The Demigod Files by Rick Riordan *****

The demigod files is a book about Percy Jackson and three of his most dangerous stories.

Story 1: Percy is in school in New York when he sees Clarisse out the window of his classroom, he asks to go to the bathroom but instead he goes to ask Clarisse what she is doing there. She says that she borrowed her dad's chariot for a drive and her dad told her to return it by the evening, but her mean brothers, Phobos and Deimos stole it as a prank, and Phobos appears there and makes fun of them, but then Percy finds out that Phobos is the god of fear, so that means that he can show anybody their fear, and he shows Clarisse her fear. Percy attacks him and he disappears giving them a clue that the chariot is in a zoo an an island nearby. By that Percy knows that there is a zoo on Staten Island, they are taking a quick ferry but they find Deimos and fight him a little. They reach the island zoo and they find the chariot, but something is fishy, then both of the brothers appear, and they fight, at the end they defeat them and return the chariot to her dad.

Story 2: Percy is at Camp-Half-Blood playing capture the flag, him and his friend from his team are trying to find the other team's flag but they find Mymerkes, which means ancient ants in Greek, Mymerkes are about the size about a golden retriever, and they see the ants carrying a metallic dragon head, but Percy's friend run's to battle the ants and gets captured by them. And then they find help by Annabeth and her friend. They suddenly realize that the dragon head is the missing head of the golden dragon, the dragon that used to protect camp, which went missing a long time ago. The steal the head from the ants and look for the body, they find it and they assemble the head back on and commands the dragon to bring Percy's friend back and he does, and the dragon defeats the Mymerkes too. The end.

Story 3: Percy, Thalia, and Nico are sent on a quest, to get back Hades' stolen sword. They are given a flower that will help them find it, they go to find it and they are stopped by this river that if you go in it you forget everything, so Percy controls the water in the river so they can cross it, they cross it and they find the thief, a demigod named Ethan Nakamura, he gives it to a Titan, who Percy defeat's and at the end he returns the sword to Hades.

My favorite story was the 3rd one.

5 Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat *****

It is just a great book, it is about what not to do at IIT, which is then best college in India. The book is about 3 friends, Alok, Ryan and Hari. Ryan is like this macho man who is super strong and cool, but Hari and Alok aren't exactly what you can call macho, they are kind of fat and chubby. What happens to them is just weird, Ryan just keeps thinking about fun and not doing work, but Hari and Alok are a little bit more serious about work. As they continue their college life, they are getting bad grades, and 5 point something GPA'S, which really bothers them. Ryan gives Hari an idea to steal the majors paper from the principles office, and they try but are caught by security. They are suspended for 1 semester, and after Alok hears that, he tries committing suicide, but he survivies. They graduate and they get okay jobs and it ends like that.

Journal entry 10/2/10

Ipods are just amazing, they can do anything you want, from music to games to apps, they have everything. If somebody doesnt have one I think they are missing out on something, it is the best electronic device in the world so far. The ipod touch is really cool, you can go on facebook and myspace and the internet, its all in your hands. Ipod video lets you watch movies on your ipod, and the new nano has a camera! wow isnt it just great. I really like an ipod, and the creator of the amazing ipod is apple, their idea amazed everyone, you can have every thing in your hands. And their new product, IPAD is even better, it is a big ipod touch and you can play games on it, like doodle jump, tap tap, pocket god, and lots more.

Vampire Blood Trilogy Book One (Cirque de Freak) by Darren Shan ******

This is a pretty good book. It is about this boy named Darren who finds flyer of a freak show, and he wants to go to i with his friend Steve. They get tickets and they go there and watch the show. But Steve notices something, he saw a vampire and a spider performing in the show, but nobody else knew he was a vampire, and the spider was amazing, it could do tricks just by a blow of a flute. After the show, Steve goes to the vampire and asks if he can make him a vampire too, the vampire said he would try, so they start the process, but the vampire says that Steve has evil blood so he cant become one. And while that is happening, Darren is watching Steve. And then something pops up into Darren's mind, he wanted to steal the spider, so he steals it and shows it to Steve. Steve said that he wanted Darren make the spider do a trick on Steve, and Darren concentrated hard on the flute, and gave the spider directions how to do the trick, but it the flute gets interrupted, the spider will bite. So they do the trick, but Darren's little sister interrupts, and the spider bites. So they take him to the hospital and he is almost dead, so Darren goes to the vampire and asks him to cure Steve, but there are conditions. The first one is to give the spider back, and the second one is to become the vampires assistant, and that is crazy. Darren agrees and becomes a vampire and the vampire heals Steve. But one day Steve caught Darren sucking blood from someones cut. And Steve follows Darren and threatens him that he will kill him, and Darren tells him to back off. THE END.

Vocab 7

1. Mildew- this is when your clothes are wet, after getting washed, and is taking a long time to dry, your clothes get mildew on it. Mildew is like black fungus that smells.
2. Hatch- this has two meanings a.one is when an egg has a chicken in it, and the egg cracks and the chicken comes out. b. it is also a door used on ships, they are little small doors that are on the ground.
3. Out of the blue- this kind of means out of no where. Like if a teacher is teaching and a student raises their hand and says "lets go to the movies!", that would be out of the blue.
4. Chateau- this is a French word, it means a big nice house, it cannot be a castle.
5. Orientation- this is like when you go to your new student orientation at school, the word orientation means to kind of make you get your way around, the new student orientation is to teach you your school schedule, and to show the the ways to get around school.
6. Preserve- this is to keep something safe, like you know when peeled apples get brown when they are left somewhere, a way to preserve it is to put it in water, it will prevent it from becoming brown.
7. Fault- a fault is like a mistake, like if you get in trouble at school, it would be a fault. Also there are faults in the earth's structure.
8. Thunderous- this is like speaking loud, like if your parents get mad at you, they will speak to you in a thunderous tone.
9. Contradiction- a start of an argument, example: "Yash do your homework now!" said mom, "But I wanna play soccer now!" Yash growled back.
10. Hesitantly- this is like stumbling while doing something, hesitating.

Journal Entry 2/2/10

Today I am going to talk about how much I hate rap music, rap is so boring, and its still boring. It has no rythem, but metal is awesome. It has a beat, and it has cool instruments like guitar, and drums, and bass. Rap is just A DJ playing music and people rhyming to it. The lyrics are boring in rap, but in metal the lyrics are cool. And if you are in a concert, you dont have much fun in a rap concert, you do in a rock concert, because you can headband and mosh everywhere. If you go to a metal concert you will have the time of your life, you wont in a rap concert. Once again, I will say that rap is boring, and metal and rock is not. But rap does have its advantages and disadvantages. 70% of the world listen to music, 30% do not. In that 70%, 30% listen to rap, and 10% listen to metal. That is one advantage of rap, so if the percentage is more, then more people will be encouraged to try to listen to the genre of the music.