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Headed for Australia, young Matt Cruz and Kate de Vries have they’re airship sunk because of a pirate attack when thay are in the middle of the ocean! Lucky them, they find a uncharted island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and boy are they releaved that they are safe, but there is no helium to fill the ship up so they are stranded in the middle of a deserted island. The only weird part about that sentence, is the deserted part. They see a ship! Matt and Kate go closer to the ship, and… wait a second, doesn’t that ship look fimilier? It’s the pirates that attacked them, and they’re ship? It is! But how will they escape?

The book How I Became an American by Karin Gundisch and translated from German to English by James Skofield is a great historical fiction book about a family that goes on a remarkable journey from Germany to America. Karin Gundisch wrote a great book while she puts in true facts about her families immigration, such as “In Youngstown there was so much smoke that you couldn’t see the sky.” This book is based on how Karin’s family immigrated and how many other families immigrated. This book is one of the best, if not the best historical fiction books that I have ever read. Karin put the specific date of everything and I like that. I can read How I Became an American over and over again. I would recommend this book to anyone. Read How I Became an American and you will know why I really like this book.

Our fourth grade class at the Dalton School interviewed an immigrant that is currently in the United States. I interviewed my grandmother from Poland. We went through many drafts of writing and rewriting until we were finally ready for our … book dummies! We are done with our book dummies and… we were still not quite done but one more step and then “twenty years later we will be looking at our work” which I doubt that it will happen but oh well, we did our book and I am relieved that we don’t have to do any more performances.