summer reading

this summer i am sooooo happy that for English i do not have to read and books. last summer i had to read a bad book and had no time to read any American Girl books, so this year i do get to read some more American Girl books. Monday we went to half price book store to turn in the summer reading papers that started we read 15 min a day for at least 5 days out of the week and then they would give us each a $3 coupon to buy or go towards anything in the store. so Monday i picked out a history mystery American Girl book that American Girl no longer sells called Mystery of the Dark Tower by Evelyn Coleman. i have not started it yet but ill start it tonight or tomorrow. then Tuesday we went to turn in the same papers but for the week of June 1 and i got an American Girl book called A Song for Jeffery by Constance Foland. i have already finished it. it was a really good book about a girl who has no friends and her parents are separated. then they get new neighbors down the street and the boy ends up being in Dodie's class and he is in a wheelchair because he has muscular dystrophy and she tries to become friends with him but it does not work out at first and then they become good friends. he is a good artists and she likes to sing so for this show that is going to put on at the clinic that he goes to he is going to paint a picture and she is going to sing a song and they both are going to be about friendship but then he gets really sick and has to go into the hospital and she has to finish the picture and the song and present it by herself at the show but when she visits Jeffery at the hospital she sings the song (the only part she has made up) to him and most of the time it puts him to sleep. at the show her music teacher plays the piano for her and her brother recorded her singing and her parents hold hands. then she goes and sees Jeffery to show him the recorded show and both families were in there watching in and Jeffery's parents bring the picture to show Jeffery what it looks like all finished. a couple days later when Dodie was at the hospital she goes into the chapel to pry and in her mind she sees Jeffery in a boat standing and he looks happy so then the next time Dodie sees Jeffery she tells him about it because he was mad that he had to be stuck in a hospital while other kids we out having fun. it does not tell you but it hints that Jeffery ends up dying. it has a lot of sad parts to it but i really enjoyed it and it usually takes me along time to read books but i read this one in 2 days because i started it yesterday morning