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"NO HOLDING AURIOL BACK"

Date started- 14-05-11

Date Finished- 14-05-11

**This was an Article in the "Counties News" ** __Title:__ No Holding Auriol Back

__Author:__ Mitch Hyde

__Genre:__ News Article

__Plot: __

Auriol had faced serious illness's,until two years ago when she was given a second chance to do what she loves most, teaching kids how to swim. She has an allergy to chlorine, which set her down again. Pukekohe Rec Centre then restricted its amount of chlorine Since then she has been back in the pool to teach kids how to swim.

On June 4th she was presented with the "Nan Nevin Award" which is given to New Zealand's top teacher with more than 25 years of experience.

__Response: __

I liked this Article because it was eye catching to me with the big colourful image. Also because I have had swimming lessons with her. Also that there is a parent response on how she teaches, it lets other parents and caregivers know who to take there kids to learn how to swim. This article is good for anybody, especially if you just like to scan through the newspaper every now and then.

__ Language Used: __

The language used, I think, is quite descriptive as it has words like, approach, discovered, nominees, extremely, passion, barriers etc....

__Text to self: __

I felt glad to see that the "Pukekohe Rec Centre" restricted its amount of chlorine for the great swim teacher Auriol Rooke. If I was her I would have felt very unhappy not being able to do the one thing that I loved to do.

<span style="background-color: #a492f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 350%;">Bridge To Terabithia ! ! ! !



<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">__Title:__ Bridge To Terabithia

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">__Genre:__ Fiction

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">__Author:__ Katherine Paterson

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">Plot: __

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">A young boy called Jess, is the only boy in his family with 2 older sisters who are mostly always fighting and 2 younger sisters one of them "May Belle" mostly is praising him.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">Jess, often gets bullied at school and teased. On the first day back at school a young girl called Leslie arrives it's her first day.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">At home time she got off the bus at the same time as Jess and Jess thinks that she is following him but it turns out that she is his new neighbour.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">They find a magical place of there own and become the best of friends. One day Jess gets invited to go to the "Art Museum" with his school teacher, but something bad happens to Leslie while he is out, and his family are afraid that the same thing has happened to Jess.

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">Response: __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">﻿I liked this book because it teaches kids not to bully one another or they might do something back to you, and also that some kids aren't as lucky as we are. This book is an eye catching nicely coloured book, with great descriptive words. I would recommend this to teens that are into drama type books.

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">Language Used: __

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">The language used, I believe, is very descriptive and is good for younger kids if the need to increase there vocabulary.

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">Text To Self: __

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">I felt sorry for Jess being bullied by the two mean kids in his class and being knocked over by them too.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">But when he and Leslie became best friends it was a pleasant book to read because it was happy and fun.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px; line-height: 40px;">I wish that his two oldest sisters weren't mean to him aswell and would stop fighting with each other.

<span style="background-color: #a492f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 55px; line-height: 81px;">﻿Holes ! ! ! !



__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 27px;">﻿ __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%; line-height: 40px;">__Title:__ Holes

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Genre:__ Adventure

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Author:__ Lois Sachar

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Plot:__

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">At the beginning of the story, Stanley Yelnats, a timid boy who is very unlucky, supposedly due to a family "curse", has been wrongly accused of stealing the baseball player Clyde Livingston’s shoes from a charity auction to benefit a homeless shelter. The judge sentenced Stanley to 18-months at Camp Green Lake juvenile detention facility.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">At Camp Green Lake, Stanley and his fellow campers, all delinquents, are forced to dig holes to “build their character”. Stanley later learns the Warden of Camp Green Lake is not interested in building the boys' character, but instead is searching for a buried treasure, which she has not found. After some time, Stanley finds a lipstick tube enscribed with "KB", the initials of the Wild West outlaw, Kissin’ Kate Barlow.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">During a flashback, Stanley's grandpa tells the story of the origination of the Yelnats’ family curse. Over 110 years ago, Stanley's Latvian ancestor, Elya Yelnats fell in love with Myra Menke, a beautiful local girl whose father will only let her marry the man owning the largest pig in the village, on the date of her 15th birthday, and Elya finds himself competing with a middle-aged pig farmer. Elya's friend and a Gypsy, Madame Zeroni, though opposed to his marrying her, agrees to help him raise the largest pig in the village if he agrees to carry her, after the pig, up a mountain and sing her, and the pig, a lullaby. Madame Zeroni promises he will win Myra’s hand by doing this or he and his family for all generations to come will be cursed.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Back in the present day, the Warden’s harsh decision to have the boys dig more extensively for the treasure leads to several dramatic instances causing Zero, a shy boy who’s real name is Hector Zeroni, to run away into the desert. Stanley, Zero’s only friend, runs away himself to find Zero, worried about both his, and Zero's chances of surviving the harsh desert. Stanley finds Zero in an abandoned rowboat and sees a mountain resembling a thumb. Stanley recalls the story of his great-grandfather getting robbed by Kissin’ Kate and how he survived by “finding refuge off God’s thumb”. Zero and Stanley struggle to climb the mountain due to their lack of water and food. When Stanley and Zero finally reach "Big Thumb", Zero has passed out from food poisoning. Stanley discovers groundwater and a field of onions, which the boys eat, and so gain their strength back. In the meantime, Stanley sings to Zero the lullaby he was taught, and Zero being a descendant of Madame Zeroni, this finally breaks the Yelnats family's "curse". Stanley proposes to Zero that they make their way back to Camp Green Lake so they can try to find Kissin’ Kate’s buried treasure. The boys find an old suitcase, but before the boys are able to leave, they are Apprehended by the warden, and the camp Staff, as well as discovering the hole they are in has a nest of yellow-spotted lizards. The warden waits for the boys to die from a lizard’s bite, but the boys are saved by the fact that the lizards dislike onions, of which they have consumed large amounts, so they do not get bitten.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Stanley uses the bonds to get a new house for his family, and Zero hires a team of investigators to find his missing mother. The Warden, desperate for money, is forced to sell Camp Green Lake to the state. The Attorney General sells it on to the Girl scouts of america, and the camp, ironically, becomes a girl scouts camp.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Response:__ I like this book because I like it when he meets the kids at the camp. I also like it when the flashback starts from when his families curse started.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">__Language Used:__ I think the language used in this book is, kind of descriptive there are mostly quite large and well used.

__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Text To Self: __<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;"> I think that the warden is very mean and rude to the kids at the camp, but some of them deserve it!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">Also the older boys at the camp should mind there own business and not bully Stanley Yelnats.

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 17px; line-height: 25px;">I like it when he gets a letter and when Zero asks him if he can teach him how to read and he does!

<span style="background-color: #a492f6; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 340%;">Nancy Drew And The Clue Crew Scream for Ice Cream ! ! ! ! <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Date and time started: 9 th July 10.30am Date and Time Finished: 9 th July 9.55pm

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Title:__ Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, Scream for Ice Cream

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Genre:__ Mystery, Adventure

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Author:__ Carolyn Keene

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Illustrator:__ Macky Pamintuan

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;">__<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Plot: __

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Nancy and her friends think there is nothing more fun than ice cream in the summer. So when they find out that the owners of the local ice-cream factory are hosting a contest, the Clue Crew can't wait to enter!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Contestants must come up with brand-new flavors. And they can use whatever ingredients they want! Nancy is sure that her entry -- Clue Berry -- will win!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">But when there friend Kendra's secret recipe goes missing!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">They have only 2 suspects at the start, the Jim and Barry's Fan Club! And Kevin Garcia!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">They end up finding out that it was neither of them! But who could it be?

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">It is a last minute discovery, but Kendra gets the recipie back!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">But who wins is the other question!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">__Response:__ I like this book because, it was short and quick, also because i never wanted to put it down!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">I like it when the Clue Crew go to the Jim and Barry's Fan Club meeting, and when Bess (one of the girls) spits out the ice-cream.

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Also when they go to the Jim and Barry's ice cream factory, and sneak inside, and George (another girl) nearly falls in a big container when looking at the ice cream!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">__Language Used:__ This book, to me , is not very descriptive as it doesn't have the big detailed words that my teacher would probably want me to read!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">__Text To Self:__ I think that Mr Dippy, is very mean to the kids when they want to buy ice cream from him!

<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> I think that Deirdre isn't a very good friend to Kendra because she is always putting posts about her on her web page, and doesn't ask Kendra for permission first!

<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">