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When reading, Luis likes to be able to fully concentrate on whatever book he is reading, and therefore believes that the best location to read is somewhere quiet and separated from others. The best time for Luis to pick up a book is when he is feeling calm and in a ‘neutral’ mindset. He does not want to have too much on his mind that would cause him to lose focus on the book he is reading.

Luis enjoys reading books that he feels he can relate to somehow. For example, ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid 4’ is a childhood favorite that Luis has never forgotten because of its commonality, as well the fact that he deeply identifies with the main character, Greg. On the other hand, a book that Luis would like to disappear is ‘Donald Trump: The Art of the Deal.’ He believes that the ideas and practices that Trump displays in the book are very outdated and do not have relevancy to our 21st century society.

Similar to most good readers, Luis has had experiences with reading that weren’t so ideal. When reading ‘Monster: The Autobiography of an LA Gang Member,’ which was a school assigned book, he just could not truly invest himself. He ended up not even finishing the book and began going to websites like Sparknotes for summaries that would help him pass the quizzes. He describes this as “not his proudest moment.”

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Reader profile: Athalia Tan

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If Athalia’s life were a book title it would be “A Roller Coaster”. She says she’d name her life this because she feels that everybody has their own personal struggles and up’s and Down’s. Although Athalia does not read often, her favorite childhood book that she still loves is Captain Underpants. She says this is still her favorite book because it is funny and helped her get over her own personal up’s and down’s.

When reading humor captures her attention, if a book does not have humor and continues to go on and on she may lose interest. Biographies are her least favorite book genre, theses are her least favorite because she feels they go on and on and the are often boring. Although Athalia doesn’t read much she wants to become someone who read every once and awhile.

Reader Profile: Ella

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Ella’s reading happy place includes school, the bus, or a bench somewhere, as home has many distractions, and any distractions will give her a hard time when reading, this also goes for any place too loud or eventful.

Ella really enjoyed reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, in Mr. Kay’s English class last year, she had read it previously already, but like the chance to delve further into it in class. In contrast she did not at all like reading Lord of the Flies in class, she found it boring and dragged out, it was not a good time, in fact, she might go as far as saying it was a bad time. She has similar feelings about her current independent reading book, Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, because it has little to no plot and is a bit of a mess. Though she has been meaning to change it, she hasn’t gotten around to it yet and so, for the meantime, is stuck with it. Instead, she says it would be cool to explore more books in the horror and sci-fi genres. Be sure to wish her good luck on her book hunt!

Reader Profile: Nadia Green

Nadia would like to be the reader that stays consistent. She would like to be more consistent, but other priorities hold her back. One of the books that she would like to toss out the window would be all books that are boring. She claimed that she likes all genres of books, but if the authors are bad, the book becomes boring to her.

On the other hand, her reading weak spot would be looking into the boring books. She stated, “I don’t give books a chance. It has to be interesting.” One of the books that brought out the most emotion from her was a book about a black girl growing up with a white family. “It was a paranormal book about a girl who was a vampire. It was weird. She was like a human experiment. The main character was going through a lot being an abnormal character.

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Harrison Reading Life-Style

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Harrison seems to be a great reader. When I asked him what his favorite book was from his childhood, he told me that it was Green Eggs and Ham! Can you believe it I guess Dr.Seuss leaves his mark on children and on teens. The book he would like to toss out the window and hit someone with would be the book he read in english last year would be The Book Thief. Sounds boring huh? Lucky for the people in Pahomovs class that book wasn’t even mentioned to us, not once.

Harrison wants to become a better reader than he is now. Which I think is very possible for him to do if he puts his mind to it. He wants to read much more than he does now, what’s holding him back is that he can get really distracted, but if he likes a book he will read it and finish the book. He doesn’t really have a favorite genre of reading, he says if the book is interesting then that’s the book that’s he’s going to read.

Don’t text Harrison at night, he’s busy reading and nodding off. Having a dream about something nice. :)

Nick's Reading Profile

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The book that nick is currently reading is a map of betrayal. He likes the book so far but finds it confusing at times and wishes he could grasp the vocabulary better. While interview him I asked him a plethora of questions. The first question I asked him is wheres your reading happy place. He odly said in loud places because the noise helps him concentrate. When I asked where is his reading weak spot he responded by saying “reading outside of my favorite genre”. I then asked him Under what circumstances can you not read a book. He said “When the environment I am in is to quite because the silence drives me crazy”. The last question I asked him is what book do you remember from your childhood. He said Harry Potter because it was the first major series he read.

Darius' Reader Profile

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The Crucible, as personified by Darius, is “a weird old man hyped up on shrooms.” The book talks about a town of people on a type of drug that causes them to hallucinate and see people as the devil, and witches, so I think the description fits.

He’d say the book would taste bittersweet, saying the towns people stayed true to themselves, and yet still ended up harmed in the end. “They get to die themselves, at least.”

Away from the book, I learned his ‘reading happy place’ is the bathroom, where there are no interruptions, and his reading weak spot is fiction-ish books that guarantee drama.

Reader Profile: Jevon

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Jevon’s favorite place to read is on the couch in his living room, because it’s the most comfortable place for him other than his bed, but Jevon is always worried that he’ll fall asleep if he reads on his bed. Reading something that he enjoys is a very relaxing experience for him.

However, those kinds of books that Jevon enjoys are rare. He very often abandons books before finishing them simply because he gets bored of reading them. He didn’t seem very upset about this fact, and in fact doesn’t really find reading to be a particularly fulfilling experience.

A great example of a book Jevon DOES enjoy is “The Mysterious Benedict Society” by Trenton Lee Stewart. In fact, Jevon has said that this the book that he would take to a deserted island, where he is only allowed to take one book with him. A book that has evoked a lot of emotion from him is “Night” by Elie Wiesel. Jevon finds that the sorrow in the writing about a boy losing his family during the Holocaust made Jevon feel very sad.

Matt's Reading Profile

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Matt’s happy place when reading is at home, at his own desk. Uusally it’s quiet, but listening to music helps him as well. When it’s loud though, he almost can’t read anything because he can’t concentrate. He wishes he was a reader with a large vocabulary, but because he’s lazy it’s holding him back. His favorite genre is business, and his least favorite is young adult. If he was alone on a desert island, he would want to take the book The Psychopath Inside. His favourite book was, and still is, Green Eggs and Ham.

Reading Profile: Kali

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When reading, Kali doesn’t like silence or a cold temperature, it makes it harder for her to concentrate on her book, and being tired or preoccupied makes it worse. Her ideal environment would be warm with white noise, and she would prefer to have all of her work done first.

While she often enjoys what she reads, some books grate on her nerves. Go Ask Alice, is a pretty good example of a book she hated. She found it dry, and the ending didn’t satisfy her. She had to read it through to the end for English last year, but she would have probably dropped the book sooner if she could.

When she gets to it, she does enjoy reading. She has a tendency to just forget to keep reading a book, and is somewhat ashamed of that. To improve herself as a reader, she would like to be able to persevere through something she isn’t fond of, or just any book in general.

Reading Profile: Lotus

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Lotus, is the ultimate reader. You can find her curled up in her room, under her covers with a cup tea when she reads! She likes to be comfortable when diving into a good book. Even though she does not read books by Dr. Seuss anymore, she still loves him and some of the classics like “Green Eggs and Ham”. Right now, Lotus is reading a book by Elena Ferrante called “My Brilliant Friend”, in which she describes the book to be someone who is down to earth, skeptical, naive and a little bit childish. On the other hand, you wouldn’t find Lotus reading her book if there is a lot on her mind or there are other stimulants such as a loud t.v. Coming to an end to our interview, I asked, “What genre would your mental state be right now?”, in which she replied saying she was tired and sick, so she would be a weird, slow moving horror story. Interesting combo! Happy reading Lotus!

Reader Profile: Hadleigh Stammers

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 This is Hadleigh. She's a reader. Her favorite genre is Realistic Fiction, as it isn't super realistic but not far fetched and relatable to her life. If Hadleigh was only able to choose one book for the rest of her life, she wouldn't be able to choose as she says she would get bored easily. Her reading Happy place is the Beach, as it is relaxing and peaceful, and there's not much else to do.  Hadleigh's reading weakness is that she gets distracted easily. 

 If Hadleigh could throw one book out the window, it would be The Catcher and the Rye by J.D> Salinger (pictured above). She says that the book is well written and the characters are well crafted, however they are very frustrating at times. Moving on to more positive things, a childhood book of hers that she still enjoys to this day is Wonder by Raquel J. Palacio. Hadleigh praised the book for being nicely written and full of life lesson that taught her a lot. She learned to be more open minded from the "Moving and inspiring" novel.

Reader profile: Obie

Obie favorite book is Scorch by james,this book have court trail and lot of suspense. other things obie like the book outsider because it s relate to gamer and family. if he find the book too weak as less interesting reading then he find it boring no longer to read the book.he has respect for the book plus the character he talk about very curious in the scorch trials and obie has great view on this book.

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Reader Profile: Jamie Polson

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Practice Makes Progress, the book of his life, Jamie is a comedic juggler who also dabbles in puppetry. Jamie’s favorite childhood book is the first Harry Potter, The Sorcerer’s Stone because he likes the fantasy and the imagery. He also relates to the characters. His desert island book would be either The Golden Compass or The Book Thief because both are somewhat uplifting and show triumphant main characters. If Jamie could be a book, he’d be a comedy because he thinks that he is pretty funny and he knows funny people. If he could throw any book out the window it’s be Donald Trump’s biography.

Reader Profile | Cindy Chen

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Cindy can only read when she’s sitting, looking straight down at the book. The reason for this is because reading sideways or upside down is just simply too distracting for her to focus on the words. She prefers the room to be at a warm temperature, because if its too cold she’s too focused on staying warm. That’s just too much to worry about while reading.. you know? If Cindy was in a book it would have to be Divergent, due to the fact that simply all of the characters are just such savages and ruthless, and she would love to be on that level of savagery. Her favorite genre is fiction, because it’s very interesting and the storylines are much more creative, whereas to non fiction books being boring and predictable. The ending of the book can’t be too happy because that’s cheesy, or too sad cause that’s depressing. If her life was book the title would be “Confused”.

Reader Profile: Tito Mazzucchi

Tito is currently reading “The Essential Rumi”. This book as a human, in his opinion, would be a teenager with the mind of the philosopher Socrates. When Tito goes to the library or a bookstore, he decides which book to read based off the font of the books’ covers. If he could live with any book character, it would have to be Percy Jackson as a roommate in a college dorm. Tito would be Percy’s “smart sidekick” and would bring modern weapons on quests to help Percy save the world. Tito’s second choice of a book character to live with would be Merlin, because Merlin would make a great tutor.

If Tito could change the ending of any book he read, it would have to be the ending of “A Series of Unfortunate Events”. He would want it to be an epic ending, with the same magnitude as the books before it, but still be sad and unfortunate. Finally, a book that affected Tito’s mood drastically was “My Side of the Mountain”. Before reading this book, Tito was uninspired. After he finished reading this book, he felt motivated and was able to do some critical thinking.

Reader Profile // Jack Celli

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Jack Celli has read tons of books throughout her years so it was great to have a little reading convo. Jack is currently reading an Insane crazy and sometimes duschy book. When asked the title of her own book based on her life he she said it would be called “Oops I over scheduled” due to her continuous episodes of over booking. When it comes to living with characters she chose the Charming witty and clever idot William Harington from The Infernal Devices. Her favorite thing about reading is that it takes her to so many different places where she gets to meet tons of new people.

Reader Profile: Madison Militello

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Madison Militello, the main character in the book “No Direction,” has no goal in life just yet. She has been quoted to say “I don’t know what I’m doing” in response to why she is starring in this book. She has also said that she enjoys reading books that she’s in to. This includes Corduroy, one of her favorite books from her childhood. The soft pages in the book always bring back the feels for her. Her favorite type of book is in the Realistic Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction category, books like Divergent. While she’s reading, she doesn’t like eating, as it distracts her from focusing on her book. The one character that always stays with her through her life is Ponyboy from the Outsiders, you know, cuz he’s the coolest.

Reader Profiles

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Scott is reading and amazing book called The Book Theif. This is not a book from his childhood however, Scott use to like a book known as Camp Jackson because it is like a detective story and he really enjoyed learning how a detective works. A book Scott would like to throw out a window would be Macbeth because of the way he had spoke. Scott also said that his reading weak spot is that he will stop reading a book if it is to long or just plain boring.

Reading Profile : Sam M

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Sam have been reading books since the age of 2, and she loves the book “A bad case of stripes” as a child, but loves “A wrinkle in time” because its her favorite book of all time, and will reread it multiple times. She’d love to be friends with the book she’s reading right now if it was a person, since the protagonist is a high schooler, and the protagonist is pretty cool to hang out with.

Her favorite reading postion, is laying on her side, with candles lit, the lights are dim, and nice slow music playing(exaggerated), while reading a nice book. She hates “Anne Frank” and would burn it, because it wasn’t interesting since it was just about her love story, but praise “Macbeth” because of how interesting the book is the more you read it. Sam so nice, that she’d be BFF’s with Kevin from “We need to talk about Kevin”, when she had the choice of choosing 1 character from any book, but chose Kevin because she felt bad on how Kevin didn’t have friends.

Reader profile: Olivia Cooper

Olivia is reading a book called “Confessions of a hater” by Caprice Crane. Olivia said that if she was the director of her book made into a movie that she would make it into a drama even though it is a comedy because Olivia wants to see it have more drama in it. Olivia also said that some reading challenges she has are comprehension and focus. Olivia said that she often gets distracted from whatever she happens to be reading. If Olivia was on a dessert island and had to choose one book to bring she said that she would would bring the outsiders because that was the first book that she read and liked.

Olivia said that if there was a book inspired by her life that it would be called Liv’s Lemons because sometimes life can be sour. If Olivia was sranded on an island and could be stuck with one charictor from her book she would want to be stuck with “Andy” because he is smart, kind and an understanding person. Olivia enjoys comedy and satire books because she feels that she can relate to them more. Olivia wants to throw the book thief out a window because she thought it was sad and boring and unrelatable. Olivia wants to be the kind of reader that can read for fun not just for school and wants to try and find the deeper meaning in books.

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Reader Profile Malachi Johnson

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Malachi loves to read fictions book, and if given the chance he would throw non-fiction books out the window. He finds them boring. Malachi likes to read in class no matter how loud or quiet it is. He just can’t be in a too comfortable position or he would fall asleep. Malachi doesn’t like to eat while he is reading since it distracts him on his books and make him focus more on eating. His favorite position while reading is laying on one side because it makes him feel like he’s reading on his own time instead of a assignment. But Malachi can’t be in the same position for too long and have to moves to get his focus game on. If Malachi book was a magical weapon, it would be a wristband that makes him fly and glow because he likes it simple.

Reader Profile: Noah Marand

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 Reading isn't Noah Marand's favorite thing to do, and he definitely tries to avoid anything tome-like in size.  He says that after awhile, big books just seem boring to him. He prefers a quick read, and often chooses to read things for lower age groups. Its just more fun to read for him, and has given him some reading he can be proud of. Noah reads for an exciting or fun story, not for a bunch of complaining or boredom. That's why if he had to throw any book out of a window, it would be Diary Of A Wimpy Kid. Noah doesn't find it fun, exciting, or in anyway engaging, instead he just sees a bunch of boring complaining. Noah wants his books to move with energy, which is why one of the genres Noah actively reads for fun is comic books. Noah is looking for a fun read, and doesn't have time to read, what to him at least, are huge boring books, especially those filled with characters who can't seem to get a move on already.

Reader Profile: Paul-Ann Whyte

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  1. What is the book from your childhood that you still love? 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, because it is also a song and she likes to sing it in her head.
  2. What’s your reading weak spot? If it doesn’t catch her attention immediately, she can’t continue with the book and stops reading it all together.
  3. What book would you toss out the window? Modelland by Tyra Banks, because it was confusing, weird, and she never knew what was happening.
  4. If your life was a book title, what book title would it be? She would be “It’s kind of a funny story” because the title fits her.
  5. What book world would you live in and why? Naruto because she wants to be a ninja.