class project - new blog

This blog is a new experience for me!  I am creating this blog for a graduate class I am now taking.  I am trying to come up with a blogging idea for my 7th grade students, and I want to tie it into the novels will be reading this spring.  One class will be reading The Outsiders and one will be reading Freak the Mighty.  Here are links with descriptions of both: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_the_Mighty and http://www.shmoop.com/the-outsiders/summary.html 

I want to make it fun and interesting while incorporating technology!