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!