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• Sarah Gillespie, The Case Of The Lost Boy, Dori Hillestadbutler, pp.122
• My favorite part was when Buddy was taking stof out conners room. He took a shirt. He took a mini air plan.
• I allways have to tell my dog to stop.
• I gave this book 4 stars.

• Sarah Gillespie, The Case Of The Mixit up mutts, Dori Hillestadbutler, pp.128
• My favorite paragraph is when they are talking about how to sniff out grandmals house.They said it was close two a river.He tried two sniff a river.
• There is a dog across the street that has a lond voise like Mouse voise
• .I will give this book 5 stars.
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• Caity Jenkins, Mudshark, Gary Paulsen, 83
• My favorite part is when Mudshark finds out his neighbor sold her cat to her other neighbor. Mudshark tries to get it back. He wants the cat because he liked it and the cat’s new owner’s renamed him, and Mudshark won’t get to see the cat.
• This book made me think about when Grace brought her rat to school, in the book Mudshark’s friend brought a rat to school.
• 5 out of 5 stars

What a great connection!

• AJ Pando, FRAMED, Gordon Korman, pp. 234
• My favorite part of the book was when Griffin met a kid named Shank. Shank nailed a kid in the face with a dodgeball. Shank was a bully, but he still saved Griffen from geting hit with a dodgeball because Griffen was new.
• Luther, the dog, eats everything and my dog Max eats everything too.
• I would give it 5 out of 5 stars.

• Trenton kelly The mysterious Matter of i.m fine Diane stanley pp,201
• My favorite paragraph is when they move to the house.When they unpack they see who unpack frist and who ever do gets the best room.The house is gray and the house is dark.
• My connection is that when i move to my house it was dark for a day.
• I will give 2 out of 5 star.

• zacahary eagle, space headz, Jon scieszka, 163 pp
• My favorite part was when bob played with a little pony. He loved it.It was funny
• I have watched a movie like this et. it is about aliens.
• 5 out of 5

• Grace, Trouble is my Beezwax, Bruce Hale,111pp.
• My favorite part is the food fight. All he animals looked messy. They were covered in food.
• I connect becoase I think it would be fun to write a news paper because in the story the kitten writes a news paper called ' The Daily Tattletale'.
• 3 out of 5 stars.

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• Brandon, Closed for the Season, Mary Downing Hahn, 183 pp.
• My favorite part was when they go to the Magic Forest in the end. Because it explains what is around them. Also it has alot of action to. Their's also alot of suspence. Also it's frightening.
• I also went to a place like the Magic Forest, & was scared like Logan & Arthur.
• 4 out of 5 stars.

• AJ Pando, Mudshark, Gary Paul, pp83. My favorite part of the book is when Lyle/Mudshark had to find a car that his friend lost. Also when Mudshark had to find a shoe because his friend can't find it. The principal wanted Mudshark to find stolen erasers from all the rooms.
• Mudshark found lots of stuff, and I had to find lots of stuff too.
• 3 out of 5 stars.

• Aubrey,A to Z Mysteries The Canary Carer By: Ron Roy 90pp
• My favorite part in this book is when they had to find out who was KID-NAPPING pets and ROBBING peoples houses.At ther end Dink, Josh and Ruth rose found out that it was Fred Little. Because he was the one who brought the pets back and Josh thought he saw the face of Fred Little .They did some thinking and went to see Officer Fallon and told him about the pets getting stolen and he told Dink,Josh and Ruth Rose that two more houses have been robed.
• My connection to the story is that they like to solve mysteries with friends and so do I.I have a friend that goes with me to solve mysteriesand her name is Sydney.I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.

• Aubrey,A to Z Mysteries The Haunted Hotel By:Ron Roy 90pp
• My favorite part is when Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose found out that the Jeffers were the ghost of Shangri-la. The Jeffers did not know that they knew yet so Dink, Josh and Ruth Rose went down stairs were the Jeffers were and told the Jeffers that they Knew that they were the ghost.Dink Josh and Ruth Rose knew because they went in there room and founda wig and a tape recorder.the jeffers were not shoked when Ruth Rose bulted it out.
• My connection is they were snooping around the hotel. That is like me because I always snoop around to find out what is going on.I always get caught when I snoop around
• I give this book 4out of 5 stars

• Mikah Stabeno, 39 clues,pp1
• My favorite part is when dan sees a footprint in the snow and he investigates it.i like this part because it was like a show iv'e seen on tv it was called NCIS .
• I also like this part because it seemed fun to play in the snow and investigate like Dan did. (Give me 3-5 sentences about your favorite part. What happened, why, who was there, where was it?)
• Connection?
• i give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

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• Trenton,Mudshark,Gary Paulsen,83pages
• My favorite part is when Mudshark asked his mom "what are you thinking right now?" She told him she was thinking of fingernails. About how fingernails grow 4 times faster then toenails and that an octopus does not have toenails.
• When I read the part about Mudshark and his mom talking about fingernails, it made me think about when I look at my fingernails and they need to be cut.
• I give this book 4 out of 5 stars

• McKenna,Spring it on,Samantha Maridan,141pp.

My favorite part is when Hal admitted that he tried to trash the posse/Spring Fling.Hal tried to trash the posse because he wanted to get kicked out of Hillridge so he thought he would get caught by doing something bad like replacing lights breaking the arch into pieces,and tearing up the flower's.[Hal was a new student,and he got kicked out of his old school]Hal didn't want to be in Hillridge because his witch like cousins Kate went to the same school,and he also just hated her.Also there was an sprinkler problem in the gym,but Hal did not do that the water pipe got blocked so there was a leak that got caused by that problem.When Hal told them all about what he had done he thought they would would be mad but they weren't that mad as he thought,then they just all made up kinda of made up.

• In the book Hal let mice go in the science room so they would eat all the flowers, which was the main theme of the dance. This made me think about a long time ago when something kept eating all our dog food after we put it out for the dog's. In the end, we found out it was some mean birds.
• 5 stars

• Aubrey, A to Z Mysteries The Absent Author By:Ron Ron,90pp
• My favorite part is when wallis Wallace did not send a picture to Dink...Because she was going to write a mystery about a mystery writes so. Wallis did not want anyone to know she was Walllis Wallace \ she is a girl. So she went by Mavis Green instead.
• My connection is when I liked to go in my dream and solve mysteries. I was so into my dream I woke up and did not think of it again that night.
• I give this book 5 out of 5 stars

• Grace, Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, J. K. ROWLING, 309 pp.
• My favorite part is when Harry fought Quirral/Voldomort. I have seen that part in the movie. This book is very discriptive. I love to read that chapter over, and over, and over, and ove... well you get the point. Voldemort killed Harry's perants. But, Dumbledor, the scool headmaster, dousn't tell Harry.
• I connect because I have seen the movie. The book and the movie are exactly the same. When I read the book, the movie plays in my head.
• 5 out of 5 stars

• McKenna,Nancy Drew,Carolyn Keene,152 pp.
• My favorite part is when the detective club has to find a ghost in a very,very old house.The first time they go into the house they find nothing except for a dusty foot print witch means that the ghost is not real , a secret doorway but they don't have the right key to open it,and they found a old picture book.The second time they came back to the house they had a plan,and they found a ladder up the fireplace,and they saw a man go in to a door and then locked it from the inside.Later they found out that the ghost was Bill Wells the groom of the old owners of the house.
• My connection with hearing about a ghost but it's just a real guy trying to fool people is when I was a little girl I use to have bad dreams about a monster trying to eat me,but in the end it was just a friend.
• 5 stars

• Ellyana Norton, JAKE RANSOM and the SKULL KING'S SHADOW, James Rollins,393pp
• My favorite part from the book is when Kady and Jake met after the battle. Kady said she was so worried that Jake had left her. Jake said he had the same thought. Jake and Kady were rewarded. The Elders gave them bracletes.
• My connection was when I had to go to my grandma's house just like jake and Kady went to thier aunt's house.
• Rating?

• Zack Eagle, The Name of this Book is Secret, Pseudonymous Bosch, 363pp
• my favorite part was when Daisy captured Cass than Max-Ermest had to save her. i like that part becase it was very exciting. it was also funny because all you had to do to get in to that bulding was make a reesrvacion.
• my connection to this book was like the book spaceheads. Both the books had main characters that snuk out of thier houses many times.
• 5 out of 5

• Mikah Stabeno, 39 clues the sword thief, pp 157
• My favorite part is when Amy and Dan investigate the sword and they figured out who it was it was there friends dad turns out he steals uneiqe items like the sword!
• I can connect to the book because at church my friend Caden Anderson took a twenty dollar bill from a seat of a chair in the middle of a speach and showed it to me.
• I give this book 5 out of 5 stars.

• Mikah Stabeno,Night in the house,pp 90
• My favorite part is when the girls have a sleep over in the house and they don't want a girl there so they scare the girl so bad that she went home.
• I also liked the part because when the girl left the other girls got spooked by a noise . So they thought that the girl that left set the radio to do that and it said "why did you hurt that girl what did she do to you or what she will". Then the girls got scared and they tried to leave but the door got locked and then they tried to brake it with a baseball bat and they couldn't.So they turned off the radio and they went to sleep. Then it turned back on then one girl said that i thought you turned it off and the other girl said i did and so they turned it off again and went to sleep. Then it came back on then they all ran to the door to get help they were screaming let me out but no one answered. So then the girl got the baseball bat and hit the radio then they went back to the door and screamed H-E-L-P. Then the mom got the door and the other girls went home and the other girl stayed . then she went to sleep in her bed.
• I can connect because when I woke up from my sisters room I got up to get a drink of water and im so used to my room i went strait and tried to twist the closet door. and i screamed to go out and get a drink. but then my parents heard me and came through the door and i was so wrong i tried to open the closet door and they came through far right real door and i felt emberesed to be seen in the closet trying to open it .
• 5 out of 5 stars.

• Ellyana Norton,11 Birthdays,Wendy Mass,267pp
• My favorite part was when Amanda finds out that its SATURDAY! Before Amanda and Leo's b-day kept going.Now it STOPED! Than she went over to open presents at Leo's house.She got a bright yellow SpongeBob Square Pants alarmclcock from Leo.
• My connection is whenever Leo wishes that his b-day could start all over again, Just like I wanted to have my b-day allover again.
• 5 out of 5 stars.

• Ellyana Norton,NANCY DREW,THE CLUE IN THE OLD ALBUM, Carolyn Keene,180pp
• My favorite part was when Nancy found Rose's Dad. Rose had never seen her father before. When Rose met her father he wept on her. Toward the end of the story Rose and her Father got to go on T.V.
• My connection is that,like Nancy, I like to do mysteries.

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• Brandon Baker,The Indian in the Cupboard,Lynne Reid Banks,227 pp.
• My favorite part was when Omri put the indian in the cupboard. Because then the indian wouldn't come to life if he didn't. Also the cowboy wouldn't be alive. Neither would the women. Also the indian & the cowboy wouldn't have become brothers.
• My connection is me & Omri have plastic figures.
• 5 out of 5 stars.

• Jaden wilson,More scary stories to tell in the dark 3 ,pp100
• my favorite story is i think the toe hey thats right and its about this boy who pulls this toe out of the ground and and he gives it to his ma and she cooks it for super and they eat it ,and when the boy goes to bed he hears this noise that says "were is my toe" the boy has no clue were its coming from then it gets to his house and say the same thing and when its gets to the house he goes down stairs and when the boy is down he asks these questions and its like "why do you have thoes big teeth?" "to chomp your bones" , and stuff like that then the thing eats him and its over.
• My conection is i had a dream about i had token a finger out of the ground and i went through the same thing the boy went through then the thing ate me that was only because i read the book but i felt it bite me ,and it hurt.
• # of stars 5 out of 5

• Scary stories , Jaden wilson , # 100
• my favorite story if the wolf girl and it was about this girl who was just bor and put in her cratel and the parents drove home ,and the parents forgot the baby in the car when they got home then some wolfs came a hr later and broke into the car and the wolf trained her their ways ,and people went looking for her and never found her and one day a hunter found the girl and she had 2 pups and the hunter shot his gun and the girl ran away and left her pups.
• My conection is i thought how would it be if i ran away and i was a hobbo
• # of satrs 1,000 out of 5

• Marshall Knifley,James Preller, The case of the spooky sleepover,74p.p
• My favorite part was when the girl made the boy make grape juice come out of his nose.Somtimes i get scared if i here thinges that freack me out to. But i would not be stupid enuff to and check it out that is my dad and his bats job not mine.
• My connection is I will some times get scared in my room to.
• 3 out of 5 stares!

• Jacob,The case of the lost boy,123pp,Dori hillestad butler
• my favorite part was when the new dog went wild to to look for Connor. when they got Buddy she went wild. Also When Connor dissipears.
• also when buddy pulls Connors mom in the middle of the street.
• my conection is when my brother dissipeard icould not find him he was at my friends house
• 5 out of 5 stars

• Zack, If your reading this it's too late. 385pp, pseudonymous bosch
• my favorite part was when when max-ernest comlpained about being at the nuts table. to my strange mind that made perfect sense. he doesn't have one.
• my connection is when max ernest comlaned about thee nuts table. thats how my brother is. exactly how he is
• 5 out of 5 stars

• Maddie,Jake Ransom, by James Rollins,p400
• My favorite part was when Jake got bit by a scorpian and became very protective over Kady because he could of died, and is not a brother built with disrespect. He is a boy who feels that without his sister he is hopeless. Kady Is jakes only family left.
• My connection was when kady and jake felt what a brother and sister should feel when they care for each other. It reminded me of when my brother and i always argued and felt that we would be better off with out each other, if we were separated we would grow bored.
• 4 out of 5

• CADEN,can jasmin ,david a alder,72pp
• my favorite part was when the girl is in the house and the bad people are talking about the dimond they stole .then the police officers head pops in the window and the girl comes and climbs down then the police brakes the door open and they arrest the burggelers and the sherif says your kids just solved the case.
• my connection is that i spy on my mom and dad when they take my stuff.
• 3 stars

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• Mikah stabeno,scary stories for sleepovers,C.B colby,pp95,
• My favorite part is when the pirate guy ties up his horse and the horse gets like clawed and the guy was asleep. I like this part because the next morning the gut wakes up and the horse is dead and the dude figures out that the thing that killed the horse was a cat.I also like this part because The guy just doesn't care about his horse and just goes on walking and finds the horse's ghost and the ghost kills the man.
• this book made me think of my mimis horse we call him spooks and he died on night and we figured out that he died by a coyote.
• 4 stars.

• Savanah,The strange case of origami yoda,Tom Angleberger,p.p.141
• My favorite part is when kellen thought that harvey probably wrote "Kellen drinks pee" over the sink.So kellen leaned over and tried to erase it.Then he got water on him.But it was funny when yoda said to Kellen "All of pants you must wet".
• My connection is in the book when Kellen had a water stain. I connect to that because one time that happend to me but it was at home.My sister was "like gross you peed your pants" I said no.
• 5 OUT OF 5 STARS!!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a GOOD BOOK

• Caity Jenkins, The case of the lost boy, Dori Hillestad butler, 123
• my favorite part is when King when he hears a word he loves it. Example say that is said bacon he would say i love bacon it is my favorie food. It is funny because everytime someone would say scrambled eggs he would say he loves it. I loved thoese parts.
• my connection is that King is a Golden Retreveir and he reminds me of my sisters dog Coda because she is Golden Retriver.
• I give this book a 5 out of 5!

• Mikah stabeno,scary stories bones talk back,pp.55, ethan parnell.
• My favorite part is when big sixteen goes down to the devil and the devils wife said "who is it"then big sixteen said "big sixteen."Then wife said "go away" and and big sixteen said "can i see the devil". Then big sixteen puched him and the devil died. I like this part because i like the picture of the devil and the devil is a skeliton.
• I can connect because me and my brother aden always fights and he always kills me .
• 3 stars

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• Jacob bedore, mudshark, gray paulsen, 83p,
• My favorite part was when mudshark had to do home work. when the principle was talking on the speaker.when kyle tried to do magic. when the car disappeared.
• my canection was when my brother thought he could do evry thing
• 3 out of 5 stars

• Jacob, the case of the mixed up mutts, Dori hillestad, 128p
• My favorite part was when jazzy and buddy ran away to find jazzes owner. when buddy did not know her real name. when all the dogs are talking to others. when they are trying to solve the mystery. when they solved the mystery.
• My connection was when my sister got mixed up with my dad.
• 4 out of 5 stars

• jacob, the case of the fire alarm, Dori battler,132p,
• My favorite part was when they couldent find zack. when zack was when was in the janitors closet. when buddy herd the fire alarm. when conner told a story to mouses person. when buddy tried to talk like mouse.
• My connection was when i herd the fire alarm.
• 5 out of 5 stars

• Marshall,Sunken Steamboat,Eric Wiggin,144p.p
• My favoret part is when they get to an island and they se and old boat and they say "Hey that boat lookes formilear!!"And it turnes out that it is one of there relitives from the past.When they get there they run to the guy and say"hey longtime no see."
• My connection is that my grand parents live in kansas and i never get to see them only like once a fu monthes.
• 2 out of 5 stars!!!!!!

• Marshall,Crime Files,Jeremy Brown,195p.p
• My favroet part is when the kid scared the girl!!!!!!!!!!!!He opened the door and wam she was otomaticly scared to deth.He made a fake alian pop out of his chest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• My connection is that there is a guy that will sit in a cage and he will chace you all the way to the sidewalk.
• 4 out of 5 stars!!!!!!!!!!

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• Marshall, Werewolves Don't Go To Summer Camp, Debbie Dadey and Marcia Thornton Jones, 93p.p.
• My favorit part is when the guy starts to eat a spider.The spider lands in his hand and he just popped it in his mouth.Whene he ate it he licked his lips and injoyed it.
• My connection is that I have tons of freinds that will eat worms and all kindes of buges!!!!!
• 2 out of 5 stars!!!!!!!

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• Jacob, treasure fever, Andy Griffiths, 198p
• my favorite part was when when fred threw something down. when Fiona said mummies cant do anything. when mr. brainfright left. when the kids where leanning how to fly.
• my connection was when i read a book how kids fly.
• 3 out of 5 stars

• SAVANAH,Something upstairs,AVI,141 p.p.
• My favorite part is when pardon willinghast got killed.Not trying to be rude or anything, but wouldn't you

want someone to die if they were hurting you.Well thats my connection.

• My connection is i was thinking when i read about him in the book, i thought he would probably die at the end.
• 5 OUT OF 5 STARS

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• SAVANAH,Runway Twin,Peg Kehret,,197 p.p.
• My favorite part is when sunny told rita, her stepmom that she was going to make a book. She told her that she knew what the first sentence would say,"I'm going to begin by saying my life was transformed by a craving for twinkies.
• My connection is. That was in the first sentence in the book. Thats really cool.
• 5 out of 5 stars.