Cloudy Days I remember the clouds on that day being especially low in the sky. Pressing down, covering the little world I knew with an ashy gray. The trees rustling in the distance disrupted the silence fogging up the football field. The warm uncut grass itched my skin as we sat there with our Read more…
Congratulations to Jason Li for his silver Stephen Crane essay!
Wonder – a fantastic book that will forever remain in your heart “Sometimes you can’t blend in, no matter how hard you try.” August (Auggie) Pullman is not an ordinary boy. His family thinks he is, but he thinks the word ‘ordinary’ just doesn’t feel right to him. Wonder, by R. J. Palacio, is a book about Read more…
He dares them to run into Boo’s back yard and mess around in it. They even try to write a letter to Boo Radley to try to get him to come out. Unfortunately, Atticus intercepts it before they can deliver it. “Jem held out a filthy piece of paper. Atticus took it and tried to read it. ‘Why do you want Mr. Radley to come out?’
The Mummy, the Will, and the Crypt is a book more meant for kids age 8 to 11. This is because if the book is read by 13 year old it would be boring, and if it was read by a 6 year old he or she would not understand the book and what specific sentences mean. The book however is also somewhat tragic because Grandma gets a brain tumor, and Johnny’s dad also gets his plane shot down by the Koreans and they don’t know if he is dead or alive.
