book report

JiHee, Lee 8th grade
Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone.
Author: J. K. Rowling
ISBN: 89-8392-069-6
Brief book summary: When Harry was one year old, he repulse a wizard of darkness. He was sent to his uncle’s house for his safety. Even though Harry’s parents were killed by the wizard of darkness, his uncle lied to harry that his parents were dead by car accident. On his 11th birthday, he finally knew that he was a wizard and everything about himself and his parents. He got a permission to attend Hogwarts. Hogwarts is the best witchcraft and wizardry school of England. In Hogwarts, he learned about medical botany, the way of using magic wand and magic history.
He became famous for Qudditch. It’s a game which is playing with flying broom stick. He faced with a dog with 3 heads, huge spider, dragon and centaur to save his school and his magic world from a wizard of darkness.
Opinion of the book: This novel is really funny and full of imagination which make people envy. This book can be read by all ages.



posted by Jihee Lee

The Mediator 3: Reunion

Title: The Mediator 3: Reunion
Author: Meg Cabot
ISBN:0-06-072513-3

This book is about a girl named Susannah Simon. She is a mediator and has the gift of seeing ghosts. In this book she incounters a group of teenage ghosts. And they have a grudge on one of Susannah's classmates.
I thoght this book was fun to read. I thought this because it is fun how she interacts with the ghosts. Also, how she deals with her gift and how hard her gift is. Others might enjoy this book because it is interesting how Susannah deals with her life.
Cabot, Meg. The Mediator 3: Reunion. New York: New York, 2001.

-Emily W.

Confession of a Shopaholic
Book Written by : Sophie Kinsella
ISBN : 0385335482

Recent college graduate Rebecca Bloomwood is just totally on shopping. She needs it in her hands when she want it. But her happy shopping time is over! Eventually, Rebecca's uncontrollable shopping drive her into a corner, her visa bills block her way to the mall! She has no other way but not going to shopping. Rebecca try ti save her money, which will obviously never gonna work. Another adventure, having a second job, this could last really long than any of her past plans for bills, but none of them had never been succeeded. Can she ever be able to pay back all that bills?

I really enjoyed reading this book. Bing a shopaholic is just crazy. I think it could belso considered as illness. And the best way to recover from this illness is to control yourself. Still this books give us entertainment ,and I suggest to those who want to read a interesting book to fresh up your brain from the heavy homeworks during the weekend. But not suggest to experimental people because this book really made me to try all the things from the book. I also liked the characteristic of the Rebecca Bloomwood, she has problem controling herself using money but I think it can be her cute little weak point. Life in 20 years old would be really unpredictable and her way to solve it one by one made me into this book. Kinsella, Sophie. Confession of a Shopaholic. Washington DC: Bantam, 2003

-Posted by Rani Jang

THE FANTASTIC FANTASY~!!

Title: The lion, the witch and the wardrobe
author: C.S. Lewis
ISBN: 0-439-84797-4

This fantasy story is interesting because four kids-Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy enter a whole new world. The White Witch tries to get Edmund to join to the evil side but he stays and helps Aslan and his family.
The saddest part of this story to me is Aslan's death. But with his trick he comes back to life and runs to the battlefield to help his army fight against the White Witch's army. He sees The White Witch fighting with Peter and runs after her, jumps on her and kills her instantly. Then all of the White Witch's army runs away into the enchanted forest.
The war is over, and the four children become Kings and Queens of Narnia and sware to come back to Narnia again and rule it.
To write my opinion, I think the part since Aslan's revival was not well organized and detailed. The part that Edmund had to die and Aslan decided to die for Edmund happened so suddenly. And the part Aslan killed the White Witch was also a little boring. The least organized part was the scene the four children became King and Queen at the end.
Though the ending part was a little boring, I like this book not only because it has a strong structure and thrill partly in the story but it is a Christian-like story. I will like to recommend this book to everyone because it is very adventurous and interesting while it is didactic.

Lewis, C.S.. The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. New York: Scholastic Inc., 2006

- Posted by Grace kang

Anne of Green Gables

Anne of Green Gables

Author : L. M. Montgomery
ISBN : 0-553-21313-X

The Cuthberts wanted to adopt a boy for help them work, but Matthew Cuthberts came home with a girl. She was not beautiful, she was skinny, she had a long red hair, and she also had a lot of freckles on her face. From now the life of Anne in Green Gables started.
Anne was not shy at all, she was always in troubles, talkative, and day dreamer. But someway she was really different from her real personality. She was a warm, and emotional person. She was cute and lovely. When she adopted, she was not a person who Matthew and Marilla Cuthberts wanted. But Anne gave joyful time to Matthew who did not have much time in his life, and Marilla who is really difficult and stric person. She met her best friend Dianne, and Gilbert. She had lots of memory with them. She found genuine joy and love through the Cuthberts, and her friends.

When I was a kid I watched the cartoon of this book, and I read this book several times. I really like this book, and I am sure that nobody will not like this book. Some parts of this book are really funny, and happy, other parts are really sad, or make you mad, but also it makes you hyper and irritation. All emotions that you can feel are all in this book. Also, you can learn lesson when you read about Anne's problem, because when I read this book it felt like it is a real stroy. It was realistic, so if there are people who did not read this book and I hope you read this book some day.

- posted by Grace Hong

Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl
By Eoin Colfer
ISBN 0-439-34445-X

This book was about a 12-year old genius named Artemis Fowl who, with his bodyguard Butler attempt to steal fairy gold. In the beginning of the book Artemis is visiting a sprite to get a copy of the Book the faries' sacred book which contained rules for their magic powers. After he copies it he figures out that the fairies need to complete the Ritual to get their powers to the maximum. Artemis captures a fairy named Holly Short. Then Holly's commander tries to save her but Artemis as always is two steps ahead. Holly figures out how to get her magic back which is the one thing that Artemis did not anticipate. The fairies also send in something even Butler can't beat up.

I liked the book because Artemis was always 2 steps ahead of the fairies and it's interesting to see what stuff he comes up with like tricking the sprite to let him copy the Book, how he plays mind tricks with Holly so he can get the fairy gold and how he knows how to find the Retreival squad even with thier shields on. Other people might enjoy Butler beating up people or the futuristic stuff Foaly the centaur comes up with.

Colfer, Eoin. Artemis Fowl. New York:Scholastic Inc.,2001

Posted by: Josh Hernandez

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

*Title - The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
*Author - Ann Brashares
*ISBN - 0-553-49479-1

*___ This book has 4 main characters.
They were best friends since they were born. Their names are Bridget, Carmen, Lena and Tibby. Bridget is the sporty type, Carmen is the "normal" type, Lena is the quiet, art type, and Tibby is in her own little world. The girls just finished school, and are now on their summer break. But the problem is that they are all going to different places. This is the first summer they have been away from each other. Before they go, they find a pants that magically fits everyone perfect!
So they make decided to send the pants around during the summer to each other. They thought this was a magic pants that would bring good luck to those who wore it.
*___ I enjoyed reading it, beacause it talks about four teenage girls who is excited about their summer adventures. I recommend this book to any girl who is into any teen's life.
This book talks about what they have to go through as a girl, like finding their "man" or just trying to be normal. I just like the fact that, these girls still keep in contact with each other, while they are really far away. This book mainly shows their friendship to each other.
* I wouldn't recommend this to people who already saw the movie, beacuse it is slightly different from the book. (I did that, I saw the movie and then read the book, its really confusing and weird.)


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a Walk to Remember

a Walk to Remember
By: Nicholas Sparks
ISBN:0446608955

It's Landon Carter's last year in highschool and the last thing her expected was to fall in love with the pastors daughter,Jamie, the shy and as everyone calls her the "weird girl." Every year there is a pageant at the church and the seniors from Beaufort High are the actors. Everyone knows that this year Jamie would be playing the angel, but the weird thing was that she asked Landon to be in it too. When Jamie asked him, to his surprise he couldn't say no because he felt sorry for her. As they get together to practice they soon fall in love with eachother. But as everything is ging perfect, Landon finds out a big secret about Jamie.

I love this book. I think that any girl would love to read this book. It is very inspiring. I don't like that its so sad, but then again it has a some what of a weird happy twist to it.I also like the fact that it is not just about love, but it tells you about life.

Sparks,Nicholas.a Walk to Remember.New York:Warner,1999

Posted by: Ariele A.

Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?

Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?

By Jerry Spinelli

ISBN 0-316-80687-0

Summary::♡

Two siblings. What MORE do you want?

Greg and Megin are siblings, who fight

over EVERYTHING. They fight over food

and even the strangest reasons in the

world. They seem to detest each other.

Until, one of them gets injured. Will

it take a disaster to make them realize

how much they love each other

or will it not?

Opinion::◎

This book was a BLAST! I really

recommend this book to sixth graders and up

because of some inappropriate materials.

Other than those things, I really

enjoyed this book because it was overall

FUNNY. I really liked this book,

because it was kind of didactic.

This book taught me a "valuable"

lesson; don't fight with your

siblings or the results will

be bad. Also, I liked this book

because of the way the author wrote it.

But, the main reason why

I liked this book was that,

even though it was written in

1984,siblings today

still act exactly like Greg and

Megin.That pretty much covers

why I liked this book.

Citation::
Spinelli, Jerry. Who Put That Hair in My Toothbrush?. New York:

Little, Brown And Company, 1984.

**P.o.s.t.e.d. by S.O.O.J.U.N.G.♡**

Who moved my cheese?

[Who moved my cheese?]
by Spencer Johnson, M.D.
ISBN: 0-399-14446-3

There are four characters who live in a "Maze". Two are mice named Sniff and Scurry and two are the people who are so little named Hem and Haw. They are looking for cheese to make them feel better and to give them nourishment. They are looking for cheese in the different ways. The two mice are trying to help each other and make it , but the little people just are wondering about that without trying to find it. The mice keep trying to accept the "Changing" . However the little people are just afraid of "Changing" and an adventure.
This book tells me the useful things. This book wants to teach me how to accept about "Changing". In this book, cheese is a metaphor for what everyone want to have in life.
Spencer Johnson's book helps me to discover what is the truth and how to deal with change.
This book would so helpful for everyone. From the four characters and the cheese , we can learn lots of things. For them, the cheese is so important as like this our dream and surroundings are important for us. This book makes me to think one more time. What if it would be happened to me ?. Could I make it and try to accept it like the mice did? That's why we need to read this book. If u want to know why and discover for yourself how to deal with change. From that we can get more success in our work also in our life.
Spencer Johnson, M.D.Who moved my cheese?. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons ,1838

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Soh-yeong, Yun

Interview with the Vampire

[Interview with the Vampire]
By. Anne Rice
ISBN : 0-345-33766-2

The room is full of smoke. And there is a tape which is enough for the story of one life. There, the interview with the vampire get started.

Louis Pointe Du Lac. His life has change after the last sunrise. The change which suffered him most was that he have to kill people to keep his life. And inside his mind he has a question "What is Vampire? Why did God makes Vampire?".
In the end, he leave Lestat to find other Vampire so that he could find the answer.

As you know, Anne Rice is a genius writer. Her literary style is very unique.
I like the way that she describes character's state.
Especially the part that Louis talking about the Mediterranean sea when he was crossing the ocean.
"I wanted those waters to be blue. And they were not. They were the nighttime waters, and how I suffered then, straining to remember the seas that a young man's untutored senses had taken for granted, that an undisciplined memory had let slip away for eternity. The Mediterranean was black, black off the coast of Italy, black off the coast of Greece, black always" And I really love the each character in this book.(specially Cloudia and Armand!!)
You could also meet this story by movie. I'm not recommending it but, you would enjoy.

Published by The Random House Publishing Group
Copyright 1976 by Anne O'Brien Rice
Posted by Jane D. Nho

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time
by: Madeleine L'Engle
ISBN: 0440498058


It all started in a stormy night. The Murray’s were having a midnight snack. A strange lady was knocking on their door. Mrs. Murray let the strange lady, Mrs. Whatsit in. Mrs. Murray was very nice to the strange woman even though she did not know who she really was. When Mrs. Whatsit started to talk about the tesseract, Mrs. Murray would be shocked and surprised because her husband was lost in the tesseract, or the time travel, and so Meg Murray and her youngest psychic brother Charles goes into an adventure for the search of their dad. Calvin, Meg’s friend and Mrs. Who, Which, and Whatsit decided to take a space trip with them. The evil monster named IT which looks like a huge brain, was trying to take over the world. IT was in a planet named Camazotz. Meg had to fight against the evil, she had no choice, because IT got her brother.
Meg’s weird friends Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which and Mrs. Whatsit gave her enough weapons to fight against IT. Find out if Meg can ever save her father and brother and if she would defeat the evil.

I liked this book because it shows how the characters struggled and learned a lesson during their adventure. It shows how people care about each other and that love is a strong weapon according to this story. I recommend this book to people who are in to adventerous books, they should like it. In my opinion, there wasn't really anything i did not like in this book, so I guess it would be a good book for people to read.


L'Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle In Time. 1962. New York: Dell, 1973.


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Doori Chin.

So... You want to read a book?

Title: "The Thief Lord"
Author: Cornelia Funke
ISBN: 0-439-42089-X

Prosper and Boniface are two brother orphans who do not want to live with their Aunt Esther. Well, Esther only wants Bo and keep Prosper in a bording school far away. However, Prosper is not going to let that happen. As the result, they run away to Venice. As you can see, two lost boys in middle of an unusual place, can lead to misfortune. Like a detective is on their trail to find them for esther. But The Theif Lord saves Prosper and Boniface from wondering in Venice and introduces them to the other children he saved from a poor street life. Who is this Thief Lord? Well read the book to find out. And it's actually located in our very own school library!

I absolutely enjoyed this exciting book. I liked how Funke took two characters and put in a city where is told to be flowing with magic and created a story that lead to an ending which I didn't expect to have ended this way. The characters are also well put together with their own personalities that none of them seem similar. One thing that i have to say that this book actually helped in my life. Since there is parts about stealing there was parts about selling the stolen items. And part of that there's bargaining for the items. This is how the story helped me. When I was in Thailand for the Missions Trip, we happened to go to the Night Bazzare sometime after I read the part where Prosper bargains. I was shopping and I saw these beautiful pants for my Mom so I went over to buy it. The owner asked for 250 or 300 bot (some where around there) and I told him 200 bot. He said it was too low so he renamed it 30 bot lower. I didn't agree so I walked away and at the last minute he said 210 bot. I definately agreed immedeately. So here is my opinion on the book and a little note to self: Remenber what books teach you or try to pay attention to every detail in a book.

Funke, Cornelia. The Thief Lord. English tranlation, 2000.

Posted by: Anna L. Smith

A Book review of "Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman!"

Surely you're joking,
Mr. Feynman
by Richard P. Feynman and Ralph Leighton
ISBN: 0-393-31604-1

Richard Feynman was a student was a student of MIT and a professor at Caltech. When he was young, he had a laboratory in his house. He would always have experiments in that room. He bought a radio that was broken, but he found out what was wrong with the radio just by thinking. People heard that he fixed a radio just by thinking, and they started to call him to fix their radios. Isn't that amazing? He fixed radios better than any adults when he was about 12 year-old.

I really enjoyed reading this book. This is one of my favorite books. Before I read this book, I thought people who go to university like MIT and Stanford are nerds. I thought the only thing they did was studying, but guess what? Richard P. Feynman, who was a student of MIT and a professor at Caltech did a lot of fun and stupid things you can ever imagine in MIT. He wasn’t a kind of person who studies the whole day, but he liked to make jokes. He helped making an atomic bomb but he was also a great safecracker. You can’t stop laughing once you start reading this book. He was also a Nobel prizewinner who didn’t want to get that amazing prize because he was too lazy. How stupid is that? He didn't want any fame nor money, he just liked to study. I recommand you to read this book, because this book has some amazing stories. I think the best joke he ever made was when he stole a door from MIT. If you are curious about this story, check it out!



Feynman, Richard. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985.

Posted by Joseph W. Cho

Check it out!

Title: Frindle
Author: Andrew Clements
ISBN: 0-689-81876-9

Nicholas Allen is a 5th grade student who is imaginative and also
sometime makes troubles. He made a new word, frindle, which is standard for apen. He also made a special campaign for using new words secretly.
It starts a war between Nicholas and his English teacher. Through that war, language, grammar, rules, and tradition are not closed but learning is growing by creative thought. Later, Nicholas became rich. Because of his word, frindle was selected on a new dictionary. Therefore, the war is over and Nicolas and his English teacher,　Mrs. Granger, have a good relationship.

I liked this book. First of all Nicholas Allen's thought is like mine. When I was young, I always had a question to myself about why we call that a pen instead of calling an instrument made of plastic used for writing with ink. He also had a question as same as me. Second, I liked this part where all students used frindle instead of pen.　How fun, if we call galga instead of cola. I want to make new words and then I want to use that new words with my all school students too. Finally, I liked a last part. I was moved by Nicholas and his English teacher. Ten years later, Nicholas Allen's English teacher, Mrs. Granger, sent a letter and a brand-new dictionary to her student Nicholas. She wrote that the winner is Nicholas because a word, frindle, was on a brand-new dictionary by Nicholas. Then he also sent a letter and a pen for her. I was glad that the war was over.

Mrs. Granger argued with frindle but in fact she helped that frindle became a well-known word to us. At the end of the story, we can know the Mrs. Granger's real purpose to help Nicholas. When I knew that, a lump was in my throat. I think the author describes Mrs. Granger well as a charming and peculiar teacher. You should read this book. You will like it too.

Andrew, Clements. Frindle. New York: Aladdian Paperbacks, 1996.
Joyce Shim

A Little Romance and a Little Adventure....

Make for a great Sunday afternoon read!

Blue Moon, The Moonstruck Series #3
By: Linda Windsor
ISBN: 0785260641

Dr. Jeanne Madison is a 26 year old archeologist who is leading a federally funded expedition to locate and excavate a sunken vessel in the waters off of Mexico's Yucatan penninsula. With her team of students and other archeologists she locates a captain and his rust-bucket of a ship to transport them to the site and to aid in the excavation. As she begins the excavation of the site will she find more than just a sunken ship in the blue waters of Mexico?

I really enjoyed this book even though it was somewhat idealistic. Romances don't usually happen over the course of a week or two and of course it's never quite so simple as it is in this story. However, it satisfies that craving for a little romance in one's life! The surprise twists in this book also make it quite enjoyable. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes romance coupled with adventure.

Windsor, Linda. Blue Moon. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006.

Posted by: Miss H.

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