Reading+Log-+Ayla

 __Reading Log 1 Term 1__ //Title:// The Keeper's Daughter

//Author:// Gill Arbuthnott

//Genre:// Fiction and Adventure

//Plot:// Nyssa- an orphaned girl- went on a journey to help save her long lost brother and set the world free.

//Response:// //I learned that:// you shouldn't give up hope too easily. //I felt empathy for:// Nyssa when her parents died and she got separated from her brother.

__Reading Log 2 Term 1__ <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Title:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Princess Nevermore

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Author:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Dian Curtis Regan

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Fiction, Fantasy

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Quinn- the princess of Mandria- was accidentally transported to the Outer Earth and has to face strangers that seek to do her harm.

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Response:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//I felt empathy for:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Quinn when she had to make a hard decision that broke her heart. <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//I would recommend this book:// <span style="color: #008080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">to anyone who loves magic and fantasy.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">__Reading Log 3 Term 1__ <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Title:// <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Cam's Quest ( the continuing of Princess Nevermore and the wizard's apprentice)

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Author:// <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Dian Curtis Regan

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Fiction, Fantasy

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Cam, the wizard's apprentice, was released of his duties by the wizard so he can figure out his past. While he's in the Outer Earth, Quinn is in Mandria trying to escape the Mandrian truth that she has to choose a husband before her sixteenth birthday.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Response:// //<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">I felt empathy for: // <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Cam because he never knew who his parents were. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">I also felt empathy for Quinn because she always gets told what to do and she has to do it.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">It was very exciting when Quinn ran away so she would have a chance to think through who she is going to marry.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 4 Term 1__ <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Title:// <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">River Secrets

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Author:// <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Shannon Hale

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Razo- lives in the forest with his mother, brothers and his little sister- was sent with other warriors and Enna (the fire- witch to Tira so they could hear the vote if there was going to be war between both cities. As the journey went on burned bodies appeared mysteriously so Razo was to spy on the people of Tira to find out who was burning people.

<span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Response: <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//I learned that:// <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">it doesn't matter how strong you look, you just have to believe that you are... <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//I felt empathy for:// <span style="color: #00ff00; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Enna when she was blamed for the burning the bodies. (which she wasn't)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">__Reading Log 5 Term1__ <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Title:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Nightingale's Song

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Author:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Kate Pennington

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Genre: // <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Mystery, Adventure, Historic fiction

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Maggie Nightingale- spends most of her time singing in the Anchor Inn ( her father's inn)- was taken, when her father died, by a wicked man named Hague who escaped from the hangman's noose in prison. Before that Maggie was forced to come with Hague to get illegal drugs by her father. Cannons blasted at them while they were at sea then they got caught and sent to gaol (jail). There they escaped and hitched a ride on Captain Andrew's boat to go to the New World and renew their lives. But Hague forced Maggie to pretend to be his daughter or else he would kill her. There is trouble though, a prisoner who was sent to be a slave in the New World knows them. In the end Hague was killed and Maggie Nightingale's case was released.

//<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Response: //

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//I felt empathy for:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Maggie because she was threatened to be killed if she didn't obey Hague. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Text to self:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">If I were Maggie I would try my best to escape from Hague. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 6 Term 1__ <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Title:// <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Inkheart

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">// Author: // <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Cornelia Funke

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">// Genre: // <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Fantasy, Adventure and Fiction

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">// Plot: // <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Meggie was surprised to see a stranger outside her house so she called her father. Mo (Meggie's father. Mortimer also known as Mo or Silvertongue.) talked to the stranger named Dustfinger then the next morning Mo woke Meggie and said that they needed to go somewhere. Mo told Meggie what he can do with do with his voice when he reads a book. Mo got caught by Capricorn so Meggie went on a dangerous adventure to free Mo from Capricorn's dungeons.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Response:// <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//I felt empathy for:// <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Meggie because she never knew her mother. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">I also felt empathy for Elinor (Meggie's great aunt) when she went home and found a dead red rooster in her library instead of all her expensive and valuable books. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">//Text to self:// <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">If I were Meggie I would have made up a story on a piece of paper and read it out loud to free her father.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">__Reading Log 1 Term 2__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Inkspell (a sequel to Inkheart)

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Cornelia Funke

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Genre: // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Fantasy, Adventure and Fiction

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Plot: // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Meggie is curios about the Inkworld, then one day Farid (read out of a book by Mo) came to Meggie and begged her to read him into the Inkworld to warn Dustfinger ( a fire eater) about Basta ( one of Capricorn's men). Meggie thought about it and agreed but in one condition, she would come too, just for a day or two. But it all goes wrong when Mo and Resa (Meggie's long lost mother, they saved her from Capricorn as well) was caught by Capricorn's mother ( Mortola or the Magpie) and brought them to the Inkworld. Fenoglio, the writer of Inkheart (in the story) made up some songs, it was about a robber called Bluejay, the problem is he made the character look like Mo. Everyone in the Inkworld thought he was the Bluejay, an imaginary character from a song based on Mo. This story is filled with dangerous twists.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Response: //<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I felt sorry for: // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Meggie because her father got shot. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I would definitely recommend this book:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">to other people. //<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Language used: // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">There are a few sophisticated words in the story.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 2 Term 2__ <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Inkdeath ( the ending of the Inkheart trilogy)

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Cornelia Funke

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Fantasy, Adventure and Fiction

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Life has been not been easy but difficult for Meggie and Mo. The story they are all caught in has taken an unhappy turn. Even Elinor, who believes that she will never see her family again. As Winter comes their only hope is if Meggie and Mo can rewrite the mistakes of the past and make a dangerous deal with death. ( The deal is that Mo, Meggie and Dustfinger will die before Spring if Mo doesn't get rid of the White Book.)

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Response:// //<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I felt empathy for: // <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Mo because he made a deal with Death that he gets rid of the book he binded (for the Adderhead so he can be immortal) before Spring time or else Meggie will die along with Dustfinger and himself.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">This author makes you feel like you're in the story.

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 3 Term 2__ <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// Guardian of the Gate (the second book to the Prophecy of the Sisters

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// Michelle Zink

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Genre:// Historic fiction, Adventure

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// Sixteen year old Lia Milthorpe must go to Altus to look for the missing pages of Book of Chaos, the pages can tell her how to end the prophecy. Her twin sister, Alice, wants to reclaim Lia's role as the Gate and she won't stop until she gets it.

<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Response:// //<span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I feel sorry for: // <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Lia because her best friend, Sonia, was used by the Souls so Lia will be used as the Gate by Samael. <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">When I read this book I felt like I was in the story. <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I would recommend this book:// <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">to other people. <span style="color: #c0c0c0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">This book contains descriptive and sophisticated words.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 4 Term 2__ <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Nancy Drew, girl detective: Serial Sabotage ( book two in a trilogy)

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Carolyn Keene

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Mystery

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Sabotage continues at the River Heights Carnival. On the morning of the Daughter of River Heights parade, the ticket booth cash box was stolen and more mysterious blue notes appear.The biggest problem is everyone is a suspect since they all have a motive. It's up to Nancy and her friends Bess and George to capture the saboteur.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Response:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I like the way the author leaves you hanging. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I felt sorry for:// <span style="color: #800000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">the people who were thought to be the suspects because they got blamed for something they didn't do.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 5 Term 2__ <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Title:// <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Nancy Drew, girl detective: The Stolen Bones

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Author:// <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Carolyn Keene

//<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Genre: // <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Mystery

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Nancy, Bess and George travel to the desert to join a paleontology dig. They were all having fun with the other volunteers until an important find goes missing, a very valuable fossil.

<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Response:// //<span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I felt sorry for: // <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">the people in the paleontology dig because after all their hard work to look for that fossil it went missing all of a sudden. <span style="color: #808000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I also felt sorry for Nancy, Bess and George because they must have been very terrified when somebody put a rattlesnake in their tent at night.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 6 Term 2__ <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Nancy Drew, girl detective: Fishing for Clues

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">//Author:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Carolyn Keene

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Mystery

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Something fishy is going on in River Heights, first a burglar breaks into the Nickersons' home and snatches Ned's digital camera, then a few days later his laptop was stolen. Nancy has a hunch that this is more than a run of bad luck adn she's determined to catch/reel in the crook.

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Response: // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">The author of this book is an amazing writer, she makes it hard for the reader to put their book down and it makes them want to read more and more. <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I learned that:// <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I'm kind of like Nancy Drew, always curious and I like to solve problems and mysteries.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">There are very descriptive words in this book. I would recommend this book for people who like a mystery.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 1 Term 3__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Nancy Drew, girl detective: Trails of Treachery

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Carolyn Keene

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">//Genre:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Mystery

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">Nancy's friend George is competing in a grueling three day mountain-bike race in Costa Rica and her cousin Bess and Nancy (who is not George's cousin) will be there as her support team. But when Nancy finds out someone is taking dangerous steps to make sure the top U.S. cyclist Derek McDaniel doesn't win, she realizes that George may not be the only rider that's in need of help. Whoever the culprit is, they picked the wrong race to sabotage.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Response:// //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I felt empathy for: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">George when she slipped of her bike on top of the mountain and crashed into a boulder. //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">The language used: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">is very descriptive.

<span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 2 Term 3__ <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Season of Secrets

<span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Sally Nicholls

//<span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Genre: // <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Mystery and Myth

//<span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Plot: // <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">On a wild and stormy night, Molly runs away from her grandparents' house. Her dad has sent her to live there until her Sorts Things Out at home. In the howling darkness, Molly sees a stranger running for his life from a terrifying hunt. He has come to help her.

//<span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Response: // <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">This book is sympathetic, touching and funny. <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//The language used:// <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">is English. <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I felt sorry for:// <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Molly when she can't spend much time with her dad because he has too much work to do. <span style="color: #7df971; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I also felt sorry for her when nobody believed her when she said that there was a man who was hurt.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 3 Term 3__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Nancy Drew, girl detective: Bad Times, Big Crimes

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Carolyn Keene

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Genre: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Mystery

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Nancy was sitting with her boyfriend Ned in a lecture then she fell asleep but in her dream she went back to the 1930s. She is in a city hall meeting in her dream ,everyone was wearing 1930s clothing including her, on how to get through the beginning of the Great Depression. Someone's robbing local banks of what little money they have. In the end Nancy catches the thief.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Response:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//The language used:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">is English but it is kind of different and not really used much these days. //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I felt sorry for: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Nancy because she didn't get much sleep, that's why she fell asleep during the lecture.

<span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 4 Term 3__ <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Title:// <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Nancy Drew, girl detective: Mardi Gras Masquerade

<span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Author:// <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Carolyn Keene

<span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Mystery

<span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">What could be more fun than a masked Mardi Gras ball at a so-called haunted mansion? George brings her digital camera, insisting that she is going to bust some ghosts and Nancy is just looking forward to a night of dressing up and dancing with her friends. But the fun turns freaky when things go wrong and everyone is starting to wonder if the ghost stories are true. But when Deirde Shannon's antique tiara is snatched, Nancy is sure that the robber is a guest at the party, not a ghost.

<span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Response:// <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I feel sorry for:// <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Deirde because that tiara wasn't really hers, she just borrowed it, and it got stolen from her. //<span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">The language used: // <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">is English. <span style="color: #e2ae22; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">This book is really good and I think Carolyn Keene is a really great author.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 5 Term 3__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Title:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Before Midnight: Retelling of Cinderella

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Author:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cameron Dokey

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Genre:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fiction, Fairytale

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Plot:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">A Cinderella story with a twist. The step family isn't that bad, the father hates Cendrillion. The prince charming has a long, lost twin but it still has a happy ending.

//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Response: // //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Language used: // <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">is like medieval but still English. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//I felt empathy for:// <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Cendrillon (Cendrillon) because her father hates her and thinks it's her fault that her mother died during her birth.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I liked how the author put the father back into the story unlike the Cinderella movie. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I also quite liked how she used the French version of the name Cinderella, which is Cendrillon. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I really think this book is amazing.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 6 Term 3__ //Title:// Golden: Retelling of Rapunzel

//Author:// Cameron Dokey

//Genre:// Fiction, Fairytale

//Plot:// Before Rapunzel was born her mother usually stared out the window at the delicious rapunzel, in the garden of the sorceress. Rapunzel's father loved her mother so much, he started stealing the rapunzel. He got caught and the mother had to make a dangerous deal with the sorceress Melisande. If she could not love the newborn Rapunzel as she appeared, she would have to hand the child to Melisande. Rapunzel then was born completely bald so her horrified mother sent her away to live with the sorceress. Sixteen years later, Melisande reveals her that she has another daughter, Rue, who was cursed by a wizard long ago. Now Rue needs Rapunzel's help and they precisely two nights and the day that falls between. But it's going to be hard as they both envy each other. Rapunzel let Rue have her name and the new Rapunzel gets saved by a prince and Susan ( the old Rapunzel) lives happily as Susan.

// Response: // //<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Language used: // <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">For a while, though, the point was moot. I was content to stay at the sorceress's side. Wonderful and exotic goods filled the market stalls, or so it seemed to me at the time. Only the fruit and vegetable stalls failed to tempt me. They didn't hold a candle to what we grew at home. Eventually, however, Melisande fell to haggling over the price of needles, and I grew bored. I took one step from her side, and then another. By the time I had taken half a dozen, I had broken the invisible tether that tied me to her and been swallowed up by the crowd. //<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Text to self: // <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I think that Rapunzel did the right thing, to give her name to Rue, because that got helped them lift the curse. //<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I felt empathy for: // <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Rapunzel because the people who saw her bald head and thought she was cursed. I also felt sorry for Melisande because her child has been cursed and she has not been able to see her for a long time. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I learned that:// <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Someday you're just going to have to ask for help. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I recommend this book:// <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">to children who likes books about sorceresss and girls with very long hair and those without, I also recommend this book to teenagers because I think they would find it quite interesting.

<span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 1 Term 4__ <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Title: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Belle: Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

<span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Author: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Cameron Dokey

<span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Genre: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Fiction, Fairytale

<span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Plot: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">The story's the same as the Beauty and the Beast. But it has a few changes like Belle likes wood carving and she longs to find the Heartwood Tree, a tree that if carved with the right hands, it will reveal the face of one's true love. During a fierce storm, Belle's father stumbles upon the mysterious Heartwood and encounters a terrifying and lonely Beast. Now Belle must carve the Heartwood to save her father, and learn to see not with the eyes of her mind, but with the eyes of her heart.

<span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Response: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Language used: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">(Descriptive paragraphs from the book.) <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">My older sister was born at straight-up midnight, on a night so clear and cold it snatched the breath. A night that made the stars burn sharp and bright as knives. The baby's hair was as dark as the arc of heaven overhead, her eyes a blue both fierce and sparkling, like stars. She was named Celestial Heavens and her nickname Celeste. <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">My second sister was born on the first day of the month of April, just as the sun rose over the horizon. Her hair was as golden as the sun's first light, her eyes as green as the meadow that the sun ran through on its way to make the morning. My father, now somewhat prepared for what might come next, took it in quiet stride when my mother named this daughter April Dawn.

<span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">I think these two paragraphs are very descriptive and I can picture these two people in my mind. <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// I felt empathy for: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Belle's father because he had to let his daughter go into the hands of the beast. <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//I learned that:// <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">you should look not with the eyes of the mind but with the eyes of the heart. <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Text to self: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">I think Belle did the right thing by going instead of her father <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// I recommend this book: // <span style="color: #b40cc0; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">to children who likes the movie Beauty and the Beast and likes fairytales.

<span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">__Reading Log 2 Term 4__ <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Title:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Alanna: The First Adventure

<span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Author:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Tamora Pierce

<span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Genre:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Fiction, Medieval

<span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Plot:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">Alanna is ready to go to a ladies school and learn to be a lady and sorceress but instead of wanting what other girls might like she wants to be a knight. On the other hand instead of being a knight her brother wants to become a great sorcerer. So theyswap positions. Alanna pretended to be a twin brother named Alan instead of a twin sister. She made sure her "man at arms", Coram, doesn't realise who she is until they got there. As she starts her training as a page she makes friends and a few enemies. For most of her life she avoided using her Gift but she's going to have to use it to save the only heir of the King and Queen of Tortall, Prince Jonathan, from the Sweating Sickness and also to defeat the Nameless ones in the Black City.

<span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//Response:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">//Language used:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Medieval English. <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">"A slender thread of violet fire snaked through the wall, wrapping itself around Ylira's throat and tightening. The immortal did not even have the chance to scream before she fell to the ground and vanished. Alanna didn't have time to gloat. Three women joined hands to form a deadly-looking triangle. Power collected at the center of their formation in a small, evil ball." <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">I like this paragraph because it is very descriptive and here's another paragraph that I enjoyed. <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">"Jonathan was speaking softly, uttering words she paid no attention to. The fire surrounding him and Alanna blazed, and the girl yelled with triumph. She swung Lightning up and around in a complex move that brought the swords together, hilt to hilt. Ylon's sword shattered with the impact. Alanna slashed at the immortals' linked hands. The globe of yellow-green light exploded, and the two Ysandir screamed with rage and fear. Jonathan uttered one word of command, throwing the last reserves of their Gift into the spell. Blue-violet light flooded over the immortals. They flared up like a giant torch as everything went black." <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// I felt empathy for: // <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">Alanna because she gets beaten up on her first time as training as a page. <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">//I recommend this book:// <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">to children or teenagers who like stories that has medieval (castles, kings, knights, etc.) <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">// Text to self: // <span style="color: #a00834; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 24px;">I think it was pretty brave of Alanna to pretend to be a boy just to be a knight no matter the consequences if she gets caught.