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The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard

By Lynne Reid Banks

The book The Indian in the Cupboard takes place in the England. The time is the early 1980’s. The main character, Omri, lives in the city. Apparently, he lives in a two-story house with his two brothers and his parents. (Although, later he lives with his small Indian, Little Bear, also.)

Omri is a boy is middle school with a strange personality. He isn’t what you call “tidy”, but he is not messy. He actually likes cupboards, and wasn’t disappointed when he got a medicine cupboard for his birthday. He is an average student, though he is known by the principal well. He actually is a bit of a loner, as he prefers to be alone in his room and doesn’t like all the hustle in the morning past his bedroom. In the book, his favorite class seems to be art.

In the story, there is one main problem. When Omri locked away a plastic Indian his best friend Patrick gave him in a cupboard, the Indian, “Little Bear”, comes to life. Omri has to figure out what to do with him, as Little Bear is a live person and has the same human needs, but in miniature sizes. (He needed things like food, shelter, etc.). The problem becomes bigger when he loses the magical key that brought the toy to life, so Omri couldn't solve the problem by “sending” him back, as the cupboard also sent back toys to plastic figure.

This book related to me since the theme is it is a really about believing in magic and thinking anything is possible, and I can sometimes have great imagination. I actually would recommend this book to anyone who likes magic and imagination. I would recommend this book because it is one of the greatest books I ever read, and I would give it one-hundred out of one hundred. It is really hard to find a great book like this. The rest of the series is amazing and wonderful, too.

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Again, another school project. My teacher may seem very mean, but I like all the extra work. :P

A Series of Unfortunate Events Summary

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator

By Nicolette Cheek

In the book A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket there is three main characters. The characters are Violet Baudelaire, who usually has her hair tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes when she is thinking hard, Klaus Baudelaire, who wears glasses and is very smart, and Sunny Baudelaire, who also has a ribbon on her head, and is very small for a baby of her age. The setting is on 667 Dark Avenue, which is only a few blocks away from where their mansion was, which got burned down in a fire.

In the beginning, Violet, Sunny, and Klaus move to their new gaurdians’ penthouse on 667 Dark Avevue. (This time, they have two guardians, who are married). Their guardians, Jerome and Esmé Squalor, live in a very dark neighborhood that looks like its always night. Next, the siblings discover that their new guardians are very, very wealthy, but that they live in a place where things that are “in” and “out” are always changing. The place the Baudelaires live in are currently in a phase where dark is “in”, but later in the story light is “in”. After that, the siblings are not typically enjoying their new seventy-one room home, as they find it very boring since the things they like are not “in”. Later, Count Olaf, the siblings’ enemy who is trying to steal their fortune, returns in disguise as Gunther. Finally, the siblings find Count Olaf’s secret hideout in an empty elevator shaft.

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This is a thing my teacher assigns us each week, where we have to write short summaries about the book we read.

Erika Olson - Entry 1

Dear Diary,

I just bought this little book at the consignment shop in Twinbrook... I have a feeling I'll be going there a lot.

My name is Erika Olson. I moved here about two weeks ago, after a place called Sequoia got ruined in a landslide about 3 weeks ago. I don't plan on moving back. Ever. The economy is horrible there, and everyone is poor, plus there is no consignment shop. I myself is poor, but I'll be changing that soon, when my twins, David and Sydney become school-aged. Right now I am working at a grocery store, getting about $90 a day, 5 days a week. I can barely pay the bills with that much for two toddlers and a adult. Plus, I have to pay for a babysitter.

My mother and father are dead right now. Killed in the landslide. That's part of the reason I left-I couldn't bear living in the place where my parents got killed. In fact, pretty much my entire family got killed. I think my sister, Angela, might still be around, but I believe the doctors told me that she has brain damage. My twins' father got killed too... My sweet innocent twins survived, luckily. They were at Sunset Valley, visiting their uncle. (Or more like my brother picking them up and bringing to his house; they are both 4 right now) Really, only 3 of my family members (and me) survived out of 8.

I am going to close for now, I have to wake up early tomorrow. David and Sydney are turning 5 soon, so I have to work extra to buy beds and school supplies.

Erika

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This is actually based on a family on this game called Sims 3. (It is like VV and VF) I forgot to get pictures of the kids in toddler form and I forgot to get a picture showing Erika's face, so don't bash me please. :D I am WAY ahead in my game, so the first few posts won't be picture heavy. Also, my writing is much better than this-this is just my first post in a while and this wasn't a school project.

Nancy Drew Summary

My fourth grade mystery book report.

The book Nancy Drew: The Secret in the Old Attic by Carolyn King is about an 18 year old girl trying to find an elderly man’s son’s long lost music.

In the beginning, Nancy and her dad inspect old letters written by a man named Fipp to his wife. Mr. March, Fipp’s father, knocks on the door. He is the one who owns the letters, and is the client too. He comes in, and explains that he is trying to look for some lost music written by his son. His son had passed away a few years ago. Fipp’s wife, Connie, passed away a few years later after Mr. March’s son did. Then Mr. March’s wife dies, and his only relative left is his granddaughter, Susan. Mr. March is very poor, so he needs to find Fipp’s music so he can sell it and get money to live comfortably. The letters are supposed to have clues to the missing music, because the purpose of them was to help the family find Fipp’s music to sell when the family needed to, since the music was never sold or published. Mr. Drew says he could find no clues, so Mr. March thanks him for trying and leaves, but as soon he steps out the door a rock is hurled at Mr. March’s head. Nothing happens to him, but he needs to rest and be cared for, so he stays at Nancy’s house for a few days and goes home.

Next, Nancy’s friends, Bess and her cousin George, come for a visit. Nancy tells about her recent mystery, and asks if they would like to help her search. They accept, and they go to Mr. March’s house. Mr. March says her has looked all over the house, but when Nancy asks if he had looked in the attic, he remembers he hasn’t. The girls go up there and investigate. They don’t find the music, but they find a few treasures that Mr. March can sell and earn a nice sum of money. They go downstairs. They tell Mr. March that they did not find the music, but found the treasures instead. Mr. March is then cheerful, and then turns on the radio, when he hears Fipp’s music coming from it! It alarms him, because his music was never published, which means it has been stolen! Nancy calms Mr. March down and she goes home. A few days later, Susan gets measles, so Nancy’s maid, Effie, becomes Mr. March’s temporary housekeeper. That night, Nancy cares for her until Susan finally fell asleep, so Nancy went home. After that, Nancy gets a phone call that morning from Effie. She says she saw a man sneaking around the house at night! Nancy quickly comes over, and finds out that what Effie said is true. Nancy thinks he may be the one who is stealing to music. Nancy decides to bring a portable radio from her house so they can listen for more music, so she goes over and gets it. She brings it over, and goes to the attic to try searching for the music, since she thinks there may still be some left, as they only heard one song. She doesn’t find the music. Instead, she goes downstairs and listens to the radio she brought with Mr. March, but they cannot find more music, so she goes home. At home, her father is looking at two women’s scarves. Her father says that his client, Mr. Booker, suspects that at his method of making silk at his factory has been stolen by the Dight’s factory, founded by Mr. Dight. He suspects a man named Bushy Trott, a worker at the Dight factory, stole it. Nancy decides she should go to the Booker factory and look at the Booker’s method, take some samples, and then go to the Dight factory, see their method, and take some samples. She would then have the samples inspected and see if they’re the same.

Later, Nancy goes to the Booker factory and finds out that they make silk by using beautiful spiders, which make thread for them and the workers weave it into silk and cloth. She takes a few samples, and a few days later she goes to the Dight factory. Unlike in the Booker factory, where they welcomed Nancy inside, she needs to sneak into the Dight factory. She manages to do this, and gets all the information needed. She finds out that the Dight factory uses the exact same method in making thread, only the spiders are black widows. She also becomes face to face with Bushy Trott while she was exploring the factory. She finds out the samples are exactly the same, and the Booker method indeed stolen. She also finds out that the publisher of the stolen music is “Ben Banks” and “Harry Halls” because she heard a few more of Fipp’s songs on the radio.

At the end, Nancy explores the attic and finally finds the remaining music, but is caught by Bushy Trott, the one who stealing the music, and takes all the music with him. Nancy catches up with him though with Bess, George, Mr. March, and her father. They called the police, and Bushy Trott was arrested. He said he was the one who stole the silk method along with the music. He sold the method to Mr. Dight, although Mr. Dight didn’t know it was stolen. Also, Bushy Trott was selling the music he sold to Horace Dight, A.K.A Harry Halls/Ben Banks.
Bushy Trott was sent to jail, and Mr. March sold the music (he got it back) and made sure he gave credits to his son, and was able to survive comfortably for a long, long time.

Video with my Friends and my Sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPC-25v7Mu4

The one with the pink shirt and shorts is me, the one that has very blond hair is my sister, the boy is Viktor, and the other girl is Arianna. (the one with the black shorts) (Viktor and Arianna are my best friends) I live at an apartment, so thats why we are near a dumpster. "Danny" is some boy I hate.

The Lazy Wolf (Story)

I wrote this at the beginning of my fourth grade year, so it may seem strange or something like that. It was my homework, I had to write a story with my spelling words in it. :D This is the edited story below...

The Lazy Wolf

There was once a wolf named Pete many years ago. He was very lazy and scrawny. He was usually curled up sleeping past dawn and hardly howled at the moon. He was usually sleeping on his couch. When he wasn't sleeping, he was usually eating pizza and getting covered with red tomato sauce. He had a filthy coat (which was the only thing he wore. (He didn't wear shoes and a shirt, like the other wolves of his time.) He spoke only dull words and nearly bored people to death with his conversations about himself. (He would also gloat, so he had no friends, except for Piggy, who had the same personality.) One day, he heard of about a contest, free of charge.

The contest was to see who could finish the chore first, which was to push and pull the logs the fastest to the finish line, and the winner gets a sweet chocolate cake and a huge pizza. so of course Pete didn't enter. Piggy was going to give the pizza to him and keep the cake for himself.

After the contest (Piggy had won) he dropped off a a huge pizza just for Pete. He had already eaten his cake. Pete started eating right away. He didn't spare a single slice for his friend.He wasn't alarmed when he started to turn purple. His pizza started to bounce in his tummy. He put down his pizza and...

BOOOOOOOM!!!!!

He exploded. The pizza was actually magical and exploded in a greedy, selfish, filthy, and lazy creature's stomach. That was the end of Pete.

The End