Summer Learning

This week I went to a cool book camp. I know when you think book camp you think,”Sitting around reading all day.” Well, before the camp starts it’s like that because you have to read 4 books, but once the camp starts there is actually no reading. For every day of the week we study 1 of the books, and on Friday we just hang out and play games. When we are studying we get to meet the author of the book. On monday we studied the book Curiosity House. It’s a book that will come out in a few months, and the author is already writing the second book. Curiostiy House is about a NY dime museum in the early 19 hundreds. A dime museum is basically a museum and a circuse combined. The protagonists are 13 years old and they have lived and worked in a NYC dime museum since they where small. Their is Pippa a mind reading geniuse, Sam the sternest boy on earth, Thomas a contortionist who can fit into an area as big as a book bag, and Max a tough knife throwing girl who joins the dime museum early in the book. The owner of the museum is named Mr. Dumfry. He is a sweet middle aged man who nureshis the kids all the time. The museum receives a package with a shrunken head. It is said that the head is ancient and magical. The first time they show the head an old woman dies immediately. The news papers decide to jump on this strange happening and the head becomes famous. Deaths keep happening and the head gets more popular. When somebody steals the head the kids go on a mission to find it. It’s a mystery slash action book, and it is a great read. On tuseday we studied a book called the school for good and evil. It is a book about 2 girls who live in a town that receives a fairy tale once a year.  One of the girls is named Sofie and the Other is Agatha. Agatha is Like the goth, rude, dark, gruesome girl. And Sofie is like the happy nice goody to shoes. The thing about this town is that when ever the books get dropped off the person who brings the books takes two children to put in a new fairy tale. Sofie dreams of being kidnapped while agatha doesn’t believe in it. But one night both sofie and agatha are kidnapped and get taken to the fairy tail training school. Exepte sofie is dropped into the school that trains for the evil ones and Agatha is dropped into the school for the good ones,  and no matter how hard they try they cant switch schools. The book is about them working together and seeing two true sides of who they are. On Wednesday we studied a book called Loot. It’s a book about a boy who lives the life of a jewel thief. His dad Alfred introduced him into the subject when he started stealing. Both of them have worked together their whole life until Alfred dies and the boy has to go to an orfanage where he runs into his long lost sister and a little girl thats a master hacker and a thug boy who is actually nice. Together they have to steal four magic stones and give them to a crazy old woman for 7 million dollars. And lastly on thursday we studied a book called Missing on superstition mountain. It’s a story about three brothers.  One at the age of 6 10 and 11. The plot starts with the kids moving to a house in superstition mountain Arizona. Their parents warn them to not go up the mountain. but the kids cat goes up the mountain and the kids follow the cat up and find three sculls. they go back home and decide to not tell the parents about what happened.  they research the sculls and find out  that their has been multiple reports of murder in the mountain and a big treasure somewhere on the mountain. the kids are curiose so they decide to go again. Whale they are going on their second trip to the mountain they run into a red head 10 year old girl who convinces the boys to take her with them. On the mountain they get stuck and they have to save them before dark. The camp was great.

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