The Black pearl

This book is about a boy named Ramon who lives in Santa Baja California. Ramon has an eye on a mysterious black pearl and a sea urchin called the Manta Diablo. The Manta Diablo is a sea monster that supposedly lives in a nearby lagoon, which holds many secrets and is used by mothers and fathers to scare their children into being good. Local fisherman and pearl divers also fear the wrath of Manta Diablo and continue to pass on the story that no one should enter Manta Diablo's domain. When divers or fisherman fail to return from the sea, Manta Diablo is blamed. . Ramon's father is a local pearl dealer. Ramon often works in his shop listening to the local lore about the existence of a large black pearl in the cove where Manta Diablo lives. He longs to be a pearl diver but his father forbids it because it is too dangerous. He warns Ramon that only bad luck will come to those who possess the black pearl. Ramon decides to disobey his father and search for the forbidden black pearl. With the help of a local fisherman, he journeys to the forbidden lagoon and recovers the black pearl. Its existence in La Paz is cause for both joy and fear. Many do not believe it is the actual pearl, and pearl dealers hesitate to possess it. It is decided that the pearl will be given to the local church to be held in good keeping by the Virgin Mary, but the pearl continues to exert its influence.

I liked this book because it was full of excitement.

I used the technique of visualization and determining the importance.

This book was written by Scott O' Dell.

After Summer

School is over for Alex Delaney, and he is spending his summer at his family’s beach house on the Australian coast near his hometown of Brisbane. Alex is awaiting for his university acceptance to law school and the anticipation is killing him. He's not expecting much from summer. Bodysurfing, TV, but mainly waiting.
"The girl” who Alex meets unexpectedly changes his life forever. Alex is not prepared for her perfect appearance, compelling green eyes and expertise in bodysurfing. From the first glance, he is immediately infatuated by her. Luckily for Alex, who normally is timid around girls, is able to strike up a conversation with her, which leads to breakfast, and eventually a relationship. Meeting Fortuna makes the waiting bearable for Alex.
Alex is drawn to the ease of her lifestyle, and the laid back attitude of her eccentric family. He finds himself falling intensely in love with her for the first time. In the end, the realization hovers over Alex that he has a decision to make concerning “the girl”.

When reading this book I used Visualization and determining the importance.

The author of this book is Nick Earls.

The Schwa was here

Calvin Schwa is one of those kids who doesn't get noticed, even when he's standing in the middle of the boy's bathroom singing "God Bless America" while wearing an orange sombrero and a cat costume. When Antsy Bonano does finally notice him, the decide to test the "Schwa Effect," then to make some money from it. They go one dare too far, however, and end up doing penance to a crabby, rich old man with a beautiful blind granddaughter.
Fun aside, though, not being noticed can be tough, especially for the Schwa, whose mother disappeared when he was five and whose father seems to be out in space most of the time. As Antsy learns more about the Schwa's miserable life, he's determined to be the one who notices. But the Schwa has something more dramatic in mind.

When reading this book I used determining the importance and visualization while reading this book

The author of this book is Neal Shusterman

Bud, Not Buddy

This book is about a kid named Bud Cadwell who is ten years old and lives in an orphanidge. His mother died at the age of six. At the orphanidge his best friend was a kid named Bugs. He is then sent to live with a foster family, the Amoses who are very abusive to him and make him sleep in a dirty shack. In the shack he feels helpless and alone. When Bud finally escapes the shed he goes back into the house to grab his suitcase and leave for good. Bud then reunites with Bugs when he is sleeping under a tree next to a local library. They both decide to go to Hooperville to find food and shelter. Bud is also and mainly going to find his father who he suspects to be Herman Calloway. In Hoopersville Bud meets his crush Deza Malone. Bud and Bugs then try to take the train to Chicago but Bugs only accomplished too get on the train and bud was left behind. Bud decides to set off in search of his father. The journey will be difficult because he doesn't know who the man is. His only clue is a flyer advertising a jazz band that was left in his suitcase by Angel Janet Caldwell, Bud's mother, before her death. Bud aims for Grand Rapids, Michigan convinced that the leader of the band, "Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression" is the man he's looking for. When Bud finally meets up with Herman calloway he believes there is no way Bud could be his son. Bud then notices some rocks with some writing on it that Calloway has. Bud then grabs some of his rocks out of his suitcase and tells Herman "I have some just like yours." Herman proceeds to examin the rocks and sais who did wo get these from. Bud then replies my mother. Calloway then realizes that he is Buds Grandfather! Herman then asks where is your mother, then Bud said she died four years ago. The davastated man then goes up to his room where he cries. Bud comes up to console his grandfather and then they hug.

Bud is an orphan who is ten years old. Herman Calloway is the Leader of Herman Calloway and The Dusky Devastators of the Deppression.

I used visualization when reading this book.

The author of this book is Christopher Paul Curtis. Some other book he wrote include Bucking the sarge, The watsons go to Birmingham etc.

Honus and Me

This book is about a kid named Joey Stoshack. His family is poor and could really use some money. Then their neighboor Mrs. Young offers Joey a job to clean out her attic and she will give him $5.00 if he does that. He accepts the offer and goes to her attic and it is very dingy and a mess. He doesn't think that it is worth only 5 bucks but he accepted the offer and wanted to follow through. When he is almost done, he finds one last box. Then a baseball card slips out of the box and falls right in front of him. He realizes that the card is the rarest in the entire world. There are only about 40 of them. It was a Honus Wagner Tobacco Box Card. It was the rarest because the tobacco companies gave out cards in their boxes but Wagner decided that he didn't want to be associated with tobacco. So they stopped making those cards but a few still got out! He went to the store to sell it right away and the seller only offered him $100.00 trying to trick him. Joey refused. Joey then checked how muh the card was worth on the computer, it was worth over $300,000. Then that night the card brought Wagner to his time period. The next day they played a little baseball together. The day after that Joey had a baseball game and he did really bad like usual. Then Honus showed up and told him that he was overstriding when he swung the bat. Then they decided to go to Honus' time period and they went to the 1906 World Series against the Tigers. Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner were the best players on each team the Pirates and the Tigers. The Pirates, won! Then when Joey decided to tell Mrs. Young that he took the card instead of throwing it out like he was supposed to she ripped it up.

Joey Stoshack is a boy who collects baseball cards and is in love with the game of baseball. Honus Wagner is one of the greatest baseball players of all time who is sent into the future through a baseball card.

I used visualization in this book during when Joey was sent back in time, I visualized what 1919 was like.

The author of this book is Dan Gutman. Some other books Dan Gutman wrote include Jackie and Me, Shoeless Joe and Me, Babe and Me, and Mickey and Me.

Honus and Me

Bad

This book is about a teenage girl named Dallas. Dallas' mother died when she was little, therefore, she lives with her father. She is a very independent girl and wants to do things her own way. She is always having confrentations with her father leading her to hang out with the wrong people. Her father seems to really resent the fact that her mother was a fun loving and dare taking person. Her mother was killed when Dallas was five on one of her crazy adventures. Dallas' dad was always telling her, "you're turning out just like your mother." Dallas always resented this because she couldn't see anything wrong with having fun and she really admired her mother for being that way.Dallas makes a lot of bad decisions in her life. She made one really bad choice,the one got her sent away to a group home for six months. At this home she meets a surplus of different types of girls. She became very good friends with a lot of them, especially her roommate. Her roommate's name is Shatasia. Shatasia has a baby girl that keeps her motivated from doing bad again. Shatasia left the home before Dallas did. Dallas really missed her and tried to keep in touch with her. Throughout the book Dallas made decisions thatt will change her life forever.

Dallas is a fifteen year old girl who is always getting in trouble that is sent to a girls home. Shatasha is dallas' best friend in the book who has a baby girl.

During this book I used visualization of what it would actually be like in a girls facility like this one.

The author of this book is Jean Ferris.