Thank You For My Surprise! Scroll down 2c my Fave Books!

Thank you for my super surprise! I received it after school and let me tell you, it was a nice surprise to end the year! Thank you also for a great party, your contributions toward making it a success and your thoughtful gifts and cards with sweet sentiments. I MISS YOU ALREADY!

Here's a list of some of my favorite books. Remember, you get a free book at B&N when listed on the log, and you get 50% off of another book from Borders! See parent blog for info! 

http://www.paperbackswap.com/book/details/9780141308203-Summer+Reading+is+Killing+Me+Time+Warp+Trio

• Love That Dog! (Gotta Read)  http://www.sharoncreech.com/novels/01.asp also on parent blog. Click to see the author's site, read her inspiration. Probably my FAVORITE book! A great book to read to/with your parents and/or a friend. It'll also make you want to write a journal just like Ben's from Facing West! You can also read a preview of Hate That Cat. Thanks again, Mariam, I can't wait to read it!

• Henry and Ribsy (any Beverly Cleary) http://books.google.com/books?id=bt7gaJej0f4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=henry+and+ribsy&ei=loAsSsTlFIi0zAS3_smZBw click link to read some pages = great book

• More Henry and/or Ribsy links: http://books.google.com/books?q=henry+and+ribsy&btnG=Search+Books

• Things Will Never Be The Same - 26 Fairmont Ave. journal-type books by Tomie de Paola   http://www.tomie.com/books/bibliography/2003/things.html

• Non-Fiction Books by DK Publishers! http://www.dk.com/

• Because of Winn Dixie-the setting is in FLORIDA! http://www.walden.com/walden/read/winndixie/index.php

• Time Warp Trio - Summer Reading is Killing Me and others Miss Reed's class WebQuest assignment: http://teacherweb.com/FL/UniversityofMiami/ScienceCurse/ http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/authorsillustrato/a/scieszka_bio.htm

• Encyclopedia Brown series - Any and all-they're great!  http://www.kidsreads.com/series/series-brown.asp    http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/encyclopedia.html 

• On The Banks of Plumb Creek - Laura Ingalls Little House On The Prarie  http://www.littlehousebooks.com  http://www.hallmarkchannel.com/publish/consumer/home/shows/little_house_on_the.html 
  
• Meet Samantha and other American Girl Books-Enter contest at Borders. http://contests.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=contests&cdn=hobbies&tm=8&f=10&tt=11&bt=0&bts=1&zu=https%3A//entry.americangirlcontest.com/  http://store.americangirl.com/agshop/static/books.jsf/uniqueId/123/nodeId/12/webMenuId/3/sName/Bookstore http://www.americangirl.com/

• Dear America Series - They're all good! This one is before the westward expansion-Sacagawea helped  http://www.scholastic.com/dearamerica/books/mynameis/augustus.htm

• A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket... This author's style of writing is one of my favorites! He sure likes alliteration, too! Actually, if you recall, his real name is Daniel Handler. Lemony Snicket, the "author," is actually another character. Fascinating! If you watch the movie, try to read all 3 books! You won't be able to put them down. I double dog dare you! lol http://www.lemonysnicket.com/books.cfm The books are way scarier than the movie, which is quite amusing.                                          Here's a clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWB1HGnA3tA
• Flat Stanley-Invisible Stanley, and Flat Stanley, Flat Again are great. http://www.flatstanley.com http://www.chccs.k12.nc.us/mdelem/webquests/jenny/chapmanwebquest.html  

If you're bored this summer-the Food Network will be showing a competition for the next Food Network star on Sunday's at 9:00 p.m.-it's usually pretty exciting.