Cathy Cassidy

Cathy Cassidy was born in 1962, Coventry. She first started writing books when she was 8 or 9, starting with a picture book for her little brother. When she grew up, she went to an Art college, and then started working as a fiction editor in a magazine. Then she got married, and moved to Scotland. Now, she lives in the Galloway Hills, and her kids are 14 and 15. When Cathy's not writing, she teaches art in primary schools. 

Cathy has written 11 novels, and I have read 3 of them. (Dizzy, Indigo Blue and Sundae Girl.) They're all great, and I would recommend it to a lot of people. Cathy's stories are usually about a girl with a problem in her life. It's really touching, and it's just amazing. 

Cathy has been a vegetarian for 30 years, and was a vegan for 8 years. But she was a chocolate-eating vegan! As much as she loves chocolate, she also loves old clothes, old toys, cars and books. Her favorite color is moss green, and her hobbies are reading, writing, daydreaming, swimming, and eating cake with her friends. 

Cathy's website is: http://www.cathycassidy.com/     

  

The BFG

by Roald Dahl

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This book is about a girl named Sophie, and a giant called the BFG. Sophie is snatched from her orphanage by the BFG, and is taken to the land of giants! There, Sophie learns that the BFG doesn't eat humans, but the other giants go off around the world, snatching and eating humans everyday. Sophie determines that this should be stopped, and she stops them with the BFG.  

The main job of the BFG is to deliver dreams to humans, and Sophie gets the idea there. She asks the BFG to make a dream about the giants eating children, the BFG himself, and Sophie sitting on the Queen's windowsill. Then they deliver the dream to the Queen of England, and Sophie sits on the windowsill, so that when the Queen saw Sophie, she would believe the rest of her dream was true too. The plan worked, and the Queen sent the head of the Army and the head of the Air Force to the land of giants, and they buried the giants into a deep hole.  

My favorite part was when Sophie read the labels and looked at the dreams that the BFG collected over the years. I thought it was really cool how you could just pick up a jar and know what kind of dream a person would dream. I also liked the part where Sophie first tasted the frobscottle(A drink that giants drink) because there was a lot of good description. I thought that 'The BFG' was a really unique and clever book. 

Typhoon Morakot

This picture shows the damage the typhoon Morakot did. Houses were crushed and was floating on the flood. Morakot sweeped away all the buildings and bridges so easily. These houses in the picture were one of them. Because of this typhoon, Taiwan had lost so much of their country.

I think this picture shows the component and the process of this natural environment. If it hadn't rained in Taiwan, this would've never happened, and if they weren't so much thick dirt on the mountanis, there wouldn't have been a mud slide.

6th Grade

6th Grade was so busy, and interesting. I have made so much new friends, and the classes are pretty fun. At first I was really sad because all my best friends before was in module Q, but now I made friends called Maria and Gillian and they're really nice. 6th Grade is so much fun!