Lacey


 * ==#== || ==Book Title== || ==Author== || ==E, JR, C== || ==Date completed== ||
 * == 1 == || ==The Prince of Fenway Park== || ==Julianna Baggott== || ==C== || AB ||
 * == 2 == || ==Zorgamazoo== || ==Robet.P.Weston== || ==C== ||  ||
 * == 3 == || ==Scat (L)== || ==Carl Hiaasen== || ==JR== ||  ||
 * == 4 == || ==Silverwing== || ==Kenneth Oppel== || ==JR== ||  ||
 * == 5 == || ==Araminta Spookie my Haunted house (L)== || ==Angie Sage== || ==E== || 9/26/11 ||
 * == **//6//** == || ==Geronimo StiltoThe Thea Sisters== || ==Doesn't say== || ==JR== || 10/2/11 ||
 * == 7 == || ==Geronimo Stilton Red Pizzas for a Blue count== || ==Doesn't say== || ==JR== ||  ||
 * ==8== || ==Knights of the Lunch Table== ||  || ==E== || ===9/15/11=== ||
 * ==9== || ==**Goddess girl**== ||  || ==**JR**== ||   ||
 * ==10== || ==**national goegraphics twins**== ||  || ==C== ||   ||

Dear Ms.Seller, I am reading Ellie Mcdoodle. I just started to read it. Have you read it. The little brothers helmet looks like a thing a boy uses in a TV show that I watch. I like this books genra is Fantasy because that stuff reallly cant happen Love Lacey

December 13, 2011 Hi Lacey-

Long time, no write! What have you been reading lately? Over Thanksgiving, I finally picked up the MCBA __Return to Sender__. One of the things I noticed right away that I'm not sure I knew before is that this book is written by a previous MCBA author. Julia Alvarez also wrote one of my favorite heart warming books called __When Tia Lola Came to Visit (or Stay)__. *Very quickly after I started reading __Return to Sender__, I recognized some connections and similarities between the two books. Both books have main characters who are Hispanic. One of the main characters is an 11 year old girl named Mari. She is originally from Mexico, and is struggling with some family problems. She and her family have just moved from North Carolina to Vermont. The main character of __Tia Lola__ is, you guessed it, Tia Lola! Tia in Spanish means "aunt" and Tia Lola comes from the island of the Dominican Republic to visit her niece's family in Vermont. Right away I obviously recognized these two spanish characters in an unlikely setting of snowy, cold Vermont. __Tia Lola__ had a funnier tone or feel to the story as the funny and colorful aunt often embarrased the little boy Miguel. __Return to Sender__ has a more serious tone as Mari's family are illegal aliens and her mother went back to Mexico for a visit and has never returned. Mari has been writing letters to her mother, but not sending them since she doesn't know where she is and doesn't want to risk getting her family in trouble. I think the title __Return to Sender__ refers to what happens to letters that people try to mail to someone that either end up going to the wrong place, or the person doesn't live there anymore, or they forgot to put postage stamps on it. A red stamp like the one below is put on it to show that your letter had to be "returned to sender".



Talk to you soon,

Ms. Sellers:)

PS- Please update your book log! I'm sure you've read something since September!

11/16/11 Dear Lacey,
 * I think you are doing good on your log. I read __Zorgamazoo__ also. Your doing really good with your books because, you have 8 books on your log and that is more then me. I think you sould not care about making the number rainbow.** **Also I think you have to many E's on your log so try not to read to many __esay__ books**.


 * I think __Zorgamazoo__ was a good book. I think it was a little confusing because, all of the rhymes in the book. I want to read __Scat__ but don't tell me what happens. Did you read __HQ__ yet because people say it's a good book I wonder if it is good?**
 * Your friend ,**
 * Ashley**



November 1, 2011

Dear Ms. Sellers,

I have been reading Geronimo Stilton The Amazing Voyage. There are some very interesting characters. Puss and Boots and some other nursery rhyme characters are in this book. There is a dragon with seven scales from each color of the rainbow. There is a character that has a wolf's body and the antlers of reindeer. Six book characters are trying to save their beloved Queen Blossom from the land of nightmares. I wish they could save me too from nightmare The book has 287 pages and I am on page 122 now. I hope to finish the book on vacation. I love Geronimo Stilton books. The books are all so funny. Smiles, Lacey Ps can you send me pictures

October 29, 2011 Hi Lacey- I think your mom is right- that you might not appreciate __The Help__ at your age right now. But maybe when you're older, you will better understand some of the sad and hard things that happen in the book. What else have you been reading lately? Are there any other MCBAs that you are planning on reading? I would love to recommend some books to you- so mayb you can tell me more about the kinds of books that you like to read. Do you like funny books like __Dying to Meet You__? or animal adventures like __Silverwing__? Make sure in this letter that you write to me about a book - even if it's __Sunwing__- and make sure you use a sentence lead! Your friend, Ms. Sellers:) PS- Thanks for the pug picture! He is so cute!!!

October 19 2011 Dear Ms. Sellers, My Aunt read that book to.She said she really liked it. She also saw the movie. My mom said that I probly wouldn't like it and that it would be to hard even if I did like that kid of stuff. I forget who wrote the help. I would love to read it when im older. On a rating 1 through 5 what wuold it be. I would give it a 3 I ownly read part of it so thats what I would rate it so far. from Lacey[|pug_10.jpg]

October 15 ,2011 Dear Lacey- I'm glad that you are also enjoying the "Silverwing" tv show. I enjoy parts of it too, but since I love the Silverwing book sooooo much, it's kind of hard to accept the differences of the tv show. Last weekend I went to see the movie of "The Help". This was based on a book that I read and really enjoyed last spring. We could call this book historical fiction as it takes place in Jackson, Mississippi in 1962. __***The setting of this story is important as it will help us know that this is a Southern town during the Civil Rights movement.**__ This book is told from the point of view of three main and very different characters. (You would recognize this author’s style as our favorite Kenneth Oppel did something similar by having alternating chapters as seen by Shade or Goth, or even Marina in __Sunwing__.) In this book, we see the story through the eyes of a girl named “Skeeter”. No, Skeeter is not her real name, but a nickname. Her real name is Eugenia Phelan. The other two main characters are African-American maids named Minnie and Aibileen.

I knew this book was going to be pretty good because I had a very hard time putting it down. Since each chapter alternated between different characters, I found myself peeking ahead at the end of each chapter! It was really hard when the author left you hanging with something that happened to Minnie, and then moved on to Skeeter. Of course, I can appreciate the author’s style in trying to keep the readers reading. ***I would like to read another book by this author because I enjoyed her story-telling style and really liked the characters she made.** The end of the story was kind of cliffhanger, and I must have really liked the book because I really worried if everything turned out ok for Minnie, Aibileen and Skeeter. The movie was made to be less of a cliffhanger- I guess the movie makers wanted to make everything feel really good in the end!

What are your favorite books, or kinds of books to read? Maybe I can recommend something for you to read!

Your friend in reading,

Ms. Sellers:)

October 7 2011 Yo Ms.Sellers
== We just watched the first two episodes.Whats different about the T.V is Goth pulled out the grate with only one try. One why the show is the same is Marina is still as bossy. I really like the T.V show because their is a lot different than the book because I like to see how some one else imagins it. I hope to see more of the show and write back to you some. ==

Lacey
J

September 27, 2011 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 twelfth 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 J