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Hello, my name is Christina. I am 12 years old and I go to Sparta Middle School. I am a competitive dancer at Willow Tree Dance Academy. One of my favorite classes is STEP because I like our teacher and I enjoy making Wiki pages. I like to hang out with my friends and I absolutely love shopping. If I could spend my whole life somewhere, it would be at the mall. My favorite store is Abercrombie. I have a pool in my backyard and during the summer, the only thing that I want to do is swim in it. I love summer because it is hot. I have one brother and one baby sister. My cousin, Sam, is in the same grade as me and we have a ton of classes together. I am also friends with her friend, Ushu, who was born in Africa and has an awesome name.

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I did my book review on a book that I read called __Homecoming__ by Cynthia Voigt. Over all, I really enjoyed this book. The main character's name was Dicey Tillerman. She had one sister named Maybeth and two brothers named James and Sammy. Even before the book starts, the childrens' father leaves them and their mother is forced to take care of the kids. After a few years, the mother develops a mental issue and leaves her kids in her car in a mall parking lot. Dicey takes charge of her siblings and is determined to get them down to their great aunt's house down in Bridgeport. When they finally arrive there, after living for many days on only eleven dollars, they find that their aunt Cilla has died and that the woman that is living in the house is their cousin, Eunice. Although the cousin takes them in, the Tillermans are not satisfied. Eunice only believes that she is doing a duty rather than actually running a family. So, the Tillermans set off once again in search of the only Tillerman left, their grandmother. With an unexpected twist, will the Tillerman family ever find a home? I chose this book because it had a good story plot. It was very interesting and I wouldn't be surprised if it was based on a true story.

There are also many other books in this series, including Dicey's Song, A Solitary Blue, The Runner, Sons From Afar, and Seventeen Against the Dealer.

Danpit3: OMG! I never knew this type of book even was out there! The series looks awesome I'm really going to look at seeing if I can find it to read over the summer. I'd like to hear a little bit more of what your opinion of the book is. Overall, GREAT!! :)

The wild weather event that I chose to write about was the magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Chengdu, China. It stuck on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 2:28 p.m. As of Thursday, May 15th, the quake has left up to 43,000 people missing or dead. And, there is expected to be over 26000 people buried in the rubble. This disaster is the worst earthquake that China was experienced in around thirty years. More than three fourths of the building collapsed in Chengdu alone. The government in China didn't reveal the disaster to the public until later that evening. The dam in China was reported to have major cracks in it and 2000 troops were sent to work on it. According to the Ministry of Water Resources, Djiangyan City, which has a population of 630,000 "would be swamped" if the dam broke. As of May 19th, there has been 146 aftershocks above a magnitude of 4.

media type="youtube" key="QO3CpAatIVQ&hl=en" height="353" width="420" micdem: very interesting! i just got confused with all the numbers, but good job! :) jordanh1996: I really like your wild weather. A lot of interesting information. Nice youtube video too. =) Good job! dUshu: Your wild weather summary was excellent! There where a lot of facts and the youtube video was great. I really like your headings, as well!

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I decided to do my social awareness info topic on a little girl named Bizunesh. She lives in Shanto, Ethiopia, and is three years old. Bizunesh weighs less than 10 pounds.



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