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.  

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. 

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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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. 

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. 

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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.

First love

First love is written by James Patterson and Emely Raymond. In this book a girl runs away. Her name is Axi. She goes on a round the world trip to get away from the problems and stress she has. But she only wants to do it with one person, her best friends Robinson. Her mom left, her sister died and her dad's a drunk. She's tired of everything and just wants to get away from her little neighborhood. She's been plannin on leaving for a while. She saved up her babysitting money she's been saving for 2 years. She tells Robinson about her plan and says that he going with her. After a while he thought she was crazy, but then agreed. Axi was planned on going on a bus, but Robinson said he had a better idea. He wanted Axi and him to have the best time of their lives. So why not break a little rules? They stole a morticycle and left. Later, they leave the motorcycle and steal a car. Through out the book, Axi starts to have feeling for Robinson that she's never felt before. And she wonders if he feels the same. On page 21 it says, "I threw up my hands. "Last I checked, we don't have a private get, Robinson." "Who said anything about a plane? We are going to take a car, you dope," he said. He leaned back in the booth and crossed his hands behind his head, totally smooth and non-chalant. "And I mean take one." Instead of taking the bus they steal cars and morticycles. Robinson wants this trip to be the best time of her life. I think what's going to happen through out the book is that they are both going to eventually have feeling for one another and the whole trip is going to change from the original plans. On page 46 It says, he reached out and brushed a piece of hair from my forehead. I held my breath. Suddenly I understand that running away was all the thrill I could stand today. If Robinson touched any other part of me, I might explode into a million pieces. But he didn't touch me again. He smiled. "Sweet dreams, Axi Moore," he said softly. Then he rolled back over. Inside I ached a little, I wasn't sure what for. This detail is important because she's probably starting to develop feelings for Robinson but doesn't know it yet. 

Comparing and Contrasting

The two books that i'm comparing are, "The start of me and you" and the book "First love". These two books are very similar because they are both kind of about romance but also about trying something new. In the book "The start of me and you", Paige (main character) wants to try new things before the end of the school year. Through out the book Paige falls in love with her boy best friend, Max. But little does she know that he fell in love with her the first day he saw her. In the book First love, The main character Axi wants to try something new and runaway, but she wants to do it with her best friend Robinson. She wants them both to travel the world together. But through out their journey she starts to have these feeling for him that shes never noticed before. These books are similar because they are both about romance and they both have to do with trying something new and falling for their best friend without even knowing it. The difference is that in the book "first love", they go travel the world together and in the book "The start of me and you", Paige wants to start new things but they are simple that a normal teenager would do but Paige is kind of an outsider. Also in both books they lose someone very important to them. In "fist love" Axi losing her sister and in "The start of me and you", Paige loses her boyfriend. The difference is that with Paige it gave more affect and it was hard to recover from. And Axi she was used to everyone leaving her including her mother. 

          

The start of me and you Blog #2

The book "The start of me and you" is written by Emery Lord. In my last blog about this book I have a summery about what I read. This blog is gonna be about what I read so far after that. Well before Paige (main character) used to like this guy name Ryan chase, but for the new year his cousin moved back to the neighborhood and went back to the school Ryan goes to. In the beginning of the year Paige mad a list with 5 things that she wanted to before she finished school. But when she decides she wants to do something new this school year she start quiz bowl. That's where she meats Ryan chase's cousin, Max. Through the months that's passed, she's gets close with him. And at Max's seventeen birthday party Paige realized that her strong absession for Ryan didn't let her see the strong feelings she had for max. But she doesn't know if he feels the same. After her boyfriends death the accured 2 years ago she srtill hasn't fully recovered. Since her boyfriend drowned she hasn't gone into a pool since then because she has nightmares of her drowning. Recently Max tries to help her and takes her to a pool. When she gets deeper she panics and sinks in, and max rescues her. She takes her anger out at max because she's mad at herself because of the fact that it's been 2 years and she's still afraid. On page 293 it's says , "I was mad that I was still so vulnerable after all this time. Mad that I let myself defined by one tragic accident. Mad that I slipped into the water, that my recently had been hapless flailing. It was a fall, not a jump. It should have been a jump. I owed myself that." I think she will get over it soon and with Max's help only. I think the theme of this book is that it's never to late for second chances. 

Adversity blog

The Adversity that Anne Frank has gone through is very tough, she was stuck in hiding for 3 years, she had to share a room with a 50 year old man, and didn't see any other another kid her age for a long time. I don't think I can say that the adversity that I have faced is smimilar to what Anne Frank faced. The Adversity I face and what she faced would be different because things where different back then, things changed over the years. And because things changed, we have different problems. 

The start of me and you

The book "The start of me and you" is written by Emery Lord. This book is about a teenage girl name Paige who's boyfriend drowned. she's having a little trouble keeping it together because everywhere she goes someone always talking about him and she just gets annoyed. She's really into this guy name Ryan, she's been liking him for so long but he had a girlfriend. When ryan and his girlfriend finally broke they started talking a little more. Her parents had been divorced for a year. But she recently found out that they are back together and she's not to happy about that. "Happy? My disbelief shifted into growing anger that she'd sprung this in me now, after hiding it all the time. I couldn't already hear the gossip, ricocheting against the lockers and tarnishing what would have been my year, my fresh start. I would be demoted to an even weirder reputation: the girl who's divorced parents date each other." But people know her now as "The girl whose boyfriend drowned". Her parents were secretly dating for 4 months and Paige didn't know. Even though that my own parents are divorced i would want them to get back together because they were like her parents, they would always fight and "bring out the worse in each other". The book is from Paige point of view, and from what she sees, they were pretty bad together. But then again, I understand  them because they just need some time to think. In the text it said "Then you'd remember they were so unhappy together. When we were little, they hardly talked. They only fought. This shows that shows that it might go back to the samething through time. People can't change who they are. They might fight about the same things again. I think they should just try it out, and if it works then that's a good thing. 

Key west

Last summer I went to key west in Florida. I really liked how everything is set up. Everybody either drive cars or drive scooters (mostly scooters). There is so much to do and everybody is really nice. Some say that's it's haunted, but that doesn't stop me from living there. There's so many stories on key west. I read some in a book and they were so interesting. When I went I just loved everything. 

The sky is everything

In the book The sky is everywhere, the main character Lennie has a sister that died, That changed her life forever. Her sister was her best friend, the person she told everything to. And now she was gone. She goes to school and while she was gone there is a new boy that comes to the school that everybody is talking about. She finally sees him in her band class. He was filling in her spot in band while she was gone. After school she goes home and she sees her sisters boyfriend, Toby. She starts to remember the way her sister acted before she died when she met him. She was so happy and just remembering that moment made Lennie really sad. Toby offers to talk but she doesn't take the offer and goes inside. I think that Lennie is going to find the new guy attractive little by little. I think he will like her back in time and they will fall in love and they will be together. By her having a boyfriend she will feel better and not think so much about the thing that she's going through with her sisters death. 

The pregnancy project

The pregnancy project is written by Gaby Rodriguez. This book is about a teenage girl who has a lot of brother and sisters. They are a little poor. Her dad isn't in her life that much. He checks up on her once in a while. All of her brothers and sisters either got pregnant someone else pregnant at a early age. Gaby asks her prinicipals approval for the project. She told her mom, sister, best friend and boyfriend about the project. She has a lot of guilt because she hates to lie to the most important people. In the beginning of the books she thinks it's normal for her father not to be around so much. And also thought it was normal to be pregnant teen mom. Through the the bookshe realizes she doesn't want to turn out like her brothers and sisters did. She doesn't want to drop out of school and she wants to go to college. None of her relatives made it to college, she wants to be the first. "My own graduation was still two years away. I was just about to start my junior year, where things were heating up in anticipation of college. But I didn't want to wait until then to do something important with my life to matter now. Somehow, I knew I was going to make a difference. The only question was how." I think Gaby is going to succeed her project and at the end she's gonna finish college and have a baby of her own but this time it's gonna be in a right time in her life. Once she tells everybody that it is fake people will be surprised and mad, especially her family. But they will get over it in time.