Date: January 13, 2024 Book Title: Loser Author: Jerry Spinelli Response: Book Blog Entry (Technological) _________________________________________________________________________ The book Loser tells the story of a six year old boy named Donald Zinkoff, who is an enthusiastic, hyperactive, and goofy kid who enjoys school but is not very good at it. In fact, he is not very good at a lot of things which leads to him being called a loser by his classmates. Donald happily stumbles through school mostly without friends before becoming a hero in middle school. The novel follows Donald from first grade to sixth grade and showcases him to be rather clumsy and awkward but oblivious to what others think of him. He often misinterprets situations, for example, in second grade when his teacher called his handwriting atrocious, he misunderstood and thought it was a compliment. In fourth grade during Field Day, Donald, slow and uncoordinated, loses the on...
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Date: 02-12-23 Title: Rosy Cole's Memoir Explosion Author: Sheila Greenwald Response: Book Blog Entry (Technological) The book Rosy Cole's Memoir Explosion is a "heartbreaking story about losing friends, annoying family, and ruining romance. When a girl named Rosy Cole gets assigned a project to write about the most interesting person in her family, she decides to write about herself (a memoir). Her older sister, Pippa tells her that she going to need a book on how to write a memoir. In an attempt to be as thorough as possible, Rosy follows the "eight points of a good memoir" outlined in the book. However, Rosy goes too far by trying to get Donald (her friend's older brother) to tell her his innermost feelings about her and ends up breaking their friendship. She also wrote a memoir for her friends using the pictures they had left behind from the workshop she held (which had gone terribly wrong). When they read it, they got mad at her for exaggerating their s...
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Date: 01-21-23 Book title: Superheroes are Everywhere Author: Kamala Harris Creative Response: Book Blog Entry (Technological) The book "Superheroes Are Everywhere" tells the story of Vice President Kamala Harris and all the people in her life who made her feel loved, valued, and inspired. Kamala writes about people in her family for example, her mother, father, and grandparents who were all superheroes in her opinion. These people were not superheroes because they possessed super powers but rather because they possessed traits like kindness (Mrs. Shelton-family friend), bravery (her father), reliability (her sister), and the willingness to fight for what is right (her grandparents). Vice President Harris then invites her readers (children like me) to look at our own lives- our families and friends- and find the people who are heroes to us. I really enjoyed the book and I agree that superheroes are everywhere. Some examples of superheroes in my life are my mom because she tak...