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Sherlock Holmes and the case of the blue diamond

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Iván Gómez

Sherlock Holmes and the case of the blue diamond

1. Review

The story is about a very important and famous diamond which by chance finished in London, in the hands of a very famous detective called Sherlock Holmes. With the help of his friends, Dr. Watson and the doorman Mr. Peterson they investigated all around the mysterious diamond.

2. Character -Sherlock Holmes: he is a very famous detective who lived in London. He is an extraordinary observer and a very intelligent man.

-Dr. Watson: he is a friend of Holmes and he helped him to know all about the

diamon.

-Mr. Peterson: he is the doorman at Holme's house, he finds the diamond inside a

goose.

3)Opinion

Iliked this story because it's about investigations and mistery and I like that kind of

books because I will be an inspector.

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TANIA SEGADO

The adventures of Tom Sawyer:

-'The adventures of Tom Sawyer' is a novel by Mark Twain and it's about the adventures of a boy called Tom Sawyer. This book tells a lot of stories, for exmple: when Tom trying to fool his friends and people into painting the garden fence. Some of the other stories told are about when Tom falls in love with Becky, a girl who he teaches to draw at school when he is punished and sent to the girl's class.

He had a very important friend in this book, that was Huckleberry Finn, but everyone called him Huck. Tom was always punished by his uncle Polly. An important day in Tom's life was when he decided to go to a mountain to find a treasure. Well, this book tells how friends are together in every moment. In my opinion, this book was difficult to read, because it was too long and a little bit boring. It was boring because the book only tells Tom's adventures. If you want to read a book about adventures and friendship... This is your book!!!

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Mª Dolores Zamora

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Ana Gallego

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Alexandre Krasimirov Berov

Review:

This book tells us the story of how the 13 colonies that were under British control in America turned into one of the most important nations of the world. It shows us the story of how after many battles and hard work the americans created the Declaration of Independence and with their Revolutions defeated the English soldiers and took place the birth of The United States of America

Main characters:

- King George III: It was the English king during the american revolution. Probably he is the responsible of all the revolutions because he makes the american people angry by increasing taxes and adding new ones.

- George Washington: He was the comander-in-chief during the revolution and finally he was elected as the first president of the USA. A strong and goodloocking man, he was tall and straight as a tree. He wasn't very talkative. Everyone liked him

- Thomas Jefferson: The person who wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Personal opinion:

This book is actually more a history book than a story, it tells you the history of the USA independence. Personally, I am a person who likes history so I liked this book. But I definetly missed some kind of story of a soldier that was there or something like this and it would be better but I think It's OK.

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A Connecticut Yankee in Kings Arthur's Court

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A Connecticut Yankee in Kings Arthur's Court

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Luis Eugenio García Muñoz

Review:

This is the story of a man who was visiting a Middle Age castle where he met another man who was very strange. This rare man told some strange things and disappeared. Later he went to the house of the other ones and present him as Hank.

Hank gave him a book and started telling him a story. It began with an accident in his job and when him came round he was in a different place. Everything there was different and later he discovered that he was in the VI century. There he had to use his knowledge to scape from the Knights and not to die. He shows people a lot of knew things. Finally he had to fight in a war leading his country and one of the Knights pushed his swore into Hank chest and...

My opinion:

I like this book because if you think that the story happens to you is very interesting to think what you would do in each situation. It is also funny because of the way that people thought in those times and how Hank impressed everybody with is "magic".

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A journey to the center of the Earth -  Jules Verne

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A journey to the center of the Earth -  Jules Verne

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Carlos Catalán López

- Review

This incredible adventures starts when Lidenbrock, a scientist and Axel's uncle brought a boom of 700 years of history written in Iceland. When Lidenbrok opened the book a letter with a secret message fell from the book, Lidenbrok took it exited and began to study. Aftershave a whole night trying to solve he stopped and left the paper to Axel's who discivered the great journey.

-Personal opinion

In my opinion this book is fantastic because I love science fiction and this book describe very well the special places in the center of the Earth, the characters and the rest of things the happen along their

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Noemí Moreno Moyano

Introduction- author's career

It's one of the most famous short stories by his author, Edgar Allan Poe, who was born at the beggining of the XIX century in Boston. He belongs to the American Romantic Movement but his work as also been described as gothic (macabre, mistery...)

''The Black Cat'' was first published in the newspaper ''The Saturday Evening Post'' in 1843.

Review

This short novel It's about a domestic case of violencie in which a nameless man destroys himself and kills his wife and his pets.

At the beggining of the story, he lives happily with the other members of the house as a normal family, but evertything changes fast when he starts drinking too much alcohol and problems come quickly.

Over this time, the man becomes a murderer who hide all his crimes and believes himself invincible, although finally he reveals himself about what he has done despite of that he hasn't done it on purpose.

So he begins to feel guilty since all of this.

Principal characters

The main characters of this novels are obviously the man (the protagonist), his wife and the cats (a kind of antagonists in my opinion), while there are others as the police eventhough they are less important.

Personal opinion

One of the things that have caught most of my attention, is that the protagonist is a nameless man, I mean, I know about Venerice and Pluto for example, but nothing about his name...

On the other hand, I have to say that I chose this book when I read its title (I love cats, although I have no one anyway) so when I started reading it I knew that I didn't like it, because I hate macabre topics... However, I continued reading and I should admit that it was because I found it very interesting and real (It made me think about life and souls [...])

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Marta Romero Ruiz

Principal characters:

-Sherlock Holmes: a detective with a huge talen. He carries with him a small revolver. He is very inteligent and he is romantically involved with the case impede the investigation somehow.

-Dr. Watson: He is the parttener of Sherlock Holmes. He is a young, clever, handsome and honest man who always waer a hat. He fals in love with Mary Morston.

-Miss Mary Morstan: daughter of Captain Morstan.

-Thaddeus / Bartholomew Sholto: they are twins. Their aspect phisiclly is: small, with very high head. They have a hanging lip and a row of yellow and irregular teeth.

Review:

In 1888 a new client of Sherlock Holmes, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles ready to solve. The first is the disappearance of her father, British Army Captain Arthur Morstan, in December 1878. According to Mary, her father had telegraphed her about his return from India and asked her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the previous night and had not returned. In another part of the city, Bartholomew and Thaddeus had found something crucial that would have change the whole course of the story. How will our favourite detective solve this two mysteries?

Personal Opinion:

In my opinion this was a very interesting book. From the start of it, it caught my attention and, altough some parts weren't really interesting or relevant in the main idea of the story, I liked it and I read it fast. I love the way the author describes characters and feelings, I guess that's why I love reading Sherlock Holme's stories.

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Natalia Cubero Tapia

REVIEW:

Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean, old man who is working in his office seven years after the death of his business partner, Jacob Marley. He hater hapiness, love, family, generosity and Christmas. That night, Marley's ghost appears in Scrooge's room and says him that he had to change and start being a good person and gives him a chance to change his lige with the help of three ghosts who will visit him during the next three nights.

As Marley said, three ghosts visit him... will Scrooge change and start being a generous person or not?

CHARACTERS:

Ebenezer Scrooge (protagonist): He is a mean, executive who hates everything related to happiness, love and… Christmas.

Jacob Marley: Scrooge’s business partner, he was also a mean man who is now dead but his spirit has been condemned to be on Earth forever.

Ghost of the past Christmas: It’s the first spirit who visits Scrooge, he looks like a child. This ghost represents memory.

Ghost of the Christmas present: It’s the second spirit who visits Scrooge, a man wearing a green robe. This ghost represents celebration and charity.

Ghost of the Christmas future: It’s the third and last spirit who visits Scrooge, is a sad, silent ghost. This ghost represents death.

PERSONAL OPINION:

I think “A Christmas carol” is a really good book for those people who like Christmas and for those who don’t, because is actually what the book is about. It also reminds you that you have to be a good person and act politely, be generous and good with the other people or you will be a lonely man/woman in your future. I think everyone knows what the story is about because of Disney films but after reading the book I realized that it’s way better than the film.

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Olga Muñoz González

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Jose Javier Morente Risco 4ºB

Review

The story is about a boy called Huck who pretended to be murdered because he wanted to escape from his father because he beat him and a negro called Jim who escaped because he heared to his owner that he was going to be sold, so they went across the river with a canoe searching for a new life. On the way they met two men, one of them said that he was a duke and the other said that he was the king of France but they really were swindlers. At the end, Kim ran away from Huck because he wanted to arrive the north states as soon as possible but he was captured and with the help of Tom Swayer, they rescued Jim and finally a formal letter arrived saying that Jim's owner died so Jim was free.

Character description

Huck:He is a battered by his father, and he decided to escape, he is very intelligent and friendly.

Jim:He is a negro who wanted to escape to the North State were negroes were free.

“The King of France and Duke”: These people believe they are a duke and a king but they are only swindlers and liars.

Tom Sawyer: He is friend of Huck and he thought that Huck was dead, but when Huck needed help. He supported him.

Personal opinion

I like this book because of the adventures, but I think the book has got too much vocabulary that maybe you haven't heard about. For example: ma'am which means madam.But I am happy because I have learnt new words so I improved my English.

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Javier Kind Millán 4ºB

Review

Ishmael was a sailor looking for a job as while haunter in New Bedford. He meets a harponeer called Queequeg there and they became good friends. They went to Nantuckect where a ship was hiring people to hunt whales, a big one in special called Moby Dick. The captain of the ship, called Ahab, lost one of his legs and a ship while he was triying to fight the whale. After hurricanes, storms and long days in the sea, they saw moby dick. They chased the whale along 3 days, but they coudn't do anything when the whale attacked the ship. All the crew died and Ishmael survived to tell the story

CHARACTERS

Ishmael: Young boy that wanted to work in a whaling ship.

Ahab: Captain of the Pequod. His main objective was to kill Moby Dick to revenge.

Starbuck: He's the officer of the Pequod. He only wants money to see his family again.

Queequeg: A black tall and strong man he was arponeer and Ishmael's friend, he meets him in the inn.

Jonás: He was the waiter that served the sailors that entered the inn.*Moby Dick:It's a white whale. The captain Ahab wanted to kill it, but the whale destroyed the ship and killed the crew.

PERSONAL OPINION

Classic novel that almost all of udshas read at least once. Is a short and old story, but has good things that all stories should have. Maybe is a story that is read usually to childrens, but this doesn't mean older people can read it. I don't like that story only for being a classic, is a short and enjoyable story that you can read if you like this type of stories, and you can understand it easily.

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Alejandro Pérez Rechou, 4º ESO B

MOBY DICK

This novel was published in 1851. It was written by Herman Melville. He belonged to the Dark Romanticism. It was less optimistic then the original Romanticism. Important writers like E.A.Poe belonged to this movement.

Review

Ishmael is a sailor who is in New Bedford (Massachussets) looking for a job in a

whaling ship. He went to an inn where he meets a harponeer called

Queequeg, who will be his colleague. After that, they go to Nantucket. There's a ship (Pequod) which is hiring people for a trip to hunt whales. His captain, Ahab, wants to hunt one special for him, Moby Dick. This whale destroyed his ship and pull up one of his legs, so he wanted a revenge.

After a long journey where the Pequod suffered moments of storms, hurricanes, etc., they saw Moby Dick. They spent 3 days runing after the whale, but Moby Dick attacked, charged and with his tail destroyed the ship. All the crew died except Ishmael.

CHARACTERS

*Ishmael:Young, pensive boy that wanted to work in a whaling ship.

*Ahab:Captain of the Pequod. His main objective is to kill Moby Dick to achieve his revenge.

*Starbuck: He's the officer of the ship. He only wants money to see his family again.

*Queequeg: Ishmael's friend, he meets him in the inn. Harponeer, he was very religious.

*Jonás:He was the waiter that served the sailors that entered the inn.

*Moby Dick:It's a white whale. The captain Ahab wanted to kill it, but the whale destroyed the ship and killed the crew.

SETTINGS

The story happened in he XIX century, because is the time when Melville lived, the ports and the cities have an aspect of being of this century, and because Mleville was inspired by two similar events that happened duirng this time. The story happens in the USA, because Massachussets is a state of the USA, in the Atlantic Ocean and in a few more places. It happens along too many days, more or less 1 month or a bit less.

PERSONAL OPINION

In my opinion the book was in general good but there were monents when the story wnet by a bit slowly, and bored me. But, apart form that, I liked the story and the characters, because I like stories of adventure where sailors, ships and all things related to this topic appear. I will recommend this book to those people who like these types of books and, maybe, I'll read it again in the future. This novel is one of the most famous in the world, and I also think it.

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Mark Twain - THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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Mark Twain - THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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Belén Caro Lara, 4ºESO B

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Carmen Navas Casado

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, MARK TWAIN

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, MARK TWAIN

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Macarena Parrado Navarro 4ºESO B

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Review: The andventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOW SAWYER, MARK TWAIN

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THE ADVENTURES OF TOW SAWYER, MARK TWAIN

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María Rodríguez Rodríguez 4ºESO B

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Blanca Pérez García