Yep… I have not completely disappeared from the planet. I just had finals *insert screams here* this week. I hope that I did well, but I really don’t know. Science and French were easy, but History and Math I’m a bit dubious about the results. Well… I’ll just have to wait and see.
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I’m alive!
Posted in Newbery, Update on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Newbery Predictions and Recollections
Posted in Newbery on December 30, 2007 | 8 Comments »
My Newbery Picks
Book of a Thousand Days Shannon Hale
The Wednesday Wars Gary D. Schmidt
Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree Lauren Tarshis
A Crooked Kind of Perfect Linda Urban
The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart
The time has come! Part of me is very nervous, but I am also excited. I have dwindled down my list and [...]
The View from Saturday
Posted in Books, Newbery, Realistic Fiction on December 15, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Noah: Best Man at Nadia’s grandfather’s and Ethan’s grandmother’s wedding and writes calligraphy.
Ethan: Fervent lover of musicals and one of the oldest families in Epiphany.
Nadia: Rescues baby turtles and is confused about her parent’s divorce.
Julian: The English boy who invites them all to tea.
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Posted in Books, Newbery, Realistic Fiction on December 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Wow. I expected to read a book about boys (which it is), but with a completely rude sense of humor as in “Hey, guess what? AL CAPONE DOES MY SHIRTS!”. And then they would laugh hysterically, just like most of the books I find pointless.