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Skulduggery Pleasant the Kingdom of the Wicked
Derek Landy
606pg

I am rereading Skulduggery Pleasant the Kingdom of the Wicked. It is about a skeleton detective and his assistant solving mysteries. The most interesting part is when they find the powerful sorcerer Argedion. I thought that that was interesting because it was something that I really did not expect. It was cool because I think that I would never be able to find the location. They were hidden in an area of the Alps that is guarded by Yetis.

Abby McKenzie

Title: The Giver

Author: Lois Lowry 

The Giver 

This week in The Giver I read about Jonas receiving memory of starvation and Jonas didn't really like that because it gave him spasms in his stomach, but The Giver said you have to keep these memories because it will help you in the future. The most interesting thing was Jonas gave memory to Gabriel but Jonas was not suppose to do it because Jonas is not a Giver yet. 

The word I didnt know was "rhythmically" and the sentence is "Still patting rhythmically, Jonas began to remember the wonderful sail that The Giver had given not long before". (The Giver 110) The word means "Periodic,as motion  or a drum beat". 

The Host

Hello Everyone!

This week, I have chosen to start a new book. The name of the book is called "The Host" and the author, that is very well know is called "Stephenie Meyer". The number of pages the book has is 617. The picture is located at the very bottom of the post, after all my writing. 

Basically, my story takes place in the future. In the future, earth has been colonized by the "Souls". The "Souls" are an alien race that inhabit human bodies, and as we get into the book, and as we finish the first couple of chapters, we learn that there are only a few humans who's bodies have not been inhabited by the alien group. Melanie Stryder is one of the few humans that have not been taken control of the Souls and she later meets the rest of the remaining humans. As the book continues, Melanie is taken over by a Soul and fights him while the Souls attempts to get inside her head, and see all her memories, and since Melanie has meet the remaining humans, if the Soul accesses her memories, he will be able to see the remaining humans and take control over them. 

The most interesting part of the book, is in my case, the very beginning. The reason the beginning is most interesting is because it all starts with the major event, and I was very confused because they did not say what "Souls" were, etc, but then when they started giving hints and in some way filling in the blanks, you started to understand more, and when you understood everything that' when the story got interesting. 

"Because he was a soul, by nature he was all things good: compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous, and full of love." (Meyer 1) This sentence was on the very first page, and the world was "virtuous". The definition of virtuous is having, or showing moral high standards. 

Where I got my definition: https://www.google.rs/search?q=virtuous&aq=f&oq=virtuous&aqs=chrome.0.57j60j0j65j0l2.2186&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Marija, 7A

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Title of the book: The Giver

Author: Lois Lowry

Number of total pages: 219


 "The Giver" is about Jonas, who lives in really strange community, much different that ours. When I started reading the book I thought that it was really boring but as I kept reading it became interesting. In that community people can is only in black and white and the biggest difference is that everyone cannot be better that the other people in something so everyone has to be the same.The community gives you a job when you become twelve years old.
  The most interesting part for me was when Jonas became twelve years old and he got his job for his entire life. That job was not simple but the most important job in the community, "The receiver of memory".
 Unknown word: Rows
 Sentence: "Ash!" he called, spotting his friend near the rows of bicycles.
Definition:  a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line.
Page: 62

 

The Giver

The Giver
 by Lois Lowry
179 pages

This week i read the Giver, one chapter 12 Jones is getting knowledge on colours and  it was really interesting when Jones got the memory of sledding because it was soooo new to him and he was excited and scared at the same time also when he got the color red. The word i chose is "exempt"it is in this sentence "from this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness" (Lowry 68)

exempt=verb=free from an obligation others must do. 

The Giver

The Giver
Lois Lowry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

179 Pages

 

This week, I am currently reading the book The Giver . It is a book that our whole grade is reading together but I am trying to finish the book before others. It is a very enjoyable book that was not very interesting in the beginning but as I kept reading, it became very fascinating. The book is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas, living in a different environment and community than ours. In their community, people can only see in black and white, they say "released" to kill someone by law and it is rare to see people with light colored, or "pale" eyes. In this community, when you become a year older, you receive a gift from the community. Everyone has the same birthday which is December first. When you turn one, you receive a family. When you are nine you receive a bycicle and so on. As you tun twelve, you receive an assigned job. Until this twelveth birthday, he has no idea what kind of job he will receive. But then, he does not receive a job, he gets selected as the Reciever of Memory which is the most important elder job in the community. A word I came across while reading that I did not know the meaning of was the word dismayed. "But he was a litle dismayed that his schedule left no time, apparently, for recreation." Dismayed means to be alarmed or a sudden complete loss of courage. This word and sentence was on page 68th page of The Giver. (Lowry 68)

 

 

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The Giver

Title; The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Number of pages: 179

This week I managed to read the whole book called "The Giver". The book is a great fantasy novel that is very unusual. The book talks about a boy named Jonas, his community that is much different than any others, and about Jonas becoming a Twelve. He lives in a community where there is no color and where everything is the same. Unlike other kids Jonas is very special and has a gift that not many have. In the ceremony of Twelve Jonas receives a job that will change his life forever. This book is fabulously written and has some great words that you cannot find everywhere. I couldn't decide between the two words; fugitives and meticulously. The meaning of meticulous (meticulously) is extremely careful and precise and also extremely concerned with details. The sentence I found this word in is: "But that evening everything changed. All of it-all the things they had thought through so meticulously- fell apart" (Lowry 163) The other word that to me sounded very interesting is fugitives. The meaning of fugitive (fugitives) is running away or fleeing away as from the law. The sentence is: "Together the fugitives slept though the first dangerous day" (Lowry 168) I really enjoyed reading this book because of all the interesting vocabulary it contains.