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The Great Gilly Hopkins |
The books quality is shown on the cover the
illustration of her. It shows the importance of the “storytelling
productions” it helps show the colorful personalities. The special feature
of this book is only that many young readers can enjoy this novel because
most can relate and it is fairly easy to read for the selected grade
levels. |
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Builder of the Moon |
The story is about a young boy who receives a message
from the moon and it says that it needs help because it is breaking apart.
The little boy tells his mother not to wait up for him because he is going
to save the moon. So he goes in his room and creates a launch pad and uses a
playing block to turn the dial and “whoosh” he is in outer space. He uses
his building block to re-build the moon and “boom it was full”. He arrives
at home just in time for breakfast.
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Cliffords Happy Easter |
The story is about a
young girl who has a big r ed
dog and they are getting ready for Easter. So
they are coloring eggs and Clifford (the Big
red dog) cant color an egg with out breaking it. They decide that he does a
better job just watching. They figure out that he is better at hiding the eggs.
The little girl has dreams about coloring eggs because that has been on her
mind all day. She dreams that Clifford is changing all these colors and
finally he turns all colors and she realizes she is dreaming and when she
wakes up it is EASTER!!!! They hide all the eggs and they go searching for
them and in the end she disperses them evenly and they all have the same
amount of eggs. |
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Marriage of the rain
Goddess |
The title hints that the “marriage of the rain
goddess” is looking for a husband. It is a South African Myth about a rain
goddess being loved by the villagers but she is still lonely. She wonders
through the heavens, the hills of the villages, and then she rests her eyes
on a young cattle herder named Thandiwe. The only problem was that he is
mortal. So she wants to make sure he is the one. She gives him a dream
about how she wants to marry him and to start building a bridal hut for her
and stand outside of it and she will appear she also gave him beads to
resemble her love. He awoke and couldn’t believe it but there were beads in
his hands so he had no choice. He built the hut and awaited her arrival.
She tries to trick him by finding a pretty girl to act like it is her while
she shaves her head and covers her face with ash. He knows and tells her
that he wants the rain goddess and she is happy with him and he passes the
test.
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The Piñata Maker |
 Don
Ricardo, or Tio Rico as the children call him, is a piñata maker in a
village in southern Mexico. This photo essay tells, in both pictures and
words, how Tio Rico makes piñatas, a traditional Latin American art. It
begins with his making the flour paste, then going through the different
steps until he adds the finishing touches and paint. His beautiful piñatas
are used in the village festivals |
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Williams Doll |
 This
is an excellent book!! If only more people could see things from William's
grandmother's perspective, the world would be a better place! This book is
about accepting and trying to understand differences. William is a boy who
really wants a doll, and his father and brother ridicule him. Read this book
and see how his grandmother has a positive impact! |
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Beast |
 After
assuming the form of a lion, the prince realizes he must leave his beloved
family and country in order to escape being killed by his father's own hand.
Here, the story jumps to life, drawing the reader convincingly into the
prince's life as beast. |
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Choosing up sides |
 Living
a life that your parents choose for you what ever they wanted, is how most
teenagers live. The book Choosing Up Sides is talking about what is like to
be living under the order of parent. It may be you or someone you know, so
let us share for a moment what is like to be under siege of a strict parent.
Luke Bledsoe, a 14 years old, left handed, is a son of a preacher Mr.
Bledsoe that says left hand is hand of devil. Luke's discovery of that
people admired how sharply he could pitch is coming to and end after his
father said that, base ball field is devil's playground. Luke's left handed
uncle is helping him to discover what his father hid from him;that being
left handed is not crime. |
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Sing Down the Moon |
 Sing
Down the Moon is a story written by Scott O'Dell about a Navaho girl named
Bright Morning. This is a very interesting book for those people out there
that prefer an adventure over sitting on the couch. This story is about when
Bright Morning being able to finally take her mother's sheep out during
spring with her friend Running Bird. Then, all of a sudden, Spanish slaves
appear over the hill to capture children, later to be sold. Of course they
capture Bright Morning and Running Bird. They travel to a town where Bright
Morning recognized no one and was sold to a lady that was very kind to her,
yet Bright Morning was still unhappy. Later she met a girl named Nehana who
also wants to escape. |
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The exchange student |
 This
book was a good book. I liked how they added the aliens to the book but when
they were on the way to earth at the beginning of the book it was really
boring. But then it got better. They have no animals and when Fen finds out
where he is going to be living he is in for a huge surprise. Hope fully they
can restore the animals on his home planet. For this book being a Sci-Fi it
was a good book and it had a lot of neat information in it like how they
make the animals.... |
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