Dove Arising

This week I read Dove Arising by Karen Bao. This book was about a girl name Phaet Theta, who has lived her whole entire life on a colony on the moon. She has a pretty normal life for living on the moon-she cultivates the plants in the greenhouse and pretty much tries to stay out of everyone's way. That is, until her mother gets arrested. She then has to save her siblings, the only way being enlisting in the brutal training of the Militia, like the moon-military but kind of evil. :)
This book was really amazing. I loved the descriptions in it, the action, and all the characters.
I would recommend this book to everyone it our class.
WARNING AWESOME CLIFFHANGER!!!

Polynesian Fire Show

After dancing and getting photographed by Max, we make our way out from under the glow of the streetlights outside and the humid air to large indoor amphitheater. I look at the small black printed numbers on my ticket and make my way to the seat, stepping around others' legs. Sofie soon comes and joins me, and we wait for the lights to dim in the outdoor auditorium and a man in an aloha wear shirt comes out onto the stage. He announces the story, about the birth of some Hawaiian person in a Hawaiian legend, which sounds very interesting in some cases, but over the next hour and a half, I almost fall asleep.  My head is almost on Sofie's shoulder, falling asleep, when the lights dim and out comes a guy, announcing the Polynesian Fire Show. The next hour is a blur of screaming. It was amazing. My voice was hoarse the next day.

Under a Painted Sky

This week I read Under a Painted Sky by Stacy Lee. This book was really amazing, and I would honestly recommend it to the whole class. Samantha, living in Missouri around the middle of the 19th century, has one wish, and that is to be a musician in New York. That is a big deal for her at the time period, considering that she is a girl and also Chinese. I don't want to give anything away, but Samantha and a few others suddenly are forced to leave Missouri and run on the Oregon trail, destroying any chance of completing Samantha's wish and leaves them trying to stay alive. This book is amazing, I couldn't put it down, and really well written with really vivid characters. Overall, this was a really amazing book.

Replica

This week I read Replica by Jenna Black. This book was about a girl, who is 16, named Nadia Lake who had a prearranged marriage with the son of the wealthiest family in basically the whole entire country that she lived in. Even though she is under the spotlight of the public constantly, she doesn't really have a problem with that. Now her only problem is staying out of trouble for her to be old enough that they can go through with the marriage-until, or course, Nathaniel, her fiancé, gets killed. Then her and Nate, or at least the "replica" of him, his carbon copy made after he got killed, have to figure out exactly who killed him. This was a really good book, and kinda a mix of a realistic fiction book, science fiction, and mystery. I liked all the characters reasonably well too. I would recommend this book to anyone.

Logan Map Poems

Wrote by the window in what used to by Ryan's/Now Dan's Class:
It's a Haiku thingy that doesn't actually fit the rules of a haiku.

The rain drums against
Cold Glass windowpanes
Eyes Watch
Brown Hazel Blue.

This one was written outside of the gym, on the sidewalk:

Running
Tripping
Falling
Screaming
Burning on your cheek
You get up

3 years later
Skipping
Chattering
Nervous Energy
People Holding the Door for you
Shoes Scraping Cement

7 years later
Walking
Taller
Feet Skimming the ground
Smiles
Phones
Names Called
The world outside

8 years later
Running
Tripping
Falling
Screaming
Burning on your cheek
Pain
Laughter
A hand
Friends help you back up

Limericks

There once was a cat named Matt
He fell off the roof with a splat
Someone got it on tape
And now up to today
It 's gone viral on the internet

Logan the School allows me
To do whatever I please
But one sad day
My fingers exploded away
And Logan was gone along with me

I wrote this poem last year:


There once was a guy named Will
He liked Guacamole not dill
He won The Voice
America's Choice
And I'll be Talking about it Still.

Free Verse Poem

Five Little Faces
Crowd around the window
Lighting up their brilliant smiles just to see their breath reflected on the frosty glass.

Inside it's warm
Outside it's cold
The dormant ground blanketed by hills of silent snow
Whispering it to sleep

Five little faces
Crowd around the window
Little cold hands wrapped around steaming mugs of hot chocolate

Five little faces
Crowd around the door
Waiting to be let out into the cold.