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Title: Ramona The Pest
Author: Beverly Cleary
Show: Ramona wanted to be sure she did not lose her tooth, because she needed it for bait to catch the tooth fairy. She planned to pile a lot of clattery things like sauce pans and pie tins and old broken down toys beside her bed so the tooth fairy would wake her up.
Tell: Ramona wanted to see the tooth fairy.
Title: Harry Poter and the sorceer's stone
ReplyDeleteAuthoer:J.K.Rowling Show: The author J.K. Rowling showed us how to fly on a broomstick and first years stundents are not alound to play on the Quidditech team. harry potter wa so good at flying that they alound him to play on the Quidditechteam..
Tell: Harry Potter was so good at flying on a broom that he was able to play and the Quidditech team has a first year.
Title: Girls Acting Catting
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Leslie Margolis
Show: Claire went as a dartfish for halloween, decked out in purple and orange silk to match her red hair. Claire also trimmed her entire costume in silver sequins so it'd shimmer as if she was really underwater.
Tell: Claire went as a dartfish.
Title: Thea Stilton and the Dragon's Code
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Thea Stilton
Show: Thea and 5 young student mouselings are at Mouseford Academy trying to solve the Dragon's Code. They used clues, school motto and a secret code to solve the mystery.
Tell: Thea and the mouselings solved the Dragon's Code.
TITLE:THE PRINCESS SCHOOL THE SHOE FITS
ReplyDeleteAUTHOR:JANE B.
SHOW:ELLA(CINDERELLA)WANTS TO BE THE SAME AS THE OTHER PRINCESSES BUT SHE DOSEN'T EVEN HAVE SHOES!
TELL ELLA HAS NO SHOES.
TITTLE: Time Twister
ReplyDeleteAthuor: Frank Asch
Show: Jonathan is turning nice by useing utensels, being quiet when Alex tells him to. he is calling Alex names like sir, my good man and stuff like that.
Tell: Jonathan is being nice.
TITTLE: Ivy and Bean (bound to be bad.)
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Annie Barrows.
Show: Ivy and Bean think about how to make a bully stop picking on other kids. But later Ivy and bean are thinking we should be like the bully.
Tile:Future Knight
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Tony Davis
Show:But he did grab his big ,spiky steel mace and hit her over the head so hard that her brain shot out her earholes like lengths of gray rope.
Tell :He hit her so hard.
Title:THANKSGIVING TROUBLE
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Abby Klein
Show: At school Freddy is doing a play about Thanksgiving. Freddy's sister was in Miss Wushy's class and she did the play too. She said, "There is going to be a chicken in the play.And Pilgrams and Indians" Freddy wanted to be an Indian. He did not want to be the chicken because he was going to be teased about it!! They were pulling there parts out of a hat, and they were not allowed to pick there part because it wouldn't be fair. Freddy was so mad that he pulled the chicken out of the hat and he is the chicken for the play. Freddy was so mad he had steam come out of his ear's like a train! And Freddy got teased any way poor,poor,poor,poor Freddy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MY BOOK IS CALL PARTS BY TEDD ARNOLD AND IN MY STORY "PARTS" HE'S TAKING OF HIS CLOTHES FOR HIS BATH AND HE JUST SAW SOMTHING DROP OUT HIS NOSE AND GEUSS WHAT IT WAS SMUSHY,GRAY AND IT WAS A PIECE OF HIS BRAIN FALLING OUT HIS NOSE AND NOW HE IS WORRY ABOUT LOSING OTHER "PARTS"
ReplyDeleteTitle:Dulicie's Taste of Magic
ReplyDeleteAuther:Gail Herman
Show: Bluebells,mairigolds & other wiled flowers grew by the dosense. yellow ,orange & aquamarine pedels coverde the grownd like a soft carpet.
Tell:pedles cover the growend like a carpet.
Title:Harry Potter and the goblet of Fire
ReplyDeleteAuther:J.K.Rowling
Show:A short,balding man with graying hair,a pointed nose,and small,watery eyes stood before Frank,a mixture of fear and alarm in his face.
Breanna said...
ReplyDeleteTitle: Lulu Goes to Witch School
Author: Jane O' Connor
Show: Lulu Witch was scared to go to Witch School. She meets a little witch named Sandy Witch. Sandy Witch has a black cat, a magic wand and her own broom. She knows all the words to "Happy Witches Are We" the school song. Lulu
thinks that Sandy is a nice witch. But, then Sandy is mean to Lulu. But she tries to be nice too Sandy. Lulu and Sandy both get lizard pox. Lulu says if the other witches laughed she was going to laugh too. lulu and Sandy counted the spots on their faces. Lulu had 69 and Sandy had 67. "You win" said Sandy Witch.
Tell: Sandy Witch is a nice witch even though she has to win everything.
it was a chiily afternoon in late winter Annie was doing her homework on the computer. In the living room
ReplyDeleteThere was a flash of blinding green light and rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring though the air instantaneously the spider rolled over on its back, unmarcked, but unmisttakably dead.
ReplyDeleteTitle:The seceret of cacklefur castle
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Geronimo Stilton
Show:It was then I noticed a sigh on the door.It said,"Skin eating strawberries.Enter at your own risk.[I wouldnt if I were you!]Then I heard laughing.I wasnt suprised when I saw the rascals,snip and snap.The mouselings giggled and ran away.
Tell:I entered a door with skin eating stawberries.
Author:Marc Brown
ReplyDeleteTitle: The Mystery Of The Stolen Bike
Show: The bike was not only old.It was also ugly. Bright purple,with chipped paint, rusted handlebars, and a glittery burnt-orange banana seat.
Tell: The bike was ugly.
Title:Harry Potter an the chamber of secrets
ReplyDeleteAuthor:.J.K.Rowling
Snape step in to the vast,echoing entrance hall,witch was lit with flaming torches
Title: The Lightning Thief
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Rick Roirdan
Show:A twelve year old boy went on a field trip with his class to a museum. He was listening to the museum teacher. His teacher, Miss Dodds told him to come to a room with her alone. He turned around and then he turned back around and she wasn't there. He looked up and she was on a big,big,big rack. Then she turned in to a bat thing with big bat wings,a forked tongue and glowing eyes. She swooped down and almost got him but he pulled a pen out of his pocket and he clicked it and a sword popped out. He put the sword up and he sliced her and she turned into dust. Tell: Miss Dodds attacked Percy.
Title: Thanksgiving trouble
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Abby Klein
strategy:perdition
My perdition when Freddy pulled the turkey part for the play about Thanksgiving was...I thought Freddy was going to make a plan to not do the part in the play. My perdition was acuret he was making a plan but his mom found out he got in a little trouble!!!!!!!!!