Miracles on Maple Hill

Author:  Virginia Sorensen

# of pages:  180

Miracles on Maple Hill is a book about a girl, Marly, who spends the summer on Maple Hill.  Marly's father is really sick and tired, so their family thinks he will get better outside the city.  Her mother used to spend summers at maple hill with her grandmother.  Marly really believes there are mysteries on maple hill, and really hopes for one to happen this summer.  Every year in the beginning of the school year Marly, her mother and her brother, Joe, go back to the city.  Her father gets better and better.  Their next door neighbor Mr. Chris, always harvests maple syrup, but one day he falls sick, right around harvest time.  It is up to Marly's family and the farm hand Mr. Chris has to harvest the syrup this year.  Will they make it as good as every other years?  they sure hope so. 

This book is not on the reading list, but it has a John Newbery Medal.  I really enjoyed this book thoroughly. 

What I learned about Ptolemy, my science night person

I learned Ptolemy made the foundation of tiganometry.  He also made the most acurate map of his time (about 90AD-173AD)

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

Author:  Suzanne Collins

#of pages: 374

Suzanne Collins makes The Hunger Games immensely intriguing.  Katniss Everdeen starts out as a regular girl in District 12.  She does not have a father, and she is responsible to provide food for her mother and younger sister.  Every year the capitol forces the twelve districts to send a boy and a girl to the hunger games.  These games force the 24 teenagers to kill each other for the entertainment of the capitol.  When Katniss's little sister gets chosen, Katniss's first instinct is to protect her.  She volunteers to go into the games herself.  When Katniss's stylist Cinna makes a new invention, Katniss is considered as the girl on fire.  Everyone's question is who will live, and who will die????  The hunger games have begun!

The Call Of the Wild

Author:  Jack London

# of pages:  218

Who would ever think that Buck, a family dog would ever be wild?  It turns out that buck's owner's son sold him to a dog sledding company.  Buck is a strong active dog, and the son got good money for him.  Buck is taught he has to be vicious with other dogs to survive.  Going from owner to owner, he knows each owner has a different personality.  His last owners do not know how to take care of dogs, so halfway through the trip the food is really low, and the dogs start starving.  One day Buck gets whipped for not getting up after the group's rest.  Luckly a stranger named John Thorton saves Buck and tells everyone to go on without him.  Buck stayed with John Thorton and really loved him.  Buck stayed with him until he started feeling the 'calls of the wild'.  Buck would dissapear for days at a time.  After one of his trips, buck smelled something horribly wrong on the way back to camp...  Read this interesting book to find out what happens next!   I have really loved this book since fourth grade, and want other people to read it. 

PS. Jack London is the Author as of White Fang, which I have also written a summary about. 

WHAT I LEARNED IN COMPUTER LAB 4-10-12

Today in computer lab we had a free day.  We got to do anything we had already done while at Manchester.  The games I played were Samorost 2 and Electro city.  In Electro city, the purpose of the game is to keep your people alive and happy while you make changes to their environment.  I died in one game, but did very well in the next.  This game will help me in the future because it shows me not everything is about money and being selfish, but that people need to be happy to survive.  In Samorost 2 the purpose of the game is to help a man get his dog from the evil villains.  I had a lot of fun in computer lab.

HERE IS A HILARIOUS DIRK NOVITSKI YOUTUBE VIDEO. (for those of you who know who he is.)

=)  I hope you enjoy it!!!!

What I learned in science lab today 5-3-12

Today I learned many thing about how to clean a bird's feathers after an oil spill.  A bird's feather so not get clean with baking powder, citric acid, or espum salt.  Neil and I tried all these and none cleaned the poor bird's feathers.  I am very unhappy to say that I think our bird died.