The Three Musketeers

Mark (Meng) Cui

Title: The Three Musketeers
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Date Started: 27th June
Date Finished: 27th June
D'Artagnan was the main character.

What happens? The three musketeers protect the king against evil forces in the story.

What is the theme? I think friendship and bravery are the themes.
I think this is a good book. I learnt bravery and loyalty are important from it.
This is good and very famous book. I read it, but unfortunately cannot fully understand it.

Hercules, Serpent's Shadow

Maggie (Jianmei) Cao

2010.6.24--2010.6.28.

This story's author is Timothy Boggs. This was a very famous television show many years ago.

This was book was about a journey of Hercules. The book has twelve chapters. Every one is interesting. The story has a lot of terrible things. Hercules and his friends meet lots of terrible things on the journey. On the journey they have sadnesses and also have happinesses. In the end Hercules and his friends came back home.

I think this is an exciting story. Although Hercules and his friends meet lots of terrible things on the journey, they foster the very meaning of Hercules and his friends' life. From start to end they are together.They very good friends. I want to find some good friends, because I feel friends are very important.

Arabian Nights

Tomoe Watanabe

The title I read was Arabian Nights. This book's author isn’t given. I think the genre is a fable. I started reading it on the 15th of June, and I haven't finished it yet, because this book is very long. I’m still reading it now. This book I bought at the book sale. The reason’s I knew some of the tales. I want to know more other tales, as I’m interested in these tales. I think the book is sat during the Medieval Islamic period in an Arabian land. The main characters are Scheherazabe and Schahria.

This stories rough content is Schahria's wife was unfaithful to him. He has distrust of his wife, so he takes vengeance on all women. One day Scheherazabe heard about this. She thinks to stop the vengeance, so she married him. As she talks every night she changes his mind. The tales she tells attract him. He wants to hear the next tales, so he stops the vengeance. He had been listening to her for a thousand and one consecutive days.

I think the best point in this book is it has so many tales. So they’re very interesting. You can know the famous fairy tales of Arabia and this book includes many famous fairy tales. I knew such a tale as “Aladdin and his Magic Lamp”,“Sinbad the Sailor” and “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.” I think this book reads easy comparatively and the tales are interesting. I rate this book as good, but this book has a lot of tales, so I think you need much time for reading it. If you are interested in this book, read it.

Walkabout

Turki Alfaqir

Title :Walkabout

Author:James Vance Marshall

Genre:Normal

Date started:12/7/2010

Date finished:13/7/2010

The bush boy walked alone. He was on his walkabout. He had to live in the desert alone for six months. He had to find food and water. He had to kill animals, and find fruit on the trees.

In Australia, when an aboriginal male is sixteen, his tribe sends him out into the Australin Bush. A lot of the bush is desert. The bush boy has to live there alone for months. The Aboriginals call tis time the 'walkabout'

This is the story of an Aboriginal boy's walkabout, but it is also the story of two American children. Mary and Peter are lost in the Australian desert after an aeroplane crash. Their uncle is waiting for them in Adelaide, a long way away. The desert is a strange world for the children. They come from a city, and things are different there. When they meet the bush boy, they learn about the desert. They also start to think about their world.

This book is good The English level is easy. I recommend other students read this book.

Muhammad Ali

Khalid Al Shaer

Author: Bernard Smith.

Genre: Sport.

Data Started: 13th of July

Data Finished: 14th of July

Who are the main characters ? The boxer, Muhammad Ali.

What happens? The book tells the story of Muhammad Ali, how he lived in the US and the problems black men had with white men, how he changed his name from Cassius Clay to Muhammad Ali and how he got a lot money.

What is the message? Sport can bring a lot of money.

What did you think of the book? I think it is good .

What did you learn through reading this book? I learned some new words .

How would you rate the book? Good.

Aladdin and the Lamp

Jaye Feng

Aladdin does not have a Daddy. One day a magician pretending to be Aladdin's uncle took him to a cave. He wanted Aladdin's to get a magic lamp from the cave. As soon as Aladdin looked into the cave he saw glittering wealth inside! But Aladdin discovered he was in danger. The cave was sealed up by the magician. Pitifully Aladdin rubbed the lamp, and in front of him appeared a kind of vast white thing, seemingly a huge monster, but actually a genie. The genie helped Aladdin, and enabled him to have the castle and princess. I like the genie, because he gladly helps humans.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Tomoe Watanabe

I read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. My home stay mother lent me this book, so that was how I came to read it.
I started reading it on the 26th of July and I finished reading it on the 30th of July.
This story is a famous movie.
I liked this movie, because the film was directed by Tim Burton. A black joke is contained in the films he makes.
I think the genre is a fantasy and comedy.

The main characters are five children, small factory staff and a factory owner 'Willy Wonka.' He’s a crazy but amazing chocolatier. These five children are very individual, so the characters are easy to introduce. There is a chubby boy, an offensive girl, a willful girl, a high tech nerdy boy and a kind boy.

It’s a few days story. Five children got gold tickets, so they can go to see the secrets in Wonka's factory. The factory is very strange, because there is a chocolate river and small people staying there. The children have a valuable and dreamlike experience in the factory and experience happenings fitting to their various types, for example the fatty boy and the willful girl. The fat boy saw the amazing chocolate river. He couldn’t stop his appetite and then he fell mistakenly into it, but was sucked from the chocolate river through a big straw. In the end he looked like a chocolate doll. After time the willful girl met a smart squirrel, because it knows how to break a walnut, so she wanted it, but Wonka said "Keep away because danger." She couldn’t give this up. The squirrel got angry at when she caught the squirrel, so she was caused to fall into a big dust box by the squirrel.

I think this book's message is “keep your actions within bounds” and “Children shouldn’t act like adults”.
I rate this book as excellent because I like fiction stories and I like Johnny Depp. The English level I rate as a little difficult but my host children can read this book. Find it and try it.