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Thursday, July 5, 2012

I just finished, about three days ago, re-reading The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen(one of my all time favorite authors) and I again truely LOVED IT!!!! It was an easier read so I finished in 2-3 days. It is about a girl who watched her dad die from a heart attack. She blames herself for it and ever since has tried to become perfect. She has a boyfriend named Jason that according to her is perfect. He went away to "Brain Camp" for the summer so she is stuck filling in for him at the library and gets another job catering. There she meets lots of interesting people that help her relize she doesn't have to be perfect. She falls in love with a guy named Wes.... the rest you'll have to read for yourself.

GREAT SUMMER READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-Haley A.

HAPPY LATE 4th OF JULY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hey Guys I know the 4th of July was yesterday but oh well, Here is the Star Spangled Banner to make up for it.



Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
See u when School Starts!!!(Eighthgraders @ Hancock Grammar School)

-Haley A.