For my reading goal I chose Big Book Bonanza. This goal means I have to read two books over 300 pages.
My first book was Wings Of Fire Moon Rising by Tui T. Sutherland. This book was about Moonwatcher who was raised in the rainforest and how she goes to Jade Mountain Academy. She has a secret, she is able to read minds and tell the future, unlike other NightWings. I loved how this book was very long. My favourite genre is fantasy, so having a big book about that was amazing. This book was very different from other books because of how you can see other characters thoughts! It was very interesting to see Winter thoughts, Kinkajous thoughts, and Quiblis thought. Without being able to read their thoughts, I would have just thought Winter was mean, Qibli was shy, and, well, Kinkajous thoughts are the same as her mood. I love big books because it means I can read the book for a long time. Whenever I finish a book, I feel happy, sad, and empty. When I read big books, I feel less empty.
Thes second book I chose was The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman. The Zookeeper’s Wife is a book about Jan and Antonina. They live in Poland during WWII. During WWII, Germans could shoot any Polish or Jewish person they saw. If a Polish person hid a Jew in their house then the Jew, the Poles who hid them and sometimes even the neighbors would be shot. Jan and Antonina hid lots of Jews in their zoo in empty animal cages and their house. In the end, they saved 300 Jews from being killed. I liked this book, but it was very mature writing. Not just because of the subject. The Boy In The Striped Pajamas was a book about WWII but it didn’t have a lot of difficult words. This book was an adult subject and an adult style of writing. This book was interesting but also boring. It was very cool to learn about how Jan and Antonia saved all those Jewish people. The book listed methods how Jews would hide from being shot, including dying their hair and learning Christian prayers. (Germans would stop women who looked Jewish and ask them to recite the Lord’s Prayer. If they couldn’t, they would be killed.) Some of the book was interesting, but also boring. The author would spend a whole chapter on talking about nature, or about a cat.
Those were the books for my reading goal. It is really fun to read big books. Bye!