reading this series. Rick Riordan wrote the Percy Jackson series and those were my favorite books, so I wanted to continue reading books like those. My first impressions were that it started it off slow but progressed quickly. The book was very exciting. The cover of the book was very interesting and wanted to make me read it because it shows two of the main characters that are allies fighting. In the second book The Son of Neptune , Percy, Hazel, and Frank met in Camp Jupiter, the Roman equivalent of
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As I walk over to the table and sit down I glance around, I can see that every new pack members files are at there places, while I have my black laptop in front of me. When my father was Alpha we were a paper-baste pack witch meant writing everything by hand and wasting a lot of paper, file folders that you would lose, and those stupid, clanky filing cabinets. However when I became Alpha I switched to almost paper-less system with computers, paper scanners, and printers and copiers, but I still have
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different reader” (Graham 2). She explains that she was once reading young adult fiction, but doing so as a young adult, and although these books like “The Westing Game” and “Tuck Everlasting” were a great experience in her reading career, she wouldn’t go back and read these books over again. With this being said she is letting them know that these young adult fiction books are in place to properly engage teenage readers, and push them into reading adult novels. Graham goes into detail about the difference
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I’m not a huge fan of self-help books, but my parents bought me The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens and told me to read it. I thought they were nuts. At first I bluffed it off so I didn’t have to read it. Then I started high school and suddenly I had lots to juggle. I was frantically trying get everything done and still find time for fun and family. Then, after deciding that what I was doing wasn't working, I started to read your book. As I read your book, I started taking what you wrote
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it one way or the other. That’s why books are always being challenged to be banned in order to protect human nature. We do not want to see the negative effects of the books being read by adolescences. That is why many people considered banning books to be a benevolent act rather than an act of hate. Often books that are banned are considered to have racial themes, too violent, or can be damaging to lifestyles. I’m sure that in your lifetime you have read a book or two with and extremely
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As a patron, I was never aware of the various steps necessary to place a book on the shelves. According to Helfer and Heinrich (2009), “Historically technical services has been the behind- the- scenes backbone of the library” (p.3466). Furthermore, as my career focus is school librarianship, I have not had much exposure to the type of work that library technical services perform for larger academic or public libraries. Library technical services are key components all types of libraries. Acquisitions
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enjoy reading would be “Joyce Meyer: Promises for Your Everyday Life – a Daily Devotional”, something that I read every morning, since, it does not only keep me grounded, besides, it serves as a guide for me. Another Book that I read a while back titled “The Deep End of the Ocean”, a book, which started out as a suspense with a trailer, was captivating, keeping the reader on edge, predicting what was happening next. I also enjoy reading “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” in my
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Landon cadwell !st Mrs. Deboard Amy through the book What is different about amy throughout the book? Is one of the many questions you could ask about this fict book first we need to find out what happened in the book. What happened is that the aliens invaded the earth and one girl managed to save herself While managing to take care of a baby. She meets many good and bad characters like jake was a bad guy, but megan was good
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Getting to read books that I choose at my own pace has never been something my teachers have encouraged me to do. The books I chose to read taught me different lessons in many ways. The Job by Steve Osborne, The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, and Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario all had different messages that changed my thinking in different ways. The Job by Steve Osborne is an autobiography that tells the true tales from the life of a New York City cop. In each chapter of his book, he shares a different
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In chapter one of "Lies My Teacher Told Me" Loewen examines how historical figures are represented in modern textbooks. Loewen uses Woodrow Wilson and Hellen Keller to prove his claim that textbooks leave out information about historical figures, making them one dimensional and uninteresting. Loewen's first example is Hellen Keller. Everyone who has ever taken an American history class knows about how a blind and deaf Keller taught herself how to read and write. However Keller's legacy
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