BR2-18: Marty and the Magazine

Have you even done something illegal? I think most of the readers of this blog will say 'no'. In my case, the answer is also 'no'. When I was a junior high school student, I often used to go to one of my friends' house which is located nearby my house. He doesn't live there now though. One day, I went there as usual. He was there and I tried to ask him to do something fun, but unfortunately we couldn't find anything fun. Finally, he suggested that we try to buy a box of cigarette to smoke. I couldn't believe what he said. He was not the like. He was a kind of ideal person for his parents. I thought we would let our parents down if we had smoked. I stopped him from trying to buy it.

In this book's story, what I above is similar. it is really hard for people to stop friends from doing something wrong but important for them to be safe. 

I want you to read this book in the future. I expect you to get something important from this book.

(186 words)

Reference

Wall, Julia & Oppatt, Karen (2007). Marty and the Magazine Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-17: BATTLE of the BANDS

When I was younger, I have eagerness to try to compete something with other people.

I think it made me really strong and grow up. When I was a 6 year-old boy, I often ran with my friends to compete. It was interesting and the most important thing I did during that time.

This book's story tell us what competition is and reminds us of how eager we were when we were young. In this story, characters compete rendition of rock and roll which is mysterious for me. Even though rock and roll is hard music without competition, they compete their performance of it. Needless to say, it is so noisy and fun for some people.

All of people have at least one  experience to compete with someone ,for example, brothers, friends, parents, or even teachers. It absolutely makes us better and is helpful in the future.

If you want to read this book, please go to KGU library, it is easy to read this book.

(163 words)

Reference

Millett, Peter & Mckenzie, Heath (2007). BATTLE of the BANDS Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-16: Dad and Dan GO Camping

I like this book. I think family is the most important and smallest society in human society. As this book's title shows, this book's main story is about camping which Dan's dad and Dan goes. They have good relationship with each other. I'm jealous of them because I don't have good relationship with my father. I often feel annoyed with him and try not to talk to him by staying my room for a long time. I usually see family members for an hour totally in one day. I don't think this period is good. I know I should communicate with family members,but there is just only simple reason why I hesitate to talk totem. That is I'm shy. From 15 years old, I have been shy and had tendency not to communicate with someone new.

Because of this book, I remembered many memories with my fathers. My father used to take me fishing and tell me how to fish. When I was taught such things, I was bored with them and didn't want to go fishing. Looking back the memories, I neglect not enjoying the time with father.

(188words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Nickel, Adam (2007). Dad and Dan GO Camping Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-15: BUZZ TAKES OVER

This book is one of series of BUZZ which is so interesting and make people not be able to stop reading once they get interested. Attractive point of this book is main two characters which are all unique. When they try to solve something dangerous seriously, they can't solve it and their intention cause opposite effect. 

I don't know why they travel around the universe but I think they like to travel. When they do something, they argue each other,but they look they like each other. It makes me remember a memory which happened 9 years ago. I was a 10 year old elementary school student nine years ago. Then I was aggressive and used to often go out with one of my friends who used to be the closest friend.I don't know what he is doing now but I have never forgotten him. This books told me how important friends are.

(152words)

Reference

Reilly Carmel, & Young, Karen, (2007). BUZZ TAKES OVER Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-14: BUZZ and ZIP GET LOST

 This book is one of series of 'BUZZ and ZIP' books. All of these stories series are interesting and make me remember something. As this title shows, there are two main characters and they travel around the universe. They are completely ugly. If I had an opportunity to see them, I would get unconscious. 

I think they are brave. Even though they don't know the direction they have to go, they travel around the universe.All they know is just the place they have to go. They get into trouble on the way to the destination. Actually I don't think they get into on the way to the destination because they don't know the direction to the destination. What they do seems funny but if I had such friends, I would get angry soon and wouldn't want to be with them. I don't have any friends who get lost more often than me. I am not good at remembering the direction.

(161 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Young, Karen (2007). BUZZ and ZIP GET LOST Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-13: Renovations

I this the story of this book is famous for Japanese people. When I was a children, I watched a video called Alladin whose story is similar to the story of this book. This story is interesting and makes me imagine the situation in which the story of main character is. If I were him, I would do something dynamic,destroy the world,save the environment around the world.It makes my brain make the most.

Though the story of this book is similar to alladin's story, ending is different. This is a kind of interesting point and I want you to pay attention to it.

When I watched the story first time, I didn't understand the story because English in this book is a little bit difficult. In the future, I want to read the book easily and understand smoothly.

I hope this book contains something you learn and are interested in. If you want to read this book some day, you can buy it on amazon website.

(163words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Hopkinson, Courtney (2007). Renovations Thomson Learning Australia

BR2-12: TIME TRAVEL:SHIP AHOY!

In this story, a travel of two aliens is mainly treated. The two aliens are funny. When they are faced with a serous problem, they try to solve it in a serious way,but they can't do it. They travel around the universe. Though I have never experienced to travel around the universe like them, I have experienced a trip in which I was faced with problems.When I went to kinawa prefecture fast time, I couldn't arrive the airport in time for the departure time. Fortunately, I didn't have to care about such a thing there. Inhabitant in Okinawa prefecture were kind and merry.It made me want to go there again in the future. I have never been there after that though.

I think trip is a kind of nice experience. It is better to go overseas than go around in Japan. After going overseas, people have much knowledge and generousty. It means that when they meet foreign people, they can probaly communicate with them more fluently than the other people who have never experienced before.

This book doesn't tell us how to travel but how to spend the time during the travel in which some problems happen.

(195 words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Tate, Russell (2007). TIME TRAVEL:SHIP AHOY! Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-11: Shark!

Have you ever watched jaws which was produced by a famous film director,  Steven Spielberg. The movie shows us a real horror of shark and tells us to prevent ourselves from going to the sea.

In this book, there are two boys,who enjoy surfing ,while something seeming dangerous is happening.

I often watch TV and many TV programmes show how dangerous natural animals are. They are probably dangerous,but I think they are cool. 

I have never experienced danger in the sea. That's why I have never thought that the sea is dangerous. The danger of sea happens from the laziness of people.

Next time I go to the sea, I try to concentrate on just swimming and being cautious about flow of the sea. Please be cautious when you go swimming to the sea and have fun.

If you want to read the book, please go to the library of KGU. It's easy to read.

(152 words)

Reference

Millett, Peter, & Jurevicius, Luke (2007). Shark! Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-10: Taking Off

I think most of people tend to want to show new items they have bought fast time to their friends when they are young. In this story, a main character do the almost same thing as I introduced above.

When I was an elementary student, I couldn't buy anything enough and felt stressful. Many friends around me were bought many items they wanted by their parents. I was jealous of them all the time.

I remember even now that I could use whatever I wanted to use by borrowing them from my friends. 

Although I was jealous of them, they were kind to me.

In this story, a main character,who is a girl shows an item. This story seems similar to my story considering what I say ' In this story, a main character,who is a girl shows an item.', but something impressive happens in the end. I hope it makes you impressed and it is useful to your life.

(157 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Young, Karen (2007). Taking Off. Cengage Learning Australia

BR 2-09: The Chalk Circle

There are one police woman and two girls in this book. The police woman's idea is very unique and sensible. One day, a theft happened. one girl was shocked by the theft because one of her belongings      

were stolen by someone. The other woman got a valuable item suddenly and used it in front of the shocked girl. 

When I was in a elementary school, thefts often happened. I couldn't believe so many thefts and was disappointed with them. I wanted to solve the problem, but I couldn't do it. As a result I graduated from the school as usual like nothing had happened.

I think although the case in this book is rare, the police woman's idea to solve the problem is nice and makes sense in any ways.

If you want to know the way, please read this book, which there is in library of KGU.

(151 words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Dawson, Amanda (2007). The Chalk Circle Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-08: THE Inventors' CLUB

I went to a high school which is famous for industrial products and in which many students are interested in component of product, for example, air plane, car, motor bike and so on.

Actually, I was not one of them,but I was interested in making something simple,not complicated.

In high school, I had to make things and learn about something technical. It was so hard for me to continue to study all of them. I gave up studying them and started to concentrate on studying English with no particular reason one day.

I think language is a kind of invention by many people. Before the time when no language was, mankind made sounds and communicated with each other. I guess it was hard for them to give and receive information because the way to communicate was delusive.

In this story, a woman is main character and one man is mean to her. He is a troublemaker. The story begins with them.

(157 words)

Reference

Brasch, Nicolas, & Small, Phillip (2007). THE Inventors' CLUB. Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-07: Mercury and the Woodcutter

This story is even famous in Japan. I think if readers,especially Japanese don't understand sentences in the book grammatically, it's not a problem. They can understand contents because they have heard the story before.

The story tells people that they should be honest. When I was younger, I used to be told off by parents and told to be honest with this story.

In my opinion, being honest is easy and nice. When I do something wrong or making people angry, I am always honest. If I was not honest and said a lie again and again to protect myself, I would be told off more and more.

In this story, there are mainly three characters. They have typical characteristic each other. After reading the story, I thought I didn't want to be one of them,who were the worst person in the story.

This story remind me of importance of honesty. You should read it.

(151 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Wallace-Mitchell, Jane (2007). Mercury and the Woodcutter. Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-06: The Call of the Wolf

 When I meet someone new first time, I feel nervous and I regard them as a bad person or good person with just first impression. I know this is not good way to communicate with people but this is kind of instinct I think.

In this book, as title shows, a wolf was featured. The wolf was being afraid of by people and some people spread a rumour that the wolf is dangerous and people should stay away from it. This was totally lie and it was suffering to live.

One day, a man who was brave went to the place where the wolf lived.

 Unless people live in a society, people may experience first impression. Sometimes they regard other people as someone they imagine and are regard by other people like they do.

This book remind readers that people shouldn't regard someone or something with fast impression.

Please check it out at KGU library.

(153 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Miesen, Christina (2007). The Call of the Wolf. Thomson Learning Australia

BR 2-05 Bertha

When people buy something they have to share to use with other people, they have to make a decision considering all of people's opinion. I think  most of times people make such a decision, some of people give up their opinions.

When my family members wanted to buy a TV set, we argued for a long time, because we had opinions each other and tried to carry on them.
Finally, my father got angry and my mother ordered it on the internet hiding it from us. After getting it, we were pleased that the TV set we got was nice.

In this book, a family was featured and they tried to buy a car all of them like.
 It was exactly hard for them to decide which one was best for them, but they consider eagerly.
Finally.... I can't tell the next. Please read this book.
I think you can enjoy the story.

 (153 words)

Reference

Mitchell, Julie, & Chambers, Mal (2007). Bertha. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-04: Super Fit

When people are in from elementary school to high school, I'm sure they have some days when they don't want to go there. Even if they go there, they refuse to take classes. When I didn't want to go to school, I ignored what my parents said for a long time. When they gave up making me go to school, I could sleep in my bed all day. When they didn't gave up and I gave up, I had to go to school and then I didn't want to take classes. I just liked to eat lunch though. After arriving at school, I had to apologize for having been late and I could go to the class my classmates were. I didn't like the procedure. During classes, I wanted to sleep and felt bored very much. Most of teachers in my school were very strict to me. I was kept eye out on. Every time  something bad happened, I was asked that I did them. That's why I tried to skip classes many times and I couldn't catch up with school study. 

In this book, a boy is featured in. I feel sorry for him. If you are attracted why I feel sorry for him, please read this book. This book is very easy.

(215 words)

Reference

Millett, Peter, & Chambers, Mal (2007). Super Fit Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-03: SECRET AGENT

This book is so interesting. As this title shows, main character in this book is a secret agent. Before he became, he had trained a lot. Because he is a secret agent, he had to carry his missions hiding from public world. One day, he received some useful and special tools from a researcher who supports him with latest tools. After he received the tools, interesting story started. When I was a child, I watched many science-fiction movies. Then I though that I would become people featured in the movies Now I'm not such people,but even now I hope I come to be such people in the future. I am studying English and I will get many pieces of information on how to become them in English.

I recommend that people read this book. I think many people enjoy this book and feel nostalgic. The older we gets, the more we tend to concentrate on something real like studying our major. We should  

 have a break sometime. I'm sure that this book gives you a comfortable time with simple English.

(181 words)

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, &Vonda, Pestana (2007). SECRET AGENT. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-02: SCARY MOVIE

I read this book because I like something scary. After reading this book, I thought this book was interesting. Although the title of this book is not related to the core of this book's story, this book makes me think how readers attract when people choose books. When people want to read books, I think , people choose them by seeing the title of books. If someone wants to read scary book , they choose books by seeing the title with the word,scary, or scary words. This book, scary movie, is unpredictable story.If I were main character of this book, I would do same act as her. I want to tell about the story of this book now, but please read this book by yourselves. This book is written in easy English and very short. I think it takes 5 minutes or 10 minutes to read this book. It's easy. Please try it.

(153 words)

Reference

Millet, Peter, & Edwards, Anthea (2007). SCARY MOVIE. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 2-01: Renovations

This story is just funny.  I often see many situations in which the main character experiences in the book. This story is similar to a famous story but both endings are totally different. The other one is happy ending and this story is...? Please read this book if you are interested in. You may read and enjoy this book easily. If I could get a lamp in which someone who make my wishes, I  ask for them to make myself become educated person. This is my only hope so far.

Reference

Reilly, Carmel, & Hopkinson, Courtney. (2007).  Renovations. Thomson Learning Australia.

BR 1-13: Poor Old Mum!

This book has encouraged me to communicate with my parents more friendly. If my parents appear in front of people to show something or compete something with others' parents, I feel embarrassed. After having read this book, my mind has changed a little,and I've decided not to think so. This book is so attractive for you that once you start to read it, you can't stop it,

(68 words)

reference: Written and Illustrayed by Roderick Hunt Alex Brychta 1992 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 

BR 1-12: The Camcorder

As this title shows, this story is related to a camcorder. Usually. camcorders are used for good memories. Sometimes they record something strange like a ghost. It is scary isn't it? I don't want to know such a record with a big TV screen. This interests you.

 (47 words)

reference: Written and Illustrayed by Roderick Hunt Alex Brychta 1992 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS