THE THREE MUSKETEERS by CARLOS JAY ARTAGOITIA

D’Artagnan left his home to go to Paris and his father gave him three different things: 15 coins of gold, a letter for the captain of the musketeers and an ugly horse. When he arrived to a little pub called Jolly Miller, a man with a scar in his head was laughing of his horse. D’Artagnan challenged him to a fight… but the barman didn’t want them to fight and knocked him out. The day after he arrived to Paris, he went to Mr. Treville’s house. He was the captain of the famous musketeers. Mr. Treville told the musketeers to come inside and D’Artagnan saw that one of them had an injury in the arm. Mr. Treville told them that he had heard them fighting against the Cardinal’s guards and they were defeated. They said that they were taken by surprise and that’s why they lost. Then Mr. Treville asked D’Artagnan what he wanted. He said that he wanted to join the musketeers. He said to him that if he wanted to join, he had to prove that he had to be worthy to wear his uniform. Then, from the window he saw the man with the scar that was laughing of his horse. He started to chase him but when he was almost getting him, he fell on Athos. Then, Athos was very angry with him and D’Artagnan said that he challenged him to a fight the next day at nine in the monastery. Then, he had a problem with Aramis, another musketeer, who challenged him at two o’clock in the monastery to a fight as well. Athos and D’Artagnan started to fight and Porthos and Aramis arrived. Then a soldier of the army told them that the duels were forbidden. And the soldiers and the musketeers started to fight. D’Artagnan skipped behind the sword of his enemy to save Athos’ life. D’Artagnan had made three new friends called: Aramis who wanted to be a priest, Porthos who liked beautiful clothes and women and Athos who always seemed sad. The lord visited D’Artagnan and told him that his sister had been kidnapped. The man who had kidnapped the lord’s sister had a scar in his chick. D’Artagnan said that he was working for the cardinal. After four days D’Artagnan found Constance in her brother’s house. Constance left her brother’s house and she met the duke of England. D’Artagnan took them to the palace to see the queen because the duke and the queen were in love. The queen told him to get back to England and gave him 12 diamonds. The cardinal found out about that, and told the King if he could say it to his wife to wear the 12 diamonds. Constance told d’Artagnan to get back to England and recover the diamonds. D’Artagnan went to England and the duke said that he had to give back the diamonds to the queen because the king had asked the queen if she could wear them. The duke said that he had lost 2 of them but he said that he would find a person who could do the same diamonds that he lost. When he had them D’Artagnan got the first ship returning to France and gave the queen the diamonds. The queen said if she could do something to reward him but he wasn’t paying attention because he was looking for Constance. He had fallen in love with her. D’Artagnan received a card from Constance that said if he could go to her summer house. When he went, there wasn’t no one in the house. He asked her neighbours and they said that a man with a scar got her and went running from this place. D’Artagnan went to Milady’s house because she worked for the cardinal too. He got disguised as a duke and went to Milady’s house. D’Artagnan asked her about Constance. When she knew that the duke was D’Artagnan tried to kill him. Athos discovered that the woman who helped to kidnap Constance was the same girl that was his wife. She was a criminal. Athos helped to D’Artagnan to break the door of Milady’s house. The door was opened and Milady was speaking to Constance. Constance drank the glass of wine that Milady gave to her, but when she drank she fell on the ground because Milady had poisoned. Then the three musketeers entered to Milady’s house. D’Artagnan was getting Constance from the floor. Constance said that she loved him and then she died. Then the three musketeers got Milady outside of her house and D’Artagnan said that she had to be punished with the dead. And they executed. The cardinal said sorry to D’Artagnan because he didn’t want to kill Constance and the cardinal gave to D’Artagnan a message that said that he was a musketeer and he will serve his king’s musketeers.

A HALLOWEEN TALE by CARLA CASAÑ

Once upon a time, Ben and his parents were on the car coming back from their aunt’s house. One cat jumped into the top of the car and looked at the family. The animal went down and ran away. The family went to look at the car and it was broken! So they had to leave the car on a gas station and they had to stay the Halloween night in a city called Bayley. They had to find a hotel in this small town. When they arrived to the hotel the receptionist said that it was full, but finally they found an empty room.

Ben’s mum wanted to open the curtains but Felicia, the maid, didn’t want because she hated the sun. Ben asked her why she hated the sun, but Felicia didn’t answer.

Then, Mrs Jackson asked Ben if he could go to buy some food and drinks to the first Street of the town. He went and one young girl told him that Halloween was a very important celebration in the town.

She told him all the story that happened in the town 300 years ago.

When Ben came back to the hotel, he talked to Felicia and he thought that she was strange. He found a book on a table and he read incredible things! Felicia found him with the book and she got angry with him. Ben followed Felicia and discovered many secrets.

It was a fantastic experience!

TANKS by ARTURO PELLICER

Today we are going to talk about tanks.

Here you can see some of their basic parts.

Firepower
The most important thing of the tank is the main gun because is the gun that has to shoot the projectils.

Keeping on track
All tanks run on tracks that give them incredible grip cross.

The funniest
To help the allies to fight their way into France.

THE CLEVER WOMAN by ANNA SELFA

There was a man named Sean Murphy who when he came home after a long day of work always wanted to sit on the sofa and read his favorite book. But his mother was always playing the guitar, his wife playing the piano, his little children screaming and their older children fighting to take control of the TV. One day he went to find his friend to help him. First she told him to take a chicken, but it did not work then he told her to take a goat home but it did not work either, the end did not matter that they were screaming or bothering him , he thought they were not there and that's it. So he could relax.

THE HOUND OF BASKERVILLES by ANNA MARTINEZ

One day, while Dr.Watson and Sherlock Holmes were eating breakfast, someone knocked at the door. It was

Dr.Mortimer, he had a serious problem. He told the detectives that his friend Sir.Charles Bakerville had die.

Then he took an old yellow paper from his pocket and said: My friend gave me this paper three months before his death; is the legend of the Baskerville family.

The paper said that Hugo Baskerville, a cruel man, fell in love with the daughter of a farmer. But the girl didn’t want to marry him so Hugo, with five or six more friends, kidnapped the girl and took her to Baskerville Hall. There the girl escaped and ran across the moor. Hugo followed her, he fell down but suddenly his friends did not see him, the floor was plenty of blood. They didn’t see Hugo but they saw a hound. Many Baskervilles family members died because of the hound. There were people who said that the hound wanted to kill all the Baskervilles.

There was only one Bakerville with live.

Now, the detectives have to guess if this legend is true or not. The most important thing is to protect the last Baskerville.

JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS by PABLO GOMEZ

This story is about a man called Jason who had a mission. The mission was to bring back the Golden Fleece to Greece to recover his father’s Kingdom.

The Golden Fleece was in a secret place in Colchis. To get it back, Jason needed a ship and a good screw.

Argus was an expert doing boats, so Jason told him if he could do one for him. Argus said to him that he will build the strongest and the most beautiful ship in Greece.

During the aventure, they found many strange animals. For example: a fish with six heads, giants and more things. Finally, when they arrived to Colchis they took the Golden Fleece and came back home.

RICKY'S BIG IDEA by ALBA AVELLANEDA

One day Ricky was on the sofa and suddenly he heard a scream. He ran upstairs, went into the bathroom and when he saw her sister’s blue hair started to record.

The next day Ricky showed the video that he had recorded and everybody said it was very funny.

Then, Ricky decided to put his camera around his house for filming his family but he realised that his family was so bored so he stop filming them. Ricky started filming his friends and he told them things that weren’t true and filmed their reactions. For instance, he told them to meet in one place but it wasn’t true.

A few days later Ricky’s friends discovered he was the person telling them and they told him

Finally, all Ricky’s friends filmed a story of superheroes.

JUST LIKE A MOVIE by SERGI BELLOT

Gina and Bred met in the cinema the first time, in October four years ago. Gina liked movies, and he loved movies. He was there to buy a ticket for a movie. It was Forrest Gump. Bred liked Paris, he wanted to live in Paris until he became old.

He was a handyman, and he worked with horses, and office buildings in Toronto. He lived in a big house which was beautiful, she had millions! His parents died in a car accident ten years ago.

Gina didn’t have any family, only Bred. How could I tell Gina about the money? He had a problem, a big problem. How could he tell Gina that he had so much money…

THE BLACK CAT by ADRIA RODRIGUEZ

The Black cat and other histories is a book that writes four horror stories:

The Black cat:
It is a story about an adult who likes animals very much, but one day he became upset and started killing animals.
But he was not able to kill his precious black cat, but for some reason the cat held a grudge against the adult.
A day so normal and current the cat killed the woman of the boy with which he was left alone and nobody knew more about the cat.

The oval portrait:
This story is about two boys with their horses riding through the forest until they found a small cabin in which they found a painting of a woman, the picture was very realistic until it seemed that the woman was alive. A boy said a compliment to the painting and the box answered him.
Then the boys ran away and promised not to go back to the forest.

Berenice:
It's about a boy who was very poor because his whole family was dead and then he was reincarnated. One day thinking about his other life he remembered his old woman named Berenice. He did it a lot. One day the boy killed himself because he thought his life was worth nothing.

The mask of the red death:
It's about an assassin who killed a lot of people. He was a criminal very wanted by all. One day a group of people caught him, they ran to catch him but when they caught him he transformed himself into a mannequin and no one came back for a year.

HOW TO BE AN ALIEN by ADRIA BILBATUA

The book explains how you can be an alien(Englishman).

When an Englishman talks about England, he never refers only to England, he refers to “The United Kingdom”, “Great Britain” or the “British Isles” but never ever just England. On Sundays in Europe, the poorest people wear theirs best clothes and the country becomes green and happy, but, in England the richest people, wear their oldest clothes and the country becomes dark and sad. In Europe people like cats, but in England people love cats more than their family! In Europe people receive Sunday newspapers on Monday, but in England (a very strange country) people receives Sunday newspapers on Sunday.

STRANGER THAN FICTION by NURIA ESCOMS

This book is about 27 short stories that are very strange with unexpected endings. The story I like most has been one of them titled “wrong in the head?”.

One day in a factory the people that work there didn’t like Mr. Taylor, their boss. One day Mr. Taylor finished working in the factory and went to a shop in front of the factory, when he came in and saw a brown hat, he said: perhaps I will buy the hat tomorrow, I can wear it to work. When he came into the factory the people were laughing at him because the hat was more for the forest then for the office.

One day two workers of the factory bought the same hat, but one was smaller and the other was bigger. The two boys every afternoon, when Mr. Taylor took off the hat and he put it in the hanger the two boys went and changed the hat one day smaller, another day bigger and another day good, all the afternoons Mr. Taylor said: what happens? this is very strange? I have to go to the doctor, I’m getting crazy!

THE MILL OF THE FLOSS by GEMMA FERRER

This history is about a girl called Maggie, she loved a boy since she was young, but there were some problems, she couldn’t see him, because her father was ill, and because of the father of the boy she loved. His name was Stephen. Maggie lived with her cousin Lucy and her brother Tom, Stephen visited Lucy, so Maggie could see her. One day Maggie and went to an excursion in a lake, they escaped but, Maggie later thought that it was not such a good idea, so she came back home and left Stephen there. she came very late, it took 4 days because she was ill, when she arrived there, Tom didn’t accept her, so she went to a apartment, Lucy visited her. One day when she was in a boat in the river Tom went too with her, but after some time they were in danger. 5 years later they found the bodies of Maggie and Tom, their arms were around each other. In the tomb puts: Tom and Maggie Tulliver. In death, they were not separated.

THE BLACK CAT by INES PELLICER

This book was about 9 chapters each with a different story, but they all had something mysterious and they transmitted to you fear when you were reading them as each chapter is about a different thing, I will summarize the one I liked the most:

Chapter 2, a school story: This story is about two kids who were going to the same school, in that school, the teachers were constantly being chanced. One day, one of the new teachers called Sampson who taught them Latin sometimes, asked for phrases to be invented in Latin, but a day he was reviewing the phrases, someone passed, and he was pale and started to get nervous, nobody knew what was written on that paper. The teacher left the class and they all went to see it ,that the paper said: If you do not come to me I will come to you, was written in red ink and in school it wasn’t possible to write with red ink, for curiosity they counted the papers in class and they were 16 children in class but they had 17 papers, a paper appeared from the nothing. His friend and him were on their bed room and his friend was screaming at him to wake him up. When he woke up he told him to look out of the window at the Sampson’s room, he looked and saw like a very thin and strange black figure which was next to Sampson’s window, the next morning Sampson wasn’t in his room and since that day no one saw him again.

I really loved this book because I think it was amazing how all the stories were connected and how the pictures really showed the story. As I said this story was my favourite, because it was the one that more fear transmitted to me and I loved that.

AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS by SERGI ESPI

Phileas was an exact man. He always liked to be exact. He lived in London. He had a house in Savile row. His friends on the club didn’t new a lot of him. Phileas was a repetitive man. He didn’t have wife or children. But he had one servant in his house, his name was Passepartout. Phileas read the newspaper every day. One day he was reading the newspaper and he read that it was possible to go round the world in 80 days, he tells this to his friends and they do not believe it, Phileas says that he can do it, and he bets twenty thousand pounds, and he asks how much they will bet his friend Sayed, he will bet twenty thousand pounds too. He left London, October 2nd. This is how Phileas went round the world.

THE BOOK OF HEROIC FAILURES by ALEX ESPI

It is difficult to be bad at something, but the people in this book are. Drivers who cannot drive, travellers who get lost all the time, and a policeman who cannot catch criminals.

RAIN MAN by JORGE VANACLOCHA

Charlie Babbitt thinks he will get a lot of money when his father dies. The money goes to someone that he doesn’t know. He is a man who lives in a special hospital and he is the brother Charlie never knew. The two men meet, and this is the start of a surprising new life for both of them.

THE LOCKED ROOM AND OTHER HORROR STORIES by PAULA LLACER

``The locked room and other horror stories´´ is a short book that contain much horror stories such as The ash-tree that is a short story about a witch that has been killed by all the inhabitants in the village. There’s also a horror story about a strange alien that kidnapped one teacher from an English school, it’s more about mystery than a horror story, but it’s a good book.

I’ve liked all the stories, but the one that I liked the most I think it’s the one of the tall house, it’s about a tall house were a guy called Thomas is staying, but one day, he hears a noise from one of the rooms and when he opens the room, what he finds is… Another story that I liked is the one in which there was a man who buys a strange book, but what he doesn’t know is that the book has an evil drawing inside. These are the two stories that I liked the most, it’s a short book so I think that’s all I can say, I hope you enjoy them!

TWO LIVES by NEREA BOLUDA

A girl called Megan, and a boy called Huw are in love, but Megan’s father doesn’t want that they stay together, so they want they are only friends. Huw and his brother Gareth are coal miners.

One day Megan and Huw were together in a flat, and they listened a strong noise, all people in the town opened the doors, the noise became from the mine, a rock had fallen down and there were only 10 people alive, but Gareth wasn’t one of them, he and two other men had died. Huw’s father was very sad.
Huw’s uncle sent him, and to his father a message saying that they could go to Canada with him. Huw and Megan were very sad, they promised they were going to be together again, fifty years passed, and Megan and Huw didn’t know anything about each other.
Megan had a girl called Beth, who was raised without a father. Megan’s father died and Megan and Beth went to Megan’s bedroom, they found a bow plenty of Huw’s messages from 1946 and 1947, Megan’s father kept that messages hidden.
Huw divorced a girl called Josie, they had a son called Mike. Megan read all Huw’s messages, and gave him answers.
Megan wasn’t married, but Paul was going to marry her.
First Huw didn’t want to know anything about Megan, but then he realised that he was always thinking in her and he couldn’t live without her, he couldn’t live alone.
Huw travels from Canada to Tredonald, they met at 7 p.m, and he meets his sister Beth.
They were 66-year-old.
Huw says to Megan that he loves her, and he wants to marry her.
Finally, Megan asked him as well, that he asks another time he wants to marry her and they are together again.

THE BOXERS by CARLES CORDOBA

Michael Boxer, a village policeman who many people didn’t like him a lot was murdered at his house the 14th of December, that day they found him dead there.

Michael’s sister, Jennifer, needed money from her brother for paying debts if she didn’t pay it she would lose her house, but Michael didn’t want to lend her his money. Michael didn’t like his sister and his sister didn’t like him. It was strange.

We don’t know who killed him that night, but the jury is asking questions to the people that was around Michael that day, including his sister Jennifer. Did she kill her brother?

The police think so, but the jury is who decides.

The book shows the different scenes in which the jury tried to guess the murderer, you will notice that the book has a special thing, the mystery. And that is brilliant.

Do you want to know who is the murderer, so you will have to read this story.

Who killed Michael?…

A BIKER'S GHOST by NAOMI BEATRICE

CALL ME ARCHIE
He says: “it wasn’t your fault”.
Yesterday he said: “Don’t call me Dr Dawkin. Call me Archie”.
And now I’m not sitting on this chair. I haven’t got a stick. Now I’m on the motorbike again.

LIZ
She says: “Not your fault, Nick”
Me: we are in the street now. I walk slowly with my stick. My leg is hurting today.

MRS BADGE
Every day I walk with my stick. I walk slowly, and this is difficult. People in Street walk quickly. They haven’t got sticks.

MOTHER
My mother wants to help me: “go to the shops.” “buy me ...... this ....... or this.” We don’t want this or that. We have this in the house.

IN THE STREET
I walk very slowly in the Street. Old people walk slowly because they’re scared. They don’t want to fall. I don’t want to fall. My stick is only my friend.

THE RAILWAY CHILDREN by LUCIA PERELLO

Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter are living idyllic lives with their parents in what is described as an ordinary red-brick fronted villa.

The children are loved a lot by their parents because they play with them, when they are at school her mother writes stories and reads them to them when they finish. One day, one man comes to visit their father and she goes with them. The mother is angry and tells the children not to ask any questions.

Then they have to travel to another country because of their work. The mother asks lots of work because she has to write children stories. The children are worried because the situation has changed. The children decide to explore the railway. One day when Peter goes with Roberta, Phyllis follows.

They discovered a new mine of coal. Then the children go to tell a person Peter was stealing. But she thinks that she wasn’t stealing because he only was taking some coal of the mine.

At the end of the story Roberta discovered that her father was arrested, then she tells her mum and her friend with the intention that then she will help her.

E.T. by MARCEL.LA TARRASSÓ

E.T is an Extra-Terrestrial that one day arrived to the Earth with his Extra-Terrestrial friends on a spaceship. The lights illuminated all the dark sky in the night and flew up, up and up. The visitors of the Earth were amazed and couldn’t believe it, but the spaceship (with his friends) went without him and E.T was too late.

Elliott has a mum (Mary), a little sister (Gertie) and his friend (Michael).

E.T was a little extra-terrestrial that was a little bit brown and green with big eyes, and he was a good alien, he has a large neck like a giraffe and large fingers.

For E.T and for all the extra-terrestrials, the Earth is a dangerous place to be in. But an Earth boy helps E.T and that boy is called Elliott. E.T loves Elliott. In the town, there are some scientist that want to do experiments with E.T and they are looking for E.T, E.T wants to go home, but he doesn’t know how to go back.

After 10 years passed E.T comes back to the Earth and he founds Elliott.

The movie was presented in 1982.

SIX GHOST STORIES by CLOE VIDAL

Perhaps you don’t believe in ghosts. I’m not sure that I believe in them. I’m not sure that I have seen a ghost, but what did I see?

So, this book of six ghost stories begins…

What is the secret of Room 7? Who is the frightening Mrs Wood? What is the secret of the garden of Samways? Why is Roger afraid to drive his new car? Why do the Frobishers feel uncomfortable with their young visitor? And is the little old woman at Number 91 really waiting for a birthday car that never comes?

The answer to these questions are in the stories of this book. But, when and where will you read the stories? Think carefully about that. Will you sleep well after you finish them? Or will they keep you awake at night?

The books of S.H. Bruton, the writer of these stories, are popular everywhere. Before he came a full-time writer, S.H. Bruton taught English language and literature, he also taught some teachers. Since then, he has written more than fifty books and many short stories.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by AITANA ARCIS

Guy and Bruno meet on a train. Guy was an architect who was planning a divorce with Miriam. In the train Bruno told Guy things from his father, the same Guy told about Miriam. Bruno told Guy an idea of a murder: Bruno will murder Miriam and Guy will murder Bruno’s father. Guy didn’t accept and leaves the train. But Bruno decides to kill Miriam as a favour. When Guy realized, Bruno started writing, calling, and visiting to tell how and when he had to murder his father. Then, Guy decided to call to the police but he can’t. Finally, Bruno obligated Guy to murder his father at night, when he wasn’t there. Things start getting worse when Gerard, the detective of the investigation, begins to find things between Bruno and Guy, about the train, the phone calls and the murder of Miriam and Bruno's father. During a period of time, Bruno decides to commit a suicide because he was sick of being guilty. This was too much for Guy, so he decided to tell his crimes to Owen, Miriam’s lover. Finally, Owen told Guy that he didn’t want his child and didn’t want to get married with her. At the end, Guy realized that her phone was on, and Gerard was listening the conversation.

HOW TO BE AN ALIEN by ADRIA TEROL

I like the book because La Devesa School is a bilingual school and this book is showing us how to be an English person. The book is very funny too. There were funny jokes, so I had a lot to laugh at. The book was no very long so it wasn’t he same all the time, it was divided in chapters, there were 24 chapters.

My favourite chapter was the one of “EXAMPLES FOR CONVERSATIONS”, this chapter was the funniest, because the introduction was:

Question- Beautiful day isn’t it?

And although it was raining or snowing, you would have to answer…

Answer- Isn’t it beautiful day?

I laughed a lot when I read, there were more like that, but that one was my favourite.