The Neddiad

I would like to do a discussion on The Neddiad. It is about a boy who moves to Hollywood, meets a shaman, recieves a sacred stone turtle from the shaman, and goes to a military academy. He then saves the world with the son of a movie star's son and a girl who lives in the same hotel as him.-DBC 

Peter and the Starcatchers

I would like to talk about the Peter Pan series. This series talks about Peter Pan's life before the movie. In this series,  there are three books:   1.Peter and the Starcatchers  2.Peter and the shadow Theives and  3.Peter and the Secret of Rundoon. Peter has many problems like captain hook trying to kill him and meeting people he doesn't know   KG

A Dog's Life

A Dogs Life by Ann M. Martin is about a stray dog, who is abandoned by her mother after living in a shed with her brother for years. She struggles to stay alive, eating scraps from a garbage can and hunting small animals. A great book about the life of a stray.   CS

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

I think that the first harry potter book "Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone" was probbably my favorite of them all. The story of it was like i was seeing it for the first time it was even more enjoyable then the movie   EJJ

Three Cups of Tea

Can you imagine being stranded high in the mountains, with friends and family far away?  Mountain climber Greg Mortenson spent a winter in a remote village in Pakistan, dependent on the care and generosity of a small band of villagers who have lived the same simple lifestyle for generations.  Greg is astounded by the village children's idea of school - squatting in the cold, drawing and writing in the dirt with a stick for a pencil, and taught occasionally by an itinerant teacher.  He vows to return to Pakistan and build a school, a vow which seems impossible to keep when his first appeals for help in the United States are answered by only one contribution. 

If you would like to participate in an MVM book group to read the fascinating story of Greg's determination to keep his promise, join our Three Cups of Tea bookgroup.  We will meet early some evening in January to kick off the book group, use this blog to communicate our thoughts about the book, and reconvene at the end of our reading.  We'll celebrate with tea, of course.  Email Nancy Kane at nancy.kane@bhrsd.org or call me at school if you would like to participate.

Rules

Catherine is very tired of trying to explain everything in the world to her younger brother David, who is autistic.  She's even more tired of having to explain David to everyone she meets.  When a new family moves in next door, with a girl her age, Catherine thinks she may have found the friend she's been looking for.  Davdi's needs dominate family life.  Catherine has no interest in going to therapy visits with David until she develops a friendship with a boy in a wheelchair who uses a keyboard to communicate. 

Weedflower

Sumiko and her younger brother, Tak Tak, are Japanese-American children who live with their aunt, uncle and two cousins on a flower farm in California. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, all Japanese-Americans are rounded up and sent to internment camps because the U. S. government fears that some among them might be spies with loyalties to Japan. Sumiko and her family find themselves living with thousands of others, in crude quarters in the blistering hot desert of Arizona in a camp which borders a reservation for Native Americans. As the days turn into weeks and months, Sumiko's dream of one day owning her own flower shop seems to be crumbling into the dusty dirt beneath her feet.

How to Steal a Dog

When Georgina's family winds up living in their car because the family can't pay to rent an apartment, this brave-hearted girl takes responsibility for her younger brother after school, sometimes spending hours sitting in their parked car, waiting for her mother. Despite her unwashed hair and wrinkled clothes, Georgina never tells her friends or her teachers that she is homeless. A Missing Animal poster gives her the perfect idea for earning their rent money: finding a lost animal and claiming the reward. In their small town, however, there are not many lost animals, nor people rich enough to offer large rewards. In desperation, Georgina decides to steal a well-loved dog whom she has befriended, certain that the owner will immediately offer a large reward.

Out of Patience

The tiny town of Patience, Kansas, is so small, that every kid in town is on the baseball team - all 9 of them. Jake longs for excitement and adventure, and vows he will be the first young man of the Waters family to finally get out of Patience. When his father, a plumber, announces that he wants to put Patience on the map by opening the American Toilet Museum, Jake can't get of Patience fast enough.

Abby Takes a Stand

Travel back in time to Nashville, Tennessee in 1960 - a town in which restaurants and businesses were segregated and African Americans were denied many opportunities because of their race. Abby eagerly awaits her turn to ride on the merry-go-round at Harvey's store, only to be turned away and humiliated when the manager informs her that the merry-go-round is only for white children. Abby's experience and subsequent involvement in civil rights protests bring this turbulent period of our history to life.