by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on June 20th, 2010
As a reader…
Since I moved into Mr. MacKnight’s English class, I changed a lot, improved I think. I read a lot more than before now, and more varieties of book, think more through the books. Reading different varieties of book make me think a lot, some serious, some just imaginary, but the most [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on June 6th, 2010
Title: The Book of Dead Days
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Pages read: 273
The Dead Days is the period of time that lies between Christmas and New year eve. The story set in Europe during the 18th century, about an orphan without a name or so called the Boy. The story talks about all sort [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on June 6th, 2010
Title: The White Giraffe
Author: Lauren St. John
Pages: 181
Have you ever thought about a white giraffe? Does it really exist? The story brings us into a different world of wild life in Africa. Martine Allen is a girl living in a very normal family in the cities, but the day she turns [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on June 2nd, 2010
Title: The Camel Bookmobile
Author: Masha Hamilton
Pages: 336
Have you ever heard of a camel bookmobile? It is a moving library in the middle of the desert, helping poor kids that might never ever saw a book before to learn from reading, every single book of the bookmobile is carried by camel, so [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on June 2nd, 2010
Title: The Widower
Author: Ray Kluun
Pages: 294
This is the after story of Dan and Carmen, after Carmen died, Dan went back to the complicate life with women and alcohol, leaving his daughter Luna. Some of the days, he even wakes up not knowing the person/people sleeping beside him. He went deeper and deeper [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on June 2nd, 2010
Title: Love Life
Author: Ray Kluun
Pages: 355
This is a very sad story that made me cry. Dan and his wife Carmen are having the best part of their life, they are young, rich, good-looking, satisfied in their work and love life, and they have a 3-year-old cute little daughter. Their life seem [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on May 26th, 2010
Names and faces is a project we did to know more about people that is around us but we never really notice/know about. Our group interviewed the swimming coach, Xiao Jian Ping. The most enjoying part of this project is that we get to work in groups, I worked with Betty, Ina, and Rachel, [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on May 25th, 2010
Title: The Titan’s Curse
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 312
This is another exciting adventure brought by Percy Jackson, this time his friend Annabeth and the goddess of hunt, Artemis is in trouble, and the son of Poseidon, Percy Jackson start on a new journey to save them, even though he wasn’t really invited at [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on May 21st, 2010
Title: The Last Olympian
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 381
This is the last book of the adventure of Percy Jackson; it is so exciting that you cannot put down the book until you finished it. The story bring us to the very last fight, between the Titan king, Kronos, and the half-blood son of [...]
by Jenny Yang, (20 posts) on May 20th, 2010
Title: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Author: Rick Riordan
Pages: 361
This is the fourth book of Percy Jackson’s adventure, this time it lead us to the amazing world of labyrinth, in this world, everyone will get lost, a world of mysteries and mists. Percy found a path from the labyrinth leading right into [...]
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