Saya

Books I've Read:


 * //Where The Mountain Meets The Moon //**


 * by Grace Lin **

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Me Reading Where The Mountain Meets The Moon: I liked the story because I liked how Minli traveled to Never-Ending Mountain to see the Old Man of the Moon.

Character: The main character is Minli and the Dragon.

Summary: Once upon a time there was a girl named Minli. Her family was poor but they were still happy with their life. But then,once Minli accidentaly heard from her parents that they wanted good fortune. Then one day Minli heard from outside that someone was selling goldfish and that if you buy it, you will get good fortune. So Minli spent half of her money and bought a goldfish. When she came back home, her parents got made at herpoor using the precious money for a goldfish. So one day, Minli went out to let the goldfish go. After she put the goldfish into the river, the goldfish started to speak to her. The goldfish told her that to Bring fortune to her house, she should meet the Old Man of the Moon. Then he told Minli the way to get to the Old Man of the Moon. The next day when Ma and Ba were working, Minli chose to go to the Never-Ending Montain to bring fortune. So she wrote a note to her parents and set of for the journey. After Ma and Ba got back from work, they noticed that Minli was gone and when they read the note, they chose to go and find her. Minli went on and on and followed the goldfish's instructions but Ma and Ba didn't know the way to find Minli so they got lost. Then, they met the goldfish man and they chose to buy the goldfish for fortune as well. So chose to believe Minli that she will come back and chose to stay at home. On the way, Minli met a dragon and saw that he was trapped. So she untied the rope for him and Minli told the story and the dragon said that he will also travel with Minli. So they headed towards Never-Ending Mountain. The first task to complete was to get a borrowed line from the Guardian of the Inner city. So, Dragon stayed outside of the village and waited for Minli to get the borrowed line. Minli went into the village and she thought that the king of the city was the guardian so she tip toed behind the king and followed him into the palace. Then the king realize and said hello to Minli and gave her the borrowed line. When Minli was getting that line, Dragon realized that there were two little stone lions at the gate of the city and he thought that the lions were the guardians of the city so he asked him if they have the borrowed line and they had it so Dragon got the borrowed line too. When Minli came back, they had two borrowed lines but they didn't know which one was the right one so they kept both of them. They traveled further into the woods an head towards the Never-Ending Mountain. Then one day, when they were staying at a cave to stay safe, the Great Green Tiger found them and tried to attack Minli. Then, Dragon saved Minli and got him hand bitten. The Green Tiger had poison in his teeth and Dragon was about to die. So, Minli went towards another city and on the way she found two twins talking to the Tiger. They were tricking the Tiger and they wanted to make the Tiger go away, the plan worked and Minli came out to speak to them. Then, there parents came and they asked Minli about what she was doing here. When she told the story about Dragon, their dad went to Dragons place to help him get better. Their family had invented a medicine that helps someone that is bitten by the Tiger. While their dad was fixing Dragons hand, Minli went to their house and chose to stay for the night. Their family were so nice and when Minli asked them if they knew the way to go the the Never-Ending Mountain, they knew so they chose to take Minli and the Dragon the next morning. When they got to the Never-Ending Mountain, they said goodbye to each other and Dragon waited for Minli to come back from the Old Man of the Moon. Minli asked why Dragon couldn't fly and after they met, Dragon was able to fly and he sent Minli to her house to go back.

Rating: I would give this book 5 out of 5 stars because I liked how they traveled and wrote little stories in the book.

Connection: The story reminded me of when I first saw a pearl.

**//Wait Till Helen Comes//** **by Mary Downing Hahn**  http://bit.ly/HE2n3i

Me reading Wait Till Helen Comes: It wasn't that scary for me but I liked the story.

**Character:** The main character is Molly and Heather.

**Summary:** One day, a girl and a boy called Molly and Michael was living with their mom Jean and she decided to marrie a guy called Dave. Dave also had a wife but she died in a fire. He has a girl named Heather. Heather doesn't want Dave to love Jean more than her so she bullies her and Molly and Michael because their her children. Heather has this ghost friend called Helen and her family all past away. Heather goes to the graveyard to meet her every day so no one realizes her. Then, Molly finds out that Heather is going somewhere so she follows her. Soon, Heather finds out that Molly is following her so she tells her to stop. Molly finds out where Heather is going and follows her again and again. Heather gets frustrated and tells her ghost friend Helen to do something bad to Molly, Michael and Jean. Helen goes in the house and rips Jean's paintings, digs everything out of Molly's desk and does horrible things. Then one evening when Jean and Dave were out to go shopping, they told Heather to stay in the house until Molly and Michael comes back but she goes to the Harper House where Helen used to live. She meets Helen and Helen tries to kill her by putting her in to the water. Molly stops Helen from killing Heather. BUt Helen doesn't listen. Heather goes into the water and drowns. Molly tries to save her then she saw Heather's hair so she pulled it and then Heather came up with her closed eyes and blue lips. She wakes up, and when Molly told her the story, she didn't believe it and tried to go into the water again. But Molly holds her and Heather cries. Molly hugs her and keeps her worm. They talked for a while and then Heather started to believe Molly. Then they became good sister and said sorry to what ever they did to each other.


 * Rating: ** I would give this book 5 out of 5 starts because I liked the ending where Heather and Molly got to be good sisters.

**Connection:** I always past a graveyard when I go to school.

// **Stone Fox ** // ** by John Reynolds Gardiner **  http://bit.ly/IeMPFa

**Summary:**
There was boy called Willy and he lived with his grandfather because his family died. They had a potato farm and sold them to make money and they also had a dog called Searchlight. One day Willy's grandfather got sick and he was sleeping in his bed the whole day. Willy called Doc Smith the doctor which lives very close to Willy's house. Willy found out that grandfather had a sickness and Willy had to feed him and grow the potato farm by himself. Then a few days later, when Willy was out, he found a poster of the annual race at Lester's shop and took the poster home. He needed much more money for the family, so he decided to go in a Dogsled Race with Searchlight. So he went to the bank and took all the money out from his bank account and went to the mayor's office and paid money for the Dogsled Race, $50. That was all he had.The Dogsled Race was tomorrow. He had to sleep well. Today was the Dogsled Race. He had to win the race for the family. The race started. He had to fight with a man called Stone Fox the man who never lost a single Dogsled Race. Willy was in first place. Stone Fox was the last person but when Willy was almost at the goal, Stone Fox came from last place from second place and Willy had to win against him. They were really close to the goal. Willy screamed " Go Searchlight! Go! " and Searchlight used all his strength and suddenly, Searchlight tumbled over and Willy and the sled fell on top of her. Then Willy found out that Searchlight was dead.

**Connections: Text-to-Self:** It reminded me of when my old dog died.

**Text-to-world:** I reminded me of when I saw a movie called Snow Buddies.

**Questions I still have:** What kind of sickness did grandfather have?

**Important or new vocabulary:** **How I saw this character:** I think Willy is a kid who really cares about people and is nice.
 * Dogsled Race
 * potato farm
 * Stone Fox
 * Searchlight

// **Peace Locomotion ** // ** by Jacqueline Woodson ** http://bit.ly/HXuhTp

**Genre:** Letters
**Summary:** This story is about a boy named Lonnie who writes letters to his sister Lili but keeps them. Their parents died in a fire accident and they had to stay with a foster mama but Lili's foster mama did not want any boys in her house, so Lonnie was separated from Lili and had to stay with Miss Edna another foster mama. Miss Edna had two children but one of her child went to fight for the war and couldn't come home. Lonnie writes letters to her sister everyday but keeps them because he wants to give the letters to her sister once they get to live with each other. Sometimes they get to meet each other but only a little bit. They are having a good life but sometimes they get sad and sad if they remember they're parents so Miss Edna is always trying to help him with it. One day, Lonnie's foster brother comes back from the war with his missing leg. A building fell on top of his leg and he lost his leg. At first Lonnie was so afraid that his hands were trembling but after a while he was doing okay with Jenkins. In school everyone in his class says that Lonnie is a real poet. His new teacher Miss Alina says that he is truly a real poet after he wrote a poet to Miss Alina. So after all, Lonnie and Lili is waiting for them to live together one day.

**Connections:****Text-to-self:** It reminded me of the time when I was writing a lot of letters to my friend.

**Text-to-world:** It reminded me of my 1st grade teacher because she was exactly like Miss Alina.

**Questions I still have:****Why did Lonnie decide to keep all his letters that he wrote instead of giving them to Lili?** **Important or new vocabulary:** **How I saw this character:** I think Lonnie is a really good student and a quiet student because he doesn't really act crazy like monkeys.
 * Letters
 * Lost leg
 * Love
 * Peace
 * Poet

Saya, This looks like a really good book. I also wonder why Lonnie kept his letters. I want to read this book, it looks really interesting. Maggie

// **Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ** // **by J.K Rowling** http://bit.ly/HwUDlR

**Genre:** Fiction
**Summary:** Harry is in the second year of Hogwarts. Professor Snape put Tom Riddle's diary into Ginny's pile of school books. Harry finds out about that book and wrote to Tom in the diary. Harry Potter goes to Moaning Myrtle's toilet and tries to find the Chamber of Secrets with Ron Weasly and Professor Lockhart. Once he finds the Chamber of Secrets, he meets Tom Riddle and finds out that he is Lord Voldemort. He fights with the Basilisk and Dumbledore sends his phoenix and the Sorting Hat and finds a sword. He cuts the snake and stabbed the diary and Tom Riddle went away. He rushed over to Ron, Ginni and Lockhart and found out that Lockhart lost his memory.

**Connections:****Text-to-self:** **It reminded me of the time I saw a really big snake at the zoo.**

**Text-to-world:** **It reminded me of the really dark and long cave on TV.** **Text-to-text:** **Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone.**

**Questions I still have:** Why did Lord Voldemort try to kill Harry Potter?

**Important or new vocabulary:**
 * Chamber
 * Polyjuice Potion

**How I saw this character:** I think Dumbledore has a bierd and he is an old man and looks nice and he knows every single thing.

Dear Saya,We chose your post to look at as a class so we could learn together about posting on a wiki. This is a bit different for us but we think we will be able to do it. Of the 13 people in our class, 7 people have read this book. We think he tried to kill Harry Potter because of the prophesy that said a boy born in June will kill Voldemort. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.Grade 5Riverstone International School

Dear Saya, I have not read any of the Harry Potter books but I have seen all of the movies except for part 2 of number seven. My sister has read all of the books over the million times and she loves them. I want to read them now. Maggie

Dear Maggie, Thank you so much for your reply. I think that the Harry Potter books are really good and fun to read. I do recommend it to my friends. How were the movies? I hope it was great :) Saya