LeahFrancis

I finished another book, __Dear John.__ That is my favorite book of all time and it never gets old reading it!
 * May 26, 2011**

Characters: __Savannah__: She is smart, sweet, pretty, and she's in college. Savannah has long hair and she goes to North Carolina on her time off from school. She meets John at the beach and falls in love with him. __John__: John is in the army and he lives with his dad in a small house when he is on leave from the army. John used to be a bad boy but being in the military, he's not anymore. It seems like everyone is scared of who he used to be even though he's not like that anymore. He still has a temper but not as bad. When he sees Savannah, he falls in love with her.

__Johns Dad:__ He is kept to himself. He is a coin collector and he used to collect them with John when he was a little boy. When John got older, he seems scared and a lot quieter because of how John acts toward him. Summary:

**April 18, 2011** I just finished reading __The Boyfriend League.__ Dani, who is a tomboy has this crush on a baseball player and asks her parents to house him for the summer so she can get a baseball player as her boyfriend. But she ends up falling for Jason who is staying at her house. This book is really different for me. It was ok but I didn't like it as much as I thought I would.

**April 1, 2011** I am reading __The Boyfriend League__. I've read about 20 pages this week! I don't really have a favorite line but my favorite part is when the girl meet this guy who she said literally took her breath away and she's getting ready to go on a date and she's freaking out about it! It's funny but yet interesting because most girls are like that including me sometimes!

I am reading __The Boyfriend League__ by Rachel Hawthorne. I got it at the school library and I got it because I thought it looked interesting! So far these two friends and how they liked going to baseball games to see all the hot guys and what not! Its about how these girls have a bunch of crushes on these guys!
 * March 24, 2011 **



__Hattie__- She is 16 years old and she lives with her Aunt and Uncle in Arlington, Iowa. Her best friend is Charlie who gets sent to the war. She gets sent from on distant relative to another and she hates it, so she moves to Montana and lives on her uncle's homested claim. __Uncle Holt__- He is laid back and lets Hattie have it her way. __Aunt Ivy__- She is a little more strict towards Hattie and wants to send her to a private school. __Charlie Hawley__- Hattie's best friend and he enlists to fight in the war. He gets sent to fight the Kaiser in France. __Perilee Mueller and family__- Hattie's neighbor in Montana and they act as Hattie's second family and they help her wen she needs it. The stories begins in Arlington, Iowa at Hattie's aunt and uncles house. She is missing her best friend, Charlie, who got sent to fight in the war. Hattie hates living there with her aunt and uncle, so she moves to Vida, Montana to live on her uncles homested claim. Now she has to brave everything by herself. Hard weather, hard times, and braving through cooking, which she doesn't know how to do it. But thankfully she has good neighbors like Perliee Muller and her family. When she's with them, she feels like part of the family. Hattie is trying to search for the real meaning of home since she's been moving around from one distant relative to another. I give this book a 4! It's really good and I would reccomend this book to everyone! I love it!
 * March 15, 2011 **
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The book I am reading now Is called Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson. This book is about a family in the 1900's starting out in Iowa. The characters are Hattie, Charlie, Aunt Ivy, and Uncle Holt. Hattie stays with her Aunt Ivy and Uncle Holt because her parents died. This books starts out by Charlie leaving to go fight in the war and so Hattie wrote a letter to him. Also, Aunt Ivy wants to send Hattie to a boarding school even though she's almost done with school and Uncle Holt saves Hattie and says she doesn't need to go. My favorite part of this book is reading the letters that Hattie writes to Charlie. I don't think there's a bad part to this book right now!
 * February 10, 2011. **

Here's a link to a review-- http://teenreads.com/reviews/0385733135.asp



**January 27, 2011.** I am reading __Of Mice and Men__ by John Steinbeck and we are reading this book as a class. The main characters are George and Lennie. George looks after Lennie since he is mentally retarded. George is short, has sharp round features, he's dark in the face, and he wears denim clothing. He is the leader of their group and he's easily frustrated. But, he is also loving and understanding. Lennie has a shapeless face, he's big, and also slow. He is dumbfounded, slow, and he thinks everything is funny since he is mentally retarded. They got ran out of weed because Lennie touched a girls dress, so they lost their job and had to find a new one. I like the book so far! It's very interesting!

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 * January 13, 2011**.