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The April sun, weak but determined, shone through a castle window and from there squeezed itself through a small hole in the wall and placed one golden finger on the little mouse. Chloe S.

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Cornish buffed the steel with the sand and then finer sand- as fine as flour- running a rag filled with sand-dust back and forth on the barrel until the flats seemed to be small mirrors that caught the light as he turned the rifle near the candle. Bryar Hicks

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The only soft sound came from the whirring ceiling fans. -Emily Klem

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Book Trailers for Readers - The 39 Clues Maze of Bones

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2010 Book Trailer by Jackie & Ryan students at Diplomat Elem. Watch in Flash above or with Windows Media Player[WMP] below. Full screen viewing is easier with WMP below just right click and zoom. 2010 Book Trailer by students Jackie and Ryan from Diplomat Elem.

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But when he brought the cupped hand to his mouth and felt the cold lake water trickle past his cracked lips and over his tongue he could not stop. - John Hipsky

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I spread the modest amount and set it on a pink glass plate, the kind that came free in bags of sugar or flour or laundry soap. - Sydney S.

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I felt a drop of sweat dance down my side like a spider and disappear into the waistband of my itchy, brand-new suit pants, which I hoped never to wear again. - Connor Murray

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Fame has arrived for rockers Blaze and Roger. Just married, leaving Los Angeles, and touring the United States with teenagers Q (Quest) a...

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Coarse brown hair started at about his belly button and got thicker as it reached his shoulders. Isaiah Bracamonte

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It all started out like this: I have a "book club" where we read a book and then we watch the movie for the book we read and talk about the differences between the book and movie. So I thought it was a good idea that I should have a category for books vs. movies to review them both and give my opinion about which is better. Below I will tell a little about the movie The Lightning Thief and the book The Lightning Thief's differences.

Movie - Rating PG, running time 120min

Book - 379 pages ages 9+

It doesn't matter what order you do it in, but I would prefer to read the book first to get used to what will happen in the movie. The movie, in my point of view, has only one scary part, which is at the beginning. But sometimes I had "jumped" from my seat at unexpected times. If you watch the movie first you'll really like it, but if you read the book first you'll probably like the book more.

When you watch the movie and read the book you will find a lot of differences, big ones or unimportant ones, too. Some small (unimportant) differences are that Percy and his friends have to earn the 3 pearls to get out of the Underworld in the movie, and in the book Persephone gives the pearls to them. Also they don't stumble into a hotel of the Lotus Eaters by accident (as in the book), but they were told to go into it by Luke (in the movie).

Big differences. The movie was cool because of the special effects and how the monsters (like Medusa and the Hydra) came to life. The story in the movie was pretty good but it didn't follow what was in the book. There whole parts of the book that were missing and the whole reason for the quest that Percy and his friends went on was totally different in the movie than in the book. PLUS the Percy Jackson book series was based on Kronos, the evil Titan Lord, rising to take over the world and HE WASN'T EVEN IN THE MOVIE! My favorite character in the movie was Hades, the Lord of the Underworld and the actors that played Percy and Grover were OK. Annabeth's character wasn't really like what she was in the book. In the movie she's more of a mixture of Annabeth and Clarisse (Clarisse wasn't in the movie, was is sad because Clarisse is the daughter of Ares (the god of war who ALSO wasn't in the movie) and she was a pretty cool character.

Overall the movie is good, but I was expecting it to follow the book more closely so I was disappointed in it.

So in Book vs. Movie............BOOK WINS!!!! Ding! Ding! Ding!
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THE LIGHTNING THIEF BOOK vs. THE LIGHTNING THIEF MOVIE

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The oak doors groaned open, and the three of us stepped into the entry hall in a swirl of snow.   - Emily Klem