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My 9/11 Memories and Thoughts

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I wasn't sure if I wanted to post this or not but I decided to share my experience.   pictures are by Robert Clark  I was 15 years old when 9/11 happened. My mom and I just got back from Disney World. We were even thinking about staying another night. Thank God we didn't because we would have been stuck down there. Even though we would have been stuck in the magical place everything was closed down so we would have been stuck in Disney's Pop Resort with no fun and full of worries.  Friday, Sept 11, I was watching Good Morning America while eating my breakfast. I was getting ready to start working on my schoolwork. (I was homeschooled at this point in my life). Diana Sawyer and Charlie Gibson. They thought it was just an accident. At 8:46 am an airplane hit the North Trade Center building.  At 9:00 am Regis and Kelly started their show when all of a sudden their cameras shook. You could see the fear in both Regis and Kelly's eyes. They didn't know what happened. The

Sophia Violet and the Fiery Orb by Evangeline Greene Book Review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Just when fourteen-year-old Sophia Violet thinks her life can't get any weirder, her entire world turns upside down. In a few short weeks, she goes from being an awkward teenager to holding the fate of two worlds in her hands. Naturally, she resists. She has her own problems to solve. Like what's up with her best friend, Luna, who's been shapeshifting in and out of her life for as long as she can remember? Yet no one else, including her adoptive parents, has ever met her. At least not in her human form.   And what about the wolves that haunt Sophia’s fire escape each night? Or the cat that appears out of nowhere just in time to save her from an oncoming car? What do they want? Could they have anything to do with that creepy old woman, Esmeray, who has been lurking around Sophia’s New York City apartment lately?   Things come to a head when Sophia draws the attention of the principal. He invites her to a special summer camp for students from Chiral