Post #1 Book number 2

Note: I have read 2 books so I have two books for extra creadit there is book number 1 and book number 2 so....... Thanks!!!

Name: Lexi Alvarez Date: 2-23-08
Title: Ida B Time: 1 hour and 15 minutes
Author: Katherine Hannigan Pages: 1-51
Total Pages this week: 50

Breef Discription: Ok I am reading this book called Ida B it is about a VERY different girl who literally talks to trees. She is very different such as she eats the same thing for lunch and breakfeast every day. She has to know what her schedule is every day because she wants to know if it is fun or not. Her own dad thinks she is sort of a mystery.

Q: What character do you like most in this book and/or what character do you like least? Why?
A : My favorite character is Ida B just because she is very different to me I have never read a book with this type of character. She is very simple, homschooled, eats the same thing everyday, has to know her schedule just very very simple young girl. Ida B has to be called that not Ida she will be very mad if she is ever called that.
Q: What does this book make you wonder about? Why?
A: This book makes me wonder what she is going to do farther on in the book because it has just started out with her life and what she does every day. But now it has started to make me wonder because it says in the book that there is a storm coming so it makes me wonder if something really bad is going to happen.
Q: What has surprised you in the book? Why?
A: What surprised me is that she talks to trees and different weird things. I thought in the biggining that maybe she would, be sort of normal. But nobody is normal everybody has something different about them she has to have everythign very simple like and I like that about her.

Vocabulary:
1: Rambunctious- This means to be sort of wild loud crazy active or noisy.
2: Awe- An overwhlming feeling like you are maybe just overwhelmed by somthing.
3: Furrow- Like a groove in something like you are making it very smooth or you are just grooving it basically
4: Mcintosh- A variety of blooming apples.
5: Rim- The outer part of something.

Post #1 Book number 1

Note: I read two different books just because I do want extra credit so I think you have to comment on both..... Thanks!!!

Name: Lexi Alvarez Date: 2-22-08
Title: Ruby Holler Time: Hour and 15 minutes
Author:Sharon Creech Pages: 1-58
Total Pages: 57

Breif Discription:I am reading a book called Ruby Haller it is about these two kids who are very bad and do not fallow the rules in there house and so far it tells that they have tryed to move on to different house and they brought them back. So they are very bad, so bad that they had to be brought back to their house.

Q: What was one of your favorite lines (or sentences) in what you read today?
A: My favorite sentance in this book was "One of those peoplewho sent me and Dallas back, as if we were clothing that didn't fit". I liked this because of how she related it to like being returned like clothing because it is sort of like that and I just liked how she related it to something totally different.
Q: If you could change one thing in the book, what would it be? Why would you change it?
A: Even though I have bearly strted reading this book I feel that I would not make the kids as bad as they are. Because in the book it says they were bad since they were 5 years old. I do not really think that a 5 year old smashes down a jar of coins down to the floor out of an adults hands.
Q: What character do you like most in this book and/or what character do you like least? Why?
A: I like this one girl named Florida in my book. I like her because she is not a wimpy girl she is sorta tough she is one of the bad kids in ths story. She does not fallow the rules along with her twin brother Dallas. I like her just because she isn't one of those really not tough girls but she is tough its llike she can handle anything.

Vocabulary:
1: Cockamamie- Cockamamie means it is sort of rediculous or pointless to that person.
2: Putrid- It is word for like an awful smell or you are just disgusted by something.
3: Veering- This means to maybe peer over at something to turn and look.
4: Wrenching- Means to pull or turn something with powerful force.
5: Scuttled- This means to move at a fast pace..... An exapmle would be " I scuttled over as fast as I could".

First they Killed My Father....

QUESTIONS.......
1: What would you do if you heard this, and went through everything, that she did. Would you imfor people about what they are really doing, or would u be quiet?
2: What would YOU do in a situation like this if you were her?
3: If u could only bring1 thing to go to where they went to, what would u bring?
4 : If you had lived in cambodia at them time and you first heard about the khmer rough.. what would be ur first reaction?