This shows about where Gareth goes.

I like the book.  It is a very good novel.

Read the book for more info.  Well, I’ll end this post right now, on short notice.  Very short, to be exact.  Bye!

The books are about three children named Jared, Simon, and Mallory.  They live with only their mom (their parents were divorced).  They move away from NYC to a place with a name so unimportant that it’s not even shown in the book or the movie.  Anyway, in that unknown place, Jared, Mallory, and Simon’s house is huge.  It’s like a castle.  (By the way, I forgot to tell you this; Jared is NOT happy about moving.)  There’s something strange about the house too.  There is a circle of what looks like mushrooms surrounding the house.

J, S, and M go into the house.  There was something moving inside the walls.  This might be a list of what might be in there:

Squirrel

Rat

Mouse

Another animal: Probably

Jared, still unhappy about moving, started to bash holes in the wall with a broom (he probably had a tendency to do that).  Mallory gets mad at him (not surprising) but then clubs the broom into the wall and a huge chunk falls out (surprising).  Slightly interested, she starts pulling stuff out of a hollow space that the chunk was covering.  The hollow space (in other words called a hole) is full of lots of different things, including a key.  Jared picks that key up.  Mallory finds some other interesting stuff in the hole, but after a while she stops and goes away.  Simon goes away also.  Jared is the only one left.

That night, Jared creeps into the hole.  He finds some ropes going through it.  Then he realizes that the hole was a box.  He climbs in and pulls the ropes.  He feels himself going upward, and then finds himself in a hidden room (probably the reason why he didn’t notice the extra space while looking at the house from the outside was because the house was so big in the first place).  The room has a chest.  That is, as in a treasure chest.  Jared still has the key that he found in the box.  He uses it to open the box.  In the box there is a book.  It’s called Authur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the World Around You.

All right, I have to end this post.  I barely managed to stop.  It might be hard to do it again.  If I kept going, I might not be able to stop until I got to the end, and then there would be no point in you buying the books.  And the point of writing a post about it is to get you to.  Here, with this you don’t even have to search the web.  Or you can watch the movie.  Sorry, no link here.  I think that these are very good books because they are very suspenseful.  But you can have your own opinion.  Anyway, I’ll end this article now so that I don’t accidently start to continue the story.  Bye!

The series is about four clans of cats (I know this seems a bit strange to some, but the whole series is about life from a cat’s point of view) called ThunderClan, WindClan, RiverClan, and ShadowClan. All four clans live in a forest. A house cat named Rusty has had a dream about chasing mice. This causes him to go into the forest. He meets a cat from ThunderClan named Graypaw, who turns out to be his first forest friend. From there, Graypaw invites Rusty into the clan. Rusty gets his new name, Firepaw, and is a loyal member of the clan. All is well, until ShadowClan tries to take some of ThunderClan’s hunting areas. Then ThunderClan has to fight for its territory…

It is a very good story, and so are the rest of the series. There are enemies other than ShadowClan. Twolegs (humans) try to chop down the trees in the forest. (Just like us. Humans chop down trees and don’t think about wildlife. I could write a lot more about protecting the natural enviroment, but it would take up a lot of space on the post, and also I’m getting far off the subject.) Also, house cats (known as kittypets) are not liked much by anyone in any clan. There is another clan called StarClan. The reason I didn’t mention it before is that StarClan isn’t like other clans. StarClan doesn’t live in the forest; it is a bit like heaven in a cat sort of way. All cats go there when they die. Those who have faith in StarClan seem to come around better then those who don’t. This is because of many reasons, so I’ll only tell you a few.

First of all, StarClan can give you strength when you’re weak. On the other paw, StarClan gives the leader of a clan nine lives. (Ever heard someone say that cats have nine lives? In this case it’s true.) Oh, now you’re begging to be a leader. I’m sorry–being a cat is essential. And even if you were a cat, you would have to be made deputy by the current leader (this involves a ceremony) and then you would have to wait for that current leader to lose his/her nine lives, while avoiding the cats that would do so much as to kill you to become deputy. Once the leader dies, you go to the Moonstone (a very holy place) and put your nose on the rock that lies there. Then you would-oh, I can’t tell you the rest. But anyway, StarClan would give you nine lives and the word “star” at the end of your name. It’s against the warrior code (a set of rules given by StarClan) to make someone deputy if they haven’t been a mentor for another cat first. But a deputy has some powers too. A deputy is second in command and is like the leader’s right-paw man. (Or left-paw man. It depends whether the leader is left-pawed or right-pawed.) Are you still sure you want to be leader?

Oh, by the way, about the “star” at the end of names…

Names are very important to the clans.  Cats who are less than six moons (months) old (before they are apprentices) have “kit” at the end of their name.  This makes sense, because young cats are called kits.  For example, a mother could name her kit Stonekit.  The first part of a kit’s name is decided by the mother.  When the kits reach six moons old, they get the word “paw” at the end of their name.  So Stonekit would become Stonepaw.  Cats keep this name until they are made warriors (which means they can have an apprentice, but they aren’t apprentices anymore), when the clan leader (the one with the name “star”) decides what the last part of the name should be.  The most common last parts are “fur”, “pelt”, “stripe”, and “heart”.

I hope you read this series. It is actually science fiction: other than the part about StarClan. Here’s a link to where you can buy the first book. See? Over here!  Also, click here for more information.  So all cat lovers, behold! No offence to the non-cat lovers. They can still read the books and like them!

The plays starts with a man named Prospero, who is a magician and the Duke of Milan, and his daughter, Miranda, on an island. They had gotten there when Prospero’s brother Antonio was pretending to be the Duke in place of Prospero, and put Prospero on a leaky canoe and set it out to sea. Antonio’s councilor, Gonzalo, feels mercy and lets Prospero bring with him his magic books, food, drinks, and Miranda, who is only three at the time. Then they set off.

Prospero begins to lose hope until he remembers his books. He immediately creates wind to send the boat to an island, one unknown to Antonio. There he finds a spirit trapped in a tree. He rescues the spirit and in return he makes the spirit his slave. Twelve years pass and a ship with Antonio and other royalty aboard come near the island. Prospero saw the ship with his powers and caused a storm to sink the ship. He made sure that his brother and everyone on the ship made it to shore, including the King’s son, Ferdinand, even though each one thought everyone else had perished.

In all this, Ferdinand falls in love with Miranda and they want to marry. But Prospero wants to test Ferdinand to be worthy of his daughter and he makes Ferdinand his temporary slave (He does have a lot of slaves, don’t you think?). No more talking about it, or you will never see the play. Do you think he made the test? (As usual, I always end my blog right when it is getting good, so read the play.)

My favorite character was named Trinculo. He is a jester and always is acting dumb.

I think this is enough for a blog post. Soon there will be another. But you have to wait, you say? Well think how boring it must have been on that island for twelve years. Now compare that to how long you have to wait. Still not satisfied? Oh well…

1)”Horrible Histories” Some examples: -The Angry Aztecs -The Storming Saxons -The Incredible Incas

2)”Horrible Science” Some examples: -Evolve or die -Chemical Chaos -Explosive Experiments

3)”Horrible Geography” Some examples: -Monster Lakes -Intrepid Explorers -The Odious Oceans

4)”Murderous Maths” Some examples: -How to +-x/ -Do you feel lucky? -The Phantom X

5)”Dead Famous” (these are about, as you may see, famous people who are dead.) Some examples: -Queen Victoria and her amusements -Cleopatra and her Asp -Joan of Arc and her marching orders

Believe it or not, these books all have different authors! They are very good for humor and you learn from them too! Each book has about 150 pages. To order them, click here.

In fourth grade we are studying some Cinderella stories. We have noticed that although some are like the most common Cinderella (mistreated person goes to ball and falls in love with prince. She loses slipper while running away at midnight…), there are a lot of other kinds, which also include stories making fun of the first kind. We will soon make our own stories!

I might look at another blog from last year in the future to get ideas for what to write about. They wrote about stuff that they were doing in school. That will be what I’ll write about too. They also wrote about their Cinderella stories. Sometimes they would even write their whole story! Anyway, I hope you will enjoy that stuff.

That’s all for this post! The next will come soon enough. Don’t worry, you won’t die waiting. Probably!