Katie

 **__The Notebook__ **
 * By: Nicholas Sparks ** **(Summer Reading) **

__The Notebook__  is by Nicholas Sparks. __The Notebook__  tells a story of Noah Calhoun and Allie Nelson in a story that spreads over their lifetime. The story tells about when they were teenagers and they feel in love. They are separated and they never forgot about each other, but after a couple of years they gave up on finding the each other. Then more then ten years later they meet and fall in love again. They get married and have five children and, Allie slowly develops Alzheimer's disease and they both move into a nursing home. They stay there for four years and by then Allie has totally forgotten who Noah is and who she is. Except the occasional time she will remember when Noah reads her their story in the notebook.

There were many surprises in __The Notebook__  that kept you interested and wanting to read more. All most all of the chapters end with cliffhangers. That makes you really interested and wanting to read more. All of the dialogue is very believable and natural. I would give this book Five out of Five stars because, I think that this book was very interesting and well written.

I would recommend this book to people who enjoy other Nicholas Sparks books and people who like love stories. I think people from eleven and up would enjoy this book. I also read the Nicholas Sparks book __Dear John__ . Compared to __The Notebook__  they were written fairly similarly. I liked this book a lot because, I like the way Nicholas Sparks writes his books and I also enjoy reading love stories.  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">By: Todd Strasser <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Summer Reading) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is by Todd Strasser. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__The__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wave is about a high school experiment, based on the Holocaust, that starts to turn for the worst and history begins to repeat its self. “ The classroom experiment that went too far”, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> tells about how quickly something can spread from one class to the entire school, in such a short time. The problem in <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Wave__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> happens when, the experiment starts spreading to the whole school and it has to be stopped. Almost everybody loves the wave and feels like being equal with everyone else is a good thing, but they don't realize that being equal means not being independent. When people who are part of the wave start separating themselves from people who are against the wave, things get worse and parents start complaining, but the students refuse to end the wave. I think that the Author accomplished what they set out to do. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline;">I would suggest this book to fifth graders through eighth graders. I didn't like the book because I thought most of the book wasn't interesting and not many exciting things happened. I would give this book three stars out of five because, I thought it was written well and I thought the ending was interesting.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">__My Sister’s Keeper__ __By:Jodi Picoult.__

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__My Sister’s Keeper__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">is by Jodi Picoult. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__My Sister’s Keeper__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">tells a story about a girl Kate Fitzgerald who was diagnosed with leukemia at age three. Many of the doctors thought that she would only live until age six, but she proved them wrong. Her mom and her dad are always driving her to and staying at the hospital. Her brother Jesse is nothing but a trouble maker but he can also be caring and loving for his family. Her dad is a fire fighter and her mom mainly stays with her. Stuck in with this tornado of a life the Fitzgerald’s have is Anna. Anna was born to save Kate, or a t least she thinks so. Anna is the go-to-girl so save Kate. She is her donor, her best friend, and most of all her sister. Anna had to go through some tough times also, but she and Kate have finally had enough of it all. Anna files a medical emancipation against her parents so she won’t have to donate her kidney to Kate. From there,it all went down hill. The setting of this book is in Providence, Rhode Island. But most of the actual story happens at the hospital. The setting plays a very important role in this book. This is because Kate, was diagnosed when she was three, so the hospital is like a second home to her and her family. They know many of the nurses and staff at the hospital, from their many experiences. I think that the setting makes this story a lot more exciting. For example at the hospital not only is there action where you are, but there is action all around you. Which doesn't want to make you put the book down. One of the interesting things about this book is that every chapter is narrated by someone new, so therefore you get a different perspective and different settings. I love this book so much. I love this book because, I love to read sad stories. What I thought was interesting was how their dad talked about stars, his perspective on the stars and how it passed on to his children, was really interesting to read about. Another thing I love is that once you think the book is getting boring, something happens that, twists things around and keeps you guessing. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves a great story, about a family going through a life or death situation for so many years, and defiantly someone who isn’t afraid to cry. This book is excellently written, the author defiantly did a good job. In the end of the book the Fitzgerald family turns the table. Suddenly Kate and Anna are in the hospital. Anna was in a terrible car accident, leaving her unresponsive, and she has a machine breathing for her. The focus goes to Anna. Will she be okay? Is that machine the only thing keeping her alive? How long until she is gone? Why did it have to happen to Anna? The answers to these questions were not the ones they wanted to hear. Sadly, Anna is brain dead. Her parents have to turn off the machine breathing for her, which is by far the worst thing that has ever happened. Anna is dearly missed inside the home of the Fitzgerald’s. Suddenly the house is too big just for them. Throughout all the medical crisis's they have been through, they never realized that Anna would be the on they were saying good-bye to.

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">  <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Coffin Quilt__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0pt 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By: Ann Rinaldi

<span style="background-color: transparent; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Sometimes we don’t have to leave to get away. Sometimes we just have to choose.” <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Coffin Quilt__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, is written by Ann Rinaldi. The genre of this book id Historical fiction. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Coffin Quilt__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is about the constant feud of the Hatfields and the McCoys. The book is narrated by the youngest of the McCoy’s, Fanny. As if the families needed another reason to hate one another, the McCoy’s beautiful daughter Roseanna, or Ro, runs off to be married to a Hatfield boy, Johnse. That is all where it begins, more and more happens, death after death, conversations about Roseanna’s Coffin Quilt, and gossip between everyone from West Virginia to Kentucky.

In, <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">__The Coffin Quilt__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">every character is different than the next. They connect with each other by, sharing thoughts with the reader and with each other. The McCoy’s are more religious about family, and the Hatfields, are more persistent although they still love and care for then ones in their family. Each family is different, and each family has different beliefs. Some believe that the fighting should stop, like Fanny and Sarah McCoy, but if you really were to think about it, fighting brought us into the world, and territories and lives that we live today.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think that people from ages 10 and above would enjoy this book. Or people who like historical fiction books, or enjoy to read about feuds, and wars. I didn’t think I would like this book very much towards the beginning, but I actually really liked it in the end. It is good to read books like this who have two sides of the story, and when you get to hear it from both sides, it makes you think. Which side would you be on if this was you?, or Why would people who are practically neighbors, want to kill one another? I would give this book 5/5 stars, because I really enjoyed reading about the constant conflicts, and everything and everyone thinking something different.

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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">Night <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">By: Elie Wiesel

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I left the never ending journey of the Holocaust alone, my family had given into death and it had taken them from me. Night, is by Elie Wiesel, the genre is an Autobiography, or a memoir. The main theme is, World War Two, and the story of the Holocaust. In Night Elie is forced to be separated from his mother and sister, but he is allowed to stay with his father. They endured everything together, until weakness had given in to his father.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Night tells a great story, it is sad at some points but really happy at others. They traveled a lot, to different camps, mostly by running, other times by cattle car. I think that the plot was very memorable. My mind was always focused on the story when I was reading. Most of the time the chapters will end with a cliffhanger. It is really well written, and it keeps you excited.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I think that people from ages 13 and up would like reading this book. I loved this book because I like learning about World War two and the Holocaust. I also like this book because I like to read true stories because you know that this was actually someone and something that happened. Night is similar to Sarah’s Key because they are both about World War two. I think they are different because in Night Elie goes through much worse things than Sarah does. Something that they have in Common is that they were both separated from their families. I would give this book 5/5 stars because it is really well written and it tells a good story about something that actually happened in history.

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