Where the Heart Is

Where the Heart Is is a fiction book.
I chose this book because after hearing about the general storyline from a family member I was interested and wanted to know the whole story. The book is about a young girl named Novalee Nation who early on in the book gets stranded at a Wal-Mart in Oklahoma by a guy who was too bothered to wait for her. If that's not bad enough she's also broke and pregnant. Having nowhere else to go, she figures out a way to live in the Wal-Mart. A short two months later she has the baby in the store and her hidden living situation is brought out in the public. The birth in the store caught the attention of people across the nation. Throughout the book she meets Sister Husband who in the end becomes her closest ally and the closest thing she has to family, Moses Whitecotton who becomes her mentor and Forney Hull who becomes her best friend and boyfriend. She picks up hobbies and friends and has an unwaivering determination to gain knowledge.
The significance of the title Where the Heart Is is that Novalee learns that you can learn to love a place and the people in it even when starting from nothing. Novalee finds where her heart is and who it's with.

Questions:
1. How did you come up with such unique, creative names for characters in your book?
2. What gave you the idea to have a young girl live and have a baby in a Wal-mart?
3. Why did you choose 7 as her unlucky number when most people see it as a lucky number?

Five people you meet in heaven

Title: Five People You Meet In Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom

This book is good because it gave a new perspective on life.

This is a fiction book. My sister recommended this book to me, because it teaches you some important lessons in life. This book is about an 83 year old man who is a maintenance worker named Eddie at an amusement park called Ruby Pier. He has worked there his whole life, despite serving a term in the army during world war 2 which he received a life changing injury in his left knee that left him crippled. The book starts with his death, throughout the book he meets five people who make him relive certain events from his life when he was alive. And while he is living those events each person he meets teaches him a valuable lesson in life that he never realized when he was alive.

Questions
1. Why did Eddie only get to meet five people?
2. Why did Eddie enlist in the army?
3. How come Eddie never left Ruby Pier?

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the book On the Brightside I'm Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God is a fictional book. i chose this book because a lot of people have told me its a good book and i read the first book in the series Angus, thongs and full- frontal snogging and thought it was good so i read this book and it was just as good!the title mad me really interested in the book!haha this book is about a girl named Georgia whos mom wants to move her to whangamata to be with her dad and Georgia decides to hate her mom for it she dosnt want to leave her friends family and oh no not the sex god the boy of her dreams she tries any thing and everything to get out of moving like staying home to watch the house so it dosnt get broken into. she dosnt want to leave her cat even though it wont let her touch him and he is the most unruly cat in the whole world and gets in trouble and gets the cops to bring him home but she loves that cat dearly.
the title of this book really does fit the book shes the girlfriend of what she calles the sex God.
1.why did you choose to write this book? it is a good book and im wondering where you got the idea?
2. why does she have to move to her dad instead of her dad moving to her?she wouldnt be so mad if he moved to her so she wouldnt have to leave everyone and everything.
3.how did you choose to become a wrighter? your a verygood wrighter and should make a 3rd sequal.

Holes

This is a fictional book. I chose Holes because I have always heard good things about it, and back when it came out, it was a very popular selection. Also, I went and saw the movie a while back, and I thought that it was a very good movie, so I wanted to see how the book would compare with the movie.
This book is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. As he is walking home one day, a pair of stolen shoes is tossed onto him, leading the cops to follow and arrest him. He is charged with stealing the shoes, and is sentenced to either go to prison, or go to Camp Green Lake. Stanley chooses to go to Camp Green Lake, being as he has never been to camp before. However, when Stanley gets to the "camp", he realizes that it is not much of a camp at all. The campers are forced to dig holes every day, which is supposed to "improve character", according to Mr. Sir. Stanley must find a way to survive the camp, and also find out the secret of the reason behind why they must dig the holes.
This title is very significant to this book, as the campers are forced to dig "Holes" every day. Also, the holes' significance goes back many years in the story, since the treasure was burried in one of the holes.
QUESTIONS:
1. Why did you give the nickname "Mom", to Mr. Pendanski?
2.What is the significance behind giving each of the boys a nickname?
3.What is the significance of having Stanley's last name being spelt backwards spell Stanley?

Book FableHaven, post by Joshua Amason

The book FableHaven is a Fantasy book. i chose this book initially because i really like Fantasy books, and this also looked like it might be a little like the Spiderwick Chronicles, and i liked those so why wouldnt i like this book.

This book is about Seth and Kendra having to stay with their hermit grandparents, while there parents go on a cruise. Later on they realize that their grandparents arent hermits they actually own a reservation for mythical creatures, they have fairies, trolls, goblins, nymphs, and many more. one more thing they both have alot of very eveil creatures on the reservation and Seth figures this out one day walking around the forest when his grandpa said not to, and he finds this shack with this witch named Muriel, and she is trapped in this shacks by ropes. the main evil creature in the book is Bahumat a demon that gets defeated in one page at the end of the book. you will have to read the book to hear rest.

I really like this title because its different and it doesnt really give away the book, like some titles do. The questions i would ask the other would be where did you get this idea? Are you making a sequel? and where did you get the idead of a giant cow?

Chris Miller~~~~The Travelers Gift~~~~

The Travelers Gift is a life changing book that everyone should read if they want to be successful in life and find happyness. It is a fictional story however, it has many non fictional characters such as Christopher Columbus, Abraham Lilcon, Anne Frank, and general Chamberlain. I heard from many people that this book is amazing and if i wanted entertainment along with life changing lessons, i should read this book. And they were right. I recommend this book to everyone and i guaratee that you will definitely find use of this book. For people of any sort, smart people, athletic people, the depressed, the failures, drug users, teenagers, adults, and just the average people with a normal job, the lessons in this book can dramatically affect your life.
David Ponder, a depressed parent and husband, is out of money and is losing his job. He can't afford to keep his house and take care of his kid and wife and there seems to be no way out of it. Ponder becomes so fed up with life that he decides the world will be better off without him. He drives on the free way, hits black ice and stumbles off the road smashing into a tree. Within an instant, he is struck unconscious and falls into a deep sleep. The Traveler, David Ponder, begins his journey from there, traveling between different times meeting many different famous people in which he is given the gift of a new life. Through the actions and words of these people. David is taught the seven decisions that determine personal success. If you would like to read this book which i highly recommend everyone to do, i will not spoil the fun. If i could ask the author three questions about the book, one would be why specifically chose those seven characters to represent the travelers gift? Another would be why could only the janitor see david at the end? And the last would be what have you stumbled upon to gain such knowledge and wisdom of how to grasp life by the hands? Also, i could not figure out for the life of me how to download a picture

Small Steps, written by Louis Sachar... blog by Timothy Rodriguez

Small Steps by Louis Sachar is a fictional story, that first caught my attention mainly because i read the first book "Holes" and that made me want to read more of this authors books because i like how it's written, how the average person could connect to the story told. Small Steps is the story of Armpit from camp green lake and how he was working for a better life after the camp was closed due to bad people in bad places. his work was going very well, until X-ray, one of Armpit's friends from camp green lake, well X-ray had this idea of buying tickets for a concert that he was 100% sure would sell for a nice price raising Armpits already hard earned cash by a couple hundred. Armpit of course had a hard time saying no to X-ray so the ticket selling began and it was slow but it started working almost right before the concert, and at last minute Armpit decided that he wanted a couple of tickets to take this little girl, that befriended him. This is where his problems begin once he got to the concert with the little girl two people claimed that he was sitting in their seats so one thing happened after another he was tackled and he little friends went into shock from the commotion, after their mishap they ended up in the care of the singer who was preforming that night they got nice shirts and watched the concert from backstage, and afterwords they ate ice cream together with the singer...
After sometime Armpit was called by the police because they wanted to find the person who gave him the fake tickets(he knew but he wasn't gonna rate his friend out), he was also called by the singer who gained a crush on Armpit and he loved that feeling and felt the same way. he mat her before she left his state, and after sometime he left on vacation to see her and in this proses he ended up needing to get a letter from the singer so it could be sold by an angry man who sold tickets for a living(like how X-ray and Armpit tried, but without the fake tickets), so Armpit planed on telling her the problem he had and hoped she'd right a fake letter to keep the pissed man at bay(and from telling the police)she didn't take it well she freaked and went to her hotel room to chill and waiting there was her step-father/Manager and he tried to kill her but her body guard slowed him down, but sadly the body guard was stabbed, but Armpit came in just the nic of time to save the day and he love but she was already knocked out so she never knew he saved her and he just ended up never seeing her again going to his normal life of trying small steps toward a better life.

and if i could ask the author anything it would be what happened next?, are you going to write the lives of the other boys from camp green lake, and finally what drove u to write these stories?