Laurel

Book Log
Febuary 15, 2013 (6 more days till my birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
 * # || = Book Title = || = Author = || = E, JR, C = || = Date Completed = ||
 * == 1 == || Silverwing || K . O pp e l || ms. sellers is reading || //11/8/12// ||
 * == 2 == || Erec Rex and The Dragons Eye || K a z a K ingsly || JR || **first week of school** ||
 * == 3 == || Erec Rex and The Monsters of Otherness || K a z a K ingsly || JR || //10/3/12// ||
 * == 4 == || Turtle in Paradise || Jennifer H o lm || E || //10/2/12// ||
 * = 5 = || Heart of a Samurai || Margi P reus || JR || **3 week of school** ||
 * = 6 = || Shoot Out || M.Lu p ica || JR ||  ||
 * = 7 = || Mark of Athena || Rick R. || JR || //10/15/12// ||
 * ==** 8 **== || Catching Fire || S.C o llins || JR || //11/6/12// ||
 * == 9 == || Mokingjay || S.C o llins || C || //11/22/12// ||
 * == 10 == || Sunwing || K . O pp el || Ms. sellers is reading ||  ||
 * == 11 == || Dork Diries Tales from a not so popular party girl || R.Russell || E || //12/6/12// ||
 * == 12 == || Dork Diries Tales from a not so talented pop star || R.Russell || E || **December** ||
 * == 13 == || The Friendship Machmaker || R.Abdel-Fattah || JR ||  ||
 * == 14 == || Divergent ||  || C || //1/1/13// ||
 * == 15 == || wariors: in to the wild: book 3 forest of secrets || Erin Hunt e r || JR || //1/13/13// ||
 * == 16 == || sword bird ||  || JR || **january** ||
 * == 17 == || the owl keeper ||  || JR ||   ||

Dear Ms. Sellers

I am starting my next book talk book that I read a long time ago so i am rereading called The Owl Keeper. Its about a boy named Maxwell Unger who lives in 2065 and has the last silver owl living in his back yard. One night a girl named Artimis Rose and i forget her last name. She tells Max that he should call her Rose and that he should be careful about the owl living in the "owl tree"

January 31, 2013

Dear Ms. Sellers

I am going to talk about **__Sunwing__**! I really like it very much! My favroite character is marina because she is head strong, nice, and sassy sometimes. Jake told me a small, itty- bitty, part about her and Shade.... Griffin's their kid. (though I allready thought so...) now I am going to talk about something COMPLETLY off topic. Its about an animae called __**Magic Knight** **Rayearth**__. My favroite character is Fuu. My sister introduced it to me. I really like it.

from Laurel

January 28, 2013 Dear Laurel-

I'm excited to see that you've got into __The Warriors__ series- will you read all the books? I like your observation about the Sandstorm character. She kind of reminds me of Marina:) Do you enjoy fantasy-ish books like Harry Potter? I was thinking of recommending a great fantasy series that also involves CATS to you called - __Midnight for Charlie Bone__. Let me know if you're interested!

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 Ms. Sellers,

I finnished an amazing book called warriors in to the wild book 3 forest of secrets. If I where any character I would be Sandstorm because she is indepentent. one example is when she says this, "Sure you can come. Just not him!" so I think she is great. You should read tis series, its good or if you red it wouldn't you agree! I am doing this book for book talk and I really LOVE it!!! Also the main character is Fireheart.

from Laurel ;)

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 Mrs. Sellers,

I LOVE __Surviving the Applewites__ so far. My favroite character is Cordiela because she is crazy and very good at dancing Ex. page 9 "She was running at first, her wavy auburn hair streeming out behind her, but she started hopping from one foot to another." Anyway she is my favroite. The book is really hard to put down. I really like the cover because it is cool and different. The book I am reading is __Divergent__.

I am reading my sisters book __Divergent__, it is really good. I don't know what genre it is but I think it takes place in the future. There are five factions Amity, Erudite, Abnegaton, Dauntless, and Candor. The main character Beatrice who is an Abnegaton, choses Dauntless and changes her name to Tris. Her friend who transferd from Candor named Christina might be my favroite character because she is smart, brave, silly, and calm. There is a quiz in the back of the book to see what faction your in and I took it and I am Amity. your friend in reading, Laurel:) = = =**Write your letter here......**= Dear Mrs.Sellers, I finished __Heart of a Samurai__ still feel as if I am still reading the book. If I could talk to Manjiro I would say you will be a samurai in your heart, only then will you be a true samurai.Also, I thought this was realistic because it is based off a true story of a japiness man named Manjiro who gets rescued by American whalers.I think you should read this book, its amazing. your friend in reading, Laurel:)

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:)