Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Lovely Bones

Book Name: Lovely Bones

Author: Alice Sebold

Publisher: Bay Back Books/ Little Brown and Company

City: New York

Vocabulary- List the word, syllabicate it, write the page number you found it on, what it means to you and rewrite the sentence that used the word in book.

Unusual Word 1: Contempt

Page number: 1

Definition:The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn

Sentence as used in story: " I chose it because it expressed my contempt..."

Write the sentence in quotation marks.

Unusual Word 2: Fluorescent

Page number: 10

Definition: adjective

(of a substance) having or showing fluorescence : a fluorescent dye.

• containing a fluorescent tube : fluorescent lighting.

• vividly colorful : a fluorescent T-shirt.

noun

a fluorescent tube or lamp.

Sentence as used in story: "...battery-powered fluorescent lamp..."

Write the sentence in quotation marks.

Summary - Somebody, Wanted, But, So Then

Susie wanted to go home but Mr. Harvey saw her in the cornfield and took her to an underground hiding place where he then killed her.

Review - Good things, things you liked, or didn’t, who would like it, why should I read it:

I love this book. It is good for young adults and adults. It is the story of a young girl trapped in a perfect world when all she wants is to go back home and stop her killer.

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