A Princess of Landover – Weekly Reading Response Blog

I’ve read this book before, but I am reading it again because I had nothing to read…and this is a good book.

This book is about a Princess from Landover. Her name is Mistaya Holiday, she is a 15 year old, and who has a 21 years old mind. She is also magical and part fairy. Her father is Ben Holiday, and her mother is Willow Holiday. They have Abernathy, a court jester I think, and Quester Thews, Mistaya’s teacher. Landover is a magical kingdom where there are magical creatures and beings. Her father forced her to go to his world –he is from our world- to experience different cultures, and see how things work without magic. He sent her to a school called Carrington, where she was supposed to fit in. Mistaya didn’t want to go, and she didn’t know that people in this world don’t really care about trees. She really cares about trees because in her world, trees are living and moving creatures, also her mother is a sylph, who is a person who can turn into a tree when she pleases to. Mistaya caused some trouble in Carrington, and it all ended in her getting suspended. She returned to her world, and her fuming father. Her father is fair, and nice. But he didn’t think that Mistaya should continue her studies with Quester, and so he was trying to find some challenging thing for her to do. He decided that she should go to Libryl, a library that has been deserted for years. He decided she should go there with Abernathy, and Quester, and fix the place up. She also doesn’t want to go to that, but Ben is making her. Right now she is running away, with her G’ome Gnome friend, Pogwyyd.

Questions:

9. The author is writing like it is a foreign country, with proper language. I think he is writing this way because it kind of is a foreign country, and she is of royalty.

10. The way the author is writing is effective, because you really get into the book.

11. In the book, I like that they have names that sound odd, and that you really have to try to pronounce.

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Reading Response Prompts

1. Tell what like or dislike about the book and why.

2. Tell about parts of your book that puzzled you or made you ask a question.

3. Tell what you noticed about the characters, such as what made them act as they did or how they changed.

4. Write about something in the book that surprised you or that you found interesting.

5. Write your predictions and about whether your predictions were right.

6. Ask for help in figuring out meaning of your book.

7. Tell about the connections that you made while reading the book. Tell how it reminds you of yourself, of people you know, or of something that happened in your life. It might remind you of other books, especially the characters, the events, or the setting.

8. Write about the author’s style and how it makes you feel.

9. Write about the language the author used and why you think the author wrote this way.

10. Write about the author’s craft – what was effective about the way the author wrote.

11. Write about anything else that you may think of that deals with the book.

12. Do you relate to any of the characters in the book? Explain how and why.

13. If you abanded the book, why did you?

14. Name 3 examples of signals that went off in your head while you were reading and explain them.

15. Explain what happened at the climax and explain why you think that is the climax.

16. Tell what you think could be changed in the book to make it better for readers.

Reading Response Rubric

Level 3 (B Range)
In your response you:
- have written at least one post a week
- demonstrate that you have read a variety of fiction and non-fiction materials
- reflect on the books you read effectively- relate to the books you read
- retell only the most important information in your responses
- explain your interpretation of a written work clearly, supporting it with evidence from the work and from your own knowledge and experiences clearly.
- demonstrate that you are a critical thinker that examines characters, plot, setting and literary - devices effectively

Level 4 (A Range)
In your response you:
- have written more than one post a week
- demonstrate that you have read a good variety of fiction and non-fiction materials
- reflect on the books you read very effectively
- relate to the books you read very effectively
- retell only the most important information in your responses
- explain your interpretation of a written work clearly, supporting it with evidence from the work and from your own knowledge and experiences clearly and concisely.
- demonstrate that you are a highly critical thinker that examines characters, plot, setting and literary devices effectively