I have a lot to blog about and not enough time so i'll do it tomorrow.

I started a new book called Burned by Ellen Hopkins. It's about a Mormon girl that has a bad family life. She has quite a few sisters and her father is an alcoholic and beats her mom. She finally begins to rebel and goes totally against her religion. She gets a boyfriend and keeps him a secret until her father catches them. He tells him that he better stay away so he does.

Lila and a few other people were sitting outside for Lila's birthday party when a sherriff pulls up. He gets out and tells them that Clay is in jail. He says he's in jail for kidnapping and assault of Alicia. Everyone gets into cars and leaves except for Gerite and John, they stay there. John ends up leaving and Gertie is home alone. She goes into the house to realize a tree that had been struck by lighting fell on the house and started it on fire. She goes to call 911 but changes her mind when she thinks about the history of the house. She goes upstairs to grab the blanket she had been knitting for Lila's baby and when she comes back down the stairs she sees that the fire had carried through the house and she was stuck. Then the book jumps to a letter Lila wrote to her daughter that had been born and the letter was put in her file. Next it jumps to Toby at Gertie's, John's (John attempted to save Gertie out of the burning house), and Howard's graves. Toby lives with George now and the book ends with them sitting on the porch talking.

Time for another project...

I didn't get to read much, I was a liltle late because I was at the junior high talking to kids about high school.
Lila goes to Fort Robinson with Clay and Tim. While they are eating, Alicia comes to see Clay. Alicia gets mad at Clay and leaves so Clay goes after her. Lila walks around to see things and Tim follows her until Lila yells at him to leave her.

They all go to a rodeo where George sees Tim selling some kind of drug so George takes after him. Lila goes to Royce and Julia's and talks to Julia about them taking her baby. Julia says she has no desire to have a baby. Lila goes home and her and Toby get into an arguement but i'm not real sure what it was about. Toby ends up telling Lila about how she was pregnant when David died but got bullied to give it up.

Lila goes to the library to find newspapers from when Rosemary and David but finds nothing. She goes to the newspaper building and meets a new boy named Owen who looks to be about her age. She looks through newspapers and finds information on Rosemary and David. Lila's mom calls her but Lila doesn't really want to talk to her and ends up hanging up.

George teaches Lila how to drive a stick-shift. They talk about how and why Lila got pregnant. George tells her about how he is going to marry the married woman he likes. Toby and Gertie take Howard, Gertie's husband, to a nursing home.

I didn't get to read a whole lot today because the German class was in here. The only thing I read about was Lila going to visit Julie and Royce's and George.

There is a big ceremony for branding and castrating the cows. Everybody comes together to get the job down. It's a two day thing and lunch is a huge meal. There's enough food to feed an army. Lila gets joked about a lot from all the cowboys. During the day, George takes her to a place where she's out of the way and can watch everything. The second day of branding, the banker shows up because Toby can't afford the land anymore. George comes up with a shotgun and Julia, the lady that leases the land, comes up and tells them to leave. He ends up leaving.

Lila sees her cousin George while she is walking. He takes her with him to talk to a girl that he likes..even though she is married with a kid. They end up arguing and she walks home. Lila goes to the old cemetary and looks at all her old family members' tombstones. Then she goes home and sits on the porch with Toby and talks. Toby can't afford to live at the farm anymore but she doesn't tell Lila.

I've been gone the past 4 days so this is the first time i've gotten to blog.

I haven't gotten very far in the book yet but so far a girl named Lila is pregnant and goes to live with her Aunt Toby. Another lady lives there named Gertie that doesn't like Lila. Toby and Gertie get into an argument about Lila.