MOONDIAL

The girl heard them and turned quickly. She gave a little cry and pulled up the hood of her cloak.

‘She’s got the Eye! The Devil’s Eye!’

‘No!’ Cried the girl. ‘I haven’t! Oh, please!’

Minty had a sixth sense so that when she got Aunt Mary’s home, she felt something was there in the house which was in front of her house. Minty went around the yard of that house and found a sundial. However, for her, it seemed a moondial. She felt cold wind and when she realized, she was in a hundred year before. There, she met a kitchen boy. He had no family and had very bad cough. Minty felt really sorry for him. Another day, she went to that moondial again and this time, she went another year, more beforehand. There, she met a strange girl called ‘devil’s child’. Minty didn’t believe this girl is a real devil’s child and she started to help her from her terrible life.

KIDNAPPED

I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground. 

David lost his father and mother and he has just started his new life in the very begging of this book. However, the begging of his new life with his uncle did not go well. His uncle tried to kill David for money and after all, he was kidnapped by the sailers!

LOVE STORY

For three years we had to make every dollar do the work of two. All through the summer holidays we worked at the Boat Club in Dennis Port. It was hard work, but we were never too tired to be kind to each other. I say ‘kind’ because there are no words to describe our love and happiness together.

Oliver Barrett the Fourth and Jennifer Cavilleri were university students. They met in the library. Oliver was a Harvard student and Jenny soon realized it. Then, she spoked him in a not good way because she didn’t like rich and stupid Harvard boy. But he didn’t and gradually, she became like him. By dating together, Oliver felt like to get married to Jenny. He told about that her but she did not happy because she was a poor girl. She thought she was not right to Oliver Barrett the Fourth. After all this kind of problems, they finally got married and the lived happily by themselves. However, the blood disease was found in Jenny. She was only twenty- four at that time. Oliver tried very hard to help her but eventually, she was dead in twenty-five years old.

 

The Railway Children

Then everybody sat down on chairs and an important looking man got up to speak. He said nice things about the children – how brave and clever they were – and then he sat down. Next, the old gentleman got up and said more nice things about them. Then he called them across and gave each of them a beautiful gold watch.

Bobbie, Peter, and Phyllis were living in London with their parents. Their life was all well and they lived happily. But one day, something bad happened to their father and they needed to move to the countryside without him. Their mother told them, in a sad face, that they needed to live quietly and they were poor now. But the children gradually came to like their new life. Near their new house, there was the railway and station. They became friends with a good porter in that station, and they met other good people too. They could learn a lot of things by spending their time there. However, one day, Bobbie knew the reason why her father had gone. She tried to fix the problem and finally she made it!

The Crown of Violet

‘No, my young friend,’ said the older man. ‘I know nothing, but I know that I know nothing. Some people know nothing, but believe that they know everything.’

The main character, Alexis was a boy who wrote plays in Athens. He met an Socrates and impressed by him whether his father didn’t like Socrates’ thought. Alexis was writing plays but only tragedies. However after his time spent with a girl named Corrina, he decided to write comedy and play it at the spring festival. At the same time, he accidentally realized that there were a bad plan of treason. His play was great success and he also could catch traitors. Alexis was recognized as a clever and smart boy.

RETURN TO EARTH

‘[…] Well, one day he was lucky. Usually, when a child ib born, it stops being telepathic. Drewitt wanted to change that. He did a lot of experiments with monkeys, and used radiation on their unborn babies. Some very strange monkeys were born, but there were also two who were telepathic. There was no question about it. One knew what the other was thinking and feeling.’ 

This story is placed in 2029. A man named Harl and a woman named Ellen is talking about their future in the park. Harl is going to the journey to another planet for 8 years but it takes 100 years for people on earth. When he gets back to earth, Ellen would be dead. He asks her to go with him but she refuses. She doesn’t want to spend 8 years in the astronaut even with her boyfriend, and there is another big reason why she won’t. She is doing her great job. She is creating telepaths. Her experiment team succeeds to make five monkeys into telepaths and also three real human babies into telepaths! She believes that if every human on earth were telepaths, the world would be peace place. However, after 100 years, when Harl returns to earth, everything on earth is changed. There are no people and the cities are empty.

It little frightened of me. The progress on science makes our life better but it also could be a threat. I don’t believe this situation will happen in the real future, but if you like something unreal thing, you can enjoy reading this book.

Robinson Crusoe

Then I told myself that I was lucky – lucky to be alive, lucky to have food and tools, lucky to be young and strong. But I knew that my island was somewhere off  the coast of South America. Ships did not often come down this coast, and I said to myself, ‘I’m going to be on this island for a long time.’ So, on a long piece of wood, I cut these words:

I CAME HERE ON 30TH SEPTEMBER 1659

After that, I decided to make a cut for each day.

The main character, Robinson Crusoe, was a young English man. He was bored with his quiet life in Englan and he decided to go journey to the sea. When his second sail, he was took by a Turkish pirate. After two years, he successed to escape from his Turkish master and he went Brazil. In Brazil, he had a comfortable life but when his friend asked him to join the journey to Africa, he agreed it. However this journey turned out a terrible one. The big stome attacked the ship and no one except Robinson could survive. He reached the shore but that was an inhabited island. This was a start of his 27 years life on an island alone.

THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

‘I’m afraid the police are making the mistake that many people male. They think that because the crime is so unusual, they can never explain it. But they are wrong. It is more helpful to have an unusual crime, because that will make us think harder, and ask the right questions, and in the end find the answer. We must not ask the question, “What has happened?”; we must ask, “What has happened that has never happened before?” The answer to this mystery is not really difficult at all – I think I know it already.’ 

This story is a detective story. The story was mystery at first but by reading this book, it turned out to horrible but sad story for me. The main character, Monsieur Auguste Dupin, is so clever and he can find out the murderer easily and tell us how he got the answer. This part was the most interesting part of this book, I think. It seemed like I was trying to salve a riddle with him in the book.

This book was written by Edgar Allan Poe, an american writer. This book made him famous for his detective story so that there is a prize that called an ‘Edgar’ in America. This prize is given to the best writer of mystery each year. I will read this The Murders in the Rue Mourgue‘s original in the near future.

Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado About Nothing is set in Messina, a town on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, about four hundred years ago. Sicily is Italian now, but in Shakespeare’s time it had Spanish rulers. When the play begins, the Spanish prince, Don Pedro, and his Italian gentlemen are coming to Messina after fighting in a war.

This story is about two very different love stories. Claudio and Hero fell in love with their first sight and they decided to get married very soon. They were happy about that but there were some bad attempts around them. Another love story is Benedict and Beatrice. They didn’t think marriage is good. They don’t want to get married with someone. However, their friends wanted to make them together so that they made a plan.

The Mystery of Allegra

My left hand touched the table – and then something took hold of my right arm.

It was a cold little hand. The hair on my neck stood up and my legs began to shake.

‘Who is it?’ I cried.

At the same time I found the light on the table and turned it on. A little girl in a long white nightdress stood in front of me near the bed. She was looking at me with big eyes, as blue as an Italian sky in summer. Her blond hair was as bright as sunlight round her pale face.

This girl is Allegra. It means happy in Italian. Adrain, an English sixteen-year-old boy, was in her house on his family trip in Italy. One night, she asked him to take her to her mother. But she was little strange. She used past tense when she talks about her mother and she said she will dye soon. He didn’t take her. Next morning, he met Allegra again. But it was not same Allegra that he saw last night. She had black hair and brown eyes. But he was sure that there were two Allegra, one was not known other people. After Adrain went back to England, he knew Allegra with black hair dyed soon after he left. What the connection between these two Allegras?

In this book there is another Allegra that Adrain meets. Three Allegras have same features but they look different. It was an interesting and a little bit scary story. The connection of three Allegras surprised me.