Sorato’s Blog

                     " It's going to blow the place up. Get everyone out!" This week I read "Tyler: His Story", oxford reading tree stage 11. About this book, The children are bored and start arguing. Tyler is shocked by their behavior ravelled forward in time over 200 years to help Mortlock and the Time Runners defeat the Virans. But who is he, and what is the story. and decides to tell them a bout his past. His is a story of life on the hard streets of 19th century London, where and limb when he uncovers a plot to blow up a packed lecture hall at a scientific institution.

"I have a dream!" This week I read "THE USA".  What does America mean to you? Skyscrapers, President Kennedy, fast food, big cars, cowboys and Indians? But what about the mountains, the deserts and the west lakes? And what exactly  is an American? From the time before Columbus up to the present day, this book looks at the history of the USA and the many different people who live there.

I read "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". But I haven't read all this book yet. 'Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery , but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.'

"But he wanted to sleep on his back like you and me."      A hundred years ago, the world was very different. Poor people lived in cold, dark homes, and never saw a doctor when they were ill. And if you were poor and very, very ugly...            This is the story of a poor, ugly man. Nobody loved him, everyone laughed at him. They put him in a cage, like an animal at the zoo. Then one day a doctor saw him and thought, ' This poor man is interesting. I want to study him.' Slowly, the Elephant man became famous, and everyone wanted to meet him. Even the Queen visited him.            But what was the Elephant Man really like? Did he think and feel like other people? Was he sad, angry man? Could he ever smile and laugh, and forget his ugly face and strange, ugly body/