Emma Vejcik
Monday, January 31, 2011
Dealing With Dragons
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Wait 'Till Helen Comes
Emma Vejcik
Do you believe in ghosts? Molly and her brother don’t. But a strange summer can change anybodies opinions about real, or fake. Molly’s 7-year stepsister doesn’t want anybody’s love, except for her father’s. Molly, Michael and her mom try to make her see that they really do care for her, but Heather always seems to switch things around to get Molly and her brother in knee-high trouble. But after moving to a church Heather starts acting strange. Stranger than usual, that is. Molly doesn’t know what’s going on until she finds heather talking to a ghost, a very, very bad ghost. Can Molly save her stepsister from Helen, or is it already to late?
Schooled
By Gordan Korman
Emma Vejcik
Hippies aren’t necessarily the most popular kids when they go to middle school. Especially if they’ve never even heard of television. Capricorn Anderson knows his life is going to be different when his grandmother falls out of a plum tree, and breaks her hip. But he was never expecting this. In down reality, Cap doesn’t know anything about school, nothing about the girl he’s living with, and absolutely zip about how to be school president. But, in C Average Middle School, the biggest nerd in he building is elected president. Will Capricorn become the best president middle school has ever seen, or the biggest nerd in history? Gordan Korman will take you on a trip that will make the story that will make the spitballs fly, leaving you on the edge of your seat, waiting for more.
Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat
By Lynne Jonell
“A nanny who is doing some very bad things…”
Emmy was a nice girl. But there were a few very bad things that were happening around her. Lynne Jonell weaves a story that will leave you in the dust waiting for more. Emmeline was happy before her nanny; Ms. Barmy came along. She had friends, and was loved dearly by her very, very rich parents. But then, one day, her life vanishes. Nobody notices her, anybody, not even her parents. What’s going on her? With magical rats, a 24/7 sleeping professor, and a family of chipmunks, Emmy is determined to get to the bottom of this… before something disastrous happens.Splat The Cat
By: Emma T.
Splat is a young cat getting ready for his first day of school. He doesn’t want to get up and is making bad excuses. He finally gets up and goes to school. At school he learns a lot he never knew before. Read this fun, exciting, and Monarch Award book to learn about Splats amazing adventure.