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**Here is one of my reading logs** !!!!!!!!

**Tittle: my story Be counted** **Author: Janine Mc Veagh** **Date : 21st of June** **Genre:history** **Rating:******* 5 stars very inspiring book **plot summary:** ** Amy lived with her mother, father and 3 brothers. Their dad is an alcoholic and wastes all the family's money. Amy loves art and wishes she could stay at school and do more. One day her Aunty Delia sent Amy a telegram asking her if she would like to come and stay with her and her uncle in D﻿unedin. Amy decided to go she really loved it there she met lots of new friends, but she missed her family terribly! ** **Amy's Aunty Delia had two house maids. Mary and her mother, at first Mary was quite mean but after a while she became nicer and Amy was her friend. Amy's Aunty is in a pro active group for letting women vote, they are trying to get as many signitures from people as they can to let women vote! One day Mary's mother sadly dies and mary has to leave. At school amy is getting very good at art. After a while amy stars getting worried about mary, her and her friends try and find mary but they cant then amy's uncle helps and he finds mary! She is in hospital put she is allowed to come and stay with Amy & her aunt mary got pneumonia which is not infectious then when mary is better she goes and works were they sew clothes every so often Mary goes and visits Amy! In the end women get to vote ! yay**

**Personal response :** **I really loved reading this book because Amy was such a realistic c and some things in the book really happened. By reading this book I learnt about New Zealand history! I was surprised to learn that New Zealand was the first country to let women vote!**