Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Hey guy! It's blog time. So I got a new book called Speak. Maybe you've heard of it, I know a lot of my friends have. I just started the book a few days ago and I really like it! It's about a girl named Melinda who over the summer crashed a party when she was still an eight grader. Because of that, her friends have ditched her and nobody will talk to her accept the new student at Merryweather. The setting of the book is Merryweather High School, and is set in modern time and is written in a weird way. The way the author writes it, its like a newspaper article and has a lot of subheadings. For example, there's no chapters instead when Melinda encounters another class or a situation, there's a heading.

I noticed that the vocabulary in the book is mostly common language with not much good diction. Melinda I would say is a round character so far, she's well developed and has a lot of description to who she is. Along with what's going on right now, I have a few predictions of what's going to happen later on in the book: I think that Melinda will finally say something about what happened over the summer and tell the truth about what really happened and her friends will talk to her again. I also think that she'll meet someone that she falls in love with and she will open up to them. I would recommend this book to anyone. I'm about a fourth of the way through and it's really interesting. I can't put it down! Literally! Well, that's all I have for now. Talk to you soon! Byieee

Farenheit 451

  Hi everyone! In our English class, we started a book called Farenheit 451.  So far I like it and I think it's really futuristic and interesting. The book is about a fireman who burns books. You can tell that it's futuristic because now, firemen put out fires instead of starting them. On the way home, Montag (the fireman) meets a girl named Clarisse who's seventeen and who I believe might read. See, reading is illegal in the book.

The government prevents any uprisings or people thinking by burning the books (censorship).The setting of the book is in the future, I would probably say around 2075 and I know it's in the modern US. " The jet bombers going over, going over, going over, one two, one two, one two, six of them, nine of them, twelve of them.." This line is showing that it's sort of in the future because we don't really have jet bombers now. I have some predictions about the book and what I think is going to happen:

• Clarisse will make Montag think about why he burns the books and he might revolt.
• We will find out that Clarisse reads and she will get caught
• Mildred will try to commit suicide again and she might actually die this time.

I also have a few questions about what will happen:

- Will Montag revolt?
- Does Clarisse read and will the government find out?


So i have a video about Ray Bradbury and it's pretty interesting! Take a look!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL_y6gtxLvQ

That's all for now, peeps! Byieeee! :)

Chronicles of Vladimir Tod

Hey hey hey! Yeah, I know we've been on winter break and had 2 snow days but I recently bought a book that I've heard of before and I've seen people reading it but I never have! It's called The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod. It's about a boy who's half vampire and half human, he's like Bella and Edward's baby on Twilight. Sorry, had to mention them. He seems like a regular 13 year old but he is actually the future ruler of enslaving the human race. He lives off of blood bags from his aunt's hospital and raw meat that he gets. He believes that he's the only vampire left on earth but I think there's more than just him. I've only read about half the book and it doesn't say anything about any other vampires but it just cant be like that! There has to be more! So I have a few questions:

• Are there other vampires other than just Vlad?
• Is Vlad's father alive?

Well I believe that's all for now, hope to have some answers next week! Or asap. Hope everyone had a good holiday and a great new year! I know I certainly did. :)