Comments on: What are you reading? Include the title, author and a 1 paragraph summary of the book you are currently reading in class.

By: m.b2

m.b2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:29:13 +0000

The book i read was called Ghetto Princess by Zane. It is a book about drama with a young girl who name is Monica she is 18 years old. Her step father is The biggest drug dealer in New York City, so they are very rich. Monica is in love with one of her step fathers partners his name is Tony. They start dating and everything is okay until one day she gets a call stating that her father and mother was just killed. So through out the entire story she sets a goal to find out who did it but her boy friend (tony) tells her to go stay with her real in Texas where he is a big drug dealer as well. Tony tells her that he will stay in New York to find out who killed her parents.

By: m.s

m.s — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:28:41 +0000

My bloody life The making of a latin King. Danny got mulisted at the age of elevin. He moves from Puerto Rico to chicago. His mother and step father always beat and abuse him for every lilttle thing he dose for no reason at all .He start makeing alot of friends he didnt like the fact that he was none as the new kid. He began to hangout with gangs and started to join them. he was in fluins into doing drugs such as smoking and drinking .He never like being home so he would sneak out at night . Danny would do anything in the world to live his house the only people he loved was his little sister and his mother even thow she would join in to abuse him with the step father he always have love for her .

By: A.G 2

A.G 2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:21:47 +0000

the book i have been readinq is called twiliqht .i really enjoyed this novel because its about romance and love and a whole lot of fantasy.i ts about the boy named edward cullen and this qirl named bella swan.bella has just moved to washinqton to live with her father because her parents are divorced and her mother qot re married to a famouse baseball player in the major leaque team. whn she started hightschool she made many firends but yet found this one boy tht is very odd and mysterious and very unusall.then one day in class she desides to sit nxt to him and make conversation and qet to knw him a little more. he was very replus by her but a few days later he warmed up and thn later on their relationship qrew stronqer and realized thy loved eachother dearly.but edward has a secret and didnt want to share it with her .he was a vampire but a veqitarian one .he didnt surrvive frm the blood frm humans he surrvived but the blood frm animals .bella was was very courouseabout how he acted around her and how he doesnt tell her everythinq how is and moves so fast and is pale as snow and is so cold all the time and how his eye chanqed color and how he knws everythinq everyone is thinkinq and where ever bella is at and saves her frm alot of the problems she runs into.finally edward confesses that he initially avoided bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him, edward and bella admit the love thy have for eachother.thn one day other vampires tht feed on human blood attack whn they are all plyinq baseball in an open feild and thy smeeled a human-bella.thy went to taack but the cullen family protected and had to make bella leave for qood and they helpled her escape.thn as she styed in a hotel one of the vampires named james found her and attacks breaks her leave puts vemon in her and trys killinq her but edward came to the resue sucked the venom out he saved her.she is taken to the hospital because she lost a far amount of blood.whn at the hospital she doesnt remember anythinq tht has happened. her mother told ther tht she fell dwn the stairs and out of a window but she didnt knw one can no wht really happend .whn she was relesed frm the hospital her adn edward whn to the prom .thy went out to the balconny just thm alone and she said tht her desire to become a vampire, which edward refuses….

THE END!

By: KT2

KT2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:15:36 +0000

i am reading “SHOTS ON GOAL” by Rich Wallace

During the soccer season, 15-year-old Barry is trying to get his team to making it in the district playoffs as he deals with his friend and teammate, Joey. Although they have been best friends since second grade, they started hating each other as Barry becomes friendly with some other teammates which Joey doesn’t like, and Joey starts dating a girl who Barry has a crush on and they began to tell other people about each other an even fought once.But they realized that they couldn’t make it to the districts unless they work together as a team so on game day they teamed up and work togetherwhich led them to the finals.

By: B.M 2nd

B.M 2nd — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:10:49 +0000

The Bully by paul Langan

The bully is about a boy named Darrell Mercer who lives in Philidelphia and his mom just got a job cut so they have to go live with their uncle in California. At his new school their is a bully name Tyray who bullies him. So then he cant take it anymore and joins the wrestling team in his school to make him bigger so he can face off Tyray.

By: M.A P. 2

M.A P. 2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:07:06 +0000

The book i am currently reading is they cage the animals at night this book is about a kid named jennings and it tells his life story. jennings is a foster chiled and has a sick mother that cant take care of him. jennings go’s thru alot in all the homes he’s been in. in the end of the book his mother gets better and a friend named sal helps his family out. jennings meet sal on the bus. jennings is like a kid sal never had. this is a grate book and should be a must read in schools.

By: c.m. 2

c.m. 2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:02:32 +0000

I’m reading “of mice of men” by john Steinbeck.
There is two men one is big but he is mentally challenged, and the other is short but he look like a hard work men. The big guy called lennie and the short guy is George.
They always get fired because of lennie always get on trouble. Finally they have a work on a farm and work, they are good but lennie killed the wife of the son of the owner of the farm. George knows that if he keeps on defending lennie he always get him on trouble and he had to kill him.

By: M.F3

M.F3 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:37:53 +0000

The book i am currently reading is Runner by Carl Deuker, Its about a kid named Chance who lives on a sail boat with his father who can barely suport himself or his son. So Chance has to look for his own job to pay for the bills and food. He gets a job at a local restruant as a dish washer but finds he doesn’t like washing dishes so he quits. Chance then starts to run for miles at a time to relieve stress,and he is aproched by a man and offered a job to do what he does best and run the same route he always does but to pick up a package on his run then bring it to a locker after hes done.

By: MF3

MF3 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:13:48 +0000

I am reading Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis.

This book s about a lonely orphan named Bud, who runs away from his home to find his father. He’s not sure who his father really is, but he has a good idea who it is. Bud believes his father is a musician named Herman E. Calloway, his mothers last name was very similar to that. While on the road, Bud gets picked up by a very nice man, who takes him to where his father is playing. Upon entering the place, Bud told the entire band about his problem. Herman just denied the entire thing. After days and days of figuring things out, Mr. Calloway finally admits to being Bud’s grandfather. Thats how far i’ve gone in the boook.

By: Bryan Elmore

Bryan Elmore — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:00:11 +0000

The book i am reading is called Tangerine. It is about a boy who can see just not that well. He moves to a new town and is very nervous. His brother, Eric, plays football and is very successful in his football career. The boy plays soccer and has made the schools soccer team. Hes made a friend named joey, who is his best friend. The boy is scared because his dad always talks about Eric and football and never pays any attention to him. Then all of a sudden he get kicks off the soccer team because his mom files papers for him to be “Impaired” because of his eyesight. He claims he can see just fine though. He gets very angry at his mom. This is where i am in the story.