tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54327812011-05-21T19:21:09.223-07:00A teenagers view of Books, Current Events, and other Witty Things!Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05726080698595142855noreply@blogger.comBlogger811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5432781.post-40003432795977553402011-01-09T17:50:00.000-08:002011-02-12T17:57:10.447-08:00

Uninvited By Amanda MorroneA girl named Jordan, Jo, had previously gone out with Michael, a guy described as irresistible. But then he died. Everyone thought he was simply suicidal, but Jordan knew the truth. Michael had been killed by a vampire, yet he was still among the living. On his funeral day he began to walk the earth once again. He has shown up at her window every night for 3 months,

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A New Chief Editor Hello my name is Elizabeth. This year my brother is graduating from High School. He is going to Texas A&M this upcoming fall, and I agreed to take over his blog and post review on books and current events that are happening in my life.

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Template UpdateTest of comments / New edit

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Hello.I am sorry I haven't got around to posting in a while. I have been doing so much lately. Right now I am in Sacramento, California for my uncle's graduation. This year I will be going into high school as a freshman. I am really disappointed right now because it turns out that my school district has decided that no freshman is going to be double blocked which means that I am going to be stuck

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Title: Journey to the Center of the EarthAuthor: Jules VerneRating: 5Axel, the nephew of Professor Otto Liddenbrock, was surprised when his uncle came home early ranting about a 300 year old authentic Icelandic manuscript, but when a cryptograph is found in its pages his uncle will not eat, sleep or rest until it is solved while forcing his household to do the same. Then Axel discovers the

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Title: Dances With WolvesAuthor: Michael BlakeRating: 5 Lieutenant John Dunbar of the United States army has just been sent to Fort Sedgewick with supplies to help the men there. But when he arrives he is amazed to find the fort completely empty, but he still decides to stay and hold the fort. But their are only two people that know were he is and one has just been killed and the other sent off

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Junkfood and JournalingI am doing "Junkfood and Journaling" for the summer at my local library. We are given specific prompts to use as an topic for each week. This week we are writing in the style of Samuel Pepys. The twist is that "he" is here in the modern century! I choose to have Samuel come to the present in a time machine.Dear Diary, A lot has changed in 300 years but it is good to

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Title: Dealing with DragonsAuthor: Patricia WredeRating: 5Take one dragon and one princess and you have to deal with dragons. Add a stone prince, some wizards, and a witch into the mix and you have Dealing with Dragons.Cimorene is the youngest of seven daughters to the king of a very large kingdom. She wants to do more in her life than be proper all the time and get married to an idiot prince.

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Title: Dragon's Dawn Author: Anne McCaffreyRating: 5 A brand new world open for colonization. A way to start over with a clean slate. A planet called Pern. Pern. A planet with many positives and very few known negatives. For 8 years they flourished on this land that has almost every thing that they ever wanted. A new planet to explore and colonize with millions of acres of land to support their

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Title: The RavenAuthor: Edgar Allan PoeRating: 5 This is one of the many poems by Edgar Allan Poe. It is a very good poem but at first I didn't really understand it. It took awhile before I fully understood it even after I had been told the main idea. In this poem raven represents death. What I believe that that the man in this poem is going to die and death is tapping at his door. This poem uses

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Fort Parker State ParkOn Monday the 26th we went to Fort Parker State Park. We got to see the main fort but the visitors center was closed. It was kind of disappointing because we didn't get the whole picture. But we still had a great time. My favorite parts were the block house, thats were the fire down at people that are trying to attack the fort, and the little door that leads to the spring

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Ready for RitaHi, everyone! We are getting ready for hurricane Rita. The weather is really beautiful down here. To get ready we are sticking everything that could get damaged by the water in trash bags and putting them up high. The news says that the highways are packed so we are leaving about two in the morning for Waco. It will be about an eight hour drive if traffic is not too bad. I hope

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Title: Warstrider: RebellionAuthor: William H. Keith Jr.Rating: 5The end of the Xenophobe war has begun. Dev Cameron is a hero. Kayta Alessandio is going home to New America. It's all over, the story ends. Not likely. Now there is a new enemy. One that man has not faced in many, many years. It's self. Yes a civil war has started. In this book Dev is now an Imperial officer. Katya is not in quite

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Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: 5Do you like mysteries? Do you like Sherlock Holmes? Than this is a book for you. In this book Holmes has got another case. It starts with Sir Henry Baskerville come in with a most unusual story. He tells Holmes and Watson about his family's legend or maybe it's curse. He tells them about a ghastly hound that has haunted

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Title: A Boy At WarAuthor: Harry MazerRating: 5This book is about the attack on Pearl Harbor. Adam is a boy that is always moving. Adam's dad is in the navy and is never in the same place for long. Now Adam and his family are in Honolulu. One day Adam and some friends go fishing when they hear the roar of plane engines overhead. But they are not American planes but Japanese. Suddenly he sees his

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Title: The JourneyAuthor: Kathryn LaskyRating: 5This book is the first sequel to The Capture. In this book Soren and his friends after escaping from St. Aggie's they continue on to the Great Ga'hoole Tree. But on the way they encounter a fierce attack by crows, the enchanted Mirror Lake, and a raging blizzard. But they have help along the way to get them out of trouble. They got out of the crow

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Title: The CaptureRating: 5When Soren, the Barn Owl, is kidnapped from his home, before he can even fly, he is taken to St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. There he Gylife, the Elf Owl, and Hortense, the Spotted Owl. The owls weren't even allowed to ask questions and had to sleep at night. They know they must learn how to fly if they are ever to escape. But long before they were ready

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Title: Jurassic ParkAuthor: Michael CrichtonRating: 5 Have you ever wanted dinosaurs to still live? Have you ever wanted to know how they lived? Now you can see dinosaurs from millions of years ago. With enough money you can see dinosaurs in their new home, Jurassic park. Two kids, Tim and Lex get the privilege to be the first people to see the park. Along with Alan Grant and Ellie Satller they

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Title: The Dragon SocietyAuthor: Lawrence Watt-EvansRating: 5 Lord Obsidian was a rich and powerful man. He, after 3 years of work, has found a way to avenge his family. Lord Obsidian is really an escaped slave named Arlian. But he was not always a slave. He had been born a free man. When he was a boy his whole village was destroyed by dragons and everyone perished. Accept him. He became trapped

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Title: Pendragon (1) The Merchant of DeathAuthor: D. J. MacHaleRating: 5Bobby Pendragon was just an average kid once, until his Uncle Press took him to an old abandoned subway station and sent him to a different time and place. Bobby went to a place called Denduron. Bobby was destined to save Denduron. Two tribe on Denduron are about to have a big war. Bobby will have to stop them by stopping

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Sorry I didn't know all the names of the people. I will change it as soon as I can..... Update finally March 23, They were Mr. Aronnax and Conseil

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Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the SeaAuthor: Jules VernRating: 5A mysterious creature is terrorizing the ocean. It can appear in one place and appear again a huge distance away. Is it a giant narwhale, an unknown submarine, or something else entirely. Mr. Aronnax wants to find out. He boards a ship seeking this mysterious creature. And they, for better or worse, find it. Mr. Aronnax falls into the

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Snowman This year Christmas was extra special. It was unbelievable. It was the first time in Texas. Well it might have not have been a first time thing, but it was a first in a long time. It snowed in Houston, Texas!!!! Oh Ya! It snowed on Christmas Eve. We had already opened our Christmas Eve presents when it started to snow. We were happy. We had never seen snow in Texas. It was

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Title: Magician Author: Raymond E. Feist Rating: 5 Pug is a small orphan boy living in the castle keep of Crydee. One of the most important parts of a boy's life was almost upon him. He would be chosen by one of the craft masters to become an apprentice. On that special day all the boys were called except Pug! Right when all looked dim, Kulgan, the master magician at Crydee, came and called

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Title: Mossflower Author: Brian Jacques Rating: 5 In this book the founder of Redwall Abbey, Martin the Warrior, comes to Mossflower Woods for the first time. At the time Mossflower was ruled by Lord Greeneyes a wildcat. Greeneyes had two heirs, Tsarmina and Gingivere. Tsarmina and the vixen fox Fortunata had a plan to kill Tsarmina's father and get rid of her father at the same time. The

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Title: Hawk of May Author: Gillian Bradshaw Rating: 5 This story is about a boy who will try anything to get his father's approval. He, at first, was going to take the path of darkness and throw everything else away. But when the darkness seeks to claim his younger brother as well he can't take the path of darkness any longer. He leaves his home and seeks to join King Arthur's army. But

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Title: Wolf Tower Author: Tanith Lee Rating: 5 Claidi grew up as a maid to one of the princesses of The House, a refuge in the middle of the Waste. She was taught that the Waste was a place were only huge beasts live. But when a stranger turns up, she thinks to herself, "Could there be life out in the Waste. Claidi helps him escape from the House and they flee. What things await them? And

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Title: David and the Phoenix Author: Edward Oromdroyd Rating: 5 David moves from his home in the flat lands to a quiet, peaceful mountain valley. The best thing was there is mountain in his backyard. The second day he's there he climes partway up the mountain and finds a Phoenix reading a book. The two became good friends and have many adventures. Can such a friendship last? Find out.

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Title: Eragon Author: Christopher Paolini Rating: 5 Eragon starts his journey in his peaceful home town of Palacar Valley. While hunting in the Spine, a range of land that most anyone who enters will suffer some kind of accident. Eragon had quick reflexes so he had no accidents. Before he got to kill a deer, a saphier stone magically appeared and scared the deer away. The stone turned out

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Joel's House This summer we went to my dad's cousin's house. I had a lot of fun. The third day we were there we went four wheeling. Hannah went first and while she was gone I was able to play Xbox. I went second. We went really fast on a trail that was behind Joel's house. On the way back I was able to drive the four wheeler. The next day we went to an open pit mine and we were able to dig for

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Title: The Hobbit Author: J. R. R. Tolkien Rating: 5 The Hobbit begins in a large hole in a hill. Not a dark, damp, or glompy hole but a nice, bright, comfortable Hobbit Hole. In this paticular Hobbit Hole lived Mr. Bilbo Baggins the master of Bag End. One day Grandalf the Wizard came by and started talking to Bilbo about adventures. Bilbo was part Baggins and part Took. Baggins' were

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Title: Shatter Glass Author: Tamora Pierce Rating: 5 Tris is one of the four children that went to the discipline cottage at Winding Circle Temple to discover and control their magics. Tris' magic was with weather and lighting. Her teacher, Niko, brought Tris to Tharias after she learned to control her powers. Amadman is killing women and using the people's belief to get away with it. Keat

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Museum of Natural Science We are at the Museum of Natural Science and we are having a great time. We saw some dinosaur bones and other creatures of the past. We studied some chemistry in the Chemistry Hall. We even looked at ancient Indians. After this writing break we will go look at beautiful art and even more beautiful gems. This October an exhibit is coming called the Dead Sea Scrolls. I

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Title: The Egyptian Cinderella Author: Shirley Climo Rating: 3 Rhodopis, the main character, was taken from her home in Greece as a child. She was then sold in Egypt as a slave. The Egyptian servant girls always made Rhodopis do lots of work. Her friends were the animals and she loved to dance with them after her work was done. One day after her master had woken from his nap he saw Rhodopis

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Title: Everest / Book Two / The Climb Author: Gordon Korman Rating: 5 Four kids Dominic, Perry, Sammi, and Tilt are going to climb the highest mountain in the world, Everest. With the help of Cap Cicero, a previous summiteers of Everest, they are going to try to make it to the top. But when the climb becomes a rescue mission, nobody has a free ticket out. Will someone die? Will something

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Steep trails to you till we meet again Title: Steep Trails Author: John Muir Rating: 3 This book is about the amazing life of John Muir. Some of my favorite things that he did were that he discovered that wool from wild sheep is finer than the wool of tame sheep. How about that. He even got to the top of Mount Shasta in a snow storm! He stayed up there for a week! Read about John Muir's

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Title: The Kite Fighters Author: Linda Sue Park Rating: 4 This book is about two brothers, Kee-sup (older) and Young-sup (younger), who, in the long shot, are very competitive. Kee-sup, being the oldest sun, gets a lot more privileges than Young-sup. On Boys Day that year Kee got a kite and Young didn't. Both brothers wanted to fly the kite. Kee finally gave in but Kee was to fly first. Kee

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The Gnome, The Sword, and The Magic Gem Once upon a time there lived a friendly gnome named Seamore. He was a mining gnome that never thought about war and killing. Most of his relatives were very different. His father, his father's father, and his father's father's father, were from a long line of great warriors. They passed down one sword to each of their first sons. It had ended up

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Please give me some coments on the story I am posting

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History/Geography Book Report Title: The Story of the Declaration of Independence Author: Norman Richards Main Characters: American patriots, Americans loyal to Great Brittan, and Great Brittan Main Event: the writing and sinning of the Declaration of Independence This Book Was: excellent Summary: This book was about how the Declaration of Independence came to be. It begins with the

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Hi everyone I am going to start posting a book I am writing up on the web. I am going to try to put up a page every other day. The book is about a gnome named Seamore that comes from a line of warriors, the only difference between him and his father and grandfathers was that Seamore was of a peaceful nature. He has to find a way to free a princes and save her kingdom. To find out how he does it

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Living Museum: Theodore Roosevelt Speech to School Hello! My name is Theodore Roosevelt. I was the 26th president of the United States of America. I was born on Oct 27, 1858 at 28 East 20th Street, New York City. Though out my life I have been a pretty responsible man. I lead the Rough Riders in Cuba to victory over Spain and help stop the Russo-Japanese War, earning me the Nobel Peace Prize

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White Gryphon Type of Book: Fantasy Title: The White Gryphon Author's Name: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon Illustrator's Name: Cover Art / Jody Lee and Interior Art / Larry Dixon Publisher: Daw Books, Inc. Number of Pages: 399 Main Characters: Skandanon, Amberdrake, Zanheet, Winterheart, Noki, Handanelith, Leyuet, Shalaman, Silver Veil, Judeth, Aubri, Snowstart, Kechara, Tadrith, Keenath.

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Title: Black Gryphon Author: Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon Rating: 5 In the beginning of the story the gryphon, Skandranon, is on a mission to find out about a new weapon the enemy has. He gets home in one piece and brings back one of the weapons. Skandranon and his human friend Amberdrake are taking part in a war against Ma'ar, and evil mage. My favorite part was when Skandranon's

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Happy New Year Happy New Year, everyone! My family and I had fun popping balloon after my dad dropped them from a ladder to celebrate the new year. I wanted to tell you the very first thing I did in the new year, but can't because I don't actually know what it was. I could have done a number of things like taking a breath, a heart beat, a thought, or a couple of other things. I would bet on

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Biography Book Report 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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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Title: The Return of the Indian Author: Lynne Reid Banks Rating: 5 Its about a boy named Omri and he has a cupboard and a key. Whenever you place a plastic figure in the cupboard and turn the key it comes to life. Not like what ever you want, but the real life of that person. The last time Omri used his cupboard he had brought a little plastic Indian figure to life. His name was Little

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Title: Cyber Zone - Visitor from the Beyond Author: S. F. Black Rating: 4 When Amanda and Jeff Ryland move into the country strange things start happening with their computer. Messages keep appearing in their mail boxes. They tell them that they are Amanda's best friends, but the addresses aren't familiar. While she is still on the internet talking her "friends", she get a real call from

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Museum of Natural Science The reason I like to go to the Museum of Natural Science is because it is a lot of fun. I always like to go to the dinosaurs first because the dinosaurs skeletons look so cool. After that I like to go up stairs. They have a cool exhibit based on past civilizations. Below that is a fantastic room full of fantastic paintings all by the same person. Back on the first

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Hobbies My hobbies are reading, playing Gameboy, watching TV, and playing outside. Reading is my hobby because I love reading and it is so fun! Playing Gameboy is another hobby because it is really fun to play all different types of games. It is also good exercise for the fingers. Watching TV is one of my lesser hobbies because it has many cool shows. There are many different hobbies. Out of all

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My dad finily got my archives working! You can now look at all my book reviews. I would like it if you look at my July page, I put my Harry Potter(5) book review there. I hope you all have fun brousing my site even more now. P.S. I still need to update my "Just Me" section because I am now 11 and in 5th grade. I have cool glasses now too, so I need to change photos too.

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Title: Forgotten Beasts of Eld Author: Patricia A. McKillip Rating: 4 At the beginning of the story Sybel's grandfather, Mrk started calling all of the forgotten beast from the land of Eldwood to begin a collection of the animals. All the animals he called came. Finally he called a wife for him. She gave birth to a baby boy. He was named Ogam. As the boy grew his father taught him to call

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Title: The Circle Opens; (2) Street Magic Author: Tamora Pierce Rating: 5+ At the beginning of the story Briar and Rosethorn are in the city of Chammur. Chammur was just a stop on there way to Yanjing. Every city Briar and Rosethorn had passed could use the help of plant mages, as Briar and Rosethorn were, Chammur was the same. They got so many requests for help that Briar and Rosethorn knew

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I am Home! Hi everyone! My trip is over and I'm back in Texas. I have a lot of books I need to share with you. I will post one soon. I did a lot of stuff on my trip. You can read about it at Sea to Shining Sea , my dad wrote it. My favorite part of the trip was my grandpa's farm. We caught a cute kitten we named Rascal. I got to ride in a swather, it cuts the wheat and puts it in to rows, for

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Journey to the Farm Hi everyone, I am now at my Grandpa's farm. We went through Yellowstone and Theodore Roosevelt National Park yesterday. We had spent two days at Yellowstone. Yellowstone has two thirds of the world's geysers. My favorite geyser was Fountain Geyser, it went on for thirty minutes. It has many hot springs too. We saw a mother and two baby bears, at two in the morning! We also

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Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Author: J. K. Rowling Rating: 5+ At the beginning of the story, Harry is lying in his aunt and uncles flower bed so he could hear if there was any news of Voldemort's return. When Harry gets up he hears a loud crack!! What could have made that sound. After being almost strangled by his uncle and accused for making that loud cracking sound,

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Hey everyone I have left my Grandma's house and I'm heading to my Grandpa's farm. I can't wait to get there. I will even get to see the harvest! I have read one new book latly, it was the fith Harry Potter, it will be up soon. See ya.+

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Title: The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Rating: 3 There were two key mysteries. They were; 1) Who stole Colonel Ross's horse Silver Blaze? and 2) How was John Straker killed? It begins when Sherlock Holmes is having a discussion with Watson, his roommate and the narrator of his adventures. He tells Watson that he is going on an investigation of the

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Camping Trip Hi, I know this is my first post in a while, so I decided to tell you why. I have been camping in the mountains of Colorado and Utah. Turquoise Lake, Bryce Canyon, and Zion were all the places I have been visiting during the last week. I will have new book review posted shortly now that I am half way through the second trip of this summer. I am at my grandma's house for a week.

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Title: Out of the Silent Planet Author: C. S. Lewis Rating: 5 Ransom is forced to go to Malacandra / Mars because two men drugged him and put him in their spaceship. These two men were going back to Mars to give a human to the Sorns. Why do the Sorns want a human? Do they want to eat him or sacrifice him to a god? Ransom escapes and has an encounter with an inhabitant of the planet. The

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Title: Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone Author: J. K. Rowling Rating: 4 I have been reading Harry Potter since the second grade. I learn learned how to love reading in first grade. In second grade I started to read Harry Potter after seeing some other kids reading it. This was all before the movies. In fact I did not even know that movies were going to be made. I had the most ARP

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Title: Circle of Magic (4) – Briar’s Book Author: Tamora Pierce Rating: 5+ At the beginning of the story Briar is having a dream and he knows it. He was dreaming that he was sitting in a giant oak tree in the heart of a forest with a bag full of emeralds in his lap. Suddenly the images of the tree and the bag of emeralds disappeared and two people were rushing him down a damp dark corridor

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Title: Circle of Magic (3) – Daja’s Book Author: Tamora Pierce Rating: 5+ At the beginning of the story Daja and her friends Sandry, Briar, and Tris, with a group of people, were riding to Gold Ridge Castle to help with the drought and the many grassfires that are threatening the area. When they get to the blacksmiths shop Daja and Tris decided to stay; Daja to work on nails, and Tris to read

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Title: Circle of Magic (2)- Triss Book Author: Tamora Pierce Rating: 5+ At the beginning of the story Tris and her friends are trapped in a bubble underground about to be crushed or cooked alive by an earthquake. When Tris wakes up and finds out it was a dream, she and her friends climb the Winding Circle walls because they are very hot and hear voices on the wind then see Bit (a very small

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Title: Cirle of Magic Sandrys Book Author: Tamora Pierce Rating: 5+ At the beginning of the book you are introduced to Sandry locked in a storage closet hidden by magic. She has an oil lamp that is almost out of oil, without any extra oil to refuel it! How will she get out of the coming darkness? When you are introduced to Daja she thinks that she is a ghost! But she discovers that she is

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I AM BACK Hi I am back from my trip to Bemidji Minnesota, New York, and Washington DC. My favorite part of the trip was fishing at my dads cousins cabin. Though I am sorry to say that the fish did not taste very good to me. I have read five books while on the trip and have started some of their reviews. One of my dads cousins loaned me the Circle of Magic series and two other books, Thanks

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Title: Pearls of Lutra Author: Brain Jaques Rating: 5 Once there was a king on the Island of ______. He wanted the tears of all the oceans, precious rose colored pearls from the six oceans from the world of Redwall and its talking animals. So he sent many ships to search for them. The only reasons that these bands of cosars(sp) and sea rats search for the pearls for Ublaz is 1) Ublaz has

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Title: Man of La Mancha Author: Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion, and Mitch Leigh Rating: 4 stars The screen play Man of La Mancha on Broadway starts out when a man called Cervantes and his manservant enter a dungeon known as the common room and wait for their trial in the Inquisition. The lead prisoner, know as the Governor, tell Cervantes that he must first be tried by his fellow prisoners, and

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Title: Holes Author: Louis Sachar Rating: 4 stars I like Holes because it is full of mystery and adventure. The Warden at Camp Green lake is searching for something and using the kids to get it. What could it be?! The neat thing about Stanley Yelnats is his name is surprising spelled the same way forward and backwards, a palindrome. Stanley is under a curse from his

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Title: Robinson Crusoe Author: Daniel Defoe Rating: 4 Would you ever think of being stranded on an uninhabited Island for many years? In the book Robinson Crusoe, Robinson did exactly that! On the Island his first challenge was to find something to eat. He had only a bit of powder and shot and he needed to keep it to protect himself. He tried to find some grain. When he found a container

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Title: The Amber Spyglass Author: Philip Pullman Rating: 5 + The Amber Spyglass is about a boy and a girl named Will and Lyra. They go through many tough challenges and are part of four conflicts all happening at the same time! These are the conflicts: Conflict 1: Good vs. evil forces Will and Lyra are involved in the main war by helping get the ghosts out of the world of the dead and

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Title: Davy Crockett, Defender of the Alamo Author: William R. Sanford and Carl R. Green Main character: Davy Crockett Setting: Davy Crockett's life Why is Davy Crockett famous? Davy is famous for running for congress ten times, signing up as a solider for about 1,890 days, defending the Alamo until the end, and other things. At the Alamo the Texans were outnumbered 2,400 to 183! The

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Title: Reptile Author: Colin McCarthy Rating: 3 SCIENCE BOOK REPORT ABOUT THE BOOK The book I read was Reptile it is part of the Eyewitness book series. It talked about all reptiles. The author is Colin McCarthy. REPTILE GROUPS Turtles and Tortoises Some differences between turtles and tortoises are there shells. A turtle has a flat shell and a tortoise has a humped shell. Soft-shelled

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Title: Hardy Boys and the Pentagon Spy Author: Franklin W. Dixon The Hardy boys and their father are searching for a guy that has stolen very import military documents. In a separate mystery the boys had an assignment to find the culprits who have stolen some farmers very prized and very valuable antiques. The Galloping Rider and Flashing Arrow would be worth about twenty grand! The

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Title: Redwall Author: Brain Jaques Redwall Abey was a peaceful place until an evil rat comes to Redwall. Cluny the Scourge! He threatened to take over Redwall Abbey! On No! How will the mouse Mathias defeat Cluny? And where is the sword of Martin the Warrior, Redwalls greatest hero? While you ponder about these mysteries Cluny steals the tapestry of Martin the Warrior! A Big Oh No! The

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Test of a second post. Also fixed up the template to include my header and menu bars and link lists.

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Hello World, This is my first post on Blogger. I started with a local copy on my dad's Mac using Blosxom now I am coping my files to the Blogspot server.

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