Mystery

Marsha Niemeijer 12 Aug 10 Summer Reading Assignment Miss Ulster

“The Golden Compass (The Northern Lights)”

Philip Pullman

Oxford,

Lyra travels up to – to help her friend and the other children from the “gobblers” with the help of the “alethiometer.”

Lyra Belacqua- The holder of the alethiometer, very brave and smart.

Mrs. Coulter- A beautiful and young-looking woman, brought Lyra with her on her trip, which started the adventure.

Adventure

I chose this book because I have always loved mystery books. This book has a lot of adventure in it, and it actually took place in another world. People in the book are almost the same as us, but we both have a lot of differences with the characters in the book. I also like it because the main character is a very brave girl around my age. She can do some extraordinary things, and things that even some adults won’t be brave enough to do it.

After the first book, there are two more books before the story really ends. And the book was made into a movie by Chris Weitz.

I would recommend this book to the other middle school students who also like adventure books like me. This book is full of adventures and it is very interesting because it does not take place in our world, but in another world.

Mrs. Bradley 11/8/10 Grade 7

Humanities ½ Mrs. Williams Twenties Girl BY: SOPHIE KINSELLA Setting: This book is set in London, and the whole story continues there.

Plot: Lara Lington always had imaginations beyond something that could actually come true. But then she finds herself talking to a ghost! Is this just her imagination or her Great Aunt’s ghost is haunting her? Life can’t be much harder for Lara but as things get clearer she starts to understand why her so called “imagination” or her Great Aunt’s ghost is here for… ghost don’t just appear and change someone’s life right? Or do they…

Main Characters: In the book “Twenties Girl” the first main character is Lara Lington, she always had imaginations beyond something that could actually come true, as you have read from the plot. The next main character is Lara Great Aunt’s Ghost (or maybe Lara’s own imagination), Sadie. Who died at the age of 107, everyone said that was why she is special but no one in the Lington's family acutually cares.

Theme: The theme of this book is you can only love someone or something while it's with you, because after that when it's gone it never comes back.

I've been reading a lot of books that Sophie Kinsella has written, and they were all fun and exciting. When browsing the book on the book shelf at Asia Books, and picked this book up. I knew right away that it was fun. EVERY Sophie Kinsella book is a treat to the brain.The blurb hooked me immediately, without a second thought I showed my mom the book and then we bought it.

Twenties Girl has a connection to another book I have read called “The Mystery of the Second Lucretia” (I forgot the author). It's alike because once the main characters discover something interesting they pulled the mask out of the villians. This is like finding a little piece of string that is dumped on top of a thousand boxes. When you pull out the string you find that behind the box is the bones of a dead man.

I would certainly recommend this book to any other 7th grader who loves to read mystery book. Twenties Girl is more of a girl's book so I boys wouldn't really want to read it. I am sure that anyone would love Sophie Kinsella's clever way of writing stories, creating something that looks boring come alive.

By: Claire Jinjunthakarn

The book I read was Peeled, by Joan Bauer. Hildy is a 16 year old kid who was working for the paper. There was a mysterious killing going round town. **﻿Title:** __Peeled__ **Author:** Joan Bauer **Setting:** Modern day, Banesville, New York. **Plot:** Hildy Biddle is a determined sixteen year-old working as a journalist, following her dad’s footsteps, when weird events start occurring in her town. **Two characters:** Darrell is the egoistic editor. He has been the editor for the Core(a high school paper) for a long time. He pushes his reporters to do the best they can. Tanisha Bass is Hildy’s best friend and the photographer for the Core. She helps Hildy solve the mystery of the Ludlow house. She is funny and makes the book humorous. **Themes:** When you need to prove something you cannot let anything get in your way. **Longer answers:** I chose this book because I like mysteries. One quote from book is, “Stay on this, Hildy. This could be big. Bigger than big. I want the story behind the story.” (2) I have always interested in how far journalists have to go to get the truth. I enjoyed this type of book because the suspense keeps you hanging.

In the book, Hildy has to prove herself. I can connect to that because I had to prove to my mom that I was responsible enough to own a phone. I had to prove to myself, and my mom, that I could take care of an important item. For example when the sheriff said, “ You kids might wonder if you’ve got the right to continue to publishing that paper.” (213), Hildy has to prove to her town and to herself that she is a good journalist.

I would recommend this book to other students because they probably can relate to Hildy’s problem of being a kid; and that people sometimes do not take kids seriously. I also would recommend this book because it is a very intriguing mystery.

By: Sarah Corning By: Aish Grade 7

** Summer Reading Assignment ** **__ Short Answers __** ** Title: ** Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, ( The title refers to the distance travelled under the sea and not to a depth, as 20,000 leagues is 2.4 times the circumference of the earth) ** Author: ** Jules Verne ** Setting: ** The ships, the sea, the underground forest, New York ** Plot: ** During their time on the Nautilus, the men experience exciting adventures. They hunt in underwater forests, visit an island with angry natives, visit the lost city of Atlantis, and fish for giant pearls. However the ship gets attacked by an unknown creature. So the mystery begins here in the underwater sea trip. ** Characters: ** · Professor Pierre Aronnax, who was a renowned scientist. · Captain Nemo, the commander of the vessel, known as the Nautilus. ** Themes: ** Be brave and don’t give up. **__ Longer Answers __** ** 1. ** I chose this book for reading because; this book was based on mystery and adventure. I love reading books that connect to a journey and exploring. The thing that piques my interest for the book was the cover page; the cover page kind of descried the genre of the book (mystery) which grabbed my attention. “The SCOTIA was not the first ship to be struck. It was just one of many ships that had been hit in that year of 1867.” ** 2. ** A connection for this book would be a Movie, because the movie TITANIC kind of relates to the book. In both the stories, however the ship was struck; water was gushed into the ship in the book and in the movie. “A ship named SCOTIA was struck by some unknown force, resulting in a two-yards-wide hole in the ship’s bottom. Ocean water had gushed into the ship through that hole.” ** 3. ** I would recommend this book to other students because this book was interesting to read and had good vocabulary contained. This book helps to make us think that we should be brave all the time and never give up. I would also recommend this book to people who kind of dislike reading because this is a small, good and very interesting book. I would mostly recommend this to people who love reading mystery. ** Reading Assignment ** By:Nancy (Napatra W.) **Title:** Lorenzo’s secret mission **Author:** Lila and Rick Guzman **Setting:** USA New Orleans, Mississippi river, Virginia, etc. **Plot:** Lorenzo is pursuing about his dad dying, and so he needs to go on a mission to deliver a letter to his grandfather. **Characters:** Lorenzo, he is a very brave boy, and confident about what he suppose to do. Gibson's Lambs **,** he is a good person because he helped Lorenzo about the American Revolution. **Themes:** As long as you have confident and be brave you can pass through the problems. 1. This book really attracts my interests by the contents that they have, and also the illustration that catches my attention. I like to read books that have some facts like this one. It tells about the American Revolution.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">2. Lorenzo’s secret mission has some connections like movies and my own experience. It’s because Lorenzo keeps his words to send the letter to his grandfather. When I tell someone I’ll do something for them I keep my words. I watched a movie called camp rock Mithie (Demi Lovato) she always keep her words that she will come and work to help her mom.

<span style="display: block; font-family: Calibri; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm; text-indent: -18pt;">3. I really recommended this book to people who like to read historical fiction. Every part in the book is always interesting.) The ways that the writer described the parts in the book about how Lorenzo solve his problems.

Title: Crispin Author: Avi By: Leo (Mrs William, 7/8) on the beginning of the story, Crispin's mom dies,then the mayor accuses crispin of stealing money from the mayor house and he wanted Crispin for 20 shillings and a wolf's head which means that anyone can kill crispin which they wanted to ( which I suppose was a lot of money back then and I don't even know if shillings is made up or real) Crispin flees the town and sets off to a castle. Good sentence: you were named Crispin when I baptized you. This makes me think that this must be a shocking truth after being called 10 years or so Asta's son

Title: Goosebumbs: Night of the living dummy

Title: Night of the living dummy Author: R.L. Stine Setting: I don't know Plot: Twin sisters get dummy's and love to preform but then one day wierd things start to happen... Characters: Lind and Kris all mostly trying to beat the other one and do better than the other when they get the dummys the same thing one gets a huge crowd next thing you know the other is on TV Themes: ?

I read the book because I had never read the goosebump books before so I did.I also read the book because I saw the book in the horrorland seires to.

The genre is mostly the same for all the goosebump books at the end after everything is okay suddenly something happens that totally freaks you out

I would recommend this to middle school students because I think it is the best of the goosebump books.The goosebump books are very interesting books and the good thing is that they are all diferent storys so you don't have to read them in order.

Sam Pritchett reading asiment