Alenita
I learned to read before I started kindergarten. The first book in ever read by myself was dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham. I absolutely loved it. Throughout kindergarten I mostly read other books from Dr. Seuss  with a few other picture books here and there. When I was in first grade I started reading small chapter books.  I really liked the JunieB. Jones series that my teacher, Mrs.  O'brian, read to the class. Second grade came along and I had to read books with a small group that had the same reading level as me. Then a big thing happened, it was time to move to the intermediate school. We were expected to read bigger books and read for a longer time. In sixth grade we had a big fish book challenge we did all year long. When we finish a book we do a book talk and the number of the pages get recorded. When you have read a certain amount of pages you get a pin. I think that when you try to set a goal for reading and you are really determined to achieve it, you will.

Autumn Shultz
I'd say I'm an ok reader. I like to read adventure type books like the maze runner. The maze runner was awesome but I still haven't read the other books in the series. I've also read The daughters, The name of this book is secret and final grade. The books that I am currently in are The animals of farthing wood and Matched. The animals of farthing wood is pretty good  but then I started Matched and I kin-dove forgot about The animals of farthing wood, But I'm not abandoning it. Last year I read I am number four that book was really good to I think I got to book three in that series.

       I learned to read when I was pretty little, about the age of three or four. I loved reading little story books to my sisters at the time, and when I went to kindergarten, I was one of the best readers in the class! I would read everything from books to cereal boxes, and even tried reading road signs, which didn't work very well. As I got older around the age of seven, and was in first grade, my best friend and I would sit in her bedroom and read Junie B. Jones books to each other. Junie B. Jones books were my favorite books of all time, and I would walk around saying phrases from Dumb Bunny when I was around eight years old. I would also read to my grandparents, which they enjoyed very much. Then I discovered The Sweet Valley Twins and The Babysitters Club. But I very quickly excelled, and those books were too far under my reading level. Then it was the time of the Tale Of Desperaux. I read that book constantly and I'm sure I reread it at least six or seven times. I did a big report about it in fourth grade for an excelled class that I was in, and I decided to be Princess Pea for it. Eventually I got where I am now. The Hunger Games Trilogy and the Divergent Trilogy are my favorite series and I sadly don't read quite as much as I used to, but I still read. Reading for me used to be my escape from the world! I could lose myself in a book, and I loved it.

Hi, I'm Samantha. I love reading. When I  was in fifth grade I was reading at about a seventh or eighth grade level. Now I'm in eighth grade and I'm probably in a high school level.  My parent always read me books and I had  tons of books always scattered around and by my bed.  When I was in first grade, I started reading little chapter books to my parents and that really helped me learn and expand my reading level. NowI tend to read bigger books that are usually fiction. I don't really like nonfiction books because I feel like I'm studying and have to memorize it for a test or something. I love reading series. Some of my favorite series are The Mortal Instruments, The Vampire Diaries,The Secret Circle, The Lying Game, and the Gallagher Girls books. My favorite author is L.J Smith, I have read almost all her books and I like The Forbidden Games, Dark Visions, And the Night World Series. I like mysterious books and ones about supernatural stuff like vampires and werewolves and that's pretty much all l.J Smith writes about so that's why she's my favorite. I also like love stories mixed in the plot, which L.J Smith always has, almost every book I've read has a love triangle. The new book I love is The Mortal Instruments and I am on the second book, City of Ashes. It is amazing. I read the first book in one day, probably a couple of hours because I couldn't stop reading it. The plot was mysterious, it involves supernatural stuff like shadowhunters and warlocks and there is a big love triangle. Reading is one of my favorite things.

Favorite books

    Reading takes you everywhere, it can take you to space, to another dimension, or even to an apartment in queens. Wherever it takes you, and if you're reading the right book, you may never want to leave. But in the book The Maze Runner  by James Dashner it's exact opposite. While I started reading this book I thought " this isn't going to be a very good book". But boy was I wrong! The reason why I enjoyed this book so much is because right when you want to put it down you pick it right back up, it leaves you wanting more and more. But that's not all the good books I have read, another great books is  The Hunger Games  by Susan Collins I was a fan of the book but when I saw the movie of the book all I could think about was how many details they left out from the book. Some people just can't help doing that though. A book almost as great as The Maze Runner is Compound by S.A Bodeen this is an excellent book if you like the apocalypse stuff but this book is different from the rest, first of all it's not as creepy and Erie as The Maze Runner and second of all it has a really big twist ending. My favorite book of all time though is probably The Diary of Anne Frank . I love learning about the holocaust mainly because I like seeing what things were like back in the day. I love learning about how back in the 18-19 hundreds made a living it just fascinating to me. But times have changes so much no so much of the country that used to be farm land now has skyscrapers and businesses on it. In the early 1900s everything was American made, now supplies is imported from China and Mexico. That is why I love old books you get to feel,like you live in the early times, it lets you have a different take on life and realize how much life has changed.  

Myself as a reader I don't know where my love for reading came from.  My parents haven't read a book since high school or collage.  Nobody in my family likes to read they don't find it as fun as I do.  I don't remember my parents ever reading me a story. In intermediate school I was obsessed with the Junie B. Jones books I was always sitting down and reading multiple books at a time.  I was always re-reading the too. When I got to middle school The Hunger Games was really popular.  I read, and love, those books and I would re-read them if I owned them.  As a reader I find it really hard to read a series of books.  For me it's hard to sit down and commit myself to the same characters doing the same things.  For example, in sixth grade I tried to read the Harry Potter series.  I got halfway through book three and stopped because the same story and characters with the same problem stretched out like that gets boring to me.  Or more recently, this year I tried to read Divergent.  I finished the first book and loved it.  As soon as I started the second book I wasn't motivated to finish it like I feel I need to be to read a book.  I have yet to still read the second and third book.  When I read books I like to read books that draw you in from the very beginning. Books that have action (usually).  I also love Nicholas Sparks. I could read his books all day if my mom would let me.  I miss in Intermediate school when we had those beach days where we wore comfy clothes and brought pillow and blankets and all we did was read all day.










I am not like the main character in my story because I do not feel the need to put my life at stake for a rush.  A roller coaster ride is good enough for me. He feels the need to do dangerous stunts and put his life and others lives at steak just for a rush. I am more of a person who takes extra caution for the safety of others.

I didn't like to read much as a kid but now I I'm starting to get into middle sized books. But whenever I see a big book I just walk away from it because I get overwhelmed by how many pages and it's just big. I still don't like to read much unless it's my choice. My most favorite book ever is Deep, Dark, and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn. I like this because it catches my attention and I like the way she describes everything. I like almost every book she's written. Because of my liking to her books I didn't want to read anything else so I just reread them. Now because of my liking to her books, I like books written by Peg Kehret and other similar authors. I really like to read ghost books because of the eerie feeling of that book. I also like the way the book could just leave you hanging by just building up suspense and then dropping it like it didn't happen when they start a new chapter. The books that Peg Kehret writes that I like is her books about abductions it's like sort of the same as the ghost books when they could just leave you hanging again and go on to what other people are doing or saying or even thinking. I think the best part in a book is when you have the suspense in the book and you don't want to put it down so you just block out everyone or even everything that's around you. Sometimes I find myself listening to music as I read just for background noise but eventually I don't even know that I am listening to it. It's basically pointless having it there, but I keep it there because if I don't want to read I have music. I like to do things that I don't want to do with something that I like so it's not that bad in the end.