Jake

=Book Log=
 * # || =Book Title= || =Author= || =E, JR, C= || =Date Completed= ||
 * ==1== || Silverwing || K. Oppel || mrs sellers read || 11/8/12 ||
 * ==2== || Mamba Point || k scaletta || JR || 9/28/12 ||
 * ==3== || Darkwing || k oppel || C || 11/14/12 ||
 * ==4== || The Night Fairy || L.Schlitz || E || 11/19/12 ||
 * ==5==

|| Sunwing || k.oppel || mrs sellers read ||  ||
 * ==6== || Percy Jackson 4 the battle of the labyrinth || R.riordan || jr || 12/18/12 ||
 * ==7== || Percy Jackson 5 the last olympian || R.riordan || jr || ????? ||
 * =8= || Firewing || K.oppel || jr || 12/28/12 ||
 * 9 || the lost hero || R.riordan || e || ??????????? ||
 * ===10=== || the son of neptune || R. riodan || c || ??? ||
 * 11 || The Mark Of Athena || R. riordan || c ||  ||
 * 12 || The red pyrimad || R. riordan || jr ||  ||

January 28, 2013
Dear Jake (Pug Master),

I have never read __Freak the Mighty__, but I have read other books by the author Rodman Philbrick. I really enjoy his style of writing and would be interested in reading this book. Did you read the MCBA last year __Homer Figg__- that was written by him. Does __Freak the Mighty__ take place in Maine? I believe he lives in Maine and many of his books take place there?

I'm curious about what book you might want me to read after __Sunwing.__ I would like to read an MCBA. Is there one that you haven't read that you would particularly like to hear? One of the ones I was thinking of doing was __Because of Mr. Terupt__. This was probably one of the favorites I read over the summer. The book is about a fifth grade class, maybe a little like ours. I made a text to text connection between this book and another favorite old MCBA called __Flying Solo__. Both of these books are setup the same way so that every chapter is told from the point of view of a different character. I like this setup because it lets you as the reader know what the different characters are feeling. Sometimes I find this format hard to follow too as you have to keep track of a lot of different characters instead of just a couple.

Have you ever read a book with this kind of format?

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers

====Dear mrs. sellers im just about to finish the 5th percy jackson book. At home i just finished a book called Max the mighty. It is the seaquel to freak the mighty aka my book talk book. Here's the awsome intro i just thought of.====

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A couple boring years after freak dies....... max kidnapps a little girl my sisters age... to save her from her evil stepdad ..... while the cops are after him....and they go on a super awsome suspensful crazy odd creepy funky evil cool hypnotic funny adventure. The only thing i didnt like about my intro and the book is that they were too short .======

=from The Pug Master :O =

====Dear mrs sellers i got a kindle fire for christmas and bought firewing on it and after 3 days, finished it. I liked the book all the way up till the end. Because Shade dies. My favroite part of the book is when luna is like hypnitized by the stream and shade is there and griffins falling in and its all weird. IF I COULD TALK TO SHADE I'D ASK HIM WHY DIDNT HE KILL GOTH BEFORE GOTH ESCAPED THE UNDERWORLD AND GOT HIS LIFE BACK!!!!! The part that confused me is the waterfall because the bats where going up not down. I want Kenneth Oppel to make a companion to Firewing called Goldwing where Griffin is an prince and has to stop Goth, pheinox , and his son deathly dead death the 5th from destroying the northen forests and in the end shade comes back! That would be nice.====

From jake

Dear member of Room 7, I can’t believe that it’s already December and that we are halfway done with our second read aloud of __Sunwing__. You know I love these stories and love the characters- even Goth sometimes! I think the author Kenneth Oppel does a terrific job making you as the reader know the characters really well. We’ve talked a lot about how Shade is impulsive, and that he often “leaps, then looks” which causes many __#|problems__ for him and others through the stories. One place where we see him do this is most recently in __Sunwing__. On page 164, “From behind him came a sudden and intense flash of light, and for a split second it was as if the night had become day. “Don’t look back,” Caliban snapped. Shade looked.” This is such a perfect example of Shade. We can all imagine how hard it is not to do something when someone tells you directly not to do it- but I would think that Shade would’ve been so scared at all that he had been through and would be afraid to see what terrible things would be behind him that he wouldn’t look as Caliban told him to. Shade however has a hard time following rules, and thinking things through. Although, I think we can already see signs that Shade is “growing up” in this second story.

Over vacation, I’m getting ready to read the third book in a Sci Fi series that I’ve really enjoyed. This book is called __Reached__ and it’s written by Ally Condie. The reason I am planning on reading it is that I’ve asked Santa to bring it for Christmas, and there’s nothing I enjoy more on Winter Vacation than curling up with a great new book. There are three main characters in this series- Cassia (the main girl), Ky and Xander. ***The genre of this book is definitely Sci Fi as this book takes place in the future where the government- called “The Society”- gets to make a lot of decisions for you. They pick a job for you, and they even recommend who you should marry. You don’t have to marry that person, but they “match” you with the perfect person. (The first book in the series was called __Matched__.)They also tell you that you may only keep a certain amount of special items or artifacts- and paper is a very special thing which most people are not supposed to have. Can’t wait to hear what you’ve been reading about- write you back after vacation! Love, Ms. Sellers J

Dear Ms. Sellers
I have finally finished the battle of the labyrinth and now im on the last olympian and it is awsome. Anyway, in Surviving the Applewhites I found out how Jake burned down his school. He said "the school went up like a torch". I don't know if this is true or not but i should probably check and see. I also have a prediction. I predict that Jake will catch the butterfly.

Now im gonna talk about the book im reading now is the 5th Percy Jackson Book The Last Olympian. In this book the big giant monster Tyfoon has broken his shakles and kronos is useing it as a distraction to attack olympus AKA the empire state building <=0. It is was very suspensful. Im almost halfway done. the only problem is i dont have anytime to read it.

From Jake

====I havent gotten to update this for a while and now i finaly can! Im reading the 4th Percy Jackson book. its a big book but its just right for me. In this book Percy finds out about a sneak attack on camp through the labyrinth. I also just finished reading Because of Mr. Turrupt.====

from jake

====Dear Ms.Sellers I have finished Darkwing.In the end Carnassial and Panthra get eaten by a young saurain as Dusk and Silfigh escape and go to a poison wood tree their new home. I will begin The Night Fairy for my 4th MCBA tomorrow. Shade and Dusk do have similarities. They are:====


 * 1) Shade and Dusk are both bats (dusk evolved when he was born)
 * 2) They both have a partner who helps them. In Silverwing it is Marina and in Darkwing it is Silfigh.
 * 3) They are both misfits.Shade is a runt and Dusk flies, has echovision, and looks very odd but no one else does so he sticks out alot.
 * 4) They both find new homes.

There are probably more but I can't think of any more. Also about Paradise I predict Shade finds a whole bunch of bats then escapes through the stream with Marina but the room they come out of is full of owls. They go to the other room through the stream but gess whos in that one-Goth! They try to go back but an owl followed them. Goth lunged twords the owl and began attacking it. Shade bites him,Saving the owl and befirending it. then the humans plant an explosive in Shade! Phew all this talk about Sunwing makes me want to read it.

From, The Pug Master, Jake

November 13, 2012 Hi Jake- Thanks so much for __#|your__ first letter. I'm really proud of you for plugging through __Darkwing__ and I'm glad that you are so close to finishing it. Believe it or not, I never finished __Darkwing__! I think I had a hard time getting in to it because Shade wasn't one of the characters and I like him so much. Do you think that the characters of Shade and Dusk have any similarities?

Were you surprised by the ending of __Silverwing__? Can you believe that Goth didn't die when he got struck by lightning. I think the author, Kenneth Oppel, makes the stories more interesting by keeping Goth- the bad guy- alive. The author got me interested in the part that we just left on- when Shade flew right in to the giant human building because he heard bat voices calling to them- but were they real voices, and should Shade have just flown in without being a little more cautious? I loved everyone in our class's reaction- could Goth be inside? could he be calling out? I kind of love it as a teacher when I leave people hanging at the end of the chapter and kids say, "Don't stop reading Ms. Sellers!"

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers :)

Dear Mrs sellers, I am super-duper close to finishing Darkwing.The part I am reading is this part where long-tounged sorsids come into the fallen tree Dusk's colony was sleeping in as they try to get out. Also in Sunwing I noticed that a characters name is Cortez. I am on the part where Chinook gets captured by well ...... (i forget) I tried to backup and reread but I couldnt find the part. I predict Marina will find statue haven.I also predict Goth will be rivived by Zotts. :)

September 26, 2012 Dear Room 7, I’m very excited to hear all your thoughts about what you’re reading on your individual wiki pages. I’ve really enjoyed all your enthusiasm about Silverwing. Even though this is my thirteenth time reading it, I still get really excited about sharing it every year. ** *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. **

Your friend in reading, Ms. Sellers:)