Sunday, February 17, 2013

Diary of A Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel



Valentine's day is coming up and Jeff Kinney wrote another Wimpy Kid tale!

Greg Heffley has Rowley Jefferson run for a student council position and that position puts all of them in a position they don't wanna be in!

The Valentines Day dance is just a way to rack up some money for the school so they can buy fancy toilet paper. You know how school toilet paper is, right? Anyway, all the girls are treating like it's high school prom when it's actually a lame middle school dance.

Greg wants to get a date so he doesn't look like a loser. When Abigail agrees to with them as friends Greg realizes he's gonna need a ride and his mom is just going to embarrass him the whole way there. So he goes to Rowley's dad. Mr. Jefferson and Greg are not the most compatible. There was always this chill in the air. The only way to get Mr. Jefferson a ride there, they have to bring Rowley. 

Rowley got the chicken pocks and they were spreading like wildfire in the school. Greg couldn't let that stop them. So he grabbed Rowley and put a scarf and hat on him. They're ready to go!!!

Find out more in, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Third Wheel" by Jeff Kinney!!

The Seer of Shadows



Avi has written this amazing book that goes back to the 1800's. Everyone believed in ghosts except the main character, Horace. That was before he took his first picture.

IT was a normal day down in New York. Business was slow as usual at Mr. Middleditch's photography building. When a young servant girl approaches Horace outside, she got a photography session for her master, Mrs. Fredrick Von Macht.

Mrs. Von Macht was in mourning of her dead daughter, Eleanora Von Macht. Mr. Middleditch had a devious mind and decided to put in a ghost image of the late Eleanora. He gave Horace a secret camera to hide under his jacket so he can take photos of the portraits of the the young daughter.

Each photo brought Eleanora closer. Pegg (the servant girl) said that Eleanora was abused, kept in a room with no accessories and no food. When a doctor was needed they never sent for one. Eleanora swore for revenge before she died.

Apparently she did get revenge on the Von Machts by setting her father's company on fire.

The photograph that Mr. Middleditch gave Mrs. Von Macht had two images of Eleanora. The first on is the one that Horace took and imprinted on to the picture. The second one had Eleanora looking at them angrily.

Revenge was to come soon.

Read more in "The Seer of Shadows" by Avi!