MY LAST BOOKS!

This is probably my last post. The strike is over.

I read some books before the strike was over, but I am posting about them now.

Last Saturday night, I went to the big meeting of the Writers Guild, where over 3000 members of the WGA had a meeting about possibly ending the strike. There I met some of my supporters, named Jeff and Cherie. They are writers on The Young and the Restless, and Cherie is an author as well. They gave me two of her books, and I have finished one of them.

It was cool to be in the auditorium, because it was where they used to hold the Oscars. It had a very big, fancy, expensive, shiny chandelier. And it was especially cool to meet Jeff and Cherie and get the books they gave me. Thank you!

The book by Cherie that I read is called Zink. It was very very good. It is about a girl named Becky who gets leukemia. While she is in the hospital, a trio of singing zebras come to her. Her spirit goes to South Africa, where the zebras live. She makes friends with all the zebras of the herd and one green monkey named Schlep who thinks he's a zebra. This book is happy and sad at the same time. Becky dies of a leukemia relapse, but her spirit continues to live in South Africa with the zebras she has made friends with.

After that, I read Millicent Min, Girl Genius. It is about a girl genius named Millicent Min. (Duh!) Everybody laughs at her and makes fun of her and instead of being called "that smart little girl," she's called "the one who brings up the curve." Some people take advantage of her, including a girl who Millicent meets at college who tricks Millicent into doing her homework. Her mom signs her up for volleyball, where she meets her first real friend, named Emily, who doesn't know that Millicent is a genius. Eventually Emily finds out that Millicent is a genius and gets mad at her. Millicent has to apologize for not telling her. It ends on a happy note, because Millicent is going to get a little sister.

The last book that I read is called Carry On Mr. Bowditch. My whole grade at school read this book a chapter at a time in reading class to get ready for an overnight field trip on "The Spirit of Dana Point" which is a schooner ship from the 1800s. This book is a fictional biography of Nathaniel Bowditch, who was a mathematical genius who discovered a new way of working lunars on a ship and wrote three long books about navigation. This book was very fun and suspenseful to read.

I finished all these books by Wednesday, which was the day the strike ended. So they are the last books I will read for the Readathon.

Here is the page count for these 3 books:

Zink is 256 pages. Millicent Min is also 256 pages. And Carry On, Mr. Bowditch is 251 pages. (Only 5 pages away!) It is weird that I have been reading lots of books that are 256 pages, because Fever 1793 was also 256 pages. I wonder if that is the normal length of books.

That makes a total of 763 pages for these last three books. So that is a total of 2299 pages for the Readathon. And that is my final total.

That means that if you pledged a penny a page, you should send $22.99 to the Writers Guild Foundation or the Actors Fund, at the Writers Guild, at 7000 W. Third St. Los Angeles, CA 90048. You can round up to $23 even if you want! Feel free! And if you pledged more, you can figure out how much with a calculator.

That means my final total for money raised for the Writers Guild Foundation and Actors Fund is $2625.95, which is a lot of money!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, to every single person who has pledged and who has been supporting my Readathon! You are all awesome!