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When you usually make a choice to go with someone it's because you trust them, but how do you choose to go somewhere with someone you barely know? In the book "Only the Good Spy Young" by Ally Carter, things like that don't seem to matter that much to Cameron  or Cammie Morgan. Cameron has been spying for a while, and now in this book Cammie is being chased by the 'Secret Circle' which is a group that recruits boys and girls from  schools that teach them how to be spies, they want Cammie because her father was a very important spy that was killed. Cammie dodges many interferences with the secret circle and she also learns new shocking things about the people she trust. I'm going to explain the difference between how Cammie's ways of life and ours.

   Speaking of trust, lets talk about Cammie's sort-of -boyfriend Zack, he's a spy too and he happens to be a pretty good liar when it comes to Cammie. Cammie can barely tell if Zack is lying. Through out the story Zack has been keeping a bunch of secrets from her and one of his biggest secrets come out, but she has nothing  to but thank him. But that doesn't mean she trust him. Cammie also has a choice to make, either to save herself or the people she love. Through this decision  she has to go with the guy she doesn't trust, interesting turn out huh? I guess you have to read the book to figure it out.

 In our world we don't deal with people we don't trust. Usually we stay away from someone  we no longer trust is because the person we don't trust did something that made us no longer trust them. Sure we give them one more chance maybe even two, but then that's it. This trust thing mainly applies to problems like back stabbing, cheating, and talking about about your friend in bad way. What's crazy, is that these things are little and Cameron's problems are big, and she still gives Zack more chances.

That is why their is such a big difference to our world's. Yes they both are complicated, but if I had to guess, the spy world is way harder then ours. From what I know, trust is a hard thing to gain,it's even harder to regain, but its easy to loose, so be careful with what you do and be smart with what you say.

Dillon's writing and Andriena's writing

Dillon's reading response was interesting and clear. This was one of the books i wanted to read this summer.Dillon had a good amount of description with his work. You could tell that he really took his time to write this response and it wasn't short. I really enjoyed reading his reading response.

Andriena's reading a on "Before we were free" by Julia Alvarez. Andriena's writing was  a really long stretch of words. It was also really descriptive like Dillon's. I like how she didn't miss any detail or it seemed like it. It was very interesting.

The Earth, My Butt, And Other, Big, Round Things

The Earth, My Butt, And Other, Big, Round Things

Through out this book Virginia Shreves, deals with her confidence problem, and the fact that she is over weight doesn’t help. Her father is always watching baseball games and he’s always complimenting women with good bodies. Virginia is always feeling out of place with her family because everyone is perfect except her. Virginia also is not sure about moving forward with Froggy, (a boy she fools around with that goes to her school), and ask him about their relationship because she is afraid he’ll turn her down because of her weight.

This story makes me think of the idea of weight in this world. Yeah girls are always saying beauty is in the inside, but usually we just say it to make someone feel better. The thing that is crazy though… big women and girls can still look amazing on the outside too. Who said being big is no longer beautiful. Granted skinny is healthy, but females are always complaining about their weight. Women and men should feel differently about this subject.

For Virginia’s confidence problem, it was taken care of because she started gaining some from the other problems in the book that she had. For example Virginia’s mom is always having her go to the doctor because of her weight. Virginia finally stood up to her mom and took a stand. Virginia is finally doing what she wants and is really growing.