Independent Reading #1-Period 2 by Jennifer Lee https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt Describe an independent reading selection of your choice. Post on the padlet page provided for Independent Reading Assignment #1. Include the title, author, genre, a very brief summary of the book, and whether or not you liked or disliked your selection. en-us 2020-09-21 17:02:28 UTC 2025-11-06 14:51:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f989.png Midnight Sun-Stephanie Meyer leejennifer https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/803456082 What can I say about this book? I kept waiting for it to get better--in fact I'm still waiting. This book is over 600 pages.
Midnight Sun is part of the infamous Twilight series; this book is essentially the plot of Twilight told from Edward's point of view.
New girl moves to a town, a town inhabited by vampires. Vampire falls in love with the girl. Vampire tries to avoid girl. Fails. Light stalking turns to heavy stalking. Danger follows.
Edward talks a lot.  Like, A LOT. At one point, I re-read part of Twilight to get an idea of where we were in the plot and it was nowhere near where I was (page wise).  He repeats himself, has a really bad self esteem (while STILL thinking he is better than everyone else) , and puts Bella on a pedestal (which is super annoying). 
Have I finished this book? No. Will I? Yes. If another one of these Twilight books comes out will I buy it? Yeah, I've read the rest of them, why not another one? Would I recommend you read this? Only if you're a Twi-hard. Otherwise, like me, you will be wondering why you are wasting your time. ]]> 2020-10-05 15:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/803456082 The Maze runner- James Dashner 10626811 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807381397 This book is probably one of the only books I will ever be able to read more than twice. Yeah it has only 347 pages but its honestly a really exciting book. It talks about how there's these boys who are stuck in a maze where there is monsters and they try to find a way to escape. They didn't have to try so hard to escape until things started to change. Such as monsters wouldn't be able to attack you when the doors were closed. But suddenly the doors stopped closing so it meant that it was either they were going to die or they would have to escape. The book is a 8/10 in my opinion and its amazing.]]> 2020-10-06 16:21:49 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807381397 Middle School My Brother Us A Big Fat Liar-James Patterson Amara Lanier https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807387713 The genre if fiction. This book is about a girl who is trying to fit in at a Middle School that her brother went to, but she can't because of her last name Khatchadorians. Her brother was a very bad kid at that school and tried to break every single rule. Now, since his sister goes there everyone judges her because of her brother, they think she will be another horrible kid. She wants to prove that she is the kid who gets straight A's, but they won't let her. Ever since then she has been bullied picked on and ignored. Can she prove herself? The good thing is yes she did prove herself at the end of the book yay! I love this book it is filled with adventure, entertainment, and every time I read the end of a chapter I wanted to read. I don't have any dislikes, this book is perfect.
Amara Lanier]]> 2020-10-06 16:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807387713 君の膵臓を食べたい ( I want to eat your pancrease) https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807389376 This tittle seems very gore and scary but this story is actually a heart-warming and often very sad anime about friendship, life, and loss.  This genre is youth novel,  This story is about, A strange boy comes across a book in the hospital waiting room. He soon discovers that it is a diary kept by his very popular classmate, Sakura. Sakura reveals to him that she is secretly suffering from a deadly pancreatic disease. They become friends and spend time with each other. She then promises to talk to him when she is dying. The next night, the boy is watching the news with his family. It reveals that Sakura was stabbed on her way home and she was dead. He breaks down and does not attend her funeral. He later visits her mother and asks for her diary. Her mother recognized him and revealed that Sakura had left him a letter. The letter tells him to hold it and also to have her best friend Kyoko read it. She didn't notice everything and hated the boy. Sakura's mother asks for his name before leaving. He replies "Haruki" she answers, so you two were intended to explain the meaning of their name, Haruki (spring tree) and Sakura (sakura). He meets Kyoko, who denies that Sakura has lied, but runs away after reading his diary. Haruki chases and asks to be friends. It was Sakura who opened him up to others, and I want to respect her memory. The movie ends when Haruno and Kyoko visit Sakura's grave a year later and they become friends.
I would reccomend you to read this book because I want to eat your pancreas It's a beautiful and inspiring quest for what it really means to live, There is english version.]]> 2020-10-06 16:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807389376 Diary of a Wimpy Kid : Old School-Jeff Kinney https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807389693 This is one of the only books I can read until the end of the world. It is funny, has a bit of action and is middle school-ish. It is about a boy named Greg. It was about how his summer went and going to the beginning of the school year. His summer was funny and full of unwanted adventure because of his mistakes and trying to avoid punishment. He isn't the only one who is making a mess. His Grandpa and older brother as well. Greg goes into camp to avoid punishment but ends up regretting it, the food is horrible, the cabins smell, the bathroom are rancid, there is a creepy old farmer that is kind of like Freddy Kruger and horrible rules. It was cold and they had to sleep outside for the last day and make a camp. But his dad ends up forced a volunteer and sees Greg and is madder than ever.
-Octavious Corona]]> 2020-10-06 16:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807389693 The Horse and His Boy. (And Girl, And Other Horse.) 1036164 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807404187 The Horse and His Boy is a fictional story set in the mystical lands of Narnia. I would rate it 10/10, but the story ended, which dampened my spirits greatly.  C.S. Lewis sets the scene of a nearby land: Calormene, where a boy named Shasta runs away with a stolen Talking Horse, and runs off with a Tarkheena (a princess in Calormene,) and her Talking Horse. Together, the four friends discover a daring plot to destroy the land of Narnia, and their ally Archenland, and broaden the lands of Calormene. As fast as a Talking Horse can go, can they really out ride the vast, trained cavalry of the Calormene advance? Will they even be able to hold them off? What will happen in the aftermath? Will I ever stop reading the Narnia series? I know the answers to all of these questions, and I hope they will be the same as yours. (Hint: Say yes on more reading!)]]> 2020-10-06 16:26:59 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807404187 the staright a conspiracy 1064250 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807407200 this book is all about hoe your life is a lie and how school need too stop in which i agree. the book talks about  how friends and school all betray you and that the information that school gives you (except math you really need math) and that what it talks about.]]> 2020-10-06 16:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/807407200 The Land of Stories, The Enchantress Returns 1033895 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/826356321 This book is all about the evil enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty, Ezmia, whom had returned to The Land of Stories to cause chaos and curse the entire land all to herself, basically wanting to overrule. It is all up to the protagonists, Alex and Conner Bailey, to go back to the Land of Stories to stop this.]]> 2020-10-13 19:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/826356321 Scared to death 10353381 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/829214794 The book is about 3 rotten kids that  alwayse scared away there babysiters and wean they got there new babay siter for the night kt was like any of the other baby siters they had before]]> 2020-10-14 16:02:50 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/829214794 Chronicles of Narnia:The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 1074148 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/829220610 This book is about a voyage taken up by three children to recover the seven lost kings and stop an evil presence. The story takes place in a world of fantasy where there are talking Beasts and magic in the air. The three main characters go on many adventures together including stopping a sea serpent, playing with spells, and multiple near encounters with death. The balance is altered in the kingdom and these heroic challengers are the ones to set it right. This book is one in the multiple books in the series C. S. Lewis has written and I highly recommend it.]]> 2020-10-14 16:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/829220610 Paper Towns 1056032 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/830472086 The book "Paper Towns'" is about a story where Quentin Jacobsen has spent his life with Margo Roth Spiegelman. When Margo goes on an adventure to revenge he follows. Then as the day begins he finds himself to Margo missing, he then learns that there are clues which are made for him. With every clue, every step he finds himself not actually nowing the very girl he though he knew. ]]> 2020-10-14 23:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/830472086 It 10737421 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/831500980 In 1960 seven teens fight a non-Human monster posing as a child killing clown that is in the town of Derry, Maine. the seven kids also known as the losers club fight off and kill the monster known as Pennywise to stop the murder and obduction of children that Pennywise preys on. ]]> 2020-10-15 08:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/831500980 middle school just my rotten luck 10350271 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/834154397 this book is written by James Patterson and Chris Tebbetts. This book genre is fiction. This book take place in 7th grade where a kid named Rafe he was forced to take special classes and found himself joining/on the football team. And he  joined the team along side his bully/the antagonist Miller the Killer. In my opinion I didn't really find this book enjoyable. This book was just low grade level in my opinion so it was easy to read and there was to many pictures which made it not fun because I couldn't imagine anything.]]> 2020-10-15 22:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/834154397 Roller Girl https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836105036 The book "Roller Book" was written by Victoria Jamieson. This book is a graphic novel. Twelve year old Astrid signed up for roller derby camp and her best friend ditched her. The book itself is about astrid losing and gaining friends, and girl power. This is definitely a feel goof book. 
Viviana Hernandez]]> 2020-10-16 16:10:10 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836105036 The book" Wonder" was by R J Palacio. The genre for this book is realistic fiction. this is realistic fiction because because it can happen in real life but is my with made up characters. this book was about this little boy that was born wrong and everyone looked at him different and made fun of him. so he got homeschool but when his mom was teaching him it got to hard and so she wants to put him back in school and he didn't wanna go. but his mom made him go and like the first week or two everyone looked at him differentiations and then he made a friend named Jake White and they started to hang out and then on halloween Aggie walked in the class and heard jack talking bad about them and so Aggie didn't wanna be friends so after a while Aggie for gave him and they became best friends and everyone started to like Aggie and he became popular. Jaelyn_Tout https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836142546 2020-10-16 16:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836142546 The Fault In Our Stars https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836325968 This book was written by John Green and its #1 New York Times Bestseller! This book is a young adult fiction. The main girl's name is Hazel, she is sixteen years old, and she originally had Thyroid but i guess now she had colony in her lungs. But mainly the book is about kids who has some sort of cancer and they all meet at a support group. From there they became really good friends, but over time i think Hazel had a little crush on a boy named Augustus waters and they end up getting along very well.
Naomi Figueroa ]]> 2020-10-16 17:06:41 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836325968 This is Where it Ends By Marieke Nijkamp https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836619240 This book is a realistic fiction novel about the hard life this girl lives. Autum is the main girl who has had quite the hard life. She thinks nobody wants her and has family issues. I like the book because it is sad I know that sounds bad but yeah. The girl in the end is happy at least which is a very good thing. Overall the book is great I am not going to say too much just incase someone wants to read it. Would I tell someone to read this? Yes, it's a great story in fact one of my really good friends told me about this book! Now what would I rate the book? 9 out of 10 only because it is really sad which is a very good thing but bad at the same time! Troy Realpe]]> 2020-10-16 18:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836619240 Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis 10364552 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836943231 This book is historical fiction and set in the 1930s. Bud, Not Buddy is about a 10-year-old orphan who runs away from his foster home to find who he thinks is his father. He carries a suitcase with him which holds sentimental objects that reminds him of his mom. His mom hoarded flyers of Herman E. Calloway which he presumes is his father. Overall, I liked this book and all the characters. ]]> 2020-10-16 20:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836943231 Haddix: Among The Brave 1036155 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836962124 This book is realistic fiction and was written by Margaret Peterson. The book is about how the population has been needs to decline and the law states that you can only have two children. A group of kids have survived slaughter on numerous occasions and now they must avoid death once more. I like this book because it is about how the weakest coward in the group has to rescue his friends in prison when the odds are tremendously not in his favor. I recommend this book to everyone in this class and I rate it a 8/10.]]> 2020-10-16 20:43:16 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/836962124 Uglies 10349372 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837147136 This dystopian novel was written by Scott Westfield demonstrates how people can get caught up in satisfying beauty standards. Tally had just been separated from her best friend Perry, ever since he turned into a “Pretty.” Along the way, Tally meets someone in a similar situation as her named, Shay. Unlike Tally, Shay isn’t counting down the days of surgery and becoming “Pretty.” She would much rather ride hoverboards and visit the Ruins. Tally starts to recognize how flawed the surgery is from listening to Shay, they give you need skin, new teeth and take away everything that is special about your character. Personally, I didn’t really like this book. It was a little long and some of the events were a dragged out which wasn’t enjoyable. Tally was obsessed with turning into a Pretty and still decided to go into the surgery room despite how Shay told her about how horrible everything is. Not my type of book!]]> 2020-10-16 23:19:10 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837147136 Heartland: Come What May 10273091 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837361107 This book is fiction, written by Lauren Brooke. Lauren Brooke is actually her pen name, her real name however is Linda Chapman. This book is about a girl named Amy Fleming who rehabilitates horses with trust, and forming bonds. She uses strictly herbs for her medicine. Another thing about the book is that, while Amy, and Lou were going through their late mom's room, they found a note from five years ago, from their dad who after a freak accident show jumping, he abandoned them. The note says how he wanted to make things right and if she would please accept his apology, but they don't know if she replied to him. Lou who was 11 years old when that happened had already formed a very tight bond with her dad. Lou without telling Amy wrote to their dad. I rate this book 9/10 everything is perfect about it it's just that sometimes it can be a bit boring or annoying to read.]]> 2020-10-17 04:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837361107 Everything Everything 10355522 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837371188 This book is a romance drama it is written by Nicola Yoon. 
This noel is focus on Maddy the 18 year old girl who has an illness where she can't leave the house because she is allergic to almost everything, she gets a new neighbor who's name is olly she can't go outside and greet him so she starts to text him and they start to get close one day Maddy's nurse invited him in and they go to meet each other in person, From that point on olly and her escaped to Hawaii where she starts to fell "symptoms" of her dying and she freaks out and she calls her mother and that's when she explains to her mom her mom tells her that her "illness" was fake and she said she lied because she wanted to keep her safe because Maddys brother and dad died in a car accident. ]]> 2020-10-17 04:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837371188 To Kill A Mockingbird 10348411 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837402214 To Kill A Mockingbird is a novel written by Harper Lee. It is about a girl named Scout who lives with her brother Jem and her father Atticus Finch who is a lawyer. They lived in Maycomb, Alabama during the Great Depression. But one thing that happens in the book is Atticus Finch trying to prove that a black man named Tom Robison is innocent of raping and beating a woman. Overall, I would give this book an eight or a nine out of ten.  ]]> 2020-10-17 05:53:52 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837402214 Crenshaw https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837440625 The book crenshaw is written by Katherine Applegate. This book is about a young boy named Jackson who does not believe in magic or fairy tales. In fact, they think he might be too mature for his age. But it all changes when he meets his old imaginary  cat friend, Crenshaw. -kayla frerichs]]> 2020-10-17 07:19:59 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837440625 To all the Boys I've Loved Before 10350231 https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837908551 This book is written by Jenny Han and it is about a girl name Lara Jean and she writes letters to each person she had liked. She has 5 letters in total , she keeps all her letters in a box that is hidden under her bed. One day she finds out that all her letters were shipped to the person she wrote to. (her little sister kitty was the one who sent them out) One out of the 5 returns to her but the other 4 was now in the guys hand. I think this books genre is romance and drama because there is some romance but also a lot of drama. I found this book very good I really enjoyed reading it. ]]> 2020-10-17 19:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/837908551 Revenge, Ice cream, and other things Best Served Cold https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/838064486 This book is an amazing romance novel by Katie Finn. The book is about Gemma trying to hold the fact that Haille knew who Gemma was since the beginning of Gemmas plan. Gemma wants to get revenge and make things right with Josh, Hailles brother. Before she gets her revenge shes stuck all day scooping ice cream because her father made her get a job so pay all the money she spent trying to make things right. 
This book is an amazing novel and so incredibly written with major turns and events that will blow your mind. I would rate this book 9/10. You wont regret it.. - Abigail Alcala]]> 2020-10-17 23:20:38 UTC https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/838064486 Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins https://padlet.com/leejennifer/mf95odk01c2g9ytt/wish/839553456 Anthony Escamilla

Genre: Dystopian

Catching Fire is about Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. They both won The Annual Hunger Games and are now in trouble by their President of the Capitol after Peeta confessed his love and feelings for Katniss.  Their mentor wanted them to continue that love story so they could both live. Katniss didn´t really like Peeta but Peeta acutally likes Katniss. After most of the people in the Capitol and the Gamemakers believe their love story, Katniss and Peeta win The Hunger Games. But only one of them were supposed to win. Katniss tells Gale what is happening and wants to run away from District 12 with both of their families then Katniss tells Peeta and he agrees. Later on, they find Gale being hunted.

I really enjoyed the first and second book of The Hunger Games series. I recommend reading this book because it shows true friendships and relationships between the characters. 
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