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AUTHOR: WILL FOWLER
PUBLISHER: PEARSON EDICATION LIMITED
NOT FICTION - BIOGRAPHY

What is the book about ?

The book is about the life and plays of William Shakespeare.

What is the most important idea?

Will Fowler writes about his life but especially about his plays.
The life of William Shakespeare were written long after his death and we can not be sure that they are true because most of the stories about his personal life were written include the words "perhaps or probably".
The author says that William Shakespeare was a great  dramatist because he was a professional man of the theatre. He learnt to write plays by seeing and acting in plays written by others. Also he says that Shakesperare in every play describes the personality and appearance of his characters what seem real and included all kinds of people.

What do you think about the book?

I recommended tis book to everyone with an interest to know the plays of William Shakespeare. The author describes every play the action, the argument, the historical and political moment lived in the century XVI and early XVII in England but the author writes very little of Shakespeare's life, only he describes the play's characters to compare them with Shakespeare.

Name of reviewer: Rosa Mª Garcia

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AUTHOR: T.C. JUPP
PUBLISHER: MACMILLAN READERS
FICTION

One day, a mailman go to minta to give a letter to a family from them their son.
Not being able to read or write, ask the village teacher for help.
He tell them that his son send them a check 100 pounds and they have to go to Darpur to collect it. They are rich!
The next day them left for Darpur to collect it.
He has many problems when he arrive. 1º he is to collect it but without identification he can´t and until the next day he can´t do it. 2º he is timid a photographer who charge him and didn´t take the photos. He tired the man assault the photographer  when the police came after throwing him out of town.
He asks the teacher for help and recommend an important friend to help him.When he arrives, he was slow to meet him, and when he can see him, he tell him that the check,he  has no valve.
A change, he gives him 10 pounds and the man returns to Minta to sad and poor.

I found it a little boring but i think it´s entertaining. i recomend it to everyone who is starting with this language,it´s very easy.

EMILIO JIMÉNEZ

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AUTHOR : OSCAR WILDE
PUBLISHER : BURLINGTON BOOKS
FICTION

This is the story of the Canterville ghost. The Otis family arrive in England fron the U.S.A and they want to live in Canterville chase because the house is very big and elegant but it has a ghost.
The ghost tries to frighten them many times but they aren't afroid and they make jokes.
At the end the ghost is sad and he hates his life but Virginia Otis helps the ghost to find peace. She opnes the Gates of Death for the ghost and he sleeps forever in the Garden of Death.

It is a funny story and easy to read. The adventures of the ghost with the Otis twins are fun. I recommend it to everyone who wants to smile for a few minutes.

ELENA DE ANDRES

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Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Oxford University press
Fantasy and Horror

Oscar Wilde was a wonderful storyteller. His stories are still very popular today. The
Canterville Ghost was one of the stories in a book called Lord Arthur Savile's crime
and other stories published in 1891.

In this book Lord Canterville decides to sell the old house with a peculiar guest, a ghost, to the American Otis family (Mr and Mrs Otis, and their children: Wasington, the pretty Virginia and the two happy noisy twins). The ghost is both angry and unhappy because the modern Americans they not angry, his job is to frighten people and the Otis family aren't frightened by any of his best tricks. However the Otis twins they knew more tricks than the poor ghost and always frighten him. The ghost felt something special for the beautiful Virginia and he told her that he is lonely and doesn't know that to do. He has not slept for three hundred years so he was tired, she begins to feel sorry for him, suddenly the wall opened and Virginia went with him and the wall was closed. At luchtime, Virginia doesn't come down and all family were worry, they looked everywhere but she wasn't appared. At midnight a secret door opened in the wall and out walked Virginia! she was very white and she told them the ghost was dead and he's peaceful now, he was a bad man, but he was really sorry for everything that he did, she said. He helpedme to understand about life and death and the love is stronger than both. And finally Virginia keep the secret of what happened when she was alone with the ghost.

The beautiful story is a fantasy of the author that makes is mysterious and funny at the same time, and leaves us a wonderful message about life.

Name of reviewer: Pedro Mejías

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Title: Blood Diamonds
Author: Richard Macandrew
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Fiction/Non fiction: Fiction

Harley Kirkpatrick and Annie Sherpherd are two young intrepid journalists on the Daily Post newspaper in Fleet Street, London.

In one of their investigations they try to clarify the case "Blood Diamonds".

The first thing they do is meet wiht Van Delft dedicated to dirty and fraudulent business. These reports suspent that Van Delft buys and sells diamonds from Africa to obtain guns for use in wars in African countries. The youns journalist Kirkpatrick puts his life in danger, but in the end Kirkpratrick  manages to imprison Van Delft.

Annie Sherpherd and Harley Kirkpatrick are very tired but happy because they know they are going to write one of their best reports.

This book exposes the great social problem that many countries aren´t  interested in being investigated. I think that these kinds of problems must be known and investigated by our politicians and put an end to certain murderous mafias.

Name of reviewer: Juani Granero Palop

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Title: Amelia Earhart
Author: Janet Hardy-Gould
Publisher: Bookworms
Non fiction

Amelia Earhart wants to learn to fly. But flying is expensive and dangerous. She works hard to be a pilot and most people think it is for men, not women.
She flies across the Atlantic with two pilots and two years later she does it on her own. She also gets across the Pacific.
Amelia is the first woman who has ever flown across the Atlantic and the Pacific.
She won an important award for being the best airwoman in the United States.
In 1936 she began to think about her last big adventure. She´d like to fly  around the world. But in this last adventure her plane dissapears when she´s flying over the Pacific Ocean near Howland Island.

I like this book because the main character is a woman who wants to fly and she gets to do it. She becomes a pilot, a traditional job for men at that time. She is ahead of her time and she has a spirit of adventure.

Name of reviewer: Ángeles Colino.

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Author: Cherry Gilchrist
Publisher: Penguin Readers
Fiction/non-fiction: non-fiction
Cherry Gilchrist loves to travel. She has a home in Russia and has visited many parts of Asia and the  Middle East.
She has written nineteen books , some for children and she is an expert on social history.

What is the book about?

Diana's work for charity and her love for sick and poor people all over the world. It's very important to be open, friendly and natural, to love people and help them.

What do you think about the book?

I think this book is very interesting and very affecting. I like the book because it is not complicated to understand the life of a wonderful woman and this one gives us more details about her life and her aspiration to change things in the world for the best.
I think that being famous is not good, it is better to live an ordinary life and a happy mariage because it is what a woman really wants.

Name of reviewer: Norma Torbisco Enciso

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Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Fiction / non-fiction: Fiction

Tom Sawyer is a boy who lives with his aunt Polly in St. Petersburg, near the Missisippi River. His aunt is very strict with him but she loves him very much.
Tom doesn't like school or work. He likes swimming, fishing and having adventures with his Friends, Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn.
Their adventures are sometimes dangerous like the one that happened when he and his friend Huck went to the graveyard with a dead cat to look for ghosts and they saw how Injun Joe killed somebody or when he and his dear Becky were lost in a cave.
Other adventures were happier like when he and Huck found Injun Joe's treasure and they became the richest people in St. Petersburg.

I really enjoyed Reading this book. Although the story is well-known, this adaptation is easy and entertaining to read. It's perfect for my English level.

Name of reviewer: Pilar Pérez Zazo

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Author: Lewis Carrol
Publisher: First Publised in Oxford Bookworms 1994
Oxfor University Press 2008
Text adaptation: by Jennifer Bassett. Level 2
Fiction/non fiction: Fiction/Fantasy

When Lewis Carrol was a child, he was very good at writing word games and puzzles. He loved latin and Mathematics.
Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland is read by both adults and children; it has been translated into many languages, made into plays for theatre, and filmed many times.

What´s the book about?

It´s the story about a little girl, called Alice. She has a dream. The characters in Alice´s dream are now part or our language. We talk of people “ grinning like a Cheshire Cat ” or being “ as mad as a hatter ". And when anything strange happens, we often say, just like Alice in her dream “ curioser and curioser ”.

What do you think about the book?

It´s a fantasy story. I like the characters and I like Alice´s adventures. I think it is a lot of fun. It is very well described and it is very easy to visualize the characters and enviroment.

Name of reviewer: Yolanda Robles

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Author: Margaret Johnson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Fiction / non-fiction: non fiction

What is the book about? What is the most important idea?
In this book, the autor makes a description about a country:
New Zealand. You can learn many things about it. Its people,
cities, countryside, weather, sports, arts, animals, etc. and you
can find out many stories about the Maori.

What do you think about the book?
I think it is interesting because you can learn lots of things about
an amazing and very far away country, and you can enjoy
the Maori stories.

I recommend it to everyone with an interest in the world.

Name of reviewer: Flor Mielgo

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Author: Randall Wallace
Publisher: Penguin Readers Level 3
Fiction / non-fiction: Fiction

Braveheart takes place in Scotland in the 13th century. The English King Edward I invades Scotland and becomes its ruler. Many Scots want to fight back but  they do not have a leader. William Wallace becomes their leader when an English sheriff kills his wife. He turns from a peaceful farmer to a rebel. He forms an army of a few thousand men and beats the English. But King Edward is not stopped easily and the Scottish nobles do not want to  support William for long. He wins the love and the secret love of the King’s daughter-in-law, Princess Isabella, but he cannot fight against England and his own countrymen.

I really liked Braveheart. I recommend it if you like historical novels. It is full of action. The vocabulary isn't very difficult so it is easy to read. I chose it because I saw the film in which Mel Gibson is the main character. I think the film is better than the book.

Name of reviewer: Juan Manuel Jiménez