Friday, October 26, 2007

Time warp Trio Oh say,I can't see-5 stars


Well Freddy and Joe were having a snowball fight when all the sudden a green mist swirls around them. Then they see Samantha and she tells them why they are here, which is because her homework ate her cat. She tells them that her cat warped with them and if they find her cat then the book will be near her. They have warped to when George Washington was about to cross the Delaware river. George Washington was going to cancel going around the river but Samantha tells him he can not. She shows him a map through her special glasses and he is amazed. George Washington uncancels his plans and does cross the Delaware river. After they cross they find the cat and Samantha is given the book as a thank you present from George Washington. Then they warp home.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Time Warp Trio #1 the knight of the kitchen tabl-5 stars


Well there are 3 friends and they go to Joe's birthday and he gets this magical book Called the book. They see a picture in the book of Camelot and they wish they could see it and then the book warps them into Camelot. Merlin gives them a test to prove they are magical people or enchanters. They have to fight a giant and a dragon. They tell the giant a riddle and he knows it is a trick. So Sam tells the ginat that this dragon said that Giants were not smart. So they get the giant to fight the dragon. Both end up blown up into smitherines. Merlin tells them he found a blue book and shows it to them. He says he will give it to them. When he opens it all the sudden the boys warp home.

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Magic tree house #3 mummies in the morning-5 stars




Well the kids go to Egypt and meet a cat and go inside a pyramid. They see this ghost lady who needs help to be able to go to the next world. They have one problem, The ghost can not see well so she can't read the writing. The kids follow the instructions that are written on the wall. They go up the stairs and into a boat, on the boat is a pot, and in the vase was the scroll. They tell the lady ghost where it was and she finds the scroll and is able to go to the next world. The kids are able to get out of the pyramid by following the cat to the outside. Then they are able to go home.

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Ready, Freddy #2 the king of show-and-tell-5 stars



Well Freddy is going to have to bring something really cool and he finds this live baby bird and so he decides to do that for show and tell. But he forgets about the bird when it is time to go in for the night. Freddy leaves it in his tree house. So he goes out to grab the bird. But his dad thinks he is a robber. His Dad brings a baseball bat. And when he realizes that it was Freddy. Freddy lies and says he forgot his baseball cards. Dad takes him back to bed and he takes the show and tell to school the nest dad. But During story time the bird kept on peeping. His teacher thought it was Max. Freddy stands up and tells the teacher it wasn't Max it was actually his show and tell. And so that is why he shows it at story time.

Ready Freddy #3 homework hassels-5stars


Well Freddy's class is doing a report on nocturnal animals. And he does not know what animal to pick. So he and his friend stay up all night and they sneak out at night while everyone is asleep. Freddy climbs up a tree and is hanging by his legs when the branch snaps. He breaks his arm when he falls. Freddy gets grounded from having sleepovers with his friend Robbie. He gets help from his family and the people at school. He decides to write his report on bats because Robbie's mom asked if he was trying to be like a bat when he was hanging upside down in the tree. And he finally gets his report done with help from Robbie and others since his arm was broken.

Ready, Freddy #5 The Talent Show Scaredy- Pants-5 trs

Well Freddy's class is going to have a talent show. But Freddy does not know what to do, So his teacher allows him to think it over and he can tell her tomorrow. So at dinner he tells his family he does not know what to do. And it so happens that his dad knew that his sister,Suzie has a magic set and his sister keeps on saying no but her parents say that she has to share it or she will be grounded. So she Shares and Freddy learns to pull a bunny out of a hat. He finally gets it done and was the star of the Talent-Show.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

the magic school bus #18 the fishy field trip-5 stars

Well It's about a class and they go on a field trip to learn about coral reefs and they visit a real coral reef and they transform into fish! The teacher presses a button the magic school bus and they all turn into fish. The kids get to see how a fish gets cleaned by other fish. They learned how to swim like a fish by using the upper fin to steer and the back fin keeps you from turning over and over again.
They have a blast but then they transform into kids again. And they see how a anomene eats, and why a blade fish is called that. They saw how a shark doesn't need to smell or to see because it can sense movement. They share what they learned with everyone's parents.
It gives you a lot of information. I liked it.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Aunt Harriet's under ground railroad-4 stars


Well two kids see this train up in the sky and the boy goes on the train. The sister tells him, Bebe, to get off the train but it was too late the train was already starting and the conductor is really Harriet Tubman. She tells Cassie to go on a journey if she was going to be able to see the boy again and it tells about on her journey and the letters she gets from the boy. In the book there are a lot of facts about what it was like for slaves when they escape. Cassie hears Harriet Tubman's voice telling her where to go. And at the end she finally gets to the boy. She tells Bebe to never leave her again and he says that it is more important to be free.

Time warp trio Summer reading is killing me!-5 STARS


Well there are Three boys and they are on summer vacation and there is this book called the book that allows them to travel anywhere in time. They are supposed to read 4 books over the summer and they put the list of books in the book. And all of the characters in the books get sucked out of the books and into one world also taking three boys as well. And they need to go and try to take all of the characters and put them back into their books. But the evil characters are trying to destroy all of the good characters. And the boys try to stop them. They go into this library and find this character called the devil talking to the bear and calls him boss. So they find out that the person behind this is a teddy bear!! The teddy bear wants them killed and this girl saves them by talking all the bad guys to sleep. The boys are able to get the book and time travel back home while all the characters went back to their books.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Judy Moody Gets Famous-5 stars

In this book, Judy Moody decides she wants to be famous. She realizes that all her family members are famous. Like her brother was born in a Jeep. Her Dad did something, I forget what. And her mom was famous for doing this sort of club. Her friends are also famous. She gets angry and in class she gets in trouble for throwing an earth worm at Jessica Finch. But it was on accident. Her friends and her brother try to help her get famous so they tie their shoes together and fall down so Judy can "save them." But she accidentally breaks Frank's pinkie finger. He Has to go to the hospital. Judy and her Brother go to the hospital too and they meet a girl named Laura that is getting a new heart.
Judy sees a bunch of broken dolls and so she takes them home and works on them and puts them back together with her own Barbie Doll parts. A few days later she mails them back. She sees a note in the papers that says a thief had stolen the dolls from the hospital. But when the hospital gets them back they are all curious of how they got washed, cleaned, and nicely dressed. Judy continues to buy broken dolls and repair them and send them to the county hospital. She decides it is better to do it secretly.

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Ready Freddy #10 The Super Secret Valentine-5 stars


Freddy's class is having a valentine's party. And he has to make 19 valentine cards for everyone in his class. But one of the valentine's was one for Jessica. It needed to be special because he liked her the most because she was brave. But people keep on calling him names because Freddy and Jessica are together and they are saying they are in love and other mean things. In the end he makes it look like a basketball because Jessica likes basketball. He wrote a little note asking if she will be his valentine. Freddy finally gets it finished and gives the valentine to Jessica. On the playground Jessica says she will be his valentine.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Readdy freddy #9 Shark tooth tale-4 stars


Freddy went to a mall and into a store and sees a MEGALODON TOOTH! But the thing is that it costs fifty dollars! And he begs mom and dad to buy it for him but they will NOT buy it. And they tell him at dinner time that he ought to earn the money. His friends say he ought to sell lemonade and walk dogs. One of the neighbors has a broken leg and he knows she makes good lemonade and so she tells him her secret recipe for making the best lemonade. He walked the ladies dog but that was the only one he walked. Freddy got paid $2 for walking the dog to the park. He gets paid enough money to buy the shark tooth. But his sister says that he forgot the taxes and they make a deal that if she helps him he will have to carry her backpack for the rest of the week. So he buys the Megalodon tooth. He takes the shark tooth to school and loses it because a boy named Charles stole it because he thought it was neat. but he gave it back when the book ends.

Judy Moody Declares Independence-5 stars


Judy Moody is going to Massachusetts. She meets a girl named Tori and they become friends but they have to go back home to their own places, Tori was from London and Judy is from Virginia. But Judy Moody really wants to stay with Tori but her parents keep on saying no. Judy decides she wants more freedom and she keeps working hard trying to get more freedom. She wants to stay up more, and not have to brush her teeth or her hair. She works hard to show her parents that she is responsible. Stink falls asleep on the bus and doesn't get off so she is worried about him. She gets on her bike to try to catch up with the bus. She finally does and Stink says he was scared when he didn't see her. But he was fine because she was there since she had followed the bus. Her parents didn't let her talk because they were so worried about her and Stink. They send her to her room. Then when Stink tells the story and her parents are not angry but are proud she rescued him. Then when Stink kept telling the story it got crazier and crazier like Judy was chased by wild dogs and stuff. Judy's parents say that she can have more freedom and they let her stay up 15 more minutes.

Friday, October 12, 2007

Ready Freddy #8 Halloween fraidy cat-4 stars


Well Freddy is invited to a halloween party. The thing is that Freddy is scared of all the scary stuff. And Freddy and his sister go to a store for their costumes but not one of them is the one Freddy likes. Instead of being a scary creature he decides to be a hammerhead shark. At the party Freddy realizes that the party has just people dressed up. Max challenges Freddy to a apple bobbing contest. Freddy won because Max lost his concentration while he was telling Freddy he was going to lose. Max the 1st grade bully is afraid of this strange sound that turns out to be a cat that got stuck in the basement behind a washing machine.

Ready freddy #7 Yikes! Bikes!-althuogh not real 100 stars


Freddy's school is having a bike-a-thon. But the thing is that Freddy does not know how to ride a two wheeler. So his parents take him to an abandoned baseball field to practice. Sometimes he keeps falling down and the grass gets in his mouth. Then his friend told him to look straight ahead instead of looking down at his feet. Since he did that he did better. He gets practice and beats Max, the school's best bike rider. Max was always bragging he was the best.

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Ready Freddy#6 Help a Vampire's coming!-4 stars


It's about a boy named Freddy and he keeps on getting nightmares about vampire's so people keep on giving him helping advice. Like to put Garlic all around his room. But that didn't help, he still had the dreams. But every advice was wrong until his parents told him about the dream police. The dream police are people that go around and make sure that there are no bad dreams that come into your head and make you get scared. When he still had a bad dream, the next morning his parents said it was because he hadn't trained His dream police yet and to try again.That night, the dream police succeeded. They sprayed the vampire with a spray bottle and made him evaporate. And that night he slept good without having to worry as long as the dream police were on duty.

More Books! Woohoo!

Mom ordered some books for me from Scholastic. They are about a kid named Freddy. Jessalyn's books all came last week but Surprise! Mine finally came today! There are 5 Ready Freddy books!

Plus...
Mom ordered me two books from Paperbackswap.com
  • 4th Grade Wizards by Barthe DeClements
  • The Astonishing Stereoscope by Jane Langston.
I can't wait to read them! Bye bye.. I'm off to reading land!

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Judy moody Predicts the future-5 STARS!!


Judy Moody gets this mood ring in a box of cereal where it tells how you feel. She gets angry because it keeps turning black. Stink takes it out of the garbage and keeps showing off and so she wants it back when she sees it changes colors. Stink won't give it back. And guess what??? Judy finds toady because in "saves the world" Judy let him go (Which Made Stink MAD!!). and she finds out that Mr. Todd (Judy's teacher) loves a women called Ms. Tater. And will soon get married! Stink gives her back her mood ring. But it is stuck on his finger since he kept it on all the time. So Judy uses Soap to get it off.
Judy is all happy and goes to school with her mood ring and everyone wants to try it on. She ends up getting it taken away since she was always messing with it in class. She gets it back after school.

I rated it 5 stars because it was a happy book.

Judy Moody was in a Mood.Not a good mood. A bad mood-4 stars


It'S aBoUt JuDy MoOdY, She iS nOw MoVinG fRoM sEcOnD gRaDe tO dRuM rolL pLeAsE "3rD gRaDe!"and her teacher, Mr. Todd says to do a Me collage (All about YOU.) Judy moody Has to answer all these questions on a big piece of paper. Like what clubs are you in? Where do you live? Who is your best friend? and stuff. Judy doesn't have a club and needs help. One day they made up a club call the Toad Pea Club(eeww!) Judy made people hold the toad until it pee'd in their hands. At the end Stink accidentally makes a mess of her collage. He spilled juice on it. But she makes it look like Virginia! And it was great!


Why I give this 4 stars is because it was a little boring yet interesting!

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Judy Moody M.D. The Docter is in!- 4 stars


It's about Judy moody this time is tired of rain so she decides to pretend to be sick, but the mom knows she is faking it. Her class is studying 1 word, B-O-N-E-S bones!! So her class goes to a hospital and looks around. They see what people do in a hospital and what it looks like. They realize that you can bring pets to the PAWS for healing part where there are animals people can pet and stuff as part of getting better. It can lower blood pressure. The Doctor asked them when you can call 911 and when not to. He says you can not call 911 to ask how to cook a Turkey. He taught them about codes in the hospital like Code Blue means the patients heart has stopped. He asks who wants to have a cast put on her arm and Judy Moody gets one on her arm and gets to keep it on and everyone signs it. Then on Friday they have show and tell about parts of the body and Judy finds out that Stink still has his umbilical cord, she sneaks it out and takes it to class. Stink doesn't feel well so Mrs. Bell in the clinic says Stink is really sick because his throat is as red as a fire engine. So Stink has to eat the BRAT diet, which is Banana's, Rice, Applesauce, and Toast. When Stink starts to get better Judy gets sick because she was always hanging around Stink. She acts like she is the 1st woman Doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell and performs surgery. She tells them she has an eyepatch because when she Elizabeth Blackwell was a girl she had an eye disease and had her eye taken out. So she wore and eye patch over it.
When Judy is sick her friends bring her animals to keep until she gets better. She feels better when the animals leave and she writes in her journal about it. It was hard to take care of them.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Judy Moody saves the world-3 stars


It's about Stink's sister named Judy. And there is this contest called crazystrips where you mail in a picture and they mail back to tell you if you won. The prize is rollerblades and a years supply of bandaids. Stink actually wins and she acts like a howling monkey when she finds out. But also Judy's class is talking about the rainforests. Judy keeps learning about products that come from the rainforest and does not want to use them. She keeps throwing them away and try to get people to use something else. The class decides to bring bottles and recycle them and also to plant 100 trees. That is a lot! She is given a long neck giraffe trophy for doing all this work.
Taking care of the rainforest is important. Pencils can come from trees in the rainforest. One tree can make 1,732 Pencils. WOW that is alot. But I think Judy Moody was taking this thing WAY TOO SERIOUS!!!!

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Stink the incredible shrinking kid-3 stars(Although a little intresting)


It's about a boy named Stink Moody(You may have heard of Judy Moody his sister) And every day he has his sister measure him to see how tall he is, but everytime she measures him he's three feet, and 8 inches tall. But he feels like he's shrinking!! One night he drank all his milk and ate all his peas and then he realizes he is 1/4 inch shorter than he was in the morning. So he realizes he must be strinking. He took the milk from the cafeteria to the classroom and on the way he stops at the clinic and when he tells the nurse that he was shrinking. She says that yes he might shrink but he will grow again at night. He gets to keep the class pet, Newt for the weekend. One day when they clean the tank, Newt goes down the drain and Judy turned on the disposal so he thinks Judy killed his class pet. His teacher says not to worry, she was going to New Hampshire for Presidents day and will get another Newt while she is there. Stinks favorite president was James Madison the 4th president of the United States. So his family has James Madison Day to celebrate. He gets a mirror that makes you look short like James Madison. Then there was a side with Abe Lincoln and you see yourself as Tall and skinny. At the end, Stink feels like he has grown.