Student Saturdays: Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment - James Patterson

Student Reviewer:Dayana

From Goodreads:

From the bestselling author James Patterson comes the stunning, breathtaking start to the blockbuster series! Six unforgettable kids—with no families, no homes—are running for their lives. Max Ride and her best friends have the ability to fly. And that's just the beginning of their amazing powers. But they don't know where they come from, who's hunting them, why they are different from all other humans... and if they're meant to save mankind—or destroy it.

Student's Thoughts:

This book is about six kids that have wings and their father has been missing for 2 years.  As they are eating breakfast at home.  They decided to go pick strawerries. As they were picking strawberries the ground started to shake, then some guys appeared there and kidnapped the little sister.  They begin to fight and have to try to go get her.

Grandma How Do You Know God is Real?

Author: Lorita Kelsey Childress
Pages: 32 pages
Genre:  Children's Picture Book
Pages:  32

About the Book

Grandma, how do you know God is real? is about a six-and-a-half-year-old girl named Kendra, who spends a few weeks of her summer vacation with her Grandma.

She awakens one bright and sunny morning and asks her Grandma how does she know God is real? Grandma, takes Kendra on an adventure to show her all the reasons as to why she knows God is real.

My Thoughts

This was a wonderful book.  It came at such an appropriate time.  Two things happened that made this such a special book.  It came in time for my granddaughter's birthday and she had recently been asking questions about God and then asked him into her heart.  This book was a birthday gift to her that I had the pleasure of sharing with her.

I loved the way the author shows the real life ways we can know God is real.  She pointed out that we can now he is real by the world he created and the things he provides for us. It shows an innocent child's curiosity about God and a seasoned believer's ability to explain to a child how they know God is real.  I believe this is a book that should be shared with every 5 year old and older to share God's love with them.

About the Author

Lorita Kelsey Childress lives with her husband David, in Northern CA.  She has three daughters and a granddaughter. Lorita’s first novel The Turning Point of Lila Louise was published in May 2010. December 2012, she published her first children’s book titled, Grandma, how do you know God is real? She is a member of Sistahs on the Reading Edge book club. Lorita’s work is featured in Gumbo for the Soul; The Recipe for Literacy in the Black Community and Gumbo for the Soul; Women of Honor Special Pink Edition. Her latest work is featured in Suspect; A Confessional Anthology.  Her poem Our History is Rich was featured in the January/March 2010 edition of Kontagious Magazine.  She is currently working on her second novel.

Visit the Author on line at:

Author website:   www.loritawrites4u.com

Email Address: loritachildress@yahoo.com

Connect with Lorita

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/lkchildress?ref=ts&fref=tsAuthor website:   www.loritawrites4u.com

Purchase the book on line at:

Amazon ordering:  http://www.amazon.com/Grandma-how-you-know-real/dp/0615677975/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357369092&sr=1-4&keywords=lorita+childress

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DAY 2 - Orange Blossom Festival

I wish I had a lot more pictures.  I will tell you that you can go to Mixon's Fruit Farms to look at all the wonderful festivities.  We started the morning out at 48 dedrees.   It was mostly cloudy today and breezy.

It was still a wonderful day.I made some new friends.  Ray and Linda own From the Earth and Seas. It was a pleasure getting to know Ray.  His booth was diagonal from ours. He had wonderful silver jewelry and pottery.

A little while later I met Marina Mercier andKarla Gramboa of "Chickie Bow Boutique".  This picture is from their Facebook page because we were unable to get a picture when there were no kids or adults packing their booth.
You can check out their sites:
www.chickiebow.com     or
www.facebook.com/chickiebow.







I have no picture of Lynda Shipley.  She had the coolest dream catchers with spiders on them.  She also had name medallions.  I had wonderful conversations with the Mary Kay ladies behind me, Karen from Karen Browning of Gone to Baja...Beads, Liam McAuley and other authors there to promote their books.  Brandon was back with his artwork.  Today his paining was of Marilyn Monroe.  Personally I love his work.

When we left yesterday we were so cold all we talked about was finding some chili.  We did find chili inside Mixon's Fruit farm.  We had great views of the Wallenda's performing and just had a great time.  I look forward to future events at Mixon's Fruit Farms.