And then there were none

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Ten people….
Anthony Marston, Mrs. Rogers, General Macarthur, Mr. Rogers, Miss. Brent Mr. Justice Wargrave, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Blore, Philip Lombard, Vera Claythorne.
Soldier Island, is their destiny, they all seem to have different people or different things to do there, the two servants Mr and Mrs Rogers have had previous instructions as to what to do by letter informing them that the mysterious owner of the house Mr Owen had told them that he would only delay a day or so and that they were to receive some guests and give them everything they needed. The incomers were confused by this explanation they had expected something else or someone else.
A strange tape is put on and reveals that each one of the present people have committed murderer.
Nine people, suddenly one of them chokes and dies in the instant, it is found that he had been poisoned, there seems to be a murderer between the assistants, but who?
Suddenly a whole lot of homicide cases take place following a nursery rhyme:

Ten Little Soldier Boys

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine;

One choked his little self and then there were Nine.

Nine little soldier boys sat up very late;

One overslept himself and then there was Eight.

Eight little soldier boys travelling to Devon;

One said he stayed there and then there were Seven.

Seven little soldier boys chopping up sticks;

One chopped himself in halves and then there were Six.

Six little soldier boys playing with a hive;

A bumble bee stung one and then there were Five.

Five little soldier boys going in for law;

One got in Chancery and then there were Four.

Four little soldier boys going out to sea;

A red herring swallowed one and then there were Three.

Three little soldier boys walking in the Zoo;

A big bear hugged one and then there were Two.

Two little soldier boys sitting in the sun;

One got frizzled up and then there was One.

One little soldier boy left all alone;

He went and hanged himselfAnd then there were None.

Each of the soldiers represents a person of the ten that have gone to the house.
They search everywhere for a possible extra person there and find, nothing.
So we have a question:Who is the Murderer?

TDRC 9Y

The phone goes dead

by Anthony Horowitz

This book has two stories in it. The first one is called The Phone Goes Dead and the second one Bath Night.
The Phone Goes Dead is about a girl who was walking, and it started to rain.Well it was actually a storm.There are two things you should never do when there’s a storm 1.get under a tree 2.get out your mobile phone.Well going back to the story.The girl was walking until the storm started.She shelterd under a big, tall tree, and called her husband.As she was talking a lightning reached her and she died .The phone landed a few meters away from her.The day after the body is removed the phone ends up in a second-hand shop.In there David Adams’ Dad buys the phone to give it to his son, for his birthday.
The phone was very old fashioned but David didn’t mind.One day David got a call from someone ...
Bath Night: Bath Night is about a family,the Martin family.The parents Susan and Jeremy liked to buy antiques.One day they go to buy a bath.The bath they get is quite old with a yellowish thing on the bottom.But it’s quite nice.
Their daughter is called Isabel.Isabel didnt quite like the bath.One day she was going to have a bath.She turned the tap on and a red thing came out of it.Well you probably all know what the red thing is...If you dont i’ll tell you it was BLOOD.Or at least thats what Isabel thought
She had been 3 or 4 days without having a shower and she wanted to have one because washing herself in the sink it wasn’t very confortable.She wanted to face that horrible bath and so she did.She turned the tap on.

If you want to know more about this book well just read it!!

POB 8Y

Twilight saga

TWILIGHT by Stephanie Meyer

Isabella Swan is seventeen years old. She has white skin and is too small for her age. She is not to sociable and doesn’t like talking.

Her parents are divorced and her mother has decided to go and live with her new husband so Bella decides to go with his father Charlie. Charlie has always loved Bella and Bella likes him because he leaves her alone not like her mother, Renée.

When she had moved to a little town called Forks she meets a very irresistible but strange boy called Edward Cullen. Her new friends, Eric, Jessica and Mike, tell Bella he never talks to anyone that is not from his family. This encourages Bella to talk with him. In class, his teacher, Mr. Banner, decides to sit Bella and Edward together. Bella notices Edward gets too nervous when they are together. Edward doesn’t appear at school for some days after that day.

When he comes back to school, Bella and Edward start talking, they get to be friends. Once, when Bella was going to be killed with a car, Edward saves her. She recognizes he was too fast and strong to save her. Then she starts seeing his eye color changes and his supernatural gifts. But Bella does not want to notice it is not a good idea to be near Edward for a long time. This will make her life take a terrifying turn.

Then Bella tries to discover his secret, she searches in Internet and discovers it. She really isn’t scared but doesn’t want to loose him. Edward loves her too.

After, Edward invites Bella to meet his family. They play baseball but then three inconveniences get on their way. Once again, Edward saves Bella.

¿What is Edward Cullen’s secret?

AC 9Y

The book I have read was written by Stephanie Meyer and is called Twilight. It is about two teenagers who fall in love, but he turns out to be a vampire. Her name is Bella, she moves form Phoenix to Forks to live with his father so that her mother can travel around the world with his new husband.
As soon as Bella joined the new school, she adapted extremely well, she got on well with teachers and made lots of new friends, but there was a student in particular which caught her eye, his name was Edward Cullen and had fame for being very weird, and he seems to be repulsed by her. After doing a bit of research, Bella finds out Edward and his family are vampires and had lived for several centuries, they drink blood , after some time Edward reveals he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him it was dangerous.
After some time, and several events which are tremendously romantic, Bella and Edward fall in love, and everything is marvellous till a new vampire called James turns up, and he wants to hunt Bella as a sport. She is in a very dangerous situation and to prevent damages is sent to a hotel in Phoenix whilst Edward remains in Forks. James then phones Bella saying he has her mother and that the only way to save her is giving herself up. She does so, and is attacked by James, the whole Cullen family manages to save her just in time, but James had bit her hand, Edward hurries to suck the venom out before she is turned into a vampire. Bella and Edward return home, and attend the prom in which Bella tells him she wants to be turned into a vampire, because she wants to stay with him forever. They are seriously the best couple of all times.

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Stephanie Meyer talks about Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse

NEW MOON by Stephanie Meyer

Bella Swan is all the time with Edward Cullen, a vampire, her boyfriend.
Bella’s birthday came soon, and Bella was sad about it because that meant she would be 18, older than Edward.
The Cullen’s made a great party at their house, and Bella got cut in the finger with the wrapping paper of a present, Jasper tried to kill her, but Edward saved her.
Soon after, Edward told Bella he had to go and everything was going to be as if he never had existed.
Months passed and Bella was mysterious, she had nightmares all nights and her friends long ago stop calling her to go to places.
But one day she found 2 broken bikes and thought about learning how to ride them... She went down to La push where Jacob Black and his father lived so Jake could mend them.
After some weeks they were great friends… just friends… and Jacob knew that, even thought he wanted to be something more, Bella and him told between each other all their secrets.
One day Bella decided to go hiking and she appeared in a place she already knew, because she had been with Edward. At that moment Laurent a vampire appeared and tried to kill her, but before nothing could happen, 5 enormous wolves appeared and ran after Laurent, Bella got worried because she could hear Edwards voice inside it when she was in danger.
A few days passed and Jacob didn’t call her at all, and soon after it Bella got sick of it and went to talk with him. After that, Jacob and her were friends again because now Bella knew that Jacob was a werewolf (that was Jacobs’s secret) and she didn’t care, but she knew that the werewolves were the vampire’s enemies.
One evening when Jake had gone after a Victoria, the vampire which was after Bella, Bella decided to do cliff diving and nearly got drowned.
Then that evening Alice (Edward sister) came and told Bella that Edward was heading to Italy because he though Bella was dead.
Bella and Alice ran to save Edward from suicide, and in the last minute they reached him, then, the most powerful vampire family took them into their home glad to have Edward save, because they wanted him and Alice, because of their “special powers” of reading peoples mind and seeing the future.
Will they escape without being killed on the try? Will Alice and Edward join that family? Will Jacob be still friends with Bella even though she has gone with Edward, Jacobs’s enemy?
If you want to find a book review about this book click in the hyperlink: http://www.dearauthor.com/ (this one is for the author) http://www.clareswindlehurst.com/ (this page is also with the book review)
Elena Ruiz-Orfila

BREAKING DAWN

Stephenie Meyer talks about it

Breaking dawn is the last book from the Twilight saga, written by Stephenie Meyer.
In this book, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen finally marry, as that was the condition that would make Edward change his mind and transform Bella into a vampire. After the wedding, where everything went just perfect, they go to their honeymoon. As Edward didn’t tell her where they were going, Bella was surprised by their destiny: Isle Esme. This Island was Edwards parent’s property, but they had decided to let them spend their honeymoon there.
Firstly, everything was going as they had planned. But then, Edward can’t control his strength and hurts her. Everything starts to go wrong, and, when Bella gets sick, they have to return home. But, Bella wasn’t really sick. She was pregnant. After many discussions, she decides to have the baby, who will be half human and half vampire.
The baby develops very fast. In a few weeks, the baby is big enough to get out of the womb, but it is too big. During the birth, Bells loses a lot of blood, and, just in the last moment, Edward is able to transform her, saving her life.
When she wakes up, everyone realizes she isn’t a normal newborn. She is able to resist the scent of human blood and control herself, which is impossible for a newborn to do.
But, one day, when Renesmee (Bella and Edward’s child), Jacob and Bella are playing, another vampire sees them. That vampire thinks Renesmee is an immortal child, which is against the law the Vultui imposed upon every vampire.
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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelly

"Everybody takes decisions in life but do you know how difficult love can be? Well, this novel tells the story of falling in love and losing love. The author takes us into a different world into a boy's mind: Leo's. Leo was just a normal teenager, until one day a girl appeared at school, a girl who had been home-schooled until now, she was called: Stargirl. Everybody thought her strange; as if she were from another world it seemed as if she was never there but really she was there. She didn't wear jeans, she wore long pioneer dresses, she was always playing the ukulele around hallways, and she carried her pet rat Cinnamon everywhere. She always made people happy, or that was what she tried to because not everybody loved her; people also hated her. She sang to everybody the happy birthday song and she went to funerals of people she didn't know. As several weeks passed by she began to be really popular and she was chosen to become part of the cheerleaders but one day a match was played and her team was winning. She started to cheer for the other team and that was when everything began, when she turned from being the most popular girl to the most hated girl throughout the whole school. But one day Leo fell in love, deeply in love with the worst girl he could have fallen in love: Stargirl. One night he follows her and he declares his love to Stargirl. As he spends more and more time with her he notices his friends stop talking to him and start to ignore him as if he wasn't there. He tries to change Stargirl convincing her to be "normal" so that his friends admit her into the group again but nothing works, so now he has to take the hardest decision in his life: he has to choose between Stargirl or his friends. What will he do?"

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BG 9Y

Fauna doméstica

Leímos en la biblioteca algunas de las caricaturas del libro de Carmen Posadas" Padres, padres" Estas son algunas de nuestra cosecha:

TIUS SUPERCOTiLLUS
Una tius supercotillus es una especie que se suele ver normalmente y aún más en mi casa, ya que esta extraña individua vive en la casa de enfrente. Al parecer, este familiar mío se aburre bastante, ya que cada vez que voy a regar las plantas en mi balcón, veo a mi tía intentando conseguir algo de información. No es sólo eso; además tiene una compañera de cotilleos, su mejor amiga, y cada cosa que averigua se lo pregona a ella.
Todas las tardes al volver del colegio la encuentro en mi casa y me pregunta que qué tal me ha ido hoy, pero más que una pregunta parece una entrevista, porque después de esa pregunta llega otra, y otra y otra…
Ella es impaciente y muy habladora, son las cualidades perfectas para ser cotilla. Siempre mete antena en mis conversaciones, se conoce mi vida casi mejor que yo.
Parece mi madre, ya que cada vez que hago algo mal me regaña e incluso me castiga.
Pero eso no es lo que peor llevo, dice que mi cuarto está desordenado y mal decorado, y cada vez que entro en él, me la encuentro cambiando la decoración, y, claro, por eso nunca encuentro nada.
En verdad es bastante buena y siempre me compra cosas. La pobre, como no tiene hijos, lo paga conmigo. A veces he llegado a pensar que había una cámara oculta en mi casa, porque cada vez que llego triste del colegio viene corriendo y me pregunta que qué me pasa, y cuando estoy alegre viene y pregunta cosas como, ¿qué ocurre para que estés tan feliz ehhh?, o también ¿ ha ocurrido algo genial que yo debería saber?.
Cuando yo era pequeña le solía contar mi vida y hay veces que les cuenta mis secretos a sus amigas y mientras ellas se ríen, yo me sonrojo. Luego usa la excusa de que “es que las tías lo sabemos todo, ¿verdad chicas?" Y sus amigas asienten con la cabeza.
¡Qué cotilla es mi tía!…

MGD 8X

La importancia de un libro

Tras la lectura de un fragmento( pags 54-59) de "Novela de Ajedrez" de Stefan Zweig.

EL PODER DE UN LIBRO
La tentación era irresistible, no podía aguantar más, notaba como el libro quemaba bajo el resguardo de mi bolsillo, lo saqué lentamente tomándome mi tiempo, ya que tenía todo el tiempo del mundo. Ya entre mis manos ardía en deseos de iniciar su lectura. En todo este tiempo su lectura provocaría que me sintiera conectado con el mundo exterior. Su portada de cuero no enseñaba rastro de autor, entonces pensé que vendría dentro, era algo viejo ya que se veía que estaba algo arrugado. Abrí la primera hoja, en blanco. La segunda, en blanco. La tercera, en blanco. ¡Estaba completamente en blanco! Mis ilusiones pasaron a ser disgustos y el miedo a perder la cabeza se apoderaba de mí, y entonces…
El sol brillaba como siempre, era temprano, un día como otro cualquiera. Me levanté, me duché y al ver el libro tendido en el suelo me di cuenta de que el autor de esas hojas en blanco era yo, que esas hojas en blanco eran para mí. Volqué en ellas todos mis sentimientos, emociones y experiencias. Me marqué un objetivo, terminar el libro y dar a conocer al mundo todos los horrores que estaba sufriendo.
Conforme escribía un día y otro día, notaba como mi mente dejaba de martirizarme, recobraba con el tiempo mi cordura. Su escritura me fortalecía, la necesidad de compartir mis sentimientos me daba fuerza para soportar mi horrible condena. Finalicé, como me propuse, el libro. Su título: “EL PODER DE UN LIBRO”. Hoy, libre, recorro el mundo explicando mis experiencias allá donde otros también las han sufrido.
JJ LS 9 X

Todavía recuerdo con claridad el día que aterrizamos por primera vez en el pequeño aeropuerto de Riam, donde mi marido había sido destinado para trabajar como embajador de España en Arabia Saudí. Cuando me comunicó que tendríamos que dejar Moscú para establecernos aquí, la idea no me disgustó mucho. Yo estaba harta del frío de Rusia y me gustaba la idea de viajar a este país, tan diferente a todos los sitios en los que habíamos vivido. Pero nada más bajar del avión, la sonrisa de mi cara desapareció. El calor era insoportable, pero no tanto como las miradas de la gente al verme en mi vestido de manga corta de flores y sandalias, con bastante piel al descubierto, probablemente demasiada en opinión de la gente. A penas habíamos salido del aeropuerto cuando un policía de mediana edad y cara de pocos amigos se aproximó a nosotros y nos dijo algo en un idioma que yo no comprendía. Uno de nuestros escoltas empezó a discutir con el hombre, el cual nos dejó ir, pero no parecía muy contento. El escolta nos dijo lo que le policía le había dicho: había tenido la intención de esposarme al no llevar el clásico ‘burka’ negro que era obligatorio para las mujeres en este lugar en el que los hombres eran sin duda el ser predominante.
No me sentía a gusto en este sitio tan injusto en el que las mujeres tenían tan pocos derechos como los animales, y la discriminación que recibíamos era insoportable, por no hablar de la situación política y las estúpidas leyes. No hubiera aguantado allí sino fuera por los libros, que me transportaban a lugares muy lejanos a este con sus relatos. Todas las tardes leía, y conseguía viajar por unas horas a sitios impresionantes, lejos de aquí… Al leer lograba olvidarme de las injusticias políticas de este país, de lo poco bienvenida que era aquí…
Libros sobre terribles realidades, libros sobre fantasía, libros de todo tipo… Libros escritos por gente que quería ser escuchada, que quería expresar su opinión… Yo también quería expresar la mía sobre este país; quería que la gente ayudase, y se diera cuenta de que quedan muchas cosas por hacer en este mundo.

CPA 9W

El libro estaba en frente de mis ojos. Notaba como se acercaba a mí y una voz me decía: ‘cógeme de una vez, no seas tonto’. Mi corazón latía más y más rápido. Mi mano se acercaba ansiosamente para cogerlo. Cuando ya estaba cerca, me di cuenta de que era un periódico. Hacía tanto tiempo que no había visto un periódico que no lo reconocía.
El periódico olía a tabaco mentolado. Estaba arrugado y revuelto y había una página marcada. Mi primera reacción fue ir a la pagina marcada que a su vez había una parte rota.
La página contenía una lista al parecer interminable de nombres. Á pie de página había una anotación que decía: “Muertes del año 1939 al 1942 causados por los bombardeos en la ciudad de Berlín.
Al leer la lista, sentí tristeza al ver que algunas víctimas eran conocidas. Otros tantos eran amigos de la infancia. Me llamó la atención un trozo de la lista que había sido arrancada. Parecía ser un trozo muy pequeño que podía ocupar tres o cuatro nombres como mucho. Mientras iba ojeando por el periódico había muchas noticias nuevas, bueno para mí por lo menos.
En la última página se encontraba un trozo suelto con dos nombres escritos en el papel. Con temblor, cogí el trozo y leí el nombre. Esto no me podía estar pasando a mí, el mundo se paro mientras yo intentaba asimilar la información que acababa de recibir.
Los nombres resultaban ser los nombres que faltaban de la lista que eran: Anne Von Dioston, Frank Von Dioston. Mi mujer y mi hijo.
Ya mi vida no tenía sentido, estos cuatro meses en este infierno no habían servido para nada. Yo había aguantado y luchado solo con la esperanza de volver a ver a mi hijo y a mi mujer. Ellos muertos, y yo aquí vivo luchando por la libertad inútilmente, ¿Para qué seguir viviendo?
Como no me mataban ellos, había que utilizar nuevos métodos. Quería volver a verlos, y el único sitio donde lo podía ver era allí arriba, con Dios.

CSM 9X

(Photos de JackieTL / anAndamiA/ Fifi LePew & Andrea Alessadretti. Flickr)

Boy overboard

by Morris Geiztman
Jamal and Bibi, two kids from Afghanistan , have to move from their country to Australia( Prosperity land) because their parents run an illegal school and the authorities found out. The government blows up their house..
This books is especially for people who like adventures and it shows you what some families from eastern countries have to do to survive.
If you like this one you are going to like "Girl Underground" as well. Bridget is the daughter of two criminals who has to rescue Jamal and Bibi from a refugee camp. She is forced to do this because Menzie, a friend from school shows her some letters that he has received from Jamal and Bibi that make Bridget think about what they are suffering.
JAG & IPV 7W