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Summer Reading

Since it is summer and we have read a lot of books this year, I thought we might make a list of the book seires that we read and really loved, in case you guys are looking for some stuff to read.

1. SEPTIMUS HEAP-MAGYK (Haley is just finishing up this series and I just started it)
by Angie Sage. There are 5 books in this series, so far. This book is about wizards and magic, but takes place in medevil times.

2. The Fire Within (john is still on this series, but Haley has already read it all)
By Chris D' Lacey. I think there is four books in this series, and it is about dragons.

3. Leven Thumps and the gateway to foo
By Obert Skye. I believe there are 5 books in this one plus a funny guide. This one involves a magical tooth pic. Go, figure, huh? There is also another book by this author called pilage, that is about dragons.

4. Dairy of a Wimpy Kid
By Jeff Kinney. There are 4 books so far, in this one. Haley, John, and Ben all loved these ones. It is a funny journal written by a middle school boy. We also found a similar book called The strange case of origami yoda by Tom AngleBerger. Also kind of a journal, but this time it a told by a origami yoda.

5. Fablehaven
by Brandon Mull. There are 5 books in this series. This one is about a brother and sister that go off to a mythical land of fantasy called fablehaven.

6.Vladimir Tod-Eight grade Bites
by Heather Brewer. They start in 8th grade and go all the way to 12th, which well come out in the fall. This series is about a orphan boy that is half vampire, and how he deals with that, along with trying to be a normal teenage boy. They are pretty tame for vampire book and John, Haley, I really liked them.

7. Gregor the Overlander
by Suzanne Collins. Five books in this series. Haley and John read them, and we are all listening to the first audibook right now. It is about a boy named Gregor who follows his two year old sister Boots down a laundry shoot and ends up in the underlands, where there are huge talking crockroaches, bats, and rats.

8. Hunger games
by Suzanne Collins. There is 3 books in this series, that last one comes out in the fall. Haley and I really liked this one. It is about a young girl that is taking care of her mother and sister in a united states that has fallen due to war. Food and water is scarse, and all resources are to go the capital. There are 12 districts and each year all 12 districts have to give two tributes, to play in a televised fight to the death, war games.

Everyone getting their awards/ etc...

Here is some pics of everyone getting their awards at school. Haley got writer of the month, John and Ben student. Their is also a pic of Ben and Greg in front of a 4 wheeler (they saw and just had to get a pic with) and Greg dressed up as a robot.

Haley started her own blog

Haley got a camera for christmas, so I helped her start her own blog today, so she could share all her new pics with everyone. She also made a list of all her favorite books to share with everyone, in case anyone is looking for some new books to read. For you or the kidos.

Well, here it is if you would like to check it out.


http://avidreader-haleynelsonblog.blogspot.com/

Christmas 2009

Here is the pics from our christmas. Those of you that don't know yet, Chris has been sent to Japan for a year. He leaves on Jan. 2. But he was able to take some leave and come and have a nice christmas with us. Hope you all had a very Merry Christmas.

Haley's Birthday

Here is some pics from Haley's Birthday. Haley is 12 now. I know. I can't believe it either. She just started young women and is loving it. One more year until Haley is a moody teenager. Yikes! J/k, Haley. We love ya, even if you are moody. We decided to make gingerbread houses instead of a cake, so here is some pics of us attemping that. As you can see, they didn't turn out so well, but we had a good time.