The Rocker I wanted to go home. I wanted to be anywhere but Mr. Johnson’s classroom. The gray-haired nuisance had humiliated me for the fifth time this year – this time he had snatched my blank homework from my hands, and upon seeing it, had continuously reprimanded me. When I thought the eruption was finally Read more…
My Side of the Mountain was a thoughtful and wonderful book. Sam was an amazing character who was very clever. Not only was Sam smart but he was also amazing at making friends; for example, he made friends with Bando and Matt and mastered Frightful: he is smart because he got books from the library Read more…
Likely the two weirdest characters you’ll ever read about: Luke from “My Friend Luke” and the recipient of blows in “There’s a Man Hitting me on the Head with an Umbrella”, by Fernando Sorrentino Zou in normal font, Reyes in bold, italics when one answers the other I’ve read a collection of different authors now, Read more…
Gretath Yunberg I stepped outside and took a long, deep breath of the cool refreshing air. Everything was caked with a thick layer of glistening and shining white snow. The majestic pine trees with their skinny branches struggled to push against the snow that weighed them down. I stepped out and my heavy boots were Read more…
The two novels, Stuart Little, by E.B. White, (1944), and The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden, (Newberry Honor Award, 1961), are similar in some ways and different in some ways. I think there are three main ways that the texts are similar. The three ways they are similar is that both of the Read more…
