Bamse

Sea Dog 

Bamse 

World War II Canine Hero

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(Angus Whitson and Andrew Orr)

This week, I am reading "Sea Dog Bamse World War II Caninne Hero". The most interesting part of the book were Bamse's advantures in Montrose, a small town on the East coast of Scotland. I would recomend this book to anyone who likes dogs, advanture and non-fiction or fiction, for I hardly beleive that the events described in the book are real.

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Mrs. McGinty's Dead (First Part)

Mrs. McGinty's Dead

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|                      Detective Hercule Poirot (Po-uh-ro) arrives home to see, much to his                 

|                      surprise, that he has a guest. Superintendent Spence was sitting in 

|                      Poirots armchair with a serious look on his face. He immediately told   

|                     Hercule that he needs his help with the McGinty case. An old woman  

|                      was murdered at her cottage when no one else was there. Spence told   

|                      Poirot that he gathered "facts" and that they all point at Mr. Bentley, a  

|                      lodger in the same cottage Mrs. McGinty lived in. Spence said that he   

|                      doesn't think Bentley did it. He thinks he was framed. Poirot and   

|                      Spence went over all the suspects, motives and possible ways of  

229 pages                  |                     killing. There were a lot of possibilities. Poirot had to investigate. He  

_________________|                      rented a room in a house near the scene of the murder. Hercule went      

                                                         to interview McGinty's niece. She was not suspicious at all, rather sad. 

                                                         After the interview, her nervous husband went into the room. He            

                                                          behaved as if he was hiding something.

                                                 

                                                         END OF THE FIRST PART! STAY TUNED FOR MORE!

    

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Summary

Chu Ju’s House Summary

There is a law in China that in the city, there can be only one child per family and in the village two children. It was shameful for a family not to have a boy. A poor family who lived in the village had one girl- Chu Ju. She was 13 years old. Her mom was pregnant and a new child will be born, hopefully a boy. But, when the day came, it was another girl who was born. Chu Ju decided to run away from her home, so her family could have a boy, and save her little sister from being sold to an evil woman. Chu Ju found a job at a small fishing boat. The family there gave her a bed and food, but now money. The woman was very kind to her, behaving as Chu Ju was her daughter, but her husband was very strict and unpleasant. She told the woman her life-story, so now she wanted to take Chu Ju home. Chu Ju didn’t want to go back, so she ran away again. She found a job at a silk farm. There she had a small salary, a bed and food. She made friends with three girls who worked there.  After some time the silk-farm was turned into rice-paddies, on which families who lived nearby worked on. She found a job at a small family (old woman and her son). The old woman’s son left to Shangai, so now she was a daughter to this woman. She even had to live to Shangai to pay a fine, so the son would be freed from jail. He didn’t have a residence permit. She came back and soon the woman died. She left Chu Ju her rice paddy. Chu Ju visited her family, and went back to her rice paddy. She married her best friend who lived near her.

The Corn Grows Ripe Summary

         The Corn Grows Ripe         

             The first three chapters of the book talk about Tigre, a twelve year old Mayan boy, who isn't willing to do his fathers job-cutting down trees and planting corn. Like all other boys, he wants to play and learn how to handle a gun. But one day, his father got badly injured, so he can't cut down trees any more. Tigre's Great-Grandmother sends him to get the bone doctor to heal his fathers leg. Next morning Tigre arrives home and starts chopping down trees and cutting down bushes for the milpa. He works hard for weeks and doesn't go to school. He finishes the job and Tigre is now glad that he had enough time to go to school. Tigre becomes curious and starts asking all sorts of questions to his great grandmother and Don Alfonso (Tigres teacher ). Great grandmother answers every Tigres question the same way: "It's the will of the Gods",  but Don Alfonso answers his questions with a scientific explanation.
            Three days in a row, chickens were dying. Tigres family thought it was a vampire bat. Next day, Tigre goes in to the chicken shed and finds a vampire bat. He removes it.
           Tigres father told him to wait for his uncle to arrive to the village, but Tigre burnt the trees and bushes for the milpa instead. After that, with his burnt clothes and skin, he was go home. His father was proud of him. Tigre wants to enter a contest where he has to make a good, smooth rope. He spends all of his time at home making a rope. He enters the contest and his rope isn't the best one. Then, there was a bull fight. Tigre enters it and everyone is cheering for him.
          Rain fell and softened the ground, so Tigre is planting seeds. After that, there is a big draught. Chan tata   ( his baby brother ) is four months old now and is going through a ceremony. The village is waiting for the medicine man. He arrives and he gets four boys to be the frogs. Tigre is the youngest among them. They are croaking while the others are praying. They end the draught. Tigres corn grows ripe, so he and his father go and harvest it.

The End

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