{"id":1300,"date":"2013-11-13T14:20:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2013-11-13T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:27:47","slug":"gordon-house-november-book-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/2013\/11\/13\/gordon-house-november-book-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon House November Book Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the books that Gordon House students have been reading, the students&#8217; rating (from 1-10) of the titles, and some of the reasons why they liked or didn&#8217;t like the books:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>House of Hades<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; 9<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Twistrose Key<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; 7 and 10 (two students) &#8212; one said that the book can be confusing at times, the images are not always described clearly, while the other said that he\/she can visualize all the images because the author did a great job describing the scenes. \u00a0There is also enough suspense to maintain interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Candymakers<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; 9.5 &#8211; It is suspenseful and surprising and fun.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Wonder<\/strong><\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; 10 or Infinity &#8211; It feels real, moving, and the characters stand up for what is right, and Auggie stands up for himself.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Kiki Strike #1\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8211;\u00a0<\/em>8 &#8211; It has a lot of mystery and actions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>39 Clues #5<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; 7 &#8211; The student didn&#8217;t like the author&#8217;s writing style for this volume.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Savvy &#8211;<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>8 &#8211; The very beginning is a bit confusing, when introducing the complicated and unfamiliar magic in the world within the book.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Mango Shaped Space<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Sisters Grimm #1\u00a0<\/i>&#8211;\u00a0<\/b>9<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Half Upon a Time<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; just started, no rating yet<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Force Out<\/i>\u00a0<\/b>&#8211; 10 &#8211; For the great friendship and loyalty of the two friends, as well as the competition between them<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Robot Dream<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; 7.5 &#8211; Not even of a &#8220;story&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Russian Roulette: The Story of \u00a0an Assassin<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8211; 9<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the books that Gordon House students have been reading, the students&#8217; rating (from 1-10) of the titles, and some of the reasons why they liked or didn&#8217;t like the books: House of Hades\u00a0&#8211; 9 Twistrose Key\u00a0&#8211; 7 and 10 (two students) &#8212; one said that the book can be confusing at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,201574,1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4th-grade","category-book-notes","category-class-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}