2012-21013 Oregon Battle of the Books

This year the 16 titles for middle school students competing in OBOB to read are:

Artemis Fowl
The Girl Who Could Fly
The Red Umbrella
Charlie Joe Jackson's Guide to Not Reading
Seedfolk
Incarceron
Three Days
Tangerine
A Tale Dark and Grimm
Also Known as Harper
Claudette Colvin: Twice Towards Justice
Al Capone Does My Shirts
Fever Crumb
Under the Blood Red Sun
A Wrinkle in Time
The Lab

I'm excited to compete this year with my new team.

Have a happy Thanksgiving

 Happy thanksgiving! I can't believe it's already here. It seemed like only a week ago I was on my way to my first day of middle school! It seems like I'll blink and Christmas will already be over...

Let's go to the pumpkin patch....

Welcome to Oregon Ian!!!!

Beautiful Bridges

I went to the Zoo

The mountain goat was eating some hay as we passed over it, and he was in a perfect pose.

The black bear enjoyed playing with toilet paper, and it was all over his domain.

The river otters were so speedy, showing off and going from one side to the other I could never get a decent photo.

We saw many other animals at the zoo, some were big some were small and most of the ones not shown were either fast to scoot away from the camera, or out of sight.

The elephants

At first three elephants were eating/drinking through the fence. Then two of them walked away and left this guy left standing there.