Hailey

My goal is to read 3 books this summer.

[|Rick Riordan Web site]

1. The Lightning Thief by, Rick Riordan pages- 375

2. It Takes Two by, Devra Speregen pages- 101

3. The Sea of Monsters by, Rick Riordan pages- 279

4. Raymonds Run By ,Toni Bambara pages- 9

5. The Compound by, S.A. Bodeen pages- 245

6. Ever After

7. Someone like you

8. stolen children

9. Naughty Neighbor

10. Twilight series

11. Deep dark and dangerous

12. drums, girls and dangerous pies

13. thirteen reasons why

14.

Things that i want to read are:

Airhead by meg cabot

Dear Mr. Mcfadden,

The book that i am reading right now is still " The Sea of Monsters" by, Rick Riordan. I am on page 63 because i haven't been or had any time to read my book lately because i have been busy. Right now in the story Percy and two of his friends are now at camp half blood and there is a new mean director that is all wrong for the job. He is making there lives terrible. __The point of view__ right now is 1st Percy Jackson, sometimes it is 3rd point of view.

I am reading the Percy Jackson series (the second book) The Sea of Monsters. I am on page 111.Right now is percy is taking a quest to save Grover.

October 7, 2009

Dear Hailey,

So //The Sea of Monsters// is starting off a bit slow, eh? I was surprised to see that your rating was a five. Novels sometimes have that tendency, though. Authors tend to hook you quickly, back off and develop the story a little, and then start building toward the climax and eventual resolution of the story. Fortunately, you have enough experience with this series to realize (and hope!) that the pace is going to pick up and the action is going to intensify.

//The Hunger Games// sort of plays out that way, too. I thought that the first nine chapters that we read in class were okay, but it was starting to bog down a little bit for me. However, this morning I got to the actual start of “the game” in the book, and holy cow, I couldn’t stop reading. Talk about intense and action-packed! That is definitely a book that you’re going to have to finish when you get the chance. It’s a bummer that we didn’t get a chance to finish in reading class, but at least now you’ll have a book that you can pick up and start reading halfway through. I think you’re being too hard on yourself as a reader (you sort of have a tendency to do that, you know!). You may feel that your oral fluency is lacking, but if ideas move along in your head as you read, and you can make sense of what you’re reading, you’re on the right path. And when you have the opportunity to rehearse something before you read out loud, you do much better, as do most people.

Give yourself some credit, Hailey. I think that you’ve got a lot going for you, and I hope that someday you’ll see that, too.

Happy reading,

Mr. McFadden

Dear M. Mcfadden, Yeah it is going kind of slow right now and I would like to get an hour or two to just sit and read because I am almost done and there hasn’t been so much excitement but I am hoping that in a little bit there will be. I am not good at reading and I don’t think that I am being too hard on myself. Also good luck reading your book. I hope that you like what you are reading. I am reading the Sea of Monsters. I am just starting to get to the good part. I’m on page 197. The conflict right now in the book is that Percy is trying to save his friend (Grover) but he can’t he got the quest but the leader is Clarisse. Percy thought that Luke was his friend but now he ends up to not be anymore. Annabeth is now having a flashback of her family before. They got off the ship and now they are looking for Grover. The protagonists are Percy Jackson and Annabeth. They are going to Queen Anne’s Revenge. The water at Queen Anne’s Revenge makes people swim to their death so but they had to try. Annabeth gets into the water while tied to a rope and Percy is supposed to save her and help her to not cut te rope but she does anyway and she is now thinking she is swimming home but she doesn’t know that there is sharp rocks ahead that are going to kill her. She is somewhat possessed and doesn’t know what she is doing. So Percy is trying to save her but if he also gets into the water then they are both dead. He finally got to her and touched her now he is seeing what she thinks is happening. She is dreaming that she is at a picnic with her family and they are all laughing and having a fun time. This is what my book is all about.