Masterpiece

     Around the end of the summer I started to read a book called Masterpiece by  Elise Broach.  It is a book about a child who has his birthday and the whole party wasn't that great.  At the end of the party his dad who does not live with them anymore comes and gives him a present.  The present is some paper and a box of drawing materials.  His mom doesn't think that this is a good present because he is young and his dad is an artist that isn't that good though.

     But he is only one of the main characters.  Really the main character is actually a little bug.  He is a bug that lives with his family underneath the sink.  They are trying not to be discovered by the family that lives in the house.

     The night of the birthday the bug went up to the room of the son to give him a birthday present.  But he got caught up in his own world using the kids present from his dad to draw.  In the morning the mom discovered this drawing and she was so amazed that she told him to draw more.  But it was actually the bug and he has to live a lie.

   I think this is kind of a weird story and it is a little childish but I kind of like it and I want to know how this book is going to turn out in the end when I finish it.  

When You Reach Me

     When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is one of the best books I've read in the last couple of years and one of my favorite books and it's sometimes hard for me to find a book that I like a lot.  I read this book last year for English and I loved it.  This book is about a girl that keeps getting messages that someone is going to get hurt and she has to write like a story but she doesn't know where to start.  She finds out that someone is going to get hurt but she doesn't know who or when this is going to happen.  She has to figure out the mystery to save someone and also at the same time her mom is trying to win a game show for 20,000 dollars.

     I love the way the book was written and it was a cool book because it referred to time travel a lot and the end of the story kind of came back to that time travel theme.  Also one of the coolest thing about this book to me was the cover.  It actually freaked me out a little because it made no sense.  But once you start to read the book you understand what the art of the cover is saying as you get further into it.

     One of the things that the cover showed was there was a two dollar bill and underneath a mailbox was a shadow of a person and there was also a shoe.  All of the things that happen throughout the book start to unravel the mystery and also the cover.

     I loved this book and I would read this again if I had the chance.  Once I started to get into the main part of the book I loved it and could not put it down.