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Children Stories with Storybird

Angel's Voice by Ella, G. 6

Camping Trip by Tosita, G. 6

The Cute Little Creatures by Renaya. G.6

Jones, The Wizard by Fauzan, G.6

The Bear & The Fox by Thunyamas, G. 6

Poetry by Terapat, G. 6

The Mystery Island by Anusha, G. 5

Far Away from Home by Kait, G.5

If I Can Have Anything I Want I Will by Van Anh, G.5

Saying Goodbye is Hard to Do! by Mai Thao, G.5

Green The Builder by Phakamon, G.5

The Ghost Ship by Vince, G. 5

Book Talk!

AITIS Children's Digital Stories With Storybird

Book Review

Dear Dumb Diary, 

It’s not my fault, I know everything

By: Jamie Kelly

Jamie was not a good learner, people said that she was dumb but Jamie didn,’t care about it. Jamie had a best friend named Isabella, and her worst friend was Angeline, Angeline was a beautiful girl and she was smart. Jamie wished that she could spank Angeline. In the school the teacher said “We have a genius certificate for the genius student”.  When Jamie heard it, she wanted a certificate that Angeline wanted, too. When the school was over,  ANGELINE CAME TO Jamie and said “I will get that cause I’m smart”.  Jamie said nothing. The next day, when they were in the stage the principal said “the one who will get the certificate is”…. JAMIE KELLY! Jamie was so happy and her friend too! ^u^ The End.  

Napasrapee. G. 4

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

When the Quidditch world Cup is disrupted by Voldmort’s sign, Harry noticed that the dark lord is growing stronger. Then another weird thing happened. His name came out from the goblet of fire and Harry didn’t write that. He had no choice but to join.

Author: J.K.Rowling

Main Character: Harry Potter

ENJOY THE BOOK!

Pinky, G. 4.

Diary of a wimpy kid old school

By:  Jeff Kinney

The book is about : Greg and his mom is trying to unplug all the electronics but he gets in trouble and he goes to the hardscrabble farms and he meets silas scratch.

My favorite is Greg because he is funny and cool.

I like this book because it’s really funny and it relates to me a lot.

Mai Thao. G. 4

SURVIVORS

THE EMPTY CITY

&

THE HIDDEN ENEMY

The author of these books is Erin Hunter.

Let’s talk about the first book “THE EMPTY CITY”.

The book is about a Lone Dog named Lucky .When he was a pup he was named Yap .The Mother Dog told Yap….I mean Lucky and his litter-mates stories of “THE STORM OF DOGS AND THE DOG SPIRITS” .The Dog Spirits are The Sky Dog ,The Moon Dog ,The Sun Dog ,The Forest Dog , The Earth Dog ,& The River Dog .Lightning is a dog who is the Sky Dog’s favorite .But the Earth Dog hates him so now he lives with The Sky Dogs .Now let’s get back to Lucky .Back at the Trap House Lucky and Sweet (Lucky’s friend at the Trap House)had to conquer “THE BIG GROWL”(which I think is an Earthquake).The other dogs in the Trap House died ,but Lucky & Sweet made it . They wondered over the city, but found that no Longpaw or dog was there. And just so you know I think a “Longpaw” is a human.

Now for “THE HIDDEN ENEMY”.

It is a continuation so I want you to find out about it.

My favorite character is Lucky, the main character cause he is a Lone Dog, a brave dog a, fierce dog, and he is a kind dog.

I like this book because it is exciting, fun, & all other sorts of stuff.

I recommend this book to the library at school.

Kait, G. 4

Call of the wild

By:  Jack London

Buck, a physically impressive dog, is living the good life in California when he gets stolen and put into dog slavery. For him, this means pulling a ridiculously heavy sled through miles and miles of frozen ice with little or nothing to eat and frequent beatings.

My favorite character is Buck, because he is awesome.

I like this story because It’s awesome.

Leenada. G. 4

     Geronimo Stilton

Spacemice -  Alien escape

by Elisabetta Dami

Spaceship is in danger of exploding! The only solution is to replace the engine’s batteries by tracking down a rare element. When a group of mysterious aliens claim they can help, Geronimo is relieved.

My favorite character is Geronimo because he is smart.

I recommend this book to everyone!

Takeru, G. 4

Who We Are. One Direction. Our Autobiography

Author: One Direction (Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne)

I think that this book is amazing. Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Zayn Malik shared their life as members of One Direction. They included their early lives and how they became who they are today. Each one of them is really hard-working. Liam, Zayn, Harry, and Louis come from England, while Niall comes from Ireland. They met each other in X Factor in 2010. They auditioned individually, but Simon, one of the judges, decided to put them as a band. That's how One Direction started. In 2013, One Direction travelled to Ghana on Comic Relief trip. They donated a lot for those in need. Harry said that a father with a newborn baby asked him to take his baby with him so the baby will have a better life. It was so sad. This book taught me a lot of lessons. They told that if you work hard you will eventually reach you dreams. They also mentioned that there are many problems and challenges in life that you will face, but if you try to solve them, they'll be fine. They also taught me to never give up and try your best to achieve what you want. 

Recommendation: I think that this book is really good and inspirational. There are a lot of important lessons in the book. You should read this book to know more about One Direction and their daily lives. You will also get inspired by their works. -Jihan (G6)

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J.K. Rowling Biography

J. K. Rowling

The story of Harry Potter's creator

 

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni

Joanne Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter series of books, was born in Chipping Sodbury, near Bristol, in southwest England. Her birthday, as true Harry Potter fans know, is July 31, the same as her famous boy-wizard hero.
The family, including her parents and younger sister Di, lived in Yate and then Winterbourne, also near Bristol. Her father worked on airplane engines for Rolls Royce. When Joanne was nine, the Rowlings moved to Tutshill, near Chepstow, England, close to the border of Wales.

School Days
Joanne—called Jo by her family and friends—did well in school, and in her senior year was the top girl in her class. In fact, Rowling has said that as a child she resembled Hermione Granger, Harry's obsessively studious friend, whom she modeled after herself. Although, Rowling notes, "I was neither as clever or as annoying (I hope!)."

At school, Rowling's favorite subjects were English and foreign languages. She particularly enjoyed reading books such as Manxmouse by Paul Gallico, about a creature with a mouse's body, rabbit's ears, and monkey's paws, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and other books in C. S. Lewis's Narnia series.

A Storyteller from the Start
After graduating from public school with top honors in English, French, and German, Rowling went on to study French at the University of Exeter. She earned her degree in 1986 and over the next several years held a variety of secretarial jobs, including one at a publishing firm, where she had to send out rejection letters to prospective authors.

What she really wanted to do, however, was write. Rowling wrote her first story, Rabbit, about a rabbit with measles, at age five or six. Later, she tried her hand at writing novels, for adults. But she never finished writing any novel before she wrote the Harry Potter books.

Harry Potter Is Born
Rowling started writing the first Harry Potter book in 1990. The idea for Harry—a lonely, downtrodden 11-year-old orphan who learns he is actually a wizard when he is magically invited to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry—came to Rowling while she was stuck on a delayed train between Manchester and London. Although she left England a short time later to teach English in Portugal, Rowling continued to flesh out Harry's story.

Rowling returned to Britain in 1993, settling in Edinburgh, Scotland, to be near her sister. Divorced after a brief marriage in Portugal and now with a baby, she suffered through a period of poverty and depression while she struggled to earn a living and take care of her daughter, Jessica. It was during this difficult time that she finally completed Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, which was renamed Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the U.S. edition. When her publisher suggested she add a middle initial to her name, she chose that of her grandmother, Kathleen.

Success at Last
Following its publication in Britain in June 1997, the book quickly became a hit with children and adults alike and won numerous awards, including the British Book Awards' Children's Book of the Year. Rowling always envisioned the book as part of a seven-volume series—one book for every year that Harry spends at Hogwarts—and a new Harry Potter book appeared every year for the next three years. These were Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999), and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000). These were followed by two short books from Harry Potter's world, Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2001). The profits from those two went to a British charity, Comic Relief.

Rowling's road to fame and fortune may have been a bit rocky at times, but her success has been sure. In 2000, the 35-year-old author became the highest-earning woman in Britain, netting more than £20.5 million (about $30 million) over the previous year. She received an OBE (Order of the British Empire), a medal of achievement awarded by the queen, in March 2001. At the end of that same year, she married her second husband, Dr. Neil Murray. On March 23, 2003, Rowling's second child, David Gordon Rowling Murray, was born. She gave birth to a baby girl, Mackenzie Jean Rowling Murray, on January 25, 2005.

Not Just Another Best-Seller
On June 21, 2003, three months after David was born, the fifth book of the Harry Potter series was released. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix broke—no, shattered—no, obliterated—the previous record for first-day sales by a book, which had been set by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The fourth book sold 372,775 copies in the United Kingdom the day it was released; the fifth one sold almost 1.8 million. The United States sales figures were even more impressive. All told, Order of the Phoenix sold about seven million copies the day it was released.

The Harry Potter books have been translated into more than 60 languages, and it has been estimated that more than 300 million copies have been sold around the world. The first four books have been made into films: Sorcerer's Stone made more than $950 million; Chamber of Secrets, more than $850 million; Prisoner of Azkaban, more than $780 million; and Goblet of Fire, more than $890 million. All four are among the top twenty highest-grossing films of all time.

In February 2004, Forbes magazine estimated that Rowling had £576 million, or more than a billion dollars. This would make her the first person ever to become a billionaire from writing books.

On July 16, 2005, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released, destroying the previous book's sales records; on the first day of sales, it sold 6.9 million copies in the United States alone. That's about 80 copies per second!

Sources: http://www.factmonster.com/spot/harrycreator1.html 

J. K. Rowling Trivia

Learn more about the author of the Harry Potter books

 

by Ann-Marie Imbornoni and Dana Quigley
Did you know:	J.K. Rowling Biography
Her last name rhymes with "bowling."
Has a sister named Di, who is two years younger than she is.
Wrote her first story, about a rabbit named Rabbit, when she was five or six years old.
Grew up outside Bristol, England, and later moved to the Forest of Dean district near Wales. The Forest of Dean is an area of great natural beauty, and was designated the first National Forest Park in England in 1938.
Attended the University of Exeter, England, where she studied French and classics. As part of her course, she studied for a year in Paris.
Worked briefly for Amnesty International in 1987, doing research into human rights abuses in French-speaking parts of Africa.
Taught English in Oporto, Portugal, in 1991.
Wrote ten versions of the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
Has already written the final chapter of the seventh book, concluding the Harry Potter series. (She keeps it in a very safe place.)
Married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes in 1992.
Gave birth to daughter Jessica in 1993.
Lived on the dole, the British equivalent of welfare, for nearly a year while she finished the first Harry Potter book.
Wrote much of the first Harry Potter book in a café in Edinburgh, Scotland, since her apartment was unheated.
In 1997 she won a grant from the Scottish Arts Council, which she used to buy a computer.
In 2000 she became the highest-earning woman in Britain, netting about $30 million during the previous year.
In 2001 she received an OBE (Order of the British Empire), a medal of achievement awarded by the queen. She also received her first honorary degree, from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.
Has expressed deep interest in U.S. politics.
Married her second husband Neil Michael Murray in 2001.
Cofounded the charity Children's High Level Group in 2005.
Received honorary degrees from St Andrews University, Harvard University, the University of Exeter, the University of Edinburgh, Napier University, and the University of Aberdeen.
Was the runner-up for Time magazine's Person of the Year award in 2007
Upon finishing the seventh Harry Potter novel while staying at the Balmoral Hotel in Scotland, Rowling wrote on a bust in her room "JK Rowling finished writing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in this room (652) on 11th Jan 2007."
In 2008 she was named the 12th richest person in Britain.
Believes that she could never write under a pseudonym because her secret identity would not last very long.
Plans on releasing an extensive encyclopedia that combines everything known about the Harry Potter universe along with never-released material.
Received the prestigious Legion of Honor award from French President Nicholas Sarkozy in 2009.  Extra credit: The Harry Potter film series starred Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's friends Ron and Hermione, and Tom Felton as Draco Malfoy. The films are: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007), Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)... J.K. Rowling married Dr. Neil Murray in Scotland on 26 December 2001; their children are David (b. 2003) and Mackenzie (b. 2005). Rowling has one child, Jessica (b. 1993), from her previous marriage to Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese TV journalist.   Sources: http://www.factmonster.com/spot/harrycreator1.html