Judy+Bong

=Travel Article= I went to China and this is the link to my Travel Article

=Original Short Story= This is the link to my Short Story called "..Mailbox, short story.."

=Quarter 2 Independent Reading=

I read //Tale of Despereaux//, by Kate DiCamilio, and talked about the the message and the theme of the story using a mobile as my visual aid.
=Quarter 1 Independent Reading=

**Title of the book: Shiver**
Author: Maggie Stiefvater This is my pod cast. media type="file" key="Judy Bong english pod cast.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * About the Author:** She has written many books such as //The Faerie Queen's Deception,// and //Ballad: The Gathering of Faerie. S//he is a good author in expressing the romance. She lives in Virginia with her husband and two children. ( I haven't read any other book written by Maggie, so i don't have a book to recommand.)


 * Blurb of the main idea of the book:** This book is a romance between a human girl and a werewolf. Sam is a werewolf and he becomes human each year for a short while. He always watch Grace, hiding his love towards her as a wolf, and Grace always watch the wolf feeling something special. For Grace and Sam, love was always been kept at a distance untill they met as both human. They can no longer deny their love to each other and sam fight to stay human and grace fight to keep him as human.

Summary for the Shiver

19/sep/2010

For years, grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, always catching a glimpse of those same intense yellow eyed wolf watching her. Grace has been obsessed with the wolves ever since, always looking for //her// wolf. One day, a teenage boy is attacked by the wolves and die, so the hunting party is assembled to shoot the wolves and Grace is terrified for her wolf. She fights to stop the hunting party, but when she reaches her house she finds a naked, shivering teenage boy who has been shot in the shoulder on her porch. Grace learns that the boy, Sam, is her wolf by looking at his yellow eyes, and that he has been watching her from a far for all these years. Every year during the warm summer and spring, Sam is human, but once the temperature drops, Sam turns into a wolf for the winter. And each year, Sam’s summers become shorter and shorter and soon, Sam fears he will turn into a wolf, never to be a human again. Grace and Sam love each other so much that they can’t be separated anymore. Together, Grace and Sam fight to keep him as human, no matter the cost.