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[|movie][|Stacey's Page]Stacey's Page​ Hi Everybody!! Welcome to my page, where I will put recommendations and reviews of what I read about every week or so. I really hope that this page helps you decide on which book you are going to read, and also please post some notes in the 'discussion' at the top, and all questions are welcomed. I hope you like this Page!

 **OH MY GOSH I am so excited at the moment-another twilight book is coming out it 18 days! It is called 'The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner', and is from eclipse. Bree is one of the vampires from a army victoria created to find Bella.** **My Favourite book at the moment:** I have read a book called **'The boy in the Striped Pyjamas'** at school. it is a book about World War 2, and also came out as a movie two years ago. Genre: realistic fiction, Recommended for Yr 6+

Review o f the Month: Right Now, as I'm typing, I am reading a book called **'Blood Promise'**. It's from the **'Vampire Academy'**series - it isn't very famous at the moment but it is also one of the best books I've ever read, and is definitely the best Vampire book. This isn't my first time reading it-but Icouldn't decide on which book I wanted to read and just thought that I would read it again. To understand this book fully you've got to read the other three before this-the final one so far. It is a great book, but has a lot of swearing in it and other things that people younger than Year 5 may not understand yet since they don't know a lot about it. Th main character, **Rose Hathaway** is on a trip to find her soulmate and she comes all the way to **Russia** to find him. She meets a lot of new people and figures out mysteries while she kills other vampires. This book includes a lot of action and is very exciting to read. Mikayla, one of my best friends, has also commented on this book, saying that this book is her favourite book, and is the best one yet. Be sure to have read at least one of these books this year! I rate this book 9.8 out of 10, since it was nearly PERFECT!Genre: fiction, Recommended for Yr 5+, and to people who don't mind swearing(reading them). **Brief Summary of What I'm reading at School:** 10 minutes ago, I was so into a book called "**The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas'.** I am only up to Chapter 3, but can already see that this author (John Boyne) has put a brilliant effort to this book-it's really interesting so far, and I think it's going to be a really good book.


 * [[image:http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:H6BLfB0YRkgOjM:http://iamadiary.com/files/attach/images/54/381/1.jpg width="90" height="133" align="left"]]DVD Review of the Month: ** Even though it wasn't out to the movies, I saw a movie called the **Princess Protection Program** from **Disney**. Even though It may sound childish (at first I thought it was), it is a brilliant movie, perfect for people around my age. It was about a couple of undercover agents protecting a princess (**Demi Lovato** but **Rosalinda** in the movie) from an evil person and coming across a small fish bait-selling-shop to hide **Rosalinda** in,, no-one would ever be able to find her there. While living in that shop, with two other people(**Selena Gomez** as **Carter**, the tomboy friend) **Carter** and her dad. Even though they don't like eachother at the start, at the end they become a truly amazing pair who fit together and help eachother out when there are problems. While **Carter** teaches **Rosalinda** to behave like a normal American girl, Rosalinda helps Carter find her **inner princess**. This movie is one of the best movies, including my favourite songs. Anyone (between yr 2 and yr 7) would find this movie suitable, and anyone over or under my enjoy it as much. Click to see the Trailer of this movie : []

Rated:PG

 ** C.D Review of the Month:** First of all, sorry to Jade_e for copying her fantastic idea of a 'c.d' review of the Month'. If you're reading this, then I should probably tell you how wonderful your page looks like <3. Anyway, the c.d that I'm reviewing is called **'Fearlesss'** by country singer **Taylor Swift**. It includes a few songs but my favourite would definitely have to be 'you belong with me'. I love Taylor Swift's style and sort of music, as well as the fact that she wrote the song herself! If you like gentle, pop music rather than loud, rock 'n' roll style then I guarantee you that this album would be your favourite. This c.d has also come out as a special edition version, with music videos as well, just to tell you fantastic it's like, I've made a link to youtube to show you the video. **__[]__** COPY AND PASTE/CLICK THIS LINK TO WATCH THE MUSIC VIDEO. I really hope that you would watch it-believe me, it's worth it! Another great c.d is called "The time of our lives" by Miley Cyrus, the best singer EVER!! Her album includs awesome songs such as "Kicking and screaming" and "Obsessed". This was her latest solo album yet, (before The Last Song soundtrack though) and you can really tell that she is getting better and better. Her music is pop/rock, and some are slow.

** Book Character of the Month:** Okay, the book character of thi month is a character from the **'twilight saga'**-can you guess who it is? she's human, knows about Edward's secret and is very Clumsy-yes, it's Bella Swan! Bella is a gentle, polite accident prone who is in love with the vampir e **Edward Cullen**. She is the main character, the one who tells the story. Her personality is difficult to tell... but she hates presents/gifts! She's in love with two people-Eward, of course and also Jacob, the were-wolf who was her best friend when **Edward** left **Bella** in **New Moon**. To S ee the trailer of **'Twilight**', click this link: **http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2T7d8j6I5I**, and click this if you want to see the trailer for 'New Moon', the second book/movie: [|**http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYBF3HKzrmE**]**. To visit the official movie website, go to** [|**www.twilightthemovie.com**] **.** For another interesting character, I'm going to write a review on **Yen Jun-ling** from the **Chinese Cinderella**. She is like a **Cinderella**-her father doesn't even remember her name! Her Half-french stepmother, **Niang** treats **Jun-Ling**, her three brothers and her older sister poorly when her children are treated like kings and queen. But **Jun-Ling (Adeline)** is hated by Niang ever since an incident that was caused ages ago. **Adeline** is a very smart student, who moves schools 3 times, but when she gets all this special awards, no one is ever there to celebrate with her or congratulate her except for **Aunt Baba** and her **grandfather, YeYe**. After Adeline's Grandmother had died, **Niang** was in charge and **Adeline** was sent to a boarding school, where she tasted loneliness and also the embarassment of having no one that cared for her. **Chinese Cinderella is a touching biography of Adeline Yen and her terrible childhood.**

Author of the Month: The Author of April is **J.K Rowling**, the author of the Famous **Harry Potter** series-a series of books about a wizard called **Harry Potter** and all the adventures he has. I personally think it is one of the best books EVER-even though I hate adventure books, this series are like mysteries-they give you clues to figure out what's really happening. My favourite Character is **Hermione**, **Harry**'s brainy female friend who is sensible and is VERY smart. The **Harry Po**tter books have gone even further and made movies of the series, apparently up to the 6th book. Anyway, more on **J.K Rowling**. As I mentioned before, he has also written **The Last Song** with **Nichlas Sparks** (An Author I'm Going to talk about Next week)-also one of the best books ever. **J.K Rowling's** real name was **Joanne Rowling**, (it was written like that on the first book) and the k,(which had never been a legal name) was from her grandmother's name, **Kathleen**. **Rowling** also isn't her legal Surname (Anymore) because it has changed to **Murray** after the 1990's. To learn more about her and her life, you can visit the website : [|www.jkrowling.com].


 * Have a good time reading, and if you have any time to spare, try to read or watch one of the books or movies that I have or other people have recommended instead of moaning all day about nothing to do. Hopefully this page was helpful for you for choosing your book/movies/c.ds to review over this month.**

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Special feature : a long story to read. (I found it in my emails and thought it was really good. make sure you read it!)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> I was walking around in a Target store, when I saw the lady in the cashier hand this little boy some money back.

The boy couldn't have been more than 8 or 9 years old.

The Cashier said, 'I'm sorry, but you don't have enough money to buy this doll.'

Then the little boy turned to the old woman next to him: ''Nanny, are you sure I don't have enough money?''

The old lady replied: You know that you don't have enough money to buy this doll, my dear.

Then she asked him to stay there for just 5 minutes while she went to look around for a cheaper one. She left quickly.

The little boy was still holding the doll in his hand.

Finally, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.

'It's the doll that my sister loved most and wanted so much for Christmas.

She was sure that Santa Claus would bring it to her.'

I replied to him that maybe Santa Claus would bring it to her after all, and not to worry.

But he replied to me sadly. 'No, Santa Claus can't bring it to her where she is now. I have to give the doll to my mummy so that she can give it to my sister when she goes there.'

His eyes were so sad while saying this. 'My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mummy is going to see God very soon too, so I thought that she could take the doll with her to give it to my sister .''

My heart nearly stopped.

The little boy looked up at me and said: 'I told daddy to tell mummy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the shops.'

Then he showed me a very nice photo of himself. He was laughing. He then told me 'I want mummy to take my picture with her so she won't forget me.'

'I love my mummy and I wish she didn't have to leave me, but daddy says that she has to go to be with my little sister.'

Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very quietly.

I quickly reached for my wallet and said to the boy. 'Suppose we check again, just in case you do have enough money for the doll!''

'OK' he said, 'I hope I do have enough.' I added some of my money to his without him seeing and we started to count it. There was enough for the doll and even some spare money.

The little boy said: 'Thank you God for giving me enough money!'

Then he looked at me and added, 'I asked last night before I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll, so that mummy could give it to my sister. He heard me!''

'I also wanted to have enough money to buy a white rose for my mummy, but I didn't dare to ask God for too much.. But He gave me enough to buy the doll and a white rose.''

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">'My mummy loves white roses.'

As I saw the old lady returning, I left with my basket as to not cause a scene.

I finished my shopping in a totally different state of mind from when I started.

I couldn't get the little boy out of my mind. Then I remembered a local news paper article two days ago, which mentioned a drunk man in a truck, who hit a car occupied by a young woman and a little girl. The little girl died right away, and the mother was left in a critical state. The family had to decide whether to remove the life-sustaining machine, because the young woman would not be able to recover from the coma.

Was this the family of the little boy?

Two days after this encounter with the little boy, I read in the news paper that the young woman had passed away.

I couldn't stop myself as I bought a bunch of white roses and I went to the funeral home where the body of the young woman was for people to see and make last wishes before her burial.

She was there, in her coffin, holding a beautiful white rose in her hand with the photo of the little boy and the doll placed over her chest.

I left the place, teary-eyed, feeling that my life had been changed for ever.. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to imagine.

And in a fraction of a second, a drunk driver had taken all this away from him.

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