The narrator speaks about a young black onion seller named Sam who had a dunkie named Mary Lou and Miss Katherin who fell in love with him and kissed him. This happened 110 years ago and because of that kiss Sam was killed and Kate killed the Serif and applied lipstick before kissing his dead face .She became out loot and she never told anyone where her money was. The After finding out that Zero was digging Stanley's holes the Warden and Mr.Pendanski forbid Stanley to teach Zero by telling him how stupid he is. That is why Zero refuses to dig any more holes and smashes Mr.Pendanski over his face with a shovel. He runs away and no one knows where he is. Stanley tries to help Zero and steals a water truck but he doesn't know how to drive and gets stuck in a hole. He runs away and finds a part of a boat named Mary Lou. Zero was in a hole under the boat and he had many jars of liquid that tasted like peach. They decide to climb up the God's thumb mountain but Zero is weak and sick and soon he passes out so that Stanley has to carry him. They find muddy water and an onion and they eat it. Stanley sings to Zero a song that Mme.Zeroni taught his great-great-grandfather and Zero remembers that his mother sang the same song to him. Stanley and Zero decide to get back a treasure near the hole where Stanley found Kate's lipstick tube. Stanley and Zero find the suitcase but then the lights shine and the Warden appears right in front of them. She couldn’t take the suitcase from them because a deadly lizard was standing on it. The Warden, Mr.Pendanski and Mr. Sir decide to wait until the lizard go away and they come up with a story that they are going to tell to Stanley's lawyer about how he died because they want to kill Stanley and Zero. After the sun comes out the lizard crawls away but Stanley’s lawyer appears with the Attorney General. They take Stanley and Zero away from Camp Green Lake with the suite case and tell Stanley that he has been realized of all the charges. Zero admits that he had committed the crieme that Stanley was accused of but the lawyer pretends that she didn't hear him. Stanley's father finally found the cure for foot odor and Clyde Livingsten advertised it, Zero has found his mother. Everything is well again after Elya Yelnats great-great-grandson in the mountain.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
The Wednesday Wars (ORR 3)
Author: Gary D. Schmidt
Genre: Fiction
Comments: In the pages I red this week, Holling Hoodhood helps Mr. Vendleri change the ceiling tiles, that the two rats, Sycorax and Caliban, who escaped from their cage, have been packing with everything and anything they could find. When they finally managed to take them off and put on new ones, they find a lot of missing things but they still can't capture the rats.
When Holling is assigned to read Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar', he learns a new line. 'Beware the ides of March'. Starting that day, Holling realizes that the school council and the tryouts for the Camillo Junior High School cross-country team are both happening on the ides of march.
Holling gains more respect for Mrs. Baker when she tell him that she won the women's four-by-one hundred relay in the XVIth Olympiad- Melbourne- 1956. So she helps Holling get ready for the tryouts and in return, he decides to coach her how to be a teacher for when the school council comes. He gives her advice like; no teacher jokes because no one ever laughs at teacher jokes, no folding your arms because it looks like you are about to shoot us if we don't know what to say, no rolling your eyes, even if someone says something really stupid. and lastly, congratulating a student when he/she does something right.
With all of that, Hooling beats the record for the fastest student to pass for the tryouts and Mrs. Baker impresses the school council.
After that, Holling and Mrs. Baker go on field trips on every Wednesday when everyone else is either at Temple Beth-El either at Saint Adelbert's. They get closer and become good friends.
Holling's sister, Heather decides to run away from home with her boyfriend and go to California but they argue on the way there and she is alone and doen't know what to do. She calls Holling when she knows that he is the only one who will pick up and they both start crying on the phone. Heather wants to come home but only has 4$ left and a bus ticket to New York costs 44.55$. Holling goes to the bank they next morning and asks for his savings to be sent to the bank the nearest to his sister so she can get home. Whe she arrives at the station in New York, her parents refuse to pick her up and Holling finds a way for Meryl Lee to drop him off, this is perhaps the most touching scene of the entire book and well worth reading.
At the end of the school year, Mrs. Baker receives a letter from Mr. Baker telling her he will be home from war soon and she continues the tradition and takes all of her students camping!
Captain Alatriste
Captain Alastrite
Arturo Perez-Reverte
Action
Captain Alastrite is about a mercenary, a hired assassin. He is in 18th century Spain. The story is told from the view of a small child who accompanies the Captain on his misadventures. In this story the Captain is hired to kill the Prince of England, who is disguised as a merchant. And as the Captain is about to kill him, he finds out the Princes real identity and is forced to kill his former comrades in order to prevent a war between Spain and England. However, because of this, the people who hired him are now set to kill him. And the story tells about how he is hiding from his employers to save another mans life.
I would recommend this book to people who like a action story. It is average length, but everyone speaks differently because it takes place in the 18th century.
Machine Man
Title: Machine Man
Author: Max Barry
Genre: Fiction, Romance
Machine Man, Max Barry's latest book published sometime in late August. The story follows Charles Neumann, an inventor. Trying to go up a lift one day, he gets his leg crushed. Seeing a massive opportunity, Charles crushes his other leg, hands and arms. He is rushed to hospital, where nothing much can be done, he lies in bed with destroyed limbs. Here he meets Lola, who's story he shall share, and he meets them. They want Nemann for his inventions, and this is where the plot gets interesting. Charles is secretly wheeled off to a laboratory high in the mountains, where he begins to, with the help of them, construct mechanical body parts, greater than that of any human's. He see's a brighter future, they see a weapon, and the world see's a madman. In another ward, Lola lies, dying of a broken heart(literally, half her heart doesn't work). Charles watches, and can't help but do something. So, he sets out to create a working, mechanical heart. Slowly though, his madness takes over, and results in loss and tragedy.
I really liked Machine Man, extremely well written, gripping plot-line and an interesting concept. It really does portray one of the things that could happen if we meddle with forces we shouldn't, especially the human body. So, yet again, Barry deserves a place in the greatest authors of all time.
Author: Max Barry
Genre: Fiction, Romance
Machine Man, Max Barry's latest book published sometime in late August. The story follows Charles Neumann, an inventor. Trying to go up a lift one day, he gets his leg crushed. Seeing a massive opportunity, Charles crushes his other leg, hands and arms. He is rushed to hospital, where nothing much can be done, he lies in bed with destroyed limbs. Here he meets Lola, who's story he shall share, and he meets them. They want Nemann for his inventions, and this is where the plot gets interesting. Charles is secretly wheeled off to a laboratory high in the mountains, where he begins to, with the help of them, construct mechanical body parts, greater than that of any human's. He see's a brighter future, they see a weapon, and the world see's a madman. In another ward, Lola lies, dying of a broken heart(literally, half her heart doesn't work). Charles watches, and can't help but do something. So, he sets out to create a working, mechanical heart. Slowly though, his madness takes over, and results in loss and tragedy.I really liked Machine Man, extremely well written, gripping plot-line and an interesting concept. It really does portray one of the things that could happen if we meddle with forces we shouldn't, especially the human body. So, yet again, Barry deserves a place in the greatest authors of all time.
Scorpions
Title: Scorpions
Author: Walter Dean Myers
Genre: non-fiction
Summary:For Jamal a lot of things change, he becomes the leader of the his brothers gang the Scorpions, and acquires a gun. As soon as he acquires a gun, his life changes, at moments he feels much stronger than he was, he feels and believes he can make an impact and get his brother out of Jail. Jamal almost gets caught, when threatening to shoot a student he fought with, lucky he lies his way out of that situation. As the book progresses Jamal realized that the gun has little perks, but more flaws. He learns that he get's into a lot of trouble because of it. Jamal wants to get rid of it but he can't, he has to many problems to resolve with the gang.
Comments: I really Like the Scorpions it's a very interesting book, full of suspense and action. at some moments you really wonder what will happen to Randy(Jamal's brother), Jamal and the rest of the family. This book contains a lot of problems which make it more exciting and pleasant. I give this book a 9/10 because it's very good and interesting.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Fallen
Title: FallenAuthor: Lauren Kate
Genre: Love fiction story
Pages:444
This is the first book of the saga that i am reading i just forgot to write abute it i really like this book it is vary interesting book it talks nearly like the others but it is a little different.Lucinda she is 17 years old and her best friend dided she had a really hard time when she was a little girl because she saw dark shadows that followed her around when she was a little girl.Then Daniel and Lucinda thinks that she already met him somewhere else but she dosent remembered where.but those were only thoughts that come on her mind.fallen is actually called Lighting and Daniel but the author decided it to call it fallen this saga will become a movie very shortly i really like this book and i cant wait for the movie to come out!.
Habibi
Title: Habibi
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Genre: Fiction
Comments:
The next 50 pages of this book is more interesting than the first 50 pages. I believe this is because more drama and action is happening now. I feel like I’m the protagonist in the book, because I’ve experienced everything Liyana is currently experiencing .
The pages I read this week were about the Abbouds settling in a house in Jerusalem. They decided to go shopping and learn about the country more. Since Liyana’s father knows a lot about Jerusalem, he decides to give them a tour around, and he explains the surroundings while they were in the car. The next day her parents sign up Rafick and Liyana to a new school, where everything is different from their old school. In the book, Liyana describes how bad her school is. For example, she isn’t even allowed to wear a ring, “it distracts others from working,” she says. Later that day Liyana and Rafick go to Sitti’s house in the village and decided to sleep there. Strangely, they hear Sitti talking to somebody, they thought she was praying, but when they heard that she believes in spirits and ghosts, they started to get frightened and fell asleep immediately. I found this extremely interesting, I was imagining how I would have felt if I were in their shoes.
My favorite part was reading about how every person in Jerusalem has many relatives that they don’t even know. For example, I read about how an old lady was in the Abboud’s house, and she was waiting for Poppy to buy her a dress. The bible in Jerusalem says that when a family member moves to a country where their relatives are (whether he/she knows that relative or not) they have to buy a dress for them. This was shocking to me. Then I thought; people would waste a lot of money if this was really true in Jerusalem.
The pages I read this week were about the Abbouds settling in a house in Jerusalem. They decided to go shopping and learn about the country more. Since Liyana’s father knows a lot about Jerusalem, he decides to give them a tour around, and he explains the surroundings while they were in the car. The next day her parents sign up Rafick and Liyana to a new school, where everything is different from their old school. In the book, Liyana describes how bad her school is. For example, she isn’t even allowed to wear a ring, “it distracts others from working,” she says. Later that day Liyana and Rafick go to Sitti’s house in the village and decided to sleep there. Strangely, they hear Sitti talking to somebody, they thought she was praying, but when they heard that she believes in spirits and ghosts, they started to get frightened and fell asleep immediately. I found this extremely interesting, I was imagining how I would have felt if I were in their shoes.
My favorite part was reading about how every person in Jerusalem has many relatives that they don’t even know. For example, I read about how an old lady was in the Abboud’s house, and she was waiting for Poppy to buy her a dress. The bible in Jerusalem says that when a family member moves to a country where their relatives are (whether he/she knows that relative or not) they have to buy a dress for them. This was shocking to me. Then I thought; people would waste a lot of money if this was really true in Jerusalem.
Title: Habibi
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Genre: Fiction
Comments:
The 50 pages that I read this week were about Liyana getting used to Jerusalem and her school, and meeting new friends. When I was reading the letter Rafick wrote about Liyana, I realized who she really is, and what kind of person she is. Liyana Abboud is very caring, respectful, unusual, and smart. For example, when her mom and Liyana went to a chicken store, she was observing how the farmers were catching chickens and how they killed them. When she saw them chop the head off the chicken, she became a vegetarian and never ate meat again. She couldn’t stand seeing a living animal die by just one person killing it for money. This shocked me too, I was very sad, and I knew how she felt.
Then she found some new friends; Khaled and Nadin where she met on the street, chasing a chicken. After that, she went to an interesting store, where she found an amazing- looking green lamp. She just had to buy it. However, she looked at the price and couldn’t read it because it was in Arabic. She found her way to find out what it was by asking a very handsome boy named Omar (He liked when people call him Or, because it was shorter). My first thought about this was: “Wow, Liyana found a new friend, this is a great opportunity for her to make more and more friends.” But when Liyana started falling in love with Or, -which I found out by the descriptions of how she describes him- everything changed. A new start is about to begin, and I can’t wait to find out next week!
Then she found some new friends; Khaled and Nadin where she met on the street, chasing a chicken. After that, she went to an interesting store, where she found an amazing- looking green lamp. She just had to buy it. However, she looked at the price and couldn’t read it because it was in Arabic. She found her way to find out what it was by asking a very handsome boy named Omar (He liked when people call him Or, because it was shorter). My first thought about this was: “Wow, Liyana found a new friend, this is a great opportunity for her to make more and more friends.” But when Liyana started falling in love with Or, -which I found out by the descriptions of how she describes him- everything changed. A new start is about to begin, and I can’t wait to find out next week!
Title: Habibi
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Genre: Fiction
Comments:
This week’s reading was incredible. I found every single chapter interesting- maybe because it was all about Liyana getting closer and closer with Omar. I predict that he will be her future boyfriend and I hope so, because the book described so many amazing adventures they had together, and it would just be a pitty if they didn’t get into a relationship. The most romantic part of the book so far was when Omar invited Liyana to drink yogurt (something that both of them liked the most) in a coffee bar. Since the bar didn’t display good songs, he decided to go to a different, bigger place. He showed her the biggest Museum in town, where all kinds of archaeological digs and ancient skulls can be found. I would have loved to be in her place. I mean, imagine seeing all that stuff in real life! However, going to this museum was a bad idea, because Liyana had promised her mom she would stay in the coffee bar with Omar. Once they got back, her mom was waiting impatiently for them to arrive. In Liyana’s place, I wouldn’t have gone to the museum- even if I would miss seeing the most amazing artifacts and mosaics.
Title: Habibi
Author: Naomi Shihab Nye
Genre: Fiction
Comments:
Even though everybody else likes being close to the end of the book, I wasn’t. I was very upset, because this gratifying book was coming to an end. Reading the last 50 pages was most dramatic. Firstly, Poppy gets arrested because he wanted to save Khaled’s life by trying to start a fight with one of the soldiers, because the soldiers injured him- the book didn’t describe why. Secondly, after this disaster Khaled goes to the hospital for a day to get his leg fixed, since it was injured. Once Liyana found all of these things out when Nadine told her, she quickly goes to jail to find her father in one of the cells. She finds out that he will return home by 11:00 PM, and she was relieved by the time he had come. When everything was back to normal, the family needed to visit Sitti in the village for a day, so Liyana figured it would be a great idea to invite Khaled, Nadine and Omar, along with her brother Rafick. I’m not going to talk about all the details that happened in the village, because I would have to start a whole story if I did. They stayed there for a day and returned home. The next day, The Abbouds and Liyana’s friends decided to go out to dinner to celebrate all the things they went through. “Memories are wonders, even the bad and the good onces.”
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