Blog#3 Room

                             Premise                                                                        You don't know the difference between real and fake. You sleep in a wardrobe, and you don't believe in humans except for you and you mom. You only live in a Room. That's what Room is all about. By Emma Donoghue. Jack is the main character who just turned five. Mom is Jack's ma. Nick is the man who comes to check on them in the middle of the night. The conflict is that their in a ROOM! They have to get out and live a normal life. This is a realistic fiction type of book. So far the setting takes place in a room. My friend recommended this book to me. So I gave it a try. And I'm glad she did cause so far its a great book.   


                      What I just read

      There are five chapters in this book. There's Presents, Unlying, Dying, After,and Living. I'm on Unlying so in Unlying it was always a page turner. Jack realizes that his ma has the same pills as on the TV. Jack's ma has to tell the truth cause now Jack knows that things on TV might by real. Outside the Room. I knew Jack would find out, but I was wondering how he would find out. So pretty close to the end of Unlying mom tells Jack everything. Like how she got to the room, her family. Jack doesn't want to believe her, but its his mom. I was surprised to find out that they live in a shed not a room. I thought it was always part of the house that Old Nick lives in to. It seems like to me that Jack and ma some how eventually will get out of the room. At this time in the book Old Nick has turned off their electricity and water. Some questions I'm thinking about is why Old Nick kidnapped her. Another question 'm thinking about is why all of a sudden ma wants to dump all this information into Jack. I mean she would have to eventually, but why this early. I like how in the these two chapters Jack wants to believe there is no outside. It makes you want to just go to the ending and find out. This character keeps finding out more and more about this other world that he doesn't believe in. 

                                                                                                       

Blog #2 Smile

                                                                 The Premise
                          Sometimes changing how you look can all depend on the teeth. That's what Smile by Reina Telgemeier is all about. Raina just want to be a normal 6th grader. Not with the best teeth so shes going to get braces. One day after a girl scouts meeting Raina trips, and falls right on her jaw. She has found out that her two front teeth have fallen out. She was going to get braces anyways, but now she has no front teeth. Smile just isn't about her teeth she also has some problems with friends, family, and... boys. Raina  has friends but aren't they nicest they make jokes about here way too many jokes. it seems like they bully her even when Raina asks them to stop. The main character is Raina a girl who is about to start 6th grade. Smile takes place in San Francisco. This book is a graphic novel/ realist fiction.
                            
                                                                 

                                                             SPOILER ALERT !!!
                          At the end Raina gets new and nice friends that don't make fun of her. Also her two front teeth grew back in. With lots of time, and different type of treatments. She had to get braces for a while, but then she got to take them off. She had a crush but at the end he never liked her. When Raina got into 7th grade a the grader started to like her. And at the end she liked him to. so they got together. Raina's  mom was also always worried about her growing up. Though what happened was that her mom realized that her " baby " had to grow up. so at the end her braces got off and she got to show her smile.



                                                             Theme Analysis
                         I think this book's theme was like a be yourself, express yourself no matter what kind of book. Because when Raina decided to speak up to her old " friends " to stop bullying her showed that she was tired of being bossed around. Also when Raina taught that everyone judged her by her teeth, but her true friend never noticed. So that proves the point of what I think about the theme of the book.
                                 
                         

Favorite characters of Camp confidential ttyl

                                                                      Favorite Characters
Out of all the girls my favorite one is Jenna because her conflict is very realistic. Jenna is a not afraid to talk to anyone type of girl. she is very outgoing. Jenna says things like I'm not afraid to talk to guys. At times she doesn't really listen to her parents. Like when she snuck out to her friends party. I think that Jenna is a very realistic character. Because at times things change in families and you have to accept it. So I think that Jenna was a fun character and very real I enjoyed to read about her.

Camp Confidential TTYL

                                                                      THE PREMISE
                   These four best friends spent their whole summer together at camp lakeview's bunk 3c. They all go to differrent schools but the big problem is that now their starting middle school. This book is split up into four girls and whats going on in their life when they start 6th grade. There is Jenna, Natalie, Alex, and Grace. Jenna's conflict is that her parent's just got a divorce on weekdays shes with her mom and on weekends shes with her dad. The problem now is that she never gets to spend time with her friends on the weekends what will she do ? Natalie's main conflict is that shes into boys now but her friend Hannah is worried that Natalie is growing up too fast. Alex's issue is that she loves to play soccer, but in  5th grade if you sign up you have to be in it. In 6th grade you only get to be put in if your good at that sport. Grace is bad at reading, but she is great at theater. her parents will absolutely not let grace join thither this semester until her report card comes out and she has good grades. This book is realistic fiction. Camp Confidential is also book five out of the series.



                                                                       SPOILER ALERET!!!
                 At the end Jenna snuck out to her friend's party by pretending to be sick. Jenna got caught by her mom, and they figured out that once a month she'd get to stay at her mom's on a weekend and spend time with friends. Natalie and her friend Hannah got in a fight, but they decided that they'd grow up together. Alex got into the soccer team, but she has to work harder. Grace lied to her parents by telling them she was at the library everyday, really she was at her theater club. Her parents found out and said that she can stay if she keeps her good grades up, but she is grounded for a month. I think the ending is really realistic. I mean i could've guessed it. I wanted it to be more surprising. I feel this way because I've read some other books from the same series and it always ends in a good way.