“Fine,” they all agreed. I carefully lifted up the front cover. As I skimmed through the table of contents, I noticed there were 13 chapters, one for each dare. Number one: Toilet paper someone’s house. Number two: Mix together vinegar, baking soda, crushed gumballs, mustard and peanut butter, and drink it. Number three: Wet your fingers and stick them into electrical socket. Number four: Walk out onto a ledge of a tall building. Number five: Shoplift an item worth at least $100. Number six: Play the knife game. Number seven: Consume five melted crayons. Number eight: Break into a person’s house while their home and steal an item. Number nine: Steal a car. Number ten: Jump off of a bridge. Number eleven: Number twelve: Step through fire. Number thirteen: Kill a loved one. Instructions We were shocked. Where did mom and dad get this book, and why? We all sat there for a while, flipping through the pages. All of the chapters seemed to have a little story on the history of each dare, including myths about how they were created. Then we got to the last chapter - Instructions. The requirements for this book and thirteen dares are as follows: Each dare must be completed by at least one person from the family or group who receives this book. You will have exactly seven days to finish the thirteen dares. Your clock will start once you open this book. You cannot skip dares, you must go in order. If you fail to complete the dares in order in seven days, there will be severe consequences such as death. Once your week is up, put the book back where you found it and it will find a new home on its own. The four of us sat there in silence. It was a w... ... middle of paper ... ...ile, I decided that yes, I did want to. I put the knife in my hand, and pointed it towards me. A second later, I felt the knife go through my stomach and I fell to the ground. I woke up screaming with trickles of sweat coming down my face. I sat up and saw that I was sitting in my bed. The sun coming through my window. Still screaming loudly, mom and dad come running through my bedroom door. “What’s the matter sweetie?” asked mom. “Um… Nothing,” I answered, lying. “You just had a bad dream. That’s all,” said dad. “Right, yeah. Just a dream,” I repeated, still in shock. “Come on, breakfast will be ready in five minutes,” said mom. I got out of bed, brushed my hair, and put on a pair of dark jeans with a red sweater. I walked through the hallway to the smell of pancakes. “Just a dream, it was just a dream,” I repeated. I walked up the stairs and entered the kitchen.
One night, Guy pulled one of the books out from where they were being hidden
Seymour Wishman breaks the book down into sections. The book is broken down into four main parts. He first begins with Part One: Who Shall Judge Me? This section of the book is the beginning, where he describes the town in which the crime has taken place.
Reading No more “I’m done!” was not a difficult task. If anything, this book was a joy to read. A part that I felt was a pleasure to read would be chapter 5, A Year of mini-lessons for growing writers. Especially the pages that included mini-lessons about poetry and riddles. I feel like poetry can sometimes be thought of as a horrible thing, and I liked that there was more than one poetry lesson in the book. I think riddles are a fun activity and can be a good way to get student’s minds thinking about writing. This chapter has plenty of useful mini-lessons (Jacobson,
Each survivor gets a copy of a book chosen by them that was remembered by the bookkeepers, and will have to memorized it to become fluent readers again. Granger and
was hurriedly finished in a page or two, it was definitely a book worth reading
High school students in many American schools first read this book in an English class, which has been a staple for many schools. A required reading assignment exposes many more people to the book. Even though the book is considered to be a children’s book by many, it is still enjoyed by people of all ages.
I remember vividly, scrolling through the isles and shelves of books looking for my next adventure. I had already read Swiss Family Robinson, and Robinson Crusoe, so I regarded myself as an accelerated reader compared to my classmates, but the task I was about to undertake would prove far more daunting than anything I had attempted thus far. As I walk throughout the isles I see the books getting thicker and thicker. I thought to myself that maybe
This book ended by him putting pictures in and wondering what they meant. He wanted to find a way to get Dr. Montgomery’s house, or around there. Lemony Snicket wanted to find what happend to all of his snakes. At the end it kind of tells you information you really don’t need to know about. It ends with some common questions about
In grade 2 on the weekend I went to my friends house for a sleepover and we started playing with his little brother. We played a few games and nothing went wrong. Then we played a game where we were running away from his brother and he had to catch us. So we ran upstairs and into his room. We covered the door so he couldn’t get in, but eventually we let him in and he couldn’t get my friend so he went for me. When he finally got me he grabbed my legs and I fell and my head hit the corner of his bed and I was bleeding and screaming like crazy. So I ran down the stairs screaming my bloody head off. So hi mom drove me to the hospital and gave me ice: for my head. When we got the the hospital I was so scared I wasn’t even
In the summer Sarah and I set a goal to read ten books in three months. That equaled out to be 3 books a month. I was highly skeptical until she turned me on to the author Colleen Hoover. The first book I read of hers was “Hopeless”, needless to say, I finished it in one sitting. I just couldn’t put it down and found it that way with each book I read of hers. When I got to the end of Hopeless I couldn’t believe it was over. It sounds silly to say aloud, but I didn’t entirely know how to feel. Lucky for me, there was a sequel from Holden’s perspective that gave more meaning to the story. In the first month of our reading challenge I finished close to six books including Ugly Love, Maybe Someday, and Finding Cinderella all by Colleen Hoover. Reading had baited me in, and there is no getting off its
Chapter 1: Charli (pgs. 1-10) - Everything is changing for Charli this summer. First, her mom just married her gym teacher, and that’s not turning out as well as Charli had thought it would.
So I took them home, to the old iron glider under the grape arbor, and I propped myself up on a bunch of pillows and dug in with the same glee most people reserve for hot fudge sundaes. I fanned the pages and decided to read Look Homeward, Angel first because I like the way all those words leapfrogged over each other on every single page. Wow! The exuberant rush and gush of all those words! The torrent was overwhelming, the words blurred, I was losing the meaning. I knew I had to slow the pace somehow before I would have to admit that the librarian was probably right and perhaps I really wasn't "old enough" to make sense of it.
take pleasure in. After struggling through the book, I’d then have to write a report. That’s double
Chapter 1: Introduced us to the characters Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. The kids are exploring the house. Lucy stumbles upon the wardrobe, she opens the door to reveal fur coats. She says she loves the feel of fur, so she steps into the wardrobe. She starts walking in it, she feels the soft powdery snow under her feet. She encounters a faun.
MY eyes opened as I was being licked in the face by my dog and I pushed my dog out of the way to see why my room was so white as I got up to look out the window the window started to fog,then I walked over to the window a little closer and saw that there was some snow on the ground I almost started to yell in joy,but I stopped myself from shouting in joy and I looked at the clock and it was only 6:00 and I knew if I yelled then that my mom would yell at me for waking up everyone in the house.