Readers,
As a voracious reader, I love discussing books with other lovers of literature. I have joined book clubs, emailed with friends, and sat down over many meals where the conversation turned to what everyone was reading. Books are a part of my life.
However, I have noticed I have certain friends who never fail to disappoint me with their EXCELLENT recommendations. I finally figured out why they are so great at this life skill ...
When recommending a book to me, they give a concise, precise summary of the book. Their summary consist of the main characters, the setting, and the problem and solution, otherwise known as, the plot. They use LITERARY ELEMENTS to explain what the book is about!
I would like for you to write a short summary about the fiction book you are reading, including characters, setting, and the plot (problem/solution). Assume I have not read the book and be sure to edit your work.
Here is an example from Ruby Holler:
Dallas and Florida are two orphans who are often refered to as 'trouble twins.' They live in a home for children until an older couple adopts them and takes them to their small home in beautiful Ruby Holler. Dallas and Florida begin to build a relationship with the older couple, but are troubled with the couple's plan to split them up for the summer to go on different journeys. The twins plan on running away and living on their own, but the promise of money, and the kindness of the older couple delay them for a while. They have to find a way to stay together, but not go back to the awful home for children.
I cannot wait to see your understanding of what you are reading!
28 comments:
Piper, Leo, and Jason go to a wilderness school. Jason wakes up to find he's on a bus and dosent remember anything.Then they got attacked by monsters. Then they go to a camp called half blood camp and realize there children of the Gods[Greek mytholagy]. Next they get sent on a quest to fight giants and find Pipers dad. Early on in the story Pipers dad gets caught by one of the giants.
The Giants in the story can move mountains. Will they make it alive?
Confused Sadie and Carter Kane Have been through so much in the last few days in Manhatten that they can't belive what they are hearing or seeing. Their dad is missing,they are seeing all kinds of ancient egyption gods and glowing symbols,and they might even be realated to a ancient king of egypt. Both Sadie and Carter just want a normal life,if it's even possible.
Petrova, Pauline, and Posy are all orphans that were either found without parents or had parents that couldn't take care of them. Some people named Sylvia, Nana, and Gum take care of them but Gum leaves for a cruise ship for five years and doesn't come back. The family soon runs out of money and has to take in borders. Two of the borders are teachers and one works at a ballet and acting academy. The teachers help Petrova, Pauline, and Posy get an education because Nana and Sylvia can't afford to take them to school and the ballet teacher lets them go to the ballet academy so that they can be trained before they are twelve because when they are twelve, they can dance and preform for money.
Opal finds a dog named Winn Dixie.She just moved to Flordia.She had to leave all her freinds behide and her school.She is worried that she won't make any frinds,but at the end of the book she makes frinds.
Harry,Ron,and Hermione are wizards that attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry is a very powerful wizard. Voldomort and his partner, Sirius Black killed Harry's parents when Harry was just born. Black went to Azkaban for a very long time but then he got out and he went out to find Harry. Harry and Black meet but he finds out Blck isn't the bad guy. Hogwarts' is trying to find him so he wont hurt Harry. Harry has to help him get away from the people who are trying to kill him.
Johnny and Joey were digging a tunnel in there backyard when they hit a magic elevator. When they went in the elevator Johnny pushed button 518. It took thim to a magic land.
Harry Potter and his friends need to find the ball which has the Pheonix . Harry broke and the deatheaters got mad and Sirius comes to save him but dies. He vs Voldemort but Harry escapes because he is stronger. Dumbledore saves him and he wins. They go back to Hogwarts.
Emily Windsnap is a 12 year old girl trying to get through life; you could also say she is a mermaid. Emily’s Dad is also a merman, but her mom is a human. Emily is half human and half mermaid. One day Emily went exploring and found a cave, but this cave is no normal cave. Emily goes in the cave, and into a little tunnel. Emily wakes the monster of the deep, but the monster still has 8 more years to sleep. They need to stop the monster before it's too late.
Carter and Sadie are brother and sister. When there mother died they were split apart. When a visit to the British Museum goes bad. They find out ther dad is a Egyptian Magician. It's up to them to save their dad.
Carter and Sadie are kids whose mother died and they were taken away from each other. Now when their dad takes them to the British Museum.Their dad is melted away by Set,the god of chaos. Now they have learn magic. Also they have to save their dad and stop Set.
Catherine just wants a normal summer, but her brother David has autism. Catherine is so happy because the new neighbor, Kristi has just moved in. Now Catherine just wants to have a new friend and she is hoping that David doesn’t ruin it. And at therapy Catherine is just wants a normal summer, but her brother, David has autism. words for jason in his vocabulary book. But is Catherine going to have to use Jason as a fake date? meets Jason,
The Lost Hero is about three kids Jason,Piper,and Leo. Jason is the son of Zeus he is trying to get his memories back from Hera. But his friend Piper daghter of Aphrodite wants to save her dad. But the deadline of each job is on the same day winter solosist so they are going to split up. But Leo on the other hand is just trying to help them on their quest to get Jason's memories back and Piper's dad back.
Jason, who has lost his memory,Piper,and Leo are three demigods (they just don't know that yet) who all have parents that give them away and don't want to take care of them. They all end up with each other at a milatary school where they find out they are demigods. they also find out that they have to go on a quest to save one of the gods who has been improsined so they can restore Jason's memory. But they might figure something else out to.
Harry,a boy who is very small for his age, leaves his aunt and uncle (who he does'nt like)and Privet Drive to go to the Quiditch World Cup with his best friend Ron. There, some people who help Voldemort (a person who is very bad)atack everyone. When Harry goes to Hogwarts his name is pulled out of the Goblet of Fire! If your name is pulled out of the Goblet of Fire then you have to complete some very hard tasks. Harry did the first one by stealing a golden egg from a dragon. Hagrid, one of Harry's friends, has been discovered as a man who is part giant! Giants are very mean so he loses his job as a teacher. The second task is coming closer for Harry. Harry needs to acomplish the first task and get Hagrid his job back.
Geronimo Stilton is a redish mouse who has an exciting life and in my book Geronimo`s cousin Trap Stilton is trapped in Transatania in Count Von Ratoff and Geronimo has to get trap. Geronimo lives in New Mouse City and is the editor of The Rodents Gazette and the solution needs to be that Trap gets saved and goes home safe and sound and they have a normal life.
Catherine is a girl looking for a normal life. She lives in a small house by the beach with a lot of toys for her brother. She wishes that her brother will wake up one day without autism. Catherine is embarrassed because she doesn’t want her new neighbor to think she is weird because her brother has autism. She soon figures out that it doesn’t matter what her friends think about her.
Jamie Kelly is your regular middle school girl (non-popular, ok hair, trying to “grow” an accent). But her school, Mackerel Middle School, is going to get visitors from another school because of bad smelling fumes. But with all of the “foreigners” there, one is the prettiest and I’m talking:
BLOND V.S BLACK hair: two girls fighting for the title. But what happens when they find out who the pretty “foreigner” (black hair) really is?
A Wrinkle in Time
By Madeleine L’engle
Margaret (Meg) Murry is not a very good student. She thinks everything is going wrong. She doesn’t know where her dad is and people are teasing her on top of everything else. These three strange ladies seem to know a lot about her father, and one day her brother takes her and this boy she met with the ladies and him to go on a mission. All the ladies will tell her is it’s a dangerous mission and that she is going to look for her dad, and some more things. She knows she has to go and find and save her dad while her life could be at risk.
A Hero’s Guide to Deadly Dragons
Hiccup is a boy in a Viking tribe called the Hairy Hooligans. His dragon Toothless is a trouble maker because he burned part of Hiccup’s father’s new throne. He also burned the book How to Train Your Dragon. Hiccup is going to have to steal a copy of it from the Meathead public Library. But he must be careful of the Hairy scary Librarian. The chief of the Meathead tribe is Mogoden Meathead. It is also Hiccup’s birthday.
Mandy loves animals. Her mom is a vet and she has a dog that is a small Jack Russell Terrier named Jess. When a movie star comes to town to film a movie in a very old house, Mandy has the chance to look after some of the animals that will be in the movie. But when the most important animal, a Labrador named Charley disappears, it`s up to Mandy and her friend James to find her.
Percy is a half -blood, son of Poseidon. He rarely sees his mom because he lives at camp Half-blood. His old enemy Luke is planning an attack at camp. But Luke has to get to Daedalus’s workshop so he can convince Daedalus to stop all the traps for his army to get through. So Percy and his friends Annabeth, Tyson, and Grover have to get there first. They are off to a good start. But who will get there first?
Percy is a half -blood, son of Poseidon. He rarely sees his mom because he lives at camp Half-blood. His old enemy Luke is planning an attack at camp. But Luke has to get to Daedalus’s workshop so he can convince Daedalus to stop all the traps for his army to get through. So Percy and his friends Annabeth, Tyson, and Grover have to get there first. They are off to a good start. But who will get there first?
Aidan is the youngest of his three brothers he is also the most adventures of them all. He lives on a big farm with his father, brothers, and his grandfather. One night he was in the field doing work when he hears a weird sound so he tells his grandfather. Then his grandfather says that he heard the Bog owl. Then he goes out to find it. But when he gets to the River of Tam where it is said to live said it live he finds something else when the thing sees him it attacks him.
Hank wanted to be a table for Halloween his friends told him everyone would think it was stupid, but he said he was going to do it no matter what. His friends where right everyone laughed and called him names especially Nick McKelty he yelled and said mean things to him. So Hank made a really scary hontedhouse at his house to get back at McKelty. He really scared McKelty!
Harriet the Hamster Fairy
Rachel and Kirsty were helping take care of their neighbor’s hamster. They came into her house and went to the room the hamster cage was in, but when they saw the cage the hamster was gone. Then they looked behind them and there were three goblins, they said that they let the hamster out so they could cap shire the magic hamster that the girls were also looking for to help their friend in Fairy Land. Suddenly there was a light coming from the room behind them, it was the magic hamster. Then the fairy from Fairy Land shot out of the chimney and tried to get to the hamster but the goblin got it. They rushed up the stairs and tickled the goblins feet and got the hamster, but they still have to find the other hamster before it is too late.
Hank is ready for Christmas vocation but his teacher has another plan for him. So not only is he going to a crossword tournament but he has to do homework. Thank God his grandpa stepped in so now they can pick one place to go on the way. But if his dad finds the homework all may be lost.
The Calendar Club
And the missing cupid
In the Calendar Club, Miss Duffy goes missing for a month. A new movie star named Nicole comes and looks around Miss Duffy’s house. When Miss Duffy gets back one of her cupids are missing. The very next day a package is at her door with a cupid that looks the same but has some different details. Leon, Casey, and Dotty all try to figer out what happened. The movie star comes again every week, and something always disappears at Miss Duffy’s. But one phone call can solve the case. Leon, Casey, and Dotty all work to together to solve their biggest case yet.
Jason, Piper, and Leo mysteriously land at Camp Half Blood when two other kids bring them there. The first thing everybody notices are the strange markings on Jason’s arm, but nobody will tell them what it means. At camp, Piper keeps having strange dreams that her father is in trouble because a giant is keeping him. The giant says she must betray her friends on a quest for her father to stay alive. Will she be able to rescue her father and not betray her friends?
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