Thank you to all our Summer Book Club participants! I enjoyed all of your entries and it was hard to choose which to feature, but here are the few I selected from each category. I hope you'll all participate in our Book Club next time and enter again!

CINQUAIN POEMS:

V for Victory:

Alfonso
Battle Medic
Lost his arm
Is a smart man
Hero

by Nathan Kinard, age 13

Worker
Collecting Scrap
Finds new friends
Wants his brother home
Miguel

by Nathan Kinard, age 13

Doing My Part:

Train
Leave home
Love in air
Think about to much
Gone

by Renee Cline, age 10

This scene is from Doing My Part. The bubble says, "I'll do proud in the army. Maybe I'll even bring home a medal."

This scene is from The No-No Boys.

"This is Arleen. She is 10 years old. She is a good friend to Helen but she is very goofy. She helps Helen by stopping Mrs. Osthoff to move some where. She does this by persuading her to come back because of Helen. Arleen knows Mrs. Osthoff because Helen told her about Mrs. Osthoff.

She knew that Mrs. Osthoff was moving because she lived next to her house and woke up early. She saw Mrs. Osthoff going out with a sutcase, so she stops her even though she still has her pajamas on. It made Helen happy because Mrs. Osthoff didn't move away."

"I think there should be a dog that follows one of the boys around. He would be brown and black. The boys would love him. His name would be tickle."