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- 1. SOME BOOKS YOU MAY LIKE These are just some ideas adapted to you level. If you have any other suggestions, let the class know! Helena Manrubia. EOI Cartagena
- 2. • Pick one (or more! The more, the merrier ). • Read it and enjoy! Don’t worry too much about looking up words you don’t know in the dictionary. • Fill in the book review worksheet you’ll find on the blog).
- 3. About a boy • About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller • 'How cool was Will Freeman?' • Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. • Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, looks after his mum and has never owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? And can Marcus help Will just to grow up?
- 4. Girl with a pearl earring • An international bestseller with over two million copies sold, this is a story of an artist’s desire for beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence. • 17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of Delft, she thinks she knows her role: housework, laundry and the care of his six children. But as she becomes part of his world and his work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and deception in the ordered household and, as the scandal seeps out, into the town beyond. • Tracy Chevalier’s extraordinary historical novel on the corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a contemporary classic perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant and Philippa Gregory.
- 5. The curious incident of the dog in the night-time. (highly recommended!) • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He hates the colours yellow and brown and being touched. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his whole world upside down.
- 7. The Brooklyn follies • The book describes a year in the life of its protagonist, 59- year-old Nathan Glass, a cancer survivor who moves to Brooklyn to live out what he imagines will be the last months of his life. This is a compelling novel about ordinary people with dreams and aspirations, disappointments and triumphs, embarrassments and success - a depiction of the modern human condition with all its craziness, stupidity and humour.
- 8. Boyne has written a sort of historical allegory–a vividly descriptive tale that clearly elucidates the atmosphere in Nazi Germany during the early 1940s that enabled the persecution of Eastern European Jews. Through the eyes of Bruno, a naive nine- year-old raised in a privileged household by strict parents whose expectations included good manners and unquestioning respect for parental authority, the author describes a visit from the Fury and the families sudden move from Berlin to a place called Out-With in Poland.
- 9. Wonder • 'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.' • Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go. • Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home- schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all? • WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
- 10. James and the giant peach • The hugely popular story of James and his journey to New York with the strangest group of insect friends.