Reading & Writing 4th : Secrets and Strays

Reading & Writing ^4th : Secrets and Strays

Title of book	: Secrets and Strays
Publisher	: McGraw-Hill
Author of book	: Gwendolyn Lavert
Publication Date	: 2002
Number of pages in book	: 47

Summary:

             This story is about Beans and her friends. One day, her English teacher who is called Mrs. King called Beans, but she did not answer that. Also even though her teacher asked her, she did not read paragraph. Truth to tell, Beans could not read that, but she wanted to keep the secrets. After all, Beans was so nervous, and her friend who is called Dooley was late for class. For break, Beans saw pictures of kid with wings sitting on a Dooley’s bag. Dooley did not want to tell why he was late for the class. It was a picture of Dooley, and he had been absent for his grandmother’s funeral. Beans looked at the angel picture again, and she could understand why he wanted to hide it. For the rest the day, Beans watched a cat which sat on her doorstep, and the cat seemed to be lonely. She said that do you have a home? and picked the cat up. Maybe, the cat was a stray. She went home with the cat and she needed a name for that. Beans called Nelson which means to protect her. She wanted to talk to Dooley and wanted to know what is the Dooley’s secrets. One day, when she opened the door, the cat leapt outside. “Stop, stop,” said Beans, and the cat came up to Dooley. Dooley and Beans talked to the picture, and they had good time with the cat.

Reaction:

             I thought that this book might be easy for me to read. However, it is a children book, it is not easy for me to understand the meaning. This story is about friend and cat. When children make a friend, they sometimes want to use something, they enjoy giving favorite things in order to play with them. Beans also want to know Dooley’s secrets, at that time, she picked the cat up. In this story, I think that there were some secrets; Dooley’s picture and the cat. Even though there was not special event or special story in this book, it was interesting, and I could understand children’s friend. Also, through this story, I remembered my childhood.

            

Vocabulary:

Stray(n) : an animal that is lost or has no home

Twitch(v) : if a part of your body twitches, it makes a sudden small uncontrolled movement

Settle(v) : to end argument or solve a disagreement

Reading & Writing 3th : Bathwater Gang

Reading & Writing ^3th : Bathwater Gang

Title of book	: Bathwater Gang
Publisher	: Little, Brown & Company
Author of book	: Jerry Spinelli
Publication Date	: 1990
Number of pages in book	: 59

Summary:

             There was 2012 Fall book sale in Lawrence Public Library 3 weeks ago. At that time, I went there, and this book was chosen. The title of this book is Bathwater Gang which was written by Jerry Spinelli and illustrated by Meredith Johnson in 1990. It consists of 11 chapters and shows

             On Summer vacation, Bertie Kidd felt bored, and she started rolling out side. Bertie Kidd called Granny, and she was wogging. Bertie Kidd said that I am bored, but Granny responds that you miss school. At that time, Bertie Kidd met Damaris Pickwell who is a best friend. She told that having a gang because she liked to just do things. However, her friend did not want to do that, so she was angry and kicked some furniture. After that, Bertie have a good gang, and she wants to find members for her gang. However, most of the friends do not want to join the member, so Bertie slumped onto the bottom basement. She decided to make a plan in order to join members: join Bertie’s gang and see the world.

             In order to join gang members, she made a poster. However, there was 2 types posters: want free pizza? Join Bertie’s gang no boys, and Bertie kidd unfair to boys. Soon girls began to arrive. A few of them became frightened, but most of the girls walked right on past him. Thus, only the two who had shown up were Amy Moss and Liz Caputo, and they made lists our gang platform; god, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, soda, pizza, and so on. Bertie, Amy, and Liz started walking and found out, and Andy’s gang was racing away. Bertie’s gang pelted Andy Boyer’s front door with eggs. Kids raced to their room and changed into the bathing suits.

Reaction:

             Most parents have some rules in order for children to allow. Thus, the children sometime have to follow them. Before having a gang, Damaris Pickwell also talked to his mother, and Bertie Kidd was angry due to mother’s answer. I think that this story shows children’s story in order to make funny things; joining members. Before I read this book, I think that it might be easy for me. However, even though the pages are only 59, it was so difficult to understand the meaning. This book explains that how to join the gang member, and how to make friends. During this book, I remembered that when I was child, how to play with my friends. Therefore, it makes me happy and to remember my childhood.

              

Vocabulary:

Grab(v) Wave(v) Pull(v) Thrilled(adj) Grin(v)

to take hold of someone or something to move your hand, or something you hold in your hand to use your hands to move something toward you to feel strong excitement and pleasure to smile continuously with a very big smile