Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Five: The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan. Genre: Fantasy. Pages read: 102 ( 45 mins)

No vocab. today.

Percy had to go on a mission with another demigod. They had to try and stop Kronos before he destroyed the gods and took over Mount Olympus in New York. He was on a cruise ship and Percy and his friend had to place a bomb on it. They got trapped by monsters though and Percy tried to distract them. His friend planted the bomb but got captured. Percy also got captured, and they both got taken to Kronos. He had to fight him, but his friend told him to jump overboard. There was no other choice, so he did and got far enough away so that he didn't get caught in the explosion. So his friend had bravely sacrificed himself to save Mount Olympus.

I like these books. The author is creative and funny. Unfortunately, this is the last book in the series. I wish that he would make more.

Posted: Feb. 10, 2010

My Brother Sam Is Dead. Pages read: 67 ( 45 mins)

No vocab. words.

Tim was able to visit Sam. But Sam had to leave so he didn't stay very long. Then Tim got visited by one of the richest guys in town named Mr. Heron. He asked Tim to give some business letters to a friend several miles away. His father said no, but Tim said that he was going fishing a few days later and visited Mr. Heron. He gave Tim the letter, but then Betsy Read, Sam's friend, followed him and said that the letter was a spy report on Sam. She was able to wrestle it away from Tim. She was opening it while she was running away, and threw back the letter. It said that if the letter arrives, then they can trust the messenger.

I am going to finish the book soon. I would finish it sooner, but Ms. Mclaughlin said no. I thought that this might be a boring book, but it's not. Usually historical books are pretty boring. No offense Mr. Knarr.

Posted: Feb. 10,2010

My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier. Genre: Historical Fiction. Pages read: 46 (45 mins)

I found 1 vocabulary word. It is shad. A shad is a Any of several food fishes of the genus Alosa, especially the North American species A. sapidissima, related to the herrings but atypical in swimming up streams from marine waters to spawn.

I am reading this for English. It is so far about a boy named Tim who's older brother Sam has joined the Rebels. His dad is a Loyalist though. Sam had a fight with his father. Then Sam ran away and hid up at an Indian's teepee. Then no one heard from him for a while. Now the chapter ended where Tim was about to go visit Sam.

I like this book. It is pretty good. I wonder if his dad will catch him visiting Sam. He would get in a lot of trouble if he did.

Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder. Pages read: 167 ( 45 mins)

No vocab. today.

Leven was able  to get to the tree. He had to cut it down with a special ax and on almost every chop, he passed out. It was painful for him to but he finally did and saved both Foo and Reality (you'll have to read the series to know what I'm talking about because it's too hard to explain and it's too long.) Geth got the missing part of him and they were able to save everyone.

I am now going to blog on the other books I got for Christmas. I got three and I already read them. The author is now going to make a new series soon. Poor Cody got all of his blogs deleted.

Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder by Obert Skye. Genre: Fantasy. Pages read: 196 ( 45 min)

No vocab. today.

A boy named Leven Thumps has been put on the island of Alder. He has to look for the oldest tree and find out how to save the world. Meanwhile, his friends are trying to get to Reality to see what they can do from there. They can't get to Leven but they can still help him. Geth is going to go find the missing part of him he lost long ago.

I like this sereis of books. This is the last one though. I got it for Christmas. I like how creative the author is.

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Genre: Fiction. Pages read: 21 ( 45 mins)

No vocabulary.

Ebenezer Scrooge is one of the meanest business men. It's Christmas Eve and he hates Christmas. Now his partner has now been dead for 7 years and Scrooge is very rich. He is very greedy and doesn't care about anyone but himself. When he got home, he was visited by his dead partner's, Marley's, ghost. He was bound in chains and said we wanted to save Scrooge from the same fate. He said that he will be visited by the 3 ghosts of Christmas the next night, and Scrooge fell asleep as Marley drifted out the window.

I think this book is OK. It uses a lot of old school words though. I am going to read the next stave for class soon. It is for English.