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First book- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

c16rc — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:10:48 +0000

The first book I just read is called When You Reach Me, by Rebecca Stead. IT WAS AMAZING!! Really, it’s been a while since I’ve read a nice good book. I mean, for school lots of times and I have read lots of not-so-great books, but this one was REALLY special. It’s about a girl named Miranda. She and her mom live in a small apartment in New York City, but the whole scenario makes you feel like she’s wedged in a small not-very- busy town. One day, Miranda starts getting secret notes from someone.

“I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own. I ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter.”

That is a quote from one of the first notes. Read this deliciously dedicated book and find out: WHO is writing Miranda these suspicious letters? IS IT the same person who broke into her house? WHY has her best friend left her? WHEN will she find out these things for herself?????

Wizard of Oz vs. Alice in Wonderland…

c16rc — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:56:32 +0000

Is The Wizard of Oz a better book than Alice in Wonderland? Let’s find out. I think they are both very good books, but one has to be better than the other. I have read both books and they do come up very close. I still think the Wizard of Oz is indeed better to me because of these few things.

1. In Alice in Wonderland, Alice doesn’t do anything about her problems. She just walks around saying “Oh my, what shall I do? Such a terrible thing. Boo hoo!” But Dorothy does something about her problems. She even traveled miles on a road paved with yellow bricks to get home!

2. In Alice in Wonderland Alice keeps trying to recite her poems that she learned and she keeps trying to be all proper but Dorothy just wants to do what she must do and be done with it.

3. I just think that The Wizard of Oz is just a great and magical story and Alice in Wonderland is also very great and magical, but no moral, it’s mushy, and it in parts scares me! I think they are both great, but still, I have to say, I like Wizard of Oz better.

So no offense to Alice lovers, and yeah, they do come up very close, but this is just my opinion. Wizard of Oz won. (by the way, if anyone disagrees with my answer please leave a comment and I will respond with my opinion.)

The Tail of Emily Windsnap, The Castle in the Mist…

c16rc — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:44:34 +0000

So last week I read a book that blew me away. I have always been a fan of the Emily Windsnap series, I have read he first, (The tail of Emily Windsnap) and the second, (Emily Windsnap and the Monsters of the deep). But, when I found out that there was a third, I flipped. Once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. It was love at first site! Emily Windsnap is the story of a girl who one day finds out she is a mermaid. People make fun of her at school, but she doesn’t tell them. She lives on a ship with her mother who can’t swim, and she doesn’t know where her father is. Later in the first book, she finds him but she has to break him out of jail, but he is not a crook, he is a merman! He was in jail because Neptune, a myth that the greeks believed in, ruler of the sea, said that he wasn’t allowed to marry a woman who wasn’t a mermaid. Emily has a friend named Milly, (her babysitter who believes in asking playing cards the answer to a problem and can change you mentally) and a friend who is another mermaid named Shona who is a perfect mermaid. The idea that amazes me is that Emily is a half time mermaid. I mean when she is outside, just walking, she has normal legs and body. But, when her skin touches water, they transform into a tail and they mold together so she becomes a mermaid. When she gets out again, they turn back to their normal form. In this book, she is living on an island where her and both her parents can live in a half sunken ship, where the bottom is filled with water and the top floor is fine for her mother. The reason they must be apart from other creatures is because Neptune doesn’t want to have other mermaids and humans to be together. While Emily is in the lower deck of her home, she finds a dimond ring. It turns out, it belonged to Neptune and the reason he doesn’t want mer people and humans to be together was because he once was with a human lady and she broke his heart. She either has to pick one parent to live with, (human life and Mom or mermaid life and Dad) or find the pearl ring that belonged to the lady that broke Neptunes heart. I can’t give away the end for you guys but I have to say that while I read it, my heart was pumping so fast that I felt as though I was really there. I recomend this book to anyone who is interested in mythical creatures such as mermaids and you really have to read the beginning of the series first. You can find it at Barnes and Noble.

Review of Enchanted (aka the best movie in the world)

c16rc — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:14:21 +0000

Enchanted was a great movie. It is about a fairy tail princess from the animated world of Andelasia. She is about to live “happily ever after” when she is sent to every Cinderella’s biggest fear: the scary and not animated New York City. She is forced to make do without the chipmunks and bunnies and with the huge tempered people–and a sweet little girl named Morgan who perswades her buisness man father to let her stay with her. (Morgan is the best charactor and my personal fave) And Gesele, (the princess played by Amy Adomes) finds her real true love.

The Tempest

c16rc — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:57:41 +0000

Last Thursday, I saw a musical play called The Tempest by Shakespeare. I am the kind of person who has a hard time criticizing but here I go. I really think the actors and actresses really pulled it off. I really do think that they must have practiced a whole lot and believe me. I know about these things. I don’t love all the ’tis and ‘thus and that stuff but that is Shakespeare, not the students. Anyway, it was acted out by some very good Middle Schoolers at the Dalton School