Dear Classmates,

Maureen Sherry has just visited Jamison today, Monday May 9th 2011. Everyone had loads of questions that they wanted to pile on top of this fabulous author. Maureen Sherry is so sweet and kind. Plus, she is very pretty too! Maureen loves writing and is trying to finish a sequel to Walls WIthin Walls! The next book is called Tunnels To Tunnels. Maureen has a pattern with the titles that contain alliteration. Does anyone one else in class want to read the next book of the author. Whether or not you like her books, she is one of my favorite authors and I will continue to read her books! PEACE!

-GB

Dear Classmates,

We have just finished the book “Walls Within Walls”! It is one of my favorite books yet! I am satisfied with the ending, however, It left me clueless except for a foreshadow of the children looking for the lost jewel. Now I want to read the next book in the series to find out what happens because I personally love when the ending is really the end. I will probably keep reading books in the series until the final book. That is how good I think the book is. My favorite character is Brid because she is just like me except for her age. We are both have the gender, (male or female) we love to right things down, we are smart, and we love to solve mysteries. Brid brings an exciting twist to the book. Without her, the book would not be the same! Maureen Sherry is coming to our school and I’m psyched to see her! She is definitely one of my favorite authors to ever walk the planet! Here are some questions that I would like to ask her:

Q1: What is your next book in the “Walls Within Walls” series going to be called?

Q2: Did you write any other books or series besides the soon to be “Walls Within Walls” series?

Q3: Who is your favorite author besides yourself?

Q4: What is your favorite book that you have written?

Q5: What is your favorite book that another author has written?

Q6: What was your favorite subject when you were a child?

Q7: What is your favorite genre?

These are some questions that I want to ask Maureen, but you may ask some if you want to. Are you as psyched to see the author as I am? Please write back if you have any comments or questions about the article I just wrote=http://!J

~GB

HI! I can't wait for the reading olmpics! I saw my brother do it and it was really cool! The award ceromony was awesome! I hope we get a blue ribbon!

I am reading the Ghost in the Machine and it is really interesting!

I think Turtle will win the Westing game because since she was the bomber, she knows how to sneak bombs in without people seeing so she could also sneak in the apartments to look at the other pairs' clues to the Westing Game.

:) Mrs. H

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I am reading the book, Daphne’s book, by Mary Downing Hahn. I am really enjoying it so far and I’m almost finished the book. In the book, Jessica gets paired up with the weird Daphne (who barely talks to anyone) for the write-a-book contest. They work together even though Daphne’s been “sick” and out of school for a month. When Jessica goes over Daphne’s house, Daphne tells Jessica a terrible secret of why she doesn’t go to school anymore. Jessica finds out that Daphne’s grandmother (who Daphne lives with) is totally crazy=http://!!!! Daphne doesn’t want to leave her sister Hope home with the woman so she doesn’t go to school. Later, Daphne and Jessica’s book win the contest but Daphne’s secret was revealed and she and Hope were put in the orphanage while the grandmother was taken to the hospital. In the end, the grandmother dies. I am still reading more but I am not finished yet=http://=http://!! mso-effects-glow-color:white;mso-effects-glow-themecolor:background1;
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Hi!! Anything interesting???

-gb

I am reading "Deep and Dark and Dangerous" right now and it is getting exciting=http://! Here are some stop and jots:

W- Will Ali's mom see Teresa again?(Ali and Emma call Teresa SIssy)

V- I can see Ali and Emma giving the bird a funeral

W- Why does everyone think that Aunt Dulcie pushed Teresa off the canoe and into the lake?

Those are my stop and jots!!!

-gb

Dear readers,

I am still reading the book “Tunnels”. It is getting interesting. Right now, After will and Chester find the colony, and underground world, Will is taken back to his “real” family. He doesn’t know if they are his real family or not but he stars to live with them. Chester is currently with the Styx. The Styx people own the colony I’m pretty sure. Here are my strategies this week:

I visualizized a lot. I could see something white on Wills side dish start to move and grow legs. I also saw Cal eating the grub [the ones you find in the grass or dirt] and clear liquid oozing out of it. I could see Mr. Jerome and Cal eating like animals. I vizualizized Chester being bored and tired after the Styx tested him. I also saw Mr. Jerome standing up for Will. I see will leave Chester with the Styx. I also saw Will chatting to his “real” grandmother. I see cal saying that when Will would try to escape the colony, Cal wanted to go to the topsoil with him. In the colony that’s underground, they call where we live topsoil. Those are my visualizations this week.

I also wondered and predicted this week. I wonder why the colony calls where we live topsoil. I also wonder why Cal wants to go to “topsoil” with Will. I wonder why the colony is called the colony and how they came up with that name for the underground world. I also wonder why Cal and Mr. Jerome eat like animals. I also wonder how Cal can eat the grub without throughing up because it’s really disgusting. I also wonder where Dr. Burrows is. I also wonder what happened to Chester and if Will will discover him soon. I also predicted. I predict that Chester will go down to the Deeps because on the back cover of “Tunnels”, there is a picture of the next book. The title of the next book is Deeper. That’s why I think Chester will go to the deeps. My prediction hasn’t been proven true yet because I’m not finished tunnels yet and I still have to read Deeper. I also predict that Rebecca will call the police because Will, Chester, and Dr. Burrows are still missing and Will didn’t write a note to tell Rebecca that he found a passage and went in. My prediction has been proven true because Rebecca did call the police but Will, Chester, and Dr. Burrows are nowhere to be found. Those are my predictions and wonderings this week.

The strategy of the week was finding out what new words mean by using context clues. One word that I found was the word quarrel. Quarrel means an argument or disagreement. The author stated the new word by using a synonym for it. Another word is emancipate. Emancipate means free. The author also used a synonym again. The last word I found was impeccable. Impeccable means perfect. The author used antonyms this time. Those are the new words that I learned.

Those are my strategies this week=http://!!

-gb