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.

I am invisible! The first thing I would do when I’m invisible is go to a store and steal all my favorite snacks in the store. I would do this because I would throw party with my friends and I will have them over and they wont be able to see me but I can still talk and hang out with them. The second thing I would do is at school I would still be there but people would think that I wasn’t there and I would be all caught up with everything. When I am at school I would mess with the teacher and mess around with all my friends. I would go up to people and pull their hair. I would do this because I think that it would be funny as a joke fro my friends and my teacher to come back the next day and tell them that I was actually at school participating and was just invisible.

Life on my abandoned island is fantastic. I have no school and I get to spend life on this island with my best friends. I was very excited to spend my own life without parents just with my friends. I had my dog with me and my friends had their pets. The island had Wi-Fi so i downloaded all the social media apps i could find. I wish that all of my friends could be there but I was there with my basketball team. There was a huge mansion at the island with a bunch of butlers and maids to take our things inside the hotel. The second we got in it was like it was a party inside. The chef made us a bunch of nice food to eat and I got a burger with fries and a sprite. After we ate our lunch we went to go check out our rooms and I was sharing a room with my friend Addy. We put out things in there and then we got changed into our swimsuits and went outside to go into the pool. The pool was huge and had a water slide and a waterfall. Also had a jacuzzi that we went in at midnight. We did face masks and ate popcorn while watching scary movies. The next day I woke up and realized it was all a dream.

This weekend I have a basketball tournament and last weekend I just played at this tournament called Hyperhoops which is one of the most important tournament of our entire season. We went 1-3 since it was our first tournament. We lost because we didn’t have our entire team with us. I really hope that this weekend we can win the championship and get a trophy and t-shirts. There was one game where we only had 6 people on the team. There were a lot of people out that weekend and two of our girls played with another team that we lost to. This weekend I also have my best friend Alyssa’s birthday party after my basketball games on Saturday. I really hope that this weekend we can play at a facility because they are bigger and better. So with that all being said I really hope that this weekend I can win the championship. I really hope that we can win because we only won three tournaments last season.

This month I read a book called “The Remarkable Journey Of Coyote Sunrise” by Dan Geminhart. This book is about a girl named Coyote and her dad Rodeo who live in a bus. Just the two of them in a bus together going from nation to nation having fun in their life. They are in a bus because Coyote’s sisters and mom died in a car accident and she was really close with them. She hasn’t been home in a long time and she finds out that the park in her neighborhood that her mom and sisters used to go to is getting demolished. She makes her dad drive back to the park which is 3,600 miles away without him knowing. Along the way she makes some friends and adopts a cat. She buried and treasure box in the playground with her mom and need to go back and get it. She thinks that traveling home is going to be hard but little does she know it could turn out to be very amusing.

The reason why I liked this book is because I like how the adventure going back to Coyote’s home town is a very fun and bonding experience for Coyote and her dad. The things that they do is very fun, for example going to the gas station. Coyote thought she was just going to get a simple slushee and keep going but she finds friends to hang out with and has an amazing time with them. She figures out that they also do not have a lot of money and they end up giving Coyote a cat to take care of.

My favorite character is Coyote. I love Coyote because she is a very positive person. She thinks highly of getting to be able to get the treasure box and dig it out of the park before construction workers take the whole park apart. She doesn’t think about the bad things that could happen and thinks positively and keeps trying to get to the park even though she is lying to her dad during the ride there. The character trait I chose for Coyote is optimistic. I chose the word optimistic because Coyote is very positive. “How about you guys and your family come to my school bus?” I chose this trait because it shows how kind she is being to other people and allowing people to come to her home was very kind of her.

My favorite quote from the book is, “Some folks might think that a kid like me, living on the road and whatnot, would be unfazed by being left behind like that.” This is my favorite quote because after that quote she explains how it’s not true. How she doesn’t show a lot of emotion and is a very hard to break person. She doesn’t think back of what happened and think that she did anything wrong or it was something that she did. She has gone passed the fact that her sisters and mother have died and left that in the past.

The title is the quote I chose. I chose this quote because I am the kind of person to just hear someone say something and then say yes or no right away. I want to be able to actually think about my decision for 30 seconds and think about if the thing people are asking me to do is right or wrong. For example, if someone asked me if I want to start in a basketball game, I would think about saying yes or no. If I say yes and then I get to the game and I tell my coach I do not want to start anymore I could get in trouble, but if I sad no then I could regret it and wan to start. So I think I need to work on thinking what is right when I say an answer to someone asking me a question. Sometimes I don’t push myself in times where I can. For example, doing extra credit, or pushing myself to run faster in the mile. Those are some major things where I could push myself way more than I usually would.

My hero is Steph Curry. I choose him as my hero because he inspires me when it comes to basketball. Steph Curry is a professional basketball player who plays for the NBA. He is a point guard and shooting guard. In my opinion he is the best shooter in the NBA. I like the way he plays and the fact that he is very short makes it even better for me because I am usually one of the shortest people on the court. To me also he is one of the best players in the NBA. I love watching him and the Warriors play and winning their games. He is a beast on the court and I look up to being one of the best players on the floor someday. Practice is everything in life, and if I want to be like him I have to practice.

The word I chose for 2024 is perseverance. There are a few reasons why I’m going to focus on this word this year. I am going to not quit during school and not just give up when something is hard. I usually think I’m going to be really strong in some things I do in school and then they turn out to be really hard. So I start thinking I can’t do it and just write random things because I get mad.

I think that when I play basketball I tend to get really mad at myself for messing up and I just don’t try at all. Well that leads to getting yelled at by a coach and making everyone in the gym run. So this year in 2024 I am going to try to not give up while practicing basketball and give 150% effort while in skills.

The last thing I would like to persevere in is hanging out with friends more. I feel like I usually deny hanging out with people because of how much basketball I do but this year I am gonna try to make more time to hang out with my friends.