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I love my blue Crocs. Crocs Are things that are a letter funny looking and they can be any color. But they are plane so you need gibts, gibts are expensive so I can show you how to make them! A gibit is a little thing that goes in your Croc holes. This is how to make a gibit. The materials you need are super glue, button, 1 small and 1 big round things. The first thing you to make your gibit is do is you super glue the button to the small thing and wait for 30 min. Now you have the bottom to a cool gibt the next you do is color the big round Thing (gibits are good with something shiny on them) and glue the top to the bottom and wait for 30 min then you have a gibit next put it in your crocs.
 * How to make a homemade gibit **

Paul Revere Bookshare
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?

The book And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? is a good book written by Jean Fritz and Illustrated by Margot Tomes. It is about Paul Revere, the Boston Tea Party and the Revolutionary War.

In the beginning, the town of Boston counted 13,000 people, 42 streets, 36 lanes, 22 alleys, 1000 brick houses, 2000 wooden houses, 12 churches, 4 schools, 118 horses, and so many dogs they couldn’t count. Then Paul Revere was born in 1735. When Paul grew up to be fifteen years old, his father died. After his father died he became the leader of the family silversmith business. He made many silver things including jewelry, buttons, medals, household items and shoe buckles. To make more money, he took the job of ringing the church bells 3 times a day and on special occasions.

In 1756, Paul turned 21 years old, but as it happened, a war was near by. French Solders along with the Indians were attacking the borders of the colonies. He went off to defend Fort William Henry, but there were no French or Indians there to fight, just flies. After the summer, they were sent home. He got married to Sarah Orne and they had lots of children. Six, and two babies who died young. Then Sarah died and Paul married Rachel Walker. They had lots of children too. Five, and three who died young.

In 1773, The English were putting a lot of taxes on printed matter, tea, glass, ink, and paper but England would not give up the tax on tea. So Paul and the Sons of Liberty, pretending to be Indians, climbed onto the ships carrying boxes and boxes of tea. They broke open the chests of tea (10,000 pounds of it) and dumped it into Boston Harbor. This was called the "Boston Tea Party". Then Paul was picked to ride his horse to New York and Philadelphia - 63 miles a day- to spread the news. He did it and was back in Boston on the eleventh day, way before anyone expected. During his big ride, English officers captured him, but there was a gunshot, they panicked and let the horses free, then the prisoners, so he walked to Lexington. Paul got in a carriage with John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and John Lowell. They drove about two miles then John and Paul got out of the carriage and walked back to Lexington because there was a trunk of important papers that they needed and they didn't want the English to find them. There were 50-60 armed men preparing to stand against the English. There was a fight. John and Paul carried the trunk through the battlefield to safety. After that, he kept busy. He rode Express for the Committee of Safety, he printed paper money, and he was put in command of the Fort at Castle Island.

Paul Revere was 75 and still always busy. He made sleigh bells, hammers, church bells, etc. Paul is old and no one bothers to count the streets and alleys, horses or houses because the 33,787 people of Boston are too busy making the town bigger and bigger.

I think that the **author's purpose** is to help children learn the history of Paul Revere by making the book interesting, not boring like a textbook. She uses fun facts to educate you, and using pictures that show what's happening and making it exciting by telling it like it's really happening. If you were writing a report about Paul Revere, this would be a good book because you can find lots of fun facts, and can use her good descriptions of Paul Revere's life.

Some **connections** between this book about Paul Revere and my life are that we are having a war today in Iraq and they were having a War in the fight for being the United States. I have an aunt and uncle living in Boston. We both had pets- he had a dog, I had a cat and a fish. He swatted flies at lake fort Henry, I swatted flies when a mouse died in the wall behind the stove in my kitchen. He whittled hippopotamus teeth, I whittled sticks. I learned to ride a horse at camp. He rode his horse from Boston to New York and Philadelphia and back in eleven days. I think it would take me a year and I would lose my way 100 times