Bluefish Week of: 2/24/14

Pages: 110
Prompt: summary
subtitle

 This book is so interesting and I barely find things out until the middle of the book and I was hooked. The main character, Travis, is this really secretive kid. During whole class reading he always says, "pass." when asked to read. At first I thought it was because he was shy but it turns out he can't read. Travis doesn't tell anyone but his teacher figures it all out and decides to teach him. The strategy is circling words he doesn't know, no matter how many they are, then his teacher would teach them to him. His classmate, Velveeta, found out about this by connecting all the dots and asked Travis about it. Travis didn't like that. The thing Velveeta did though was make a text to life connection. She noticed that the way Travis was learning was similar to a character from The Book Thief. I haven't read The Book Thief so I cannot say that's true, is it?

 In the chapters where Velveeta is writing letters is to a man who died. His name was Calvin and he seems to mean a lot to her. He taught her a lot of things. In one of her letters she says, "I also remember when you bought me a toothbrush. And I remember you drilling me on the multiplication tables and spelling words." She is living in his old trailer so that's why she must care about him and miss and write letters to him. I'm still figuring out what he was to her but hopefully I will find out when I finish.

 The cover page says, "Sometimes life is hard to read." I never got this but now I do. I got more excited then I should've when I discovered the reasoning of this sentence. It says that because Travis has difficult reading. Originally I thought that it meant that life is confusing but turn out no.