Deadly Little Secret

Author's note: For Reading Lab we had to write and tell about a book we read. This had to be a retelling. 

Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz

Genre: Mystery, romance, and suspense

Camelia lives a somewhat ordinary life; she has two best friends; a job, and loving parents. But when there’s a mysterious new guy named Ben, who is starting junior year at the same high school as Camelia, her live becomes far from ordinary.

On one afternoon when Camelia was in the school parking lot a car came out of know where and almost killed her. But luckily for her Ben was there and pushed her out of the way. 

At the beginning of the year Camelia was receiving mysterious notes, photos and phone calls. Some of the notes said that she should watch her back, or I’ll be watching you at all times. And later on someone breaks into her room and vandalizes it.

And Ben knows something is up, because he’s psychometric, which is the ability to sense the future through touch.

“A cloud of rumors swirl around Ben’s arrival.” He’s accused of killing his girlfriend, and no one is happy that he is there. Yet Camelia is drawn to Ben because of when he saved her life. So as she gets to know him and spend more time with him the stalking escalates, “Camelia doesn’t know who to trust. “        

I liked this book because there wasn’t too much going on, so you could understand what was going on. Also because there was a lot of detail and so you could picture things in your mind.  

Olden Time Diary

Author's note: I wrote this like I lived in the olden time. I talked about how the boys are jousting in a big tournament.    

Dear Diary,
  Today is thy day, thy big jousting tournament. Where Master Charles and Master John will, I can’t wait until to see who will win thy big tournament. Right now I am in my room thy tallest room in the tower getting ready. While I was getting dressed I heard thy boys warming up.

I bid thou farewell,
Marabeth McKinns Lady Lord

Semantic Devices

Semantic Devices

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Under The Sea- cliff hangers

Author"s note: This is a short story is about three kids have fun in the beach and one of them stumble upon a castle.   

“Tweet” as the lifeguard blow his whistle telling everyone they can go back into the water. “sweet” yelled Taylor as she ran into the ocean water. “Hey who wants to play monkey in the middle”? asked  Alex. “Me” I said. “I call the middle” said Taylor. After playing the longest time with Taylor in the middle Alex finally got into the middle. Taylor throw the beach ball so far if want into the deep end. So as I was going to go get the ball I tripped on a rock and headed for the water. When I went head under I saw a tiny little bright sea horse, so I decided to follow it. As we got deeper and deeper I heard Taylor yelling “Summer, where did you go”? When we got just barely to the ocean floor where there was this pearly white castle with seashells around the windows and sand dollars for the door. And then suddenly the door opened...  

Symbolism

This short story took place during the summer.
It was a summer night at the park.
There was a soft breeze on that warm summer night.
While at the park they saw stars covering the sky.
When you are at a park you would usually see green from trees and bushes.
If you have have ever been to a park at night you would probably see bats eating mosquitos.
This park was full of everygreens and dead trees and weeping willows.
This girl wante to see and or talk to her crush and he was in her brothers room.

Spring Assessment

I Hear Voices

For most people they don't hear voice but in the book Deadly Little Lies by Laurie Faria Stolarz, Camelia and her Aunt Alexia both have this ability to hear voices. Did you know that “up to 16 percent of mentally healthy children and teens may hear voices” in 2010 http://www.hearingvoicesnetworkanz.com/. While "one out of every three so-called "voice hearers" requires psychiatric help"- http://www.psychologytoday.com/. So if you hear voices and you think that what they are saying and are true doesn't mean that they are.

Throughout the book Camelia was getting mysterious phone calls, notes, plus she kept on hearing things in her head that she didn’t know what they meant. In addition during the book there would be these diaries by Aunt Alexia, as a child, and some of them would say how she was hearing voices. Also Aunt Alexia didn’t know what they meant either.

People can relate to this because maybe they have experienced this type of situation or they knew someone who has gone through this. If this were to happen to me or I did know someone I probably would have gone to a therapy/ tell them to go to therapy.

What I think the author was trying to tell was if you hear voices and what they are saying doesn't mean that they will always be true. So even “you’re dead” didn’t mean Camelia would have died.

If you can hear voices and you think they are true doesn’t mean that they are. So if you think you know what they mean but you really don’t, ask a friend or go talk to someone.

Do you really know your friends?

Author's note: Ask yourself it you want to be friends with this person. Becuase a friendship could start with a simple hand shake or a hello.

Throughout the book Deadly Little Secret, by Laurie Faria Stolarz Camelia was getting these strange notes, pictures, and gifts. It turns out that Matt was really following her around to the mall, the park for a date, pertty much everywhere. He would follow her around so much he knew how to get inside of her house and leave gifts in her room and outside of her window. So never trust anyone you don't know.

Make sure you really get to know your friends because you don’t want them to be like Matt where he abuses you. People can relate to this because someone may have had a friend, boyfriend, or girlfriend who has abuses them. The only reason he did that was because he was jealous of Ben and other guys.  

In the end all Matt wanted was for Camelia to love him and for her to be his girlfriend again. The thing to remember is if you know anyone who has been abuesed tell an adult because they can do something about. If you know someone for a long it doesn't meanthat they aren't cameable of doing something like that. Also if you don't tell anyone and it keeps going on or keeps getting worse and it won't only affect that person it will affect you too. 

Whatever happens never trust anyone you don't know. Also make sure you aren't in the middle of something like this. So make sure you tell.