I chose the book, “The explorer” as my first choice, because the cover had me intrigued and based on the cover and the title I thought it would involve something to do with a jungle and animals which so far it does have animals and includes a jungle (Amazon Rainforest). My reading lab this year isn’t much different from last year besides the fact that we have quite more arts and crafts, which is more exciting and fun! My goals as a reader is to be able to read continuously for a good amount of time without getting distracted or not fulfilling my goal. One more goal is to enlarge my vocabulary by reading a lot! I suggest the teachers a novel from Alan Gratz especially Refugee or his newest one, Two Degrees.