"Wilma and Biff saw a notice. It was about a go-kart race." (p. 1). Wilma and Biff wanted to the go-kart race so their mums and dads made a new go-kart. Anneena also wanted to the go-kart race. But suddenly accident happened! Their go-kart crashed!! Everyone was upset. But Chip came up with a great idea. They put the front of Anneena’s go-kart on the back of Wilma’s. (p.16). What a pretty idea! The children were fond of the new one soon. I could hope they won first prize. But they didn’t. This news made me sad but after soon I was surprised and glad. Silver Bullet did win a prize. It was the best- looking go-kart. (p. 24). I was really happy to read this part. I am sure you can feel happiness so I recommend to read this book. Hunt, R., & Brychta, A. (2011). The go-kart Race. Oxford University Press.
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"In the summer, Henry and his dog Mudge liked to go on picnics." (P. 8). Henry and Mudge go to picnics! They prepared delicious food for picnics. Sounds fun!! They play on the beautiful green hill. Green leaves, flowers, and beautiful tree make Henry and Mudge lively. By reading, I think that I become to be lively like them. These days the weather is very cold, so I feel a beautiful atmosphere of summer first time in days. In addition, I didn’t go to picnics for a long time, so I will go to picnics with friends in this spring. And a boy and a dog slept, together, on the green hill in their time. (p. 48). This is the end of this story. In this scene, Henry is wearing a crown made by leaves. It looks very nice! The leaves crown is suitable for summer picnics. I want such nice crown when I have picnics. I can’t make crown by leaves but can make it by flowers. Therefore, I will make a crown in my picnic day! I am looking forward to it! If you want to feel lively atmosphere
"Hugo is your hero. You started to sing and play guitar because of him." (p. 4). You are the main character. Your favorite band, The Martians, is coming to town. You and Julie, your friend, are going to the live of The Martians. You can choose some the end. I chose one of the bad ending. I and Julie tried to pass backstage of The Martians but Julie couldn’t pass. I could pass backstage and walk to see Hugo. Hugo, who is a singer of The Martians, have long-time girlfriend. However I found Hugo is insincere. He is kissing another girl! How fool he is!! I was very disappointed by him. Passing backstage is danger. I ran and hid to see my hero. I took a risk for my hero but there was no here. I couldn’t restrain my anger. Thus I sold the information about Hugo’s first scandal. I didn’t regret selling the information but it made me sick. If I read this book again, I want to choose good ending to feel good. Ito, L. (2014). Backstage pass. Tokyo, Japan. Atama-ii Books.
"But I don’t tell anyone about them. I’ve decided to write my feelings here in my diary." (p. 10). Mia Thermoplis lives with her mother and her cat in New York City. She is an ordinary girl but it’s not true. Actually, Mia is a princess of Genovia! I think ordinary girls dream to be a princess so Mia will be glad to know the truth. But she isn’t glad. In fact, Mia doesn’t want to be a princess! I was really surprised to her anger and sadness. I didn’t understand her feelings. However I was understanding little by little to read the story. She will lose her name, friends who know her true character, and even ordinary girl’s life because of her birth. She loves her life at heart. It is naturally to be angry and sad. I understand dream is only dream so dream looks beautiful. When dream comes true, it isn’t filled always happiness. Mia faces truth and comes to term with it. Mia is suffer from many things but tries to find her own way. Mia’s way is so hard for 14th girls so
It started from Diana’s background and the other story. It was so complicated. She met Chirles and got merry with him. However, he was cold to her because of her way to raise their children, so she divorced her husband. After that, she worked hard for charity. She was loved by many people for that. Unfortunately, she had a car accident and died in a hospital, but she was a great woman in the world. This is so sad story, but she is loved by all over the world. I think that she is one of the great woman in the world, too. Anne Collins. Princess Diana (2009). Macmillan Readers.
"My name is Mia Thermopolis and this is my diary." (p. 8). This book is the second story of The Princess Diaries series. Mia is an ordinary New York girl until a month ago. Actually she is a Princess of Genovia! The second story is one month later first story. She started new life as Princess of Genovia but it’s not easy. Mia’s mother, Helen is marrying Mia’s Algebra teacher. Furthermore, she received love letters from a secret admirer. I got your letter. Thank you very much. Who are you? I won’t tell anyone. Please tell me. I’ll keep your secret. (p. 22). She asked his name many times by replay. However, he didn’t tell his name. His name was answered in the last part of the story.And Mia’s mother is going to have a baby. Mia’s going to be a big sister. She was really worried about her mother. Because of her worry, she made terrible mistake! The second story is funny as well as the first story. Mia is a ordinary teenager but she is a princess. Her life seems to be
“We want to have a party for you. We want to meet your family. ” “Now that is nice,” said Amelia Bedelia. “Who would you like to invite?” asked Mrs. Rogers. (p. 5). Mr and Mrs. Rogers want to have a party for their houseworker, Amelia Bedelia. Amelia is glad to hear that and then she shows her family album to choose guests. Amelia introduces her family looking the pictures. Mr and Mrs. Rogers seem to understand Amelia’s introduction, but actually, they misunderstand until Amelia gives more information to them. I like Amelia’s introduction because in the sentence, there are many funny expression. Amelia’s introduction makes a play on words. For example… “This is my daddy” said Amelia Bedelia. “He is a telephone operator.” “Then he helps people make calls,” said Mr. Rogers. (p. 7). And then… He does not!” said Amelia Bedelia. “He operates on telephones.” “I see,” said Mr Rogers. (p. 8). This is the first play on words. After reading this one, I laughed and thought it is like
"But why did he want to see the house? And why did he ask me all those questions?" (p. 6) This is a story of a man and a woman. The woman is cleaning people's house. It's her job. On the way she goes to work, she was always meeting the man and talked together. One day, she heard that a burglar broke into one of the houses she was working at. Then, she told him about that accident. After that, he said that he wanted to go and see the house for no reason. She was wondering why he wanted to do that, but they went to the house together. They reached the house and the identity of the burglar was clarified... If you want to know who it was, you should read this book! Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter. (2000). Blackmail . Edinburgh: Pearson Education Limited
"Don't cry, my little darling. I'm here; Grace is here. You're with me now. Everything's going to be all right. Grace is going to sing to you."(p.25) Can you image that our children are taken by someone, suddenly? I can't believe to do that. But, it really happened in this story. Grace gave birth to a pretty girl. She became a mother and she was waiting for her husband to come back from his work as a soldier. However, an incident happened. A woman, Sue took the baby and said she grow the baby. In Sue's house, there was a window, and Grace was always looking her child from the window. However, Sue thought that it was a picture, so Grace could keep looking her daring baby. One day, the house was on fire. Grace embraced the baby and protected the daughter. Then a fireman got into the room. It was her husband, but he didn't notice, and he took the baby. I think it is strange that the woman is over the window, and others get wrong it
Americans call California ‘The Golden State’. And it’s true that people once came to look for gold and silver in the mountains. Now they come to see the great cities, the big parks, the beautiful desert, the wonderful coast of Big Sur, or to enjoy Disneyland. (p. 1). This book is about California. Readers can learn about San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and so on. Thorough the story, readers can understand history, nature, and cities in California. The most surprising story for me is the earthquake in San Francisco. Before reading, I thought an earthquake is rare in America. However, it is not true. At 5. 13 a.m. on April 18, 1906, here was a terrible earthquake in San Francisco. The earthquake destroyed about 5000 buildings immediately. (p. 4) What a terrible thing! I can’t imagine how terrible scene in San Francisco at that time. People in San Francisco might have been sad, if I were them, I couldn’t overcome so easily. How can we overcome such terrible experience? Howeve
This time he was on his trolley, and he had anet in his hands. The characters are very unique. "Wallace", a man, he presents an unusual present for his dog, Gromit. One day, because of borrowing much money from many places, he should earn many money. He decided to make a "SPARE ROOM FOR RENT". Then, a penguin came to his house to rent the room. Actually, this penguin has a plot something wrong and they started fighting using the trousers between penguin and Wallace, Gromit. This book is easy to understand and some of their meanings are also written, so you can understand the rough story easily. Especially, I recommend the scene they are fighting. It's written like a real so I was so excited reading. Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter, The Wrong Trousers, Oxford Dominoes
The story begins with Mrs. Rogers words. “I am late for a lunch date,” she said. “But I must find an umbrella before I go. They say it is going to rain cats and dogs.” (p. 5). Amelia Bedelia thinks that dogs and cats will fall like rain. Of course, such surprising phenomenon doesn’t happen. However, Amelia Bedelia finds the kitten. She picked up the kitten. “You look like a tiny tiger,” said Amelia Bedelia. She scratched it between its ears. The kitten purred and purred. “You even sound like a tiny tiger,” said Amelia Bedelia. “So Tiger is what I’ll call you.” (p. 12). Amelia Bedelia starts to take care of the kitten and then a lot of funny happening cause. Can she care the kitten safely? Readers have to feel uneasy about happening caused by her. This time, I really enjoyed looks of the lovely kitten. The kitten is tiny, so sometimes he is in the bag and cardboard. It looks very cute. In addition, the last scene of the story, the kitten finds his mother and brothers. The
Miss Edwards, the science teacher, needs my help at the science fair.” (p. 6). On this time, Amelia Bedelia goes to a science fair and also she causes an incident! Amelia Bedelia usually misunderstands meaning of words and phrases. This misunderstanding causes a problem. Usually, Amelia Bedelia doesn’t feel apologetic for her misunderstanding but remarkably she does in this story. “I feel terrible,” said Amelia Bedelia. “I ruined Jason’s project. I embarrassed Dr. Dinglebatt. I don’t feel like a rocket scientist. I am going back to housekeeping.” (p. 50). In the end, everything is OK but I think this time, Amelia Bedelia’s regret seems to be important. This is the first time to see Amelia Bedelia’s regret. I thought Amelia Bedelia couldn’t understand that the causes of many troubles is her behavior. However, she can understand. I’m sorry for her. Someone who have to regret is me. I misunderstood Amelia Bedelia. She knows how people feel by her action. Amelia Bedelia is exactly go
A long time ago there were no houses and people lived in caves. (p. 9). Stanly who is a protagonist lives in a cave. The cave is not comfortable to live, so Stanly feels bad. Actually, he is not like a caveman. He likes painting pictures, planting seeds, and being kind to animals and people. One day, cavemen angry at Stanly. He can not live in caves anymore. What will Stanly do for his life? Stanly is very kind man. I think wise ancient people such as Stanly made our lives. Stanly is really wise. He makes new comfortable house instead of caves. I think this is innovation. If I were a caveman, I could not come up with such nice house. Stanly contributes life of present people. I like him very much. I think this scene shows that Stanly is a wise man. “Caves are old-fashioned, ” said Stanly. “Come and see where I live. ” (p. 58). Cavemen are surprised by Stanly’s nice house. When I read this scene, I am really proud of Stanly. Nice person will be rewarded. This story is good and I