Elizabeth

=Book Log=
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * == 1 == || **Chomp** || Carl Hiaasen || JR/C || summer 2013 ||
 * == 2 == || **Dragonbreath** || Ursula Vernon || E || summer 2013 ||
 * == 3 == || **Inside Out and Back Again** || Thanhha Lai || JR || Sep. 1 ||
 * == 4 == || **The Trouble With Chickens** || Doreen Cronin || E || June ||
 * == 5 == || **The Lost Children** || Carolyn Cohagan || JR/C || 9/30/13 ||
 * == 6 == || **Emma on thin icing** || Coco Simon || JR || 10/13/13 ||
 * ===** 7 **=== || **I SURVIVED Hurricane Katrina**
 * 2005** || Lauren Tarshis || E || 10/25/13 ||
 * == 8 == || **Jake and Lily** || Jerry Spinelli || JR || 11/18/13 ||
 * == 9 == || **the YGGYSSEY** || Daniel Pinkwater || JR/C || 12/11/13 ||
 * === 10 === || **the Total Tragedy of a Girl named HAMLET** || Erin Dionne || JR/C ||  ||
 * 11 || Flush || Carl Hiaasen || JR/C || Feb. vacation ||
 * 12 || The Hunger Games || Suzanne Collins || C ||  ||

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2/25/14 Hello Ms. Anderson,

I finished Flush over vacation and I started the Hunger Games. But I will tell you about the ending to Flush. But first I will answer will answer your questions. No, Noah and Abby are not alone Shelly is helping them. And yes they did catch Dusty dumping waste, Abby snuck out of the house and got a video of him doing it. But the video was way to dark and shaky you could not make out anything. So, they make a plan to dump the dye so Dusty Muleman will get busted. First Noah gets on the ship and Shelly sneaks him into the bathroom, he starts to dump the dye in the toilets when someone who needs to go to the bathroom starts nocking on the door. She starts to get very violent trying to open the door, when she does Noah was done and ran out before she saw who he was. The sees him and starts to chase him. Just to let you know Abby is on a boat waiting for the signal to go and pick him up. Then Noah jumps over the edge yells the signal but no one comes, he is just floating there waiting for Abby to come when one of the crew members get off the boat on the dock and starts to go toward Noah with a gun. Finally Abby shows up, Noah climbs in the boat and Abby tells him that the boat wont start. As the crew member lifts his gun BOOM!!! The boat starts and they get away. But it doesn't stay like that soon after the boat stops again and this time it wont start, they started to go out to sea. They were there for hours, but soon they see a boat coming toward us. It was their fathers boat! And on with him was this strange guy that they have met before. It was there grandfather who everyone thought had died! (Their dad was not in jail anymore) When they go home they figure out that Dustys ship was still in business because he said he was sorry he dumped waste. Soon the police come again trying to arrest their father again. I guess someone burnt his ship down but he didn't do it. They figured out that Dustys own kid set it on fire. But he didn't mean to. Ya so that's how it ended.

YOUR BEST FRIEND,

ELIZABETH!=)

February 23, 2014 Dear Elizabeth,

Wow! Flush sounds like it is a complicated story! Are Noah and Abby doing this all on their own, or do they have the help of other people? Dusty sounds like a sneaky character. Have they been able to catch Dusty dumping waste into the water? I haven't had a chance to read this book but based on your description I definitely want to check it out! Please keep me posted about what is happening as you keep reading. :)

Awesome job keeping your book log updated, you're the best! I hope that you enjoyed your vacation and I am looking forward to seeing you on Monday.

Miss Anderson


 * 2/4/14**
 * Dear Ms. Anderson,**

I have been reading the book Flush, I'm reading it on my IPad Mini. This book is about a kid named Noah and his little sister Abby trying to prove their father is not guilty. His father thinks that a guy named Dusty Mullan who owns a casino boat is dumping waste into the water. What the father did was sink the guys boat to get back at him, and of course that leads him to jail. A man named Lice Peeking has info about Dusty but he won't tell them unless they give him money. They have to tell him they dont have any money to give him, they say that his father might give him his $20,000 boat, Lice said ok. Noah goes to see his dad in jail and his father said " ok sell the boat." And it turns out that Dusty fired him because he stole his girlfriend named Shelly. Shelly is a nice woman who helps them a little later in the book. A couple of days later Shelly comes over and says that Lice was gone! She told them the whole story. " This stange man came to our door and asked Lice to come outside and talk, when they came back in Lice was as pale as a ghost. Then when I woke up Lice was gone, I found blood stains in the car. I called the police but they couldnt find him." A couple of days later Noah and Abby went to the beach. They saw Shelly was there too. They were about to go swimming but when they looked in the water it was full of waste. They knew it was Dusty who was doing it. They were so mad they made a plan to make Dusty stop dumping waste ( I don't really get the plan). Noah and Abby went to the store and got over 30 cases of dye. When there parents were not home they were going to meet Shelly at the casino boat and dump all the die into the toilets so it would get dumped into the water. I'm not so sure why this plan will work but i'm not that far into the book I will tell you what happens next soon.


 * Your Friend **
 * Elizabeth!!! **

11/14/13 Hey Mrs. Palmieri,

Yes I did go trick or treating even though it was gross outside and I was a zebra for Halloween.

In some ways I'm like Lily, I'm not as out there as Lily, but she and Jake have this thing they like to call Goombla, It's were they feel that when their separate they feel together. Like this time in the book where Jake had a bruise then he looked at it again and it was gone! Then Lily looked at her arm and then she had a bruise on the same arm in the same spot. Kind of creep huh? Then every night on their birthday they would both wake up at the same train station, the same train station that they were born on. Then later in the story Jake becomes friends with her enemy (Bump) Lily is really upset about this because she thinks their Goombla is going away (witch it is) and Jake isn't spending time with her any more. I would be sad too if my brother left me (if I had a brother). All of a sudden her grandfather (Poppy) moved in a couple houses down. Now that Jake doesn't hang out with her any more she goes over Poppy's house a lot, he keeps telling her it should be about Lily not Jake and Lily. Now Jake is apart of this group called the death rays, this includes, Jake, Bump, Nacho, and Burke. They go around town on their bikes and look for Goobers, or maybe even a SUPER GOOBER!!! A goober is a person who has one thing weird about them, but a Super goober they are 100% WEIRD. Soon the death rays found a super goober his name is Ernie, all he does all day is take a hammer and whack at a pile of wood. At first they just stood across the street and laughed at him but one day Ernie finally noticed them and asked if they wanted to come over. They didn't want to say no because goobers are very sensitive. So they walked over and started talking to him. They figured out he was trying to make a club house. A couple days went by and they still went to Ernie's every day until someone (Bump) started to do bad things to the club house like writing words on it then Bump actually knocked down the club house! But Jake took the blame for it. One morning Ernie showed up at his house and he knew Jake didn't do it and Bump did. Good thing Lily finally found a really good friend that's exactly like her, her name is Sydney. I predict that Bump is going to get really mad at Jake. If I could talk to Lily I would say I'm happy you finally got over Jake. I hoped you liked this very long paragraph.

YOUR TOTAL, TOTAL, TOTAL, TOTAL, TOTAL BESTY,

Elizabeth=)

October 31, 2013 Dear Elizabeth,

Happy Halloween! Are you going trick or treating tonight, what are you being?

Im glad that the class decided we should read __Sunwing__ next. I think it makes the most sense while the characters are still fresh in our minds, and I'm sure that people are dying to know what will happen between Shade and Goth and whether or not Shade will find his father, Cassiel, once and for all! You might remember that at the beginning of __Silverwing__ we had alternating chapters from Shade and Marina's perspective and then Goth and Throbb. I will give you a big hint that things get a little more complicated in __Sunwing__, as we end up having Shade chapters, Goth chapters, and Marina chapters! Lots to keep track of. I will also tell you that Chinook is a much more important character in this book then he was in __Silverwing__.

I am glad to hear a little bit about __Jake and Lilly__. I've heard about this book from a few different kids in our class, but I have not read it yet. It sounds interesting. I like that you admire Lilly because she's not afraid to speak her mind. Do you think you are like Lilly? The author of this book,Jerry Spinelli, is a great one and I've read many of his other books. In fact, I actually heard him speak at a teacher conference, and he was not totally what I expected. He likes to write about kids who are different and who don't always fit in. Is that like Lilly in this story?

Your buddy, Mrs. P:)

10/29/13 Hi Mrs. Palmieri

I am now reading __Jake and Lily__. I'm not to far into it so theirs not to much to tell you. Lily thinks that her and Jake are the same in a lot of things but Jake thinks they're more different then the same. If I could talk to both of them I would say that they are both right and they can be different and the same at the same time. The character I like the best is Lily because she's not afraid to what she wants to say even if it means getting in trouble with her parents, like the time were Bump got really mad on the baseball field and she walked over to him to rub it in his face and after she did that she had to sit out too. I'm sorry that I cant tell you more but again I'm not to far in the book so that's all I know.

YOUR TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL BESTY,

Elizabeth=)

10/8/13 Hi Mrs. Palmieri,

Yes, the characters in this book are related, in the end it turns out that **Josiphine** went back in time and **Fargus** is her father! Her dad (**Fargus**) made the rule about everyone else having to wear gloves because he got burned on his hand and he didn't want anyone to ask about it. To let you know, I like all types of books, I like fantasy, adventure, action, and mystery just depends what it's about.

I did start the __Cupcake Diaries__, it's not the best book I've ever read and it's not the worst. The character I dislike the most is Mia and Sydney because Emma is having a lot of problems and she misses a lot of cupcake meetings and its not her falt but Mia doesn't like it, and with Sydney she's kind of the mean girl in the story, and I imagine myself as Emma when they're picking out brides maid dresses and all of a sudden Sydney shows up and tries on their dress that they want and now she wants to buy it, it just makes me so mad I want to scream!!! If I could talk to Sydney I would totally give her a piece of my mind, because she makes me so mad!!! If you end up reading this book you will feel what I feel.

Your total besty, Elizabeth=)

October 5, 2013 Hi Elizabeth,, I have not read __The Lost Children__ so I am eager to hear your thoughts on it. Maybe you could tell me more about some of these characters. Are they related? I looked up a little about the book and I'm wondering if you found out why the characters are made to wear gloves? Seems strange.

I don't know much about __Emma on Thin Icing__ but I believe that many girls read it from my class last year. I would guess that it might be a very different kind of book than __The Lost Children__ which sounds kind of scary and fantasy-ish.

What are your favorite kinds of books to read? Fantasy? Realistic Fiction? Animal Adventure like __Silverwing__?

Your friend in reading, Mrs. P

Hey Mrs. Palmieri,
===I'm reading __The Lost Children__, it's an amazing book! I can't wait to share it with you. The character I like the best is Fargus because, he's more of a silent guy, he just goes with what Josephine and Ida do, and he doesn't really show it but if he wants to he could really do some damage. I predict that Josephine, Fargus, and Ida are going to get captured by the Master because, their all in the Masters manor right now and the Master just found them! This is a REALLY good part, I don't know what's going to happen in the end, I'm excited to tell you more about __The Lost Children.__===

Thank you!!! =)
September 26, 2013 Dear Elizabeth,

I am so excited to be sharing __Silverwing__ with you this year as a read aloud. This is definitely one of my all time favorite books, which is probably why I can’t imagine starting a school year without sharing it with my class. *The genre of this book is definitely fantasy since I don’t believe that bats and owls have wars or detailed adventures together. I also consider this to be a genre of my own invention- called Animal Adventure. I love the character Shade; he’s one of my all time favorites. *If I could talk to Shade, I would ask him if he thinks it was worth it to break the law and see the sun, especially after what happens to his colony as a result. What do you think of __Silverwing__ so far?

Your friend in reading,

Mrs. Palmieri J