A book you should read

Ok, now that i have this blogging thing down i can tell you a fabulous book title!  The book is "Love, Ruby Lavender" by Deb0rah Wiles.  It was my favorite book ever (i read it for my author study) and if you have not read it i highly recommend it!  Here is what it is about:

Ruby Lavender and Miss Eula are a pretty good team, for a couple of chicken thieves.  What other granddaughter-grandmother duo would drive the getaway car for chickens rescued from the slaughterhouse, or paint a whole house shell-shock pink?

But now Miss Eula has up and left for Hawaii to visit her new (smelly) grandbaby.  Poor Ruby.  Stuck in boring old Halleuia, Mississippi, with nothing to do except read to her chickens, sweep floors (torture),and be tormented by the curly-haired, tip-tapping Melba Jane.

But nine-year-old Ruby is in for some BIG surprises!

ps: i have put in a pic of the book and you can also read The Aurora County All-Stars(also by Deborah Wiles)

So Why a Blog?

Why not! Everyone else has one!

Actually, Julia and I started playing around with this blog last summer when she asked about how to start her own website. I thought it would be a great way for her to develop writing skills while learning to use technology. Express thoughts and ideas. Learn a little HTML. It's all good.

So here we are!

What can we "blog" about? Well, the girls can share thoughts they have about what we are reading between meetings. They can post reviews of the books we've read. We can share meeting recaps with discussion questions, food and activity ideas, recipes. You can post book suggestions, links to websites or anything else you come across that you think might be of interest to the group. Posts don't have to be long.

So, how do you post? Well, for one, only members can post so be sure to respond to your invitation and join the blog. (I think you have to open a Google account, but that is the only "hard" part). Once you have joined, just sign into Blogger, your account will display, click on post and a text box will appear, create a title for your

post, compose the body, preview, then hit publish post. Voila! You are a "blogger"!

Play around with the control buttons. You can add pictures, videos, links. So easy!

If you have questions, use the comment button. I'm new to all this too, so I won't have all the answers, but I'll do my best.

Happy blogging!

Caryn

This month's selection is.....

Don't you just love that title!

Here is the synopsis:

The Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women is a fairly typical all-girls school - that is, it would be if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class. The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses, but it's really a school for spies.

Cammie Morgan is a second-generation Gallagher Girl, and by her sophomore year she's already fluent in fourteen languages and capable of killing a man in seven different ways (one of which involves a piece of uncooked spaghetti). But the one thing the Gallagher Academy hasn't prepared her for is what to do when she falls for a boy who thinks she's an ordinary girl.

Sure, she can tap his phone, hack into his computer, and track him through town without his ever being the wiser - but can she have a relationship with a regular boy who can never know the truth about her?

Cammie may be an elite spy-in-training, but in her sophomore year, she's beginning her most dangerous mission - falling in love.

It should make for some fun, summer reading! See you on July 14!!