Reading+log-+Shanaya

READING LOG!

//Genre:// Fantasy
====//Plot:// Morag, a wolf mother has gone by-lang to a fox whelping den so a silver pup of her litter wouldn't be taken away by the Obea, Shibaan. The silver pup is the only silver one of her litter and Morag is determind to keep him except for a splayed front paw with a strange swirled pattern on the pad. Morag thinks the splaying will lessen up in a couple of days and then she will return to her clan, the MacDuncan Clan. Though the Obea, Shibaan arrives to take the silver pup away. Morag knows that if she tries to stop Shibaan all her pups will recieve imediate death. The ice is starting to thaw and Shibaan knows that this is the perfect spot for the pup's Tummfraw, the ice will crack and the pup will freeze to death. She places the pup down and trots of into the bushes, not even looking back at the freezing pup. The ice starts to crack and the Tummfraw is now floating down-stream in the raging currents. Meanwhile a she-bear has just lost her cub to a cougar and wishes the river to drown her. The water comes in a wave but not strong or deep enough to kill her, a sharp prick on her ankle alerts her attention to a bundle of silver fur with vivid green eyes staring pleadingly up to her. She seeks death but the pup seeks life... ====

//Response://
====//Text to self:// If I were Morag and had my only silver pup been taken away, I would take my chances to slash out at Shibaan to stop her and then flee with my pups to the Outermost, to live and strive together. ==== ====//I felt empathy for:// ThunderHeart (the she-bear that saved Faolan) because all of her cubs had been killed, either by the cub in the way of a male or a cougar killing it and now she is barren but now I'm so happy for ThunderHeart because she has found Faolan. ==== ====//Laguage used:// A spark from the river unquenched, undamaged, undimished, flying upward from the watery turbulence and containing in its minuscule sphere of light, the promise of life. So she reached forward and carefully picked up the sodden clump with both her front paws. It didn't squirm. She couldn't see signs of breathing. But it was a cub of some sort, and when it opened its eyes with what seemed great pain, she //saw// the spark. As the sun lifted over the horizon, she saw its light reflect in the cub's two eyes. And then she saw an image that shocked her. It was her own reflection in the eyes of an animal that was not born of her, nor of her kind. //It' s a wolf//, she thought. //I seek death, and it seeks life.// I enjoyed reading this paragraph because of the detail when the spark came from the river and the catchy phrase at the end. "//I seek death, and it seeks life."// ==== ====//I learned that:// There will always be someone there for you in your time of need (for Faolan) and never give up (for ThunderHeart). ==== ====//Recommend:// I would reccomend this book to children that like to read very detailed writing and that also they like to read about animals in clans. ====

//Genre:// Fantasy
====//Plot: //With his second milk giver, ThunderHeart dead Faolan (with Gwynneth's help) decides it is his time to join the Wolves Of The Beyond clans. No-one has seen a Gnaw Wolf so well-built and have a bears voice to come back to the clans so they were reluctant to welcome Faolan into the clan. Though he was adopted into the Mac Duncan Clan, his mothers clan as a Gnaw Wolf. A Gnaw Wolf is one of the lowest rankings in the clan, they have to eat last, sleep away from the clan and also have to endure endless abuse from the wolves around them. Faolan is not the only Gnaw Wolf in this clan, Heep a yellow, frail wolf with no tail is the dominant Gnaw Wolf of the Clan but he is jealous of Faolan's wonderful gnawing. A Gaddergnaw is proclaimed by The Fengo Of The Watch where gnaw wolves have to compete against each other to become a Watch Wolf. Watch Wolves are former Gnaw Wolves of the Clans but here they are respected as any normal wolf as if their flaws have disappeared. This could be Faolans chance to change... ====

//Response://
====//Text to self:// If I were Faolan and heard that the Gaddergnaw gave Gnaw Wolves second chances, I would try my very best and also try to ignore Heep and his annoying clicking of his broken tooth. ==== ====//I felt empathy for:// Faolan because he got his hopes up for thinking that clan life would be wonderful and it is, but not for a Gnaw Wolf. ==== ====//Language used:// Faolan was off and Gwynneth soon followed, but the //byrrgis// was behind them both. Gwynneth could cover the distance much more quickly than any wolf, but as she looked down on Faolan, she was amazed to see his strong legs devouring the ground beneath him. He cut through the headwinds like burning coal through dry leaves. //The track must be hot beneath his paws,// she thought. //Great Glaux, had a wolf ever run this fast?// I enjoyed reading this paragraph because it uses a simile "He cut through the headwinds like burning coal through dry leaves" and instead of the author using "she was amazed to see Faolan running fast." The author used "she was amazed to see his strong legs devouring the ground beneath him." Which gives more effect that Faolan is running very fast. ====

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// You should never lie to cover up wrong-doings, they will always back fire (for Heep).
====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this book to children who enjoy reading about crimes and aslso that they like to read very detailed and desriptive writing. ====

//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Genre: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Fantasy
====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Plot: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Edme and Faolan must visit their tummfraw's, alone. They must realise they were once disrespected and lowly but now they are at the Watch as honorable wolves. Edme reaches the shaggy cliff face, she feels nothing. This place is of no importance to her. Fueled by anger and wanting answers she stroms into her old clan, the MacHeath clan. She questions the Leader and the Obea to find out she was MADE a malcadh. The Leader tore her eye out as a pup and her mum fought back leaving a huge scar across his face. She explains to her old clan that she would not represent them at the Watch but herself, as a free-runner. Meanwhile the MacHeath's plot for revenge by watching her and gaining information on her weakness. On the way to the Watch Faolan and Edme see Bronka, sleeping and Toby and Burney wrestling about. Faolan dozes off and Edme plays with Toby and Burney. Faolan wakes and growls at Edme for touching them, bear mothers can kill if her cubs are touched by strangers. The MacHeath's see this as a weakness to munipulate her so they take the cub into the Pitt, a whole in the ground where a wolf infected with the foaming-mouth disease (rabies). The mother furious and declares war against the wolves. Faolan is devastated, is part wolf and bear and doesn't want any blood spilled. They must rescue Toby before it is to late... ====

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====<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Bronka (the cubs mother), I would be angry and worried but I wouldn't go declaring a war until I knew what exactly where my cub was and what was happing to him. I wouldn't even declare a war against all the clans, just the MacHeaths because they stole him. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I felt empathy for: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The cubs brother, Burney because he must of been scared and lonely because Toby (his brother) was taken by mean wolves and they might come back for him. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Language used: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Some call it the Darklands after the black sand made of glass fragments that absorbed nearly all the light and reflected nothing. On this night, the blackness seemed to devour even the stars, the silver of the newing moon, the threads of lightning that didn't flash or crackle but seemed to hang limply in the sky like guazy cobwebs. I enjoyed reading this paragraph because it uses very descriptive phrases like gauzy cobwebs and they give a reason why some call it the Darklands. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I learned that: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">You should never cheat to aquire something (MacHeaths) and think before your actions (Bronka) ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Recommend: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I would recommend this book to kids/teens who enjoy reading dramatic rescue books or who enjoy reading very heart-touching books. ====

====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Plot: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Heather thinks her family is perfect, her brother's a smarty-pants, her sister's a princess and her parents are perfect but will she ever fit in? Then everything changed once her dad announced that he is leaving, for good. When he left, everything was crazy and insane! Heather's brother and sister do not take this well. Her brother writes "Worlds Worst Dad" on his "Worlds Best Dad" coffe mug and rips out dad in all the family pictures. While her sister, turns pretty in pink to a messy goth. Just to make things worse her mother is in a dramatic hibernation and only replys with a "uh". One day when Heather came home from school she found traces of a goth and she was right, a goth had moved into their house, HER house and Mum was ok with it! Then she relises she might be the only sane person here... ====

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====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Text to self: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">If I were Heathers' mum, I would set an example for the kids and not have a depressed hibernation. Also I would be strong on this time for myself and for my kids so they get the support they might need. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I felt empathy for: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Heather's dad because he really wanted to stay but he couldn't because his heart would be ripped into two and because he has no idea how the family is reacting to his disappearance. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Language used: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">And now for the second thought: the purse... It was the sort of plastic-beaded, butterfly-decorated diddy that I'd love - If I was //five.// I enjoyed reading this paragraph because this is the first book I have read when the main character is telling the book in her own perspective. She has a very picky and impatient attitude but she is not totally nasty, she has used sarcastism to emphasise that she wanted the purse when she was five and not now, since she is ten now. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I learned that: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">You should always move on and not stay in the past. ==== ====//<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Recommend: //<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">I would recommend this book to kids/teens that enjoy reading about events that happen today and who enjoy reading about humourous actions too. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Author:// R.L. Stine
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Genre:// Fictional horror ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// At Craig's old school his nickname was C-C-C-Craig because he would jump at the squeak of a door. But now he has a change to get rid of his reputation and start out fresh, with Amy, Travis, David and Brad as his new friends. Then Travis and Brad know Craigs old nickname and are willing to humiliate him and show everyone who Craig really is. Craig on the other hand is determined to never hear his old nickname again. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Amy and started betting on how brave Craig is, I would ask Craig how he felt about me making the bet and have a disscusion. Instead of opening my huge mouth without asking. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Craig because Amy was betting large amounts of money on his braveness, Craig couldn't take the toture but his friend Amy believed in him. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Languaged used:// The dares were over. No more challenges. No more kids calling me C-C-C-Craig. I turned the corner and headed for home. Heavy clouds covered the sky. Somewhere down the block, a dog howled. But I wasn't scared. I was Craig, the //superhero!// I knew I'd never be scared again. I only wish the moon came out. Why did it have to be so dark? I really like this paragraph because the whole story was about him getting brave and he succeded. But the humourous part was he is still afraid of the dark. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// Don't take the critisim to the heart and always speak up when you feel uneasy about something. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this book to kids or teens who enjoy reading about others problems or who enjoy reading about funny horror stories. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Author:// Tamora Pierce
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Genre:// Fantasy ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Alanna has now turned 11 and is ready to go to ladies school and learn how to be a proper, courteous lady. Alanna's twin brother, Tom doesn't want to be a knight and learn swordfighting, he wants to be a magical sorcer!! Alanna on the other hand thinks learning about being a courteous lady is dreadful! Wearing poofy dresses, getting wed and having face paint smothered on her face is splendid to other girls but Alanna seems to differ. To solve this problem, the twins disguise Alanna as Alan a young boy going to knighthood while Tom forges his fathers hand-writing. When "Alan" and Coram arrive at Corus, "Alan" reveals the secret to Coram that she is actually Alanna and that he had been tricked. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Response://
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Coram and found out that I was travelling with Alanna not Tom, I would be really angry but listen to why Alanna swiched places with Tom. (Alanna would also owe me) ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Alanna because when she got to Corus she was really disappointed and underestimated how hard being a knight was but she still carried on with persiverance. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used:// "Mother of Darkness," he whispered when he saw her. "What happened?" She glanced at the mirror. Her uniform was a bloody, dirty mess. "I fell down." Coram forced her to look up at him. She flinched as he wiped her face with a wet cloth. His callused hands were surprisingly gentle. "It's lyin' ye are. ye were in a fight." "I said I fell down." She gasped as he touched her eye. "Ah. The ground bloodied yer nose, split yer lip and punched ye in th' eye, all at once. Would ye prefer to say 'twas yer pony? Th' others didn't say ye were hurt, so ye must've--fallen--in th' stables." I like this paragraph because Coram is really funny when he says "Ah. The ground bloodied yer nose... etc." and that Alanna was too stubborn to admit she lost a fight with Ralon. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// When you are in trouble don't be afraid to ask for help and never be stubborn enough to not admit it. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this book to kids or teens that would like to learn how hard being a knight is (very hard) and also kids or teens that enjoy reading about different cultures and their ways. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Author:// Tamora Pierce
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Genre:// Fantasy ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Alan (Alanna secretly in disguise) finds a strange, black cat with such remarkable eyes. They are purple, just like hers. The cat is sent from the godess who looks down on Alanna and the cat is to protect her and be her faithful companion. Back at the Palace she names him Faithful, after she found Faithful many strange incidents have happened and Alanna would of got killed without Faithfuls help. At the Drell River Valley, Alanna is to serve Jonathan (Prince of Tortall) in the battle of the Tusaine taking the Drell River Valley. As she is on guard, she is kidnapped by Tusaine and forced to tell the Tortall battle strategy. Alanna refuses and is tortured until Jonathan and knights of Tortall arrive and take out most of the Tusaine camp. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Response://
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Alanna (secretly disguised as Alan of Trebond) and had to dance and be a servent to a girl who got lots of attention in the Tortall Palace, I would be annoyed and raged because I was supposed to be training to be a knight not looking after a girl!! ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used:// Alanna stood, a little stiff from the dampness of the river. "Your Grace." She watched Roger fade into the shadows. "He has style," she remarked quietly. //Style or not, he's treacherous as a snake,// Faithful warned her. Alanna touched the ember-stone under her shirt. "I know," she replied softly. "I wish I had something to crush him with." //Give him time// the cat meowed//. He'll ive you plenty to crush him with.// Alanna frowned. "The problem is that by the time he does he'll be invinciable." I like this paragraph because it describes what situation she is in: being disguised as a boy, the Prince's squire and having a brother that only cares about magic. It also describes the hatred and frustration she has towards Roger, secretly an evil sorceror. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned That:// Times were tough back in the medieval times, and you had to fight for what you wanted compared to our days: we complain to someone on the phone or it you don't get the things you need. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend://I would recommend this book to kids or teens who enjoy reading about fantasy but you wouldn't find dragons or princesses stuck in a tower in this book. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Author:// Tamora Pierce
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Genre:// Fantasy ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Alanna has faced the horrifying Ordeal and now in knighthood. She found astonishing evidence that Lord Roger was trying to kill the King and Queen. She announces the evidence to King and Queen and Lord Roger challenges her to a duel, Alanna accepts. As they are fighting Lord Roger reveals her true identity, everyone is shocked except for Jonathan, Gary and Coram. The duel carrys on and Alanna kills Lord Roger! A month later Alanna and Coram travel to the Southern desert bound for Tyra. The are attacked by desert raders with a leader armed with a strange crystal sword. Alannas sword, Lightning's blade has come seperated from the hilt! Thankfully tribe's men scare away the raders. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Coram and went along with Alanna on her strange adventure, I would hope that she would repay me in some way for all my hardwork in protecting her and doing a handful of jobs for her. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used:// Ishak drew the sword, holding it aloft. Orange fire shimmered around the shining grey of the blade, pulsing fiercely. He laughed and pointed the sword at Alanna, speaking a word she couldn't hear. Instinctively she threw all the strength the Goddess gave her into a shield. She had wanted only to defend herself, but the sword's magic reflected back from her protection, enveloping Ishak in a ball of flame. He screamed, once. Then he was gone. I like this paragraph because of the vocabulary: pulsing fiercely, eveloping and instinctively. Also because of the dramatic ending: He screamed, once. Then he was gone. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// If you do something bad that effects somebody/ something be responsible and help fix the problem. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this book to kids/teens that enjoy reading books about magic and sorcery, this book has more sorcery than sword fighting and wars. ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Back in tribe, The Bloody Hawk//,// Alanna found a mystery map that has a marked place with unfamiliar, foreign writing, probably to describe how to get to the marked place. Alanna's adopted father, Sir Myles of Olau is intrigued by the writing and sends Alanna to the most well-known and intelligent scholar in the realm. They arrived at common-people's pub to have a rest and to clean up from their 3-day journey when a young well-built Shang Dragon flirts with Alanna, PUTTING THEM BEHIND SCHEDULE!! Coram with a bad temper reminds Alanna of her courier mission, Alanna realizing the importance and how ancient it is she rushes to find this "intelligent" scholar. After hearing the tales of the Dominon Jewel and its protector, Chitral she is mystified and is determined to arrive at Tortall with the Dominon Jewel in her purse. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Alanna and found out that the Dominon Jewel was up in the Roof Of The World where that coldest winds blow chilling a hiker to the bone, I would be devastated but determind because Alanna hates the cold and she MUST return with the Dominon Jewel to (King) Jonathan. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used: "//No wonder he gave me the Jewel," she muttered, sliding down to sit on the rock floor "I'm going to die here anyway." She knew the idea should bother her, but it didn't. Her eyelids were getting heavy, and she barely noticed the cold. Pulling her cloak over her face, she went to sleep. --END OF CHAPTER--. I like this paragraph because Alanna never gives up BUT she almost did, another reason is that it added extra suspense by ending the chapter. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// I learned that bad things happen when you are selfish and do thing on your own, it is best to wait for friends and then seek help. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this book to kids/teens that enjoy a heart warming story with a horrible twists and turns in it, also with trickery and magic. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Author:// R.L. Stine
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Genre:// Fictional horror ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// On a hot Spring day, identical sisters, Kris and Lindy venture outside to the construction site next to their house. While exploring, Lindy finds an old ventriloquist's dummy and decides to rescue it. She calls it Slappy. Lindy is great at ventriloquism. Kris gets jealous. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Kris and saw the dummy move, I would firstly check if I were dreaming so I would pinch myself. Then if I wasn't I would follow the dummy and see what he or she is up to. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Kris because no one believed her when she said "the dummy is alive!" and when Mr. Wood would say horrible words to other people. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used//: It looked like pea soup. It spurted up out of Mr. Woods open mouth like water rushing from a fire hose. Voices screamed and cried out their surprise as the thick, green liquid showered over the people in the front rows. I like this paragraph because it describes the vomit in detail and it uses a simile. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I Learned That:// Never give up, even when people think you are crazy.
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this book to people who like to have a scare, love surprises and have suspense in the novels they read. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Title:// The Barking Ghost
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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Cooper Holmes moves to a new neighbourhood and hears strange howls of a dog. While she searches the woods behind her house she meets a girl called Fergie. Fergie claims the woods and Coopers house is haunted. Cooper and Fergie become the best of friends. While mucking around in the backyard at night, Fergie and Cooper find some strange black dogs and they want them to follow. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I was Fergie and some strange dogs stood up on their hind legs, pushed me into an empty black hole and talked I would ask them really annoying questions so they would let me go. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Cooper and Fergie because they both saw and heard the ghost dogs but nobody else did so they didn't believe them. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used//: I heard her gasp. And then I began to feel warm. As if someone had covered me with a heavy blanket. The warmth swept over my body. Simmering heat. As if I were in an oven. Warmer. Warmer. Until sweat dripped down my face, and I was panting in the heat. I can't stand it anymore! I thought. Im going to //melt//! I opened my mouth to scream. But the sounds that escape my throat weren't mine. In fact, they didn't sound human at all... I like this paragraph because it uses short, sharp sentences that give it suspense and it's like BOOM, BOOM, BOOM one sentence after the other but it still flows. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// Cooper Holmes is almost like me thin, fragile and a scaredy cat but I am not that much of a scaredy cat. (He jumps at every bump in the night!) ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend://I would recommend this book to dog lovers and people that enjoy reading about ghost stories. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Gretchen and her stepbrother, Clark have to go to their grandparents house. Their house is a huge, ancient castle in the middle of a swamp. Grandpa Eddie is totally deaf and Grandma Rose is obsessed with baking. Something is odd about the room upstairs that is supposedly a supply closet. Its locked and strange thumps and howls are coming from inside, and why is grandpa Eddie always taking grandma Roses large amounts of baking up there? ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self//: If I were Gretchen, opened the supply closet and saw the most disgusting creature in my life I would be so scared I wouldn't be able to move or scream. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Gretchen and Clark because when the monster got out their grandparents had left them alone in the castle and they had locked the house from the outside so Gretchen and Clark had no choice but to kill the monster. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used//: I nearly fell into the room. I couldn't move. Couldn't back away. Couldn't take my eyes off him. A living, breathing monster. At least ten feet tall. Standing inside the locked room. I gaped at his big, furry body. A body like a gorilla- with leaves, tree roots and sand tangled in his fur. His head was scaly, with snapping rows of jagged alligator teeth. A foul stench filled the room. The putrid smell of decay. The smell of swamp. I like this paragraph because it describes the monster so disgustingly it feels like as if your there and it makes you feel scared when you read it over and over again. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would not recommend this book to kids who believe in mythical creatures such as monsters because they might get nightmares when they go to their grandparents houses. I would recommend this book to kids who like to read about action such as running, jumping, killing monsters and breaking out of locked houses. ====

====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Mike, his little sister Carly and their dad moved to Shadyside, Fear Street. Fear Street is the scariest street in town, there has been ghost sightings in the graveyard and Fear lake is as cold as Antarctica! They moved to Fear Street because dad had opened a museum, a museum about history's mysteries. Their Uncle Basil sent them a suit of armour supposedly haunted and a present for Mike. When the package arrives the one thing except for the armour is a blue, glowing orb. Later that night, Mike wakes up to hear //THUMP, THUMP, THUMP//. He goes down to investigate and finds Carly banging a broom, trying to give him a scare. But then he sees the armor's eyes glowing, an armor doesn't have eyes or does it? ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Carly and saw Mr. Spellman trying to kill my brother, I would take action and help by distracting Mr. Spellman with one of the pieces of weaponary on the museum walls. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Sir Thomas because he had been trapped in his own pieces of armour by Mr. Spellman who is an evil wizard, since the medieval times. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used:// Direct hit. My bones shook as the mace crashed into my shield. A shower of sparks flew off the shield. And then I heard a horrible cracking sound. I knew it meant only one thing. My crumbling shield wouldn't last much longer. I squeezed my eyes shut. Sir Thomas had won. I like this sentence because it has short, sharp sentences and it leaves you thinking, like a cliffhanger. ==== ====<span style="color: #6b0101; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// Never underestimate people, they might seem smarter than you think they are.
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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Al's family is the smartest family on the block! Even his sister, Michelle's cat is smart. On his birthday all Al wanted was some Skates, he had been leaving hints //everywhere//! But instead his parents got him a chemistry set. Al is miserable, so he decides to try out his chemistry set and stink bomb his sister's chess club. After an embarrassing failure, he takes the stink bomb upstairs. The stink bomb doesn't smell or do anything, it's just OOZE. He and his sisters cat, Chester touches the ooze and they both start to turn dumb. He takes the ooze to school to ask his science teacher but all the kids attending the science bowl touch the ooze and start to turn dumb //as well//! Al is desperate, he needs to get his smarts back before the science bowl starts! ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Al and all of the kids attending the science bowl touched the ooze and turned dumb, I would feel ashamed and guilty because I would feel responsible for the ooze's actions. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Michelle because her cat and brother started to turn dumb and she did not know what was causing the dumbness//.// ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used:// What should I do? What should I do? Think! Think! I told myself. And then it came to me. RUM! I dodged around the oozing alien and ran into the hall. Squish. Squish. I like this paragraph because it is an action scene and the character has to make smart and quick decisions. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// Always obey your parents when they tell not to touch something without permission.
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend//: I would recommend this book to kids who enjoy sci-fi adventures and kids that like to see things go horribly wrong. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Plot:// Alex Hunters parents won an amazing trip to France, but the closest Alex is going to get France is the photos. Alex's destination is Wolf Creek, where his Uncle Colin and Aunt Marta live. Alex thinks Aunt Marta and Uncle Colin are quiet cool, they're professional photographers, just like Alex wants to be. To stay they only have two requests, don't go into the woods at night and stay away from the creepy house next door. Alex just wants to take pictures but now he's going to reveal the secret of Wolf Creek, forever. ====

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====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Text to self:// If I were Hannah and found out that my next door neighbours were werewolves I would be very surprised and shocked that old people can handle something like the curse of being werewolves. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I felt empathy for:// Uncle Colin and Aunt Marta because they have the curse that makes them a werewolf and they are very sad and miserable because of this curse. ==== ====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Language used:// As she whispered those words, my aunt and uncle dropped to their knees. They tossed back their heads. As the white light of the moon washed over their faces, I saw their pain, their horror. They opened their mouths in a long, mournful howls. Their howls became hideous screams. They tore at their hair with both hands. Shut their eyes. And screamed, screamed in agony. "Hannah - what have we done?" I cried. I like this paragraph because it describes their pain in such detail and you don't know what is going to happen next to the people. ====

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//I learned that:// If you try at some things, you have a bigger chance of completing them.
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Recommend:// I would recommend this novel to kids who like gripping stories which get them sitting on the edge of their seat. ====