final blog post

I am currently reading a book called Navigating Early. This book is about a kid who lost his mother and is at boarding school to become a captain in the navy. He is very scared of the sea and is very shy. The reason that he is in the boarding school for the naval academy is his dad is in the navy so his dad wants him to be like him and he will see him more if he is in the navy with him. The author of this novel is a lady named Clare Vanderpool. She is a very interesting lady and she has many other good books. One of those good book is Moon Over Manifest. This is a very good book. This one received awards like the Newberry Medal in 2011. She was the first women to get a medal in her first 30 years. She was also the first women in Kansas to win a Newberry Medal. She is a very good lady because she is part of the society of children’s book writers and illustrators. She is a very good writer because she knew that she would write when she was only in fifth grade. Her first book was published when she was 45 years of age.

third blog post

In the book Navigating Early there is a kid named Jack. He is a student at a boarding school where there going into the navy in their later years. This kid, Jack is very unusual. His father is in the navy and his mother passed away not too long ago. He was very shy and nervous at first but is now starting to get out of his comfort zone. He has lots of good traits and he has some bad ones. Some good one are he is very nice. He also is very smart and likes to go in really deep with thinks. Some of the bad thinks though are he gets very sea sick. And this is a problem for jack because he is going to be in the navy, he is very shy and doesn’t like talking much. He also has a bad experience with adults because his father would go off and is mom would have to work a lot. He is a very interesting kid and does a lot of different things. I still think that Jack will learn to be the best in the class room and in the water. He will be the best sailor in the see.

Summer Reading Post Number 2

I am now reading the book called Navigating Early. This book has not surprised me about what has happened. In my last post I said that Jack was going to make friends and get used to all the water. Jack is now made two friends and sit with them at lunch and talk to them all the time in class. He is now feeling like a normal kid even though his mother is dead. One text-to-self connection I can make with Jack is we both get sea sick. My name is also Jack. One text-to-text connection I can make is to Harry Potter. In this story he is a very shy person and has mean parents. He goes off to school somewhere else and makes lots of friends and finally gets out of his comfort zone. One text-to-world connections that I can make with Jack is there are lots of shy kids out in the world today that need to get out there comfort zone. I think that this book inspires kids to go out and have fun with other children. I think this is a very good thing for the world because it helps with the kids that are shy and don’t have lots of friends.

First Summer Reading Blog

I have started reading a new book that is called Navigating Early. This book is about a kid who gets very sea sick and his father is in the Navy. This kid’s name is Jack. He is very unfortunate because his mother died right before his father came home to visit. After his mother died he had to go off to military school for people that were going into the Navy. His father forced him into the group because there is no one to watch him at home. Jack hates the sea. The first time he ever saw it he threw up all over the shore line. He hates is like a cat hates the water. It is very hard for him at this school because he has no one that he knows and he is very sad about his mother. I predict that in the future, Jack will become one the best naval people there is and he will stay strong throughout his journey of being a sailor because he lost his mother. He also will get lots of new friends and will finally be happy with his life. I think that everything will become more positive for Jack.

LOSER

the graduation

In the book Loser, Donald Zinkoff is still becoming older and having all his young characteristics taken away.  In the part that I'm at now, Donald is now graduating elementary school.  He is very exited and cant wait till the graduation.  So at the graduation, Zinkoff is in his hat and gown and is waiting for his name to be called.  He is so nervous for the weirdest reason.  His nervous because he thinks that his parents wont clap for him as he walks.  He notices that all the other kids are getting cheered and he notices the whistles and the claps.  He finally gets to his name and he did not stand.  He completely forgot about him.  The man soon said his name again and then Zinkoff sprained into action and was ready for the walk.  He then notices that his parents don't yell for him and he is sad.  Then out of nowhere he here's "GO DONALD" He was so happy that his little sister was cheering for him.  He was SO happy.  He was as happy as a man winning the lottery.  He felt like he was the most important man in the world and he was getting a big prize for completing Elementary school. 

best friend

In the book Loser, the kid Zinkoff is still becoming interesting and really wondering about himself.  Zinkoff is now in 6th grade.  One day in school Zinkoff has to take a test on the basic thinks about his mental and physical health.  Some of the questions are like Do you like your class?  Do you like your classmates?  Do you play outside a lot?  Zinkoff was zooming through the test until he got to one question.  Who is your best friend?  He is very confused on this question because he looks around the room and says to himself, I don't have a best friend.  He soon finds A kid that could potentially be his friend.  He wrote on the blank that kids name.  After the test was over he went up to that kid and was asking him who he chose for his best friend.  The kid said that he did not have one so he just left the blank blank.  Zinkoff soon said that they could be best friends.  After this day at school Zinkoff was very excited to be new friends with the kid.  he spent lots of time with him and played lots of things with him.  He also went over to his house multiple times.  This friend that Zinkoff had now was just as odd as Zinkoff.  he has his own collection of ear wax that he plans to make a candle out of.  Zinkoff really likes this so he really likes his new best friend.