Thursday, May 19, 2016

Compare and contrast

Famous last words is written by Katie Alender. It's about a girl who moved into a new house with her mom and her rich step father. She starts to have these visions and it messes with her life. The visions are of the Hollywood killers suspects. The Hollywood killer is killing famous actors. When she meets a guy name Wyyat, her best friend told her not to talk to him so she didn't for a while. But when Willa finds the notebook that Wyyat left behind in class they start to talk more. Wyatt has been doing s project on the Hollywood killer and writes it all down in his notebook. Willa starts seeing things and stuff starts happening to her. She hears something in the bathroom so she goes to see what it is and when she walks in she sees a bathtub filled with rose petals. She sees a paper and tries to grab it but ends up falling in to the tub. Later, she looks on the Internet about what happened with Diana del mar (actor who owned Willa's house). It said that she died in a bath of rose petals. "The ghost of key west is written by David L. Sloan. In the book there are different kinds of stores of the ghost of key west. There was a story about a girl who was visiting key west for vacation. It was many years ago. A girl was going to sleeping and while she was asleep she kept smelling cigar smoke coming from the hall. Key west is known for their cigars. She complained about it the next morning but they couldn't do anything about. The next night the same thing happened and she went outside to see where the smell was coming from but there wasn't anybody in the rooms next to her and there wasn't anyone in the hall. Later the smell was coming from the ghost who was smoking. The ghost was the maker of cigars. These two books are similar because they ar both about ghost and how they bother them.  



Friday, May 13, 2016

Famous last words

Famous Last Words is written by Katie Alender. They are still trying to figure out why there has been weird things going on with Willa. Wyyat and Willa to meet a physic and she tells them to get rid of the book Willa has been using to speak to the dead. She told them that while doing that she opened portals that she shouldn't have opened. Each time she tried to talk to her dad she led something bad closer and closer to her. No it's to late because that bad thing already got her and she doesn't know what to do. When they try to find more information on the physic they find out that she comittted scuicide. One night Willa heard dripping in the bathroom so she went to go see and she saw the bathtub was full of rose pedals. Whatever that's bothering her wants to go in there. Willa has been having these visions of rose pedals and water. She tries not to touch the water but she ends up falling in. Later she realizes that it's the actress who used to live there's ghost/spirit. " I was about to dig the box out of my closet when the computer finished booting up. Since I was there, I might as well do a little reasearch before opening the portal again. To be honest, I wasn't all that excited about disregarding Leyta's warning. On some level, I believed she knew what she was talking about. I clicked on the web broswser. Explor every lead, I thought. Leave no stone unturned. So I decided to start with something easy - I googled Paige Pollan. That when I realized that there would never be  a reply to the email id sent. Because Paige Pollan killed herself last August." Paige Pollan was the physic Willa and Wyyat talked to about the visions Willa has been having. Now she can't get any help or anymore information because Paige killed herself. So the investigation is gonna be a little harder. 


Monday, May 2, 2016

Famous Last Words

Famous last words is written by Katie Alender. This book is about a girl name Willa who moved into her step dads house in LA with her mother. Over the years shes tried to communicate with her dead father but there has been no luck. There is a killer on the lose and he/she is only after famous movie stars. When he started her new school she met a guy who's been researching everything that has happened with the killer. His name is Wyatt. Wyatt writes everything down in his notebook. One day during class he accidentally leaves his notebook. Willa picks it up and tries to catch Wyatt and give it back to him bu she couldn't catch up to him. She puts it in her backpack and goes home. She tried to give it to him but hasn't had any opportunity's to. She reads the notebook and see all of the victim's names and date they were killed. Throughout the week she starts to have these visions about a guy torturing someone. She hears the name and the names are the same names that that the killer has killed. She doesn't really know why she's having these visions out of nowhere. She hasn't told anyone because no one would believe her or they would think she's crazy. One day shes at the dinner table eating with her family and she looks up at her mom and she see writing behind her. on page 83, "This is the kind of dream you don't wake up from, Henry" and underneath that sentence it started to repeat the numbers "818" over and over again down the wall. Her mother notices she acting weird and calls out her name but Willa is scared and confused. I think that Willa is going to find out who the killer is and she's going to work with Wyatt on the project. She's gonna probably only tell him about her visions and they are going to work together and find the killer.

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Ellen Degeneres

Ellen Degeneres biography is written by Lisa Iannucci. When Ellen was younger her mom divorced her dad and remarried. As years when on Ellen's mother found out she was diagnosed to breast cancer. As Ellen's mother as in the hospital ellen was at home with her mothers husband. He told Ellen that he thinks that she feels a lump I her mothers other breast so he needs to feel Ellen to make sure everything is okay. Ellen was sexually molested by her story father. Ellen didn't tell her mother right away because she didn't want her to be stressed. She told her later on. Her mom divorced him and they moved away. Ellen went to college later on decided she didn't like what she was learning. Her mom was sad because of the divorce, so Ellen tried to cheer her up by making her laugh so hard. Ellen realized that she wanted to be a comedian so she did gigs in coffee houses. As more people wer noticing her she became big. She was noticed by a lot of important people. Couple years later she was an actor of her own sitcom. On the finale season is when Ellen told the whole world she way gay. By doing so it made the show get more views. A year later the snow got off the air. Later, Ellen started her show "The Ellen show" and it became big. Still till this say she is doing The Ellen show as the talk show host. 



Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words is by Katie Alender. This book is about a girl name Willa, and she is in high school. Willa's dad died and her mom remarried a rich guy. Willa and her mom moved to Los Angeles with her moms new husband Jonathan. Jonathan's home was build for a famous actor in the 1930's. Sometimes Willa lights a candle, puts on a ring and tries to talk to her dad. She's been doing that for a year and a half already but she hasn't had a response. The night she settled in the new home she lit a candle and tried again to talk to her dad. There was no response so she put the ring away and blew out the candle. A couple seconds later there was an earthquake, which is common because they are in California. A couple hours later she went to bed. She later woke up around 3:00 A.M. She saw that her candle was lit next to her bed but she just blew it out and didn't think much of it. She looks outside the window and shes the pool so she goes for a swim. While she's swimming she feels something pass her leg, she looked around the pool but saw nothing and she just continued to swim. Couple seconds later the same thing happened but this time something pulled her leg down under the water. She opened her eyes but saw nobody there, there wasn't anything touching her but she can feel someone or something pulling her down. She looks around the pool and she sees someone floating above her, she's confused on why this person wouldn"t help her but she soon realized it wasn't a person. On page 21 it's says "I was rapidly running out of air. Panicked, I looked up toward the sky - and saw another person in the water. For a briefest second I thought it was someone else swimming, and I wonder e widely why they wouldn't help me. But then it hit me with ironclad certainty - this person wasn't swimming. They were floating. And it wasn't a person...it was a corpse." I think the ghost she saw above her in the pool was the famous actor that used to live in that house, because she died in that house. 


Friday, April 8, 2016

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

First love


"First love" is by James Patterson. It's about a girl name Axi that runs away with her best friend Robinson. They break the law by Stealing cars. When they were done stealing another car, the cops stopped them because they were going to fast. They played around with the cop for a bit and tied him up and put him in the backseat of the stolen car and started walking to find another ride. "Guilty, I thought. We're both so guilty. For a while I stared out the window, watching the flat, dry land go by. I still couldn't believe the way things had turned. A few hours ago, Robinson making out with someone else was just about the worst of my problems. Now? Try felony assault, grand theft auto, and who knew what else." She's falling for her best friend but also feels guilty for the laws they had broken. She's had the best time with Robinson but it can lead to juvie for them. "Back in the moment, of course, we'd had done made perfect sense. We'd had to do it. A stolen Porsche, a hijacked gun, and suddenly cuffing and abandoning a cop seemed like a fine idea because, hey, it would keep us out of juvie. For now I thought darkly." I think Robinson will tell Axi that he loves her and they will finish their journey and go back and be together. But I also think something bad will happen along the way because it can'[t have a happy ending just that simple.