JK Rowling

JK (Joanne Kathleen) Rowling was born in July 1965 at Yate General Hospital in England. She grew up in Chepstow, Gwent where she attended school at Wyedean Comprehensive. JK left Chepstow to enroll at Exeter University, where she earned a French and Classics degree. She earned her french degree by taking a one year course in France. She later moved to Lonson where she worked as a researcher at Amnesty International and many other jobs as well. She started writing the Harry Potter series when her train from Manchester to London King's Cross was delayed. Then, over the next 5 years she outlined the plots for each book and started writing her first Harry Potter book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

Joanne then moved to Northen Portugal, where she was an English teacher at a school. She got married in October 1992 and gave birth to her daughter Jessica in 1993. When she got divorced a couple of years later she and Jessica moved back to the UK and lived in Edinburgh, Where Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone was finally completed. In 2001 JK Rowling married Neil Murray and David, her son, was then born in 2003. Jessica and David had a little sister Mackenzie who was born in 2005.BY: Amalia Boutrup
Information from: http://www.jkrowling.com/en/index.cfm

The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney
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By: Lauren Barnholdt
The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney is a book about a girl named Devon. Devon's parents were going through some marriage issues over the summer so they sent Devon and her little sister Katie to their Grandmother's house. While they were there Devon met a girl named Lexi. Since Devon thought there was no way Lexi would meet her friends and family back home, Devon created a more stylish and popular alter ego based on herself. But, on the first day of 7th grade Devon found out that Lexi was in her class! Devon struggled in keeping Lexi from finding out the truth behind her lies. When Lexi and everyone else found out Devon had lied she felt as if her whole world was coming crashing down. In the end Devon found a way to make everything right again and was accepted again as a friend by Lexi and the "A-list crowd".

My Favorite Part
Is when Devon and her little sister Katie went to the mall with the popular crowd, and Katie was wearing a pink tutu and ice skated because she wanted to be in the Olympics. Katie also went around screaming that Devon had a boyfriend. I like this part because it was funny and I could relate to it since my little annoyance of a brother Bastian embarrasses me too.

By: AMALIA BOUTRUP

Typhoon Morokat

Typhoon Morokat traveled through Taiwan and across to China. It destroyed buildings (like the hotel on the left), houses and not only did it kill many people it destroyed and ruined their life's work. The picture on the left is a picture of Chin Suai Hotel. The 2 meter high water is moving at such rapid currents that it starts chipping away at the earth and foundation of the hotel. This would have been disasterous if the people staying at the hotel hadn't hurried out of there, as there were around 600 people staying there while the typhoon struck all of Taiwan. Even though this typhoon was disasterous, we learn from it. It showed how the enviorment can affect people. If Taiwan wasn't so rocky and mountainess the typhoon wouldn't have been so bad because the water wouldn't be moving that fast. If the water wasn't moving that fast it wouldn't have destroyed as many buildings and/or houses leading to the fact that not as many people would have died!

By: Amalia Boutrup