the mystery of susie and the other girls.
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Post by Get Well Soon on May 26, 2014 3:18:04 GMT
Get Well Soon, Julie Halpern
summary: Get well soon is a book about the life of Anna Bloom, a high school girl trying to survive in the roll of teenager, but having panic attacks and many frustrations her parents decide to take her to a mental hospital in which the situation is pretty worse than her school, complaining about the people she met and the day when she is going to get back her bra, and knowing nothing about when she's going to return home, Anna meets new people and try's to find ways to get more comfortable until she gets out of there.
Review: In my personal opinion i didn't loved this book very much, this title is nothing related to the story Anna Bloom is living in the mental hospital, at the beginning it makes you think, why is she there?, but as the story is going and going you don't found a point, after a couple of days or chapters it gets better but the way Julie Harper wrote her diary is not to over welling or excited.I do recommend this book, it's very funny and can pass time with it, but not to the ones who expect a wonderful or perfection in words, it's simply a diary.
R.L. 1/2A Day
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