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Showing posts with label favorites. Show all posts
Showing posts with label favorites. Show all posts

Monday, November 28, 2011

My favorite books By cece07


Hey guys!! I am not doing a "book" post I am doing a "me" post. It is about the types of books I like to read, and I also want to hear about the types of books you guys like to read. I'm serious--please tell me about the kind of books you like to read and the types of books you want me to read and review.

My favorite series so far is The Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, and my favorite book alone is probably......
Reasons to Be Happy by Katrina Kittle. I love reading, so if you really want me to read a book and do a post on it (maybe), you should just go to the bottom of the home page and click on the white box and enter a comment. You can say send it to Cece07 and I'd be so HAPPY!!!!! Well, thanks for hearing or reading me ramble on why you should shoot me a comment or send me a book suggestion, but seriously make the world a better place.... READ!!! Thanks!!! - Cece07

Friday, March 18, 2011

Readers' Favorite: Picture Books

A post by Abby

In language arts, we were doing a unit in children’s books, and sometimes all we did was read children’s books and it was really fun! But that made me think, what are the readers' favorite children’s books? I mean, almost everyone read children’s books when they were little, right? So why not find out their favorites? So I asked about everyone I knew what their favorite was, and this is what I got:

1) Green Eggs and Ham , by Dr. Seuss
2) The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle
3) Good Night Moon, by Margaret Wise Brown
4) Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
5) The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss
6) Oh the Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss
7) Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, by Judi Barrett
8) One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, by Dr. Seuss
9) Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, by Bill Martin Jr., and Archambault
10) Whinnie the Pooh, by A. A. Milne

So, that’s the top ten, but feel free to comment and tell me what your favorite is.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Caterpillar's Favorite Books

These are Caterpillar's favorite books. Caterpillar adores these books. These are her top ten books:


1. The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien


Caterpillar loves this book because it has dragons, dwarves, gaint spiders, elves, hobbits, orcs, wargs, and awesome characters!






2. The Two Towers, by J. R. R. Tolkien


This book is the ultimate epic! It has the one Ring, that holds the spirit of Sauron, the dark lord, who is bent upon controlling Middle Earth... And Frodo, the hobbit, must destroy it.



3. The House of the Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer
The book is science-fiction about a future world. It is about the clone of a drug-lord, who struggles to deciede whether or not he's human.






4. Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins

This book is totally extreme! It is the conclusion to the Hunger Games Trilogy. Mockingjay is incredibly thrilling and suspenseful.






5. Farenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury

This book is set in a futuristic world where books are burned.... it is about the Fireman, Guy Montag, who is suposed to burn books, until he reads one himself.








6. The Silmirilian, by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmirilian is the history of Middle Earrth. It is one of the prequels to the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Caterpillar likes it because it tells of the elves, who are her favorite characters, and their adventures.







7. Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann


Three Bags Full is the story of the murder of a shepherd, and his flock of sheep must solve it. The flock of sheep has many interesting characters, including the black ram Othello, who has a mysterious past, and Miss Maple, a sheep genuis.





8. Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli

Milkweed is the story of a boy who is a thief of food, who finds a hole in the wall of the concentration camp, where he is being unfairly held...








9. And Then There Were None, by Agatha Christie

And Then There Were None is a thriller about ten possible murderers stranded on an island, and one by one they are found dead...

Caterpillar says that this is a very creepy book.  Caterpillar liked the way it was based on a nursery rhyme and kept getting gorier.





10. Brisinger, by Christopher Paolini

Brisinger is the story of a person named Eragon and his dragon named Saphira and thier struggle to destroy the tyrannical emporer Galbatorix. Caterpillar's favorite characters are the were-cats.



These books are mostly science fiction, fantasy, and murder mysteries! Caterpillar says if these books did not exist Caterpillar would be very sad and unhappy. If you are curious, Caterpillar has always talked in third person ever since Caterpillar was a larvea.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Harry Potter Series!

When the first Harry Potter book was released, I didn't really pay much attention because that was in '96, and I was born in '97!  So when I could read I went and bought it with my dad and read it in about a day.  It made me so excited to read the next one that I ran around outside to find a stick for a wand and started whacking my mom and dad with it.

Rating for the first book: 5 out of 5 chocolate bars.

Rating for the second book: 4 out of 5. The reason I only gave this book 4 chocolate bars is because I thought that it wasn't as good as I thought it would be, so.....yeah.

Rating for third book: 5 out of 5 chocolate bars. At the time, I thought this was the best book yet because of Remus Lupin and Sirius Black making their debut, which I thought was nice since Gilderoy Lockhart wasn't a very good new character in the second book.

Rating for the fourth book: 4 1/2 chocolate bars. I thought this book was generally great, yet in this particular book I found three spelling errors and a few other errors that led me to give this book 4 1/2 chocolate bars.

Rating for fifth book: 3 1/2 chocolate bars. This book really fell short of my expectations because of Cho Chang and Harry breaking up so fast, and that Dolores Umbridge really annoyed me.

Rating for sixth book: 5 1/2 out of 5 chocolate bars. This book was INCREDIBLE!!! This book was SO good that I read for over three hours when I got it!

Rating for the last and best book (in my opinion): 7 1/2 out of 5 chocolate bars. THIS BOOK IS PHENOMENAL!! I read this book in about three days, and it was the best H.P. book I have ever read. I honestly have about 100 things to say about the book, but that would be a lot of typing so I'm just going to say one thing: GO HARRY POTTER!!!!!
 
by NinjaKidLogan

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

WOLFBOY409'S FAVE LIST.

Hi, peeps. It's me, WOLFBOY409. I like to eat nachos and play video games.

In a book I look for: action, adventure, comedy and intriguing characters.

Here is my top 5 list of favorite book series:

1. My fave series. SEPTIMUS HEAP!! In this series Angie Sage really created an amazing world of magyk,adventure and comedy.


2: Second fave. ARTEMIS FOWL!! I just totally love the fairy tech and the intellect of the book Author Eoin Colfer does a great job with tying comedy and drama together.


3: Third. PERCY JACKSON!! Rick Riordan ties teen comedy with greek mythology for an amazing series.


4: Fourth. HARRY POTTER!! As you should all know the magic is exquisite. The characters are so relatable. And it has an awesome movie. J.K. Rowling is a great author.


5: Fifth. STAR WARS!! Of course the Leia/Han moments are dramatic, but it's really an interesting series. George Lucas created an awesome concept, and I love the books that have made use of these characters and conflicts.

So there you have it...Wolfboy409's top series books for middle school students!

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Favorite Books?


Hey! Stev is posting with a question about books! I was just wondering what books are the current fave! My personal faves are Percy Jackson and The Olympians (all of them, by Rick Riordan) and Ranger's Apprentice (again, all of them)

Ranger's Apprentice (by John Flanagan) is about a fifteen-year-old boy named Will who lives in the castle ward with the other orphans of Redmont Fief. On Choosing Day, none of the Craftmasters want to choose him...except one. The mysterious Ranger Halt gives a note about Will to Baron Arald. Any more info would be spoilery!! You'll have to read it to find out more! HAHAHA!

Comment, please, readers who read, and tell me all about your favorite book(s). ;)