Be Smart-President Hinkley

Books are such an important part of our education. No mater if we are three or seventy-three, we are all constantly learning.
Reading is an essential part of learning about the world around us. By picking up a book, we are bringing information, new thoughts and different ways to look at things, into our mind. Instead of turning on the TV, read something. Enlighten your mind, become more educated, like President Hinkley urges us to do.


Saturday, October 10, 2009

Locomotion

Locomotion
Scholastic 2003
Summary
Eleven-year-old Lonnie Motion writes his thoughts and feelings in poem form. His teacher, Ms.Marcus has her students write poems in class, and Lonnie is a naturalists. It's how he deals with the tragedies in his past, and what's going in his life in the present. It's not easy being on orphan in New York. Locomotion is a book of poems, Lonnie's poems.

Personal Review
This was such a cute book. I loved getting to know Lonnie, and his little sister Lili, and their past; how they cooped with it and how they're getting on with life now. I think that it portrays 5th grade very well, and also how it deals with African Americans, and kids from other nationalities; how kids get along with other kids, and also elementary school crushes. It's just a fun book.
Also a side note: Locomotion proves that one of the best ways to deal with your thoughts and feelings is by writing them down. Either in poem form, like Lonnie did, story form, like I do, or even in a journal. When it's on a page you can see them, and can better understand how to deal with things. It just makes more sense.

Cautionary Notes
There's a poem in the book that deals with bullying.
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