Describe a part of the book that made you feel something strongly (i.e. something that made you cry, laugh, get really angry, etc.).
While reading Hereville, How Mirka Got Her Sword by Barry Deutsch, I noticed that there were some parts that made me feel very strong emotions. One of these times was when the main character Mirka was knitting a sweater and trying really hard to finish it in an attempt to beat a very ugly troll. Even when she clearly has a worse sweater, Mirka stalls by arguing that her sweater is so much much better than his ugly one. She stalled so long that the sun came up and turned the troll into yarn. Then Mirka pulled one of the strings and ran away. This made me laugh out loud because her sweater looked like it was at least a hundred years old because it was full of holes. The troll's sweater was perfectly made in Mirka's size. And yet Mirka still defeated him. That was one of the times that I detected emotion in the story of Hereville.
Lyra, 6th grade, Cambridge Street Upper School
