Isabelle+S.

= __**Isabelle S's Reading Page**__ = = = =**Books Isabelle Read from** = =**September to June, 2011-2012** =


 * ====#==== || ====Date==== || ====Title==== || ====Author==== || ====Genre==== || ====Pages==== || ====Comment==== ||
 * ====1==== || ====9/26/11==== || ====The Phantom Tollbooth====

Zack S
|| ====Jules Feiffer==== || ====Fantasy==== || ====256==== || ====I liked it because it was interesting with the war between numbers====

and letters. Two princesses that were named Rhyme and Reason.
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 * ====2==== || ====10/6/11==== || ====The Bad Beginning #1====

Zack S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====162==== || ====I liked this book because it was a real mystery book and there was a lot of funny dialog from the youngest Baudalaire that made no sense like bax!, or mam. Since this was the first book in the series I didn't know what was going to happen. Count Olaf was their knew gaurdian since thier parents had died in a fire, and he is determined to steel the Baudlaire fortune. When Violet becomes of age, she will take the fortune for herslef and use it however she wants to, but until she comes of age, Mr. Poe will be in charge of it.==== ||
 * ====3==== || ====10/28/11==== || ====The Reptile Room #2====

Zack S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====236==== || ====I thought that this series was great so far, but it was kind of violent. I like how it has a little bit of mystery, fantasy, and biography. My favorite part of the book was how they figured out that Stephano was really Count Olaf, and proved it to Mr. Poe. From reading the first book, //The Bad Beginning//, I kind of acspected that Count Olaf would return,but this time their new gaurdian is called Uncle Monty.==== ||
 * ====4==== || ====11/15/11==== || ====The Coming of Dragons====

Zack S
|| ====A.J Lake==== || ====Fantasy==== || ====215==== || ====I liked this book because it was action packed. Edmund, a king's son in disguise, and Elspeth, a sea captain's tomboy daughter, are the only two survivors of a terrible shipwreck. They just want to go home. Edmund and Elspeth journey across a land of wild boars, fierce knights, and black magic.==== ||
 * ====5==== || ====11/21/11==== || ====The Wide Window #3====

Zack S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====241==== || ====I liked this book because they comeacross "Captain Sham," Count Olaf. He tells them that he is the owner of a boat rental company and lost his leg after it was eaten by the Lachrymose Leeches. The children warn Aunt Josephine, but they cannot prove "Sham" is Olaf in disguise, since he has a wooden leg where the ankle bearing his tattoo of an eye. The children are awakened by a loud crash, and they rush to the library to find the window broken and their aunt's suicide note.==== ||
 * ====6==== || ====1/6/12==== || ====The Tale of Despereax====

Zack S
|| ====Kate Dicamillo==== || ====Fantasy==== || ====272==== || ====The reason I liked this book is because I once read this book when I was younger and my parents read it to me. Now that I am older I can know read it by myself. Last time I read this book it was just a regular book, but I got a Kindle Touch for Christmas, and this is one of the books that I enjoy the most. I also liked this book because the little obcenly large eared mouse that goes by the name of Despereax wished that he could be a regular mouse. Then he saw The princess pea that lived in the castle. She had gotten treatened by a knife and forced to go down into the dungeon. The little mouse had a big enough heart and went to go save here from the deep downs of the dungeon.==== ||
 * ====7==== || ====11/30/11==== || ====The Miserable Mill #4====

Zack S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====195==== || ====I liked this book because Klaus purposely tripped by the new foreman Flacutono, breaking his glasses, and is sent to see Dr. Orwell. When Klaus returns, he acts very strangely, as if in a trance. Klaus explains that he doesn't remember what happened between when he broke his glasses and waking up in the mill. Foreman Flacutono trips him again, once again causing his glasses to break. Klaus was being hypnotized by Dr. Orwell, and his assistant Count Olaf.==== ||
 * ====8==== || ====01/18/12==== || ====The Austere Academy #5====

Zack S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====225==== || ====I liked this book because whenever I have a vocabulary word, the book just tells me what it means so I don't even have to look it up because its right there in the book. Another thing I liked was that the Baudalaires went to a boarding school called Prufolk Prepatory School and Violet and Klaus actually went to school, but Sunny, the youngest sibling couldn't because she was to young, so instead she was the Vice Principal Nero's Assistant that did all of his work.==== ||
 * ====9==== ||  || ====XXXXXXX==== ||   ||   ||   || ====GOOD JOB. KEEP UP TRYING TO READ ONE BOOK A WEEK.==== ||
 * ====10==== || ====01/23/12==== || ====The Ersatz Elevator #6====

Jim S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====259==== || ====I kind of liked this book, but it was much different than any other book from the series. Mr. Poe always coughing in his handkerchief, and their new owners Esme and Jerome, are filthy rich. They live on Dark Ave. almost where their parents had died in the fire. The Quagmire triplets were sold in an auction secretly in a giant fish statue. The thing that I didn't like about this book is that the Baudelaire orphans were shoved down an elevator shaft, that was like, 20ft deep, but luckily there was a net to catch them.==== ||
 * ====11==== ||  || ==== XXXXXXX ==== ||   ||   ||   || ==== Jim: Isabelle is enjoying this series. The new glasses seem to be helping her focus on the copy. ==== ||
 * ====12==== || ====1/30/12==== || ====The Vile Village #7====

Zack S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====259==== || ====Thecool part about this book is that the Baudelaires discover that Hector, their gaurdian has been breaking the town rules by keeping a secret library and working on a hot-air mobile home in his barn, so that he can sail away from V.F.D. forever. They discuss the Quagmires and consider the fact that Isadora might be somehow sending the Baudelaires help messages in the poem.====

====The book ends with Count Olaf and Officer Luciana, who is revealed to be Esme Squalor, their previous gaurdian from before, escaping on a motorcycle, and the Baudelaires fleeing, rather than waiting for the police.==== ||
 * ||  || ==== XXXXXXX ==== ||   ||   ||   || ==== Zack: Isabelle really likes the stories about the Baudelaire orphans & all the absurd things that happen to them. ==== ||
 * ====13==== || ====2/10/12==== || ====The Dark Hills Divide====

ZDS
|| ====Patrick Carman==== || ====Fantasy and Mystery==== || ====251==== || ====I kind of liked this book becuase it was about a 12-year-old girl named Alexa Daley, and she is spending another summer in Bridewell with her father, mayor of Lathbury. The book starts by Alexa going on a walk through the streets of Bridewell with her adventurer friend Thomas Warvold. During the walk, Warvold tells Alexa a story that he heard on one of his journeys. The story tells six blind men who all felt an elephant and thought it was something different because of the part they were touching. When the story was finished, Alexa finds that Warvold is dead. When Alexa is in Bridewell, many people tell her that venturing off from outside the walls is very dangerous. Alexa becomes very curious. The night Warvold died, Alexa found a little silver key. This key opened the gate of Bridewell, and she uses it to investigate outside the walls of bridewell. She finds all these talking animals, and also a stone. This stone can only allow the animals to talk to you. Genesh, one of the leaders of Bridewell, turned out to be one of the escpaed convicts. Ganesh also was the one who poisoned Warvold that night about the story with the elephant. Later on the escaped convicts, attacked Bridwell at midnight, but ulimatley failed. I liked this book, but it was also a slower read than usual, especially becuase there were more words on one page, not like the Series of Unfortunate Events, so it took a little while for my eyes to ajust to the book.==== ||
 * ||  || ==== XXXXXX ==== ||   ||   ||   || ==== Zack: Isabelle really liked the story, but found it slow going as the story is denser with details & the plot more complex than in the Lemony Snicket series. We have book 2 & 3 of the Lands of Elyon series (this was book 1), but we will wait a bit before reading them. ==== ||
 * ====14==== || ====2/18/12==== || ====The Hostile Hospital #8====

Jim.S
|| ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====255==== || ====The reason that I thought this book was interesting becuase the Baudelaires are acused of killing Count Olaf. They head to Babs' office, where they are given the job. Luckily, Babs does not even see them because she is a voice on a small intercom speaker. In the Library of Records, the children meet Hal, the keeper of the library, and help him file papers. Since they have nowhere to sleep, the Baudelaires decide to secretly sleep in the unfinished part of the hospital. Reviewing the notes of the Quagmires, they discover the existence of the Snicket File, andretrieve the thirteenth page from the Library of Records. On it there is a picture of their parents, Jacques Snicket. Esmé Squalor (Count Olaf's evil girlfriend) appears and begins knocking down the shelves to crush the children. Klaus and Sunny manage to escape up a chute with the page, but Violet is too big to go through, and is captured. In the end, the children hide in the trunk of Count Olaf's car secretly along with Olaf and his associates (all except the one that looks like neither a man or a woman, posing a guard, who died in the fire). The thing that is awesome is that when I read these books, I'm so firmiliar with them, I can kind of predict what might happedn next, or what Count Olafs desguise will be.==== ||
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 * ====15==== || ====2/27/12==== || ====Tiger: Five====

Zack.S
|| ====Jeff Stone==== || ====fiction==== ||  || ====I thought this book was very interesting because it was full of great action and kung fu. I liked when the main character of this book, Fu, (which means tiger,) beat Tonglong, (the mantis,) and got the dragon scrolls. Reading about the differnet Kung Fu helps me imagine what it must be like. What astounds me even more is that Fu is only twelve years old and he's already a master in one of the animal Kung Fu styles. It usually takes people at least twice that many years to master the Kung Fu style. This book was really enjoyable and it was surprising and action packed.==== ||
 * ====16==== || ====3/2/12==== || ====Monkey: Five Ancestors====

Zack.S
|| ====Jeff Stone==== || ====Fiction==== ||  || ====I Liked this book because since I read the first Five Ancestors, and it was from Fu's point of view, and now this book is from Monkey's point of view. At 11-years-old, Malao is the youngest of the Five Ancestors. He, like his brothers Fu, Seh, Hok, and Long, is an orphan and considers Cangzhen to be his one and only home. However, with his home destroyed and Grandmaster killed by his former brother Ying, Malao is forced to defend for himself. He can jump from tree to tree or building to building from great distances and his agility rarely matched by anyone. About five, young Chinese warrior monks are the only survivors of their beloved Cangzhen temple.==== || DiCamillo ||  || 182 ||   ||
 * ====17==== || ====3/18/12==== || ====The Carnivorous Carnival #9==== || ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====286==== || ====In the last book the Baudelaires hid in Count Olaf's trunk. They disguise themselves since they overheard Count Olaf talk to Madam Lulu, a fortune teller that if she doesn't get customers, then she will shut down. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny work for Madam Lulu. The children then perform in the freak show. Afterwards, Olaf arrives with a pack of lions and announces that a lion pit shall be made in which one of the freaks shall be thrown tomorrow. I think that this book was kind of freaky because this book took place in a carnival, so Count Olaf went to a fortune teller, and he asked her if one of the Baudelaires parents were alive, and she actually said //yes, they are in the Mortaim Mountains//. They meet three people. Hugo who is a hunchback, Colette, who is a contortionist, and Kevin, who is ambidextrous (and very pessimistic) They also find the same letters that have been haunting them since they had met the Quagmires, V.F.D.==== ||
 * ====18==== || ====3/28/12==== || ====Psion Beta==== || ====Jacob Gowans==== || ====Science Fiction==== ||  || ====Sammy, a 14 year old boy starts out as a boy on the streets. He and his friends are all homeless, but around 13 and 14. They get into trouble very often. They are just in the middle of playing a game of capture the flag in a big food storage closet, when their friends come in with a pizza. They stole a pizza, and shared it with each other. A few seconds later, Shocks/police break in and shoot most of their friends so that they are paralyzed. A few of them had gotten away, ad were running from more of the the Shocks. In the end, six shocks stopped only two meters away from where the boys were, and they yelled, //get down on the ground!, and drop your weapons!// They were foolish and they refused to. One of his close friends, Feet lowered his weapon, and dropped to the ground in horror. The Shocks fired with all their might, and Sammy waited for him to take what he deserved. It never came.==== ||
 * ====19==== || ====?==== || ====Marjory Stoneman Douglas==== || ====Jennifer Bryant==== || ====Biography==== || ====69==== || ====I thought this book was just truly amazing how one woman, could help save the Everglades. She was really the vioce of the Everglades, and she really cared about it. She packed her bags and headed south to Miami on September 1915. She was 25 years old, and she was ready to start another life. She campaigned for almost 20 years to convince the government not to ruin the Everglades. She had 3,00 membersfrom 38 states joining in her campaign. It was great how she graduated from college, and then she did something very important with her life that was a great victory. Now that I have boon to the Everglades, it is definitely worth saving.==== ||
 * ====20==== || ====4/10/12==== || ====The Slippery Slope #10==== || ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====337==== ||  ||
 * ====21==== || ====4/22/12==== || ====The Grim Grotto #11==== || ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== || ====323==== || ==== One of my favorite parts of the book is that the next day they arrive on Briny Beach - back where all their troubles began. Surprisingly, Mr. Poe emerges from the fog. He received a message from the mysterious J.S. that he had to meet them at the beach. He tells the children to come with him to the police station to resolve all of their troubles. Violet, however, has decoded Quigley's message and has concluded that a taxi will be at the beach for them, and she sees it in the distance.They bid farewell to Mr Poe and arrive at the taxi to find a woman at the wheel that they have never seen before. She reveals herself to be Kit Snicket so the children climb into the taxi where they drive off. I thought that that was very mysterious. ==== ||
 * ====22==== || ====5/8/12==== || ====The Penultimate Peril #12==== || ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== ||  ||   ||
 * ====23==== || ====5/15/12==== || ====The End #13==== || ====Lemony Snicket==== || ====Fiction==== ||  ||   ||
 * ====24==== || ====5/21/12==== || ====Midnight Fox==== || ====Betsy Bars==== ||  ||   ||   ||
 * ====25==== || ====6/4/12==== || ====Julie of the Wolves==== ||  ||   ||   || ====I think this book was one of my favorite books that I have read out of this whole year because it was just an interesting story about a young girl running away from home into the tundra and living there. She learns the ways of the wolves because she doesn't have any food, and she is trying to figure out what the sign is to share some food with the wolves.==== ||
 * 26 || 6/11/12 || Because of Winn-Dixie || Kate