The Book that hooked my Brain

   Recently in class, we have been assigned books to read with a reading group. I am in a reading group with Fiona and Nina. There is another reading group reading the same book as our group, but if we combined the two groups we would have six people in the group, so we got separated into threes. The book we are reading in my group is called "Goodbye, Vietnam" by Gloria Whelan. Together we worked as the power of three to create a mini poster with a constitution that we made and taped on, which had our signatures, and I felt like a one of the U.S presidents signing the U.S constitution. On the side we had five rules for our group. The rules were that you had to.....1. Respect others, 2. Work together, 3. Help explain when someone falls behind on the reading, 4. Pay attention, 5. Everyone must participate. After awhile we came up with a brilliant group name that we all agreed on, we called our group, "The Dessert Group". Since, each one of us loves desserts we decided it was a perfect name. For homework we would start having to read our book. The first page of "Goodbye, Vietnam" was actually not really that interesting. But, after I got into a few chapters, it was mesmerizing me."Goodbye, Vietnam" is about a girl named Mai , and her family has some problems with living in the village in the country, like when the police threatened to take away Mai's grandmother. So, Mai's parents sold some of their valuable possessions, and the next thing I knew I was reading about their journey on the boat. I am currently at chapter four right now and I want to read on so badly, but then I would be ahead. I feel really glad that I got assigned with this book, because it takes me away to another land.