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.