How Kansas Got Its Shape

 How Kansas Got Its Shape

By Julia V.

Well Howdy! Listen as I tell you about the bee-a-utiful state of Kansas. As y'all know, Kansas is almost a perfect rectangle, but it's got an odd corner. Well, that all started with a simple land dispute.

Now Kansas was once a beautiful rectangle like Colorado and Wyoming. But Mr. McLandersburg loved to steal land, of course. Mr. Jack Potter lived in the top right corner of Kansas, and Mr. McLandersburg lived in Missouri. McLandersburg, true to his name, wanted that land.

They each began to devise their own master plan. Mr. Potter was a very poor man, but he spent all his money and built a large, protective wall. Mr. McLandersburg was very very rich, and he bought very, VERY expensive cannons! But as the battle raged on, they each saw a new light.

                                             2 weeks later...

Jack Potter signed the agreement to make his property part of Missouri. And that, my friends, is how Kansas got its shape.

Now that is why. You know, the land is still the Potters', but in Missouri. And again, that is how Kansas got its shape.

El Deafo

El Deafo by  Cece Bell:

Rating: ***** 

Characters: Cece Bell, Martha Ann, Ginny, Mike Miller, Laura

Recommendation: Someone who likes graphic novels, books about friendship and autobiographies 

Cece Bell is a girl who gets very sick when she is four, and becomes deaf. When she goes to kindergarten she goes to one where everyone is just like her: Deaf! Unfortunately, over the Summer she moves to a town where no one is like her, and she has to wear a giant hearing aid called a Phonic Ear so she can hear the teacher better. She makes a ‘friend’ named Laura who is really bossy, and when Cece goes over Laura's house she lets her dog bite Cece! After that, Cece decides it's best not to be friends with Laura but luckily she meets a girl named Ginny who is a really good friend but over exaggerates her words and speaks loudly which actually makes her harder to understand.  When Cece goes to fourth grade she makes a really good friend named Martha who is in the third grade. They are really good friends and when a new kid moves on, Cece is excited. His name is Mike Miller and they are in the same class, when they start fifth grade! Cece hurts her eye, and Martha blames herself. Cece has a lot of adventures through elementary school ,and you can read all about them in this awesome book! 

                                       

 

Gaby, Lost and Found

                                              Gaby,Lost and Found

Gaby, Lost and Found is a great book by Angela Cervants and it is about a girl named Gaby Ramirez Howard who's mother has been deported back to Honduras and now, Gaby is living with her father who isn't there for her because of his job. Gaby, goes to a private school and when her class gets to help out at a shelter Gaby is beyond excited, but when Gaby kidnaps, well more like catnaps, one of the cats named Feathers who lives at the shelter....

                                                 What Will Happen??

                                 Read Gaby, Lost and Found to find out!

                                                                                                                   By,

                                                                                                                      Layla A.

    

                

How The Dogs Got Out

   How The Dogs Got Out

  You may know the saying, " who let the dogs out." Well here's exactly where the saying came from.

One day, a long time ago, there was a dog named Fluffy.  She would act perfect around her owner, Bob, but what Bob didn't know was that Fluffy was very sneaky!  So when Bob went to work, he left the door open, like he always does, and Fluffy went for a walk, and thought what a mess she could make by letting all the dogs out of their houses!  So then Fluffy decided to do exactly that.  She went to the Johnson's house, the Louis house, and many other houses, and let every single dog out!  

When Bob got home, the whole neighborhood was a mess! All the dogs in the neighborhood were going crazy! Then Bob said" Hey! Who let the dogs out?" And since then, no one has figured out( except us ) who... Let the dogs out.

-Samantha W.