Hello everybody! How are you? Well, good news awaits you on my newest update! I’ve read a few books in these past two weeks, and here they are:

1. The Throne of Fire, the sequel to “The Red Pyramid, ” from my last update. By Rick Riordan.
This book is a continuing story about the brother and sister, Carter and Sadie, and how now a rising demon called Apophis is eating its way up through our world from it’s beetle covered dungeon. In a time crunch of five days, they have to find the three pieces of the book of Ra, use it, find Ra and somehow defeat this monster serpent and his commander, Menshikov, the second most powerful magician in the world. And of course, they get stuck along the way doing useless things and Apophis rises while the world is slowly being terrorized. I am on page 382 out of 503 in this book.

2. Mr. Terupt Falls Again. By Rob Buyea.
My school district gives each of the students a summer reading book we must read and that we can keep for life. The summer reading book for the fifth graders this year was “Mr. Terupt.” If you’ve ever read or heard about the book Wonder, by R.J. Palacio, all the characters in the book get at least one turn to talk and narrate their point of view of the story. The format is the same with this book. So, Mr. Terupt is a new, awesome teacher and with his old class, gets to go and teach them again in 6th grade. Cool, huh? So the kids mature a bit, Peter the class comedian keeps cracking the best jokes and pranks the school will ever see, and they see the principal’s underwear. Again! Another great story with an indescribable plot is made by the crafty mind of Rob Buyea.

3. The War that Saved my Life, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley.
This historical fiction story was based in a time period during world war 2. The main character, Ada, tells the story. Ada has a club foot, which is a foot twisted when born about 180 degrees. Animals and humans can have them. Their mother is too embarrassed to let Ada out, so she’s only been out once in her life. And her mother abuses her quite badly. After that one time, she was not allowed to move from her bedroom for the rest of her life. But then, when Jamie, her brother, is getting shipped off to a safer place, four hours by train, Ada, who can barely walk, stows away with him and tries to leave home. They are taken in unwillingly by a kind woman named Ms. Smith. Ada learns how to ride a pony, dress up, walk with crutches, and also learns it’s possible to fix her foot! But then, when there’s a bombing, Ada and Jamie are found by her mother and are taken home. Then another bombing hits London, where they’re living, and they flee and find Ms. Smith and go back with her. Ms. Smith turns out to be a very nice person and the siblings treat her like a mother. A sequel to this book is coming out soon and I’m excited to read it.

Thanks for reading my update. You can still donate to the Readathon if you want me to read even more! I would be happy to. I just heard from Pratham that some schools in Andhra Pradesh will be getting most of your donations, and my mom told me that my grandfather is from there. I will call him tomorrow to give him this good news.

I hope you all are reading some good books, too.

With love,
Mihir.

Hello friends and family! I’ve got good news! I’ve read four books in these two weeks. Here they are:

1. Masterminds by Gordon Korman. I finally finished the end of this book, and it ends with them finding Randy in Colorado at his boarding school, and going to sneak into a police station. And then, it ends! I’ll have to get the second one…

2. The Witches by Roald Dahl. I read this for the fourth time and I loved it yet again. This book is about REAL witches, and how they are totally gruesome and how the main character, Luke, finds a conference for all the witches in England, where they will receive a lecture… by The Grand High Witch! And as they plot their disgusting ways of swiping children off the face of the earth, Luke listens in on all that is said. Then, something goes horribly wrong. It was a great re-re-re-read.

3.The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan. This 515 page book is about a 14 year old boy called Carter Kane and how he and his separated sister go with their dad to the Brooklyn Museum, where the Rosetta Stone resides. His father (an Egyptologist) somehow blows up the stone and releases the five gods of the Demon Days! A complicated and fascinating story follows, and from this book I learnt that Egyptian Mythology is a vast subject. I learnt about magical hieroglyphics, ancient demons, Egyptian folklore, and actual artifacts that exist in museums all over the world. I want to go to the library and learn more about Egypt’s past. Will that be my next book to read? Hmmmm…..

4. BFG, By Roald Dahl: Another classic I am rereading for the third time. A little girl is taken from her dreadful orphanage by a giant called the BFG. He shows her nine other disgusting giants, snozzcumbers, and his dreams. All the giants except for the BFG guzzle human beans every night, and the little girl doesn’t believe it is right. So they mix up a dream for the queen of England and find a way to capture these horrible giants.

I also want to mention that I tried the new Harry Potter but it was very confusing. They have let us down with a play script for some random play that happened in London. It’s a bunch of gibbelty gobbelty gook.

You all have inspired me to read more, with your donations. Please keep me and the Pratham children in your heart. School has started but I will make sure to find time and read more books. Thank you for your donations and I hoped you like my update!

Love, Babu.

Dear friends and family, I have more to inform you about! I am reading two books called Masterminds and The Night Gardener.

Masterminds, by Gordon Korman- I am totally loving this book! It’s full of action and surprises that lead onto the next mystery that the kids need to solve. This book is about Eli Frieden and his friends and how they live in their perfect world. It’s called “Serenity,” meaning calm and peaceful. Untroubled. But as the neighborhood kids get together, they look at Randy’s Letter, a kid who left to go to his grandparents’ and boarding school, and find out that only “special kids,” like them, are being used. By used, I mean being the subjects of a crucial science experiment called “Orisis,” in which these special kids are actually clones of criminal Masterminds that have lived with the same genes and senses as these innocent kids. If you think about it, that really means that these kids have fake parents! They don’t even have last names. Right now I’m reading about how they’re trying to escape this place to see the Taos police, eighty miles away in the only large city, to tell them about something they might just think is baloney.

The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier- This is a book I’ve just started, and it’s about how brother and sister, Kip and Molly, have stowed away on a boat across an ocean and steal a fisherman’s food cart in which they travel, trying to find a home or some shelter where they can rest, have a bath, and work for money. I don’t know why they’ve run away or why they can’t stay in their country, but I’m assuming that either there is a war or something of the sort going on there, and their mother told them to flee.

I hope you liked my update!

Love, Mihir

Dear friends and family, I have more to inform you about! I am reading two books called Masterminds and The Night Gardener.

Masterminds, by Gordon Korman- I am totally loving this book! It’s full of action and surprises that lead onto the next mystery that the kids need to solve. This book is about Eli Frieden and his friends and how they live in their perfect world. It’s called “Serenity,” meaning calm and peaceful. Untroubled. But as the neighborhood kids get together, they look at Randy’s Letter, a kid who left to go to his grandparents’ and boarding school, and find out that only “special kids,” like them, are being used. By used, I mean being the subjects of a crucial science experiment called “Orisis,” in which these special kids are actually clones of criminal Masterminds that have lived with the same genes and senses as these innocent kids. If you think about it, that really means that these kids have fake parents! They don’t even have last names. Right now I’m reading about how they’re trying to escape this place to see the Taos police, eighty miles away in the only large city, to tell them about something they might just think is baloney.

The Night Gardener, by Jonathan Auxier- This is a book I’ve just started, and it’s about how brother and sister, Kip and Molly, have stowed away on a boat across an ocean and steal a fisherman’s food cart in which they travel, trying to find a home or some shelter where they can rest, have a bath, and work for money. I don’t know why they’ve run away or why they can’t stay in their country, but I’m assuming that either there is a war or something of the sort going on there, and their mother told them to flee.

I hope you liked my update!

Love, Mihir

Hello peoples, how do you do? I have been reading 3 books and here are some details:

1. The Diary of Anne Frank- Edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler- This Diary was written by Anne Frank herself when the Nazis ruled the Netherlands. Anne was a Jew and she and her family went into hiding for more than two years until they were found out. Imagine being restricted to open a window or go outside for that much time! It’s unbelievable to think that these are actual historic events that happened in reality. I was lucky enough to travel to Amsterdam last month and visited Anne Frank’s home. Now that I have seen the rooms she lived in, the story is easier to understand but very sad.

2. Holes- By Louis Sachar- This book’s main character is Stanley Yelnats. He is the fourth Stanley in is family because his name backwards is an anagram. His family likes the name so they just keep calling their sons Stanley. Odd, isn’t it? Well, Stanley supposedly committed a crime that he didn’t commit. The police’s thoughts always win. So for committing the crime of stealing the baseball great Clyde Livingston’s shoes, he is sent to camp for bad boys 100 miles away from civilization. Where he was to dig holes 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep! It’s exhausting work but there’s no break except for the evening and when you sleep. But that’s not all. They’re digging holes for a reason. But why…?

3. The Witches- By Roald Dahl- A classic kids read. And yes, I know, it’s too easy for me. But it’s the best book ever! So I reread it for the third time. It’s a tale about real witches and how Luke, the main character and Grandma find out about the going on’s of the witches in England.

I’ll write again next week. Please keep our Pratham children in mind, and donate generously!

Love,
Mihir