Greenwood Lab School

Title: Cool Stuff Exploded

Author: Chris Woodford

Pages: 1-243 (of 243)

This book talks about modern technology and shows some cool futuristic stuff blown apart so you can see all the parts. Ever see a bucket excavator twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty? How about a fuel cell bike that runs on hydrogen gas and only releases harmless steam? Take a look at nanorobots, robots that hunt down viruses and will eventually be small enough to inject in our bodies. Or learn about smart glasses, lenses that allow people to zoom in and out and uses satellite navigation and maps to assist those that are lost. It’s amazing how far we have come and what lies ahead.

One of the best parts of this book was learning about things that are to come in the future. For example, how cool will it be when the 3-D printer gets here. It blasts around billions of atoms, runs off water and produces a 3-D object in less than 5 minutes. This book relates to me because a lot of the things in it are everyday items you find at home. These include such things as a microwave, computer mouse, video camera, laptop, guitars, piano and more. But this book offers a fresh perspective by showing you great color pictures of all the individual parts. I thought this was a really great book. I would give it a 5 out of 5. Some of the things I didn’t really care about, such as how a trash can is made. But, the book comes with a cool CD which rotates the items and explodes them on your computer screen. Awesome. It really brings the book to life. I would recommend this book to anyone that is into technology, science and futuristic stuff.

Book: Breaking Dawn

Author: Stephanie Meyer

Pages: 1-454

I am currently reading breaking dawn. It is the last book in the Twilight series. This book is one of my favorite books out of this series, because so many interesting things are happening. Edward and Bella are deeply in love, so they are getting married. Alice Cullen prepared the wedding. She decorated the Cullen house for the wedding, and she helped get Bella ready for the wedding. Once Bella and Edward were married, they went on a honey moon, to Esme Island. The place Edward was taking Bella was a surprise, she had no idea where the were going.

They arrived there, and had a great time. They stayed for a few weeks, and had to go home, because Bella was pregnant. She was feeling very sick and they had to go back. They got on a plane, and it took them awhile to get home. Once they were home, they went to go see Carslie. He told Bella she had to drink blood, and did anything he could do help her feel better. Bella slept a lot and never felt very well. Jacob and some of the other werewolf’s were there to watch over.

This is what has gone on in the book so far. I think that it’s a great book. It is one of those books that is hard to put down because it is so good. I like how Stephanie Meyer always puts so much detail in her books, because that is what makes them so interesting. I think that everyone should read the Twilight series, because it is such a good series, and normally everyone likes all of the books. I am excited to see what is going to happen next!

I am walking in the park on a cold Saturday morning. I hear the wind blowing and a dog barking. I see a few people walking around the park. I see I women with a small child, that looks about the age of two, and I see a man walking his small dog. I smelt the smell the smell of nature. I see leaves and frost on the ground. It was very cold, I felt a nice chill.

I now set down on a bench in the bark, and watched as more and more children came to play. They were going down slides, singing, talking, swinging, and playing with their, friends, they were having lots of fun! I was feeling very cold, so I decided to go home. I started walking on the path that leads me to my house, it was about a ten minute walk. On my way home I saw bikers, runners, and people walking. A small child was biking with her father, and fell of her bike, and rolled off the sidewalk to the grass. She was about the age of six, I stoped walking to help her up. She was crying and had a scraped knee, but her father said she would be fine, and thanked me for helping.

I then arrived at my house. Very tired and worn out from the park, so I decided to grab a blanket, and watch some T.V. There was nothing good on, so I decided to watch the news. I then fell asleep, because I was so tired. I had a very fun day at the park, and I hoped to go again someday soon, and bring my dog named penny.

Madison

Wicked- By Sara Shepard

Pages: 310/310

I have recently finished the book Wicked. It is the fifth book in the Pretty Little Liars Series. Many big things happened since my last reading letter. Spencer’s family had big banquet party at their house. This was right after Ian Thomas was accused for killing Ali. He was supposed to come to a trial, but missed it. He then went missing. At the party all of the girls got notes from “A” that lured them all outside into the woods. Spencer went out first, and while she was gone nobody could find her, so the other three went outside to try.When they finally found her, she showed them what she had found in the woods. She found Ian Thomas, dead.

That was the end of the book. I really enjoyed most parts of the book. The middle got kind of boring in parts, but the ending was amazing. Ian Thomas dying was a big deal, and that really made me want to read the next book in the series. I have some questions though. Who killed Ian and why? Who is sending the A notes, now that Ian is dead? Did Ian really kill Ali? When they went out into the woods, I thought that Ian might be out there alive and trying to hurt them. I am glad that they didn’t die because that would really twist up the story. Again, I really enjoyed this book and I would recommend it to anybody!

The woods are a nice place. Full of singing birds and hoping rabbits. The smell of honey sickle growing near by. It is a place were it seems nothing could go wrong. That’s when I got that weird felling someone was watching me. I turned around, nobody was there but I still felt that someone was watching me. The I heard the crackle of leaves as someone or something was coming closer and closer to me. That’s when I started to run. I didn’t know were I was going. I climbed up into a tree were I waited holding my breath as they came closer and closer. I could so the shadow of the creature as it became bigger and bigger with every step it took. Then it came into sight. It was a deer the whole time. I had ran away from I deer that unknowingly was coming towards me.

Runner

Carl Deuker

216/216

I read the book Runner. The book was about a boy named Chance who’s still in school and his dads a drunk. They live on a tiny sail bout named the Tiny Dancer. Chances dad can’t hold a steady job and Chance doesn’t make enough at the job he is out to pay the bills. So one day a fat guy that works at the Marina comes up to Chance and asks him if he wants to make some easy money. Chance listens and the guy tells him all you have to do is run down to the beach wearing a backpack and look in the cracks in the rocks to see if there are any packages. If so put them into your backpack and run back to the docks. When you get back put the backpack in the locker and go back to your normal life.  This went fine for a while but then there start to get some strange packages. They were squishy and had no smell. The fat guy told him to keep those packages on h is boat and somebody would come and pick them up. Months went by and nobody picked them up. Eventually everything went wrong those strange packages were explosives and the people smuggling them were terrorists. When Chance’s dad found out he told Chance to go to one of his friends house who was a lawyer. He did as he was told. The Lawyer told the police then they left and got on a helicopter so chance could tell them which boat was there’s. They eventually found it saw the terrorists had taken the boat and Chances dad. His dad was fighting one of the terrorists and through him over board. He looked up at the helicopter at Chance with a smile on his face and then the boat blew up. That’s pretty much the end of the story.

I liked this book a lot. It was one of the best books I have read because it actually help my attention and made me want to read it. When I started reading the book I read the first half in a day and then when I started reading it again I read the other half in a couple days. This was a great book.

This week I read a book called Evermore. In this book, Ever, a teenage girl, has just lost her family in a horrible car wreck. She was the only survivor. Now, Ever lives with her aunt, Sabine, and has to start over her whole life. Only this time, she has a completely new style and attitude towards life. You see, Ever got some special powers after the wreck she and her familywere in. Ever can see peoples auras and know their whole lives story by making contact with them, and to top it all of, she can see and speakto her dead sister. Ever wears horrible hoodies and doesn’t care what other people think, until the new guy Damon came to town. Damonseems to be interested in Ever, but has a weird way of showing it. When she breaks into his house, she finds he may be a little older than she thought, like, hundreds of years.

I like this book because it is a classic vampire story. Ever has gone through many things and every thing in the story just seems to add on to her plate. Nothing seems to go right and she has the weirdest ways of cooping with it. The author has a good way of writing things with out putting to much on the page. The book is an easy read that keeps you wanting to read more. All of the characters are writtennicely and the story line is fun to read about. I also like that the book isn’t like the twilight series and its size. The whole story has a new twist and it is about 600 pages shorter than the other vampire stories. I would recommend this book to twilight fans. That is why i like this book.

Eternal Kiss

(the whole book)

• multiple authors

The Eternal Kiss was actually 13 different short stories from published teen authors, like Melissa de la Cruz.  I really enjoyed this book.  Even if you didn’t get caught in the vampire-supernatural-Twilight craze, this book is still good.  It’s fun to see wdifferent people’s perception of a vampire.  Also, I found several authors whose I want to look up so I can read more of their stuff.  So, reading compliation book gave me a lot of ideas.

The main thing I learned from this is….don’t let an attractive albeit weird dude bite your neck.  No, I’m just kidding!  (Kind of.)  There really isn’t much I can see though, because there are 13 different stories.  The stories all have different perspectives: young, old, male, female, good, evil, confused, aware, and just about everything imaginable.  Some are in the past, others are in the future.  But, all in all you should read this.  It is kind of like reading thirteen books.  They’re just mini ones. 

Evermore by Alyson Noël

Pg 1-63

Dear Miss Gibson,

            I am reading Evermore. It is about a girl named Ever, whose family was killed in a car wreck. She lives through it, and gets special powers, which allow her to hear anyone’s life story by touching them. She hates this gift, because her head is always busy. When she meets Damen, everything changes. When he speaks, or touches Ever, everything in her head goes silent.

            This book is very weird. I do not care much for it. It’s really boring because nothing really important has happened in it yet, and I am already pretty far into the book. I don’t like Ever’s attitude, or her friends. She just doesn’t even try to make friends. I’m pretty sure that the whole book is just going to be boring. It will probably be about her liking Damen. I don’t think I’m going to continue to read this book. I do not want to read a book that I won’t enjoy. I enjoy books with action and surprises. I wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone.