This month I read a book called The Last Fallen Star by Graci Kim. This book is about a girl named Riley Oh trying to get powers. She is trying to get powers from her sister Hattie. There are many struggles to life and Hattie has many of those kinds of struggles. So it’s kind of hard for her to just “share” or “give” powers to hey sister. Not just “hard” I’m saying that nobody has ever done it and they are trying to do something that is considered “impossible.” There is this thing called The Last Fallen Star and Riley has to find that star if she wants to have powers that aren’t given to her by anybody. As she keeps along with her mission to find The Last Fallen Star she find a lot of cool creatures but also interacts with a lot of enemies. It is a very fun adventure for her and Riley has to decide if she really wants to become a witch for the rest of her life and become apart of the witch family or stay and keep her life the way it is.

The Last Fallen Star is a good book I think you should read, let me give you a couple reasons why I liked this book. The first reason I liked this book is because it’s a very adventurous book about teenagers trying to find something and keep going in their journey to try finding something. Another reason why I liked this book is because Riley doesn’t know if she belongs. I like how there is a conflict with the main character and I love how it shows us what’s going on inside of her head.

My favorite character from this book is Riley Oh. The character trait I chose for Riley is determined. I chose this character trait because I feel like Riley is very tenacious when it comes to keeping up with trying to find the star. She always perseveres and never gives up. I have been trying to do that in life and try to not give up even if I’m really close to giving up so this is what I relate to. “Everyone Ready?” (Pg 43) is the quote I chose as my evidence. I chose this quote because It explains Riley is a persevering human being. It shows how when she was in her teachers class they were all packing up and then got ready to pack up. She was getting ready to go into the woods with one of her friends and is always very confident she is going to find there star every single day.

My favorite quote from this book was “Sorry for leaving you behind before” on page 118. I love this quote because it explains how this boy from her class was trying to help her find the star but then he left and wandered off. Riley got really scared and was all alone for a bit. He came back eventually and apologized about leaving her.

If I could have any job in the whole entire world, it would be a business owner for a cosmetics line. Here are a couple reasons why I would love this job. The first reason why I would love to have this job is because I love working with people. I wouldn’t like to have a job where I would just go to an office and sit there for hours just on a computer answering emails and being on the phone for nine hours a day. I would love to have a job where I am communicating with people in-person all day and hiring new people to work for my business. The second reason I would love to have this job is because I love makeup. I love wearing it, I love experimenting with it, and I feel like it would be a fun experience to make makeup and make all kinds of different shades of foundations and lipglosses and concealers to make. Especially from my perspective when using mascara is hard because I have smaller eyelashes than most people. So I would definitely make makeup and skincare than works for people who have the kind of skin like me. The dream of owning a cosmetics line is having it in popular stores like Ulta Beauty and Sephora. They have those stores all over the world. The third reason I would love to own a cosmetics line is because I feel like it would be very fun to succeed and be profitable with my business and see how much I’ve grown. I could look back to myself years later and see how little my business was to now how successful it is.

This month I read a book called Dear Friends by Lisa Greenwald. This book is about a girl named Eleni and she is the kind of person to always have a BFF. When she was younger she had a best friend named Sylvie Bank. Sylvie had an end-of-summer party and Eleni couldn’t picture starting middle school without her BFF. Eleni’s main goal is to win back Sylvie Banks and make her come back to be being BFF’s with Eleni.

Dear Friends is an amazing book you should get. Here are some reasons why I loved the book. The first reason why I loved this book is because I like how she always wants to have a best friend. She always knows who she is closest too at the moment and I think that everyone in life should always know who their closest friends are. In my opinion I think that someone should always have a best friend. Another reason why I liked this book is because all she talks about in this book is about different kinds of friends she has and who she thinks other people’s closest friends are.

My favorite character is Eleni because she has a lot of feelings that relate to me.The character trait I chose for her is Insecure. I feel like she thinks a lot of people are always staring at her and think she has no friends. She always thinks she has to have a BFF and always needs to have someone by her side. In my opinion I think that is true because I feel like I would need to have someone always by my side and not just a million friends. “Yeah, she thinks she’s sooooo cool but anyways”, this is the quote I chose as my evidence. I chose this quote because I feel like it shows that Eleni talks bad about people and on the inside she is just jealous of everybody and feel like she doesnt have enough friends. So that made me think that people at school who are bullies might have a bad life at home and might just let out their anger at everybody at their school.

My favorite quote from this book is, “So far it seems that William A. Spinick has no recollection of our friendship or even me as a living human person”. This quote if meaningful to me because it shows me that she is always thinking that nobody likes her even when maybe they are just busy or doing something. For example there was one point in the book where she said that she thought somebody didn’t like her because they responded to the text too late. The thing Eleni needs to learn thought is that your not always going to have freinds forever, and that is the thing she doesnt get. She needs to know that if you have a BFF your not going to be in their life forever and their not going to be in your life forever.