It was a hot sunny day in August. Today was one of the first few weeks of camp. It was 5th period. For us, that is a free period. By us I mean the fantastic five. The fantastic five was me and my five other friends (Yes we know there is six of us) who hang out together during fifth period. They were Naomi, Talia, Rowan, Ellen and Anna. Anna wasn’t hear today. We were playing pretend spit. Because we had no cards it was a little sad, but it was okay. It was the championship round between Ellen and I. It wasn’t working. I kept saying this card was a five and she said it was a three. We eventually stopped playing and started a game of Charades. Ellen ran up and started doing a horrible llama impression. “Dying Penguin!” I yelled. “It’s a llama! Didn’t you see me spitting?” she responds. Naomi then points out she wasn’t supposed to tell us. Then Talia yells “Alright ladies, the charades master is here. Give me a weird topic. This master can do anything.” So I have to respond. “Vegetables!” “Okay!” she answers. She sits down, does this weird interpretive dance like she is growing,  and then puts her feet together. She pulls her hair up and forms carrot position. “Broccoli” Naomi yells. “Llama Cart!” Rowan Yells. “She’s not a llama cart.” I respond. “No look, a llama cart!” Rowan answers. I turn and see four kids pulling two other kids in a llama cart. The kids that are pulling are going fast. Very fast. Then I see a frisbee fly high in the air and land in the path of the cart. A boy named Jeuels runs to grab the frisbee just as the llama cart pulls into that path. He jumps out of the way. I realize that if he was only one second later he would have seriously hurt himself. Naomi yells “Are you okay?” “Yeah I’m fine.” he responds but still looks a little scared. We spend the rest of the day exchanging stories about our experiences with being run over by things. The End.

It was a hot sunny day in August and I was at camp. The bell had just rung and it was officially fourth period. I was super relieved that rest period was over. I grabbed my towel and a spare change of clothes (wasn’t going to forget them this time) and headed out to swim class. There were four people in this class. Naomi, Talia, who are two of my closest friends in my cabin and a boy named Ben in give me shelter, the boys cabin that’s our age. There was a long path through the forest to the lake. Naomi, Talia and I started down the path. Talia is leading, then me and last Naomi. Naomi is yelling at Talia to tell her to look out for daddy-longlegs. I am trying to tell Naomi that daddy-longlegs aren’t poisonous, and aren’t even spiders. She doesn’t care. She’s doing this hopping thing, like the game you used play when you where you were little, don’t touch the lava. Instead of lava, we have daddy-longlegs. Talia stops quickly and almost pushes me off the path. She whispers “someone is following us.” then we hear a little crackle of leaves. “Don’t worry.” I say, “Its probably just the stalkers.” The stalker story is a full other story. Inside my head I know it’s not them because they are always late. We keep walking. “I hear it again!” Talia yells. “Calm down girl, just keep looking for daddy-longlegs.” Naomi exclaims. Talia keeps walking, but bent down low like a ninja. We don’t hear anything for a few minutes. Talia calms down. Then we hear a twig break. This time Talia screams and Naomi falls off the path. “I told you it was something! Do you hear that? Its not the stalkers!!! My life is over! I am going to die! I’m dying! I knew swimming was a bad choice!!” Talia yells. Naomi just looks scared. After two minutes of calming down, I force Talia and Naomi to keep walking. We look like the FBI on a mission. All bent low, ducking at every sound. I am officially leading, while everyone else stands guard. And then we hear the rustle of leaves. Talia pulls to a halt and ducks. Then the most life-changing thing ever happens. A chipmunk runs across the path. Talia screams and jumps off the path and pulls Naomi down with her. “It was the chipmunk!!! Chipmunks are evil!! I knew it the full time!!” Talia is hysterically screaming. I am on the floor laughing so hard. Naomi jumps up obviously scared of the bugs. “We have to go.” Naomi says. “But the chipmunks might be on the path!!!” Talia answers. “The chipmunks also could be under you” I respond. She jumps up on to the path. “That’s how you do it.” I think to myself. We spend the rest of the walk walking like the FBI again. The sounds are still there. We arrive at the lake and are the first ones there. We sit on the bench and wait. Then, out of the blue, Ben arrives. “Hi” he says. “Did you hear us?” Naomi asks. “Yeah.” he says and then looks at Talia. “Why are you so scared of chipmunks?” She laughs and looks at me. “Long story” I respond. Naomi whispers something in my ear “Ben was making the sounds, he was the chipmunk!” A few minutes later the teacher arrives and points to a barrel on the shore of the lake. “That fell off the dock of the people across the lake. We are going to swim it back over.” He throws us life-vests. “Lets go.” He says. I pull over my vest and start swimming. The only two people actually rolling the barrel is Ben and I. Naomi and Talia are swimming behind. Ben wouldn’t take his baseball cap off and is having a little trouble. The lake is long and when we reach the end everyone is tired. The people not end other side ask “Is this ours?” The teacher explains that it fell off their deck. Talia swims up to me and whispers in my ear “I bet it’s full of evil chipmunks!” I start laughing and respond “Why don’t you go ask?” Now when I asked this I didn’t actually think she would do it. But she does. She approaches a boy who lives there and asks “Are there chipmunks in there?” He looks weirded out and responds “I don’t think so.” he says shyly. “Well if there are text this number” and actually says her number. She swims away obviously proud and we laugh about it the whole way back to our dock.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice is a book that I highly recommend. It is about five sisters living in a time where the only way for a women to be “successful” was for them to be married. The oldest is Jane, a shy and quiet girl who most men fall in love with. Then  there is Elizabeth, the main character. She is very quirky and honest, she isn’t afraid of the truth. She could be considered rude, but she doesn’t care. The next is Mary, a very religious girl who is a little crazy. She obviously isn’t going to get married. Then are the two youngest sisters. Lydia and Kitty. They will do anything to marry. Watch this family go on crazy journeys. The only thing is the language. It is very complicated to read, all the characters have a very strong vocabulary. You have to make sure your really are ready to read it. I rate this book four stars.

Go set a Watchman by Harper Lee

This book is a sequel to To Kill A Mockingbird  which I read a while ago and loved. Most of the characters you love and know come back and make a return in this book. “Scout” Finch, has moved to New York and returns back to her home town. It is bitter-sweet. Everything has changed. Henry is home, waiting for Scout to marry him. Atticus has grown old, and has changed a lot since scout last saw him.Watch the full world change in front of Scout’s eyes. I rate this book four stars.

1984 by George Orwell

Now this book is very surprising. I expected something about I don’t know, 1984. This book was written in 1949, so 1984 was the future back then. The world is dark with leaders that believe a utopia is a place with no thought. I can’t tell to much without ruining the full book. First of all, I used to judge a book by the last sentence. DON’T read it. It spoils the full book for you. Also it takes a while to get the world they live in. I still love this book though. I rate it four and a half stars.

The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books of all times. It is about a man named Nick, who moves next door to a man named Jay Gatsby. He’s rich and has everything. Except Daisy. Daisy is a rich girl who is married to a man named Tom. She is a little crazy, falling love with other men, drinking. She can’t settle down. The other thing she has is this thing of innocence. Gatsby loves her and will do anything to get her. I rate this book five stars. I absolutely love it.

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

This book reminds me so much of The Fault In Our Stars. I thought that it was a copy at first. Turns out they were written at the same time. Greg is the main character. He doesn’t believe in friends. He could have friends if he wanted them, he just likes it better without them. The closest thing to a friend he has is Earl. Greg considers Earl his co-worker. He likes to make movies. Everything goes wrong when his mother makes him befriend the girl next door who has leukemia. He now has a friend. He doesn’t understand it. I can’t say more without ruining it. I give this book five stars.

Paper Towns by John Green

I just had to read this book because all of my friends were obsessing over it. I really enjoyed it. Quentin is a boy in high school with a crush on the marvelous and daring Margo Roth. Margo barely knows he exists.But then comes the comes the night where she climbs into his window and they go on what I call the revenge night. Shaving people’s eyebrows, shaving cream and more. The next day she runs away. Quentin goes on a quest find her, risking all the odds to find her. I rate this book four stars.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

This is my second favorite book of all time, next to The Outsiders. Miles Halter moves to go to a boarding school and falls in love with Alaska Young. The daring, beautiful perfect Alaska Young. The full book is based in two parts, before and after. You don’t know what it is before, or what it is after. When you finally get to after, you can’t think about anything else for days. I rate this book five stars.

The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton

This wasn’t my favorite book. I liked the idea of the book, but not the other things in the book. The main character, Newland Archer is about to marry who he thinks is his true love, May Welland. But then he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, a woman who just came off a horrible marriage. They fall in love, and Newland has to chose between Ellen and May. This book is very slow moving. I rate this book three stars.

Counting By Sevens by Holly Goldberg Sloan

In my opinion, this is a very bad book. I thoroughly disliked it. This book I read last minute so I had a book from the list read and I just can’t get myself to like it. I can’t tell much about the story without ruining it all, but I can tell you about the main character. Willow Chance.  She is the oddball out, with not many friends because she doesn’t try to get them. Even though she wants friends. But she complains about it none the less. She likes to study plants and medical conditions. Something that I don’t know anyone who can relate to even though she is supposed to be relatable. She also is a genius and doesn’t need to study to get 100% right on every test. No person is like that. That is Willow Chance. I do think this book is right for some people, just not me. I do think that this could be someone’s favorite book. I rate this book one star.