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=Just finished up the book and I agree...what a good book. You did a wonderful job of selecting something to read. I enjoyed learning about Molly's character. She is such a strong young lady. When I was her age I wasn't nearly as confident as her. She has been through so much in her life, the loss of her mother and the stress of meeting her father. She is very mature and knows what she wants in life. I really liked how even though her mother was gone she still "spoke" to Molly through her letters. "Always believe and you'll end up where your supposed to". That is some advice that I will take with me. Molly's character changed through out the story beacuse she learns that only you can make yourself happy. Depending on others could just be a disappointment. You must WANT to be happy before you can truly be so. With Moly being my favorite character I wouild have to say that Bobby Fishman was my least favorite!!! What a slim ball. To think that his little trick almost worked and Molly could have ended up without a father. However, I was very pleased with the out come of the story. Molly needs to be with her dad. At the end it did sorta tell you that Kimmy knew Josh was Molly's dad so I was happy to have that question answered. I feel that this book would be a nice choice for just about any younger adult. You don't have to be a sports lover to appreciate it.=

I really enjoyed the book. You did a great job of selecting it. It was a stroy I would have never read if not being a part of this, but I am glad that I did! Wow, the count down for Summer is on....I bet your so excited!! By the way there is a Kristan Schackmann in High School.... I think she was even in the Muscial, so don't worry about getting us confused! I am looking forward to visiting with you next week and getting to meet you face to face. Hope that you have a great week and I'll see ya next Tuesday!!
 * Hey Emillee

Kristan** __  Week 4__ Kristan & Emilee Week 4

I loved this book. I loved it because it was different from most books I read. I am use to reading romantic lovey-dovey stories so a good sports/family book was nice. The book was a heart-felt story about a girl who had lost her mother, and is trying to capture her father’s heart--which was a hard thing to do since she had never met him before. Molly was the young girl in the story. She to me did not really change except the people who were apart of her life did. Her family tree consisted of Barbara and her husband, Kimmy, and of course Sam Bloom. Since Molly’s mother had died, she was left with a drawer full of letters from her mom before she had passed away. In the letters, it mentioned of her dad, Josh Cameron. So from reading, her mission was to make him believe she was his daughter without having to do any technical test and such. So as the story ended, Molly had now added more family. She then had a father, and the whole Celtics team to be there for her. The life lesson I got out of this book was that if you believe anything is possible, and that to accomplish things you have to work hard for it and try new things, you can’t just expect something to happen without any effort. I believe Molly followed this motto quite well all throughout the story. One quote her mom always told her was, “Always believe and you’ll end up where your suppose to be”. I think Molly believed as much as a little kid believes in Santa Claus, because she ended up with Josh as her father. The only question I have after reading this book was that if Molly is going to move still or not. Since the author pretty much proved Josh and Molly were going to be father and daughter on the last page, it makes me speculate if she will move and lose her best friend Sam. I would not want to change the ending of the book at all. I thought it was picture perfect. The author used great imagery to make me feel as if I could see Josh and Molly standing by the skyscraper tall Christmas tree in New York, finally hugging each other as father and daughter.

= = = = = = = Week 3 Adult: Kristan Schackmann = Student: Emilee Johnson Book Title: Miracle on 49th St. Pages Read: 78-147

After everything happening with Molly finally telling Josh about him being her father, one thing that crossed his mind was a DNA test. However, the first thing that crossed Molly’s mind when that was brought up was an immediate no. She wanted to try to work things out without having to be told they were father and daughter. Also after having the whole big discussion about DNA and such, Molly had basketball tryouts, which she was way far better than she ever expected. While mentioning having the tryouts to Josh, Mattie, his “assistant” pointed out where did he think she got it from. All the possibilities of Josh and Molly being father and daughter just keep on adding up. When Josh and Mattie came to meet Molly beside her house, Mattie was talking to Molly about how Josh had taken the letter about him her mother had wrote and left it on his desk just after he threw it away the night before. Recently now Josh and Molly are starting to try more and more. Now she has been showing up to every practice or game she can make to try to spend time with him, if her family says it is okay. Ever since Josh had met with Barb, Molly had concluded that Barbara never really did like Josh a whole two cents, but she acted like she did anyways. Barb had said that they could spend as much time possible unless it was a school night. So this was a start Molly thought. As a start of hitting things off, Molly joined Mattie and Josh in the trip to New York to see Josh’s basketball game. Even though this was suppose to be bonding time, Josh had been leaving Molly second guessing things. When they first met up at the suite, they hardly had a conversation. Then in a matter of what seemed ten minutes, Josh left leaving Molly a little frustrated. The main character of “Miracle On 49th Street” is Molly, a young girl who had recently lost her mom and found out the famous Josh Cameron who played for the Celtics. She is determined to make Josh believe he is her father and win over his heart. Molly reminds me a lot of myself. The way she acts about things is probably what I would do in the same situation. She can be very determined, and get a little frustrated easily. For instance, when Josh was being stubborn, or said a silly comment, Molly wasn’t afraid to talk back. Another example that made me think of myself is that she uses a lot of sarcasm. I have a terrible habit of using sarcasm, which leaves me sometimes getting in a knot of trouble with what I say. Another trait Molly has is that she is super sneaky. Some how she finds out a way to sneak around and see her father without Barbara knowing. How she does it without getting in trouble will always be a mystery to me. The other main character in the book is Josh Cameron. In other words the super-star who knows he is all that and a bag of chips. He is led to be Molly’s father, but he will not believe it. He is stubborn, self-centered, and at times he can be loving. Pretty much everything Molly is, but yet he still will not, and does not want to believe Molly is his daughter—for now that is.

Hey Kristan! The book is going pretty good so far right? I am pretty shocked on how Josh is saying he doesn’t care, but he is acting like it anyways. So not cool! If I were Molly I would sure be pretty hurt by his actions if I knew. Just because Josh is some hotshot basketball player doesn’t mean he can't care for his daughter. If that is his daughter that is. So I am not one-hundred percent sure what grade your in, my bad for never asking! I really hope things work out between Josh and Molly! Talk to you later! Emilee

I am enjoying the second part of the book as well. I am still disappointed in Josh's reactions towards Molly. She is trying so hard and I do feel very bad for her. Taking a DNA test would be the simplest way to solve this whole mystery but I can understand Mollys wishes to try and win Josh over all on her own. I was totaly shocked to here Barabra tell Molly about the move!! I know that her plan is to stay with Josh but I'm not so sure that she'll wont be changing her mind. The way that Josh has been acting toward her she may change her mind and go ahead with the move. I think the scariest part of moving would be to change schools. I was very lucky when I was going to school and never had to make such an adjustment. Plus she'll be leaving Sam behind. There is one thing I'm a littel confused about in the story. Unless maybe I've missed soemthing. So Molly is getting to spend all this time with Josh, going to practices, games and even the overnight weekends. Well if they are suppost to be keeping this a secret ( her being his daughter) then what does Kimmy think is going on?? She is obssed with Josh and is already jealous that Molly is getting to be so close with him, doesn't she suspect something?? I didn't ever remember reading that Kimmy knew Molly might be Josh's daughter so what is everybody telly Kimmy when she ask why Josh and Molly are becoming so close??

This is a pretty good book so far. I have never read any thing by this author but I do know he has alot of other books. I keep forgeting that you don't really know much about me. I am 28 years old. I went to school in Newton and I went to college at Lakeland. I am married and have a 2 year old son named Owen and I am pregnant with our second son, we are due in July. I work as a Librarian at the Newton Public Library. As I've mentioned before I do love to camp. We went camping last weekend but the rain kinda put a damper on things. Yes, sometimes we do go to Sam Parr to camp but last weeken we went to Olney.** Have a good day Kristan**
 * Hey Emilee
 * This is the first year that I've ever helped out with the reading rocks. Until Mrs. Shull approached me I had never even heard of it before, but I am enjoying it. I will be looking forward to meeting you in few weeks.

WOW! This is definitely shocking. I totally thought you were in highschool. I was talking to Ilene Woods about Reading Rocks and she asked who my partner was, so I told her. The thing she said was that you worked at the libary, and i was dumbfounded. I guess that proves adults normally are usually right about stuff! Shows how much I know! Maybe we should have introduced ourselves in the first letter. Oh well! Back to the story--I am so in shock of how either Kimmy does or does not know. It is like she doesn't, but how the story plays it seems like she does! Also the whole moving thing, that is going to be a good story ender if everything goes right. I personally can not wait to see how it finishes. I am actually getting ready to finish the book in about three minutes! I shall see what happens! Emilee