The boy in the stripped pajamas

This week I have been reading a book called "The boy in the stripped Pajamas" it is by John Boyne. This book has 216 pages. I am reading a book where the setting is in world war two in Germany. This book is about a boy who is forced to move out of his house into a new house far away from his friends and school. They are forced to move because his dad works for the army and is forced to move. They move to a really nice house but it is very close to a concentration camp. The little boy does not understand what is going on and why the people are wearing blue stripped pajamas. I chose this book because I watched the movie and I really liked the movie so I got the book. The word I didn't know the meaning of is "Desolate". The sentence  I found it in is "The new house, however, stood all on its own in an empty, desolate, place and there were no other houses anywhere to be seen, which meant there would be no other families around and no other boys to play with, neither friends not trouble." (Page 11 John Boyne). The definition of the word according to wordnik.com is "adj. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted:".

Eragon

Eragon
Author- Christopher Paolini
Number of Pages- 484 pg

This week I'm reading Eragon. The book describes a young boy who found a dragon egg. The dragon hatches and the boy takes care of it until his house is burned by secret spies. He escapes to the towns scholar. Who tells him he is chosen to be the next dragon rider. I chose this book because I like historical fantasy.

Unknown Word: Wavered

Definition: To sway in one direction to the other.

Sentence: Soon the pebble no longer swayed and wavered in the air.
(Paolini 155)

Alice in wonderland

Title: Alice in wonderland
Based on the film by: Tim Burton
Number of pages: 236





I am reading "Alice in wonderland" which is based on the film. This is a book about a girl called Alice. She falls into a long hole while chasing a rabbit with a clock, during the party. After going down the hole for such a long time, she finds herself in a room with many doors on the wall. She tries all the doors with a key that was on the table, but the key was too small for the doors. When she was about to give up, she notice that there was a tiny door, and the key fit perfectly. But the door was too small for her, so she drinks some liquid that was on the table, which made her shrink. So she went for the door and stepped into the mysterious world, and the adventure begins.
I chose to read this book because I wanted to read some adventurous books, and this book was perfect for it.
Unknown word: guffaw
Definition: To laugh loudly
Sentence: I could hear the guffaws of my friends.

The giver

The Giver my Lois Lowry

179pages.


This week i have been reading the giver by Lois Lowry. I am almost at the end, i am on chapter 20. In chapter 20 Jones is very shocked in finding out that his father releases children and he just can see his father so the giver asks him if he would like to stay with the giver for the night. The giver explains that it's part of his fathers job and it is what he is instructed. Fiona is also being trained to release the old but she doesn't really care. Jonas is very sad and feels like the world he lives in is a mess. The giver and Jones make a plan to let the memories free to the people. If Jones leaves then the memories will be released. Last time the memories were released everyone went crazy so this time the giver will stay to help the people handle the pain and the memories. The giver can't come and there can't be another receiver because the only person with clear eyes is to young. The giver also tells Jones about hearing beyond, which is when they can hear music, Jonas still hasn't heard beyond but the giver will give him a memory of that before he leaves.
Jonas receives memories of things that might help him on his journey and the giver and Jonas have a plan. Before the ceremony Jonas will write a note to his parents saying he is going to ride his bike. He will leave his bike next to the river and go to the Annex, the giver and Jones escape and the giver will go to the ceremony and tell everyone Jones is dead and then the memories will be released. Jonas begs the giver to go with him but the giver says he wants to be with his daughter, rosemary.

Emphatically
 page:157
Jonas shock his head emphatically
definition- in A forceful way.

The Giver

Title: The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry\
Pages: 179

I have not yet found the chance to start reading the book Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins, the second book in The Hunger Games series, after the 3rd quarter book project. Because I could not start a new book, I am trying to finish The Giver. The Giver is about a 12 year old boy named Jonas who lives in a community which is an utopia according to the author. In this community, because of sameness, people cannot see in color, no emotions, climate control and others. There is one Reciever in the community, which is who holds all the memories that other people do not have. As Jonas is selected as the Reciever, he learns many things by recieving memories from the Giver, the previous Reciever, such as the fact that people in the community gave up all the good happy memories in order to give up on the bad, painful ones. I knew about this book and started reading it because The Giver is a part of my class and my english unit.

New Word: Puncturing
Sentence: To his surprise, his father began to carefully direct the needle into the top of the newchild's forehead, puncturing the place where the fragile skin pulsed.
Page: 149
Definition: to pierce with a pointed object or instrument



The Alchemy of Stone

Title: The Alchemy of Stone
Author: Ekaterina Sedia



Number of pages: 291
Right now I am reading The Alchemy of Stone which is about an intelligent automaton named Mattie, she is skilled in uses of alchemy. She finds herself in the middle of the conflict between the Gargoyles, the Mechanics, and the Alchemists. She discovers dangerous secrets and things she should not know or keep hidden, these things do not go well with the Mechanic who created her, Loharri. Most would be fine even if he knew the secrets but he holds a key, the key to Mattie's heart...literally.  
I choose this book to read next because of the title but also what the summary of the book was about and I found this book sounding very interesting so I decided to try it out.
The fir4st unknown word I found in the book was: Automaton= a self operating machine or mechanism especially a robot.
Sentence: "Her attention was diverted by several automatons filing into the hall, their metal feet reverberating on the hollow floor of the sepulcher."

Twilight

Name of Book: Twilight

Author: Stephenie Meyer

Number of pages: 498

This book is about a 17-year-old girl named Bella Swan who moves to a small rainy town named Forks which is located in the north west of Washington State(to live with her dad) from sunny Phoenix where she lived with her mother. When she arrived to Forks she her dad was waiting for her. He also buys her a truck as a homecoming gift, which makes Bella feel a bit better about this gloomy place. Soon she starts going to her new school in Forks, which is very small compared to her old school, and everybody tries to be friendly with her because she is the "new girl". At lunch she sits with her new friends but as she looks around the cafeteria she sees a table with 5 students who look somehow separate from the others. She finds out that they all live with Dr. Cullen and his wife. In biology class Bella has to sit next to Edward Cullen, who was acting very strange; he was sitting as far away from Bella as possible and didn't say a word to her. The next few days he doesn't appear at school and Bella starts to wonder about who the Cullens are. I chose to start reading this book because it is quite famous and I wanted to find out what it was about.

The word I didn't know was : idly. Sentence: I wondered idly what kind of gas mileage the truck got... and shudderd at the thought (page: 38) Definition: To pass time without working or while avoiding work. Source: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/idly