One time I was putting a book that I had borrowed back onto my sister's bookshelf in her room, and she walked in while I was doing it. She thought that I had been taking a book, and she got mad at me, telling me to give it back. I told her that I didn't take anything, and tried to walk out of the room. She blocked the door, and I started playing along, pretending to hide a book behind my back. She got mad at me for something that I didn't do, but I was provoking her and hiding the fact that I hadn't done it, so it led to a fight.
If I would have just told her that I hadn't taken anything and shown her my empty hands, she would have let me out of her room and we wouldn't have fought. But, I chose to be secretive and sneaky, and pretend to be taking a book. My behavior made her behavior change, and we got in a fight over nothing.

My Worst Halloween Costume

The lamest Halloween costume that I've ever had was last year, in seventh grade. I was to shy to be anything big and fancy, so I just taped Smarties all over my pants, and went as a "Smartie Pants". The dumb thing is that I still wore dress code, so it was pretty much just like I didn't dress up at all.
The best costume that I have ever had would probably have to be in fifth grade, when I was Dorothy from "The Wizard of Oz". I had a big blue and white checkered dress that was really puffy, and I did my hair in braids and curled the ends. I even took a little basket with one of my little sister's stuffed dogs to be Todo. I didn't have ruby red slippers though, because when I tried them on before school, they turned my socks red.

I have never read any of the books on the top ten booklist, but I know what a few of them are about. The one called Graceling sounds like it would be a really fun one to read, I know that it is about a girl who has a gift to kill things with her bare hands, so an evil king has her work for him and hurt people who don't obey the laws. I really want to read this one now, and I think that I know why it is on the top ten booklist for this year. It sounds really interesting and exciting. I know that later in the book, the evil king sends her to kill the king of another kingdom. She doesn't want to, so she goes to the Kingdom and tells the good king of the evil king's plans. She helps hide the good king away so that the evil king won't find him. I want to go check this book out at the Library as soon as I get the chance. ( The reason that I didn't do a review of the book is because I couldn't figure out where to find them.)

I have never read any stories by Edgar Allan Poe before, and I don't really like to read horror stories very regularly, although around Halloween I like to. From a classic horror writer I would expect lots of death and for them to be really descriptive about certain scenes that are more likely to scare people. Horror stories make my skin crawl, and If I am reading them at night, I can't fall asleep very easily. From what you said, we will be reading "The Tell-Tale Heart" and I don't really know what that's going to be about. It sort of sounds like it's going to be about a heart that tells stories or something like that. I don't know, though. I have read a few sort of scary stories, Harry Potter, for example. It isn't horribly scary, but it describes the scary parts really well, and it makes you stretch your imagination to imagine some scary things. I am excited to read the book by Edgar Allan Poe.

I think that bees are sort of beautiful, in a way. They are just so small and delicate and I like to watch them close up, on a T.V. screen. I would do it in real life, but I'm afraid that it will sting me. I like the black and yellow stripes that cover the little bodies. And, up close, I'm sure that the wings are so thin and fragile, you could barely see them.
I also think that a bee's nest is pretty cool looking. Although not necssesarily beautiful. The detail that is in the little holes covering it is pretty amazing. The hard work that the bees must put into making those houses! Only to have us knock them down or spray them. Oh well, they are cool while they last.

The family vacation that I'm going to write about is when I went to Mexico with my family when I was in first grade. We flew there on a plane and met my Grandpa (who was living there at the time, with my Grandma) at the airport. He drove us to their little house. It was late at night, so we just went to sleep when we got there, but in the morning we were amazed. It was Christmas time, and it was blazing hot outside. We even had a Piniata on the little cement patio in the back yard. I remember playing with all the little Mexican toys that my Grandparents had.
A few days later, we went to the beach and jumped in the waves and had a picnic. I remember that my dad took my little brother way out into the water and was splashing him around. I was scared to go in any deeper than my ankles, because I was afraid of sharks. Me and my cousins would run along the beach with our towels flying behind us. It was a great vacation, and hope to go there again someday.

When I was little, my brothers and sisters and I used to pile onto the couch with my dad in the middle, and he would either read us a story or make up one out of his head. We used to love to do this, and now, when he does it with my younger brothers and sisters I still like to listen sometimes. Since I was read to a lot, and in my younger elementary years, I was a good reader and read a lot of books, I LOVE to read now! I always have my nose stuck in a book, even if it is a book that I've read a million times before.
My favorite stories when I was in 2nd and 3rd grade were Junie B. Jones and things like that. But now, my favorites are the Harry Potter books, the Goose Girl series, and the Anne of Green Gables series. I think that it is very important that little kids are read to so that they can develop a love for reading when they are young, because then when they get older, they will be really smart and always have something to do- read!

The best book I've ever read was Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone, the first book in the Harry Potter series. I really liked it because since it's the first book in the series, I was just getting introduced to all the characters and to what was going on. If the 5th one would have been the first one, it would have been my favorite, too. Of course, I like all of the books a ton.
The basic layout of the story is: Harry lives with his aunt and uncle, not knowing he's a wizard. He finds out, goes to Hogwarts, and learns all about his past. Then, Voldemort tries to steal the Sorcerers Stone so that he can return to power and kill Harry. Harry has to stop him. The book just hooked me on the very first page, and I didn't put it down until I was finished. I did that with all of the books.

If you had one superpower, what would it be and why?

If I had a super power, I would like to be able to snap, and whatever I wanted would happen! Then, I would never have to drive long distances again, because I could just snap and I would be there. Also, I would never have to do any chores ever again because if I had to make my bed or someting, I could just snap and it would be done! I'd have to be thinking about it to make it happen, so that I wouldn't be snapping and all of a sudden appearing in a random place.
Of course, I would never use it for bad, only for good. I don't think that I'd go around fighting crime or anything, I'd just use it for fun. I'd give myself limits to what I could do with it though, like, I wouldn't go around snapping and wishing that I had some money, because that would be like stealing. Sort of.

Family Traditions

What is an important tradition in your family? Do you have any special ways to celebrate holidays, important events, etc.

One special tradition that we have in my family is that every Christmas, each kid in the family gets a new Christmas ornament to hang on the Christmas tree. The ornament that each kid gets represents something special that he/her did that year, or something that they did a lot or something that stood out during the year. For example, one year I got a big golden star with a ribbon on it which represented that I had been a star that year, meaning that I had performed and shone out a lot. One year, my brother read all of the Harry Potter books and he got an ornament of Harry Potter on a broomstick. It's a really fun tradition because it helps us remember what we did throughout all the years.

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