Dear readers,
We are drawn to books for many reasons – the author, the cover, the content, a recommendation from a friend, a rainy day … and very often we miss a good book simply because no one bothered to tell us about it.
So leave us a response and share with the world what good books you have been reading and how they impress you or change your life.
(Remember to include the title of book, author, publisher, your name and class for reference.) 
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This can be counted as SEEK activity (No. 9 Recommend an English book on school library blog) in English subject as well.
- Write down what you will share in about 150 words
- Post it onto the book recommendation corner of school library blog (http://cneccclibrary.wordpress.com/)
- Wait for the approval of your comment and then get the signature of the teacher librarian before the end of the month
Remarks:
1. The sharing done in summer (July and August) can be counted as September SEEK activity.
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| Sharing of one English book | 5 points |
| Sharing of two English books | 10 points |
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Here is an example. (Full text of book recommendation of PS I Love You)
Title of Book : P.S. I Love You
Author : Cecelia Ahern
Publisher : Thorndike Press
The title of the book – P.S.I Love You – may appear to be just another “cheesy romance novel”. But through creating a story revolving the past, the present and the future, the writer Ahern has taught me a valuable lesson about the true meaning of living and the thin divide between life and death. At first, I never thought that P.S. I Love You would be suitable for a pre-teen like me. But the great love of Holly and Gerry has transcended time to make it relevant to any ordinary person who has a loving heart! …
It is unlike any other romance novel I have read before, which focuses more on how love changes a person. It explores how death, though ends someone’s life, rebuilds a person. I sincerely recommend this book to everyone – from teenagers to parents- who will be touched by the courage and strength of Holly. P.S. I Love You is a must read.
Contributed by Lee Chiu Yin, Agnes
St. Stephen’s Girls’ College
(Merit Award of English Junior Section, 23rd Annual Book Report Competition For Secondary School Students)
Title of Book : Stormbreaker
Author : Anthony Horowitz
Publisher : Walkers Books
Stormbreaker is the most exciting book I have read in the past twelve years, as it is the written by the most popular writer in Britain, Anthony Horowitz.
A computer company was going to destroy Britain by a new kind of computer invention – Stormbreaker. The boss of the company was a schoolmate of the British prime minister, because of his short height, he was teased by the prime minister and other classmates, he had to revenge!
When the prime minister presses the button, the whole world’s net will be destroyed. To deal with this dangerous situation, the spy centre, M16 sent fourteen-year-old Alex immediately to solve the problem.
On the way, this young spy met lots of questions, but at the meantime he showed his courage and intelligence. They will attract you.
I was deeply amazed by how Anthony manages the story and the description of either the appearance of a person or a scene. I learnt a lot of new phrases and words. Anthony has really done a great job!
Gu zihao, Tony 2C (31)
Title of Book ： The Tempest
Author ： William Shakespeare
Editors ： Claudia Fiocco, Rebecca Raynes
Publisher ： Black Cat Publishing
As I know, “The Tempest” is one of the representative works of Shakespeare.
It is a very interesting story which describes Prospero, a duke, but he had been framed by the king of Naples. He was not a duke again, so he was a poor man. His brother was an evil man, he had taken his place and become the duke. He also laughed at Prospero.
Prospero was filled with anger and he and the fairy, Ariel, used magic to make a storm and a tempest to punish Antonio, the new duke. The king and all the people on the ship were pushed to an island by the storm. Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, had met the king’s son, Ferdinand. They fell in love.
Then Prospero used magic to punish the bad people again. The king and his brother were sorry and felt ashamed. But the king was sad because his son was lost. Prospero then told the king that his son was there with Miranda safely. When they met, they were extremely happy.
At the end, Prospero did no more magic because of a happy ending.
I was surprised because I didn’t think Prospero would forgive the king and his brother. The book was exciting too because of the colourful pictures. I’ve learned lots of new words such as wedding, royal, hurray, etc. It also had a glossary and some tests at the end of the book. It really helps young readers like me to read the book well!
Cheung Ka Sing, 2D (28)
Title of Book : Tashi and the Ghosts
Author ： Anna Fienberg
Publisher ： National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication
Do you believe that there are ghosts in the world? What will you do if you see a ghost? Will you talk with them and scare them? If I see a ghost aroud me, I think I will shout and run away.
I think this book is very interesting. I also like the boy,Tashi. No one in the village is as brave as Tashi. Why?
One day,there were many ghosts in the village. Everybody in the village dashed out into the street because there were many ghosts that went to their home and ate them. Tashi found his father’s Younger Brother. He knew that the next eclipse there would be a haunting of ghosts and Book of Calculation. Next night ,Tashi went to the forest and found those ghosts. The ghost leader wanted to eat him but Tashi warned it that the Red Whiskered Dragon would come to eat the moon and punish it. When the ghost leader saw the eclipse, they were scared and ran away.
How do you feel about this story? Do you feel the boy was very brave? You can also be brave as Tashi and go to scare those ghosts. But why do some of you think you cannot? It is because of your mentality. Your heart is sure that you are scared and cannot scare those ghosts. But it is a very easy thing. You should say ‘I can do it’ and believe yourself.
Try it! Say ‘I can improve.’ Say ‘I am not scared.’ Say ‘I can do it’ etc. to yourself. You will be brave and believe yourself.
You can do it!
Mok King Shi, 2B (36)
Title: Apollo’s Gold
Author: Antoinette Moses
Publisher: Cambridge University Press/
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
This is a Mystery story. The story is set on a Greek island. Liz, an archaeologist in Athens, loves working very much. She was ill due to over work. Therefore, her doctor asked her to have a holiday and take a rest. She went to an island Sifnos in Greece. Unfortunately, her friend died in a fire accident. She wanted to find out the cause of his death. She then discovered a group of terrorists trading guns. She was in danger. An international police, Takis, saved her life but he was being hurt. Finally, a group of international police arrived and saved them.
The character, Takis, impressed me most in the story. He is brave and unreserved. He hid himself as a policeman. He worked as a clandestine with the group of terrorists. He is a great policeman. Most importantly, he saved the life of Liz even though he was in great danger. We should also learn to have such kind of good quality.
Yan Hoi Leong
2C(40)
Title: A Picture to Remember
Author: Sarah Scott-Malden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press/
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Have you ever lost your memory about something? This is a story about the main character Cristina who is working in a museum in Argentina and has a strange experience of losing a short memory after a car accident. She actually saw two robbers in a car accident. Two robbers were afraid and planned to kill her. Cristina was injured by someone pushing the heavy weight on her shoulder in a gym center. She had a strange feeling about this injury accident but she did not know why. She kept on working with a French museum director, Phillippe, for the exhibition of impressionist paintings. The two robbers drove a car and knocked them down. Phillippe’s legs were badly hurt. Cristina‘s friend, Daniel, reported to the police and saved the life of Cristina.
The story is exciting. It made me learn that life is difficult to predict. Just like Cristina, she never knew that she was a target of two robbers. We need to treasure our life and be cautious about our surroundings.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C(40)
Title: Dolphins at Daybreak
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House
Have you ever swum with dolphins in the ocean? This is the story book about a brother and a sister named Annie and Jack. They traveled around the world for adventure. This time, they went to coral reef and went under the water by the mini-sub. They met a lot of fishes and curios creatures, including huge octopus, dolpins and shark!
They had to find out a riddle from Morgan. If they solve the four riddles, they can be the Master Librarians. The first riddle:
Rough and gray as rock.
I’m plain as plain can be.
But hidden deep inside
There’s great beauty in me.
What am I?
Can you solve it? It is Oyster!
This story is very interesting and exciting! I think they are very brave and clever to find out the riddle’s answer. This story is not very long and it is suitable for teenagers. You can read this book next time if you want!
Chan Nga Laam 2E(5)
Title: Dark Day in the Deep Sea
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House
This book is one of the MagicTree House series. This set of books are about Annie and Jack. They traveled on many adventures for Morgan and Marlin.
This time, they went back to 1872 and met Henry which is one of the scientists of the HMS Challenger. They were invited to visit the ship under bad weather. Annie and Jack saw many Henry’s specimens and sea creatures’ sample on the ship’s laboratory.
In an accident, Annie and Jack crashed out the ship by big sea waves. Their life vest got loose and washed by the wave. Suddenly, a huge octopus saved them and let them go onto the ship. The sailors caught the octopus and wanted to study the monster of the sea.
At last, Annie and Jack told the sailors not to hurt the octopus and the sea creatures. The sailors let the octopus go away and knew that protect sea creatures is the most important thing!
I think people who read this book will know more about protecting sea creatures and learn something from the two characters, Annie and Jack. If we don’t care about the sea creatures, the sea will be destroyed by our hands one day!
Chan Nga Laam 2E (5)
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Title: Red Tears
Author: Barbara
Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited
The protagonist of this story, ‘Red Tears’, is a Grade A student who seems to have everything. Emily Bowyer had everything – perfect grades, friends and family. However, when GCSE exams started to hit in, her social life started to go downwards. Her mother would remind her at every chance she got about homework, her friends started to isolate her, even her grades started to go down. She felt lonely. She wanted distraction and she found it – a blade as sharp as a lion tooth that could cut as deep as the ocean. Cutting her wrist would give her the distraction she wanted, she believed that it would take her away from reality just for a little while.
This story gained my attention because it really illustrates what teenagers would do to their life when there’s too much to bear, or so they thought. While reading this book, I felt like I was with Emily through every ups and every downs.
Chung Yat Sze 3A(4)
Title of the book: The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Publisher: The Penguin Book
When the author was six years old, he wanted to be a painter. He gave his picture to the grown-ups, but they advised him to study instead of drawing. He said, 〝Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.〞Later, he learnt to pilot airplanes and met little prince by an accident with his plane in Sahara. Little prince came from an asteroid called B-612.
One day, for little prince’s escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds. In his journey, he made the acquaintance of different people – the king who was an absolute monarch, a conceited man, a tippler, a lamplighter…
Each story brings out a massage to us. I like the story about little prince and the fox most. Little prince met a fox on Earth. The fox wanted little prince to tame him and make friends with him. At last, the fox told him his secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly；What is essential is invisible to the eye. I love this truth very much.
Chan Cheuk Man 2A (02)
Title:The Mountain of White tiger
Author:Barbara
Publisher:National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication
Baron was very greedy. He loved gold very much and put them in the mysterious place where there were many tigers around.
One day, he stole some gold from Tashi’s aunt, Li lam’s home and wanted to stay in her home forever. She took a promise paper that said only she could stay there forever, so she didn’t let him stay in. Baron was very angry and put a lot of mice to Li lam’s home. Li Lam was very upset. But Tashi had made them go away.
Tashi went to the mystery and expelled those tigers by fire.(Because tigers were afraid of fire!) Finally, his gold had been stolen by Tashi and he went to the police station. Because he stole many gold from other people’s house, Baron got what he deserved.
I admired Tashi because he was very brave and we should be honest and not be greedy like Baron because he stole other people’s gold and wanted to stay in other people’s home.
Mok King Shi, 2B(36)
Title of book: Little Women
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: Classic Starts
This story is about Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth－The March sisters. As they grow from girls into young women, they gradually learn more about life, friendship, and the power of love along the way. This story is touching. Although they might not have much, they gave all they have to the poor people. The March family is a warm family – they sang lullabies every night before going to sleep, read the letter from their father who went to war together, had no quarrel with other, solved problem together. All in all, they were happy girls, who found comfort in one another when the outside world was disappointing…Such family is rare to see nowadays. It is good for us to reflect on ourselves: Do I spend enough time with family?
The March sisters had nice character. I can remember an unbelievable sense in the story; it is the beginning of the story. It was Christmas, they used their savings to buy a present for their mother. It is touching because they didn’t have money but they insist to thank their mother. This is a really great story.
Chan Cheuk Man 2A(02)
Title of book: Weather and Climate
Author: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Since I was just about six years old, I liked reading books very much, especially the books which are about science. This book—‘Weather and Climate’ is one of the books in the National Geographic Reading Expeditions. I think this is a good and suitable book for learning because there are many pictures and meaning of the difficult words and these make it easier for us to read this book.
I can find so much interesting knowledge in this book which I don’t know before. For example, ‘What is weather or climate?’. There are many different things about air around us, some important things about wind and water and how to read a climatic graph. Many useful things that you may never think about are clearly introduced in this ‘Weather and Climate’. So you don’t need to think any further, just open this book and read it. I am sure that you are going to be a clever person on weather and climate.
LOK WAI LOK 3C (32)
Title of book: Tiger Woods
Author: Jeremy Roberts
Publisher: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press
When I saw this book in a bookshop, I was surprised by this book’s title—’Tiger Woods’. ‘Woods was the best person to play golf!’ I think. So I bought this book and read it for a few times because it is very suitable for teenagers like me. You can really learn many useful things from this book.
This book is about the special events and some periods of time of Tiger Woods. We can know that he can play golf very well because of his very long time practice. Also, before he was playing golf and attended the competition, there were lots of difficulties that he had to overcome. But he still kept on playing golf, and then finally he became successful in his life.
I think this book can tell me so many useful ways to solve the problems and become the winner in our life. So you must read this book—‘Tiger Woods’.
LOK WAI LOK 3C (32)
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury
As the last sequel in the Harry Potter saga, this time the trio had to face the most difficult and also the most dangerous challenge — to destroy Voldermort. Before setting off for the hunt of the remaining Horcruxes, the three youngsters quitted Hogwats, left their families and friends behind for safety reason. Then, they started the lonely and extremely dangerous journey. During the adventure, they experienced loneliness, helplessness, remorse, resentment, betrayal, and most fatal, death. However, the trio’s trust to each other and their pure hearts helped them to overcome the barriers. Most importantly, they knew only love could conquer death.
I like Hermoine the best. She has got something really beautiful, i.e. gentleness. She cares about every creature on earth no matter what its status is. She will cry for the needy, even for the most inferior creature or person. It is her kind heart that made her so special to me. I can learn a lot from her.
Kaylie, Cheung Win Kei 3C (3)
Title: Enchanted
Author: Based on the movie Enchanted
Publisher: Disney Press
Once upon a time, in a obscure magical kingdom known as Andalasia, there lived a kindhearted young maiden called Giselle. One day, while she was making a statue of her prince, a gigantic troll clashed into her house deep in the woods. Just before the troll could hurt her, the dashing and charming prince, Edward, arrived and saved her. There was no doubt the true love of Edward and Giselle. However, Giselle was tricked by the wicked queen, Narissa. Giselle was sent to an unknowned world, our world. Luckily, she encountered Robert and Morgan, a lawyer who didn’t believe in fairytales and her daughter. This enchanted encounter changed the lives of the three of them.
Living a materialized life in Hong Kong, we are often told that money determines our lives and things other than money are not to be trusted. Or maybe because of the busy life, we sometimes neglect the people around us. This little magical book made us realise that dreams do come true. The power of believing is stronger than just holding what we already have. Moreover, living an life with your loved ones such as your family is much better than just living a luxurious but lonely life.
Kaylie, Cheung Win Kei 3C (3)
Title of Book : By Royal Comment
Author : Charlie Higson
Publisher : Penguin Books
After a rescue mission in the top of the freezing Alps, he was back to Eton for a rest and also started a normal life of a schoolboy. But soon he found an “invisible man” was following him. Once he tried to chase after him but failed, that was why the man was described as invisible.
He supposed that the life in school was better than a spy life, but there he found a gang which bullied schoolmates. He had to protest! But not to expose his real identity in the meantime. He bore the pain not try his best to stop any fights.
James Bond showed his courage in the fights between truth and lies, black and white; he showed his calmness while a gun was pointing towards his head; he showed his nimbleness during the escape under bullets……
James Bond was too young to die!
Gu Zihao 2C(31)
Title of the book: Twenties Girl
Author: Sophie Kinsella
Publisher: Dial Press
Lara Lington, a twenty-something young girl, who has a great imagination, gave up her perfect marketing job, to set up a PR company with her best friend, Natille. However, her partener ran off to Goa and left tons of work. Her start-up company was in big trouble; even worse, she’s just been dumped by her ‘perfect’ man.
Do the Fates really like to play games? With all the bad luck, Lara got visit by a ghost!!
The spirit of Lara’s great-aunt, Sadie, mysteriously appeared in front of Lara’s eyes in her funeral. Sadie was a juicy girl, who had incisive sense of fashion, love, dance…..of the 20th century. Though Sadie’s Lara’s aunt, all Lara knew was nothing but a 150 years old, lonely old lady. All Lara had to do was to find the missing dragonfly necklace, which Sadie had lost for 75 years.
During the ‘journey’, two different ‘twenties’ girls had changed dramatically. The adventure is full of hilarious stuff and makes the story more interesting; it also led to intrigue and new romance for Lara. Sophie made good use of her sense of humor and creative ideas, made her work become the bestseller in New York Times. Twenties Girl is not just a novel but consists of friendship and family.
Yingto Lo 3C(17)
Title: Enchanted
Author: Based on the movie Enchanted
Publisher: Disney Press
Once upon a time, in an obscure magical kingdom known as Andalasia, there lived a kindhearted young maiden called Giselle. One day, while she was making a statue of her prince, a gigantic troll clashed into her house deep in the woods. Just before the troll could hurt her, the dashing and charming prince, Edward, arrived and saved her. There was no doubt the true love of Edward and Giselle. However, Giselle was tricked by the wicked queen, Narissa. Giselle was sent to an unknown world, our world. Luckily, she encountered Robert and Morgan, a lawyer who didn’t believe in fairytales and her daughter. This enchanted encounter changed the lives of the three of them.
Living a materialized life in Hong Kong, we are often told that money determines our lives and things other than money are not to be trusted. Or maybe because of the busy life, we sometimes neglect the people around us. This little magical book makes us realise that dreams do come true. The power of believing is stronger than just holding what we have already had. Moreover, living an life with your loved ones such as your family is much better than just living a luxurious but lonely life.
Kaylie, Cheung Win Kei 3C (3)
Title of the book: Captain Underpants And the preposterous plight of the purple potty people
Author: Dav Pilkey
Publisher: Scholastic
Harold and George have created a superhero that is Captain Underpants! They invented a time-travelling machine, Purple Potty, which has landed them in a crazy place where the teachers are always nice, the cafe serves delicious food, and the school principal, Mr.Krupp, actually thinks they are funny. That is extremely different from their school! Something goes very, very wrong–and it gets worse when the boys’ pets are kidnapped by George and Harold’s evil-twin look alikes.
Finally, evil twins used the machine wrongly and made themselves very tiny. Good twins saved their pets and went back to their world.
I think the story is very interesting and exciting. The good twins are so brave and clever to find out the method to save their friends. They have never been scared in order to save their friends. This let me know that friendship is the most important thing for everybody!!
Wong Chau Ling 2C (19)
Title of the book: The horrible holiday
Author: Catherine Jinks
Publisher: A puffin original
One night Dad suggested visiting Auntie Brenda. The whole family were very excited. The children, Josh, Kelvin, Florence and Dominic were planning to take some special stuff to there. They all got on the car with their dog but it was too crowded. When Dad wanted to start the journey, Winsome the dog jumped off from the car. They caught him back and kept going to visit their Auntie. When they stopped and rested for a while, Kelvin found a beautiful snakeskin. Then they kept going again. Kelvin was talking about his adventure. Finally, they reached the hotel and took a rest. The next day, they all went to the hospital because Dominic ate some dog food. They met a man with bleeding hands as his thumb was cut off. After the whole trip, the family can relax for days.
I think the story is very fuuny because it has many terrible scenes that we may not have this experience. Also, there are some funny places in the book that can make you laugh for a while!
Wong Chau Ling 2C (19)
Title of the book: Tales of Africa
Editor: Lisa Owens
Publisher: Perfection Learning
The book”Tales of Africa” is a book like ” Fables of Aesop”. It provides many fables in the book. It uses animals as the main characters in most stories. It also teaches us a moral after each story. It also provides some ancient thinking about animals. For example, in the story ” How the leopard got its spots”, it says because leopard was the best friend of fire, one day, leopard invited fire to visit its house. When fire touched it, it got some black spots on it. It is a very funny story.
Another story I like is “Ananse gets out of work”. It says that there was a spider called Ananse. He wanted to earn money without working. So he lied to his wife and son that he kicked and screamed. And he relaxed at home. Finally, his wife and son knew he was lying and didn’t allow him to get in the house. I learnt that we should not lie.
Wong Chau Ling 2C(19)
Title of the book: Heidi
Author: Lisa Church
Publisher: Sterling Publisher
‘Heidi’ is a book about a little girl called Heidi. She thrives in the open air and sunshine of the Swiss Alps where she lives with her grandfather. But when it is decided that she needs a better education than she gets running with the goats, she is whisked away to be a companion to a wheelchair-bound Clara in the city.
Clara has a large difference from Heidi. She is a rich girl but cannot walk and Heidi is a very poor girl who can do many things. Although they soon strike up a loving friendship, Heidi longs for a place where she can truly get happiness.
Brimming with the gentle goodness and the unbridled spirit of its heroine, ‘Heidi’ is a heartwarming story that is very touching. Although the life of Heidi is not very adventurous, we can try to admire her and learn her spirit. I think everyone will want to read it over and over again.
Lau Tze Ying (15) F.2D
Title of the book: The Day of the Jackel
Author: Frederick Forsth
Publisher: Stanley Thornes Ltd
In the year of 1963 in France, the O.A.S., the French Secret Army, hate and want to kill the Franch President, General de Gaulle because the menbers of the O.A.S. think he has betrayed them.They have tried for six times but there is something that has gone wrong each time. This time, they must not fail as it may be their last chance.
To prevent failure, the Cheif of the O.A.S., Marc Rodin, thinks of a new plan.They hire a killer from outside France. He agrees to do the job for half a million dollars. The murder depends on this man who is a blond Englishman. The code number of him is ‘The Jackel’. He is a clever, cunning and a cool blooded killer.
The French police want to find him but he always jumps ahead alone. No one knows what his real name is or what he looks like and also when he is gonig to strike. Can the Franch police find ‘The Jackel’ before he gets to the President? That really interests me to read ahead the book.
Choi Nga Lai 2C (6)
Title of the book: Sebastian’s Roller Skates
Author: Joan DeDeu Prats
This book is about a little boy, called Sebastian. He was shy and quiet. He didn’t talk to his neighbours, his only barber of his schoolmates. Though he loved Geography and he could almost tell which capital of which country, he would not put up his hand and answer the question in Geography lesson. Though he loved Ester, a girl sat in front of him in his class, he couldn’t pick up his confidence and express his feeling to her. Though he didn’t like his hair style which is cut by his only barber, he only said a word ‘fine’ and let it be bygones. He was too bashful!
He found, he picked up, he gained his bravery when he discovered a pair of skates on a bench! Though he fell down over and over, he got up and tried again. Finally, he asked Ester, ‘Would you like to go ice-skating with me tomorrow?’ And Ester answered, ‘Yes!’
Come back to our daily life. Are we able to pick up our confidence to do anything we want to do? Think about it! Maybe you may gain an unexpected result!
Ng Hau Chuen, Daniel 3C (33)
Title of the book: Tuesdays with Morrie
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Random House
The book, Tuesdays with Morrie, is the first philosophical novel in English I read. Actually, I have read its Chinese Translation Edition before I read the original English one. Sometimes, translation lost some of it tastes when the passage was being translated, so I started to read its original edition.
Tuesdays with Morrie is a true story about a professor Morrie who was near to death, but he still used his only time to have a lesson with his student Mitch to tell him the true meaning of life, the importance in life, the purpose of life and the meaning of death, etc.
Tuesdays with Morrie quite inspires me in its definition of life. It is still affecting my way of looking at things up to now. There are a few words from the book I still remember. ‘So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important.’ After this, it says,‘This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. ’
I think this book is very good for your own spiritual growth. Maybe for Form 1 or 2 students, you still don’t know what’s the underlying meanings of the words. You may have difficulty reading it. But I suggest you read it again a few years later. I think at that time you will understand it -‘As you grow, you learn more’.
Ho Chun Kit, Dicky 3E (30) [3G]
Title of book:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Author:Mark Twain
The book is about the adventures of Huck. His mother was dead. So he lived with a widow and nobody knew where his father was. But one day, his father knew that he had $6000 and appeared in his room. Then his father made Huck be a slave of him. Huck ran away and met the running away slave of the widow. They were happy because they had a partner.
Unfortunately, they met two frauds and they asked Huck and Jim to help them earn money. After some days, they heard Peter die and he left behind a lot of property. So the two frauds pretended to be Peter’s brothers. They gained money but Huck thought it was very bad and put the money back to the cabin. The frauds were angry so they complained to each other. They also sold Jim while Huck was sleeping.
Huck asked a lot of people and knew that Jim was sold to the farm of Aunt Sally.
Huck pretended to be her nephew, Tom. He helped Jim to escape, but Jim was hurt by a huntsman. The escape plan of Huck was destroyed.
Finally, Tom’s Family knew the truth and told Huck and Jim.‘Huck’s father and Jim’s master were dead. ‘You can have freedom!’ They were very happy that day.
I think the story is very exciting. Huck was intelligent and brave. I hope the story will attract you and bring you to the adventure journey of Huck.
Chan Ka Yee 2C (1)
Title: How I met myself
Author: David A. Hill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press/ Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Have you ever met “yourself” in the street? Will you be scared? The main character, John, got a very strange experience. He came from Britain to work in Hungary. He got married with a young lady who taught him Hungarian. One day, he met a man who looked like him. Then, he tried to find the man, but he could not find anything. He read information about a “Doppelganger”. It means something like double walker who comes to give messages about danger or to offer advice. It is usually thought to bring bad luck. This information made John scared. He worried something bad will happen. He spent much of his time in searching. He did not care for his wife and his daughter. He believed that his wife and daughter would be in danger. Finally, the family was safe with the help of “Doppelganger”.
The story was interesting. It was not a detective fiction. But the story attracted you to continue reading to know the ending and what will happen to the characters. At last, it got a happy ending.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title of the book: CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition
Author: Eric Meyer
Publisher: O’Reilly
Today, I would like to share a book with you. It is unlike the book I shared last time, this one is a reference book. This is a book about computer. Maybe someone would ask why I read conference book in English. They may think reference book in Chinese is easier than that in English, but in my own experience, it’s definitely not, especially books on Computer Science. With the various translation of proper nouns, you may get confused when you start to learn.
Today, the book I share is called ‘CSS: The Definitive Guide’, which is published by the world weighty computer related books publisher, O’Reilly. This book is about CSS, which stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a new type of lauguage (can be said like this?) on decorating or formating your website beside directly put on HTML. The advantage of it is that CSS allows a much richer document appearance than HTML and you can save time by using it. You will know if you read this book.
Let’s read this book and you may find more interest in your computer.
Ho Chun Kit, Dicky 3E (30) [3G]
Title: Scorpia
Author：Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Penguin Group
Alex Rider, a teen spy who always has been told that his uncle, Iran, was killed by a Russian called Yassen Gregorovich. But after the confrontation with Damian Cray, he has changed his mind. He now has to revenge against the British secret spy organization, M16, which he has been working for.
Meanwhile, on the other side, the biggest terrorism in the world, now responsible for one-tenth of the terrorism, Scorpia wants him to participate in the program called “Invisible Sword” which will result in the death of thousands of teenagers in both Britain and US. Alex is now struggling between them. One is terrorist, one is the organization which killed his only relative. Which will he choose?
I was deeply amazed by the courage shown by Alex Rider. How can a 14-year-old teenager manage to finish the mission, making a narrow escape every time?
Scorpia really makes me unable to stop from turning pages.
Gu Zihao, Tony 2C (31)
Title of the book:Oh,Bother!Someone Won”t Share
Auther:Betty Birney
Publisher:Nacy Stevenson
Today, I would like to share a book with you.I like this book because it is about Winnie the Pooh. Maybe someone will think the book is childish, but I think is not because it can teach us something we cannot learn in the textkbook or lesson. Like in this book, it teaches us to “share” things. If you do not share things, you will have no friend or if you want to borrow things, people don’t share things with you.
The story is about Rabbit that planted many vegetables, like succulent spinach, luscious lettuce, gorgeous green beans, prized peppers and his favourite-colossal carrots. Pooh wanted to share with Rabbit, but Rabbit did not want to share with Pooh because he thought those vegetables were grown by his hard work and prepared for eating in winter .After that, Piglet,Tigger and Roo came to find Rabbit and shared the vegetables, but Rabbit did not say yes.
If you want to borrow this book,wait for some time, until I return it to the Main Library!
Lai Ho Yin 1B(29)
Title:Jane Eyre
Author:Charlottle Bronte
Publisher:The Commercial Press(H.K.)Ltd
Today Iwould like to share a book with you. This book is called Jane Eyre. Jane was the main character of this book. She was an orphan, and she had a poor childhood. She lived with her aunt, Mrs Reed, when she was about ten years old. Mrs Reed was rich, and her house was spacious and beautiful, but Jane wasn’t happy there. Jane’s three cousins were very cruel.
Jane once fought with her cousin,John, because he had beaten Jane. So she fought back to him.Then he cried for help to Mrs Reed, and she locked Jane in a dark room. Soon after, Mrs Reed sent Jane to Lowood School. Jane felt hopeful about going to this school. She thought she would have a better lfe there. Actually, it wasn’t. There was an infectious disease around the girls. And her best friend,Helen, had died at that time. And then the story of Jane became more complicated.
Jane left Lowood School when she was eigthteen,and for the last two years she was a teacher. She left there because she wanted to see more of the world. So,she went to work as a governess in Thornfield Hall. And soon she fell in love with the owner of Thornfield Hall, Mr Rochester. When they were taking the marriage,she found that Mr.Rochester had been married!So, she left there sadly.
And because of something she became rich.(If you want to know more, please read the book.)And she missed Mr.Rochester so much. But when she found Mr.Rochester, he could not see anything,and he had broken his leg! But Jane was still loving him. And they got married.
When Jane was in a difficult time, she didin’t give up.It encouraged people never to give up!
Leung Shuk Kuen 2E(17)
title:Life Exchange
author:Jenny Dooley
publisher:Express Publishing
Today,I would like to share a book with you. This book is called Life Exchange.It is a great book, and also it is exciting!T here was a mysterious thing in this story. The main characters of this book were Jake and Luke.They were friends, but there were some problems with their business.
Once upon a time,when they were on their way home from the hunting, an accident happened. It caused a fire too.One of them died.Because of the fire, their skin hads been burnt, it was difficult to identify who was Jake or Luke.One of them was holding the ring,so he was identified as Luke. After this accident, Luke became strange and his behavior was just like Jake. His wife,Megan, found that but she thought maybe the accident made he behave like that and he would be alright soon after. But something let she knew this ‘Luke’ must be Jake! (Please take a look at the book if you want to know what it was.)
And then Luke (Jake) became crazy and killed Megan. In the end, Luke (Jake) died.
It tells us there is no point in acting to someone else.You are you, and everyone is uniqe. There may be someone who dislikes you, but there must be someone who loves you.
Leung Shuk Kuen 2E(17)
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Author: Gaston Leroux
This story talks about a man, Erik. He is a music genius but has an ugly face, so he wears a mask. He builds an opera house, with many secret doors and passages. Many people think he is a ghost.
Then, he falls in love with Christine. She is a singer but she has a boyfriend, Raoul. Next, Erik catches Christine and wants to marry her, or he will hurt the others. Christine knows that Erik has an ugly face and marries him. Finally, Erik is sorry for Christine and lets her live with Raoul.
I think the story is tragic and horrible. I like Christine very much because she is kind and nice. She sacrificed herself to save the others and got married with Erik. She knew that he had an ugly face and had no friends so she stayed with Erik and hoped he would feel better.
Chan Sheung Yu 2C (3)
Title:Oh,Bother!SOMEONE’S JEALOUS
Author:Betty Birney
Publisher:Nancy Stevenson
The story is about not to be jealous. In one day, Tigger, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet and Roo were playing hill-bouncing.Tigger jumped frist. He was doing six bounces! And then did Pooh. He was doing …FOURTEEN bounces.”Oh dear, Pooh,you jump at least fourteen times. Why are you eating honey when you are bouncing?” said Tigger. Piglet went next. But he bounced out of sight on his third bounce–and landed down the hill to see if his friend was all right. Piglet was a little shaken. “Hill-bouncing is for those who are braver than piglet,” he said, crawling out of the flower. “I’ll just watch the rest of you bounce”.
The next is Roo, he was the youngest in them. He started to jump. One… Two… Three …FOUR!!! “Roo only four bounces,that is less than mine !!! That’s can’t be right,”he said and disbelieve that. Next is …
Read it yourself. The book code is F BIR 6987. If you want to borrow it, please come to the Main Library.
This book tells us not to be jealous. If another is better than you, you shouldn’t hate him/her. That is not good. We should learn some good things from them.The picture looks fine,not bad not good, but the story is interesting.
Lai Ho Yin 1B (29)
Title of the book: Day of the Dragon King
Author: Mary Pope Osborne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
The book is about two persons called Jack and Annie. They are siblings. They travelled back to ancient China.There is a powerful emperor called the Dragon King. He is a totalitarian king. Nobody can disagree with him. He has ordered that all books in his country have to be burnt. Jack and Annie should be able to save at least one book .
On the way to the Imperial Library, they get to know a peaceful and fascinating ancient China. In fact, it is not a peaceful place at all. Luckily, they find the place where Dragon King burns the books in time but they are nearly captured by the Dragon King .They save the book. Finally, they escape from that horrible place with difficulty. It is exciting .
I think this story is good. When I read the first scene then I have been attached by it. I couldn’t stop . It’s fun and exciting. Also, I think Jack and Annie are very brave and intelligent. The pictures in the book are beautiful. You must read it at least once.
After I read this book, I think of a question :If there are no books in the world or all of them are burnt by Dragon King, what will happen? I do not know but I am sure that it will be a mess.
Chung Chak Shing 2C(28)
Title: Mr. Bean
Author:Rowan Atkinson
Richard Curtis
Robin Driscoll
Andrew Clifford
Publisher: Penguin Readers
Today, I would like to share a book with you. The name of this book, which I believe most of you may have heard about, is MR. BEAN! It is a really funny book. I like this book since I laugh whenever I am reading it. Some of you may think Mr. Bean is silly, but if he is stupid, how can he play tricks on the others? Although this book does not teach us anything, it can make us stay away from pressure and stress. Therefore, I think it is a very good book.
The story is about Mr. Bean celebrating his birthday in a restaurant and he wrote a birthday card for himself. Although other people thought it was crazy, he felt very pleased with it. After that, he took a knife for the steak and played it. Other people thought he was sick and told the waiter to transfer to the other table. Then he tried to put the steak in to somewhere else and brought it home. At last the manager came and gave him a plastic bag.
I think this is one of the funniest stories in Mr. Bean. I hope more and more people will like watching or reading Mr. Bean after I have shared this book.
Leung Ho Hin 1B (31)
Title:Peter Pan
Author:J.M.Barrie
Publisher:he Commercial Press (H.K.)Ltd.
Peter Pan is a very famous story in the world. Many people have read or heard about it before.It is an interesting story book for children and teenagers. I like its plot very much so I want to share it to everyone.
This book is about a little girl called Wendy. She has two little brothers called John and Michael. One day,they met Peter Pan and Tinker Bell (fairy). Peter Pan and Tinker Bell made them fly and brought them to Neverland. Neverland is the most beautiful place in the world.There were lots of fairies. After that,they lived in there with some lost boys.They were really happy in there but some pirates were coming.Then Peter Pan brought everyone to fight with pirates in the Jolly Roger(ship). Finally, Peter Pan killed Captain Hook. Wendy,John and Michael went back to their home with lost boys.They lived together happily. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell went back to Neverland and stayed there forever.
I think Peter Pan is a really touching and exciting story. I really want Neverland is true. It is a really good place. I want to see the fairy but it is only a dream. Althought it is only a dream, Peter Pan is still the hero of everyone, I believe.
Wu Po Ping 1B(38)
Title: The Coldest Place on Earth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
This story talks about two teams’ members. They competed to decide which team would get to the South Pole first. The team from British was headed by Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Another team from Norway was headed by Captain Roald Amundsen. It was a really a hard journey. Both of two team members were intelligent, brave and strong. All of them had special skills. The team from Norway used dogs and sledges for this exhausting journey. The team from British used ponies and motor sledges. Both of them climbed up and down the mountains in -7 Centigrade or even -60 Centigrade! Finally, the team from Norway put the Norwegian flag in the South Pole. The team from British arrived and saw the flag. They were tired, ill and disappointed. They lose their race and also their lives in the coldest place on Earth because they didn’t have enough food.
This story was touching. It made me think about that the creature which has the most power to adapt to the world can keep alive even the surroundings is extremely bad.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title: Garfield–on the top of the world
Author: Jim Davis
Publisher: Ravette Publishing
Today, I would like to share a book with you. This book, I think you know the leading role, is about Garfield! It is very funny to read. When I was reading it, I laughed excitedly! And it can help me to relax. So it is the reason why I share this book to you.
Garfield, you know, is a lazy cat. He eats so much and sleeps so much. One comic says when he saw the calendar of the records at the end of a year, he found that he missed three naps in that year and then he went to catch up the three naps! It is so funny! But I think he cannot care for this too much because if he cares for this, he will find it hard to catch up!
Also, this comic is also funny. It says Garfield’s owner, Jon, told Garfield that dinner was served. But when he said ‘Dinner is…’ Garfield ran very, very fast and collided with Jon. And then he ate dinner fast!
About Jon’s dog and Garfield’s friend, Odie, is very silly. One comic says Jon taught Odie to sit up. But he did not do it and made Jon angry. And then Garfield said Odie used three years to learn how to breathe! This is too exaggerating but it is funny! But I want to ask, why can Odie exist till now?
This book is very, very funny and interesting. Also the picture is beautiful and good. This book has another good comic in it. If you want to see Garfield’s comic, you can find it in the library. I hope there will be more people reading it, which makes them laugh and relax.
This is the end of my sharing. Thank you!
Wong Chun Ho 1B (37)
Title: When Pigasso Met Mootisse
Author: Nina Laden
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Pigasso and Mootisse are artists. They have created some famous and venerable paintings. Many art teachers, sellers, students in their town visit them and appreciate their works of art. However, they feel annoyed with them and want a nice and silent place for obtaining new idea of next compositions.
Pigasso and Mootisse move to a great plain coincidentally and become acquainted with each other. One day, they criticize their new compositioin in which their own unique art styles are involved and argue against each other. They are separated by a fence which is built up between their houses.
While Pigasso is painting his new composition, a drawback is discovered in his painting. While Mootisse is drawing his new picture, a fault is found in his drawing. Oh! They cannot create a new work without each other. Later, they try to combine their art style and gain a great appreciation.
Perhaps we usually discriminate against other’s opinion with a subjective attitude. However, it is advisable to take an open-minded approach to new ideas!
Ng Hau Chuen, Daniel 3C (33)
Title of Book : The Road to El Dorado
Author : Peter Lerangis
Publisher : Puffin Books
“Grrrrrrrrommmmmmmmmmmmmm…The distant volcano suddenly rumbled, shaking the ground. Gasps of shock washed over the crowd.” As a matter of fact, this book is a fantasy. The story is about two swashbuckling swindlers who get their rank-smelling hands on a map to the mythological and glorious city of gold.
As expected, there are many obstacles on their way to the city of gold. For instance, a high priest is clasped in a power struggle with the dreadfully benevolent chief and the perfunctory and negligent girlfriend puts the two friends at odds. This made them agrue for a long period.
This story is filled with action, excitement and humour which shows the greatness of friendship, courage and bravery which can be spread all over the world if everyone performs deeds of open-handedness and friendliness. The author of this book, Peter Lerangis, is trying to tell his readers, “Their friendship is more valuable than all the gold and glory the El Dorado has to offer! ”
I liked this book because it sounded like it could really happen although it was fabled and fictitious. I luxuriate in reading books like this so I would like to recommend this book to anyone.
Mo Shuk Ki 3D 19
Title of Book : The Man with Tiger Eyes
Author : Karen Wallace
Publisher : Africa House
Thirteen-year-old Violet Winters had a real taste for solving mysteries—just like me. When I read the mystery, I was too happy and imagined that I was swirling over the vat raising my arms triumphantly and screaming with joy without any etiquette and manners. When Violet solved the mysteries, I chanted “Great!” with eyes bulged as I stay up late for reading this book.
The “Never-give-up” belief of her totally inspired me. Her turquoise silk taffeta was always spinning in my puny brain. Her act of clutching the vine made me laugh.
“New York was so different from London. By comparison, London seemed slow and old-fashioned.” Violet murmured. Karen Wallace helped me to know more about New York in this book. I learnt a lot from this book. For Lady Violet Winters, it’s a world of intrigue and excitement.
Lady Violet’s Casebook series are really suitable for me to read. I smiled with eyes glittering when Lady Violet was happy. I interested in this kind of book. Thus, I highly recommend all of you to read it. (about 177 words)
Mo Shuk Ki 3D (19)
Title of Book: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: The Commercial Press (HK) Ltd.
Today, I would like to share a book with you. This book is about a boy named Pip. I think this book is quite good so I want to share it with you.
Pip has no mother and father. One day when he was sitting in the churchyard, a prisoner saw him and wanted Pip to give some food to him. He was afraid and he stole from his sister‘s home. While he arrived at the churchyard, he saw another prisoner and gave the food to him. Also, Miss Havisham wanted to see Pip and Pip went to her home. He saw a beautiful girl named Estella in Miss Havisham’s home and Pip loved her. However, Miss Havisham and Estella did not like him, but Miss Havisham wanted Pip to work with Joe Gargery and Biddy. They cared about him very much. But one day, a lawyer named Jaggers said that a secret benefactor wanted to give money to him. Then he went to London and learnt how to do a gentleman. Pip did those and thought that the secret benefactor was Miss Havisham. And he started thinking about Estella……
This book is written by Charles Dickens. Although some behaviour described in this book is incorrect, the book is touching because finally Pip and Estella became friends! And this book also tells us two things: The first is we should help people who have helped us in the past; the second one is we should know that friendship is important.
Wong Chun Ho 1B (37)
Title of book: Blood fever
Author: Charlie
Publisher: Penguin Group
The main character James Bond’s best friend Mark Goodenough’s family members are killed by pirates at the sea while his father and his sister are sailing. His father is murdered and his sister, Amy, is captured and kept as a slave in the pirates’ hands.
At the meantime, James finds his Latin teacher and the captian of the history society both have a ‘M’ on each hand. According to what James has learnt, there once was a dangerous organization in Roman called Millenaria which has also the same tattoo on hands. Is there any connection between these two?
And far away from England, there is a millionaire who builds a mountain fortress and has some sort of relationship with the pirates who kept Mark’s sister. He is harsh and is a cleanaholic. James remembers that he may see that man in a party.
Once again, James shows his courage and talent to deal with all kinds of difficulties and challenges. I was deeply impressed by him.
Gu Zihao, Tony, 2C (31)
Title: The Bad Beginning
Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
The book talks about three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. They lost their parents in a fire. And no relatives could adopt them. Mr. Poe a bank officer, who was a good friend of the Baudelaire, took them to a horrible man’s house, Count Olaf. He was tall and thin with dark black clothes. On his hairy ankles, there were green tattoos of an eye which often symbolize him.
Since the parents left the orphans lots of money, Count Olaf post as their relative and pretended to be polite and kind to Mr. Poe. But to the three poor kids, he is rude and cruel to them. He tried to make them hungry for days or locked them in dark rooms with dirty beds and cloth. He put little Sunny into a bird cage and hung it on the top of the tower. He tried to marry Violet, in order to get the money with ‘justice’.
The author used his concrete description to show me a really unfortunate story. The villain can just be shown in front of your eyes. I dissolved into the plots and always worried about the fate of the three pitiful children. A great book to read.
Gu Zihao, Tony, 2C 31
Title of the book: The Fair Lady
Author: alan Jay Lerner
Publisher:Punguin books
This story talks about a poor young flower-seller, Eliza and a professor,Higgins that hates women. It seems like a romance story, but it also teaches us a lesson.
A girl called Eliza was so poor. She didn’t earn much money from selling flowers. Unfortunately, her father was a heavy drinker. She had to pay her father for the fare of the beer every day.
One day, she met a professor called Higgins who studies phonetics. He accepted to teach Eliza how to speak beautiful and pure English. But at the beginning, Higgins bullied Eliza every day. During the months, Higgins found that he fell in love with Eliza.
After six months, Higgins sucessfully turned a street-girl into a fair lady. But Eliza was gone. Finally, Higgins promised to be kind to Eliza and Eliza came back and lived with Higgins.
After reading this story, I learnt that if we have perseverance, we can overcome every challenge. The words are not very hard and it provides us a clear message. My favourite character is Eliza of course because she encourage me to study hard even though there will be lots of challenges and then I will succeed finally.
Wong Chau Ling, 2C 19
Title: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/Oxford University Press
Author: Mark Twain
This is one of the famous stories of Mr. Mark Twain. This story talks about how a boy, Huck , who got money with his friend, Tom Sawyer from robbers hid in a secret place. He became very rich. He had to live with a widow and she looked after him. But Huck did not like living in an ordinary way. He then got a raft and ran away with a slave, Jim. They adventured along the river and visited many places. They hid their names because most of the people thought Huck was dead. Many people wanted to catch Jim as his master would give three hundred dollars to anybody that found him. Finally, Jim was kept again. Tom tried the best to save Jim. They were free again. But Tom got a bullet in his leg. Jim stopped Huck from escaping because Tom needed a doctor. Then, their adventure ended.
The story is interesting and creative. Jim is very good. He is brave. He could be a freeman if he ran away. But he did not want to leave his friend. He chose to be caught to save the life of his friend. He is great!
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title of Book : The story of Tracy Beaker
Author : Jacqueline Wilson
Publisher : Transworld
Conscientiously, this is absolutely a fantastic book I’ve ever read. Some people may think that Tracy in the story was quite kinky and weird. But I think she was superb and mature enough. Tracy was neglected by her mother. But she believed that mother and her would show up and have marvellous adventures one day. In the meantime, she was doing everything she could to take care of herself. And that’s hard work, because the girls she lived with are mean and nasty.
She disliked reading soppy fairy tales and got a bit teed off when her aunt scowled at her. It is an illusion that Tracy was zany Actually she had the most interesting and creative ideas in her mind.
However, wonderful ideas are not a panacea or cure-all of being well-behavioured. Tracy sometimes spoke foul language when she was furious and mad. She blurted out impolite saying such as “you little creepy sausage!” , “get lost!” and “I want to beat you up!”, which are rude.
This book is enthralling and meaningful. I dived deeply into this book. It’s really superior!
Mo Shuk Ki 3D (19)
Title of Book: Oh, Baby!
Author: Nancy Krulik
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Today, I would like to share a book with you. This book is about the special things of a girl named Katie. I think this book is quite good so I want to share it with you.
Katie’s classmates, George and Kelvin, have gone to see the scary movie named Tornado. Katie was not very glad about it but she swept up in big winds herself twice. Twice also happened that Katie was sad and she hoped she could be anyone but not herself and her hope became true and finally she became herself. Actually, Katie felt that the magic wind will come back……
Katie had a best friend named Suzanne. One day Katie and her friend, Jeremy, went to Suzanne’s home to chat together. Suzanne had a baby brother called Heather. At that moment Heather cried loudly. So Suzanne and Jeremy went to take the bottle and food for him to eat. And Katie and her dog, Pepper, went to look at him. But suddenly, the magic wind blew up again! And Katie became Heather! When Suzanne wanted to change her diaper, Katie was terrified and asked her not to change her diaper! And suddenly, she became herself again.
But Katie’s baby talking made Suzanne and Jeremy think that Heather was a genius. So they said to everyone and wrote it on the class newspaper. Other classmates wanted to listen to Heather’s talking so they went to Suzanne’s home. Although Katie stopped Suzanne, Suzanne did not listen. So, the classmates could not listen baby’s talking and they were angry with Suzanne and Jeremy……
This book was very interesting and funny. It is because the action of the story, like
when Suzanne went to change her diaper, Katie said things and Suzanne and
Jeremy’s fear was funny. I hope you can read this book enjoyably.
Wong Chun Ho 1B (37)
Title of Book : Hampton House
Author : Jenny Dooley
Publisher : Express Publishing
Kathy, a lovely girl who worked in Helping Hand. One day, when Kathy served in the Old People’s Home, she met an old woman. The old woman talked about her past with Kathy. She told Kathy that she once worked in Hampton House. And the master, Lord Hampton, was selfish and did not care for the servants. After this conversation, Kathy felt curious about Hampton House as it seemed to relate to her.
Chance led the visiting of Hampton House. In Hampton House, Kathy met the ghost of Lord Hampton and had a wonderful adventure there. Then, she shared her experience with her friends. But none of them believed Kathy. They thought the thing that Kathy said was illogical and they thought she was a liar so they stayed away from her.
Fortunately, Kathy’s friends realized what Kathy said were both true in the end. They felt sorry to Kathy and they became friends again.
I like this book because it is very interesting and the pictures are real. Also, after reading this book I have learnt that the truth is true, although other people do not believe at this moment, but they will understand one day.
Chong Hoi Ki, 2D 6
Title of the book:The Midnight Ghosts
Author:Emma Fischel
Publisher:Usborne Publishing Ltd.
This story talks about the unusual experience of the main characters, Adam and Sally at the mysterious big old house,Twelve Bells End. It was the young children’s
cousin’s house and the story began when they received the invitation from their anut.
The young children went to the house for holiday but then the horror things began.The room they slept was eerie and dusty, the people there were very strange too. They turned soccer crazy,and even loved disgusting food!
Up to here, the writer could successfully create the horrible atmosphere, which attracts me to continue reading.
What do you think that’s going to happen?
Then Adam and Sally discovered the horrible curse of the Midnight!They knew that only if they could find the family treasure,The Midnight Stone back, the curse will be broken. They found a serect room and their venture began through the revealing of clues. At last,they could find the Stone and saved the whole family.The story was exciting and I learnt that nothing is impossible if you pay effort on it. Never give up, otherwise, you will lose all the things that you’ve done.
Lee Ping Ying, 2C 11
Title:The Boy In The Moon
Author:L.A.Hill
Publisher:Oxford University Press
The book talks about the Boy in the Moon. His name is Fred. He thinks staying in the Moon is not happy. But his father doesn’t want Fred to go to the Earth. Fred doesn’t listen to his father. So, he puts on his father’s big coat and flies to the Earth. When he arrives the Earth, he meets a boy called Sid. Fred sees a lot of things in the Earth. He never knows the things in the Earth. So, he feels afraid. When he feels afraid, Sid tells Fred something and laughs at him. So, Fred feels unhappy. So, he goes back to the Moon.
After I read the book, I think Fred shouldn’t not be afraid. He should ask other people. I hope people can ask other people if they don’t know something. Try to ask people and don’t be afraid!
Cheng Tung Kin,1A 27
Title:Worth A Fortune
Author:L G Alexander
Publisher:Longman Group UK Limited
The book talks about a man call Nosey Parker. In the summer, he goes fishing with Andy Carpe and Alf Plunkett. Andy and Alf have caught lots of fish but Nosey is so unlucky. He hasn’t caught one fish. Suddenly he catches something, it is a metal box. There are 67 old gold coins! Nosey is very happy. His wife is happy too.
On Monday and Wednesday, the reporter from“The Puddleton Echoand”and“The Daily Post”goes to the Nosey’s house to hear Nosey’s story and reports the story. On Thursday, two people go to Nosey’s house and they want to buy Nosey’s old gold coins. Then, His wife goes to the Hawkins’ General Store to buy lots of expensive things. On Friday, Andy and Alf want some money. They ask Nosey to get money. Then, the government wants some money from Nosey. So, they order Nosey to pay tax. Nosey feels it is troublesome. He throws the box into the sea.
After I read the books, I think having much money sometimes isn’t good. Money can bring you trouble!
Cheng Tung Kin,1A 27
Title of the book: The Purpose Driven Life
Author: Rick Warren
Publisher: Zondervan
Today, I would like to share a book with you. Before that, I would like to ask you three questions:
1. What does life stand for?
2. What is in your first priority?
3. Why are you here? What on Earth are you here for?
You do not need to answer me. Keep the answer in your mind.
The book I would like to share with you guys today is called ‘The Purpose Driven Life’, which is a devotional book. In this book, you can find out the answer. It quotes verses from Bible. You can know who you are, why you are here……from this book with Bible.
Actually, I have not read the whole book yet. I just follow the schedule of my church, and sometimes read the e-version of the original English version for further understanding. But there is a chapter I remember most ‘You are not an accident’. The book said ‘It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing at this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you’. Sometimes, you study Science, you may think everything happens by probability, even life, you may think it is also by probability, but actually it’s not, the book said we are alive because God wanted to create us.
I think it is a great book for you to think about your life. Go and read it, and you will find the treasure inside.
Ho Chun Kit, Dicky 3E 30[3G]
Title of the book: Robinson Crusoe
Author:Daneual Defoe
Publisher: Black Cat
Today, I would like to share a book with you. It is called the Robinson Crusoe. It is an adventure story and the story is very interesting and exciting. I recommend this book to you since you can learn the attitude of Robinson and it can help you to learn more easily in the secondary school.
The story is about a man who likes sailing very much. One day he and his friend sailed again. Unfortunately, they met a storm and he was the only survivor and he floated to an island but there were no people in it. He spent thirty-five years there and every day he lived withdifficultly. He needed to solve the difficulties without any tools. I respected his attitude. Fortunately, one day a man in the ship noticed the island and rescued him. He went back to England, but everything had changed and his girlfriend and parents were all dead. I was touched by the ending of the story. This is really a wonderful and touching story that I recommend you to read.
Leung Ho Hin 1B (31)
Title of the book: 10 Secrets of Abundant Happiness
Author: Adam J. Jackson
Publisher: Thorsons
Today, I would like to share a nice book with you. Actually, I read it when I was in Form 1, but I still want to share with you, the message inside I still keep till now.
The book is called ‘10 Secrets of Abundant Happiness’. It told me that how I can be happy. Or you may ask how we can stay happy when life throws bad things at us, but I think I can. It’s what the book taught me=]. Even though you cannot change the situation you face, you can change your frame of mind.
The book taught me ten secrets to be happy: Attitude, Live in the present, Autosuggestion……But one secret I remember most—Relationship. It’s not telling about the relation between boy and girl, it is friendship, etc. It taught me to share. It said sharing happiness will get double happiness and sharing unhappiness, it will disappear. =] Amazing, but it is true.
Time goes by fast, it nearly comes to the end of my sharing. The final message I want to say is ‘Don’t hesitate. Read this book.’
Ho Chun Kit, Dicky 3E 30[3G]
Title of the book: Double or die
Author: Charlie Higson
Publisher: Penguin Group
After all the troublesome things, James can finally have a normal school life, far away from danger, far away from death, to be precise. But I don’t know if James was chosen by God to be a trouble maker once born, or the trouble loves him. He was in danger again.
Minster Fairburn, the responsible teacher of the crossword society, has been missing for days. Plus a letter written by him with tons of mistakes, including the date and wrong spelling of students which is actually clues the event.
In midnight, after a narrow escape, James was walking along in the street with soaked clothes and a face with the mixture of blood and mud. That was when he found his friend, Red.
They found the kidnapped Minster Fairburn in a ship with a gigantic machine which is the secret weapon which can think like a man in the future.
James performed a fantastic and fabulous show of courage and intelligent in the book. Just like what the Daily Mail said, ‘Very clever, Mr Bond, very clever indeed.’
Gu Zihao, Tony, 2C 31
Title of the book: The Secret Garden
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Oxford
The book Secret Garden is about a young orphan Mary Lennox who from India. Her parents died in cholera. She was taken to England and lived with Uncle Craven.
One day, she followed a robin and suprisingly found the key that can open the Secret Garden. She went to there with Dickon everyday to plant some plants.
One day, she heard somebody cried and she followed the sound and found a boy in a quiet room. His name was Colin. Colin was a weak boy. Mary was the best friend of Colin.
A few weeks passed. Mary and Dickon have planted many plants in the Secret Garden and the garden was full of vitality. Colin was a weak boy that can not walk but with the courageous from Mary and Dickon, he tried to walk and he succeeded. When Mr. Craven saw his son was walking and strong, he hugged he son. He was misunderstanding he son before that Colin was the reason that his wife died. And finally, they lived happily ever forever.
This story tells me that LOVE can break down the gap between people and people.
Wong Chau Ling 2C (19)
Book Name: The Lahti File
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/Cambridge University Press
Author: Richard Macandrew
Do you have courage to work as a spy? It is a story about a British spy, Munro, went to Finland to find out the causes of death of fishes, and a couple as well as the fewer of birds relating to toxic gas. It is really dangerous and challenging job. First, Munro’s helper was murdered. He has no information to start with. Then, he was being followed by several men. He had to stay in a drinker’s room and then escaped. He also needed to change his clothes to sidetrack his followers’ attention. He even fought with them for protecting himself. Finally, his helper’s sister, Sirpa, told him the whole picture. He discovered that a politician owned a company to develop toxic gas. He and Sirpa were locked by that politician. He finally won and save Sirpa.
It was an exciting story. Munro was intelligent, brave and calm even being threatened by gun. He is wise too! He used many ways to deal with his enemies to get chance to fight back. Working as a spy is really a challenging job!
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Book Name: Justice
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/Oxford University Press Author: Tim Vicary
What would you do if you found out someone made your father lose one of his legs in a bomb attack accident? Jane’s mother died years ago. She loved her father, Alan. Alan works as a coach man to drive the Queen. He was faked by his girl friend, Anna to put a bomb in the coach to use to murder the Queen. The Queen was safe but many people died of the attack. Unfortunately, Alan lost his leg. Jane was sad and she found out that it was the plan of the Scottish terrorists, Anna and her another boyfriend. But Jane was kidnapped by them when she knew the truth. Anna even planed to kill Jane if he reported to the police. Jane was in danger but she did not give up. She thought it was unjust if the terrorists could not be punished. She was tied tightly but she stayed calm. She finally killed the terrorists for “justice” and saved her own life.
I thought there are many ways to punish the terrorists. I still believed the police could help and they are the right person to keep the order and just of the society.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Sorry for double posting, I forget to write down my class and class number.
Title of the book: Have a Little Faith
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Hyperion
Today, I would like to share a book with you. It is called ‘Have a Little Faith’. This is the second book which is written by Mitch Albom I share here. Mitch’s book is very meaningful. This book is not an exception also. Every time after you read his book, you will find something in his book.
The book I share today, ‘Have a Little Faith’, is about belief. What is your belief? Have you found the belief of yours? In the book, it said, if you can find a thing bigger than you, you will have a deep comfort. After you find your belief, you will realize that everyone’s similarity is more than their difference. When we are weak, we don’t know what will happen next, try to lay us down, turn our eyes upon God, and wait God plan for us.
If you don’t have a belief, try to read this book. But if you have a belief as me, try to read this book also, and you may find more things about your life.
Ho Chun Kit, Dicky 3E 30[3G]
Title of the book: Change of Heart
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Atria
Today, I would like to share a book, Change of Heart, with you. I read this book because a friend shared this book in Facebook, and I hope this time I share the book here and someone will read this book after my sharing. As my friend mentioned in the sharing, every time you read Jodi Picoult’s book, you will get a shock wave, you will think about your value judgment.
This time, this novel, Change of Heart, is talking about the condemned prisoner, Shay Bourne. He killed a girl and her father (also a police). The book is a mixture of different people’s own words. It stated that if we also punish him by killing him, what is the difference between we and he, just seem we use a nice reason, but actually we are doing the same thing. But finally, he still is condemned to death. When Shay is waiting to die, he wants to donate his heart to the victim’s only family member in order to atone. More and more contradiction occurs. What will happen then? Let’s read the book.
Ho Chun Kit, Dicky 3E 30[3G]
Title of the book:Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone
Author:J.K.Rowling
Publisher:Bloomsbury
Today, I would like to share a book with you.I bet you have heard about Harry Potter.I want to introduce the first book of Harry Potter’s collection,”Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone”.
This book is written about a special boy called Harry Potter who was survived from a very violent wizard,Voldemort.Voldemort was so powerful that every wizrd and witch was scared of him.
Harry was brought up by his muggle (it means non-magic people)cousin, Dudley and his parents.They both treated Harry badly and thought he was a crazy and troublesome boy.
But one day, a giant called Hagrid came and told Harry that he was invited to go to the most famous magic school, Hogsward.
So Harry had started his magical life.He could get a wand, a flying bloomstick, an owl and more!
But it was not just magic school life.He met a very special and mysterious year.He needed to face the problem because he thought he needed to help Hogsward.
In the end, I really recommend you to read this funny, mysterious,magical and exciting story!
Title of the book: The Golden Touch and other stories
Author: David Foulds
Publisher: Oxford Progressive
The Golden Touch is a very famous story. It’s a Greek Myth and all of us should know it.
This story was talking about a king called ‘Mida’ who always wanted to have a golden touch. Once, he had a chance, a Lord promise to give him a wish. He asked for a golden touch, then the Lord accepted his wish.
Since that time, the king was delighted, he walked through all the place inside his castle and touched all the things. Soon, the castle was full of shining gold.
In the afternoon, the King wanted to eat something, but as he touched anything, they all became gold, so he couldn’t eat anymore.While his daughter came, the King loved her so much that he touched her face. Suddenly, she became a golden statue! He was repented.
Through this story, I know that money isn’t as important as family. Although we may have a lot of money, without family’s love, that’s useless.Many people think getting rich is the most important in their life, but in fact, love between each other is much more powerful than money!
Hope all people in the world can really understand what the most important thing in the life is.
Cheung Ming Fong 2D(4)
Title of ithe book: The Big Book Of Space Discovery
Author: Ron Estrine
Publisher: Dewey Melton
As you know, this is a book about Astronomy. It is packed with colorful illustrations, fascinating facts and fun-filled activities. It’s a great way to learn about space travel, our solar system and the world beyond.
The part in the book that most interested me is ‘Other Planets in our solar system’. Do you think that the planet which is the closest to the sun is the hottest planet? I think most of you get wrong!! No, it isn’t! It is the second nearest, Venus. Why? Let me briefly introduce it to you . The four planets closest to the sun—Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–are made up mainly of rock and are small. The next four planets–Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune–are made up mostly of gas and are large. However, Venus’s days are longer than its years! Its year is 224 earth days, its day lasts 243 days earth days. Venus’s atmosphere traps lots of carbon dioxide. Because of this, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system. That’s all for my sharing.
Title of the book: Scrapman
Author: Carolyn Bear
Publisher: Oxford Reading Tree
Today,I am going to share the book called ‘Scrapman’.I thought it is a very exciting and amazing story book.Let me tell you about it.
Winston was the owner of a scrapyard.One day,he thought these things such as rusty iron,old worn-out cars,broken gas cookers etc. were very useful. He put these useful things to his shed so that he had a big shed full of useful things that he had saved.He considered what he could do to the things.He wanted to fix the goods first.Suddenly,He had the idea of making Scrapman because he looked at the old washing machine.The machine was like a face looking back at him.Next morning,he had finished his mechanical man.Then he wrote the ‘scrapman’ on its body.At night,he was very tired so he went to sleep.Yes,he was so tired that he even did not hear the thunderstorm.But then,something amazing thing was happening.Scrapman sat bolt upright and hit his head on the ceiling.It was because what Winston had made for him was not a good brain at all that his words were not clear.As he woke up and said, ‘Hoo ham I?’(who am I)And he looked down and read the word’scrapman’,and he said again’I ham Scrapman’.He wanted to see this world. So he went out but he did not know that he had destroyed many things.
He knew a friend,Emma.She told the scrapman he could go out but the people were afraid and shouted when they saw him.Many firemen unrolled their fire hoses.The scrapman was afraid they would hurt Emma so he put her to chondae.At this moment,Winston came to take him back.Although the scrapman did not believe he was his creator,it saw that he looked like a nice man and his friend.Finally,they repaired some places and things tjat were destroyed by the scrapman.
This book is real fun.Do you think so?I think the auther is very creative.Though the story is short and simple,it has given me a nice dream.
Mok King Shi (36) 2B
Title of the book: Snow white and the seven Aliens
Author: Laurence Anholt
Publisher: Orchard Books
Today,I am going to share the book called Snow white and the seven Aliens.Snow White was a child who dreamed of becoming a pop-star.She wanted to be number one in the charts,just like her role model,Hank Hunk from Boysnog.Mean Queen had been a singer in The Wonderful Wicked Witches.She knew Snow White had a beautiful voice and was a great dancer too but she was not because her voice was croaky that she was no longer a star.Therefore,she had become mad with jealousy of Snow White.Next day,she laughed at Snow White and said that she looked ordinary and her nose was too small.Snow White was very upset.Snow White’s father was a kind little man.He liked doing puzzles and making small Plasticine models.He loved his daughter very much,but he was not strong enough to stand up to his wife.Mean Queen always forced her poor husband to sit behind the dressing-table mirror and tell her that she was still beautiful.So when she asked the mirror who had the cutest nose of all, her husbnd replied she looked a treat with a nose as perfect as a boiled sweet.On the other hand,Snow White often sat in the garden surrounded by little birds and rabbits,singing quietly in her beautiful clear voice.Day by day,Mean Queen saw that Snow White was growing into a very beautiful young woman with a tiny pink nose.One day,she led Snow White far into the wild and dangerous city.She passed and kissed her father goodbye.So now Mean thought that no body was more beautiful than her.All of a sudden,SnowWhite stood in front of a spacecraft and wrote the name called SWINGING SPACESHIP NIGHT CLUB.When she went into it,she heard some odd songs by some strangers.She sang som very beautiful songs.So she could be a pop-star.
Mok King Shi (36)2B
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Title of the book: Photo of The Tall Man
Author: Stephen Rabley
Publisher: Longman
Today, I would like to share a book called Photo of The Tall Man. I was first interested in the title of the book, especially the words ‘Tall Man’. What would you guys think of ‘Tall Man’? For me, I was definitely thinking of a Chinese traditional story which is about a man with a long legged shadow. However, the Tall man in this book is not a just person. Although he is the main character, his is the villain of the story, too!
He murdered a teenage girl during a six million pound bank robbery in London. He usually uses a name ‘T.M.’ as his signature. The police describe him as ‘Europe’s most dangerous criminal’. He is also clever, everyone, even the police, doesn’t know how he looks like, but the only thing everyone knows about him is that he is over two meters tall!
This is a detective story which includes lots of exciting action scenes and interesting plots. Unfortunately, no one catches the Tall Man eventually, but, the detective has got the photo of him!
Daniel Kwok Ching Fung (2B 32)
Title of the book:Great Expectations
Author :Charles Dickens
Publisher:The Commercial Press Ltd
Today, I am going to share a book Great Expectations. Pip who is an orphan lives with his unfriendly sister and brother Joe . He is a blacksmith but he helps a prisoner escape away so the prisoner gives him a lot of money when he comes back home. He becomes rich and falls in loves in Estella who is without heart.Because of the death of the prisoner , Pip becomes poor again and his friends leave him. Finally, Pip works harder and becomes rich again so his friends support him.Also, Estella realizes her mistakes and becomes a friend of Pip’s.
The book teaches me a lot such as being poor can also be happy if your friends support you and you have hope to face tomorrow. Besides, fortune is not the most important thing. Instead, health is the most important.
If you are interested in reading the book ,you can borrow it from any public libraries.
Title of the book:Another World
Author:Madame Doubtfire
Publisher:Penguin Readers
Today , I am going to share abook Another World with you all. The sun always shines in Eden City and everyone is happy, young and beautiful.BZXY741 is a student in the city.One day,he meets Eve who is different from the other people and she tells BZ about the another world. But BZ does not believes and Eve brings him to visit the other world. He fells miserable because people in the city are unhappy and worried .They can be old and the air is dirty.
But in his own city ,every one is the same and they will die at the age of 25 and people there do not have freedom . However, BZ still likes this awful city so he becomes the leader of his city.
I like the city we are living today because we have freedom to live and every one is different so that lives are meaningful.
Title of the book: Decameron
Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Penguin
This book is about the time during the Black Death broke out in Eruope in 1348.Ten young Florentines were still alive and they took turns to tell one story a day in ten days. There are hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. And some of the stories are about religion. The story starts from Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperello, who despite his unholy effrontery becomes a Saint.
I like this book very much because the stories are great and reliable. And the words are quite easy so I can understand the story more. Also, this book was written by a famous writer, Boccaccio in the time of Renaissance and it has great historical and cultural value and the people in this century should read the book in order to know more about the history at that time. Moreover, through the stories in this book, I can understand the thinking of the people at that time and I can know more about the literature of Europe more.
Title of the book:My Sister’s Keeper
Author:Jodi Picoult
In Los Angeles, the eleven-year-old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older sister Kate has had leukemia; how she was conceived by in vitro fertilization to become a donor; and the medical procedures she has been submitted since she was five years old to donate to her sister. Campbell accepts to work pro bono and the obsessed Sara decides to go to court to force Anna to help her sister.
The story is controversial.If members of our family were sick, of course we would do everything to help.
But in the book, Anna’s situation is different. She was not willing to help. I think this story plot is quite good, but quite complicated. Overall, its a good book to read.
Chan Nok Lam Natalie(3)3D
Title of Book: Brutus the Wonder Poodle
Author: Linda Gondosch
Publisher: Random House, New York
Today, I would like to share a book with you. This book is about a boy named Ryan and a dog called Brutus. All of Ryan’s friends had a pet but Ryan did not have. So he asked his parents to buy a dog and promised that he would take care of it carefully. After repeated pleading, his mother bought him a little cute dog, Brutus. But he did not feel so happy because he wanted a dog like Duke. Duke was a big, rough and strong. And Brutus was only a poodle puppy! So then Ryan did many unreasonable things to make Brutus become rough and tough……
I think this book is interesting. When Ryan wanted Brutus to be rough and tough, he fed it a lot of meat. Also he instructed it to catch rabbits! Therefore he thought that Brutus could become big, rough, strong and like Duke! (But it was also a bit cruel to Brutus!) Besides, this book is instructive. Ryan thought that only a rough and tough dog was a good dog. But Brutus was a good dog too. When a ferret called Fred stole things and was escaping, he ran after Fred as fast as he could, finally it caught Fred and all of Ryan’s friends praised it! Oppositely, Duke suddenly stopped to catch the thief because it felt tired. So it tells us: We shouldn’t use exterior to determine whether a person is good or not. We should use one’s behavior and character to know about him or her.
I hope you can read this book enjoyably.
Wong Chun Ho 1B (37)
Title of the book:The magic finger
Author:Dahl, Roald.
Publisher:England : Puffin Books
Do you want to have a magic finger?I think lots of us will say’Yes’.But the girl in the story did not like her special power.
In a village,there was a girl who had a magic finger but she didn’t know.One time,her teacher made her feel very angry.Then she felt some strange things.After that,the teacher was changed into a cat!So She found that she could use super natural power when she was angry.Another day,she saw her neighbors shoot some poor ducks.She was really furious.Then the strange feeling appeared again!She felt frightened and ran away.
At night,the poor families went to sleep and didn’t know the thing would happen next.Do you know what thing happened next?They were changed to be ducks.Next,some half-human and half-duck things came to their house and took out the guns to hunt them.They were scared and flew to a tree.Then they made a nest.Luckily,they changed back into human and never hunted again.
It is a fantastic story.It is really lovely and magical.It is very interesting too.The plot is special.I like it very much.
(If you want to read it,you can borrow it from the main library.)
Wu Po Ping1B (38)
Title: The Monkey’s paw
Authour: W.W. Jacobs
Publisher: Oxford University Press/Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
Do you wish something happened to change your life magically? However, it is not a good way. This story talked about how the monkey’s paw changed the life of the White family. The old Mr. White, his wife and their son, Herbert are not very rich. But they lived happily. On a rainy day, Old Mr. White’s friend, Tom Morris who was an old Indian soldier visited them. They drank a lot and Tom told them many strange stories about Indian. The family asked the soldier for a monkey’s paw which has magic power and can give wishes to people. The White family thought it was wonderful. However, Tom warned them again and again that wishes don’t bring happiness and it’s never good to want to change things.
Old Mr. White did make a wish to have 3,000 pounds for their house. The White family was disappointed to see nothing happened at that night. Herbert then went to work as machine technician in a factory next morning.
A well-dressed gentlemen then visited them this day. The old Mr. and Mrs. White expected something happened to them. Unfortunately, they were told that their son died of a machine accident. His employer gave them 3,000.- pounds for compensation!
It was really a sad story. It taught us that it is no good to wait for magic in life. Instead, we should wish things to be changed by ourselves.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title: The Witches of Pendle
Author: Rowena Akinyemi
Publisher: Oxford University Press/Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
This story talked about the hard life of Jennet in the 17th century. She was born in a witch family. Her grandmother, mother, elder sister and elder brother are witches. Her father died many years ago. They were poor and had no food to eat. She disliked her family members who used magic on others for money, food or took revenge. Jennet did not have such kind of power. She was kind and she did not want anyone to die. She then told what she saw to a rich man, Mr. Nowell who could have the power to judge her family members’ wrongdoings. All of her family members were kept in the prison and hung to die.
Jennet then learned to serve Mr. Nowell and his family. However, a child told lies that she was a witch and sent her to prison for many years. Although some people believed she was innocent but no one could save her.
It was not happy to read this story. But this story told us the hardship of lower class and the poor people in the 17th Centuay. They have no food to eat and no say in their life. They struggled for bread but no one respected them! We have to thank for what we have today.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title: The Man from Nowhere
Authour: Bernard Smith
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/ Cambridge University Press
Do you have a dream to fly a private plane to travel around the world? It is a story about a man, Bardis, to fly a plane with his wife and son to travel along the Oman coastline, in the Middle East. However, their plane hit the birds and then crashed in a desert. He got head injury and his wife’s leg was badly wounded. He decided to walk along the coastline to seek help. But he was unconscious and then he was sent to the hospital. His wife and son were left in the desert for 4 days without food and drink. Bardis was awake but he lost all of his memory. He finally remembered who he was after the nurse reminded him. He then asked the police and doctor to save his son and wife who were still left in the desert. Bardis forgot his own injury and insisted to join them to search for his son and wife. Luckily, they were alive.
Bardis and his family were brave and strong in struggle for life. They could overcome the natural hardship and body pain and have strong will for survival. Their courage deeply impressed me.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title: The Beast
Authour: Carolyn Walker
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/ Cambridge University Press
The beast in this story was son of Lykaon who was a bad man and punished by Zeus many years ago. The beast was half man and half wolf. He has power to turn his body into a ghost, a beautiful man or woman or even any living things. The beast hid himself in the Brynmawr Hill which is in Wales.
Susie and her husband, Charlie went to Brynmawr Hill for holiday. Susie met the beast who turned himself into a handsome man in a pub. The beast liked Susie and he then wanted Susie to be with him. At the same time, something strange happened in the village. A farmer, Tom found that some of his sheeps died and missing. The beast made Charlie get badly hurt in a traffic accident. He then kept Susie in his home when Charlie was in hospital. However, Susie did not accept the beast and ran away. She was saved by Tom. Tom shot the beast. Then the beast escaped.
I thought the Beast represented the evil side of the world . It exists everywhere. It would make us do bad things. We should be strong and wise enough to escape from the evil, like Susie. We should try to say no to the such power.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
title:Louis Braille
authour:Margaret Davidson
pulisher:Scholastic Inc.
Today I want to recommend a book for you which has touched my heart. Louis Braille is the boy who was blind since five years old.It was because he played with the owl and owl plunged into his eyes.Although his mother held him close and bathed his eyes and the doctor came as fast as he could,his eyes could not be cured. At that moment, blind children almost never went to school and learned to to read or write.His parents wanted him to be happy and learn how to get around by himself.They feared that he would not do anything.Louis Braille did not give up.He also wanted to do many things even though he was blind.So his parents started to teach him many things such as polishing leather with wax and a soft cloth,filling a bucket with drinking water etc.Very soon,he could use his cane to walk which could make him walk confidently.
After he could take care of himself and help his parents, his father taught him about history and science and how the stars moved.His father found a school for him to learn and stay .He eventually found Mr.Becheret,the principal of the school, who could look after Louis Braille.The students of the school were very nice and friendly.Louis Braille cried in the morning at the school.Gabriel,the best friend of Louis Braille, comforted him.
One day,he wanted to read the book for the blind.He discovered that the book for the blind had the problem.It was not clear for the blind.Therefore,he wanted to invent books for the blind but he was afraid.His friends encouraged him to do it.He finally invented an easy way for all blind people to read and write.He worked out his alphabets of raised dots such as B(:),H(:.),G(::),J(.:)etc.He was only fifteen years old.After he had invented the alphabet,his coughed very seriously.The doctor proved that he had caught a terrible disease. during the last year of the school, he gave a lecture in his school.Many people were amazed.In 1852,he died.In 1887,the people of Coupvray,where Louis Braille was born,built a monument to commemorate him in the middle of the village square.
Although he was blind,he did not give up or hide somewhere to cry.He didn’t mind having a very hard life in the school.He even invented books for the blind.His perseverance had touched me. I hope that I can solve the difficulties as he did.
Title:Alien at School
Author:Michelle Brown
Pulisher:Black Cat Pushlisher
I want to recommend a book which is called Alien at School.The character of this story is called Jennifer Dale.You can call her Jenny.She has two best friends called Dana and Paul.It was the first day of high school.They had known some teachers but they thought that some of them were strange such as Mr Adams, who was at the window and was looking directly at the sun but the sun didn’t irritate his eyes.Another weird teacher is Mr Stone who had cheekbones,his eyes seemed to be able to change colour.At lunch,he had a glass of green liquid and some black pills,so they wanted to spy on Mr Stone.
After school, Paul and Jenny hid behind some bushes and waited for him to walk past.They followed Mr Stone and went to his home.Outside Mr Stone’s home,Jenny climbed the tree and saw him.She discovered that Mr Stone was bald and his head was covered with a lot of brown warts.At that moment,Mr Stone discovered that Jenny and Paul were spied on him and thought he was an alien.He felt very sad.The students felt terribly sorry but they wanted to comprehend thier questions.It was because Mr Stone started samoking as a teenager and continued until the tumour developed that he lost all of his hair and developed those warts.Also,the green liquid and the black pills were parts of his treatment and they included protein and other nutritional substances.Jenny,Paul and Mr Stone became friends.Henceforward,Mr Stone had a lot of friends.
I thought that if Jenny and Paul had something that they didn’t understand,they could ask Mr Stone directly or send him a letter.He will be more sad if they spy on him.Also,we should learn hospitality and kindness from Mr Stone.Although Jenny and Paul did inappropriate things,Mr Stone forgave them.
Mok King Shi (36)2B
Title: Fundamental Volleyball
Author: Julie Jensen
Publisher: Lerner Publications Company
This book is about volleyball. This book tells us the history, the basic skills and the information of a game of volleyball. It tells us that the most important thing to volleyball players is to think positively as it can help them to concentrate, and concentrating helps a player to serve correctly.
There are many pictures to help you to learn more easily and it also includes many details and tips to help readers learn the skills. For example, serving, passing, setting, spiking, blocking, etc. I think setting is the most difficult skill because we have to anticipate where the first pass will go and quickly move to that spot. It is hard to predict which direction the ball will go.
I also learn that safety precaution is very important before and after doing sports. The volleyball players have to stretch their muscles before practising. Then, when they have to dive for a ball, their muscles can stretch without injury. In order to play long games without losing energy, players also have to jog in place.
I think the most interesting chapter is “RAZZLE DAZZLE”. It teaches us some advanced moves to make the games more exciting such as jump serve, tips and back sets. Although the movements are hard to learn well, they are challenging. Tips can help us to win a game easily. Since the blockers and the other defenders are expecting a hard hit, they are not ready for the soft shot. I think jump serve is the most useful skill, we can jump and hit the ball, just like in a spike, but we don’t have to worry about hitting the net.
At the back of this book, there are some words about volleyball and their meanings. It can help us to know more about volleyball. I think this book is very suitable for beginners who are learning volleyball. I would recommened this book to my classmates who are interested in playing volleyball.
Title of the book: The Five People You meet in Heaven
Author: Mitch Albom
Publisher: Little, Brown & Time Warner Paperbacks
The story was about a simple man called Eddie, on his eighty-third birthday, also the last day of his life on earth. He suddenly “flew” to the heaven, and met five people whom Eddie was responsible for. Through the journey, Eddie knew that he did something wrong with some people, and now he knew it.
I think the book is interesting and meaningful. I like the arrangement of ideas that the author used five people who had different characters and relationship with the main character, Eddie. The author arranged the five people with different experiences skillfully in order to teach Eddie some lessons and made him feel regretful and sorry about what he did in his previous life. Moreover, the author wrote about Eddie’s birthday (which was the last day of his life) at the end of one “lesson” to help the readers to follow what is going on.
Title: The Elephant Man
Authour: Tim Vicary
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/ Oxford University Press
This story talks about how the life of an “elephant man” changed. The elephant man was born with half man and half elephant body. His name is Merrick. He was ugly. His mother left him. He was kept by a bad man who showed him to make money. The life of Merrick was difficult. Everyone is afraid of him because of his horrible appearance. Dr. Treves met Merrick and wanted to help him. But, he was taken back by the bad man. One day, a policeman called Dr. Treves as Merrick kept his name card.
The life of Merrick changed a lot when he was sent to the hospital where Dr. Treves worked there. He could have a home in the hospital, he could read and make friends with others. Even the Queen went to see him. He could once stay in the countryside for his wish. He finally died peacefully in the hospital bed.
I thought Merrick was very strong and brave. He was born with a horrible appearance. His mother left him. The bad man made money from him. He had no choice. But he was brave to face his difficult life. He never gave up. He chose to live on. He is a good model for youngsters today. We should not give up when facing our hard time.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title of book: The Funnie Mysteries—-True Graffiti
Author: Danny Campbell and Kimberly Campbell
Publisher: The United States of America
Today, I would like to share a book with you. This book is talking about some mysteries around a boy called Doug and also his friends. Because this book has five stories of the mysteries, so I only introduce the most exciting and interesting story—-The case of the mooching martians.
This story starts like that: When Doug was watching a TV programme called Tri-County Swimming Championships, he missed the last race but he could hear some strange music! On the next day, he heard the music again from Al and Moo’s wheelbarrow. He asked them what they were doing, but they only answered ‘Seventy-two’ and then ran away quickly. Then he followed them and went to a park, but there also was an UFO called MARS! Many aliens got in and out the UFO!! Then Dung thought that he should know the fact, so he started the mysteries……
I think this book is very interesting and exciting because of the action in the story. For example, when Doug and his friend Skeeter saw the ‘aliens’, I felt very afraid and scared because they might destroy the Earth!! Also the most frightening scene was when the ‘aliens’ found them, they intended to use their laser eyes to kill them!! But in every story, the ending was very funny! For example, in the story of UFO (on top), the UFO, MARS, was the Tri-County Swimming Championships’ short form! Also, the people who wore like aliens were working on testing the elasticity of the new swimming suits!
The story has mystery, excitement and fun!! It is very good!! Why don’t you go to library to read it at once? Let’s go!
Wong Chun Ho 1B (37)
Title: The Murders in the Rue Morgue
Authour: Edgar Allan Poe/ Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/ Oxford University Press
This is a detective story. The author and his friend, Dupin lived in Paris. Dupin was very clever. There was a terrible murder in the Rue Morgue. A mother and her daughter were killed in their house. The police questioned many witnesses. Most of them heard two voices. They agreed one voice spoke in French but they had different ideas about another sharp voice. A Frenchman thought the voice spoke in Spanish, but he didn’t know Spanish. A Spaniard thought it was English but he couldn’t speak English.
Dupin started from the fact. No gold was stolen. The murderer was so strong to break furniture into pieces, held daughter’s body into the chimney and cut off mother’s head just with a razor. He could make sharp voice. He could swing his body from the lightening rod to the window. He left long grey hair on the floor….. It was finally discovered that the murderer was a large orang-outang (big monkey) which escaped from a sailor.
Many of us would study things without the fact. For example, the witnesses thought the sharp voice was a foreign language but they actually did not know that language. But Dupin tried to see things based on fact. It was an exciting story. I learnt to look into things more seriously and did not make conclusion that I was not sure. It is because it would mislead others’ thinking.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title: The Way We Work
Author: David Macaulay
Publisher: Walker Books
From the title, you should be able to know that this book is about human biology. This book is great as it has clear pictures of different organs and tissues. It really makes it easier for someone who is like me who have not touched any biology books to understand.
I’d like to share the part ‘digestion’ to you.
Our tongues will meet the food first. Tongue is covered by tiny bumps to taste and grip the food. The tongue will tell us if things are poisonous by tasting. Sour and bitter all represent poisonous which until now we still don’t quite like.
Next will be our teeth. They are responsible to slice and crush the food in order to let us digest it easier. Teeth, with rich enamel, are built to be the strongest part of our body, in order to cut everything without difficulties.
After that, it’s time to let the saliva go on stage. Saliva dissolves sugar and salt within an extremely short time. Also, saliva keeps our mouths moist and disinfected. It wets the throat and the dry food, letting it enter the oesophagus smoothly.
When food enters the oesophagus, it falls into the stomach immediately. It’s covered by three layers of muscles, in order to prevent the highly acidic stomach juice (pH 2-3) leaking out. The stomach juice can kill most of the bacteria and fully digest all the food inside.
After falling into particles, the food enters the small and large intestines. The small intestine mainly absorbs the nutrients and leaves the watery waste to the large intestine. The large intestine will absorb the water and what is left will be the waste and excreted out of the body.
The above words are only the brief description of the digestive system. There’re liver, pancreas, kidneys and other stuff, but those are so complicated that I skip them in this report.
This book also tells me about the respiratory, circulation, and muscle systems. But due to the lacking of time, I’d like to tell you about them next time.
Gu Zi Hao,2C(31)
Title: The Jungle Book
Authour: Rudyard Kipling/Ralph Mowat
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/ Oxford University Press
It is a story about a child, Mowgli, who was taken away by a bad tiger, from his family to the jungle. Luckily, he was brought up by a wolf family. The wolf family treated him very well. A big brown bear, Baloo loved teaching him everything about the jungle. A black panther, Bagheera always protected him as the bad tiger wanted to kill him for food. When Mowgli was grown up, he was pushed by some young wolves as influenced by the bad tiger to leave the jungle. The wolf family and his friends missed him very much. Mowgli killed the bad tiger with the help of wolf brothers, and buffaloes. He finally could live in the jungle.
The friendship among Mowgli and his friends impressed me most. Mowgli once did not obey Baloo and made friends with a group of monkeys who did not follow the “Jungle Law”. Baloo and Bagheera fought with the monkeys to save Mowgli. Mowgli learnt that he was wrong and accepted their punishment. It is very touching to see that Bagheera got hurt after the fight. But he carried Mowgli on his back to the jungle. Besides, it is not easy for us to accept punishment even if we are wrong. But Mowgli could.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title: Turn Up The Heat
Author: Helen Perelman
Publisher: Disney Press,an imprint of Disney Book Group
The story was inspired by the hit Disney Channel Original Movies, “High School Musical”, about the school life of a group of lovely secondary students in the East High.
The story started with an excitement— Brett Lawrence, one of the best pastry chefs in the country, hosted a cooking challenge on the Baking Channel for two school teams! Zeke, who was a big fan of Brett, wanted to show off before him to impress him, so, with the encouragement of the principal, he decided to compete in the competition with his friends: Sharpay, Taylor, Gabriella, and other good buddies. It was not easy to get started in order to make a creative and unique cake, and they failed to make a proper chocolate cake before the competition. Also, because of the argument , Zeke decided to make the cake himself! Because of this decision, another error and failure was coming!
To me, the ending was quite unpredictable and surprising.The East High didn’t win the Prize as Zeke didn’t succeed in making a chocolate cake for the first time. However, he was able to create another cake with another cake in the right time! He didn’t give up although he did fail, and it was very impressive to me which teaches me not to give up before success. Also, it makes me know that wherever we meet a challenge, there are always friends by our side to support us!
The story was really touching and inspirational and hope you will have a chance to read it.
Lee Ping Ying 2C (11)
Title: Ear-Rings from Frankurt
Authour: Reg Wright
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/ Oxford University Press
Jennifer is a nurse. She has a younger brother, Richard. Richard always brought trouble to Jennifer. He always borrowed money from Jennifer and could not stay in his job for long. One day, a policeman visited Jennifer and asked her about Richard. The police suspected Richard was involved in a robbery. Jennifer worried about Richard and she even thought that Richard brought trouble to her again! Finally, it was found that Richard’s boss asked him and his colleague, Wendy to bring the stolen jewellery from Frankfurt. Richard did not want to help his boss. He then reported to the police. However, when they were back from Frankfurt, his boss asked Wendy to wear the ear-rings which were stolen. He wanted to make others think it was Wendy and Richard who stole the jewelry. How cunning his boss was! Therefore, Richard helped the police to collect facts so that they could arrest his boss.
Many people would think bad people always didbad things. I learnt from the story that people could change. Richard did bad things in the past but he understood he should not help his boss to commit crime. We have to forgive and give chance to others, including those who did bad things in the past.
Yan Hoi Leong 2C (40)
Title of book:Dairy of a Wimpy Kid
Author:Jeff Kinney
Publisher:Amulet Book
“Diary of a Wimpy Kid” is a novel in cartoons and the writer is Jeff Kinney.
The chief actor in this book is called Greg, and this book is his journal. He wrote down all the things that he met in school or at home. One of my favourite scenes in this book is about how Greg thought it is the best time to bully his little brother. He said that his dad would throw whatever he’s got in his hand if he messed up in front of his dad. Therefore, it is the best time to screw up when his dad is holding newspaper ,but the worst time is when his dad is knitting bricks together. This part really interests me especially the picture that he draws. It’s very funny!
My opinion of this book is that this is a very entertaining book. I find it very delightful. The thing I like most about the book is the drawings. They are lovely and they are always the funniest part in the book. Moreover, this book talks about friendship, and it is a little bit touching at the end too.So to sum up, I enjoy reading this book, and I think this is a great book. I’d recommend all of you read it and I’m sure that you will find this book attractive.
Chen Ting, 2C (4)
Title: The Twelve Blessing of Christmas
Author: T.J.Mills
Illustrator: Joy Marie
I would like to share this book because this book reminds me to be kind to others. This book is about the twelve blessings in the Christmas: Hope, Faith, Kindness, Family, Warmth, Memories, Peace, Beauty, Giving, Friends, Love and Music. These are common but we always forget to give them to others, we forget to love others, we forget to be kind to others. This book lets me think about how I care for others and I think I do not do so in everything and I may sometimes even hurt others. This book is special because it can teach you how to prepared some traditional food for Christmas and it also teaches us some Christmas carols that we can sing at Christmas. Although this book seems to be too babyish for us, it is meaningful to read it in order to improve our English. So I highly recommend it to you all.
Lam Sze Wan 2D(13)
Title:Food for sports
Author:Neil Morris
Publisher:Walker Books
As a swimmer, I have already learnt and understood the importance of the sports food. But it is this book which tells me more exactly about the details and the information about the food.
There are totally 5 kinds of food groups: carbohydrates, protein, fat, fluids, vitamins and minerals.
Carbohydrates are the most important source of energy. The unit of it is a sugar called glucose. It is stored in the liver and muscles. When we have intense sports, we first use up the glucose in the muscles then the liver. When the glucose is used up, we’ll feel very tired. An experiment conducted by the Swedish scientists showed that low-carb cyclists did their full speed for 60 min, moderate-carb cyclists for 115 min, high-carb can somehow managed 170 min.
Protein builds, maintains and repairs cell, it makes up part of every cell. What make protein so special are the amino acids inside. If there are not enough of carbohydrates and fats, protein is also used to meet energy demands. Fish, milk, other dairy foods and eggs are good sources of protein. Britain’s Olympic gold medalist Kelly Holmes who won gold in both 800 and 1500 meters eats many cashew nuts which contains a high amount of protein before the competition.
Actually, there are other nutrients like fat, fluids, vitamin and minerals. To sum up, if you are an athlete and have a balanced diet, you will definitely perform very well in all competitions.
Gu Zihao, 2C, 31
Title: The Prisoner of Zenda
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/Oxford University Press
Author: Anthony Hope
Rudolf Rassendyll came from a very rich family. He has blue eyes, long straight nose and dark red hair and just liked the king of Ruritania. It was a family secret that their grandmother has relationship with the King of Rutitania hundred years ago. He decided to go to Rutiania as the King would have coronation. He met the King of Ruritania in the forest. The King and his followers were surprised that Rudolf looked liked him very much. They drank a lot at the night before coronation. The King slept liked a dead man. They suspected it was because the Duke Michael, the king’s enemy did not want the King attended the coronation. The followers wanted to save the King and asked Rudolf to perform as the King. He finally save the King who was kept in the Prison of Zenda and killed Michael.
The story is exciting. Rudolf is very brave and genuine hero. He could forget the real king in the prison and played the role as the King. But, he is willing to take up the challenge to save the king. He also fell in love with the Princess Flavia who will be the Queen. He just kept his love in his mind Besides, he is not selfish. and let the Princes to be the Queen. He is great!
Yan Hoi Leong 3C (43)
Book;Michael Jackson
Author:Vicky Shipton
Publisher:Scholastic
Om the 25th June, 2009,Michael Jackson died of a heart attack at the age of 50. He was one of the biggest stars in the world and he had sold more records than any other singers.But he was also famous for his unusual private life and his strange apperance for example he hang baby son from hotel window and the colour of his skin changed a lot.
Michael Jackson’s jourey from child star to ‘King of Pop’ was quite easy. But sometimes he still faced some difficulities , he overcame them with strength.
Therefore, he was very popular and won more awards and sold more records than other singers.
On 25th June ,2009,he died.However ,many will remember him best for his music and amazing dance moves. Many families remember his kindness to their sick children. Others will remember the strange stories in the press. One thing is certain-for 40 years, Michael Jackson gave the world music and performances that people will remember for a long time .
Do you want to know more about the ‘King of Pop’ and learn more from his good behaviours .Just give it a try , go to public library to borrow it.
By Selina chu yin ting 2c 5
Title of the book: physics of the impossible
Author : michio Kaku
Have you ever thought of a world where beam sabers are commonly used , and spaceships flying around the whole solar system? These are no longer impossible as long as there is improvement in technology . the book introduces some of the most fascinating idea such as invisibility and teleportation .
Among all these ideas , what fascinates me most is teleportation , recently scientist is already able to teleport a who caesium atom in a range of 10km . In the future we may be able to teleport a cell or even a human . The technology used is quantum teleportation , assume that there’s a unusual link between two particles , such as two electrons , one of them is on the otherside of the milky way and another is in the laboratory , if we do some changes on the elctron , the other one will soon be changed as well . in the case , useless information is transferred faster than the speed , just like when you have a red sock and a green sock in your room , you see that only the red one is present, you will immediately know that the green one is missing , you can know it faster than the speed of light but the information is useless . Same mechanisms can be applied to teleport particles 100 lightyears away within one second .
Book title : The story of String Theory
Author:Brian Greene
The book introduces the history of string theory . As experimental results implied the contradictions between two major theory -Quantum mechanics and the general relativity theory , Physicists has been wondering if there is any means that can unify quantum mechanics and relativity .
Three of the Fundamental forces was unified by the quantum theory , they are the weak force which involves in radioactive decay , the strong force which holds protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom and the electromagnetic force which involves in generator and dynamos . The general relativity perfectly describes the mechanism behind Gravitaional force by using the concept of spacetime fabric . However , contradictions starts to appear when physicists try to unify the two major theory , and yet it has not successfully completed .
One day , a physicist accidentally discovered that the equation in mathematics can be used to describe
the strong force , this indicated the origin of string theory . After reading the book , I have learnt a lot . It aspires me to become one of the physicist who help develop the superstring theory to unify the four fundamental forces .
Title: The Double Bass Mystery
Author: Jeremy Harmer
Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press/Cambridge University Press
Penny lost her double bass on her way to Barcelona. She was a member of an Orchestra. Her Orchestra would have consert shows there. Inspector Jorge Portillo helped her to find her double bass. However, The Orchestra’s manager was killed suddenly. It was discovered that Penny’s boyfriend, Simon, made use of her double bass box to hide a valuable stolen picture. The manager knew that and was pused by Simom to jump out from the hotel window.
Simon was a very good double bass player. He was double bass number two in the Orchestra. But he did not satisfy and choose to earn more money by doing crime. He even thought no body suspected him. Therefor, he did not leave after killing the Orchestra’s manager. However, it were the manager’s fingerprints on the window of his room that made the police find out the fact. I learnt that no one could hide the fact. We should learn to be truth to ourselves. Otherwise, we have to pay the cost, just like Simon. He was in prison and had punishment. We have to make good choice in our life.
Yan Hoi Leong, 3C (43)
Title: A tale of two cities
Author: Charles Dickens
The book is very excited because there are many plot that are exciting. I love the book so much because it makes me fall into the story. It’s talk about the thing happened during the French Revolution.
Darnay and Carton look similar but their background are really different! They both fall in love with a woman called Manette. Manette’s father was a doctor. He had been caught into the jail for 15 years. Manette lastly married Darnay. But he was also caught into the jail. He was judged the death judgment. Carton wanted to protect his loving woman. He went to the jail to instead Darnay’s death.
The title reflects the way in which the setting alternates between London and Paris. They tell of the shameless corruption, abuse and inhumanity of the French nobles towards the peasantry.
Title: A very good way of making money
Author: Edward Arnold
This book was quite interesting. I learnt a very good way of making money in the book. Although it is only a common story book, I think each story can have different meaning at the back of the story. Even though it is only a few stories and occapy only a few places, it can have a big meaning. About the book, the author was hard working and as he think the way of making money. In now a day, all people want money and make it as the most important thing. I think they should read this book and think of what should they do. We should think about what will the money go at the end. Will they go with you when you die? Or they just stay here? No one can bring the money to the heaven. So, donate the money to the charity and make the poor have a better life is a more meaningful way to use your money!
Title of Book: Among the hidden
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing
This book is about overpopulation problem in a country, there is not enough food for all people. Because of the shortage of food, people are only allowed to have two children.
Luke Garner, a twelve-year-old third child. As a third child, Luke must spend his days hidden or away from public view. He can’t go to school, he even don’t have an identity. One day, Luck met Jen Talbot, another third child, who wanted to organize a rally in support of the third children but he refused to join. However, Luke finds out that everyone at the rally was shot and killed, including Jen. At last, Luke’s get a fake identity which is Lee Grant, a wealthy boy who was killed in a ski accident and his parents allowed Luke to assume his identity.
This story is great that I couldn’t stop reading it when I have started and I just keep wondering what will be happen to Luke and if he would ever find his way free of being an “illegal” child. The interaction between the characters is vivacious and the plot is full of exciting, it is really a fantastic book.
Chen Ting 3C(4)
Title of Book: Strombreaker
Author: Anthony Horowitz
This book is about a fourteen-year-old boy, Alex Rider, who knows that his uncle, Ian Rider, wasn’t dead in a car crash and decides to investigate. He finds that his uncle was actually a spy and did not die in a car crash, but was killed before completing his mission. The spy headquarters, M16, ask Alex to pick up his uncle’s assignment, investigating Herod Sayle, a billionaire who is giving free “Stormbreaker” computers to every school in Britain. Alex travels to Sayle’s home and discovers a large computer manufacturing facility, where the Stormbreaker computers are being tainted with smallpox virus. Before he can communicate with MI6, Alex is caught by Sayle. However, Alex uses his intelligence to save the whole Britain bravely.
The plot of this book is very attractive. You can hardly guess what will happen next and the ending is unpredictable. The writer, Anthony Horowitz, writes a really good novel, describing the incident vividly and successfully gets readers’ praise. To summarize, this book is superb!
Chen Ting 3C(4)
Name of the Book: Michael Jackson
Author: Vicky Shipton
Publisher: Scholastic
Do you know Michael Jackson? He was an extremely famous singer and many people around the world loved him. He spent most of his life in his music, but he died of a heart attack before his concert.
The book is a biographical book about Michael Jackson’s life, from his childhood to when he was really famous for his songs. It also tells us about his private life, like inviting sick kids to his home and play, and his wives. The book writes down Michael Jackson’s amazing story.
In his life, he faced many difficulties, for example, after changing of his skin colour, many people felt that it was strange. Also, some people tell the police that Michael Jackson hurt a child in his home. After feeling upset for a time, Michael Jackson always put these sad things away, and continued his work then. I really admire his positive attitude.
If you want to know more about ‘The King of Pop’, or even want to know the mystery of this king, this book is a good choice for you.
Martin Wong Man Hin 2C(36)
Title: The Greek Gods
Author: /
In fact, this book is a ERS book which I used to do the ERS book report before. But I still have lots of reflections from this book, so that I want to share those ideas in SEEK.
This book is about Greek’s gods and goddesses. It introduces the birth of gods and their amusing and fantastic stories. Some are adventure stories and some are touching loving stories. You can almost read what you are interested in.
Some stories are really well-known, like the story of Prometheus stole fire for human and the box of Pandora. I think many people had already read them.
As a reader, it is an excellent book to read in leisure time. As a historian, it is a meaningful source to figure out the lives of ancient Greeks.
On the other hand, I am really interested in what people think of these stories. It is very amazing, isn’t it? They could create dozens of gods with their imagination. Wonderful!
Wu Po Ping 2C(39)
Title: Oliver Twist
Author: Charles Dickens
The book “Oliver Twist” is written by Charles Dickens, who is a very celebrated writer. It is an irony story which talks about the failures of workhouse and the effects of environment.
Oliver was born as an orphan in workhouse. What’s worse, he couldn’t eat enough foods and wear enough clothes. Soon, he was sold to Mr. Sowerberry, but he was treated bad by Mr. Sowerberry and Noah. Therefore, he escaped from the coffin shop to London. Unfortunately, he was lead by Jack to Fagin — the leader of a thief group. Fagin trained him to be a thief. Then, Mr. Brownlow saved him and took care of him. After that, Fagin caught him back and told him to rob people. But Oliver was shot and hurt. Luckily, he was saved by Rose and Mrs. Maylie. It seemed that Happiness never last long in Oliver’s life — Fagin found Oliver again! Oliver was in trouble. But Nancy sacrificed herself to help Oliver. Finally, poor Oliver lived with Mr. Brownlow happily and Fagin was hang.
Oliver was a miserable boy. He didn’t have family and he met with misfortune again and again. It reflected how unstable the society was. But from Oliver, I have learnt that we should keep our pure heart and not to give up. There is always a rainbow after the heavy rains.
Tang Long Hin 3D 37
Title: Fighters
Author:Kouno Yoshiyuki
Publisher : Japanese Press
The book ‘ Fighter ‘ describes several things about fighters , which includes different terminologies , tactics , type of fighters , and other parts of different fighters .
It is certainly a fine book for students who would like to know more about fighters in detail . This time I would like to briefly share the history of fighters . During the First World War , planes started being used as a kind of weapon , then the term ‘ fighters ‘ came during the war . From 1920 to 1940 , the maximum speed had increased from 300 km/h to 500 km/h . The first jet fighter was produced in 1939 by Germany . Today’s jet fighters are commonly known as Stealth Jet Fighters , Their design makes them able to escape from radar’s detection with ease . Plus , the combat radii has also been increasing with the technology of mid-air fuel supplying . I gain interest and knowledge about fighters after reading the book .
Title : How To Build Your Own Spaceship
Author : Piers Bizony
The book ‘ How To Build Your Own Spaceship ‘ takes readers on a fun and interesting trip to the forefront of commercial space travel . It is certainly a fine book for students who are interested in a private trip to the outer space . The author ‘s no-nonsense explanations of the hard science in this emerging arena will satisfy even the most dedicated space fanatics . There are practical advice such as picking the best rocket fuel to funding your own fleet of space crafts , unbelievable space facts , and fascinating photos . I personally prefer getting myself into the space through a space elevator , since it saves up fuel for the trip to the outer space . Moreover , it also reduces pollution to the atmosphere by rockets . This is a user-friendly guide to blasting off is a ticket to this final frontier . Therefore , I recommend this book to students who’re interested in space travel , and those who would attempt to understand all contents of the book .
Title of Book: Two weeks with the Queen
Author: Morris Gleitzman
Publisher: Pan Books
Colin Mudford’s young brother Luke is diagnosed with cancer, and his parents decide to send Colin to London to stay with his uncle and aunt. Colin sees this as an opportunity to seek out ‘The Best Doctor in the World’ to save Luke. And at the same time become a hero and get the attention of his parents that he feels he deserves.
Colin travels around London looking for someone to help him, but he has no luck. He decides to write to the Queen for help, but he gets no reply. This leads Colin and his cousin Alistair to attempt to break into Buckingham Palace, hoping to speak to the Queen, but of course they are unsuccessful. At the end of the book, although Luke is still seriously ill, Colin becomes more mature and thoughtful one who is aware of the people around him and the event affecting him.
Title of the book: You shouldn’t have to say Goodbye
Author: Patricia Hermes
Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Thirteen-year-old Sarah Morrow doesn`t think much of the fact that her mother winced a little when she hugged her. In fact, that first small indication of something wrong escapes her whole family. Three weeks later though there can be no escape. Sarah`s mother has been diagnosed with incurable cancer and the love this family shares becomes a desperate clinging.
I think the most touching episode in the story is the plot of the death of Sarah’s mother. This plot was described vividly. Sarah’s mother lifted her both hands, pressed them hard against her forehead. She looked at Sarah once, her eyes huge and for an instant, it was as if she was pleading Sarah. The author described this plot lively. As if we can feel the pain of Sarah’s mother, who was a lively, successful lawyer and was leaving her only daughter, Sarah all alone. And as if we can feel the grief of Sarah, who was losing her only parent and inclined to deny the whole thing.
Title of the book: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: The Commercial Press(H.K.)Ltd
Do you believe in fairies or angels which appear in the legends and fables? Have you wanted to meet them? Then you must read this book.“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is written by famous writer, William Shakespeare, so that it is really well-known. It is a romance but it is also a comedy. It has lots of beautiful sentences and its plot is truly special.
It was a story that happened in Athens. You may say it was a romantic story. In fact, it was totally in chaos. This story is mainly about the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazon queen, Hippolyta. The story starts with the messy relationship between Lysander (in love with Hermia), Helena (in love with Demetrius), Demetrius (in love with Hermia), and Hermia (in love with Lysander). Lysander was trying to escape from the fixed marriage with Hermia while Demetrius and Helena were following them. In the meantime, Oberon (king of the fairies) and Titania (his queen) argued with each other so the unfortunate thing happened. Oberon tried to punish Titania as he asked Puck to make a trick on her. Puck used a magical juice from a flower called “love-in-idleness” which can strike up a love relationship. He used this juice that made the relationship totally different and even worse than before. But finally, all of them could find a true and endless love. Also, they treated this strange night as a dream.
During the moment when I was reading this book, my brain is full of the confused relationships. It was totally in the whirl. Even after I have finished it, I am thinking of it. I can’t imagine how Shakespeare construct the whole story. It was almost impossible for me. He was amazing and wonderful. The story plot is very complicated and the designs of character are astonishing. This a nice story for all of you to read.
3C 39 Wu Po Ping
Title of the book: 50 Great Short Stories
Author: /
Editor:Milton Crane
Publisher: Bantam Classic
Do you want to read some interesting stories but you are lack of time? Hei,50 Great Short Stories is a must .
It is very worth reading as it is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction and the stories are distinctive too.Each story has its own styles in writing skills ,representation skills and inspiratonal messages.It is a golden opportunity for you to boost your short story skills and writing methods and vocab building too.It can be your entertainment as well as some of the stories are quite hilarious and you cannnot stop laughing sometimes.The main point is the each story is short and you only need to spend half an hour finishing it.
Moreover,each story tells us something different as some of them may lead us to think of our social issues and daily problems such as poverty,uneven wakth distribution ,suicide and divorce ect.It is sometimes critical of the problems too but it aslo tells us how to tackle with the problems in various unique ways,Want to know it,find out by ourselves.
Furthermore,some stories are quite interesting ,as there are love story,horror ,sci-fi and comedy too.
Want to read it now? Calm down first,you can go to our main library to borrow it.Read it and you would feel like exploring the world unexpectedly!!!
Title of the book: Frindle
Author:Andrew Clements
Editor:Brian Selznick
Have you ever thought about how the words are formed? Have you ever asked why dog is called dog? And have you ever created a word?
The whole story starts from an intelligent boy called Nick Allen who used to play tricks on his teachers, until he met his English teacher, Mrs. Ganger. She was not a person that can be tricked easily, but Nick knew that she loves, and even admires words and dictionaries, so he got an idea, and this is how the whole story started. “Frindle” is not a real word actually, and also not in the story at first, it’s only a private word Nick used when he was small. He shared this word to the whole school and all people accented it, except Mrs. Ganger. Mrs. Ganger tried to stop this word from spreading, but it just made more and more things happen, being posted on the newspaper, shown on television…
I’m not going to tell you any more or go any furthr. If you are interested in this book, you can borrow it from the main library in our school or other public libraries.
Title of Book ：Escape from Earth
Author ：Janice Greene
Publisher ：SADDLEBACK
This book is about a boy called Darryl, who comes from another planet and needs help from his college roommate, Nick. His home, which is his planet, was destroyed by his enemies in the last space war. Only a few of his people escaped before the final moment. Darryl has a mission to do. He has to protect a briefcase, which is the soul of his people. Darryl’s enemies want to get back the briefcase, and begin to attack Darryl and Nick. Darryl’s enemies have attacked them many times, but they can’t take back the briefcase because Darryl’s weapons are stronger than his enemies’. In one fight, Darryl’s enemies catch Nick’s father, and they get the briefcase. During the fight, Darryl gets hurt and Nick’s father stops Nick from helping Darryl. Of course, I won’t tell you the ending of this story. If you are interested in it, you can borrow this book from the library.
Chen Lih Chyi, Nicky, 2A (28)
Title:Guinness World Records2010
We always hear about Guinness world records,but do you know what it is and what this is about?If you said no,you should read this book. It is about the whole world awesome records,including animals,human,or things you collect,some of which you may have heard about.This book will be updated each year. So every year there will be new records. Moreover,in this book we can see many surprising photos. You will be surprised or think they are ridiculous.Furthermore, it is easy for us to read and learn vocabulary. There are not many words, but some simple captions.You can learn the language patterns from the book and you will surely not find it is dull.
Let me share several records with you. The first one is about the largest snake of all time.The largest snake ever known to have lived is Titanoboa cerrejonensis, a prehistoric species of boa known from the fossils of 28 specimens. It reached the maximum length of 12-15m. The other one is the most blood donated. A blood donator Anthony Davis has donated a total of 601 units of blood.
This book is very interesting . Don’t miss reading it.