Amazing Adventures and Heart Wrenching Life Stories

Amazing Adventures and Heart Wrenching Life Stories is moderated by our librarians at Erving, Leverett, Shutesbury, and Swift River Elementary Schools. They are (in alphabetical order, of course): Marcia Bernard, Erin Daly, Karin Gravina, Georgie Schmid, and Robin Shtulman.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

My Least Favorite Books

My least favorite books are:
the Real Lucky Charm and Mrs. Roopy is Loopy.
They are really boring anddull!
-EBF SES

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Fire on Ice

This book was not good. It was like one event then another and like I got a new dress. I didn't enjoy it.

--Fredmagicdude SES

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Young Man and the Sea

The Young Man and the Sea is boooring. It's so sloooow.

---BlueBoo7 SES

Millions

I liked this book more than the movie.

---Fredmagicdude SES

Among the Betrayed

I loooooove Among the Betrayed! It's the best book ever! It's soo suspenseful!

---funkymonkey7152 SES

Friday, January 05, 2007

Sliding Into Home

The title of my book is Sliding Into Home. The author is Dori Hillestad Butler. My book is about this girl Joelle. She moved to Greendale, Iowa. Her favorite sport was baseball. Her school had no baseball for girls. There was only a boys' team at Hoover Middle School. Before she knew she wasn't allowed to play, the boys' team coach wouldn't even let her try out for the team. After she knew she wasn't allowed to play, she did something nobody would have done at Hoover Middle School.

JP of EES

Monday, December 18, 2006

Leaping Beauty

Leaping Beauty was one of the best books I ever read!

There are eight books in Leaping Beauty. It was great. I highly recommend it. It was very funny. I liked everything in the book.

At the end of "So What and the Seven Giraffes," So What's new name was Slap Me Silly. Anyone who walked up to him and said "What's your name?," he would say, "Slap Me Silly." They would slap him silly and his head would go bobbing. People would think that's funny but I would be smoking mad.

Glalie, EES

Leaping Beauty

Leaping Beauty is the animals' version of fairy tales. It is very silly. The names of the books are: Leaping Beauty, Goldiefox and the Three Chickens, Hamster and Gerbil, So What and the Seven Giraffes, Little Red Robin Hood, and more.

My favorite story is Rumplesnakeskin. It's my favorite story because the sheep had to give her wool to the snake so he could make golden thread.

BlackArabian, EES

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Cheezy

I thought Mrs. Roopy is Loopy was a terrible book. It was cheezy and boring!
What do U think about it?

---FashionFreak101

Boring.....

I thought The Real Lucky Charm was not good. It was really boring. It was a level 1 reading scale. Just try to get through the book.

___FashionFreak101 SES

Monday, December 11, 2006

Gifts from the Sea

WARNING: This gives away a bit of the plot!

This was a really good book. A very good book.

Quila was a great character. She made assumptions and acted very quickly. She didn't give people or events enough time.

Quila was also brave. She was very brave when her dad went out to sea to help the people from the shipwreck. She took care of the lighthouse and the baby, Celia. She was jealous of Abby Burgess but she was just as brave.

Sometimes, Quila's bravery was stupid. Like, when she took Celia in the boat. She didn't know how to swim or row the boat!

We liked Aquila's father. We liked that he asked Margaret to marry him with a basket of blueberries. We might like to be proposed to that way, though we don't all like blueberries. We like strawberries better.

There were some creepy and sad parts in this book. It was very fictional. There are ghosts!

It was unique how the baby came in the mattresses. It was cool that that part was based on truth. Some of us are not sure it's believeable that the mattresses would float. One of us tried floating on a mattress when she was camping with a cousin. They floated for a little while but then sank. We think maybe seals must have helped Celia before Quila and her dad found her. Still, it's based on a real story!

Here's what we would miss most if we lived at Devil's Rock lighthouse in the middle of the ocean:
friends and family
autumn: seeing the trees and running around
going to school
land
the library
freedom
shopping
I would worry that the waves would erode the island away.

You should read this book! It's a nerve-wracking, page turning book. You want to find out what happens next. You don't want to stop reading.

A conversation with Katie, Thumbelina, Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, Cinderella, and Nicole of EES.