Ratings!

I gave Spells and Sleeping Bags a 9/10, and for my exploration, I read the first two books, and I gave the first one, Bras and Broomsticks and 10/10, and the second one, Frogs and French Kisses, and 9.5/10. Also, I sent her an email. Here it is: Hi Sarah! I've read you series Bras and Broomsticks, and they are my absolute favorite books!! I can't wait to read you new one. Keep writing them!! (You could write one about her going to a witch college or something like that!)

Right now I am reading Nancy Drew books, waiting until her next book, 'Parties and Potions' comes out!

Spells and Sleeping Bags

For my R+E I read the book Spells and Sleeping Bags by Sarah Mlynowski. This is the third book in the series. 

It is about a girl who has just finished her senior year at JFK High School. Her name is Rachel Weinstein, and she and her 12-year-old sister Miri are leaving for summer camp! 

They are pretty normal sisters-normal except for one thing: Their mother is a witch. And, as they found out in the first book, so is Miri. At first, Rachel is very sad that she did not inherit her mother's magical power's, but in the second book she finds out that she did! 

As you can imagine, she was super excited when she found out she was a witch, and, also when she found out that her crush was going to the same camp as her!

She makes fast friends with her cabin mates, except for one girl, who seems to have developed a disliking to Rachel.

She is having a blast, until on day when her best camp friends, Alison, is caught smoking in the bathroom! The camp has a strict policy against smoking, so Alison was sent home immediately.

But Rachel and her friends are very confused as to why Alison was even smoking in the first place. I mean, Alison was the one who was always complaining about how disgusting smoking was, so why would she smoke?

But the girl who hates Rachel, Liana, seems a little queer to Rachel.

One thing that's weird is that her cubby, which holds her clothes is very neat and tidy, even though it seems to have more clothes in it than the others. Also, she never wears the same clothes twice.

But Rachel forgets about Liana, because she is having so much fun. Raf, her crush, has been spending a lot of time with her lately, but every time that they try to kiss, it is mysteriously interrupted by something (A flying soccer ball, a bee hive, or the lights flickering). At first Rachel thinks that her new powers are just a little out of whack, causing that to happen every time she gets excited.

Then, one day, she sees Raf waiting on her cabin porch with someone. As she approaches, she realizes that the person is Liana. Then, suddenly, she sees Raf lean in to kiss Liana. Then when she yells at Raf, he forgets about the kiss and doesn't know what she's talking about.

She things this is all very strange, but then one day, she sees Liana's pencil case lying on her bunk. On a sudden hunch, she chants a spell, and then, Liana's pencil case morphs into a copy of A2, or The Authorized and Absolute Reference Handbook to Astonishing Spells, Astounding Potions, and History of Witchcraft Since the Beginning of Time. She should have known! Liana's a witch!! 

When Liana realizes that Rachel knows she's a witch, talks Miri into leaving to go to a boarding School in Switzerland with her. 

When Rachel begs her not to take Miri, Liana threatens her, hurting her friends, and saying she'll keep on doing this, and she'll take Miri, unless Rachel accepts a body-switching spell. 

Liana's a much more powerful and experienced witch than Rachel, so Rachel knows that she's going to have to switch. 

When she does, she realizes that Liana has a terrible life. She just wants her old life back! Will Miri realize the switch, or will she suffer through life in Liana's body?

Read Spells and Sleeping bags to find out!

Ratings!

I gave Hoot a 10/10! It was an incredible book! I recommend this to every one.

Right now I am reading "The Book Thief."

Hoot!

Hoot is an award-winning book, and it deserves to be!

This book is about a boy named Roy Eberhardt who just moved from Montana to Florida. Instantly he develops a relationship  with the class bully, Dana Matherson - and not a good one. But, if Dana had never smashed Roy's face up against the window in the bus, the Roy never would have seen the running boy. 

Roy tries again and again to chase the boy, but he's just too fast! When a girl named Beatrice Lee (Nicknamed Beatrice the Bear because she's so big and intimidating) confronts him and warns him not to continue his pursue to catch the boy, Roy just becomes more curious.

When he hears a Mother Paula's Pancake House was opening up nearby, he was happy. But then the future Mother Paula's site stared getting disturbed by an unknown vandal. 

The construction workers couldn't continue building the Pancake house until it stop being disturbed, but no one knows who the vandal is, until one day, when Roy talks to the boy.

 He discovers that the boy is Beatrice Lee's stepbrother, who people sometimes call Mullet Fingers. Mullet Fingers has problems with his mother, because his mother doesn't know how to take care of him or what to do with him, so she sends him to a military camp. When Mullet Fingers escapes from Military camp, he came back, and was living in a trailer behind a golf course. 

Beatrice was covering for him, bringing him food and clothes, and keeping him company because he didn't want to go home to his mother.

When Roy discovers that Mullet Fingers is the Mother Paula's vandal., he is curious as to why. He finds out that Mullet Fingers is a huge animal lover, and that he knew that there were a rare breed of owl called a borrowing owl on the construction site.  The birds are very special be cause they are a breed that, instead of making nests, burrow in the ground, hence the name burrowing owls.

There is nothing they can do to stop the workers from plowing through the owls homes, or is there? 

Read the fantastic book, Hoot, by Carl Hiaasen to find out!

                                                                                                                      

Ratings!

By the way, I gave Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls a 9/10, because it was very good, and I really liked it!

Right now, I am reading books from the series Saddle Club!

Allie Finkle's Rule's for Girls!

Allie Finkle's Rule's for Girls is Meg Cabot's new book. It's a great book about a girl that's being forced to move, and she's convinced that the world has come to an end! And, to make matters worse, her parents want to move into this creepy old house, so they can renovate it. 

She would much rather prefer her wall-to-wall pink carpeting, and her modern school in the city of Chicago. How is she supposed to fall asleep if she can't see the light of the cell phone tower flickering on and off, and the bustling streets full of hurried-looking cars? Why would-why should she move into a room that she's almost scared to go into? Not fair! 

At least she can get a new best friend. Mary Kay, her best friend now, can be a pretty good friend, but she needs to learn how to share, because she's a spoiled only child, and she can be pretty bratty sometimes...

It seems the brightest thing (and maybe only bright thing) to come out of this situation is that he parents promised her a kitten! 

Read this thrilling kick-off to the series Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls to find out how Allie deals with all this, or if maybe.... just maybe... she could stop her parent's from moving!

The tale of Desparuax

The tale of Desparaux is a really good book by Kate DiCamillo. When I first saw the book, I wasn't sure I wanted to read it because it looked so long, and it looked like one of those books that dragged on. I'm really glad I read it, because it was a fantastic and suspenseful book. It was so good that I finished it in three days! It is about a undersized mouse with oversized ears who lives in a castle during the mid evil times, and he was born with his eyes open! He doesn't fit in, everyone knows that....They don't think it'll be any harm to take care of him... Until he starts to talk to the princess. "To the dungeon!" The mice shout at Desparuax's trail (one they've found about his talking to the princess) "Off with is head!" He's lead down to the dungeon with the rats and the prisoners. Then, when the Princess is captured by a jealous servant, it's up to Desparaux to save her.... Will he escape the dungeon and save her? Or will they both be doomed to the dungoen forever? Find out in this exciting adventure with Desparaux!

Here is a link to Kate Dicamillo's website!!!
http://www.katedicamillo.com/

Surviving the AppleWhites!

I read this book for a book club, and finished it this weekend, and it was actually really good. It is a bout a Juvenile delinquent named Jake Semple, who been kicked out of every school---except the Applewhites, Wit's End. 'This one'll be a snap!' Jake thought. 'Just a waste of time!' E.D. Applewhite, the unique, organized girl apart from the other artistic, sloppy Applewhites, brings Jake to realize that this is his last chance before. If he deosn't Survive the Applewhites.... Off to Juvie! While the Applewhites encounter other problems, such as having trouble casting a play (The Sound of Music), being kicked out of the theater, and a desperate reporter (Jeremy Bernstien), will Jake Semple Survive the Applewhites?

Here is a link to the Author's website!

http://www.stephanietolan.com/

Hi!!!

Hi! As you know, I'm Shelby. But I have BIG news! Yesterday, my parents told me we were moving to Hawaii!! Yay!!
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April Fools!

Okay, sorry sbout that.

I am here to post a link to my freewebs website, but don't worry, I'm also going to post the name of this website to there! So, if you like my awsome blog, but you want to go to my awsome website, click right about here!


From now on, whenever I post, I will try to have a quote, too. My quote this time is,

Karma is a boomerang!

Click Here!

Sorry Alison, I stole the book you did last R+E!

  Click here is a fantastic book about a girl named Erin going into seventh grade, who gets put in a separate building than her best friend, Jilly.  She doesn't really know any body else, so she is NOT looking forward to going to Molly Brown Middle School.

  She is especially worried because she is thinking, 'Who would like a girl with no friends, big feet, no hips, no eye for fashion whatsoever and a obsession with computers? No one!' 

   Now, thing aren't quite as bad as they seem, though. She has made two new friends, Mark and Rosie, kept her friendship with Jilly, and made a new worst enemy, Serena Worthington!

There are a few more problems, though. First of all, her high-school brother has a crush on Amanda Worthington, Serena's sister! Second of all, there's been a HUGE mistake, and EVERYONE(and I mean EVERYONE) is furious  at her! Will everyone forgive her, or will she have to go through the rest of her school life hated? Find out in amazing book, Click Her (to Find Out How I Survived Seventh Grade)!

What I'm reading now.

Right now I'm reading 'Star Girl' and 'The Man Who Listens to Horses.' I heard they are both really good! 'The Man Who Listens to Horses' is about a true horse whisperer, Monty Roberts, and his life growing up.

here is a link to monty Robert's site:

http://www.montyroberts.com/video_jabbits.html

Lauren Child

    http://www.milkmonitor.com/ is the official lauren Child website!!! I forgot to tell you that he author's name is Lauren Child.

   My sister and mom posted, except it published the post under my name!

~Shelby~

  

My Top 5 FAVORITE Books!

(I'm not going to give them a rating, because they're all ten's!)

Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

A Mango Shaped Space, by Wendy Mass

The Tale of Emily Windsnap, by Liz Kessler

Black Beauty, Anne Sewell

Bridge to Terebithia, by Katherine Paterson

R+E, Utterly Me, Clarice Bean

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean=8

This is a really good book. My sister recommended it to me, and I ended up reading it again!

   The star of this book is Clarice Bean, a girl who come from a family of six, and a class of the obnoxious Grace Grapello, and her mean "hippopotamus" teacher Mrs. Wilberton. The problem is, she just can't concentrate! I mean, after all, how are supposed to concentrate on math and spelling if you're going to grow up to be spy, like Clarice Bean's favorite book character, Ruby Redfort?

  But there's another problem! There's big book project due soon, and if you win, you get the class prize(or surprise, I should say- they don't know what the prize is!), and Clarice Bean just can't lose to Grace, especially when Grace is so sure she's going to win.

  Don't leave Clarice Bean on her own- read 'Utterly Me, Clarice Bean' to help her beat Grace!