The golden compass is a wonderful book about a girl named Lyra who lives at Jordan collage in oxford. When her uncles secrete is exposed, she befriends an ice bear and begins a wild adventure in a world where a person’s soul is outside their body in the form of a Damon an animal that can change but after puberty it settles. I love this book it is great.
Sarah Margru Kinson was a girl on the Amistad, a ship that was taking some slaves from Cuba to America. The slaves were born Mende in Africa where there are shining green palm trees, according to Monica Edinger (who is now working on a book about Sarah Margru Kinson).
Her father pawned her and the slaves and a few children were taken from Africa and brought to Cuba and were given fake passports to enter the United States as slaves for it was then illegal to take slaves from Africa. From Cuba, the captives boarded the Amistad and on a night when many had died at sea Cinque found a loose nail in the floor, picked the locks and freed the remaining captives and there was a rebellion! The captives went to the New Haven jail where they were kept until the trial. They were set free! It’s an amazing story. I hope you appreciate it as much as I do!
I lived with my mother and my brother and sister.
I remember the night when the men broke into my house.
I never saw my mother or brother again.
I cried for many nights on the ship.
I want to know if
I will ever see them again
will I?
I want to hear my language spoken.
I want to see my homeland in Africa.
I want to taste the foods of where I come from.
I sing little poems in the day on the ship
I think they sound like Africa.
I don’t like the colors in the new land so different from Africa.
The people their color is just not right
So I think.
I lived with my mother and my brother and sister, and I want them.
Hello! This is from my third grade buddy.
I have a relationship with a boy in New Orleans as a pen pal. Our goal is to help rebuild New Orleans to its original state. I feel sad for everyone in New Orleans because a lot of them had their homes destroyed by the flood and Katrina. My buddies class sent us beignets (A kind of doughnut) and a king cake and we sent them New York bagels. In our letters we have exchanged information about each other and our home states. We have also exchanged ideas about helping the victims of Katrina recover. Also, we have asked about each other’s positions hobbies and personalities. Part of the information we have is about what has happened in school. New Orleans was hurt the worst by Katrina as you might know because it’s below sea level and when the water came in the city practically drowned in water. When the hurricane stopped the water had nowhere to go so it stayed in New Orleans. I hope we can help.
See ya!
The play Half a Sixpence was put on by The Dalton School. I saw the play and liked it a lot. It is about a young man named Kipps who has no home and works in a drapery shops. He has a girlfriend named Ann. Then something wonderful happens, Kipps get rich, very rich. Then there is a problem, Kipps is getting married to someone else.
The songs and dances are great and there is a playwright in it and he is very funny. I think it is a very good show.
Letters From Rifka is a great book by Karen Hesse about a Jewish family with a boy in the army and another boy about to go there the family is trying to escape Russia because of their brutal treatment for the Jews. They make it to Poland but on October 5 1919 the Typhus hits. this is what Rifka has to say.
“October 5 1919
Motzif,
Dear Tovah,
I thought we would be in America by now but we remain in Poland stranded by illness….”(21)
This book has great writing from Pushkin such as this
“…and from
The gloomy land of lonely exile
To a new country bade me to come….
-Pushkin” (1)
It has so many dates and place names that you feel like you are really there.
I think Hesse did a great job writing this book!
Peter and the Starcatchers is an amazing book about a boy named Peter who is the leader of a group of orphan boys they are put on a ship the Never Land to serve King Zarboff the third. When Peter asks a pretty girl named Molly who is also on the ship why she holds up three fingers when she says, “I’m practicing if you don’t salute him like that when you say the third he cuts your three middle fingers off. And he has a pet snake and if one of his servants doesn’t please him he feeds he/she to his snake.”
Later on the voyage Peter finds a trunk with a flying rat next to it. When Molly seems to know too much Peter tries to get her to explain herself she is stubborn but she eventually tells Peter what he saw was not pretend it was the power of a material called star stuff and if the “others” were to get their hands on just a little bit of star stuff they would dominate the world.
The star stuff can also give the Starcatchers the power to fly when they touch it. The star stuff can turn objects into an extraordinary form for example fish into mermaids and it just so happens that the largess supply of star stuff ever fallen to earth!
Meanwhile it turns out that the first mate of the Never Land one of the others and it also turns out that nasty pirate Black Stash has figured out that the trunk of star stuff is the greatest treasure ever brought to sea. Molly’s father Lord Aster in an attempt for safety has gone on another ship that has a fake trunk filled of sand.
Peter and Molly befriend each other and Peter becomes a Starcatcher and helps them keep the world safe from all the villainous creatures on the face of the earth that could do harm if they touch the star stuff that is so powerful they would use it for world domination which would bring every body to their doom in less than thirty minutes! When the ship crashes Peter, the boys, Molly and their sailor friend Alf are washed ashore and taken by the Molsks (Savages) to Master Grin. The pirates find the island and the chase is on. Will the young Starcatchers prevail over evil?
Dave Barry has written a brilliant novel with an amazing cast of characters. Anybody that reads this will be in for a real treat. I love it and so will you!
My book is about Pasco coming to America from Yugoslavia for a better life. He is now my super. When he left Yugoslavia it was a communist country. He took a plane here. It took eight hours. I think he likes it in America. I like it here too.
