Language+Arts

=Summaries= =**//__How to Steal a Dog__// By: //Barbara O' Connor//**= It is about a girl named Georgina Hayes who lives in a car with her mom and little borther, her dad left them so they're poor.Georgina sees an old poster of a reward for 5,000 dollers. So Georgina gets the idea of stealing a dog so the rich owner can put a lot of money for the reward of their dog. So Georgina does that but her mom does'nt know, Georging and her little brother have trouble with hiding the dog somewhere and giving it food and water so at the end Georging relizes that it it's hard to take care of a dog, later she feels very bad for stealing the dog so Georgina and her little brother return the dog and tells the owner everything in her life.

=__**Double Fuge**__ **By: Judy Blume**= It's about a family named the Hatchers. Dad, mom, a boy named Peter along with his annoying little brother Fuge and their little baby sister Tootsy. Fuge loves money so he ,makes his own money, Fuge bucks, he thinks he can just buy whatever he wants with his fake money, but Peter helps him find the real value of money. Fuge then belives his big brother peter. It mostly talks about their life. It's really funny too.

=__Red Scarf Girl﻿﻿__ By: Ji-li Jang= It happened on 1966-1976. It's about a 12 year old girl that was really smart, brave, and that had a bright future in the town of Chairman Mao's New China. But when advent of the Cultural Revolution came everything changed. It was a crime to be a smart person, it was a crime to have a rich or poor family background. It was a crime not to have a picture of the leader in every room of the people's homes. It was just simply horrible. So ji-li and her little brother and little sister have to be strong when the four-olds come and get their dad. But ji-li has to free her dad because her mother is sick and her grandmother is watching over the children. (true story)

=//__**The Outsiders**__// **By: S.E. Hinton**= It's about a 14 year old boy named Ponyboy who lives with his oldest brother Darrel (Darry) and his other brother Sodapop because their parents have been killed in a car accident. so