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9. Cairo

10. Death

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13. Booty

14. Curie

There is this awesome book called 39 clues. It is about Dan and his sister who have to travel the world collecting clues and racing their relatives. I love the book, but Dan isn’t the only one in on the race. I am to! You could do it also. just buy the trading cards and go to http://www.the39clues.com/ to solve the riddles. The family is the Cahills. We are all Cahills, but there are 4 different branches. I’m a Lucian, but you could also be Janus, Ekaterina, or Tomas. Have fun!

Every year my middle school goes to Chingagook, an outdoorsy -team-building camp. One of the thing we do is archery. Last year was my first year to go to Chingagook and my first year at my new middle school. I’m at Chingagook and we are all hanging out at our cabins when our teacher tell us "go down to the field were doing archery." I’m thinking what the hell??? I thought that archery was a made-up thing that only robin-hood did, now I have to shoot arrows at small targets. What a surprise, I sucked at it. I could barley get the arrow one the string let alone shoot it 15 feet. I got a highscore though! Yay me! A highscore of the number of bows lost in the forest. I think it was like 5. My friend Kelsey video taped my attempt.

I was so glad it was over. A month or two passes and I walk into dreaded gym class. I am not very active with sports such as soccer and basketball which I generally suck at. My class mates are always asking me if I’m stuck to the ground. I reply to them "I’m just doing my job, staying away from the ball and trying not to mess anything up." Lined up against the back of the gyms were target. The dreaded target. And on a rack was a bunch of my arch enemies, bows. Lets just say my class mates didn’t take a target anywhere near me.

.      People ban book’s for the silliest reasons. They do it because the book talks about being homosexuality. Like Tango Makes Three.  It’s a true  story to!  There are so many wrong things about banning this book. 1. It’s not going to turn your child gay like parents are concerned, its your own choice. 2. There is nothing wrong with being gay. 3. If a book with to male partners is banned then why not ban a book with a male and female partners? Whats the difference? 4. It is real life people are gay, then why did some libraries put it in the non-fiction section? Its a completely true story!

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.      Another stupid reason to ban a book is religion. Some books are banned for characters not believing in god. Did you know that an American Christian group tried to ban Harry Potter? They said that there was to much magic and it promotes witchcraft among children. That makes no sense though because we all know that Harry Potter is fiction and if the little kids don’t then let them have their fantasies. Anyways, there is nothing wrong with witchcraft. Its just as good of a religion as Christianity.

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.      My favorite banned book story is the one of Where’s Waldo? There was a tiny picture of a lady sun bathing with her bikini top untied. But they can’t even tell what page it was on! Now thats just silly. I bet its not even there and if it is its probably only a few centimeters.No book should ever be banned at least not in the u.s. but anywhere really. I mean with our freedom of speech and everything it seems silly to ban books because they are gay.

Your nose is wet and fine,

Your tongue slobbers me all the time.

You’re always happy to see me,

Though you’re always greedy… for food.

Your tail wags when I’m near.

Because you’re so dear.

Smashed was your rear,

The suburban you fear.

I love that you’re so smart,

But you stink when you fart.

The doc. says you’re morbidly obese,

But you’re still my favorite beast.

Pretties, the sequel to Uglies by Scott Westerfeld is also about Tally. In the first book, Uglies, David Tally’s boyfriend’s mom discovers a cure for pretties. You see, when you become a pretty the doctor not only makes you body pretty but your mind. They make small cuts in your brain called lesions which make you into a bubblehead not able to think strait. David’s mom just needs a willing pretty to test the pills on. Tally makes a big sacrifice, she will test the pills. She becomes Pretty.

In the second book, Pretties, Tally the bubblehead is havening the time of her life. Her Clique the Crims (all the people who were criminals before turning pretty) and her are invited to all the parties where they get drunk. During one of the parties Croy a Smokie shows up and gives Tally direction to where to find the pills. Tally and Zane (her boyfriend/Crim) split the pills. They worked. Tally can think straight and so can Zane despite his headaches.

Shay the bubblehead finds out about the pills and is mad that Tally didn’t split them with her. Shay makes her own Clique the Cutters who cut themselves to be bubbly, the same effect of the pills. The Crims have to escape before Special Circumstances talk to Shay. Can they pull it off? Read the book to find out!

I read this book in two days flat. It was spectacular! When I read the book it made me think well I wouldn’t be a bubblehead I would resist but the truth is I probably would be able to do it, I mean no one else was able to pull it off.

      The Outsiders is another book I read for the summer reading list. I read it in 2 days. It was really, really, really, good. I had my friend Kaitlyn over at my house and she picked up my book and didn’t put it down until she had to go.

      The Outsiders is about the life of Ponyboy, a 14 year old member of a Greaser gang. They fight the Socs. The book has al lot of character development. The Greasers are hoods. Ponyboy and his other gang members really bond in the book.

       Its hard to explain how good this book is, so you really should read it. Well, that depends. People who like fighting and hoody books should read it. People who like romance and cliqueish books shouldn’t. You dig? Comment and tell me.

YAY! I have a Niche. I love star wars. I will still be writing about what’s going on with me but I will mainly be talking about star wars.

I will talk about Star wars videos, game sites, web sites, books, movies, characters, etc. This is a great sight for any star wars fan.

A niche is when you have a topic that you mainly talk about.

My favorite character is C-3PO, but the one most like me is Han Solo. Not because he is self centered but because he is self dependant.

Please comment with your favorite character and the one most like you.

I feel as hungry as a elephant, because my mom says that they eat everything in there path, but the don’t eat seaweed, and I’m eating seaweed so I’m obviously not an elephant, but did you know that despite the elephants size they actually need to eat allot, but I’m not as  hungry as the people living on the streets or the elephants, I just wanted to know what seaweed tasted like and I will warn you to never eat seaweed from a beach in New York city because it doesn’t taste like it does in Japanese restaurants, in fact they are very very disgusting, so I hope you have enough sense to not eat seaweed at Coney island, and to not pretend that you are as hungry as an elephant, and not to write run on sentences, I also feel that you should feel that I feel like a seal because they eat seaweed.

-Kayla Foyt, 12

Yesterday I went to a tea tasting class in Hudson. We mixed our own tea, made tea sandwiches and other little snacks to go with the tea, labled our teas, made story’s about our tea, and made a bag to “ship” our tea in.

It was really fun. My teas name was, The Old Gold Mines Tea.

My story was that some men were working on building a houses in California. Two workers were on a lunch break and were walking around checking out the land behind the house. One was carrying a portable water boiler to make coffee but he left the coffee by the house. All of a sudden The ground beneath the two worker broke away and the fell. None of the other workers even noticed. They fell into an old forgotten gold mine from when people were first settling California. They were trapped inside. The two men walked around a bit exploring. They finally got thirsty and pulled some herbs that were twined in with the rocks. They put it in the portable water boiler. It tasted delish! They never got out of the mine but a little bird swooped down and picked up he herb mixture. He dropped it into one of the other workers hand along with the recipe. No one knows who wrote the recipe or how we got he story or where the recipe is but the worker sells the tea and when ever anyone one asks bout her tea The Old Gold Mines Tea she just waves her hand and says, “You buy?”

Ok so here are the pictures fro the Tea Class.