a Book review on "Summer of the Monkeys"

It is a sweet book that gets five stars.
it is a non-fiction story about a boy who finds 29 monkeys in the bottoms of the Ozark hills. All summer long he is trying to catch them but everything he tries goes wrong.




I would tell you more but i would spoil it, i will tell you one thing though, he has an old hound dog named rowdy and a younger sister (twin) who has a crippled leg. enough said.

All about Meeeeee!

I am a very sweet girl. I help my mom with Emmeline. I do my chores... most of the time at the least. know here are some lists that describe me .

list#1
what I look like.

Brown hair
Brown eyes
Good taste in style
Skinny
Long arms
Long legs
Pink lips
Great smile
Cute clothes




2014


I'm guessing i wrote this when i was like 6 but... just take a look

Book review on "The door to time by Ulisses Moore"

This book gets a well earned five stars for lots of reasons but I will mention my favorite reason. the author, Ulisses Moore, is a character in the story line, and an important one too. The author in the story is talked about often but you never actually meet him which is pretty amazing considering the story line. (he is the previous owners of argo manor, the main setting of the story).this book is the first in a series so more book reviews are on the way.

I am a big fan of series books that have the first book ending on 1/100 of a foot. after you finish a book like that you not only have to stay away from people that have read the entire series, but you need to go to your local library and check out the next one ASAP! i just love that feeling.

A tip on reading this book is to be that kind of person that is not freaked out by creepyly big Mansions  that a family of four can't fit in comfortably ,(or at all) foot steps on the second floor when your the only one in the house, as far as you know, finding weird riddles that are written in a different language, scary rumors about the previous owner of the house, a well covered up, removed picture frame of the previous owner, getting stuck inside a hollow cliff ,

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ending up in/under EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!







Not to mention seeing a shadowy figure outside the window in a lightning storm , ect ect.
Maybe being a twin will help. :)

A News Report by the NY Times (March 2014)

First the Weather:We are moving so Dad can teach at Sweet Briar Womans College. The weather there is month I an average high of 58 degrees and an average low of 34 degrees. In Denton the weather is an average high degrees and has an average low of 44 degrees.

Now the Little Big news: this month Emmeline is getting a palet study to see if she needs a paletal lift to help her say specific sounds.

Favorite songs for the family:

Mom: Come Thou Fount (heavy on the strings)

Em: We are Thankful

Isa: Only Human, Only miss your lover when you let her go & the Russian dance from the Nutcracker.

Dad: doesn’t have one. (not everythingNow the Interviews:

First we interview with Dan Perkins,

His favorite Shape is: Polytetrahedron

His favorite Color is: Double Rainbow

His favorite Word is: Isabella

His favorite Number is: 44 because it’s the sum of 13 and its inverse 31

His favorite Book is: A Marvelous work of Wonder

His favorite Game is: Playing with Grand Children

His favorite Food is: Seafood Gumbo

His favorite Toy growing up is: Baseball Glove

His favorite State is: North Carolina

His favorite Hobby is: Learning Spanish and Sign Language 

Our next interview is with  Mikayla Chadwick,

Her favorite Shape is: Circle

Her favorite Color is: Sky Blue

Her favorite Food is:  Lemon Basil Pasta

Her favorite Book is: Palace of Mirrors

Her favorite State is: South Carolina

Her favorite Number is: 16

Her favorite Word is: Glamour

Her favorite Toy is: Stuffed chew Toy

Roller Blades,

So since I got new roller blades I’ve started roller blading when we go to the local library about a mile down the road to do school work after we drop Em off at school. It’s really improved my skill in roller blading because there is construction on the road we walk/skate next to so there is lots of debris on the sidewalk to avoid and there is a huge hill right before you get to the library that I usually have Mom tow me up and down, leaving and coming. (only when she offers) J

The “Duck” Pond

In my most recent article, namely “Roller Blades”, I mentioned a library. Well, next to and around the local library, are four “Duck” ponds by some canals. It’s SUPER pretty. Quite Beautiful J. Anyway, there are lots of exotic looking animals that live in this “duck” pond network. There are two ponds in front of the library. In those two ponds there is a huge colony of you average male and female ducks, but as I said, there are plenty exotic animals too, such as this miniature colony of black and white ducks as well as a few weird looking ducks that look slightly like your average male green headed duck only these have a black heads and instead of white and brown tail feathers they have black and white tail feathers. Then my favorite part, there are at least two cranes.  One I like to call the Peace Crane because it is pearly white and has very long white feathers that wave next to it in the wind and then there is a brown crane with a spot of black on its head and the tips of its wings. Then there’s this really weird looking bird I like to call the “big bird”. It’s huge, like a crow 20x its size. Imagine big bird as a black, oversized crowcrane mix. There are at least two. I'll try and put some pictures in Aprils newspaper. There are also some geese we just noticed this last time.

other
i also learned some computer programing this week. Dad tought me some:)
at virginia i might be able to do part time school:)

Thanks for reading this months Newspaper. If you have any ideas or stories for our newspaper Please contact us.

Virginia at Last/ Sweet Briar Womans College AKA leaving Grace

     So incase some of you haven't heard granted you probably have because there was a total freak out about it, Dad got the job in Virginia! So everybody knows this is the longest we've ever, in my life, stayed in one state. 5 whole years! I'm super exited and super sad. As you may have been able to tell from my title, we're leaving Grace :(
  
  Incase some of you don't know(though i'd be surprised if you didn't) she's like, my favorite and my best bestest friend like, EVER! Mom asked Grace today when we took her to activity days if she had a cellphone and if she had text and unlimited text and minutes and so on and she said yes, so I suggested that i could get a cellphone for 911, mom, dad, and Grace and she said that's exactly what she was thinking and that she would talk to dad about maybe doing that so when we moved me and Grace could stay in contact:)

     Dad is teaching at Sweet Briar Womans College. We're going to be able to hunt on campus and mom is so exited! Dad says he wants to hunt birds and Mom wants to hunt deer.

   Mom is a little nervous though because we have to start a new homeschooling program were I think I'm going to take a test every year to check on my level( I hope i'll still be ahead:) ).

     

Doing the News New

      So i've been thinking, since i can't really keep up with doing the weekly news i thought i could start doing the monthly news. The newest news report will be released on my blog on March 1st 2014. Call it " The Monthly News With Me" (i'll probably change it) 2.0. It'll have tons of new updates such as not just interveiws and weather, it will have our main appointments, big things going on and much more.

    Please contact me via.  cellphone,(mom or dad)  facetime,  skype,   e-mail,   blog ,
ect cetera  if you have any ideas, comments, big news that you would like me to include in my newspaper. Please choose a specific date for the your article to appear. The newspaper should appear on the first of each month, if it does not or will appear late, I will post on my blog.

   I hope you all enjoy the New News, "The monthly News with Me"(may change) 2.0