The Phone Caller Mystery

Filed under: Uncategorized — c15hu at 8:03 pm on Friday, January 26, 2007

The book Claudia and the Phantom Phone Calls by Ann M. Martin is about four girls named Claudia, Kristy, Stacey and Mary Anne. They meet each other at school and they want to baby-sit so the make a babysitters club. They think of ways to make people want to have them as there babysitter. They become a group and do it for a really long time and for what I have read in each book there together and they meet other people to be in the club. The only problem about that is that some people leave. ¼ So in this book they hear about this Phantom Phone Caller and what the phantom phone caller does is he calls and he sees if anybody is home and he calls and hangs up. If anyone does not answer he will come and rob the house. If anyone does answer he will still rob the house. They hear all about it and they hear that he is there city. Only Claudia and Kristy get the phone calls. Who could it be?

I think that Claudia and the Phantom phone Calls is a great book that if you like short stories and you do not want to put your book down I definitely recommend it.

Esperanza Rising

Filed under: Uncategorized — c15hu at 12:27 pm on Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is a historical fiction book about a Mexican girl who immigrates to California. This book is a good example of historical fiction because the author uses actual facts such as dates and places. It takes place in 1924 in the first chapter but then it all moves over to 1930. (1)
“We are from Agualientes,” said Mama, stepping forward. (82) The place called Agualientes is in Mexico meaning that the book takes place in Mexico and she immigrates to California.
Another example of historical fiction is that Esperanza started working to raise money to bring her grandma (Abuelita) to California. Interesting enough when Esperanza comes to California, straight away you think that a kid would go to school but she said that she was at a high level at school and she can go back to work when she wanted to work. I think that that is one example of historical fiction because this book Esperanza Rising is a historical fiction book and also a Cinderella.
It is also a Cinderella because her father dies right before she goes to California. Her father has a mean brother Tio Luis who Mama is going to marry. Esperanza keeps trying to convince Mama not to but Mama always stops her.
Pam Munoz Ryan has a lot of descriptive writing such as “if I lay on the land, and was very still and quiet, she could here the heartbeat of the valley.”(91) She also says “eating mangoes on a stick, carved to look like exotic flowers.”
The reason I think this is a good historical book from all of the examples of descriptive writing and historical facts but I still feel it is more of a Cinderella.

The Molly Moon Adventure

Filed under: Uncategorized — c15hu at 12:33 pm on Friday, January 12, 2007

The book Molly Moon and the Incredible book of Hypnotism is a great book if you like adventure. This book is about a girl named Molly Moon and she finds a book about Hypnotism! She does not check it out but does the librarian catch her? I wonder. She looks in the book every day and she pretends she is sick. In the beginning she gets in trouble for having her bath water too high. I thought that was weird. It still is one of my favorite books. Molly has a few friends in the beginning but she does not make a lot of friends but she has enemies. I thought that she would make so many friends but I guess I was wrong.

If you like books that have parts that you don’t want to put down, you would love this book but if that is not your thing you are better off going to read ten books while some one really enjoys Molly Moon series. This book is for ages 9-12 but I think you are O.K. if you read it older than 12 years old or 8 years old but no younger. I think you would LOVE it.

Verona’s Journey to America

Filed under: Uncategorized — c15hu at 10:36 am on Wednesday, January 10, 2007

This book is about my babysitter. My babysitter emigrated from The Parish of Saint John in Barbados and immigrated to New York in America. My story is non-fiction story but not fiction. She has been doing babysitting for a long time now and she was babysitting since I was nine months old. I am very proud of her.