The Story of the World 2 - The Middle Ages

Susan Wise Bauer
*****

After I finished reading 'I know what you did last summer', I decided to take a break on English books. As a result, I decided to read a history book called 'The Story of the World 2' by Susan Wise Bauer in Korean. There are 5 of these books. No. 1 is the Ancient Times, No. 2 is the Middle Age, No. 3 is right before modern times, No. 4 is Modern (1), and No. 5 is Modern (2). This is a 580 page book and it is really long and it took me 6 days to finish this. This book is hard to tell about this story so in this blog post, I will tell you about this author and also about my favourite part of this book.

This book is written by an author called Susan Wise Bauer. She is a mom of a child, and she doesn't like her child studying in school so she decided to teach her child history herself. As a result, she made a book about history and this is the one. This book is the easiest history book you could ever find because she wrote this book for a little child. This book was very successfully made, so this book was published, and when I read it, I got into it even though I don't like history books that much. Even though it is a very long book, it tells every little thing that happened in world history very clearly that everyone could understand easily.

'Story of the World 2' starts from the early Middle Age part and ends at the last part of the Middle Age. This book starts with Rome collapsing and getting attacked, it moves to the starting of Britain, moves the the Byzantine Empire, goes to India, Islam, and then moves to the story of Arabian Night. Then, the history is focused on China, Korea, Japan and goes down to Australia. It moves to Europe, France, Spain, Portugal and England again. When the book was almost finished, America starts appearing; about Christopher Colombus, Amerigo Vesepucci, and Ferdinand Magellan. King Martin Luther appears, and it ends with Queen Elizabeth and William Shakespear.

My favourite part of this book is the beggining of this book when Britain appears. In that chapter, it tells the story about Beowolf, and I can bet you know about it. Here is how it goes. The king made a nice place for his servants to sleep and rest. Fire up above the ceiling protected them from fear and nothing bad was happening. One day, a big monster (bigger than two trees combined together) attacked that place and ate a lot of men every night. This monster was so tall that the tallest man only reached to his knee. The King's knights and fighters couldn't handle this problem. A man named Beowolf came to the rescue and said that he wants to fight the monster. When the monster came, he threw away his own armor and swords. He wanted to fight with bare hands. Suddenly, Beowolf stood up and held the monsters' arm. He twisted the monsters arm harder and harder. Then at last, when he twisted so hard, his arm broke and came out. The monster got out of the castle and ran away for his life. I think this story is really good and I read this part over and over.

I think it is a really good book that teaches us history. I learned a lot about this book. Even though I knew some parts of this book already, I learnt more about it clearly. I would give this book 5 stars out of 5 and I recommend this book to everyone. Susan Wise Bauer is a really good author.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

During this winter break, I have read two books and they are all awesome. The first one is 'The Terrorist', which I told you about in my blog post. This book 'I know what you did last summer' is also one of them, and this book is better than 'The Terrorist'. It is a really good book Mrs. Hodgeson the librarian recommended. I thought this book would be out in the library, but when I looked for it, there was... luckily.

This book is about five teenagers; Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray and Collie. There is another teenager called Bud, but he doesn't appear a lot during this book... except for at the last part. Julie used to go out with Ray and broke up so she is going out with Bud. Barry and Helen are going out together, and Helen likes Bud really much. They are all good friends. On one morning, Julie got a note called 'I know what you did last summer' and Ray got a email which said the same thing. One day, when Barry was driving with Julie, Helen, and Ray, they killed a little young boy called Davy by a car accident. Ray called a police and reported it. They were all scared that they would get caught so they just went to their house and left the killed boy with no supervision. Helen meets a boy called Collie and realized that he was a nice kind boy.

It was just a normal night. Barry was in front of the stadium. There was a bright light in front of him, and after a few seconds, there was a gunshot, and Barry got a bad injury in his spine. He was moved to the hospital and had to stay there for a long time. Helen was absolutely shocked, and she sent flowers to her. Julie also was shocked so she sent a bunch of yellow roses. Julie and Ray tried to find out the connection of Barry's shot, the note, and the little kid's death. They thought that one of Davy's family wanted to seek revenge and shot Barry. They were keep wondering Barry's shooter and tried to discover about all of this. While Barry was in the hospital, Ray visited him and asked about this shooting thing. He said that it was just a robbery because his 50$ was gone after he got shot. Ray was relieved by this news and told everyone else. Everyone was relieved.

One day, when Helen came back to her house after she swam, she realized that Collie was sitting on her purple chair. He said that he was the one who shot Barry, sent those letters and did all those bad things. He said that Davy was his half brother so he wanted to do revenge and kill Barry, Ray, Julie, and Helen. Helen was scared so she wanted to jump out of the window but Collie blocked her. She went to the bathroom and locked the door. She was very scared so she just jumped out of the bathroom window.

After a few hours, Julie had a date with Bud at the evening. When Bud came to her house, Bud made Julie come to the car and he wanted to talk to her. He then said that he was Collie and he disguised himself as Bud as well. He said that he pretended to be two person at the same time. He also said that he was Davy's brother and he also wanted to do revenge. He even knew that Julie sent flowers to Barry. Julie was scared. She knew that Bud would kill her. After a while, Ray came to help Julie. Bud was gone and he said that Bud attacked her for no reason. This book ends while Julie talks to Ray and hugs each other.

The Terrorist

Caroline B. Cooney

*****

I recently finished a book called The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney. She is a really good author, and a few days ago, Mrs. Hodgeson came to our class and introduced this new author to us. When we went to the library, there was a green bucket which contained Caroline B. Cooney books and also Lois Duncan books. It was swarming near the green bucket, so I just reached my arm and picked up a book. LUCKILY, I chose The Terrorist. My four choices were The face in the Milk Carton, I know what you did last summer, Stranger with two faces, and The Terrorist, and I actually picked up the one I really wanted to read! And of course, it turned out to be good.

This book is about a girl named Laura and her younger brother, Billy. When Billy and his two friends got out of the train and got to Baker Street, they decided to do a race and see who gets out to the fresh air first. It was five pence for the winner. Passengers were all crowding (swarming) to the train, so his friends were way ahead. When Billy was running, there was a man who stopped him. He smiled, and gave a package to him and said that his friends dropped this. He knew it was a bomb after he got it, and he didn't want to throw it at the crowd, so he just let it explode in his hands. Unfortunately, Billy got killed by the bomb. His sister Laura, soon heard the news of Billy, and was shocked. This incident was in news, and newspapers. Everyone soon knew what happened. Laura went to a school called London International Academy (LIA) and had lots of friend there, like Mohammed, Con, Jimmy, Jehran and lots more. Laura thought she had to find Billy's killer, so he suspected everyone. Her neighbours, teachers at school, and even friends. She searched everywhere for clues, but it was no use. One day, Laura went to a slumber party at Jehran's. Everyone was there. Suddenly, Jehran asked Laura for Billy's passport. Jehran looked like Billy even though she was a girl. Jehran said that she is in danger, and have to flee this country, England. Jehran wanted to flee to America, but when she gets Billy's passport, she would only be 11, so she couldn't go to America alone. She needed a person older than 15 to go with her. Laura was older than 15, so Jehran decided to go with Laura. Laura pretended to go to a place called Edinburgh with Jehran, and lied to her parents. When Jehran and Laura reached the airport. They bought two tickets. One for Laura and one for Jehran. The Passport Control man looked at Jehran's passport (which was actually Billy's) and believed that it was Billy, not Jehran. Suddenly, Laura decided to turn back and go home. She didn't want to go to another country just because Jehran's life was in danger. When she told that to her, Jehran said that she went through weeks of planning just to go out of England. Confusion filled Laura's brain. What Jehran said meant that Jehran killed Billy just to get Billy's passport to flee this country! Laura understood it. All the soldiers in Jehran's house was a terrorist, helping her. Jehran started threatening Laura. She said that she doesn't want to die the way Billy did. Laura knew that Jehran was a terrorist and she called the Airport Security. Then, Jehran started plan B, which was to run away. Mr. Evans came to Laura to help her and calm her down. Laura told all her friends and returned home.

Bill Gates

Ruth Strother

***

I recently finished reading a book called Bill Gates by Ruth Strother. I seldom read biography and I don't like them much but I wanted to read a variety of books so this time, I chose Bill Gates for my biography book.

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in 1955. When he entered Lakeside elementry school, he started loving computer, which was a very new thing for him. Bill Gates meets a friend he will have forever and his name was Paul Allen. They make a small company called Traf-O-Data and sells a scheduling system when he was 17, where he earned $4,200. On 1973, he finally enters the Harvard University. The day Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen started Microsoft was at 1975. On February 3, 1977, the two people sign a partnership agreement to create the Microsoft company officially. However, Bill got 64% of the money they earned and Allen got only 36%. They soon hire some workers, secretaries, and all the people who help the company. They didn't really like this place, so they decided to move the company to Seattle. The Microsoft company started earning a lot of money and started to get very popular. Almost everyone in the house had one of Microsoft's computer. The amount of money they earned started to get bigger and bigger, and Bill Gates finally became the youngest self-made billionaire by 1987. After Windows 1.0 and 2.0, Microsoft creates Windows 3.0 at May 22, 1990, and it became really popular so that almost everyone started using it. In 1992, Bill Gates receives the National Medal of Technology from President George Bush. Bill Gates had two girlfriends, but his Microsoft work was very busy, so the two girl friends broke up with him because they were tired of waiting. However on January, 1, 1994, he marries one of his workers, Melinda French. Unfortunately at the same year, Bill Gate's mother passes away by breast cancer. Also at the same year, Bill Gates became the wealthiest person in America. Microsoft makes Windows 95 at 1995, and Windows 98 at 1998 (of course). After Bill Gates has done a lot of work on his Microsoft work, he decided to care about his family more and care less of his Microsoft work. His first daughter Jennifer is born on 1996, his son Rory is born in 1999, and his second daughter Phoebe is born in 2002. On June 15, 2006, Bill Gates announces that he will not work in Microsoft anymore b July 2008.

My favourite part of this book is when it talked about Bill Gates being a billionaire. Inside the book, it also shows the pictures of the 10 wealthiest person in the world. There were a lot of Chinese and Japanese. Out of lots of Asian people, it was hard for me to believe that Bill Gates became the richest person in the world by just a computer company. As we know, almost everyone in this school uses Microsoft Windows, and it is a really famous company. I think Microsoft is really good, because it also has Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Invitation and more. Bill Gates is still one of the richest person in the world.

I will give this book 3 stars out of 5 because I don't like biography that much.

Eragon

Christopher Paolini

*****

Recently, I've finished a book called Eragon by Christopher Paolini. A lot of my friends recommended it including Neil, Brandon, and Young Woo, and this book was in the recommended book list. Christopher Paolini wrote this book at the age of 15, and he became a professional writer in high school. This was his debut book and it was pretty good. This book is over a 700 pages so it took me a long~~~ time to read this.

This book is about a 15 year old boy named Eragon. One day, he found a dragon egg in a place called Spine. When a dragon hatched from it, he named it Saphira and it became bigger and bigger every day. He lived with his uncle Garrow and his brother Roran at the age of 17. The evil guy, Galbatorix kills Garrow and his brother Roran left his hometown to marry a girl. Eragon was left alone. As days pass, he becomes friends with a man called Brom, and they take adventures with Saphira. They went to a lot of places like Daret, Therinsford, Yazuac, and lots more. When Brom dies because of the Ra'zac, he meets a guy called Murtagh, who was similar to Brom. He also takes adventure with him and these adventure happen all the way through the book.

My favourite part of this book was when he fights all the bad guys such as the Urgals and Ra'zacs. Eragon learned magic from Brom and he uses these magic to the monsters but the magic is very dangerous so Eragon almost died a lot of times. He killed some Urgals, but the Ra'zacs were pretty strong. They were the one who killed Brom, who was like Eragon's father. Later on in the story, Eragon, Saphira and Murtagh meets the upgrade of the Urgals, the Kull. They are over 8 feet tall and very fat. They win in the fight, though. I really liked the part when Eragon fought all those monsters. My another favourite part of this story was when Eragon sparres with his masters, Brom and Murtagh. Brom was pretty easy to spar so Eragon kind of won, but Murtagh wasn't easy. For both Eragon and Murtagh, they couldn't have an adventage and they both said that they haven't sparred someone stronger than them.

I would give this book 5/5 stars. I would recommend this book to everyone of my friends.

Who Dun It?

Philip Pullman

***

Recently, I've finished a book called 'Who Dun It?'. This book is a detective and mystery story by the author Philip Pullman. I don't really like detective stories and I'm not used to reading these kinds of books but I decided to have a go on this book. This book was in the recommended book reading list and I actually think these recommended books are fun or interesting.

This book is a short story book, where there are lots of different stories in one book. In this book, there were 14 detective stories and I really liked 2 of them. Of course, the other 12 are still fun to read. This book also contains a 1 page mystery question page where we could solve them.

This is my favourite story in this book and it's called 'The One-handed Murderer'. There was a princess living in a castle. When nobody was in the princess's room except for herself, a murderer opened the castle window and tried to come in and kill her. When the princess shouted, the murderer ran away from the castle. Next day, the same thing happened to her. Once again, the murderer ran away when the princess shouted. However, the next day was different. The princess hid next to the window. When the murderer opened the window and put his hand forward, the princess put down the window so the murderer's hand got cut. One day, a young man wearing gloves wanted to meet the king of the castle. The king liked the young man so the princess and the young man had a marriage. When the princess and the man were on the carriage, the young man turned out to be the murderer and he threatened the princess. The princess escaped from the murderer and re-married a sailors son. After a long time, she got caught by the murderer again so he went to the princess's house so that he could kill the princess. When the murderer asked the princess to give him a towel before he killed the princess, she got her husbands pistol and wrapped it in the towel. The princess approached the man and shot him with the wrapped pistol.

I would give this book 3 stars out of 5 stars.

The cat ate my gymsuit

Paula Danziger
*****

During the weekends, I read a nice book called 'The cat ate my gymsuit' by Paula Danziger. It's not really a long book, so I just finished it in about 2 days. My friend Young Woo recommended it and this book was also in the recommended book list. It actually turned out to be a good book.

This book is about a High School girl called Marcy in a school life. She has some school friends like Nancy and others. She hated her father because he was always shouting at his little brother Stuart and her with no reason. He hated her school life because of the principal. However, this event changed her life. Marcy's class had a new teacher named Ms. Finney who was the nicest teacher she'd ever had. Everybody liked her but Mr. Stone, the principal hated her and also other teachers. Mr. Stone planned to fire Mrs. Finney because she didn't do the Pledge of Allegiance, she wore clothes differently, she taught students in a different way; not a traditional way. Because of that, Ms. Finney got suspended so Marcy spoke up in front of Mr. Stone and told him nothing was wrong with Ms. Finney. Marcy also got suspended because of this.

My favourite part of this book was when Marcy and his boyfriend, Joel went to Nancy's party and had a nice time there. Joel asked Marcy if she wanted beer so she said that she wanted to. After the party, Marcy admitted to Joel that she actually didn't like beer but she only drank because everybody else was drinking. She wanted to be like others, not special. What surprised me in this book was when Joel and Marcy went to the party, and I thought they would dance together but Joel said that he was a lousy dancer.

I really liked this book so I would give this book 5/5 stars.

Olive's Ocean

Olive's Ocean

Kevin Henkes

*****

I've finished reading a book called 'Olive's Ocean' by Kevin Henkes. I chose this book from the library because this book was recommended by my friend. It was at the 'Recommended books' section and it even won the Newbery Medal! I find myself into Newbery Medal books because I know that there was a good reason that it won the medal. The front cover of this book looks boring but Mrs. Hodgeson (the librarian) said it's not a good idea to choose a book by it's front cover.

The main character, Martha, got a letter from her friend Olive's mother. As she read through the letter, she felt very astonished because her classmate, Olive turned out to be dead by getting crashed by a car. She didn't know Olive that much and didn't talk to her but she regretted about it.

When the day finally came for summer vacation, Martha and her family went to her grandmother, Godbee's house to stay with her. Martha's big brother Vince, has friends by the last name of Manning very near Godbee's house. Martha started to get interested by one of the Manning boys called Jimmy and they had dinner together at the Manning's house. The more she spent time with Jimmy, she liked Jimmy more and more every time. However, when Jimmy kisses her and it was recording, Martha got very mad and she got even more mad when she kissed her for a bet. The whole thing changed: as time passed, she started disliking Jimmy and he started to like a younger boy called Tate.

One day, when Martha was at the beach with her little sister Lucy, she almost drowned at the river and saw Jimmy holding hands with another girl, giggling with each other. Martha remembered that Olive's favourite place to be was at the Pacific Ocean so she filled a bottle up with Pacific Ocean water and decided to give it to Olive's mother.

It was the day when Martha had to return home again. When she was just about to leave, Tate ran all the way from his house and gave a little bag to her. It included a video tape that Jimmy pictured Martha kissing him and a note. The note made Martha feel very happy because he admitted that he was the one who liked Martha.

Martha returned home and went to Olive's mother's house to give her the bottle but unluckily, her mother moved to another place.

After I read this book for over an hour, I felt very proud of myself that I had made a very good book choice and understood the book perfectly. I think this is a fascinating book and I know that the reader would like this book. The author also did a very nice job introducing new vocabulary and to my surprise, it had our class vocabulary words like 'vast, idly, overwhelming"and more.

I recommend this book to everyone and I'm sure they'll like it. I would give this book5 stars out of 5.

The boys start the war

The boys start the war

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

****1/2

I have finished a book called 'The boys start the war' by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor. It is a funny and a nice book because it is filled with pranks which I quite enjoy reading. This isn't in the 'suggested reading book and it didn't even win the Newbery Medal but my sister's 4th Grade Teacher recommended it and her friends recommended it too. Well, I thought it was just a unenjoyable book but I turned out to be mistaken.

This book started by the author introducing the four Hatford boys: Jake, Josh, Wally, and Peter-- and the three Malloy girls: Eddie, Beth, and Caroline. Jake and Josh are twins and are in sixth grade with Eddie and Beth is in fifth grade while Wally and Caroline are in fourth grade. Peter is in second grade. First, the Hatford boys does a prank by pouring dead stuff (fish, birds, and gross stuff). The Malloy girls takes revenge by Eddie and Beth decided to bury Caroline in the river and pretend that Caroline is dead. The Hatford boys were scared because they thought that the dead stuff killed her.

The pranks and high jinks(highjinks) continue through the book; like the Malloys scaring the Hatfords when the boy's parents were gone. The Hatfords tease the girls by stealing Caroline's unappropriate drawing of her teacher, Mrs. Applebaum.

My favourite part of the book was when the Hatford's going up to Beth's window by a ladder and scaring them by wearing a disgusting, monster mask. Beth was scared to death so she screamed like a lunatic. Eddie came to the rescue by catching the Hatford boys and taking their flashlight. It was also really funny when Caroline went up to the Hatford boy's house and notices a clothesline. Caroline stole one underwear which looked like one of the boy's underwear and turns out to be Mr. Hatford's underwear.

I would give 4 and a half stars out of 5.

Bud, not Buddy

I have finished a interesting book called 'Bud, not Buddy' by Christopher Paul Curtis. I have chosen this book because this book was at the 'Recommended Book' list in front of the Assignment book and {PLUS} it won the Newbery Medal. One of my friends read this book and also read another Newbery medal book by the same author called 'The Watsons go to Birmingham' and he loved the book. I think Newbery Medal books are fabulous and I find them very enjoyable.

The main character Bud, lived in an orphanage. One day, one of the caseworkers came in the orphange and arranged a foster home for him. He had to live with the boy named Todd Amos and his parents. His family treated him badly by hitting him and making him injured. He runs away from their house even though he was locked inside (by breaking out from the window). He meets a man who became his friend and his name was Lefty Lewis. He stayed with him for a few days and went off to a place called Grand Rapids to look for his father (Herman E. Calloway) who didn't die. He realizes that Herman owns a band with few of his band mates, Miss Thomas, Steady Eddie, and lots more. When he told Herman his mother's name (Angela Janet), Herman realizes that Angela is Herman's daughter-- which meant that Herman is Bud's grandfather. This was the most astonishing part for me. This story ends up by Herman's band mates giving Bud a saxaphone which sounded great and made him join the band.

My favourite part of this book was when Bud pouring a hot water at the bully boy, Todd Amos at his pajama pants to make it seem that he wet his pants when he was sleeping. It was quite funny and I almost laughed as I was reading this part. I felt very enjoyable that Bud did a nice revenge on Todd who hit him to death until he was bleeding. Well, I have another favourite part: It was when Bud and Herman realizes that they are a relative. I felt seriously surprised at this part and read it over and over because it was not what I expected.

I think this book is called Bud, not Buddy because when Bud was young, his mother told him to never let anyone call him Buddy because Buddy is a dog's name or a name that someone's going to use when they're being false-friendly. His mother named him bud because bud is a flower and a little fist of love waiting to unfold and be seen by the world.

I would give this book 10 out of 9 which means it's still a great book.

Woeful Second World War

I've just finished a book called 'Woeful Second World War'. It is writen by a author called Terry Deary. This book is one of the 'Horrible Histories' series. He has writeen many historic books like book about pirates, warriors, knights, egyptians, romans, vikings and lots more... This book is a nice book with a few comics inside.

This book doesn't really talk about what happened on the war but it usually talks about the relations of people and about one person's experience on the war. There are some cool quizzes on this book and I learned some stunning and astonishing facts on the quizzes. One of the example is: If you were late for work in a German factory, you could be sentenced to three months in prison. This book also talks cruelty on the war and about animals of the war. This book doesn't talk much of the timeline or the process of the war.

Something shocking to me at this book was that Italian solders fighting the Germans at the time of Russian winter had cardboard boots. But when they get frozen and couldn't take them off, the officer orderd the other soldiers to saw the legs off and put the legs on the ovens. I thought that was disgusting and cruel.

I thought this book was nice but i was a little disappointed that it didn't talk much about the process and the conclusion of the war. I would give this book a 3 stars out of 5.

Indian in the Cupboard

I finished reading a book called 'Indian in the Cupboard'. It is a fascinating book and I really loved it. This book was way better than I expected. After reading a few pages of the book, I thought I would get bored of this book but it was completely different from my expectations. I couldn't let the book go and I had to concentrate while reading this book. It was very enjoyable.

It's about a boy named Omri who got an toy Indian for his birthday present by his friend, Patick. His little brother, Gillion, gave him an cupboard with a key for his birthday while his other brother gave him a skateboard, what he really wanted. He didn't really think it the cupboard was

nice. He thought it was very boring... However, he put the toy Indian inside the cupboard and that night, he heard a noise from the cupboard... and the toy Indian became alive. His name was Little Bear. Patrick also makes a cowboy named Boone alive from Omri's cupboard. Little Bear became friends (finally, because they were enemies first) and went to school and risked theirselves because they wanted to keep the Indian thing a secret (and Patrick showed Little Bear to the headmaster). Finally at the end of the book, Omri buys Little Bear an girl Indian and makes the girl Indian alive. Little Bear wanted to have a marriage with her so he returned home, forever. That part was the saddest.

Well, my favourite part of the book is when he first realizes that the Indian became alive. I really never expected that these things would happen but it did!!! I also liked the part when Boone drew a fascinating picture on art class, and the teacher was astonished because there was a microspic drawing on Omri's paper. (Actually, she had to bring a magnifying glass to examine the drawing).

I think the author of this book, Lynne Reid Banks did a surprisingly amazing job of making the readers get into the book and describing all the words and using nice vocabulary. I think she is a great author and I really wanted to read the next 3 books of this series. (If it comes out).

P.S. I would definitely give 5 stars out of 5 on this book. I recommend every one to read this book. I bet they would enjoy it.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

I just finished reading a book called 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid'. This book is by the author Jeff Kinney. There are four books of the series at the moment and the one I read was the third one.

It's about a boy called Greg and he always gets in trouble by the teacher, his friends, or especially, his own family. He has a little brother called Manny, who is very naughty and frustrating. He also has a big brother, Roddrick who is also mean and a little violent to him. All of his family is not smart and doesn't come up with good ideas or solutions if there is a problem.

I think this book is a very funny book and has lots of jokes in the book. I think the author did a very good job on making the reader laugh and he made the reader get into the book and concentrate.

My favourite part was when Greg tried to call his crush, Holly Hills. Every time he tries to call her, something gets wrong. For example, Rodrick blocked Greg from using the phone on the kitchen by pretending that he was using the phone and his mom used the phone just when Greg was calling Holly Hills. Holly Hill's mom answered the phone (Unluckily) and took an hour to find out who it was. It was funny because he never got to call her until the end of the book! (Poor Greg)... -.-


I would give a 5 star out of 5 for this book.

Small Steps

Small Steps: By: Louis Sachar

The book 'Small Steps' is a continuing book of the book 'Holes' by Louis Sachar. It's about a boy named Armpit earning money by selling concert tickets. The concert was a singing concert. In the concert, Armpit meets the famous singer called Kaira and they likes each other. Kaira had to leave to San Francisco so they had to be apart. Kaira invites the boy to San Francisco. Kaira broke up with Armpit and the he returned back to his home. The story ends by Armpit hearing the Kaira's song in the radio.

My favourite part of the story is when Armpit and Kaira meets in the singing theater luckily. I also liked the part when they were walking, holding hands, along the garden and have ice cream together. Unluckily, this story ended up sad and they didn't get to meet each other again. As I was reading the book, I thought they would get to meet each other but it didn't end up like my expectations. I was a bit sad at the end... ^.^ I think this book is great and fascinating and it made a little more sense for me because I have already read the book 'Holes' (Which was actually better than this book). I would give this book 4 and a half out of 5.