Saturday, November 30, 2013

Insurgent

The book I am reading this week is the second book of Divergent by Veronica Roth - INSURGENT.
I am on page 215/525. I just started yesterday. (Muahaha ^-^)
The main climax is when the Dauntless and the Erudite are fighting. The Erudite release some sort of simulation bomb and everyone who breathes, smells, or feels the smoke dies. Immediately. All except the Divergents. Divergents have a special power, to manipulate and change the simulations. Tris and Uriah, one of her friends, go aorund trying to find all the Divergent from Candor, Amity, and Abnegation. Tobias is I-don't-know-where when they do this. The war against the Erudite is becoming worse. The Abnegation are dead. The Amity and Candor are dead. Even Dauntless are dead. All that's left is the Erudite and the Divergent. How will this war end?

Climax in the Book Thief

Cover of "The Book Thief"
Cover of The Book Thief
Today I shall do the final blog post (sadface) about the Book Thief, written by Marcus Zusak.
This time it shall be about the most exciting bit, the high point... the climax!
I have finished the book (583 pages I believe!) I'm finally really getting on with my book project! I really love the book and I am rereading it!

So, back to the climax. In The Book Thief there are a lot of conflicts that could be viewed as climaxes. I looked at all of them and decided that this was the main climax, as it caused a lot of things and it was toward the end. 
The climax happens when a Jewish Death March is going through Molching (where the plot takes place). A Jew death March is a march of Jewish prisoners from concentration camps. These are extremely long and difficult, and many people  are taken on long walks where quite a few of them would die.  Hans Hubermann and Liesel both sympathize for Jews (as they have Max, a Jew in hiding, living in their basement, who both of them love.) When the parade goes past, one of the older men starts to feel faint. Usually when one of the prisoners falls over, they are whipped and left to die. However when this man falls over, Hans rushes over to help him up. This is strictly against all Nazi rules. The Nazi's guarding the march run over and pick both the man and Hans up, and they are whipped severely. From then on, the Nazi's in Molching have their eyes on Hans. 
Since the Hubermann's are scared that the Nazi's will discover Max, they send him away. Even though the basement is never searched, Hans is sent away to work in the War, picking up the bodies of dead citizens in the cities. 

This is important because it separates the family, which is sad and dramatic, and also Max is sent away. He is then seen, a few months later in one of the Jew Death Marches from the camp in Dachau. This is really scary and causes a lot of pain for the family. 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

HI guys,
My book is called Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, I have read all 546 pages of it!!
Here is a picture of the film:
 There are many events in the book, but I thought the part when Beth is dying was the most dramatic and sad part. I found this part very dramatic because Jo would sit next to her all night, wide awake, sobbing by her shoulder. It was like that for many weeks. At one point Beth fell in a deep sleep and they all thought she was dead, and right at that moment their mother came from her long trip and she just collapsed on the floor. Luckily she woke up the next day but not long after that she died. 

Anka

Midnight for Charlie Bone

Midnight for Charlie Bone

345/345 (I'm done!) pages
Jenny Nimmo
Review by Shelly Ness

Hello,
I finished reading the book Midnight for Charlie Bone! The main climax of the story was when Charlie saw a girl called Emilia Moon, she was sad, and  hypnotized, The Bloors' (family who owns the school, Bloor's) and The Moons' treat her terribly. Charlie, Uncle Paton and Ben Found out that a lady called Mrs. Indeglew, who owns a bookshop wants to find her niece, Emma Tolly. The father of Emma, Dr. Tolly had given her away to Bloors'. They gave Mr. Tolly a case, if Manfred hypnotizes her she could be woken up. Manfred did hypnotize her and now, they need to wake her up. It is really hard to know who she is, because the Moons (Adoption Parents) changed her name to Emilia Moon. In the end they found her, and now they are waking her up. Mrs. Indeglew wants to take care of Emma, and she is begging to find Emma. She thanks Charlie and Paton (who saved Emma from her terrible life) with hugs and kindness as they return Emma to Mrs. Indeglew. They need adoption papers to prove that it is Emma and she belongs to Mrs. Indeglew. Paton went through obstacles to find the papers. He does and Emma lives happily ever after. She will return to school soon. Paton helped because he is in love with Mrs. Indeglew (they are dating) and Charlie Bone helped because he is really nice and wants adventures.






Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
Title of Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
           The author of my story is Jeff Kinney. The number of pages I read is 25 which means I have 10 more pages to finish the book. The main climax of this novel is when he is at school and when he is trying to walk to school.

Diary of the Wimpy Kid(Rodrick Rules)

The book that i am reading is Rodrick Rules. The author of the is Jeff Kinney.I read 122 pages out of 216. The main problems in the story that Greg has o fight with his brother who he hates. For example Rodrick throws a huge High school party. He tells Greg to get some extra tables from the basement.Greg puts a rock so the door does not close. Rodrick mover the rock and the door closes. Greg was in the basement the whole night until morning. Another example his brother treats Gregs friends very badly.                                                                                     

Friday, November 29, 2013

The Soul of the Silver Dog

Author: Lynn Hall

# of pages read: 125/125
                       
                                 
Well to understand the climax you need to know the book, so here is a brief summary about the story. Cory, a 14 year old girl, who has felt abandoned ever since her sister Bethy (who is now dead) was born. As Sterling, a blind once a star winning  Bedlington Terrier, comes into her life, everything changes. The climax of the story is near the end when after months of practice at the "obstacle course"Sterling  had won 4th place in a not official agility course! Blind! Soon after, he died of Copper toxicosis. A problem when the liver doesn't flush out the copper building waste that eventually causes death if not treated right away. That was BIG spoiler alert but if you want to know more, read the book.

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

The Staircase By Ann Rinaldi: Climax

The climax, or the most exciting  part, is throughout the whole book. I starts at the end of the beginning. I know that sounds weird, so let me explain. After the very beginning, when the families had finally arrived at Santa Fe, Lizzy was left in Santa Fe with no warning. That is the very beginning of the climax. Now the end of the climax is right before Lizzy moves in with her father (that kind of spoils it). Everything in her life is upside down, everything that she expected to go one way, went the other. Now, that's exactly what happened in the end with the reader. I thought that Lizzy would never forgive her father, move in with her uncle after she finished school. That's where I got hit. The exact opposite happened. Lizzy went to move in with her father, she forgave him, she didn't finish school at Our Lady of Light (the girls catholic school), ad she only sent letters to her uncle. So it starts and finishes the same way, everything is resolved, everyone is at peace.  Now I have to tell you about the middle. The long tangled up middle. I told you the beginning, the one part that I thought was the most exciting, but horrible part was when Elinora (A.K.A. the evil one) poked Lizzy's kitten, Cleo, in the eyes... with a needle! I felt like crying! Can you imagine a cute, poor, defenseless, little kitten taken form her owner and stabbed in the eyes with a needle?! It's okay if you wanna cry. Then the kitten was thrown out the window! I felt so bad, and I'm sure you do too. But, the weird thing is, the kitten was blind for a little while, then some old carpenter, allegedly St. Joseph, held Cleo in his hands and "cured" her form her blindness. I believe it was St. Joseph, but it's up to you to find out! READ THE BOOK! (EVEN THOUGH I JUST SPOILED A LOT OF IT!) FYI, I finished the book.

KF

CHOCOLATE FACTORY 0.3


After that Charlie, the main character of this story went to the factory with the other four children that they The children, once at the factory, are taken to the Chocolate Room, where they are introduced to Oompa Loompas, from Loompaland, who have been helping Wonka operate the factory. While there, Augustus falls into the chocolate and is sucked up by a pipe and eliminated from the tour. They are soon taken to the Inventing Room, where Violet chews a piece of experimental gum, and blows up into a blueberry; she is the second child rejected from the tour. After an exhausting jog down a series of corridors, Wonka allows them to rest outside of the Nut Room, but refuses them entry. Veruca, seeing squirrels inside, demands one from Wonka, but when she is refused, she invades the Nut Room, where the squirrels attack her, judge her a bad nut and throw her down the garbage chute. Likewise with her parents, who go in to rescue her. They go on the Great Glass Elevator to the Television Room, where Mike accidentally shrinks himself to a few inches tall using a teleport Wonka invented, and is the last to be eliminated from the tour.

The climax of this story is when Charlieknow that is the winner because is the only child left then they go into the elevetor, willy wonka press the botton  out and they fly outside of the factory, that was so funny!!!

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Out Of My Mind ~ The AWARDS! YEAH!

Hello People Of The Blog

This blog post is late. So sorry. Anyway.......

As you guys know (If you have been reading my blog posts) That the name of the book I am reading is called Out of My Mind. The Awards that this book has won are these. Since there  is a lot there are going to be in a list. Like this,

  • California - Young Reader Medal Book Award Nominees 2012-2013: Middle School/Jr. High 
  • Colorado - Colorado Children's Book Award Nominees 2014 
  • Connecticut - Connecticut Nutmeg Book Award Nominees 2014: Intermediate 
  • Illinois - Bluestem Book Award Nominees 2013 
  • Illinois - Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominees 2013 
  • Illinois - Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominees 2013 - FollettBound Platinum List 
  • Indiana - Young Hoosier Book Award Nominees 2012-2013: Middle Grades 
  • Iowa - Iowa Teen Book Award Nominees 2012-2013 
  • Kansas - Kansas William Allen White Children's Book Award Nominees 2012-2013: Grades 3-5 
  • Massachusetts - Massachusetts Children's Book Award Nominees 2013-2014 
  • Minnesota - Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominees 2013-2014: Division I - FollettBound Platinum LisT 
  • Minnesota - Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominees 2013-2014: Division I - Paperback List 
  • Minnesota - Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominees 2013-2014: Division II - FollettBound Platinum List 
  • Minnesota - Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award Nominees 2013-2014: Division II - Paperback List 
  • Nebraska - Nebraska Golden Sower Award Nominees 2012-2013: Intermediate 
  • Nevada - Nevada Young Reader Award Nominees 2013: Young Readers 
  • New Jersey - New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award Nominees 2013: Fiction Grades 6-8 
  • New Jersey - New Jersey Garden State Teen Book Award Nominees 2013: Fiction Grades 6-8 
  • New Mexico - New Mexico Land of Enchantment Book Award Nominees 2012-2013: Young Adult 
  • North Carolina - North Carolina Children's Book Award Nominees 2013: Junior Books 
  • North Dakota - North Dakota Flicker Tale Children's Book Award Nominees 2012-2013: Juvenile 
  • Oklahoma - Oklahoma Sequoyah Children's Book Award Nominees 2013 
  • Oregon - Oregon Battle of the Books Award Nominees 2013: 3-5 Division 
  • Pennsylvania - Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award Nominees 2012-2013: Grades 6-8 
  • South Dakota - South Dakota Children's Book Award Nominees 2012-2013: Prairie Pasque 
  • Texas - Texas Tumbleweed Book Award Nominees 2011-2012 
  • Washington - Washington Sasquatch Reading Award Nominees 2013 
  • Wisconsin - Wisconsin Battle of the Books Award Nominees 2013-2014: Middle Division 
  • Wyoming - Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Book Award Nominees 2012-2013 
As I said, There are a lot of awards. I agree and also do believe that this book should have earned this many awards. I say this because the book was written from the perspective that personally I don't think we think about everyday. We don't normally think about what a person, who is handicapped and is limited in what they can do fiscally, but it is amazing.

The only other thing i have to say about this book is..... PLEASE MRS.DRAPER, PLEASE MAKE A SERIES OF BOOKS TO OUT OF MY MIND! PLEASE! OK Now I am good.

See You Next Time!
 I mean CHEESE but still SKY!