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Book Title: The Skin I’m In Author: Sharon G. Flake 3. Select 1-2 passage/quotes from the test that hold meaning for you. Explain why you chose the specific passages/quotes, including any significance to the plot, themes, or messages of the book. Passages: p41; I didn’t used to mind being this color. Then kids started teasing [...]

Book Title: Into the Land Of the Unicorns Author: Bruce Coville 6. Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or Why not? -In my opinion, Into The Land Of The Unicorns could be recommended to anyone, not only my friends. It drags the reader into the story with its wonderful plot and characters. [...]

Book Title: Great Expectations Author: Charles Dickens ‘Great Expetations’ is a story of excitement and danger, adventure and murder, but most of all self-discovery. (quoted from the introduction of the book.) As the introduction said, the book is about MURDER!!! (scary, huh?!) Anyways, while I was reading this book, I found a lot of unique [...]

  For this book review, I decided to do a character analysis of Dawn Rochelle, the main character in the book. The basic summary of the book is based on a girl called Dawn Rochelle going through a disease called ‘cancer’. Traits: -Optimistic Evidence: p20; ‘She brushed her long, auburn hair and tied it up [...]

The horror book, Skeleton Man, is a natural for under-the-blanket reading that builds terror on every page. I recommend this book to readers who like to read horror stories. Even though the genre of the book is horror, it also contains a little bit of mystery because in the chapter where the author said that [...]

  Last night, I finally finish the book, ‘Lily B. On the Brink of Cool‘. The story is about a girl called Lily Blennerhassett who likes to record every single thing that happened to her in her diary. The real story starts when Lily meets the cool family at the wedding of her relative. She [...]

From last week, I started to read a book called ‘Dar and the Spear-Trower’. The book is about a Cro-Magnon boy named Dar, who lived fifteen thousand year ago in the region we now call France. In the story, Dar is becoming a man and in his tribe, when a boy becomes a man, he [...]

In our class, we did our Battle of the Books project. It’s called Battle of the Books because we select our favorite books and make posters that introduce the books, and then everybody reads other people’s posters and rank them.  Here is the rankings. 1. Matilda- by Yoo Jeong- author Roald Dahl 2.  Through the [...]

Romeo and Juliet‘s families hated each others very much. But, Romeo and Juliet loved each other much more than that. The story is well known as a tragic ending. However, it also represents a strong LOVE. If I should pick one of the best sotry of Shakespear, I would choose Romeo and Juliet because it [...]

I was interested in the contents and characters. It was about a kingdom called ‘Quadora’ and oneday, princess of the kingdom kidnapped by someone. Then, her father, the king, goes to find her with the math wizard. As time went by, the king’s math skill improved a lot. At last, he read the message from [...]