RIP VAN WINKLE AND THE LEGEND OF THE SLEEPY HOLLOW by MARINA GONZALEZ

There are two stories:
1) RIP VAN WINKLE
Rip had a farm, but he didn’t work. He liked going to the bar and talking to the men.
One day Rip walked to the mountain and he saw a man. The man had a big barrel. Rip and the man walked up the mountain. There was a big building and a lot of men. Rip had a drink and he closes his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, he walked down the mountain to his town. He didn’t know the people and the houses because he slept for 20 years in the mountain.
2) THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW
Ichabo Crame was a teacher. He loved Katrina and he wanted her father’s farm. But Katrina loved Ichabod and Brom.
One night Icahbood went to a dance to katrina’s farm and Brom talked one day he saw a ghost. The ghost didn’t have head.
Katrina didn’t want to talk to Icabod. That night Ichabod saw the ghost.
Ichabod wasn’t in the town and the people talked that he was dead, but one day a farmer went to New York and he saw Ichabod. Ichabod told him that he was afraid of the ghost.
The farmer told the story when he arrived in town and Brom smiled because he had Katrina and her father’s farm.

THE CLEVER WOMAN by YANNICK ALABADI

Every day Mr Murphy came from work and the first thing he wanted to do was to sit on the sofa, read a book and relax but his family was very noisy. One day Mr Murphy goes to Linda McCormack’s house. She was going to help him trying some tricks. At the end, he could relax because the noise decreased a lot.

THE CROWN by PABLO MOYA

Seaburgh is a town near the sea where I live. Plaxton (is a friend) was in my house and he told me a story that happens to Plaxton. Plaxton was in an old church and he saw a picture of three crowns, and he asked to a man: Do you know anything about this picture? The man said that there were three crowns in England and they were magic because they protected the country. The man said that one of the three crowns was in Seaburgh! The man said that only the family Agers knew something about the crown, because this family protected the crown. Paxton wanted to ask more questions but the man went. The last of the Agers family was Williams Agers but Paxton saw the tomb of Williams Agers. They said that Williams Agers was a man that always was in a hill. So Paxton thought: If Williams Agers went always there, it means that the crown is there. Paxton went and he dig and took the crown. I have it! And this is the end of the story. I didn’t believe it but he showed me a bag where the crown was there. Plaxton wanted to turn it back to the place where the crown was. I went with him.

As Williams Agers died protecting the Crown, Plaxton died because he also was protecting the Crown. 

THE CLEVER WOMAN by MARTA RIBES

One day, Sean Murphy was in the bus coming back from work. He was very tired and he said: When I arrive home, I will sit down on my sofa and read a good book. But… when he arrived home, his mother was playing the guitar and his wife playing the piano. His two younger children are fighting and his two older children are arguing about the television. And Sean Murphy can’t relax with these noises.
The next day Sean Murphy said to her friend about his problem at home. And her friend said: You can visit to the Clever Woman, she is fantastic solving problems like yours. So Sean Murphy drove to the Clever Woman’s house.

The Clever Woman said a lot of tricks to Sean Murphy, and right now Sean Murphy can relax in the sofa reading a book.

THE WINNER by MARINA GONZALEZ

The favourite actor of Kara is Leonardo di Caprio. Kate has two Friends, Hannah and Mark. One day Kara and her Friends see a poster of a TV programme. They were looking for a boy and a girl. The winners can talk to Leonardo di Caprio. Hanna wins and Kara is angry, because she wanted to win. At the end, Kara thinks that the TV programme and Leonardo aren’t important , but Friends are very important.

MR. BEAN by ELENA AÑÓ

One day it as said that a masterpiece was going to be moved to the Grierson Gallery in America. They chose Mr Bean to go to the National Gallery in London. He was going a friend’s house. All the people knew him as “Dr Bean” But... the family realised that he was very strange and dangerous… During the exposition of pictures in the museum the problems started.

TANKS by DANIEL ALCALA

The tanks are war machines that have played in battles for almost 100 years.
Basic parts of the tanks: Tank hull, turret and grun.
Fire power: The most important tanks is its main gun, mounted in the turret.
Going for a drive:Before you can drive a tank you have to know all the parts:
*hatch open
*foot pedals to accelerate and broke
*steering levers
Power park: The biggest modern tanks need massive engines to propel them.

The first tank:Was invented by the British army nearly a hundred years ago.

MR. BEAN by CLAUDIA ALAPONT

One day there was a man called Mr. Bean whose friends were fed up of him and they sent him to Los Angeles. He was living with a family there and the husband worked in the art gallery. The children and the mother got tired of Mr bean and left home. One day, they were at a meeting in the art gallery and at one point Mr Bean was alone there. Then, he sneezed into the painting and then had to paint it, but it was horrible! His friend, David, thought they were going to fire him.
But just that night Mr. Bean stole the painting and falsified it. Nobody noticed and Mr. Bean and David were happy because Mr. Bean saved David’s daugther in an accident! The doctors confused Mr. Bean with one of them.

The end!

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES by CARLOS JAY ARTAGOITIA

One day Mr. Sherlock Holmes and Dr.Watson received a visit from a friend of Sherlock Holmes called Mr. Mortimer. He told them that Sir. Charles of Baskerville died and he told them the story: Hugo Baskerville fell in love with a women but she didn’t want to marry him so Hugo with his friends kidnapped her. She escaped and ran across the moor as far as possible but Hugo’s friends found his horse but they didn’t find him. Then they found the body of Hugo and the girl dead. Since then no one was the same. Dr. Mortimer said a secret to them. He said that when the battler found his body he had footprints on him, the footprints were of a giant hound. The only heir from America is Henry. Sherlock said to Mr. Mortimer that he wanted to meet him the next day. The next day Sherlock and Watson met Henry. He said that he found a note in his door that said: “If you want to live, stay away from the moor”. Then they lived in the Sherlocks and Watson’s house. Sherlock said to Watson to follow them. They discovered that a man was following them with a cab of horses, when the man knew that they were following him he said to the driver to go faster. Sherlock sent Watson to go with Henry and Devon. When they arrived, Dr. Mortimer asked the driver what was happening because it was a man with a gun. The driver said that they were looking for a prisoner of the local prison. The next day Watson went for a walk and then he followed a path, he met Stapleton and her sister and they invited him to have a tea. His sister said that henry had to go away from this place because he was very dangerous for him. At night Dr. Watson saw Barrymore looking at the window. He and Harry decided to wait for him the next night. They discovered that Mr. Barrymore was doing a sign with the candle to the moor and he got an answer. Mrs. Barrymore explained that they were telling his brother (the prisoner) that they had food for him. Mr. Harry told them to go to their room and they went to look for the prisoner. He escaped but they found another man on a rock. Mr. Watson decided to go and looked for him, and he found a cave. The man was Sherlock Holmes and he discovered that Miss Stapleton was not Mr. Stapleton’s sister, she was his wife. When they were talking in the cave they heard a scream. They thought that Henry Baskerville was dead on the ground because he was wearing his jacket, but he was the prisoner. They thought that Stapleton was the murderer. They went to talk to Henry and they were looking at the family pictures. Then they saw a picture of Stapleton and they discovered he was a Baskerville. Sherlock had a plan. He said to Henry if he could say to Stapleton that they had returned to London, and also he asked him that he returned home walking across the moor after having dinner with Stapleton. The hound tried to kill Henry but Holmes and Watson killed the hound with their guns. Then they were where Stapleton kept the hound and they found the boot of Mr Henry.

They discovered that Stapleton had a hound and used him to kill the Baskerville family. After that case they went to celebrate it to the opera.

A NEW HOME FOR SOCKS by ANNA SELFA

Penny is a girl who lived in a house in the country and always played with her friends, also played with a dog named Holly. One day, they had to move to a town but Penny did not want to leave Holly alone. Her mother did not want to take her because they wanted to live in an apartment. Near the apartment there was a park where she played all the evenings. One day, Penny found a dog in a trash, she took it home but her father did not want it, she was hiding it until she found a place to put the dog without her mother's knowledge. Penny took her out every day to the park, and one day she met a woman with a dog and asked if she could keep a puppy but she said couldn’t do it. Then, Penny looked for a solution; she left it at school because it was summer and nobody was there. Some days later, she went there and found the class dirty and totally destroyed. She decided to stay with him at school. Her mother worried, so she called the police and found her 7 days after. Penny told him the reason of having left. Since then, Penny takes care of Holly at home.

THE SECRET GARDEN by ANNA MARTINEZ

Mary Lennox is an English girl who lives in India. She is always sad, very unfriendly and negative. Mary doesn’t love anyone and nobody loves Mary. Her parents died. Because of this reason she has to move to her uncle’s house in England. There, she discovered a lot of people who became her friends like Martha, a girl of her age, and Dickon, Martha’s brother. There, she discovered that she had a cousin called Colin, he is also very negative and he is always thinking he can die. Also he always has to move in a wheelchair, this is because he is a weak person and can’t go outside the house. Mary tries to help him. She finds there a garden that hides a very important secret. Do you want to know the secret? I only can tell you that this secret is a treasure very difficult to find but very good to have.

THE TIME CAPSULE by ADRIÁN DURO

Jan is a girl that must do a time capsule for the class of history. She uses a biscuit tin to put things inside, she put a newspaper, her collection of twilight books and DVDs, a memory stick with some photos, her Pirates of the Caribbean collection including Jack Sparrow, a post card, a packet of sweets and a map of the town. When she finishes she put the biscuits tin in plastic bag and she digs a hole in the ground and she cover the time capsule. One day, in a storm, she sees a boy taking her time capsule and then she goes there but then she travels in time and she goes to the past but she thinks that she is in the future, but then she realizes that she was in the past. Two days later, there was a storm that was the same storm that left her in the past, so she went to the exact place and travel to the present and she goes home.

A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA by SERGI ESPI

The future King of Bohemia is about to marry.
He needs help form Sherlock Holmes to have again a photo in which he appears with his ex-girlfriend, Irene Adler. This photo is on Irene’s hands, he is scared because she can use that photo to sabotage his wedding as well as Irene was is very intelligent women.
Sherlock starts an investigation to find it, when he goes the next day to look for the photo, there is nothing in the house, and there is only one maid, who opens the door to Holmes and gives him a letter from Irene Adler, in which he says he went to live with his wife. recent husband, and who take the picture, but did not pretend to do anything against the king. Along with the letter, he leaves Holmes a picture of him in a gala dress.

I liked the book because is plenty of mystery and the author invites you to resolve them. 

HOW TO BE AN ALIEN by INES PELLICER

First I’m going to start with how weird this book is, it is the weirdest book I have ever read before it is just a type of book that you do not see very often.
This book was about a man talking about differences between English people European people and British people. He tells you how to be rude how to be nice and even what words to use if you want to seem intelligent. There were 24 chapters that were about everyday situations and how they changed between different kind of people.
Personally my favourite chapter was number 16 A Bloomsbury Intellectual*
This chapter was about a kind of people that wanted to be different to each other. They wanted to have new and innovating ideas, they even wanted to look different so they dressed up with different coloured clothes just because they wanted people to think they didn’t matter about how they looked.
In this chapter the man gives you instructions of how to have a 3-day beard and how to shave a 4-day beard for it to look like a 3-day beard…, I think it is strange for a book but funny and interesting at the same time.
For being this type of people, you have to be kind or rude to other people, for example you don’t have to say, “thank you” or even “Hello”!!!
I loved this chapter because I would love to be this kind of people, I want to be part of the B.I club.

I think I will remember this book for ever!!! 

TWO LIVES by GEMMA FERRER

This history is about a girl and a boy, the boy is called Huw and he’s a bit poor, he has a brother and a dad but he doesn’t have any mum, he likes a lot painting. The girl is called Megan, she’s not poor, but she doesn’t have any brothers, but she has a mum and a dad.
The history is about does teenagers who like each other, Huw always says that the following year he will say Megan to get married, but Megan’s father doesn't like Huw.
It’s difficult for Huw to live in his house, because he and her brother have to work, the father hasn’t got any work and when he gets money he spends it in beer. On day, Huw gets a notice, her brother died.

Megan and Huw have a baby, but Huw doesn't know because there was a problem, Huw will have to go to other place, he said that there he can sell his paintings and he was going to come back again, but he doesn't come back, and they never see each other in fifty years. One day Megan finds in a box letters from Huw, her father has put it there all time. One day Megan writes a letter to Huw and then, he comes back again, he met his baby who was called Beth. Megan was going to marry a boy in a month, but finally she decides to marry Huw.

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST AND OTHER STORIES by AITANA ARCIS

The Otis family moved to Canterville (England) to a house which they said there were ghosts and everybody was scared about it.
When they entered the house, they went to have a look to all the rooms. In the library they found a blood stain, so they decided to tell the maid to clean it. But, the next day it appeared again, and so on. It was strange but they weren’t scared, because they knew there was a ghost.
So, the ghost decided to scare them by making noises with his chains at night, but it didn’t scare them. The ghost was sad because he couldn’t scare that family, it was like his work. The members of the family made terrible tricks with him, the ghost was fed up.

The ghost told Virginia, the little daughter, that he wanted to rest in peace, as they didn’t let him do his work (scare). Finally, Virginia, decided to help him with his plan, rest in peace. So, she convinced to her family, and all together, the Otis family and the Lord Canterville family, made a funeral for the Canterville ghost to rest in peace. Since this day there weren’t any more ghosts in this old house at Canterville.

ADOLF HITLER by RAFA PIERA

This book is about the life of Adolf Hitler. Since he was a child he loved organizing battles after school, and he hated going to school. He was a reluctant student that wanted to study Arts, but his father didn’t want it. Sometime later, his father died, and he decided to go to an Art Academy, but suddenly, his mother also died, and his future was less certain than ever.
In 1914 he joined the German army and fought in the war until he was injured, and he got very angry about losing with the Jews and Marxists.
Since 1919 he dedicated his life to the Nazi Party. In 1923, he attempted a revolution, but it failed, and he was imprisoned for 13 months. In prison he wrote “Mein Kampft”.
In 1931 he resumed his role as leader of the Nazi Party. When he was happy with his life, suddenly his dear niece died, and he became colder and more calculating. In 1933 was when he became Chancellor and started ordering the assassination of many communists and other rival politicians.
Over seven years in power, Hitler had built up a huge army and air force and he believed he was invincible.

He killed himself by gunshot on 1945 and Eva Braun, his wife, also committed suicide with him by taking a poison. 

MR. JEALOUS by NAOMI BEATRICE HAITA

Mr Jealous
Cathy was Rob’s girlfriend. Rob asks if she has more boyfriends. Cathy says no. She says that she can see Rob on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Rob thinks that Tom is Cathy’s boyfriend. He asks who is Tom... Then Cathy says that he is jealous. Cathy show Rob a photo with Tom. Tom is a little boy. Cathy thought that Tom’s brother was eighteen and she liked him a lot.

Roberto
Sarah is a school student and she needs photos of a river. Roberto comes and asks if she wants to take a photo of him. She takes it, and she asks if Roberto is French. Roberto says that he is Italian. He asks if Sarah knows Italian films. She says yes, but she doesn’t know about Italian films. The next day, at two o’clock Roberto comes, and they go to make a film at the river. Then, Roberto says that he comes here to see Sarah. Sarah says the same. Then they go for a walk.

Alien Spacecraft!
Betty, Jack and Colby drove back from Dayton. On the night of 29th December, they saw a light in the sky. They went out of the car to see the light and what happened. Betty and Colby ran into the car. Jack stayed under the light that was on the ground for 5 minutes. Then he ran to the car and he tried to open the car, but the car was burning. Jack’s arms burned. Later, Colby’s face burned. They visited many doctors.

Flowers for Maria
Maria’s father met them at the door. He didn’t say hello. Maria said at the table that Herman is a gardener. Harman said that he wanted to be a writer. Two days later, Herman wanted to say sorry to Maria and he went into a shop with flowers. Then he saw Maria and her father. Maria and her father came very near, but they didn’t see him because of all the flowers.

The bully
In the school there is a new boy that is called Yoshi. He is from Tokyo in Japan. Beverley is interested in the new boy. The girl doesn’t like to lose a game. Then Yoshi says to his parents that he has a problem. Her name is Beberley. She bullies the girls and Boys of the school. Yoshi’s parents said that they could do karate.

HOW TO BE AN ALIEN by NURIA ESCOMS

George Mikes has written this book trying to talk about the differences about English people and other people.

In England, people have some tea at five o’clock and the European people don’t, they have it at seven o’clock as well.
For English people, weather is very important too and for other people, like us, it isn’t.
If an English person asks you a question you have to say yes, for example they say: good day, isn’t it? you answer always with: Yes, it is.
Other people are not going to say yes, if you don’t want to say it.
He is always talking about the fact that English people are really different from other Europeans and, they are proud of it.
In my opinion: I liked it because I have learnt things about England that are different from Europeans and it is good to know things about other countries.

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE by ADRIA TEROL

The book that I read is called Dr.Jekyll & Mr.Hyde, the story is about a mistery and the story starts:

One Sunday two men were walking and saw a door that little by little was opening, there was a little girl and a man that was like scaping, the girl screamed but the man trampled her. The man has a scary face with the eyes very dark and his mouth twisted into a sinister sneer. After the accident of that night one man called Mr. Utterson started to investigate, he investigated more than the other man.
After lots of weeks looking for Mr. Hyde (the evil man), Dr. Jekyll invited the two men for dinner. Two months later, Mr. Utterlos and Mr. Lanyon were in a walk and they wanted to visit Dr.Jekyll but he had a very strong pain in the stomach he was nearly in his last day of life!
After some days they visited a man that told them about Mr. Hyde, he told them that he entered one day into his house and took a jar with something similar to salt but with a pink colour, he mixed with water and he drank it, he started to have a strong pain in the stomach.
After some weeks they visited the laboratory of Dr. Jekyll but instead of being him was Mr. Hyde, he read a note that was next to he and it puts that Dr. Jekyll wanted to separate the man in being evil and good, he drank the liquid and became into the evil man! (Mr. Hyde)
He drank a bit again and returned to be Dr.Jekyll He drank a lot so that was the reason of the stomachache, the pain was so huge that that day he died.

THE LOCKED ROOM AND OTHER STORIES by MELISSA VILLANUEVA

In this book we can find nine horror stories which are very interesting, I have chosen seven, and their names are:

The Ash-tree: This story tells about that a woman called Mrs. Mothersole that lives with Mr. Fell in Castringham hall, she is hanged under the suspicion of being a… Read it to know it!
A school story: This story tells about a man that was a teacher, his name was Mr Sampson and he teaches latin, but one day he keeps a coin with his initials, this thing that he does was like enchanted and then strange things started to happen to him. Mr. Sampson disappears and years later his bones and the coin was found…
The curtains: This story tells about a man that was called Denton, he loves the books and he must get curtains for his new house, but he buys an old diary instead… What will happen next?
The flies: Mr. Davis and his young friend often walk together in dark lonely places. one day the villagers discover the body of a young woman hanging from a rope dressed in black… Interesting…
The Locked Room: this story tells about a murder, the man Thomson every day goes to a bar, one day he opens the locked room in the bar where he is staying and a pile of clothes with a knife fall on him and a lot of blood starts to run down towards him…
Martin's lake: George Martin, a young gentleman makes a poor unwanted waitress happy by dancing and walking with her, this later prevents him from marrying an excellent match…
Lost hearts: it tells about a man, Mr. Abney that has read that you can control things by magic. But first you need to take the heart of three young children under twenty-one… What will he do?

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER by JORGE VANACLOCHA

This book is about an odd house where Roderick and Madeline are living. Roderick and Madeline belong to Usher family, they are brothers.

Roderick is ill and spends all day in the house. So, he decides to call his friend, the teller of the story, to share with him his last days of life, because his illness is going to take his life. His sister is ill, she has a strange illness.
One day Roderick tells his friend that his sister has died, but he doesn’t want to tell it. The body of his sister remains in a room down the house.
When the teller discovers that the girl is not dead, he is not able to stay any more in the house and he decides to run away from the crazy, mad house.

SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA 2ND PART by MARCEL.LA TARRASSÓ

The Blue Diamond; the 27th of December, a friend of Holmes, decided to see Holmes to tell him that he saw a fight and he didn’t understand something, if he could explain it to him. It was the chicken that was there, then he couldn’t see and a hat. Holmes knew it all because he was taking care of the chicken. Suddenly the owner of the chicken came. He shouted that her wife had found a diamond inside the chicken. The diamonds’ owner was from Lady Morcar. They started to ask to the person that had given the chicken to, but she said that she had bought it from Mr Breckenridge the night they went to visit him, then, asked him some questions. Then, they saw a little man fighting with him, they caught that man and his name was James Ryder, and Holmes said to Ryder: you stole Lady Morcar the diamond, you are the thief.
The Single Man; Lord Simon was a very good friend of Holmes, so he asked for his help. It was about his wife, he had just got married and her wife (Miss Doran) had disappeared the same day of the wedding. Lord Simon was worried, and Holmes said he would help him. Homes asked him some questions, after that Lestrade came with a black bag which contained a wedding dress, a ring, flowers and shoes, he said that it was from Miss Doran and that Hatty Doran had killed her, but Holmes wasn’t sure. At nine o’clock Holmes came back with Lord Simon and after that Miss Doran and Frank came too, Frank was his husband. She explained all, why she ran away and why she was already married. Finally, Lord Simon forgave her.
The Cooper Beeches; there was a woman called Violet Hunter who had a son and was poor, so she couldn’t pay for him school or food. They gave him a job offer that would pay him 120 euros even though he would have to cut his hair. Holmes gave him an opinion and finally accepted the work when he discovered that there was a person that was in a mystery lockable room. Holmes suspected that was Alice the daughter of Mr Rucastle. They went to discover who was and finally they caught him with the information that Mr Toller gave to them.

SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA by MARCEL.LA TARRASSÓ

Sherlock Holmes is a person who lives in England. He is the normal English man, who wears the typical hat and is well dressed and with the elliptical black cane.
He is a personal detective (what I thought) who helps people to resolve whatever they need, well that is if Sherlock Holmes accepted.
One day a man came towards Holmes and asked for help, the man had a mask, so he couldn’t see who really was. Meanwhile, the man said to Holmes who he was. He was the King of Bohemia asking for help. This case was about the King who had a photo with a girl and if she was seen, the King couldn’t imagine what could happened.
Then it was The Red- Headed League, who was about a man who talked about a red headed league and a friend finally went. It was like a job that each week they won 4 pounds. Everything was fine, but suddenly the Red-Headed League closed. He decided to go to get Holmes because he suspected something. He was right, Holmes suddenly said, a crime will happen tonight. Fortunately, they stopped the crime with the two friends of Holmes who were called; Inspector Lestrade and Mr Merryweather.
Then was another case The Boscombe Lake Mystery. This case was different it was Holmes who needed his friend’s help. They went to Boscombe. Holmes explained the problem: a man was dead. Holmes wanted to find out, because the police thought that there wasn’t any mystery. It was the dead of a father and a son. He started to explain about the family and then the story that happened. The dead was published in the newspaper. The person who was in the newspaper was the son of Mc Carthy explaining what happened. Holmes finally told everything about his discovers to the police, all what he founded around the league, all the information, but they and Holmes himself never knew the true story. 

RAIN MAN by ADRIA RODRIGUEZ

Charlie Babbitt a man with a rich father who died when he was little, he thought he will get all the money of his father but the money goes to someone that he doesn’t know. One day he and his wife Susanna they were working in his business when someone called and said that they wanted the money that they borrowed from him if not his job would come down.

First, he goes to Cinncinati to find the money but he can’t find anything, and then he goes to Wallbrook, where his disabled brother Raymond is living.
When he finds him, they become more friends, they go in search of his father's money …
Finally, they have the money thanks to a casino and the problems were solved. They have enough money to go to a doctor for Raymond, he decides to go to Wallbrook to stay in there. They finally had a normal live.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by LUCIA PERELLO

Marilla and Mrs. Lynde, who were siblings, wanted to adopt a child from the orphanage because they wanted help for the farm.
Once they prepared the documents, Mrs. Lynde went to pick the child up to the station and found a girl. He thought it had to be a mistake, because they asked for a boy, and decided to take her home and tell her sister Marilla.
Her sister thought that it was also a mistake and they thought about returning her to the orphanage, the girl heard it and she became sad.
They needed a boy to help them on the farm and they thought about adopting one, but finally, they kept the girl with them.
Then, the book tells how the girl is doing at school and with her friends. She learnt many things at school and also helped with the household.
At the end of the story, Marilla didn’t have enough money to maintain the Green Gables so the girl, Anne, decided to work as a teacher to help Marilla with her problems.

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST by PAULA LLACER

This book has got three different stories. The first, the Canterville ghost, was a story about an American family that went on holidays to Canterville, they were very rich, and they bought the haunted house in Canterville that had a ghost in it. In the story they tell us that the American family didn’t get scared about the ghost, it was the other way round! The ghost was angry with the family because they didn’t get scared, besides he was scared about the twins in the family because of their ``funny´´ jokes. The ghost has to find the way to frighten the family and get them out of the house, but, is that his real objective?
The second story (my favourite one) was about a man called Arthur that went to a party, in there, there was a chiromantist that read the future of the people by their hands. Arthur tried it and the chiromantist told him that in the future he would 4@3#0=7&, but he didn’t say who (but I think he knew it because of his face expression). Arthur was frightened because he was going to marry soon, and he didn’t want to 4@3#0=7& meanwhile he was married, so he decided to do it before the wedding. He postposed the wedding and made a list with his friends, after a long thought he decided what to do. He tried it, but it wasn’t as easy as he thought. In the end he had a happy wedding with his wife.
This last story was about a man that fell in love with a beautiful girl, the only problem of that girl was that she always hided something, the men was always curious about the secret, but the woman still didn’t tell him the truth, it’s a good story and also short but I ’ve liked more the others.
I would recommend this book because, although that I didn’t like the third one, the first two stories are very good, so you should read it.

RAIN MAN by MARTA FERNANDEZ

The book that I have read is about a man who has a company that sells cars. One day he received a call from the secretary of his father’s lawyer. The secretary told him that his father had died, unfortunately, she also announced that on that Saturday the notary would open the will of his father and on Sunday it would be his funeral. The business man called Charlie went to Cincinati with his girlfriend to open the will. When he opened the will, he saw that he only owned an old car and some roses and for one person that his father thought he was not going to spend money on something like that. Charlie was very angry because it did not seem fair someone else belonged more valuable things than he had erected. He made a small one as an interrogation too the notary to elicit who was heir of the three million dollars and the house. At the end the notary told Charlie that he had an autistic brother that was in a special center for people like him. Charlie left in search of his brother. Finally, he was with Raymond, his brother, the doctor who took care of Raymond warned him that Raymond always did the same things, ate with toothpicks whatever the food was, went to bed the same way that always, etc. Raymond and Charlie went away making more and more friends and they remembered memories they had together. Charlie discovered that when he was little he had an imaginary friend whose name was Rain Man and it turns out that Rain Man was Raymond. They each time loved each other more and Charlie decided to have custody of Raymond and finally he got it!!!

THE WORLD AROUND US by ALEX ESPI

This book has a lot of themes that are very important for the life for example: The earth, dolphins, submarines, blood blanks, the compass, telling the time, spiders, the top and bottom of the world, divers, the hovercraft, desert, helicopters, fossils, modern buildings and the Olympic games.

PHILEAS FOG by CARLES CORDOBA

Phileas Fogg is talking to some friends and then, they start talking about travelling. He tells them it is possible to go round the world in eighty days. His friends can’t believe it because they think there can be things that can affect the trip so it can last more days. This becomes a challenge for Phileas Fogg who decides to do it. He finds many different adventures, some of them good but not others. He visited many places such as New York, Chicago, Liverpool, India, Hong Kong… He did it! When they came back, they realised that they had arrived a day before. Fogg’s friends were really amazed. At the end of the book, Fogg marries Aouda.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN by NEREA BOLUDA

One day, Guy was thinking about his wife, Miriam, he hated her. But Miriam didn’t want the divorce, she only wanted the money.

Sometimes Miriam asked him to send her some money. He lived in a town called Metcalf, but she pretended that she lived in New York.
He had a girlfriend called Anne, he thought he loved her… and thought about his interesting job. One afternoon, he phoned Miriam and they met in their old school and they talked.
When he arrived at his mother’s house, he found some letters of his girlfriend Anne, she said that she wanted to be with him and so he decided to be with her some days in Mexico.
One day they were walking in Mexico city, and they went to a bar hotel.
Bruno, a bad man planned to kill Miriam because he hated her, and he took a taxi and was going behind her car until his car stopped.

A BIKER'S GHOST by SERGI BELLOT

The book is about a couple who has an accident, the woman died and the man could not walk well.

The man goes to the hospital and when he has just been healed he says to the doctor, what about my wife? The doctor says, she is dead.
That day, he did not stop thinking about his wife, he imagined it and spoke to him.
One day he saw his wife walking in the street, and the dog went as well next to his girlfriend, but the dog was going to run over her, the woman stopped next to the dog, but he looked again and his wife wasn’t there… finally the man recovered from having seen… a ghost.