Book Reviews 2-18

I read "ESCAPE"

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He said, " I'm not a thief. I'm an innocent man." Shouts Brown. He is angry, because he in prison and prison guards hate him. Then one day Brown has an idea. It is dangerous very dangerous.

Book Reviews 2-17

I read "Tales From Arabian Nights"

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A curel king marries beautiful young women, but always has their heads cut off in the morning. However, his new wife, Sheherezade, is clever. Every night she starts to tell him a wonderful story. She tells him about a greedy man who finds a robbers cave, full of tresure, but cannot remember the magic words to get out again. She tells him the story of sinbad the sailor, of a game in abottle, of Aladdin and his magic lamp, and many more.

Book Review 2-16

I read "The Wrong Trousers"

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It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present- a pair of tehno trousers. At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different very different. This strange story won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1990.

Book Review 2-15

I read "TITANIC".

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The Titanic was the most famous ship in history. But what really happened to it on that terrible April night in the North Atlantic? Why did it hit an iceberg? Why did it sink? Why did more than one thousand people die? This book looks at the true story and gives some of the answers.

When I was junior high school, I watched this movie. I felt sad.

Book Review 2-14

I read "Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond".

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He's an intelligent man. He was obnce rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old. One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees and thinks a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

Book Reviews 2-13

I read "Taxi of Terror".

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How does it work? Jack asks when he opens his present - a mobile phone. Later that night, Jack is a prisoner in a taxi in the empty streets of the dark city. He now tries his mobile phone for the first time. Can it save his life?

Book Reviews 2-12

I read "New York".

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New York - The Big Apple. The history of the city and some of the things you can see and do there today. The sky scrapers, and the subway, the shops and the sports, the museum and the restaurants. And the people themselves. All the things that make New York the most exciting city in the world.

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Book Review 2-08, "GUCCI " ♥ Misaki ♥

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Book Review 2-8 "GUCCI"

I think Misaki's book review is good, because she write particular about history of GUCCI. I like GUCCI, so I want to know about GUCCI more. I think she wrote great book review. I want to imitate Misaki's blog and book review.

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Book Reviews 2-11

I read "The Children of the New forest".

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England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

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Book Reviews 2-10

I read "London".

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London - two thousand years history. From the Romans and King Henry the Eighth to the city of today and tomorrow - and from St Paul's Cathedral and Buckingham Palace to Pettcoat Lane and Ronnie Scott's Jazz club. The rich and exciting life of a great city - and some of the people who helped to make it.

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Book Reviews 2-09

I read "The Jungle Book".

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In the jungle pf Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy.

Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.

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Book Review 2-08

I read " Rip Van Winkle The Legend of Sleepy Hollow "

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In the first of these stories, Rip Van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets a headless rider in the middle of a dark night. These two classic tales of the supernatural by Washington Irving have been popular for nearly two hundred yaers.

Book Review 2-07

I read " Kidnap!! "

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One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter and driving along a country road. A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure.

Book Review 2-06

I read " STARMAN ".

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The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on a empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the men he meets. Very strange....

Book Review 2-05

I read "Superbird".

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A spaceship creashes on a strange planet and eveyone on it dies - except for one person. She helps the people of the planet to build their own spaceship, and returns home in it. But when shi is back home with her own people, the real trouble begins.

Book Review 2-04

I read " ANNE of Green Gables".

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Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne says, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there....

Book Review 2-03

I read "Oranges in the Snow".

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'Every thing's ready now. We can do the experiment,' says your assistant Joe. You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, other people want to try to steal your idea- can you stop them before they escape?

Book Reviews 2-02

I read "Marcel goes to HOOLYWOOD".

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Marcel and his friend Celine are on holiday in Los Angels. They are staying in the home of Arnold Waldman, a famous film director. But on the first night of their holiday. Kidnappers take away Arnold's daughter....

Book Reviews 2-01

I read "Alice's adventures in Wonderland".

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There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar. Smoking a pipe. After a while the caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, " Who are you?" What strange things happen when Alice fall down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland!! She has conversations with the caterpillar and the cheshire cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the king and Queen of Hearts....

Book Review

I read " A Pretty Face "

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Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a good actress... or is she just ' pretty face ' ? What does Zoe think when she reads the newspaper? What does she do?