times squared

times squared
By Julia deveres and Jennifer Roy


Payton and Emma are heading to NYC! together? yes. Emma, for Mathletes and Payton for drama. but than they switch places right at the wrong time and end up with each others friends and boyfriends. how will the live each others lives with ought people finding out when they are basically on an overnight? could you do it? comment down below! I don`t think I could lol.

Hawaii SOL

SQQQUUUUEEEEEESSSHHHH... "eeeeeewwwwww, I THINK SOMETHING TOUCHED MY FOOT!!" "Talia, nothing is there" "OMG what IS that?" We are trudging through the taro patch, grabbing at weeds under the brown, murky water. "Alright guys, time to go wash off in the river! Remember, just wash off your legs" We all, still barefoot climb out of the muddy sludge and make our way down a short path. "Ugg my clothes are all muddy" " um... I think you have some mud in your hair" We step in to the cool river and the water starts to get opaque, suddenly someone accidentally splashes someone and we brake out in water war. "I dare you to dunk your head!" "OK" "ONE TWO THREE, GO!" SPLASH! And suddenly the whole class is submerged and wet. We all burst from the water laughing and splashing each other atop the smooth stones and under large shady trees.  

Book Blog

Sisters by Raina Telgamere

Raina really wanted a sister to play with and have tons of fun with. But that was when she was six and now she has a six year old brother and a nine year old sister who by the way was no fun when she was little. Raina, her mom, and her two siblings are going on a road trip from California all the way to Colorado and her sister (Amara) may have recently lost her pet snake in the front seat. This graphic novel which is the second book in smile series is really good and funny you can find a lot of ways to relate to both Raina and Amara. overall, this is a really cool book!

Book blog. Four

Four by Veronica Roth

four is four/ Tobias`s version of divergent.  it focuses in on four key stories about four at home in abnegation with Marcus, choosing dauntless, fitting in, and later the attack on abnegation, Etc... It also covers things like him meeting Tris :(and running from dauntless.

I thought that this book was really good! I was really sad that this aaas the last book in the divergent series and it was not my favorite one.
I will give some mature content warnings though its not to bad.

Lobby and burm

When I was small it was a throne
the seats on either                             side were  made of gold
the dust was sparkling fairy dust,
the      ding     of the opening door was the royal symphony
and the tall blue and green walls shaped my castle.
everyday Id race my friend to see who would be the slave and who got to be the princess.


The blustery wind waves my clothes and gravel crunches under foot and the leash goes tough in my  hand and the dog yanks my arm. my feet pound on the ground and dust flies. my purse bangs at my hip that is so used to it I barley notice. the trail dips and i see the stream, the fluffy dog gallops toward it and i fly forward almost losing my balance and falling in to the deep, wetlands marsh below.

Limericks

#1
There once was a girl named Talia, if she was small shed be Smallia.
She loved her pringles, and sat on the shingles and sometimes went to the mall-ia

#2
When you try to fall asleep and you start to drift to deep and your mind thinks of things you don`t want to hear and you think of things so very queer. And then you end up counting sheep

#3
my thoughts are a muddle, much like a puddle. My legs are so tired, they burn like fire, and as I watch the turning tire my sleepyness is not very subtle.

Free verse

#1) Standing against the metal wall, the blue filling her eyes.

Her memories are flooding back, her eyes close, letting her slip away, slip away to a land of clouds and boats and fairy tail quotes. She hears memories of peoples voices ringing in her head. She remembers the past, what she left behind. and slowly the memories fall away, making space for thoughts of the future to fill their space.

#2)
The water rolls below her, the sand blends together. stiff rock lets out a "smack" as her small feet run, run to the edge. And jump.

Book blog about Alegiant

Tris and Tobias need to know what is outside the gate, and with Jeanine out of the way, they are free to go and they do. The few who dare to go outside the gate are: Tris, four, Cara, Uriha, Christina, and Tori, but only two of them live to the end of the book. When they finally find something outside the gate, they don`t know what to think. They are told that their entire life`s have been a lie. Tris learns that even outside the factions, people still form themselves in to groups. sometimes of good and evil. Tobias, without meaning to, joins the group of evil and is forever regretful. after this, Tris and Tobias relationship gets bad before it gets better. The group discovers that they have to sacrifice someone and everyone looks at Caleb but even if her brother was willing to kill her, can Tris let it happen to him?

Overall this book was REALLY good!!! It is also really sad and heart breaking. :( There is some mature language and content.

T.B.R
Four
Gracefully Grayson
thirteen reasons why
The Secret Hum Of Daisy  

ocasional poetry

The dust is so thick, flying up all around me. my lips are dry and split and the babies cry from the hot and stuffy places inside the wagons. Heavy, tired feet are lifted and dropped all around me. we will never get there. To the green lands, and rich soil, to the cozy homes and happy families...  We have already walked for so long. 

Wagon wheels scatter the trail here where a few were town apart by the now dried up river, the possessions stolen and the family left with nothing... It sends a shiver up my spine. I must face it. I am scared. Scared like everyone else, I don't know how to overcome it and I the dream of the new land is fading. 

I see grass, not the faded bland dead grass that I have stared at for so long but fresh green grass that has grown strong and green and has flowers! The oxen pull at their harnesses and the men turn them out to graze while the children can finally run and play happily. we are here... Happiness grasps me and lifts me up, making my eyes bright and grateful tears drip from my cheeks.  

Ode to Napoleon (the Horse)

Ginger legs racing, hoofs pounding, dirt flying
my mind is empty, it is clear
thats what happens when we ride... past the gate we go, red and white main flying to brush my cheeks, tears well in my eyes  as I press my heels down and raise my body up, ipso that the wind curls through my hair and his.

I am running,I  look to the gate, flicking my mane at the girls face...
I stretch my legs and kick at the sand, I nimbly and gracefully, dodge the red jump.

I squeeze slightly with my legs and urge us around the ring one more time.
as we slow, the sun becomes just the sun instead of rays of gold and the wind becomes just a breeze instead of a rush of adrenaline.


we are walking and I stretch my neck down to blow at he sand and get a good breath.
My sides are heaving.

A smile plays at my lips and I don't notice the red of my cheeks or the swift beat of heart as i slide off of the little red pony.

Haikus

#1
The grass is curving,
twirling, poking, tangling, yes.
I look up and there is sun.

#2
Ideas blowing through mind,
feet pounding on cement, splash
rain. drops, pouring

#3
tan buildings everywhere, somewhere, clouds drifting through sky
colored blocks flowing by.

Book blog- Insurgent.

Insurgent By Veronica Roth

This book is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!! FIVE STARS!!!!!!!!!!!
fyi it was the one I was fingerling about in my last slice.

In this book, Tobias and Tris`s relationship grows and they start to trust each other a lot more but there are also some HUGE secretes that the keep from one another and someone Tris thought she could trust which her life basically tries to kill her. And Tris basically takes herself to her death which she later finds out is part of Jenean`s plot to kill of he divergents. by doing this, she practically kills both her AND Tobias.
I am giving some mature content/ language warnings about this book plus it is pretty gory and bloody.

my Favorite character is Tobias, shocker right? :)
He is a very strong and forceful character who you start to REALLY like in this book and the next one. I like how Tobias is still strong and able to look past his... bad past.

SOL April 9th

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG

I CANT BELIEVE THIS BOOK. 

FIRST Tobias and Tris are all happy go lucky ( or as happy go lucky as they can be) and they find out a bunch of wired things and stuff about erudite and then Tris WONT stop lying to Tobias AND THEN she runs off to Erudite to DYE after she promises tobias that she WONT!!!!!!! AND than she is all tortured and tested on but then the test don`t work and then Tobias is THERE and HE is gonna die TO.   AND CALIB is EVIL and working with Jeanine. AND TRIS IS DYING AND PETER SAVES HER!?!?!?!??!??!?!!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHAT THE KECK!?!?!?!?!??!!?. Tobias thinks she is dead and then she's not. And that is where I'm gonna stop because ya.... 

oh ya somthing funny... 

“Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you people did was... graze hands or something."
"Then how do you explain all the Abnegation children?" Tobias raises his eyebrows.
"They are brought into being by sheer force of will," the woman on the arm of the chair interjects. "Didn't you know that, Tobias?"
"No, I wasn't aware." He grins. "My apologies.” 
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

SOL book blog

This is a slightly weird book blog because it is about a script for a play instead of a book. 

Iris lives on a futuristic planet, on the island of Nocturno and the rulers are the great goods who live on a separate island. Each person on Nocturno has a past coat, a coat that contains their entire past. and rumer has it the great goods are looking for a daughter and son. basically without giving to much away, Iris is captured and her past coat is stolen. She does however, keep one button from it = one memory. She meets friends and journeys through finding answers to mysteries and making new friends ( and Enemys). 

T. B.R 

Allegiant

Four? 

Thirteen Reasons Why

Gracefully Grayson   

SOL# 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! March 30th!!!!!!!!

swish, swish, swish,
water swirling, grabbing, pulling.
My legs are tired from hopping over the wave break as it flows in to shore.
I venture out as a huge swell hits me in the middle of my body, knocking me back.
I let myself fall back in to it.
I then run out in to the beach and grab a boogie board.
It drags behind me as i run twards the water.
This is my last run of the day.
water boils and turns behind me and I turn, ready to catch it
I push off but unfortunately to late.
I ride for a foot or so and then stop, before i could get up, the water coats my face with its thick, salty wettness.

What a fun California day...

SOL #29 March 29th

My bags are packed, my electronics are charging and my mind is running through it's check list of thing I need to bring. I am ready for CALIFORNIA!!!!!! YAY!!!!! as you can see, I am really excited.  That's basically all I did today, pack , clean, rummage for good food because we can't go to the store for food if we are leaving in the morning. And go to target for last minuet clothes.  Oh Ya and we also went riding. I am basically just saying what enters my head at the moment...  Well in really tired. Sorry this is not a very intertwining slice but I dISNT really have any creative inspiration for a slice today. Some days are like that...
Goodnight.

SOL #28

I am so tired.
I did a lot of stuff today but I didn't get up till ten
My mind is wandering to random things and I am having to write this in my phone. Sorry this is so short. But I'm very very tired.

Good night.

SOL#27 March 27th

shuffle, shuffle, 
" Hi Kam!"
" hi!"
silence
" I wrote mine super late at night, after I drove you home, Grace. And I still remembered"
" And that is why I forgot" I say
" And I remembered" says Sofie.
" Look! "
" One sec "
" never mind"
" whoh, look!"
Sofie points to a really pretty picture on her computer screen.
" WOW!, thats SO cool!
" Whatcha doing?"
"writing an SOL"
" ya we are all writing our SOLs" says Talia
" wouldn't it be so cool if we all wrote them in the same moment!?"
" totally!"
" ugg the wifi is so bad"
" ya"
" Ouch , my foot!"
" what?"
" my foot is asleep"
" oh"
" I hate it when the link disappears and you can't link up uuugggg"
" I  know right"
" I put Kam`s shuffle, shuffle in my blog"
" cool"
*sigh*
" I have so much to do for my notes. I should probably stet doing that now"
" ya"
" don't fall Grace" comments Max
" I won't"
I am sitting on my desk for no reason.
" don't fall Grace" - Eddie
" don't fall Grace" -Talia
" don't fall Grace" _ Sofie
" I won't"
   

SOL# 26th March 26th

There is nothing going on right now. I am sitting at my desk with people talking all around me. Sofie sits across from me coloring with a gold pen. She holds up her paper with a questioning look, "good!"  I say. "What should I put here?" says Sofie. "KAM, I don't know what to put here" She points to a blank spot on the paper. "I Got a peanut butter cracker!!!!!". " peanut butter is gross' I say. She sticks her tongue out at me and pops the cracker in her mouth. "at least I have a good leaper". "yah". Sigh. "I don't know what to write about"
"you are already writing, you can't say you don't know what to write about when you are writing something"
" hey!, they are talking about Divergent!"
" cool!"
"I still can't believe you haven't read Insurgent
" I know, I know ill start soon..."
" What should I put here?"
*sigh*
"tons of spam mail" says Max
" I know!"
" I get SOO much of it to."
" They always have typos"
" I know!"
" How do I change this photo?"
"Try to put it on iPhoto"
"ok"
"KAM!"
" How do I do this?"
" I have no idea! try looking it up"
" Ok, What would it be called? reversing, flipping..."
" Grace, Grace, Grace"
" what?"
"look"
" OMG, what the heck"
*laughing*
" hey Sofie, Whatsup?"
" Im just doing two Logan Leapers"
" Cool!"
" should I just do like a giant frenchy!?!?"
"What!?"
" Sofie?"
"what are you doing?"
" drawing"
" ok"

SOL #24 March 24th

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Following where I last left off, last week in this book.

Tris is settling in to Dauntless and has been going through  the three stages of initiation she is on the second and third. In the second stage, she faces going through fear stimulates. As we already know, Tris is divergent so she can control the stimulation and tell her self that it is not real, in one, she is trapped inside a small glass tank quickly filling with water and when she calms her self down and taps the glass, it shatters. after this, Tobias finds out that she is divergent and tells her that she must be very careful, the dauntless leaders WILL kill any diver gents they can find. basically without giving away big parts the only oner things I can say are Tris and Four (Tobias) fall in love and have a big epic love story.

I REALLY LOVE THIS BOOK. it is now my favorite book of all time and i will blog about insurgent next week. there is a lot of mature language and some mature content.  

SOL#23 March 23rd

Roll,roll,roll, the longboard runs faster and faster over the hard cement and I jump of, landing wobbly on my feet. My dad and I are in a park down the street from our house and I decided to try long boarding for the first time. It is really fun but also hard and I still don't know how to get off correctly. I roll the board back up the small hill for another round, my dada standing at the top I place one foot on the middle of the rough board and push off with the other, taking a big breath as I start. Than to late, I realize I have pushed of to hard, I am going to fast I am gong to hit the curb and flip if I don't get off. I the last moment i hurriedly jump, to awkwardly to get my balance. The ground spins under me and I shove my arms out to break my fall but as I do and WHAM! My mouth opens to scream but nothing will come, I am scared, the pain is so great, pushing down upon me and centering on my left wrist. As i turn over, I feel a sting in my knee and look down, a mess of blood,

A broken arm.

SOL#22 March 22nd

Books, Books, Books, Books, books: 

They are swallowing we up like lapping waves, pages and pages of books floating, and blowing around me. I am running atop the words, taking avery bit of knowledge in them and leaving the broken letters behind. I stare across the world of books, Divergent, Peter and the star cacher, Fan girl, Harry Potter, The Moffat’s, Ramona, All books from my childhood swirling in front of me, opportunities waiting to be grabbed. 

Then my eyes blink open and I turn to my side to turn of my still glowing lamp, as I turn, many books fall from my blankets, all of them half opened, all of the opportunities that I have grabbed for.   

SOL#19 March 19th

Smack! the screen door slams behind me as I burst out in to the cool air. I jump from the stone steps, leaping over the last two. My cousin and I are on our way to the small beach a few blocks down from my grandparents house. There are not many beaches around here, in Wisconsin but that means they are all pretty good and strangely not super crowded. I drag a towel and boogie board from the side of the house and fling everything in to the back of the car, Then we buckle our seat belts, the strap rubs against our bare shoulders because we are both in our swim suits. The sun filters in I see clouds in the distance, but ignore them. We pull in to the beach and dump our stuff in a pile before running in to the water. I don`t notice until the murky waters of lake Michigan  are up to my knees how icy cold it is and as I look behind me, the clouds that are rolling in.

SOL#18 march 18th

Click... my lamp turns off. I am tired, I can feel it in my eyes but I cant sleep. I lay down but things keep catching my eye, innocent shadows I think about the day, school, work, due dates, slice of life... Wait, SLICE OF LIFE. I look at the clock, the minuets ticking fast and jump out of my bed. As I do, the tiredness spreads all over me, Darn I think. Where is my computer. I creep downstairs trying not to make noise in one swift motion, the laptop is in my hands and I am headed for the stairs. once in my room, I click on my light and write this. My first   Almost Forgotten Late Night SOL. Or AFLNSOL

SOL #17 March 17th

This book, this book with pages of fire, steel and silk,
This book that the power to make me stay cramped in a room for hours just to get to the last word,
This book, it makes my hands shake and face glow red
This book, that makes tears sting my eyes, and my face go white
This book, it makes me shout with happiness and and breath heavy with fear
This stupid, wonderful book, DIVERGENT.

SOL # 16 March 16th

I stare in to the bright redness of it, floating to the top of the bowl, I drop the sugar cube in and it lands lazily at the bottom bringing a swirl of bright red along with it, combining the two colors in the cup. It reminds me of fire works  dissolving in to the sky. My mouth waters at the taste of the fresh passion fruit and slight tanginess of orange on the back of my tongue.  A drop of sweet red lands on my finger and I  flick it off, and watch it fly right in to the waiting mouth of the dog, the big, fluffy, begging dog.  I sigh, thats where everything seems to end up these days, in the mouth of a dog.  

SOL#15 march 15th

"GO" yells the person in the middle and I try as hard as I can to get a hold on Sofie I wrap my legs around her and my arm ps strain to hold tighter. I shove hard and ram us both on to the ground we are both huffing, puffing, and laughing "OK,OK,OK" she shouts and I let go our faces are red as we try to get the dirt and grass off of our faces. We are playing lap tag after the last performance.

SOL#14 March 14th

I am so tired... My eyes are drifting shut... One thought runs through my head,must sleep... As my eyes drift shut and my mind flys away, I think of my SOL that I never did and jump up to grab the computer but than NO WIFI I run downstairs and grab the iPad and yes!!!! It works!!!!!!!!!! I am so relieved that I can hop back in to my already warm bed and go to sleep, after I write this that is. GOOD NIGHT  :)

SOL#13 March1 3rd

I am very small, sitting on the makeshift bed in my cousins room it is the night before Easter and we are snuggled up in our pajamas waiting for our mothers to come read us our Easter book that we read every year on the night before Easter. We have the book sitting between us as we wait. I am just able to read the title. The Country Bunny And The Little Gold Shoes. than our Moms come in and pull our covers over us next they begin to read and my mind drifts away to the land of Easter bunnies as my mind drifts to darkness.

SOL#12 March 12th

I reach my hand in to the prickly thicket of blackberry bushes and try to avoid getting pricked to hard, while still getting enough for the pie "HEY" My little cousin shouts from behind me "I found some good ones!" she says. I carefully pull my hand out of the bush and laugh, its covered in dark purple juice. Then I run around to Helen (My cousin) and we get as many berries as we can. then we carry our full baskets and mouths in to the house. We rinse the berries and pour them in to a pot to cook. than we run back outside and play on the rope swing and breath in the cool wisconsin air.

SOL# 11 March 11th

My dusty hand clamps on to the rock ahead of me and my feet strain to keep up, my red dirt colored braids sit on my back as I pop my head over the edge of the high goblin. when I  look down, there is a steep edge with the ruts of other people hiking boots stuck in to it. I look down at my own hiking shoes that are now huge clumps of red mud. I carefully stet to step sideways across the hill as it slants up and quickly turn, grab the side of the edge and swing myself across to a cozy little hollowed out space that is completely smooth than i sit down and look over the rim. the air is clear, and the other campers look like ants.

SOL#10 book blog

Divergent by Veronica Roth. Part one

Beatrice lives in Abnegation, one of the five factions. she has just turned 16 and must decide where she wants to go. Amity, the peaceful. Erudite, the intelligent. Candor, the honest. Dauntless, the brave. or stay in Abnegation (the selfless) with her family. Each person, whenever they turn 16 must go through a test no one knows what the test will be like but they know they must do it. Beatrice Does the test but her tests results are inconclusive, making her Divergent. The next day at the choosing ceremony, She chooses to leave her family and become dauntless where they leap on and off of moving trains and fight all day. she meets a girl named Christina who becomes her friend and also makes an enemy, Peter. Her trainer is Four a mysterious boy only a little older than her. Once joined in to Dauntless, she changes her name to Tris, trying to leave behind her past life in Abnegation.      

SOL#9 march 9th

I breath in a long breath. there is a feeling in the pit of my stomach that i am trying to ignore, i should`t be scared nothing will happen. its going to be fine. why are are you even scared, i keep telling and asking myself these things but the heavy feeling will not subside. I am standing, frozen, a few yards from the shore and the water rises and falls dramatically around me. My board bumps against my legs and my pals are wet with sweat and salt water. my hair is drying in to salty curls as it always does when i get it in the ocean.I had just rode a wave in and  decided to go back out when i HUGE wave came down way to big to catch "DIVE, DIVE" My dad shouts i stand there paralyzed with fear for a minuet before throwing the board aside and dive or rather take a big breath and tuck the water pulls me in to itself I am shaking, salt water fills my mouth and stings on my face. I shove my hand up and grasp only air, witch for once is a good thing. I am pushed by the wave out on to the edge of the water and somehow the board is still attached to my wrist. and that is why i am not out in the thicket of waves instead, i am walking on to the shore to take this annoying wet suit off.      

SOL#8 march 8th

"hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmm-click-hhhhhhhmmmmm-click-hhhhhhhhhhhhhmmmmmm-click-hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmm-click. the sewing machine slowly punctures the fabric and pulls the thread trough as I watch it carefully so that my stitches stay on the edge of the black fabric that is printed the russian stacking dolls. I don`t know what to make so I decide to make a basic pillow... after about an hour of sewing, stuffing, modifying, adding, and face timing my friends, I am satisfied. Soon I find myself Running out the door and walking out to car. the air swirling around me and the warm breez feels nice. I am trying to enjoy my last day of weekend.

SOL #7 march 7th

" And blackout" David says it is the middle of the day of rehearsal and I am tired... Suddenly I hear my que line and hurry on stage, I meet eyes with my fellow caters that share the scene and we disappear behind the heavy black drapes. A few minuets later our music starts and we count the seconds until we slowly curve on to the stage and then sit in the corner, our backs pressed against the hard wooden pump as we say our lines and I cut up a paper doll. the bright lights blare in to my eyes and make it hard to see things past the edge of the carpet and the audience is completely shadowed out. Then we exit the stage and walk back to our corner on the risers and continue talking.

SOL#6 March 6th

Squuuiiiiiisssshhh, the sound reaches my ears as I try to wrench my riding boot out of the super thick and sticky mud. "ssssiiigggghhhh" my boot is covered with mud.  I try to dodge the tufts or red hair flying of of Napoleon while still being close enough to brush him. We can't ride today because the ring is made up of ice and snow. It is weirdly warm out and the sun feels good. I feel so tired and I wish the day would be over...

SOL #5 march 5th

I dont know what to write,

the keys feel like heavy stones as inside my head is full of groans.

 I don`t  know what to write.

My skin crawls and all I cane see is walls, blocking the gate of what my creativity can make,

I don`t know what to write,

 Now look, I have found something to write, and my imagination flies like a kite.

I don't know what to write.

 And now it is the end and this poem has been condemned. I didn't know what to write.

SOL #4 march 4th

"WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHEEEEEEEE!!!!" I shout, my super short hair bowing behind me, and loud theme music playing all around me I have have a huge smile plastered to my face as me and my mom fly up and down on the dumbo ride, yes its in disney world and my first time. I stare at the big plastic dumbo ears pretending to blow in the wind and look at the hard seat in the middle of his back, "why are we sitting inside him?" I wonder but that thought is quickly replaced by excitement as the ride ands and we move on to the teapots! (yes this was a long time ago so I was very little)

El deafo

Cece Belle is four years old when she gets very sick and goes deaf. She has no idea what is going on but she tries to go along with it, Why does she have to go to so many doctors? Why does nothing make sense? And WHY cant she hear anyone??? When Cece is about six, she gets her first hearing aid, a big weird thing that she has to wear around her chest in a pouch. Then she starts kindergarten, and goes to a school with a bunch of other kids that are just like her! but then, once the year is over she has to start normal school and live through the embarrassment, good friends, bad friends and lots of other things in her school life.


i thought that this book was very good and has a good message. it is a graphic novel just so you know, it is also a very quick read.

Sol #2 March 2nd

"THERE IT IS" I  shout "Or there it WOULD be except for the incredibly thick covering of fog over the shoreline, we have walked the five or so blocks from our hotel room to reach the beach. Once we start to feel the heavy sand swallow up our feet, Elliott and I kick off our shoes and clothes and run in to the water in our swim suits. Elliott runs out ahead but I stop when the cold water touches my knees and look around, I am in a place where I can't see through the fog to shore but no one is out this far in the water. I cant hear anything but the steady rushing of the waves. when I breath in, I feel the huge amount of moisture in the air and the saltyness of it on my tongue.

SOL #1 march first

SSSSCCRRREEEEEECCCHHh... sounds the old medal swing as i try and bundle my bare fists tighter together. i squeeze my cold eyes together and try and think of summer, sun, waves, warmth... but no its to hard even to imagine with the blank, grey, still air floating around me like like a boat on still water before a storm. the frozen metal of the thin bench slats starts to dig in to my legs and make them even colder. i stand up, look around, there is nothing new just the same old park, i blink my eyes and then flee to the house. 

red river stallion by Troon Harrison

I will do the special part of this blog before i forget :) I chose this book because i love horses and horse books and historical fiction and because this book has bot of those i wanted to read it.i basically choose books the same way i always have, look for a good title and see what the back says then i usually read the inside cover.

Amelia was born to her mothers tripe with her first father who she cant even remember anymore (she is native american and this is a long time ago) because he left when she was a very young girl, then her mother was full of grief for a long while after until her second father came, a trader who liked to travel a lot and charlotte bright eyes was born. for a while they lived hapily but then her father sails away and there mother starves. the two girls live alone in there camp, being looked after by friends. then when a srange horse saves her life, Amelia finally has the chance to try and find her father and stay with the horse but should she go? what if her father is no longer there or even alive? what would her and her sister do then?  

Trading faces.

Payton and Emma mills have always been so close because they are identical twins. But then comes middle school and Payton and Emma are drawn apart through social lifes, studying etc. Emma is the brainiac and Payton is the fashionista but once Payton's social life gets put of control, they switch places at school but it doesn't stop there.

I really like this book. It is a really good pastime and a pretty quick read.

SOL

I shiver as the chilled sea water laps at my toes, making them turn red. I step foreword and turn around so that my back faces the eternity of blues green ocean and the water laps up to my knees. suddenly the water pulls hard against my legs and starts to swell up behind me, the water holds tight to my shins and pulls me in. I tug at my leg as the water builds up in to a huge wave waiting to swallow me up. suddenly, before I can start towards the shore the water flings itself over me and and sprays in to my face as if to blind me so that it can keep me under. instinctively my arms shoot up and grasp for air, but there seems to only be salty waves. then as soon as it came up, it rolls out on to the beach. I spit out the water in my mouth and wipe my eyes then stand back up, (the force of the wave had pushed me down.) when i look around, it is as if nothing ever happened and it is just another sunny day on a California beach.

a wind in the door

Meg and Charles Wallace Murry have always been different, but now Charles is being bullied nonstop at school and suddenly falls ill. then he claims to see dragons in the vegatable garden and Meg becomes very worried. as she explores the thought of dragons with her brother, Meg discovers that there really are dragons in the garden but also a very strong evil force that is trying to take Charles. then Meg and charles are forced to embark on a terrifying mission to save themselves and Charles.

overall I LOVED this book and the sierese

TBR
Fan girl
Dorathy must die
the power of six
sort of like a rock star

Sol

"Where are we going?" my five year old self complains. "yeah" my brother says. we had been quickly rushed out of the house, it is christmas eve and we are driving through the snow in Darango. Then we pull up to a train station. we jump out of the car and shiver in my pajama pants and coat. after waiting in  a long line, and begging our parents to tell us where we are, we board a huge gold trail titled The Polar Express I gasp in excitement, and my mind drifts back to my favorite book "The Golden Express" and "EEEEEEEKKK"  in excitement. as I step in to the train, I can almost feel the what seemed like christmas magic carrie me away.

11 birthdays

Amanda Ellerby and Leo Fitzpatrick are like brother and sister, they are best friends and have been their whole lives.

It started back on their first birthday when they were accidentally put in the same room at the party palace. then it happened again and again until they couldn't imagine not having their party together. then al of that changes on the night of their tenth birthday. Amanda is walking up the stairs to find  Leo for cake and then she hears her name from behind the door. and she hears Leo and a couple popular boys teasing him about her. then he says that he doesn't actually like her or want to have their parties together. why Amanda does not know is that Leo was lying to impress someone.

they don't say a word to each other all year after that and the curse takes effect. that would be why Leo and Amanda both find themselves reliving there horrible birthdays apart 11 times... over and over again.

SOL

"WOW" "look at that" "OMG, what IS that? as we walk on the ramps towering over the cages of lions, tigers and bears, oh my! plus: wolves, emus, ostriches, and camels and probably a few more, we have to stop every few seconds to snap pictures. the cool air rushes past our faces as we slowly make our way through the sanctuary. we have already learned a lot about where the animals came from and their sad backstories and it is sad, but once you see them here, you don't feel bad at all. we venture in to the lion building where the lions can come indoors whenever. and a lion lets out a loud ROOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR! me and Avery turn to each other with looks of horror on our faces. 

Snowshoeing

"Hurry up!" my friends yell for me as the stand on the edge of the trail, about to journey in to the land of who knows how deep snow. I frantically tug at my snowshoes to get them off so that I can meet them. Once they  are off, I run ahead or try, the minuet we step off the trail, we sink in up to our waists in snow. "AAAAGGGGHHH!" we yell in delight. As we struggle to stand and go further from the trail, we all start shouting out ideas of what we should make in the snow. "A tunnel", "A snowman", "A fort!" I start to dig in to the snow with my gloved hands, and soon my whole top half is under the snow. I lay for a moment to catch my breath, and think back to the slow, tiresome hike up hill. When I pop my head back up, my friends are crawling back to the group, "Wait up!" I shout, and hurry to keep up. On the way back my mind drifts to warm fire places and hot chocolate that will be awaiting me when I arrive home.

I Am Number Four

9 Loriens were sent to earth. Three have been killed and the fourth is being hunted. 

John Smith is Number Four and is on his way to Paradise Ohio this will be his 22 home. The reason that he has to move so much is that he is being hunted by the Magadoriens they took over his home planet when John was five and him and all of the others who would soon develop legacies and their Cépan were sent to earth. now many years later, the Magadors are finally there for another war. 

I think that this is my new favorite book! it is super good, it is also really sad in the end. You should read read it!!

SOL#8

As i lead Napoleon down the stone road to the arena,  I think how slow this day was going (little did I know how fast things were about to happen). after a long warm up and trying to get used to the cold, my teacher says "time to canter" "you first Grace" Avery stands to the side with Blue. I take a deep breath and move my leg back to give my horse the command. the second I touch is side, he bolts, out of control, galloping across the ring. I cant stop him. I pull as hard as i can on the reins but it is no use, he keeps going. finally i can slow him down enough so that he can be caught and practically fall out of the saddle. 

once i am sitting on the bench on the side of the ring and my mom is running Po(Napoleon), I can think back. strangely, now i feel somewhat triumphant, I did not fall off and I made him stop.  

One Crazy Summer

vonetta, Fern and Delphine, after being abandoned by their mother go on to live with their papa and Big Mamma. they grow to love them and think of them as their parents. but then the time comes for them to meet their real mother, so they are sent to California to live with her for 27 days. from then on the lives of the three girls drastically change. the mother that they dreamed of for years is not exactly loving and seems not to care about them at all, she sends them all over town by themselves and being young, colored girls in the early 1900s they don't feel very safe. and they don't know how they are going to last through the time with their mother.

overall I felt like this was a pretty good book. there is no inappropriate  language or actions. I think that Delphine was my favorite character. she has a very strong and willing personality while also being fun and caring of her younger sisters. 

T.B.R 

Fan girl 
divergent
I am number four 

SOL #6

The ground is spinning, no wait... I am the one spinning, off of the sled that is. I get a small glimpse of my younger cousin also tumbling down the rest of the hill. Once I am upright, at the bottom of the hill, I fall backwards because I am laughing so hard. In a sec we are back our feet and dragging the sleds back to the top for a second round. "Lets go to the big hill!" Helen shouts. "OK!", I yell back. On the short walk over the flat, snowy ground, there is a moment of silence and I take a big breath and let the misty air billow from my mouth and nose. Then its "Race you to the hill!" and were off again.

the wolves of willouby chase

Bonnie lives happily with her wealthy family, while Sylvia is living with their very poor aunt who is also very old.

then Sylvia is invited to come live at willouby chase! it is wonderful until Bonni's parents must go on a voyage, then the estate is handed over to... Ms. Slighcarp! who quickly sends the children away to dreadful home for orphans. but thats not all she does. she creats a horrid plot to kill Bonnies parents, leaving the fortune in her evil hands.
I cant say what happens next, (it would spoil the ending.)
over all I loved this book! it was very good. if you are looking for a quick read, this is the book.