Ms Gelso, I have to separate the book report to two parts because the comment must be at most 4,100 characters
Book report
Title, Author, Genre
The book I read during October is called “The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” and it is the second book of the six, after the “Alchemyst”. The author’s name is Michael Scott and the book was first published on 13 July in 2008 at U.S.A. It’s a science fiction book based on people who had lived in the past and it’s recommended to teenagers and people who have a strong imagination and fantasy.
Summary
Josh and Sophie’s life has changed a lot after that Thursday on June 1st. Sophie’s Awakened powers (by being Awakened means that she can now use her whole brain, the 5 senses are at their maximum and she can control her aura colored silver-something very rear-) have as result to make her much different than her twin brother, whose powers aren’t Awakened even though his aura is stronger (gold). She has already been taught the power of one elemental magic (Air) and she is now in Paris to be taught the magic of Fire by one of her “protector’s” (Nicholas Flamel) students named Saint Germain. When this happens, Dr Dee, the most deadly enemy of Flamel, with an ally, Machiavelli, try to take with their side Josh, who is a very dutifully person, by promising to Awaken him, something that they manage. But Josh escapes having his powers just Awakened.
Main characters
In this book there are many people included who all play a very important role but we can characterize as main ones the following: Josh, Sophie, Nicholas Flamel and Dr Dee. Sophie Newman, a blond girl with expectation to be an archaeologist as her parents, is a very social person who always makes friends and always “protects” her brother because she is by 28 seconds older (something that she keeps telling him even now). With her powers Awakened, she continuously rescues herself and her brother even though she isn’t trained how to do that. In the pages of “the magician” you can realize that Sophie becomes more mature by understanding the severity of the situation and she trusts allies that may help her in the future. Josh Newman, the blond, kind and shy twin brother of Soph (as he calls her), remains as he was in the previous book: closed to himself, difficult to trust people (except for Sophie), but easily to be trusted by people, as Nicholas did when he gave him the two last pages of the most wanted book in the world, the book of “Abraham the Mage” which contains potions that can save the planet. Nicholas Flamel is being characterized in the book as hypocrite, thief, charlatan and big liar, something that he confirms that he was in the past. Flamel in this book shows he has secrets that he has never revealed to anyone, as owing a powerful sword, Clarent. Full of confidence and courage, continues to travel to the whole world trying to protect human race. Finally, Dr Dee, our heroes’ worst nightmare, gains more and more power by having at his side a grey-haired man called Niccolo Machiavelli, the leader of DGSE (General Board of External Security [in French initials]). Together, they try to capture the children and kill Flamel. Their personality is as someone “bad” should be: mistrust against them, sly, fearless (only Machiavelli, because Dee has shown many times fear against Nicholas and his Master) and finally good liars.
In the book of “Abraham the Mage”, there is a prophecy:
When the two that are one and the one that is all have arrived When the sun and moon are united. There will come a time when the Book is taken And the Queen’s man is allied with the Crow. Then the Elder will step out of the Shadows And the immortal must train the mortal. The two that are one must become the one that is all.
This prophecy says that Josh and Sophie, who are the sun and the moon (because of their golden and silver auras), must be united because John Dee, the Queen’s man (he was first working for the Queen) will steal the Book (there will be left to the children only the last two pages), and he will co-operate with Morighan, the Crow Leader. Hecate (the Elder that Awakened Sophie’s powers), died because she stepped out of the Shadows (her home), and the immortal will train the mortals (Nicholas Flamel trains Josh and Sophie).
Recommendations/Warnings
I suggest this book to everyone who is “mad” with science fiction, because I am one of them and without any hesitation I say that I LOVED it!!!
And here is a warning:
If you don’t believe in magic, find yourself not even bother to read this book…
Additional information
For someone who is interested on reading this book, I strongly recommend to read first “The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” which is the first book and then read “The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”.
The third book is called “The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” and it is already at bookstores. The fourth one is “The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”, which has just been published in U.S.A., so you have enough time to read the three ones for the beginning. The other two that complete the series haven’t published yet.
Well, this made me want to read this book! Good Job! I want to ask you how did you hear about this book? The part about the Sophie silver aura (moon) and her brothers golden aura (sun) gave me an inspiration!!!!
The book is about a young girl called Grace who lives in a rural location surrounded by the woods, subject to long, cold winters. Grace enjoys the winter, because she loves to observe the wolves, even though when she was younger she had been attacked by a pack of wolves. Luckily, one of the wolves had saved her; one with amazing yellow eyes which captivated her.
One day at school there is a huge scandal because one of the students was attacked and killed by wolves, so the government decides to shoot the wolves in order to get rid of them. Grace, who is really attached to the wolves, wants to stop the hunters from killing them. She runs to the hunters and lies saying that one of her friends is in the woods, taking pictures of the wolves and that she can get shot.
When the hunters retract, she runs to her house and sees a teenage boy covered in blood on her porch. She recognizes his yellow eyes: captivating, just like the ones from the wolf that had saved her, years before. She brings him to the hospital, but the problem is that the nurses want to find out where he lives and who are his parents so he runs away.
Grace learns that the boy’s name is Sam and decides to hide him in her room so no one finds him. Soon they fall in love, and everything goes well until winter starts again. Now, what Grace doesn’t know is that Sam’s species turns into a wolf with the cold weather. She also doesn’t know that after a certain period of years, his species doesn’t transform back into human form.
Grace and Sam face problems when a boy who has been killed by wolves and becomes a wolf himself, decides to attack Sam and torture him until he finds a potion to make himself human again. Sam and the boy transform into wolfs permanently. Grace and her friend find a remedy that they think would work to reverse the transformation. The boy dies, but Sam runs away after he is injected with the remedy. Sam will see Grace again, but how will he be? Will the remedy have worked or not? …I won’t tell you the rest!!!
Description of the Main characters and how they develop through out the book:
Grace:
Grace, a teenager and one of the main characters, is described in the book as tall and blond. She loves the forest and loves to watch the wolves. During the plot, she demonstrates bravery and loyalty towards Sam. When she stays with him and does everything to keep him warm so that he doesn’t become cold and transform into a wolf. This also shows an act of love. She also defends Sam from a wolf that is about to attack him while he is injured. She even willing searches through dangerous weather to find a solution to restore Sam’s human appearance. Throughout the book, Grace develops a sense of maturity, which goes accompanied by great bravery, whereas in the beginning she was introverted and only opened up when she met Sam in his human form.
Sam:
Sam is another main character. The book describes him as a very tall teenager with brown hair, yellow wolf eyes, and tanned. He is really sensitive when it comes to Grace (his girlfriend). He is also very protective towards her. For example, he was always suspicious about everyone that went near Grace.
He loved her a lot because he didn’t want her to see him transform into a wolf because he knew it was a very painful and scary moment. He also didn’t want to tell her that it might be the last time he would be human because he didn’t want to hurt her. In the begging of the book he was very shy when he had to talk to her, but then they became very close.
Major themes of the book:
The major themes of the book are Love, Hatred, and, Identity. Love is a theme because Grace and Sam both loved each other a lot and had a really strong bond. Hatred is another theme, between the teenage boy, and Grace. The theme of Identity is also found in this book. Sam is confused about being a human and being a wolf at the same time. He also hates himself, on one side because he is confused of who or what he is and on the other, he wants to stay human to be with Grace, giving place to a Character vs. Self conflict.
Recommendation/ Warning:
I recommend this book to girls who enjoy Romance and mystery. The only part that might confuse is how fast the story goes, but personally I enjoyed it very much.
Other Interesting Information:
There are two other books in this trilogy. One is called Linger, which is already out, and the third will come out during the summer of 2011. I am really impatient to read the third one! For those of you who read Shiver, you will be eager to read the rest!!!
Summary This book is one of my favorites for various reasons one of them was that after reading it I noticed how intriguing life is because this book talks about a kids life called Milo, which is horrible but when he receives a weird package his life changes he enters a new world where everything is strange. This journey completely changes his point of view and life. Where he meets various people and creatures. Through this story he learns various things about imagination, using time usefully, perspective, words, sounds, numbers. Milo's closest friend in the Lands Beyond, Tock, is a watchdog. A Dog with a clock for a body. Main Characters and favorite Milo is the main character. Milo, is meant to represent the typical bored child who has everything but wants more. Milo has everything a child wants, any types toys and entertainment, yet he is bored. He finds everything in his life to be completely uninteresting and has a special hate for his schoolwork, since he thinks all of it is useless. He believes that all of what he learns in school is useless in life. The closest friend to Milo in the parallel world is a dog named tock he’s body is a huge clock. In fact he teaches Milo how to use time usefully and to be always prepared. The Humbug completes the trio of travelers, having been sent along as a guide by King Azaz. Humbug is neither smart nor important, and it seems that the harder he tries to be perceived as such, the more foolish he appears. One of my favorite characters even though it wasn’t one of the main characters was Spelling Bee. Though he is a giant bee, the Spelling Bee is a self-taught master of spelling and enjoys randomly spelling the words he hears or speaks. Main themes The main themes of this story are the following: The Value of Education, Appreciating the Things of Everyday Life, Learning to Use Common Sense, Escaping Boredom. We can see the various themes throughout the novel. The first theme The value of education is the major one because Milo enters the imaginary world the word of words and there so of education. The second most important theme is Appreciate the things of everyday life Milo learns how to appreciate everyday because the inhabitants of the city of Reality, for one, begin hurrying about without stopping to appreciate the beauty of their city. As a result, the city slowly crumbled away into nothing. Similarly, the residents of the Valley of Sound become so unappreciative of beautiful sounds that the Sound keeper was compelled to impose utter silence on the whole of the valley. Learning common sense is one of the themes that need to be used in everyday life. Milo learns a lot about common sense because when he is in the parallel world he is in the presence of quite a lot of nonsense. Inhabitants of this fantasyland engage in all sorts of ridiculous behavior, most of which shocks even Milo. This has a good effect on Milo and makes him understand what effects him. Another connected theme with these is Escaping boredom because we have to life we have live with a smile. Warning/recommendations If u like books that are full of imagination or that are just read for fun I certainly recoomend this book after reading this I have added it to my favorites list it is a book even though seems for smaller kids and certainly is for 6 graders but is still really interesting and fun to read. If you think you are a kid who is always happy and never regrets a day in his/her life don’t read it it will be useless but if you are bored once read it it’s an amazing book.
Actually Paloma, the how I found the first book of this series is quite funny. I would leave for summer vacations the next day and I wanted a book. So I told my mum to go to the bookstore to get me a specific book. But it had a similar title (in Greek) with this one and she got me this one. It was the next day that I would leave so I couldn't return it. I read it and it was very interesting, so I took the second one, too. I'm glad also I gave you inspiration for your book report.
Hello!!! During October I read a lovley book "The princess Diares" Mia Goes Forth of Meg cabot It is 195 pages!!!!
It isn't an ordinary book as many other, this is a book that can help you resolve problems in a hard period during Adolescence. The book is written as a diary where the other infact narrates about a story of a normal adolescent that comes to know that she is a princess !!! She dosn't really look like a princess, but she has to still learn many rules about her life as a princess. The books starts With The Princess Amelia Mignotte Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo coming back from her first trip to Genovia. She wants to start her life, finding a person she will love. Mia finaly meets Micheal which seem to be a very nice boy. When they are finally an item let's say,Her grandmother (The Queen) seems to have other plans for her. Infact the princess if wanted she wanted to be so , had to find a man. and her grand mother thought of someone else in her mind prince Renè, Which Mia doesn't really apreciate.Infact during the nove there will be many adventures in trying to reach Mia's objective the one to mary Michel and be a Princess for all her life. She is going to be helped by her best friend Lilly the book will end with a conflict between Mia and her grandmother when Mia says "I wouldn't get together with Renè . He is not my type. He smokes. And he likes gamble.And he has no sympathy whatsover for the plight of giant sea horse". The grandmother started then to look at her from a point of view more gentle and kind. The book let's say finishes in the last 12 pages when she finally gets to know better Michel and start a relationship with him. This book is a sieres book infact the end isn't really clear and for the next semester I am going to read the book number 5. I hope you apreciated it...
hey everyone! for this monthly reading i read a very unique and catching book.....'The Princess Diaries'
it talks about this girl that had various problems during her highschool years because she was too tall, too skinni and not very sociabel. One normal day, the most important news of her life that would have changed her totally arrived..... and this news was that she war a royal princess and that she was the niece of the queen of Genovia ( that is a small village). When she went to meet he grandmother (the queen), she did not know what kind of attitude she had to have. She was not used to know important people, even because she was not even well educated. Once she arrived to Genovia, she got greeted by all the village, the queen was dressed with an amazing and elegant dress wiith a golden croun and cottoned hair. When she came out of the limozine,she was dressed in a very unformal way,with her hair all messed up, with two big pairs of glasses..... the whole world stopped for five minutes, everyone watched at her as if she was an alien. From that day until the cerymony of crowning she had to take lessons on posture, portament speech and all the important manners that a queen should have. At the begginning Mia (the princess and future queen) was a disaster, she did not even know the way toeat with proper manners, but when the days passed, she started to become better and better until becoming a perfect princesss!! Mia started to feel the love and the affection that all genovia had for her, so during one of her parades she invited some girls dressed like princesses (that where orphans) to follow her and some to go on the horse with her! Finnally the day arrived and she was finnally crowned as Princess og Genovia!! From that day on..... her whole life changesd and she will never, ever be tagged as the looser :)
Obviously the path of the story was not very easy, all of her enimies that hated her tryied in every single possible way to make her ridicolize in front of the whole wide world! For example during a party she was changing herselfe and the mean girls got her dresses and she went out only with a towel that coverd her an the paparazzi took photos of hes in that state!! All the people around her were jelous of her exept for her two best frievds that always supported her even in the hard times!
I highly reccomend you all to read this book written as a diary, because it mekes you understand that even thow there are important idols in the world, everyone in the bottom of the heart is caring, and that you should never choose a book as a cover ( choose a friend because she or he is coool)
I hoped you enjoyed reading my summary, and especially I hope that some day even you will read this book and appreciate it as i did!
Hi Title: The chronicles of Vladimir tod: ninth grade slays Author: heather brewer Genre: dark, action, suspense Summary: this is the second book in the series of the Vladimir chronicles,( there is five in the series) after eighth grade bites and is my favourite book in the series so far because if the length and the events that happen. If you want to read this book and keep the secrets DONT READ THE SUMMARY (don’t read the character definition for joss either). Before I start describing the book I’m going to explain several things that happened in the first book and the events in Vlad life before his eighth grade year. First of all Vlad is a vampire, and he lives with his mother’s friend/ aunt (because his mom and Nelly were very close friends). He is a half human half vampire because his dad is a vampire and his mom is human. They died when he was young supposedly from a house fire which only occurred in his parents’ bedroom. His father is an outlaw of Elysia (the vampire world/council) because of being married to a human, and because he is dead they want to punish Vlad for the crime (the punishment is death) so the series is practically about him surviving school and the constant tries to kill him. Because there is too much to explain I’m going to explain things as they come up in the summary. As a second year of knowing about Elysia Vlad is doing pretty good considering the fight with D’Ablo last year. Henrys cousin has moved to Bathory and Vlad can maybe look forward to a new friend to hang out with. This year Vlad find out that he and Otis are going to Siberia to train with one of Thomas’s great friends. There we will find out about the Pravus and celebrate a funeral for his father. Later in the book he will find out that his best friend is his worst enemy, the slayer that D’Ablo hired and the same slayer that Otis warned him about earlier in the book. Anyways he still has bill and tom bullying him every two days plus he has a new person to deal with, Eddie Poe who saw Vlad eyes turn purple during Halloween, so now he is staking him trying to find out what he is and how he will convince everybody else in town. Major Characters: Nelly: Vlad’s guardian. D’Ablo: Vlad’s main enemy. Jasik: D’Ablo’s hired assistant. Otis: Vlad’s uncle. Henry: Vlad’s friend/drudge (human slave, because he bit him). Bill: Vlad’s bully, friends with tom. Tom: Vlad’s bully, friends with bill. Joss: henrys cousin, Vlad’s best friend until he find out joss is a vampire slayer. Meredith: Vlad’s girlfriend at the middle of the book. Vikas: Vlad’s and his dad’s teacher of vampire skills. Eddie: a kid that saw Vlad’s eyes change color and thinks he is some type of monster and tries to find out what he is, we also stalks him when he goes out at night.
Warnings/recommendations: This book is very exciting and has a lot of suspense in it. If you like books with lots of action and a dark theme to it you will really like this book. This book ahs a shocking end to it and it is very tense. If you want to know what happened before this book you should read the first one. I am reading the third one right now and it is very good maybe even better than this one so if you like this you should continue reading the next one. Bye
This comes in two parts. Page 1 Hello By the end of September I finished reading the book, THE PHANTHOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster This is an intriguing book that captures your imagination. SUMMARY Milo, a very bored little boy, receives an unusual package one day: a make- believes tollbooth. When he drives through it in his electric toy car, he is suddenly transported to the Lands Beyond, a fantastic world of imagination. As he journeys along, he found himself in a city named Dictionopolis, one of the country's two capitals. He meets different characters along this adventurous trip and finally he was given the responsibility of rescuing the two princesses of the country who were captured in the castle in the sky, guarded by several demons .He took up the challenge and had other companions that assisted him in his trip .This trip was full of strange creatures and activities. It gave him a great adventure that took him away from his boredom .He finally found and rescue the princesses with the help of Tock and Humbug. Characters The main character, Milo is a little boy who goes through all of his days in a state of horrible boredom. This changes when Milo takes a trip through the mysterious make-believe tollbooth that appears in his bedroom one day. Another character that became his best friend during this adventure in the land beyond was Tock. Below are some characters Milo encountered on his adventure in the land of beyond Tock was a watchdog that joins him on his journey .He was a dog that had big round clocks on both sides of his body. He was always sniffing around to see that people in Doldrums don’t waste time doing nothing, but always on their feet. King Azaz who presides over the world of letters and he sends Milo on a mission to rescue two princesses, Rhyme and Reason, who are imprisoned in the Castle in the Air, which floats hundreds of feet off the ground. He also gives Milo a companion, the Humbug as a guide who always wanted to present himself as a hero, but his entire attempt always failed miserably. Alec Bings, a little boy who floats above the ground because he has not grown down to it yet was meet at the place called the point of view; I really like the description of him because I could imagine the way it looked. In his family, everyone's head stays at exactly the same height their entire lives and their legs grow down until they touch the earth, this was really amazing because they were actually growing from top to bottom, such beings did not exist .This was really abstract and I this was really interesting it made me more curious to see other characters that were still ahead. Other characters in the book were Chroma and his symphony of color. He conducts the orchestra through the colors of the sunset and once he has gone off to bed, decides to try to conduct the sunrise himself. The Mathematician who pulled out numbers from the earth like jewelries and the Spelling Bee who enjoys spelling every word he hears, sees or says.
Page 2 The main theme of this book is how we are able to overcome our boredom. Milo was bored and it became a way of life for him. The unusual package changed his world into seeing and doing things a different way after the adventure of the land beyond. It also showed him that you could create your own imaginary activities sitting right in your room and remove any sense of boredom. Another theme is being educative about things that happened around you. Actually the trip into the land beyond gave him an opportunity to learn a lot of things about life. Being in a place like the doldrums where everybody has a boring schedule of just sitting around, doing nothing, been lazy and just wasting time, they never seem to progress or look forward to anything exciting, so there were no new expectations in life .So he wouldn’t want to be stocked in such a situation neither will he want to be in the mountain of ignorance with so many demons. But relatively he will be more active with the Spelling bee and the Mathematician, spelling words and reciting numbers which is a better activity. The question here is where will you like to be? What kind of activity will you prefer? Lazing around in boredom or exploring your environment? In conclusion after the wonderful adventure, Milo returns to his bedroom to find that only a few minutes have passed. The next day, he hurries home from school with dreams of further adventures only to find the tollbooth gone. All that remains is a note that tells him that he has learned so much that he should be able to find his way to all sorts of fantastic lands without the help of the tollbooth. Milo realizes that there are all sorts of fantastic adventures, even in his own bedroom. All this was possible because when Milo saw the package, he did not just ignore it or threw away, he decide to explore by going into it and this helped in taken away and providing a solution to his long time problem of boredom. He became an excited person way from his very dull life and even though the tollbooth was gone after school, he could still create adventures and interesting stories out of his imagination. To those of you who have not read the book yet this are some warnings/ Recommendations. It may be odd to you if you don’t like imaginary stories. Some parts may not make sense to you as most of the things cannot really be compared to real life. The book has 255 pages and I will say for me it was very interesting. I recommend you read it.
Comment on Alessandro A report I really like the way you interpreted the book into a short interesting summary. I have a question for you. What made you read this book ?
This month managed to read the book called Matilda by Roald Dahl for my book report. This book is a fantasy and a comedy book with lots of lessons to learn. Matilda was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London.
Summary A story about a 4year old adopted girl, who is very genius with magical powers. She unfortunately has very careless and cruel parents who didn’t even notice they had a daughter. They lived in a very nice bid house but they rather were not nice people. They paid no attention to her and didn’t even realize that he is a very bright child. By the time she was 2, she learned how to take care of herself without any help, which people learn when they are about 30 yrs. Every morning, her she saw her brother going to school her dad going to an illegal car selling garage and her mom going out to play bingo. She used to make a nice breakfast for herself alone which made her very independent. By the time she was 4 she had a great interest in reading. She had already read all the magazines in her house. One day, when she asked her dad to buy her a book, her dad insulted her and said to watch TV instead of books which is quicker and asked her to get out of the lounge. The very next day, she found an address to a public library and she started walking to the library every morning to read books. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and a comforting message “You are not alone”. Matilda always was in need of a friend who understood her like in story books she read and wondered. Her dad sold cars with unfair prices. She always got punished for telling the right thing. So, from there she decided to punish her parents. She put some chemicals in to her dad’s hair gel secretly, which made his hair white. When she was reading a book in the lounge while the rest of the family was watching TV loudly he made the lights turn off which made Matilda very angry and she blasted the TV with the power of her eyes. She didn’t know if it was magic or a co incidence. One day her father told her that she was going to school from tomorrow. She was really happy until the next morning she saw the principal of the school Miss Trunchbull. She was a big fat lady who hated kids and had very uneducated and rude personality. Matilda was very terrified when she saw her treating other students. In class, she impressed her teacher Miss honey by multiplying big numbers in head. Miss honey was very impressed with Matilda's personality and she knows that Matilda is a very ingenious girl. Miss honey soon wanted Matilda to be in collage but Matilda's parents didn’t care about it and insulted the teacher. Miss Trunchbul always terrorized students at school. Matilda really appreciated Miss Honey because she was the only one who believed in her and supported her. Matilda found out that Miss Honey was extremely poor and lived in a tiny house. While they were talking, miss honey told Matilda that Miss Trunchbul is her aunt and she owns Miss Trunchbul a lot of money. Miss Trunchbul used to be miss honeys nanny. But, when Miss Honey's father died Miss Trunchbul became her guardian. Matilda found out that Miss Honey left her childhood doll and her father’s picture. So the next day she got all the stuff from her magical powers from miss honeys house where now Miss Trunchbul lived. The next day Matilda wrote with a chalk on the board about the truth of Miss Trunchbul's past and what she did to miss honey and her dad. Miss Trunchbul was so shocked that she fainted and no one ever saw her again. Miss honey goes her house and was happy. However the police found out that Mr. Wormwood was cheating with people. When Matilda got home she saw a tottal chaos. It was obvious that they had to move to Spain,which she didn’t want. She got miss honey and asked if miss honey could adopt Matilda. Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood said yes, and Matilda and miss honey stood happily waiting the car drive away.
She was an ingenious girl and had a bright future which her parents didn’t notice because she lived with careless parents.
Miss Honey
She was a very nice teacher who cared about Matilda and all other students. Miss Trunchbul
A big fat lady who hated kids and was very unfair.
Themes of the story are family education and adventure. These three themes I thought relate to Matilda and her life very well and we should learn a lesson from this story that you should always treat everybody fairly it doesn’t matter if they are not your blood like Matilda wasn’t. Recommendation
I would definitely recommend this book to everybody who believes in stories like this and who wants to eliminate unfairness fro this world of ours.
Book Title: The Titan’s Curse Author: Rick Riordan
Useful information to understand the book This book is the third adventure of a half-blood called Perceus Jackson, son of Poseidon, the lord of the seas so obviously Percy has some power to dominate water, for example he can breathe underwater, he can communicate with water animals, he can control currents etc. Percy has two friends that help him complete his quests. One of his friends is called Grover that is a satyr; the second friend is Annabeth, daughter of Athena. In the second book Thalia Daughter of Zeus joins Percy, Grover and Annabeth in their adventures.
Summary In this adventure Grover discovers two half bloods, which their parent is undefined, so Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia go to the school were this half bloods were. Once there Mr. Thorn (Vice Principal of the Westover School). Bianca and Nico Di Angelo were the two half bloods they were looking for, unfortunately they were kidnapped by Mr. Thorn, that wasn’t a common human, but he was a manticore luckily Annabeth Grover and Thalia went inside the battlefield to help Percy, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough so when they were about to get killed arrows form the forest scared Dr. Thorn and send him away but he also took Annabeth. These arrows were thrown by the hunters, leaded by the goddess Artemis. The co-leader in the hunters is called Zoe Nightshade. While they were staying with the hunters something unexpected happened, Bianca Di Angelo joined the hunters, living his brother Nico alone. After two days of camping with the hunters everybody goes back to Camp Half-Blood where hunters and half-blood are informed that that Artemis went hunting for a ferocious monster and that she has been trapped in he same place were Annabeth was taken. The kids in camp half blood had to do a quest so they went to the oracle that said: “Five shall go west to the Goddess in chains, One shall be lot in the land without rain, The bane of Olympus show the trail, Campers and Hunters combined prevail, The Titan’s Curse must one withstand, And one shall perish by a parent’s hand.” The five chosen ones to go on the quest were Thalia, Grover, Zoe, Bianca, and a third hunter because, hunters can’t fight or live with boys, so Percy is left out for the quest, but the night in which the quest started Percy communicates with a pegasi that takes him flying to the museum were the five integrants were staying, but when he is there they are attacked by twelve skeletons that can’t be killed because when they are sliced, they re-knit together and in that fight one of the hunters is abducted, the others manage to escape and until they reach the gods junkyard, were they are attacked by Talos because they took something and they weren’t supposed to so in them idle of the dessert with no one there to help a fourteen feet tall statue was trying to kill them but when they were a bout to be squashed Bianca entered inside the statues through the a foot and destroyed form the inside, but she died with the statue. After that depressing death, they reached San Francisco (their destination) and they had to go to the mountain from where Zoe was exiled because she helped Hercules get an immortality apple. When they got there the dragon that was guarding bit Zoe in
a side but she said it wasn’t something that mattered, once they founded Artemis they realized she had to hold the sky like Atlas the titan was supposed to but he isn’t because he tricked Artemis to do it when they were there they didn’t know how to free her and they couldn’t think so well because they had to fight Luke and Atlas himself, or Zoe’s dad. Percy tried fighting Atlas while Thalia fighted Luke. After realizing Percy couldn’t with Atlas, he went towards Artemis and told her to give him the sky but it weighed to much for him, still he did it and while Artemis and Atlas were fighting Zoe shot an arrow towards her dad pushing him into the sky and provoking Percy to crumble to trick Atlas to hold the sky. In the other side Thalia defeated Luke and threw him out of a fifty feet cliff, during the fight Atlas had crushed Zoe against a wall and plus the venom she had in her body after the dragon bite caused her to die after living that terrible incident three pegasi took Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, and Percy back to New York, were they went to Olympus and decided what to do with the ferocious monster and Thalia decided to join the hunters before the prophecy affected her, living everything in Percy’s arms…..
Recommendation/Advice This book is the book number three of a sequel of five books called Percy Jackson and The Olympians, so I recommend reading The lightning Thief and The Sea of Monster before reading this because otherwise it would be hard to understand the story. Besides that this is a wonderful story with lots of mystery adventure and it could help a little bit understanding Greek Mythology because it mentions Gods & Goddesses, Titans and mystical tings so besides being a well written book it has lots of interesting things !!!!
Hello Classmates and Ms Gelso! Hope everyone enjoys the 3- Day weekend... Cause I am, except the part with the Internet Problems. Anyways, the book I've read(I think since Oct 26) is "Time Stops for No Mouse" by Michael Hoeye.
Summary:
The story in the book it's about a watchmaker by the name of Hermux Tantamoq. Hermux was silently working in his shop one day until a woman named Ms. Perflinger stepped in his shop. Since that moment, everything changed, Hermux had a crush on her since the first moment. What Ms. Perflinger wanted was her watch fixed that's all. The problem was that she didn't ever came back to get it. So Hermux got worried and tried to get problem solved. When he came back home, Tucka Mertslin has been mad on him because he missed a conference, but he didn't care at all, and he though again about ms Perflinger. He has to go through everything! When his "mission" started was when a rat came in and pretended that he was one of Ms. Perflinger's friend, and that he came to take the clock for her. Of course, Hermux wasn't sure about him, and he didn't allow him to take the clock back. Apparently, Ms. Perflinger was not in the country due an medical mission she had. So Hermux followed the rat. He stopped on the street where Ms. Perflinger lived, and Hermux though he was wrong, the fact is was that he wasn't. When he went into her house, the whole house was a mess. After that Hermux went undercover as Torvin L. Pulmix, a medical assistant. The story goes on and on, until Hermux finded out that Tucka Mertslin, was all behind this.
Hi everybody, the book I read this month is called "Dogs Don't Tell Jokes", By: Louis Sachar.
Gary Boone is called the clown of his class. He never stops joking, nobody laughs much at him because he is not very funny, and he has no real friends at school. He decide to enter in a talent contest as a comedian forces him to look more closely at the effect his humor has on others and on himself. His old friends support him and help him. In the book, he is deciding whether or not he should compete in the contest. At first he decide to quit and not participate but then he changes idea. Later, Gary becomes upset with his image and tries to change himself. He befriends Joe, a popular kid in his class, and spends time playing football with him, he is also starting to collect baseball cards, when he tells his parents about the contest and the decisions he made, they tell him to take 100$ if he doesn’t tell jokes. Gary is very nervous on the night of the talent competition. His friend Joe makes sure he can compete, but he is placed last. When it is Gary's turn, he wets his pants due to his nervousness and excitement. He makes a mistake during the beginning, and soon he forgets his part. Luckily, two kids who have picked on Gary, come and spray water and throw pies at him. This allows Gary to start over. His comic routine runs smoothly and he manages to surprise the audience by showing them his new shaved head. Gary wins $100 and he is respected by his classmates.
I recommend you to read this book because it is a very beautiful and nice book to read. I hope you liked my summery!, it is a very fun and interesting book to read.
hello!!! the book that i read during october it's called "boy" by roald dahl it's a great book.
Dahl's parents were Norwegians who lived in Cardiff, Wales. His father, Harald, and his brother Oscar decided to split up and go their separate ways from Paris, his uncle went to La Rochelle. His father had lost an arm from complications after fracturing it: according to the book a doctor was summoned, however the doctor was drunk on arrival and mistook the injury for a dislocated shoulder. His attempt to relocate the shoulder caused further damage to the fractured arm, causing it to later be amputated. He had two children from his first wife, Marie, who had died shortly after the birth of their second child. He then married Sophie Magdalene Hesselberg, Roald's mother. Roald's father was more than twenty years older than his mother; he was born in 1863 and she was born in 1885. By the time Roald was born in 1916, his father was 53 years old. Roald's older sister Astri died of appendicitis in 1920 at the age of 7, when Roald was only three years old. His father died of pneumonia two months later at the age of 57. This tragedy came shortly before the birth of his mother's fifth and final child a girl. Roald moved to St Peter's School, a boarding school in Weston-super-Mare, at the age of nine. He attended from 1925 to 1929. The most significant event during his time at St Peter's was a caning by the headmaster in which he was given six strokes after he was wrongly accused of cheating during an assignment.One time he sprinkled soap shavings into the mouth of a boy who was snoring. She also sent a six-year-old boy who allegedly threw a sponge across the dormitory down to the headmaster in his pyjamas and dressing gown, as a result of which he received six strokes of the cane. A boy in Roald's dormitory sprinkled sugar over the corridor floor and the matron walked through it. The boy was lucky enough to get away with it because none of his friends would turn him in. The whole school had to go hungry when the headmaster decided to confiscate food parcels coming from the boys' home as punishment for the sprinkled sugar.
I really liked this book and i hope you liliked my summery!
hello everyone!!! I'm sorry for the lateness, but my internet had some tecnical problems. however, I would like to talk to you about the book I read during this last month: Matilda
The book “Matilda” was written by Roald Dahl. The book is about a little girl whose name is Matilda. She lived with her family, Mr and Mrs Wormwood, who adobted her. Mr. Wormwood owns a second-hand car garage and cheats people all day. At daytime, Mrs. Wormwood is at the bingo outside town. She spends almost the entire day there. As Matilda grow up, she would go down to the library and spend her day sitting there, reading. She could spend the entire day there because her parents didn’t want her to go to school, until she was five and a half years old. Only at that age she had the opportunity to go to school for the first time. The school was called Crunchem Hall Primary School. The head teacher was called Miss Trunchbull, very mean and vecious person, heated by everyone in the school. The first day of school, Miss Honey, Matilda’s teacher, tested the class in the two-times table and the smart girl, Matilda,said the whole two-times table, even up to two times twenty-eight, then Miss Honey had to stop her. Miss Honey also asked if the girl could do two times four hundred and eighty-seven, and Matilda answered correctly immediately. Miss Honey was shocked that a little girl was so smart, so after the class was over, Miss Honey went to Miss Trunchbull’s class to tell her about Matilda, but since Miss Trunchbull was an awful person and she hated children, she immediately said no to Miss Honey that wanted to ask Miss Trunchbull if Matilda could move up some classes because of her smartness... The principal also said no because Matilda’s father told her that Matilda was a little brat. The following night, Miss Honey went to talk to Matilda’s parents that couldn’t understand what Miss Honey is talking about, because they never noticed Matilda and her intelligence. Miss Honey tried to convince Mr. Wormwood that Matilda was a genius, but he was sure that Matilda was ingenuous and nothing could change that.
The next day, Miss Trunchbull was going to test Matilda’s class in the weekly test they had. Lavender (Matilda’s new frined)had secretly put a newt in Miss Trunchbull’s water glass. Therefore, when Miss Trunchbull was going to drink the water,she saw the newt,screamed and blamed Matilda for putting the newt there. When Miss Trunchbull thought to expel her, Matilda really got mad. She felt her eyes become very hot, and suddenly she managed to tip the glass with her eyes. Miss Honey said that everybody could go home, but Matilda stayed. She told Miss Honey that she was the one who tipped the glass over, and she showed it to Miss Honey. Matilda and Miss Honey went home to Miss Honey’s house to talk about Matilda’s powers and Matilda found out that Miss Honey was extremely poor, and lived in a very tiny house. When they were talking, she told Matilda that Miss Trunchbull was her aunt and that Miss Honey ownd Miss Trunchbull a lot of money. Miss Trunchbull used to be Miss Honey’s nanny, but when Miss Honey’s father died Miss Trunchbull became her guardian. Matilda discovered that Miss Honey’s father was named Magus, and Miss Trunchbull first name was Agata. The next day, they were having their weekly test. Miss Trunchbull asked a boy a question, and he couldn’t answer. Miss Trunchbull grabbed the boy’s ears and lifted him up in the sky. It was that moment that Matilda started her plan. She got the chalk to write on the blackboard:“Agata, this is Magnus. It is Magnus. And, you better believe it. Agata, give my Jenny back her house. Give my Jenny her wages. Then get out of there. If you don’t I will come and get you like you got me. I am watching you Agata.” Miss Trunchbull was so shocked that she fainted and no one ever saw Miss Trunchbull again. However, the police had found out about that Mr. Wormwood was cheating people. So when Matilda got home, everything was a totally chaos, and they were obviously moving to Spain. Matilda didn’t want that, and Miss Honey was happy to adopt Matilda.
hello again!!!! I decided to include also some descriptions of the main protagonists...
First of all, Matild the protagonist: Brave, corageous, smart, loving, magic and minuscule can describe the intelligent girl that Matilda, the protagonist, is... With her cunning, she had the ability to put a side her greedy principal, MissTrunchbull. As shown in the picture, Matilda loved reading. Since little she would go to the librery and read many books in one week... Because so smart, was very loved by her teacher, Miss Honey, who wanted her to go to the next grade, but didn’t go because her principal didn’t want...
Miss Trunchbull:was the vicious, terrible, and mean principal of the poor Matilda. Every student in the school was afraid of her and nobody had the courage of saing it to their parents, because they all knew that the parents wouldn’t belive at them... Also, Miss Trunchbull was Miss Honey’s aunt, but the onlyone to know was Matilda. Nobody noticed this fact because the two persons wouldn’t even talk to each other, and lived in different houses...
Miss Honey:was the gentle, kind, calm, and quiet teacher of Matilda. As the time passed, she understood that the little Matilda was a real genious, so she decided to send her to the next grade, but Miss Honey’s aunt, Miss Trunchbull didn’t want to let her change class… From when the principal said “No” she used her speciall skill: Magic… She would always make bad jokes at her principal how would get very mad… At the end of the book, the protagonist goes to live with her adorable teacher…
Mr. Harry Wormwood:was the small ratty looking man with buck teeth who continuously weard loud checkered shirts with yellow or green ties. His work was selling used cars in his own garage, by it self, but eventually only one person could join the “spectacular bussiness”: His son Michael. An example of a particular day was him buying one car for 118 dollars and selling it for 760 dollars, and going so on, in one day he would have earned $4303.50. When one day he brought his son, Micheal, and Matilda, this last was so upset of hia father’s job that she used her made him a trick... She had putten glue in Mr. Wormwood’s hat , so that, to take it off he had to shave off all his hair...
Mrs.Zinnia Wormwood: wasn’t so different from his husband. She was a fat, young lady that would always cover her face of makeup. Her natural hair colour was mousy brown, but she had colored them blonde with “Plantium Hair Dye Extra Strong”, that even his husband had used because of Matilda’s trick... She would go five days a week at the bingo, playing and earning lot of money, like his husband that would go to his “garage” and sellused cars at the price of new ones. She would spend the entire day at the bingo wanting to earn more and more money... Mrs. Zinnia Wormwood isn’t a common victim of Mtilda’s tricks because sometimes she is kind and gentle Matilda...
Michael Wormwood was the older brother of the surprending girl, Matilda. As his parents, spetially his father, he was very mean and care less to Matilda. One morning, Matilda argued with his brother on the meal and decided to show him her magic skills: with her eyes she made a carot fly over him, making him scare...
Answer to fizah's comment you used to describe my book report and say that you're was a funny book which I have read I have chose this book at the begining for the cover it had even though you aren't suposed to do this the cover page had an impact on me. I have to say that like most books it had a boring introduction because it has to explain about the history of milo as you now he is a bored kid. I had a question for yours who was you're favorite character?
Ms Gelso, I have to separate the book report to two parts because the comment must be at most 4,100 characters
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Title, Author, Genre
The book I read during October is called “The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” and it is the second book of the six, after the “Alchemyst”. The author’s name is Michael Scott and the book was first published on 13 July in 2008 at U.S.A. It’s a science fiction book based on people who had lived in the past and it’s recommended to teenagers and people who have a strong imagination and fantasy.
Summary
Josh and Sophie’s life has changed a lot after that Thursday on June 1st. Sophie’s Awakened powers (by being Awakened means that she can now use her whole brain, the 5 senses are at their maximum and she can control her aura colored silver-something very rear-) have as result to make her much different than her twin brother, whose powers aren’t Awakened even though his aura is stronger (gold). She has already been taught the power of one elemental magic (Air) and she is now in Paris to be taught the magic of Fire by one of her “protector’s” (Nicholas Flamel) students named Saint Germain. When this happens, Dr Dee, the most deadly enemy of Flamel, with an ally, Machiavelli, try to take with their side Josh, who is a very dutifully person, by promising to Awaken him, something that they manage. But Josh escapes having his powers just Awakened.
Main characters
In this book there are many people included who all play a very important role but we can characterize as main ones the following: Josh, Sophie, Nicholas Flamel and Dr Dee.
Sophie Newman, a blond girl with expectation to be an archaeologist as her parents, is a very social person who always makes friends and always “protects” her brother because she is by 28 seconds older (something that she keeps telling him even now). With her powers Awakened, she continuously rescues herself and her brother even though she isn’t trained how to do that. In the pages of “the magician” you can realize that Sophie becomes more mature by understanding the severity of the situation and she trusts allies that may help her in the future.
Josh Newman, the blond, kind and shy twin brother of Soph (as he calls her), remains as he was in the previous book: closed to himself, difficult to trust people (except for Sophie), but easily to be trusted by people, as Nicholas did when he gave him the two last pages of the most wanted book in the world, the book of “Abraham the Mage” which contains potions that can save the planet.
Nicholas Flamel is being characterized in the book as hypocrite, thief, charlatan and big liar, something that he confirms that he was in the past. Flamel in this book shows he has secrets that he has never revealed to anyone, as owing a powerful sword, Clarent. Full of confidence and courage, continues to travel to the whole world trying to protect human race.
Finally, Dr Dee, our heroes’ worst nightmare, gains more and more power by having at his side a grey-haired man called Niccolo Machiavelli, the leader of DGSE (General Board of External Security [in French initials]). Together, they try to capture the children and kill Flamel. Their personality is as someone “bad” should be: mistrust against them, sly, fearless (only Machiavelli, because Dee has shown many times fear against Nicholas and his Master) and finally good liars.
Major Themes
ReplyDeleteIn the book of “Abraham the Mage”, there is a prophecy:
When the two that are one and the one that is all have arrived
When the sun and moon are united.
There will come a time when the Book is taken
And the Queen’s man is allied with the Crow.
Then the Elder will step out of the Shadows
And the immortal must train the mortal.
The two that are one must become the one that is all.
This prophecy says that Josh and Sophie, who are the sun and the moon (because of their golden and silver auras), must be united because John Dee, the Queen’s man (he was first working for the Queen) will steal the Book (there will be left to the children only the last two pages), and he will co-operate with Morighan, the Crow Leader. Hecate (the Elder that Awakened Sophie’s powers), died because she stepped out of the Shadows (her home), and the immortal will train the mortals (Nicholas Flamel trains Josh and Sophie).
Recommendations/Warnings
I suggest this book to everyone who is “mad” with science fiction, because I am one of them and without any hesitation I say that I LOVED it!!!
And here is a warning:
If you don’t believe in magic, find yourself not even bother to read this book…
Additional information
For someone who is interested on reading this book, I strongly recommend to read first
“The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” which is the first book and then read “The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”.
The third book is called “The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel” and it is already at bookstores. The fourth one is “The Necromancer: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel”, which has just been published in U.S.A., so you have enough time to read the three ones for the beginning. The other two that complete the series haven’t published yet.
Thank you for reading!!!
Well, this made me want to read this book! Good Job!
ReplyDeleteI want to ask you how did you hear about this book?
The part about the Sophie silver aura (moon) and her brothers golden aura (sun) gave me an inspiration!!!!
Part One!
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By Maggie Stiefvater
Genre:
Mystery, Suspense, Romance.
Summary:
The book is about a young girl called Grace who lives in a rural location surrounded by the woods, subject to long, cold winters. Grace enjoys the winter, because she loves to observe the wolves, even though when she was younger she had been attacked by a pack of wolves. Luckily, one of the wolves had saved her; one with amazing yellow eyes which captivated her.
One day at school there is a huge scandal because one of the students was attacked and killed by wolves, so the government decides to shoot the wolves in order to get rid of them. Grace, who is really attached to the wolves, wants to stop the hunters from killing them. She runs to the hunters and lies saying that one of her friends is in the woods, taking pictures of the wolves and that she can get shot.
Part Two!
ReplyDeleteWhen the hunters retract, she runs to her house and sees a teenage boy covered in blood on her porch. She recognizes his yellow eyes: captivating, just like the ones from the wolf that had saved her, years before. She brings him to the hospital, but the problem is that the nurses want to find out where he lives and who are his parents so he runs away.
Grace learns that the boy’s name is Sam and decides to hide him in her room so no one finds him. Soon they fall in love, and everything goes well until winter starts again. Now, what Grace doesn’t know is that Sam’s species turns into a wolf with the cold weather. She also doesn’t know that after a certain period of years, his species doesn’t transform back into human form.
Grace and Sam face problems when a boy who has been killed by wolves and becomes a wolf himself, decides to attack Sam and torture him until he finds a potion to make himself human again. Sam and the boy transform into wolfs permanently. Grace and her friend find a remedy that they think would work to reverse the transformation. The boy dies, but Sam runs away after he is injected with the remedy. Sam will see Grace again, but how will he be? Will the remedy have worked or not? …I won’t tell you the rest!!!
Description of the Main characters and how they develop through out the book:
Grace:
Grace, a teenager and one of the main characters, is described in the book as tall and blond. She loves the forest and loves to watch the wolves. During the plot, she demonstrates bravery and loyalty towards Sam. When she stays with him and does everything to keep him warm so that he doesn’t become cold and transform into a wolf. This also shows an act of love. She also defends Sam from a wolf that is about to attack him while he is injured. She even willing searches through dangerous weather to find a solution to restore Sam’s human appearance. Throughout the book, Grace develops a sense of maturity, which goes accompanied by great bravery, whereas in the beginning she was introverted and only opened up when she met Sam in his human form.
Sam:
Sam is another main character. The book describes him as a very tall teenager with brown hair, yellow wolf eyes, and tanned. He is really sensitive when it comes to Grace (his girlfriend). He is also very protective towards her. For example, he was always suspicious about everyone that went near Grace.
He loved her a lot because he didn’t want her to see him transform into a wolf because he knew it was a very painful and scary moment. He also didn’t want to tell her that it might be the last time he would be human because he didn’t want to hurt her. In the begging of the book he was very shy when he had to talk to her, but then they became very close.
Major themes of the book:
The major themes of the book are Love, Hatred, and, Identity. Love is a theme because Grace and Sam both loved each other a lot and had a really strong bond. Hatred is another theme, between the teenage boy, and Grace. The theme of Identity is also found in this book. Sam is confused about being a human and being a wolf at the same time. He also hates himself, on one side because he is confused of who or what he is and on the other, he wants to stay human to be with Grace, giving place to a Character vs. Self conflict.
Recommendation/ Warning:
I recommend this book to girls who enjoy Romance and mystery. The only part that might confuse is how fast the story goes, but personally I enjoyed it very much.
Other Interesting Information:
There are two other books in this trilogy. One is called Linger, which is already out, and the third will come out during the summer of 2011. I am really impatient to read the third one! For those of you who read Shiver, you will be eager to read the rest!!!
Now it is your turn to comment:
What do you think will happen next?
The Phantom Tollbooth
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Book report
Summary
This book is one of my favorites for various reasons one of them was that after reading it I noticed how intriguing life is because this book talks about a kids life called Milo, which is horrible but when he receives a weird package his life changes he enters a new world where everything is strange. This journey completely changes his point of view and life. Where he meets various people and creatures. Through this story he learns various things about imagination, using time usefully, perspective, words, sounds, numbers. Milo's closest friend in the Lands Beyond, Tock, is a watchdog. A Dog with a clock for a body.
Main Characters and favorite
Milo is the main character. Milo, is meant to represent the typical bored child who has everything but wants more. Milo has everything a child wants, any types toys and entertainment, yet he is bored. He finds everything in his life to be completely uninteresting and has a special hate for his schoolwork, since he thinks all of it is useless. He believes that all of what he learns in school is useless in life.
The closest friend to Milo in the parallel world is a dog named tock he’s body is a huge clock. In fact he teaches Milo how to use time usefully and to be always prepared.
The Humbug completes the trio of travelers, having been sent along as a guide by King Azaz. Humbug is neither smart nor important, and it seems that the harder he tries to be perceived as such, the more foolish he appears.
One of my favorite characters even though it wasn’t one of the main characters was Spelling Bee. Though he is a giant bee, the Spelling Bee is a self-taught master of spelling and enjoys randomly spelling the words he hears or speaks.
Main themes
The main themes of this story are the following: The Value of Education, Appreciating the Things of Everyday Life, Learning to Use Common Sense, Escaping Boredom. We can see the various themes throughout the novel. The first theme The value of education is the major one because Milo enters the imaginary world the word of words and there so of education. The second most important theme is Appreciate the things of everyday life Milo learns how to appreciate everyday because the inhabitants of the city of Reality, for one, begin hurrying about without stopping to appreciate the beauty of their city. As a result, the city slowly crumbled away into nothing. Similarly, the residents of the Valley of Sound become so unappreciative of beautiful sounds that the Sound keeper was compelled to impose utter silence on the whole of the valley. Learning common sense is one of the themes that need to be used in everyday life. Milo learns a lot about common sense because when he is in the parallel world he is in the presence of quite a lot of nonsense. Inhabitants of this fantasyland engage in all sorts of ridiculous behavior, most of which shocks even Milo. This has a good effect on Milo and makes him understand what effects him. Another connected theme with these is Escaping boredom because we have to life we have live with a smile.
Warning/recommendations
If u like books that are full of imagination or that are just read for fun I certainly recoomend this book after reading this I have added it to my favorites list it is a book even though seems for smaller kids and certainly is for 6 graders but is still really interesting and fun to read.
If you think you are a kid who is always happy and never regrets a day in his/her life don’t read it it will be useless but if you are bored once read it it’s an amazing book.
Answer to Paloma's comment
ReplyDeleteActually Paloma, the how I found the first book of this series is quite funny. I would leave for summer vacations the next day and I wanted a book. So I told my mum to go to the bookstore to get me a specific book. But it had a similar title (in Greek) with this one and she got me this one. It was the next day that I would leave so I couldn't return it. I read it and it was very interesting, so I took the second one, too. I'm glad also I gave you inspiration for your book report.
These book reports are looking great! I have several books I am adding to my own "to read" list!
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ReplyDeleteDuring October I read a lovley book "The princess Diares" Mia Goes Forth of Meg cabot It is 195 pages!!!!
It isn't an ordinary book as many other, this is a book that can help you resolve problems in a hard period during Adolescence.
The book is written as a diary where the other infact narrates about a story of a normal adolescent that comes to know that she is a princess !!!
She dosn't really look like a princess, but she has to still learn many rules about her life as a princess.
The books starts With The Princess Amelia Mignotte Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo coming back from her first trip to Genovia.
She wants to start her life, finding a person she will love.
Mia finaly meets Micheal which seem to be a very nice boy. When they are finally an item let's say,Her grandmother (The Queen) seems to have other plans for her. Infact the princess if wanted she wanted to be so , had to find a man. and her grand mother thought of someone else in her mind prince Renè, Which Mia doesn't really apreciate.Infact during the nove there will be many adventures in trying to reach Mia's objective the one to mary Michel and be a Princess for all her life. She is going to be helped by her best friend Lilly
the book will end with a conflict between Mia and her grandmother when Mia says "I wouldn't get together with Renè . He is not my type. He smokes. And he likes gamble.And he has no sympathy whatsover for the plight of giant sea horse".
The grandmother started then to look at her from a point of view more gentle and kind.
The book let's say finishes in the last 12 pages when she finally gets to know better Michel and start a relationship with him.
This book is a sieres book infact the end isn't really clear and for the next semester I am going to read the book number 5.
I hope you apreciated it...
hey everyone!
ReplyDeletefor this monthly reading i read a very unique and catching book.....'The Princess Diaries'
it talks about this girl that had various problems during her highschool years because she was too tall, too skinni and not very sociabel. One normal day, the most important news of her life that would have changed her totally arrived..... and this news was that she war a royal princess and that she was the niece of the queen of Genovia ( that is a small village). When she went to meet he grandmother (the queen), she did not know what kind of attitude she had to have. She was not used to know important people, even because she was not even well educated. Once she arrived to Genovia, she got greeted by all the village, the queen was dressed with an amazing and elegant dress wiith a golden croun and cottoned hair. When she came out of the limozine,she was dressed in a very unformal way,with her hair all messed up, with two big pairs of glasses..... the whole world stopped for five minutes, everyone watched at her as if she was an alien. From that day until the cerymony of crowning she had to take lessons on posture, portament speech and all the important manners that a queen should have. At the begginning Mia (the princess and future queen) was a disaster, she did not even know the way toeat with proper manners, but when the days passed, she started to become better and better until becoming a perfect princesss!! Mia started to feel the love and the affection that all genovia had for her, so during one of her parades she invited some girls dressed like princesses (that where orphans) to follow her and some to go on the horse with her! Finnally the day arrived and she was finnally crowned as Princess og Genovia!! From that day on..... her whole life changesd and she will never, ever be tagged as the looser :)
Obviously the path of the story was not very easy, all of her enimies that hated her tryied in every single possible way to make her ridicolize in front of the whole wide world! For example during a party she was changing herselfe and the mean girls got her dresses and she went out only with a towel that coverd her an the paparazzi took photos of hes in that state!! All the people around her were jelous of her exept for her two best frievds that always supported her even in the hard times!
I highly reccomend you all to read this book written as a diary, because it mekes you understand that even thow there are important idols in the world, everyone in the bottom of the heart is caring, and that you should never choose a book as a cover ( choose a friend because she or he is coool)
I hoped you enjoyed reading my summary, and especially I hope that some day even you will read this book and appreciate it as i did!
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ReplyDeleteTitle: The chronicles of Vladimir tod: ninth grade slays
Author: heather brewer
Genre: dark, action, suspense
Summary: this is the second book in the series of the Vladimir chronicles,( there is five in the series) after eighth grade bites and is my favourite book in the series so far because if the length and the events that happen. If you want to read this book and keep the secrets DONT READ THE SUMMARY (don’t read the character definition for joss either).
Before I start describing the book I’m going to explain several things that happened in the first book and the events in Vlad life before his eighth grade year.
First of all Vlad is a vampire, and he lives with his mother’s friend/ aunt (because his mom and Nelly were very close friends). He is a half human half vampire because his dad is a vampire and his mom is human. They died when he was young supposedly from a house fire which only occurred in his parents’ bedroom. His father is an outlaw of Elysia (the vampire world/council) because of being married to a human, and because he is dead they want to punish Vlad for the crime (the punishment is death) so the series is practically about him surviving school and the constant tries to kill him. Because there is too much to explain I’m going to explain things as they come up in the summary.
As a second year of knowing about Elysia Vlad is doing pretty good considering the fight with D’Ablo last year. Henrys cousin has moved to Bathory and Vlad can maybe look forward to a new friend to hang out with. This year Vlad find out that he and Otis are going to Siberia to train with one of Thomas’s great friends. There we will find out about the Pravus and celebrate a funeral for his father. Later in the book he will find out that his best friend is his worst enemy, the slayer that D’Ablo hired and the same slayer that Otis warned him about earlier in the book. Anyways he still has bill and tom bullying him every two days plus he has a new person to deal with, Eddie Poe who saw Vlad eyes turn purple during Halloween, so now he is staking him trying to find out what he is and how he will convince everybody else in town.
Major Characters:
Nelly: Vlad’s guardian.
D’Ablo: Vlad’s main enemy.
Jasik: D’Ablo’s hired assistant.
Otis: Vlad’s uncle.
Henry: Vlad’s friend/drudge (human slave, because he bit him).
Bill: Vlad’s bully, friends with tom.
Tom: Vlad’s bully, friends with bill.
Joss: henrys cousin, Vlad’s best friend until he find out joss is a vampire slayer.
Meredith: Vlad’s girlfriend at the middle of the book.
Vikas: Vlad’s and his dad’s teacher of vampire skills.
Eddie: a kid that saw Vlad’s eyes change color and thinks he is some type of monster and tries to find out what he is, we also stalks him when he goes out at night.
Warnings/recommendations:
This book is very exciting and has a lot of suspense in it. If you like books with lots of action and a dark theme to it you will really like this book. This book ahs a shocking end to it and it is very tense. If you want to know what happened before this book you should read the first one. I am reading the third one right now and it is very good maybe even better than this one so if you like this you should continue reading the next one.
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Hello
By the end of September I finished reading the book, THE PHANTHOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster
This is an intriguing book that captures your imagination.
SUMMARY
Milo, a very bored little boy, receives an unusual package one day: a make- believes tollbooth. When he drives through it in his electric toy car, he is suddenly transported to the Lands Beyond, a fantastic world of imagination.
As he journeys along, he found himself in a city named Dictionopolis, one of the country's two capitals. He meets different characters along this adventurous trip and finally he was given the responsibility of rescuing the two princesses of the country who were captured in the castle in the sky, guarded by several demons .He took up the challenge and had other companions that assisted him in his trip .This trip was full of strange creatures and activities. It gave him a great adventure that took him away from his boredom .He finally found and rescue the princesses with the help of Tock and Humbug.
Characters
The main character, Milo is a little boy who goes through all of his days in a state of horrible boredom. This changes when Milo takes a trip through the mysterious make-believe tollbooth that appears in his bedroom one day. Another character that became his best friend during this adventure in the land beyond was Tock. Below are some characters Milo encountered on his adventure in the land of beyond
Tock was a watchdog that joins him on his journey .He was a dog that had big round clocks on both sides of his body. He was always sniffing around to see that people in Doldrums don’t waste time doing nothing, but always on their feet.
King Azaz who presides over the world of letters and he sends Milo on a mission to rescue two princesses, Rhyme and Reason, who are imprisoned in the Castle in the Air, which floats hundreds of feet off the ground. He also gives Milo a companion, the Humbug as a guide who always wanted to present himself as a hero, but his entire attempt always failed miserably.
Alec Bings, a little boy who floats above the ground because he has not grown down to it yet was meet at the place called the point of view; I really like the description of him because I could imagine the way it looked. In his family, everyone's head stays at exactly the same height their entire lives and their legs grow down until they touch the earth, this was really amazing because they were actually growing from top to bottom, such beings did not exist .This was really abstract and I this was really interesting it made me more curious to see other characters that were still ahead.
Other characters in the book were Chroma and his symphony of color. He conducts the orchestra through the colors of the sunset and once he has gone off to bed, decides to try to conduct the sunrise himself. The Mathematician who pulled out numbers from the earth like jewelries and the Spelling Bee who enjoys spelling every word he hears, sees or says.
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ReplyDeleteThe main theme of this book is how we are able to overcome our boredom. Milo was bored and it became a way of life for him. The unusual package changed his world into seeing and doing things a different way after the adventure of the land beyond. It also showed him that you could create your own imaginary activities sitting right in your room and remove any sense of boredom.
Another theme is being educative about things that happened around you. Actually the trip into the land beyond gave him an opportunity to learn a lot of things about life. Being in a place like the doldrums where everybody has a boring schedule of just sitting around, doing nothing, been lazy and just wasting time, they never seem to progress or look forward to anything exciting, so there were no new expectations in life .So he wouldn’t want to be stocked in such a situation neither will he want to be in the mountain of ignorance with so many demons. But relatively he will be more active with the Spelling bee and the Mathematician, spelling words and reciting numbers which is a better activity. The question here is where will you like to be? What kind of activity will you prefer? Lazing around in boredom or exploring your environment?
In conclusion after the wonderful adventure, Milo returns to his bedroom to find that only a few minutes have passed. The next day, he hurries home from school with dreams of further adventures only to find the tollbooth gone. All that remains is a note that tells him that he has learned so much that he should be able to find his way to all sorts of fantastic lands without the help of the tollbooth. Milo realizes that there are all sorts of fantastic adventures, even in his own bedroom. All this was possible because when Milo saw the package, he did not just ignore it or threw away, he decide to explore by going into it and this helped in taken away and providing a solution to his long time problem of boredom. He became an excited person way from his very dull life and even though the tollbooth was gone after school, he could still create adventures and interesting stories out of his imagination.
To those of you who have not read the book yet this are some warnings/ Recommendations. It may be odd to you if you don’t like imaginary stories. Some parts may not make sense to you as most of the things cannot really be compared to real life. The book has 255 pages and I will say for me it was very interesting. I recommend you read it.
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ReplyDeleteI really like the way you interpreted the book into a short interesting summary.
I have a question for you.
What made you read this book ?
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ReplyDeleteHi Ms Gelso and class fellows!
This month managed to read the book called Matilda by Roald Dahl for my book report. This book is a fantasy and a comedy book with lots of lessons to learn. Matilda was published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London.
Summary
ReplyDeleteA story about a 4year old adopted girl, who is very genius with magical powers. She unfortunately has very careless and cruel parents who didn’t even notice they had a daughter. They lived in a very nice bid house but they rather were not nice people. They paid no attention to her and didn’t even realize that he is a very bright child. By the time she was 2, she learned how to take care of herself without any help, which people learn when they are about 30 yrs. Every morning, her she saw her brother going to school her dad going to an illegal car selling garage and her mom going out to play bingo. She used to make a nice breakfast for herself alone which made her very independent. By the time she was 4 she had a great interest in reading. She had already read all the magazines in her house. One day, when she asked her dad to buy her a book, her dad insulted her and said to watch TV instead of books which is quicker and asked her to get out of the lounge. The very next day, she found an address to a public library and she started walking to the library every morning to read books. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and a comforting message “You are not alone”. Matilda always was in need of a friend who understood her like in story books she read and wondered. Her dad sold cars with unfair prices. She always got punished for telling the right thing. So, from there she decided to punish her parents. She put some chemicals in to her dad’s hair gel secretly, which made his hair white. When she was reading a book in the lounge while the rest of the family was watching TV loudly he made the lights turn off which made Matilda very angry and she blasted the TV with the power of her eyes. She didn’t know if it was magic or a co incidence.
One day her father told her that she was going to school from tomorrow. She was really happy until the next morning she saw the principal of the school Miss Trunchbull. She was a big fat lady who hated kids and had very uneducated and rude personality. Matilda was very terrified when she saw her treating other students. In class, she impressed her teacher Miss honey by multiplying big numbers in head. Miss honey was very impressed with Matilda's personality and she knows that Matilda is a very ingenious girl. Miss honey soon wanted Matilda to be in collage but Matilda's parents didn’t care about it and insulted the teacher. Miss Trunchbul always terrorized students at school. Matilda really appreciated Miss Honey because she was the only one who believed in her and supported her.
Matilda found out that Miss Honey was extremely poor and lived in a tiny house. While they were talking, miss honey told Matilda that Miss Trunchbul is her aunt and she owns Miss Trunchbul a lot of money. Miss Trunchbul used to be miss honeys nanny. But, when Miss Honey's father died Miss Trunchbul became her guardian. Matilda found out that Miss Honey left her childhood doll and her father’s picture. So the next day she got all the stuff from her magical powers from miss honeys house where now Miss Trunchbul lived. The next day Matilda wrote with a chalk on the board about the truth of Miss Trunchbul's past and what she did to miss honey and her dad. Miss Trunchbul was so shocked that she fainted and no one ever saw her again. Miss honey goes her house and was happy. However the police found out that Mr. Wormwood was cheating with people. When Matilda got home she saw a tottal chaos. It was obvious that they had to move to Spain,which she didn’t want. She got miss honey and asked if miss honey could adopt Matilda. Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood said yes, and Matilda and miss honey stood happily waiting the car drive away.
The Main Characters
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She was an ingenious girl and had a bright future which her parents didn’t notice because she lived with careless parents.
Miss Honey
She was a very nice teacher who cared about Matilda and all other students.
Miss Trunchbul
A big fat lady who hated kids and was very unfair.
Themes of the story are family education and adventure. These three themes I thought relate to Matilda and her life very well and we should learn a lesson from this story that you should always treat everybody fairly it doesn’t matter if they are not your blood like Matilda wasn’t.
Recommendation
I would definitely recommend this book to everybody who believes in stories like this and who wants to eliminate unfairness fro this world of ours.
Book Title: The Titan’s Curse
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Useful information to understand the book
This book is the third adventure of a half-blood called Perceus Jackson, son of Poseidon, the lord of the seas so obviously Percy has some power to dominate water, for example he can breathe underwater, he can communicate with water animals, he can control currents etc. Percy has two friends that help him complete his quests. One of his friends is called Grover that is a satyr; the second friend is Annabeth, daughter of Athena. In the second book Thalia Daughter of Zeus joins Percy, Grover and Annabeth in their adventures.
Summary
In this adventure Grover discovers two half bloods, which their parent is undefined, so Percy, Annabeth, and Thalia go to the school were this half bloods were. Once there Mr. Thorn (Vice Principal of the Westover School). Bianca and Nico Di Angelo were the two half bloods they were looking for, unfortunately they were kidnapped by Mr. Thorn, that wasn’t a common human, but he was a manticore luckily Annabeth Grover and Thalia went inside the battlefield to help Percy, but unfortunately it wasn’t enough so when they were about to get killed arrows form the forest scared Dr. Thorn and send him away but he also took Annabeth. These arrows were thrown by the hunters, leaded by the goddess Artemis. The co-leader in the hunters is called Zoe Nightshade. While they were staying with the hunters something unexpected happened, Bianca Di Angelo joined the hunters, living his brother Nico alone. After two days of camping with the hunters everybody goes back to Camp Half-Blood where hunters and half-blood are informed that that Artemis went hunting for a ferocious monster and that she has been trapped in he same place were Annabeth was taken. The kids in camp half blood had to do a quest so they went to the oracle that said:
“Five shall go west to the Goddess in chains,
One shall be lot in the land without rain,
The bane of Olympus show the trail,
Campers and Hunters combined prevail,
The Titan’s Curse must one withstand,
And one shall perish by a parent’s hand.”
The five chosen ones to go on the quest were Thalia, Grover, Zoe, Bianca, and a third hunter because, hunters can’t fight or live with boys, so Percy is left out for the quest, but the night in which the quest started Percy communicates with a pegasi that takes him flying to the museum were the five integrants were staying, but when he is there they are attacked by twelve skeletons that can’t be killed because when they are sliced, they re-knit together and in that fight one of the hunters is abducted, the others manage to escape and until they reach the gods junkyard, were they are attacked by Talos because they took something and they weren’t supposed to so in them idle of the dessert with no one there to help a fourteen feet tall statue was trying to kill them but when they were a bout to be squashed Bianca entered inside the statues through the a foot and destroyed form the inside, but she died with the statue. After that depressing death, they reached San Francisco (their destination) and they had to go to the mountain from where Zoe was exiled because she helped Hercules get an immortality apple. When they got there the dragon that was guarding bit Zoe in
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ReplyDeletea side but she said it wasn’t something that mattered, once they founded Artemis they realized she had to hold the sky like Atlas the titan was supposed to but he isn’t because he tricked Artemis to do it when they were there they didn’t know how to free her and they couldn’t think so well because they had to fight Luke and Atlas himself, or Zoe’s dad. Percy tried fighting Atlas while Thalia fighted Luke. After realizing Percy couldn’t with Atlas, he went towards Artemis and told her to give him the sky but it weighed to much for him, still he did it and while Artemis and Atlas were fighting Zoe shot an arrow towards her dad pushing him into the sky and provoking Percy to crumble to trick Atlas to hold the sky. In the other side Thalia defeated Luke and threw him out of a fifty feet cliff, during the fight Atlas had crushed Zoe against a wall and plus the venom she had in her body after the dragon bite caused her to die after living that terrible incident three pegasi took Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, and Percy back to New York, were they went to Olympus and decided what to do with the ferocious monster and Thalia decided to join the hunters before the prophecy affected her, living everything in Percy’s arms…..
Recommendation/Advice
This book is the book number three of a sequel of five books called Percy Jackson and The Olympians, so I recommend reading The lightning Thief and The Sea of Monster before reading this because otherwise it would be hard to understand the story. Besides that this is a wonderful story with lots of mystery adventure and it could help a little bit understanding Greek Mythology because it mentions Gods & Goddesses, Titans and mystical tings so besides being a well written book it has lots of interesting things !!!!
Hello Classmates and Ms Gelso!
ReplyDeleteHope everyone enjoys the 3- Day weekend... Cause I am, except the part with the Internet Problems. Anyways, the book I've read(I think since Oct 26)
is "Time Stops for No Mouse" by Michael Hoeye.
Summary:
The story in the book it's about a watchmaker by the name of Hermux Tantamoq. Hermux was silently working in his shop one day until a woman named Ms. Perflinger stepped in his shop. Since that moment, everything changed, Hermux had a crush on her since the first moment. What Ms. Perflinger wanted was her watch fixed that's all. The problem was that she didn't ever came back to get it. So Hermux got worried and tried to get problem solved. When he came back home, Tucka Mertslin has been mad on him because he missed a conference, but he didn't care at all, and he though again about ms Perflinger. He has to go through everything! When his "mission" started was when a rat came in and pretended that he was one of Ms. Perflinger's friend, and that he came to take the clock for her. Of course, Hermux wasn't sure about him, and he didn't allow him to take the clock back. Apparently, Ms. Perflinger was not in the country due an medical mission she had. So Hermux followed the rat. He stopped on the street where Ms. Perflinger lived, and Hermux though he was wrong, the fact is was that he wasn't. When he went into her house, the whole house was a mess. After that Hermux went undercover as Torvin L. Pulmix, a medical assistant. The story goes on and on, until Hermux finded out that Tucka Mertslin, was all behind this.
Hi everybody, the book I read this month is called "Dogs Don't Tell Jokes", By: Louis Sachar.
ReplyDeleteGary Boone is called the clown of his class. He never stops joking, nobody laughs much at him because he is not very funny, and he has no real friends at school. He decide to enter in a talent contest as a comedian forces him to look more closely at the effect his humor has on others and on himself. His old friends support him and help him. In the book, he is deciding whether or not he should compete in the contest. At first he decide to quit and not participate but then he changes idea. Later, Gary becomes upset with his image and tries to change himself. He befriends Joe, a popular kid in his class, and spends time playing football with him, he is also starting to collect baseball cards, when he tells his parents about the contest and the decisions he made, they tell him to take 100$ if he doesn’t tell jokes. Gary is very nervous on the night of the talent competition. His friend Joe makes sure he can compete, but he is placed last. When it is Gary's turn, he wets his pants due to his nervousness and excitement. He makes a mistake during the beginning, and soon he forgets his part. Luckily, two kids who have picked on Gary, come and spray water and throw pies at him. This allows Gary to start over. His comic routine runs smoothly and he manages to surprise the audience by showing them his new shaved head. Gary wins $100 and he is respected by his classmates.
I recommend you to read this book because it is a very beautiful and nice book to read.
I hope you liked my summery!, it is a very fun and interesting book to read.
I think that Tomas' book sounds very interesting because I enjoy reading greek legends.
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ReplyDeletethe book that i read during october it's called "boy" by roald dahl it's a great book.
Dahl's parents were Norwegians who lived in Cardiff, Wales. His father, Harald, and his brother Oscar decided to split up and go their separate ways from Paris, his uncle went to La Rochelle. His father had lost an arm from complications after fracturing it: according to the book a doctor was summoned, however the doctor was drunk on arrival and mistook the injury for a dislocated shoulder. His attempt to relocate the shoulder caused further damage to the fractured arm, causing it to later be amputated. He had two children from his first wife, Marie, who had died shortly after the birth of their second child. He then married Sophie Magdalene Hesselberg, Roald's mother. Roald's father was more than twenty years older than his mother; he was born in 1863 and she was born in 1885. By the time Roald was born in 1916, his father was 53 years old.
Roald's older sister Astri died of appendicitis in 1920 at the age of 7, when Roald was only three years old. His father died of pneumonia two months later at the age of 57. This tragedy came shortly before the birth of his mother's fifth and final child a girl.
Roald moved to St Peter's School, a boarding school in Weston-super-Mare, at the age of nine. He attended from 1925 to 1929. The most significant event during his time at St Peter's was a caning by the headmaster in which he was given six strokes after he was wrongly accused of cheating during an assignment.One time he sprinkled soap shavings into the mouth of a boy who was snoring. She also sent a six-year-old boy who allegedly threw a sponge across the dormitory down to the headmaster in his pyjamas and dressing gown, as a result of which he received six strokes of the cane. A boy in Roald's dormitory sprinkled sugar over the corridor floor and the matron walked through it. The boy was lucky enough to get away with it because none of his friends would turn him in. The whole school had to go hungry when the headmaster decided to confiscate food parcels coming from the boys' home as punishment for the sprinkled sugar.
I really liked this book and i hope you liliked my summery!
hello everyone!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for the lateness, but my internet had some tecnical problems.
however, I would like to talk to you about the book I read during this last month: Matilda
The book “Matilda” was written by Roald Dahl. The book is about a little girl whose name is Matilda. She lived with her family, Mr and Mrs Wormwood, who adobted her. Mr. Wormwood owns a second-hand car garage and cheats people all day. At daytime, Mrs. Wormwood is at the bingo outside town. She spends almost the entire day there. As Matilda grow up, she would go down to the library and spend her day sitting there, reading. She could spend the entire day there because her parents didn’t want her to go to school, until she was five and a half years old. Only at that age she had the opportunity to go to school for the first time. The school was called Crunchem Hall Primary School. The head teacher was called Miss Trunchbull, very mean and vecious person, heated by everyone in the school. The first day of school, Miss Honey, Matilda’s teacher, tested the class in the two-times table and the smart girl, Matilda,said the whole two-times table, even up to two times twenty-eight, then Miss Honey had to stop her. Miss Honey also asked if the girl could do two times four hundred and eighty-seven, and Matilda answered correctly immediately. Miss Honey was shocked that a little girl was so smart, so after the class was over, Miss Honey went to Miss Trunchbull’s class to tell her about Matilda, but since Miss Trunchbull was an awful person and she hated children, she immediately said no to Miss Honey that wanted to ask Miss Trunchbull if Matilda could move up some classes because of her smartness... The principal also said no because Matilda’s father told her that Matilda was a little brat. The following night, Miss Honey went to talk to Matilda’s parents that couldn’t understand what Miss Honey is talking about, because they never noticed Matilda and her intelligence. Miss Honey tried to convince Mr. Wormwood that Matilda was a genius, but he was sure that Matilda was ingenuous and nothing could change that.
Book report-Matilda
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The next day, Miss Trunchbull was going to test Matilda’s class in the weekly test they had. Lavender (Matilda’s new frined)had secretly put a newt in Miss Trunchbull’s water glass. Therefore, when Miss Trunchbull was going to drink the water,she saw the newt,screamed and blamed Matilda for putting the newt there. When Miss Trunchbull thought to expel her, Matilda really got mad. She felt her eyes become very hot, and suddenly she managed to tip the glass with her eyes. Miss Honey said that everybody could go home, but Matilda stayed. She told Miss Honey that she was the one who tipped the glass over, and she showed it to Miss Honey. Matilda and Miss Honey went home to Miss Honey’s house to talk about Matilda’s powers and Matilda found out that Miss Honey was extremely poor, and lived in a very tiny house. When they were talking, she told Matilda that Miss Trunchbull was her aunt and that Miss Honey ownd Miss Trunchbull a lot of money. Miss Trunchbull used to be Miss Honey’s nanny, but when Miss Honey’s father died Miss Trunchbull became her guardian. Matilda discovered that Miss Honey’s father was named Magus, and Miss Trunchbull first name was Agata. The next day, they were having their weekly test. Miss Trunchbull asked a boy a question, and he couldn’t answer. Miss Trunchbull grabbed the boy’s ears and lifted him up in the sky. It was that moment that Matilda started her plan. She got the chalk to write on the blackboard:“Agata, this is Magnus. It is Magnus. And, you better believe it. Agata, give my Jenny back her house. Give my Jenny her wages. Then get out of there. If you don’t I will come and get you like you got me. I am watching you Agata.” Miss Trunchbull was so shocked that she fainted and no one ever saw Miss Trunchbull again. However, the police had found out about that Mr. Wormwood was cheating people. So when Matilda got home, everything was a totally chaos, and they were obviously moving to Spain. Matilda didn’t want that, and Miss Honey was happy to adopt Matilda.
Thanks for your patience...
hello again!!!!
ReplyDeleteI decided to include also some descriptions of the main protagonists...
First of all, Matild the protagonist:
Brave, corageous, smart, loving, magic and minuscule can describe the intelligent girl that Matilda, the protagonist, is...
With her cunning, she had the ability to put a side her greedy principal, MissTrunchbull.
As shown in the picture, Matilda loved reading. Since little she would go to the librery and read many books in one week... Because so smart, was very loved by her teacher, Miss Honey, who wanted her to go to the next grade, but didn’t go because her principal didn’t want...
Miss Trunchbull:was the vicious, terrible, and mean principal of the poor Matilda. Every student in the school was afraid of her and nobody had the courage of saing it to their parents, because they all knew that the parents wouldn’t belive at them... Also, Miss Trunchbull was Miss Honey’s aunt, but the onlyone to know was Matilda. Nobody noticed this fact because the two persons wouldn’t even talk to each other, and lived in different houses...
Miss Honey:was the gentle, kind, calm, and quiet teacher of Matilda. As the time passed, she understood that the little Matilda was a real genious, so she decided to send her to the next grade, but Miss Honey’s aunt, Miss Trunchbull didn’t want to let her change class… From when the principal said “No” she used her speciall skill: Magic… She would always make bad jokes at her principal how would get very mad… At the end of the book, the protagonist goes to live with her adorable teacher…
Mr. Harry Wormwood:was the small ratty looking man with buck teeth who continuously weard loud checkered shirts with yellow or green ties. His work was selling used cars in his own garage, by it self, but eventually only one person could join the “spectacular bussiness”: His son Michael. An example of a particular day was him buying one car for 118 dollars and selling it for 760 dollars, and going so on, in one day he would have earned $4303.50. When one day he brought his son, Micheal, and Matilda, this last was so upset of hia father’s job that she used her made him a trick... She had putten glue in Mr. Wormwood’s hat , so that, to take it off he had to shave off all his hair...
Mrs.Zinnia Wormwood: wasn’t so different from his husband. She was a fat, young lady that would always cover her face of makeup. Her natural hair colour was mousy brown, but she had colored them blonde with “Plantium Hair Dye Extra Strong”, that even his husband had used because of Matilda’s trick... She would go five days a week at the bingo, playing and earning lot of money, like his husband that would go to his “garage” and sellused cars at the price of new ones. She would spend the entire day at the bingo wanting to earn more and more money... Mrs. Zinnia Wormwood isn’t a common victim of Mtilda’s tricks because sometimes she is kind and gentle Matilda...
Michael Wormwood was the older brother of the surprending girl, Matilda. As his parents, spetially his father, he was very mean and care less to Matilda. One morning, Matilda argued with his brother on the meal and decided to show him her magic skills: with her eyes she made a carot fly over him, making him scare...
Answer to fizah's comment you used to describe my book report and say that you're was a funny book which I have read
ReplyDeleteI have chose this book at the begining for the cover it had even though you aren't suposed to do this the cover page had an impact on me. I have to say that like most books it had a boring introduction because it has to explain about the history of milo as you now he is a bored kid.
I had a question for yours who was you're favorite character?