Title: Encyclopedia of Presidents; Theodore Roosevelt
Author: Zachary Kent
Rating: 4
This book is about the life of Theodore Roosevelt. Theodore was born on Oct. 27, 1858, he suffered from asthma and needed help to breath. As he grew older his dad built a gym in there home so Theodore could build up his strength. In 1872 Theodore got his first gun. Because he couldn't read distant billboards and he was very incapable of making a shot his family saw his nearsightedness. His father got Theodore his spectacles a little while after his first gun. In 1876 Theodore went to Harvard Collage. He left collage in 1880 and married Alice Hathaway Lee. Alice gave birth to baby girl but Alice died two days after giving birth with Theodore's mother. In 1885 Theodore ran into his old childhood friend Edith Carow and they fell in love. They got married and had five children. When Cuba wanted independence from Spain, America decided to help. Theodore joined the army and started the Rough Riders. They were a big help. On Sept. 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt became president. He did many things while president, like ending the Russo-Japanese War and braking up large trusts that abused their power. Another thing he did was create several national parks, monuments, and the United States Forest Service. In 1908 Theodore takes leave from office and pretty much gives it to William Taft. On April 5, 1914 Theodore was traveling on a river in the jungle, he had jumped out of the boat to save it from crashing he gashed his leg on a sharp rock and grew sick. He recovered partly. Theodore Roosevelt died Jan. 6, 1919.
5:58 PM
Friday, December 12, 2003
Title: Mattimeo
Author: Brian Jacques
Rating: 5
At the beginning of the story
This is the book after Redwall and Matthias has a son name Mattimeo. He gets in a lot of trouble. Slager the Fox steals all the young ones from Redwall. In the book Redwall there was a little fox named Chickenhound that was bitten by a poisonous snake, I thought he was dead, but he is still alive. The poison that was injected into Chickenhound went to his brain and made him crazy and he made up his own story of why he was like the way he was, and he believed it. He wants revenge on Redwall because he thought it was their fault. Chickenhound is now Slager. Matthias tries to recover the children. With a group of friends he sets out. At Redwall abbey the creatures there found a map which the travelers would need, so they copy it and the sparrows are sent off with copies for the map to Matthias to help them on their way. After the sparrows leave General Ironbeak and his army of ravens kill the sparrows that were left to try to take over Redwall. Mattimeo is on the slave line of Slager the Fox. Slager plans to sell them to a polecat so Slager can rule part of his land. So there is two problems not one, I hope they solve both.
6:43 PM
Monday, December 08, 2003
Type of Book: Fantasy
Title: The Golden Compass
Author's Name: Philip Pullman
Illustrator's Name: None
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Number of Pages: 351
Main Characters: Lyra, Ms Coulter, Lord Asriel, Rodger, Iorek the Bear, The Gyptians, Sefafina Pekkula
Setting: The story took place in another world's Oxford in the beginning, and then in the far north at the end. The story was over a couple of months.
Summary of Story: Lyra is a young girl living at Jordan College. One day she goes into the Retiring Room and hears about a special kind of particle. At the same time children are starting to disappear. Lyra's friend Rodger is taken. Lyra meets woman named Ms. Coulter. Ms. Coulter asks her to be her personal helper. Before she leaves with Ms. Coulter the master of Jordan College gives her a alethiometer (alethio = truth). As Lyra worked for Ms. Coulter she began to realize that she was more then just a helper. She runs away and the Gyptians take her to the far north There she discovers some important facts about her family. In the north she knows that she must free the children from their captor. To do this she has to go through the harsh north and face challenges she would have never encountered if she was the girl she was before.
This book was excellent
9:09 AM
Friday, December 05, 2003
Thanksgiving
Over Thanksgiving break I went to my Grand mother's house in Kansas. I had a lot of fun. The drive would take 10-12 hours, so we took along snacks to eat in the car. The first time we left on Tuesday. We planned to get to Grandma's house that night. There was one minor set back, my mom had left her purse at home. So we, by the time we got back, had wasted four hours of the day and had to wait a whole day to leave for Grandma's. My sister and I were very disappointed, but since we could not get to Grandma's house that day we went to see "Pirates of the Caribbean". My favorite part was when the cursed pirates walked underwater to capture a ship.
Twas the day before Thanksgiving and away we went to Grand mother's house. The ride was hard and rough but we got through. When we got there everybody greeted us and we had pizza for dinner. That night my cousins, Amanda and Dillon, spent the night at Grandma's with us. The next day was Thanksgiving. Our relatives started coming to celebrate Thanksgiving with us. All the kids made little arts with cookie cut outs and glitter glue. We chose a cookie and made designs with the glitter glue. I made two arts. They were a bell and a ginger bread man. My ginger bread man was curved upwards so the glue on his head slid off. We had a lot of things to eat; turkey, ham, rolls, and mass potatoes. That night my sister and Amanda slept over at Amanda's house. My baby sister and Dillon, Amanda's younger brother, stayed at Grandma's house with me. That morning I played Play Station 2 with Brian. Since my sister was still at Amanda's, my mom took me to Shawn's so Shawn and I could do something together.
The first thing we did was go to a movie. We saw the "Haunted Mansion". It was so freaky! in a good / evil way. My favorite part was when the guy Eddie Murphy was playing has to take a key out of a decaying body so he can unlock the secret, reveal the truth, and get out with his family in one piece. After the key is abstracted from the body, it comes to life and tries to attack him and his daughter. He drops the key and his daughter goes into the water to find it. To shorten up the summary... he knocks the zombie's head off, then a very large number of zombies come out of the other crypts. His daughter finds the key and the zombies chase them. When they get to the top of the stairs the door closes and the outside of the doors becomes covered in tarantulas. His son is afraid of spiders but he masters his fears and lets them out. This scene is less / almost 20 minutes long and this is the summary of it.
After the movie we went to the Taco Bell to eat. Finally, we went to All Star, an arcade. The arcade has many different games. They even have a holiday special, buy 20 dollars in coins and get 10 dollars free. The one game I played the most was the "Wheel of Fortune." I got to spin the wheel 4 times, I got a 30, 45, 55, and 300. When I used up all my coins I had almost 1000 tickets. I got a lot of cool things. The night before we left, all of our relatives in Kansas got together for a big dinner. There was lots of food and I got to try crab. The next day we were given a lot of teddy bears. So we put them in the truck, said our goodbyes, and headed home. This was my very cool Thanksgiving. I hope you will tell me about yours.
8:28 PM
Title: Weasels
Author: Bill Ivy
Illustrator: Wayne Lankinen
Number of Pages: 46/47
What is this book about? weasels
List 5 interesting things you learned from this book.
1) The weasel is related to the skunk, badger, and otter.
2) Weasels have a musk under their tails to show their territory.
3) Only three types of weasels live in America and Canada; the Long-tailed weasel, Least weasel, and Ermine weasel.
4) Weasels change their fur to white during winter.
5) The weasel has a two layered coat all year long.
