Surfer

Dong Chen

By Paul Harvey

Nick is a good surfer. He wants to go to Australia for three months, but his parents don’t like his plan. They want Nick to go to college. However, Nick still tries his best to make his parents agree because he wants to join an important surfing competition there. Later Nick enters another surfing competition, and he wins the first price of a thousand pounds! Then his father agrees to Nick’s plan, and affords his plane ticket!

Nick is really a good surfer. I quite agree with Nick’s father’s words: ‘Surfing is dangerous, but exciting.’

Treasure Island

Dingwei Lin

This week I read TREASURE ISLAND. This book is a famous book. In it a boy and a few men try to find a treasure on an island. That is why the boy is with the other men. The boy went through many things. These things were dangerous and difficult. However, the boy had to find the treasure with his friends.

This book is an excellent book. It was written by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON who is a famous writer. And this book is not difficult. I can understand it’s meaning, but it's the longest I have read. I finished it in an hour.

The Lady or The Tiger

Dingwei Lin

The Lady or The Tiger is a very famous story written by FRANK STOCKTON. It is about a king in a far country. He had many wrongdoers. The king was unhappy about this. One day, he had a good idea. He spoke to his people and told them to build a big stadium. One day, the building was finished. Then the king said the stadium was for wrongdoers. There were two doors. A tiger was behind one of two doors and a beautiful girl was behind the other door. Then he let wrongdoers choose. The king had a daughter, and one day she walked in the city. She saw a man who was strong and young. They fell in love with each other. He was classified a wrongdoer when the king knew this. He stood up in the middle of the stadium and chooses one of these doors. She let him understand to choose the left door. But the story ends. No anyone knows what happened afterwards.

This story is very good for me. It is easy for me. This is an excellent story

The Room In The Tower

Wang Lu (Tony) Tang

Authors: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Rudyard Kipling & E.F.Benson

Genre: Suspense

Date Started: 14th of April, 2010

Date Finished: 20th of April, 2010

The book has got three stories:

The Woman in the Black Coat

The story tells us about a young girl was lives in a large country house whose name is Fanny. And she was married to Lord Glenfallen. She meets a blind woman in a black coat one night. The women wants to kill Fanny if she does not leave the house. Fanny learns some things about the woman, she is the ghost of Martha. The blind women was Lord Glenfallen’s wife. She died. Lord Glenfallen maybe killed her. But nobody knows. Then Fanny left her husband and the house.

Imray Came Back

It happened in India. A man named Imray disappeared suddenly. Strickland, and a policeman visit Imray’s house. Bad things start happening. Visitors arrived and disappeared. Strickland’s dog refuses to sleep in the house at night, and there has been more strange sounds. There was the head of a very dangerous brown snake, called a "karait" in India, looking at us with cold eyes from a small door in the corner of the ceiling. When the two men went to kill the snake, they find Imray’s dead body. The murderer is Imray’s servant. The servant deliberately steps on the dying snake in order to kill himself. At last the ghost of Imray is happy in the room.

The Room in the Tower

A young man who always dreams about a room in a house, and a woman, Mrs Stone, dies. The man sleeps in a room the same as in his dream. When he wakes up the ghost of Mrs Stone wants to cut his neck, and drink his blood. Everyone who arrives in the room in the tower, she kills and drinks their blood.

The book is very interesting, but the 3 stories are so long. I hope other students read it.

Jaws

Wang Lu (Tony) Tang

Author:Peter Benchley

Genre: Suspense

Date Started:1st of April, 2010

Date Finished:6th of April, 2010

The story tells about a shark. A woman goes swimming in the sea, in the evening. The shark carried the woman away in its mouth. It came up out of the water and then went under again. The woman felt something hit her right leg. She put her hand into the water and tried to find her foot. Then she cried out. On the second day, Hendricks Brody and Cassidy saw the woman's body on the Beach. The next few days were hot, and summer visitors from New York began arriving in Amity. More people were going to the beach. The shark attacked people again. People were running away from the sea because the shark was very dangerous. Now two people had died. They found Quint to help them! Quint and Hooper put a cage overboard. Then the shark did not turn. It hit the cage and made a hole in it, and Hooper fell back. When the shark was a metre form the boat, Quint stood and watched the shark. In the end, the shark died! The shark slowly fell back below the surface of the water, down and down, out of the light.
This's a good book! I hope other student will read it!

Apollo 13

Sen (Seth) Dang

This book is a story about growing up. I started to read this book last Wednesday (Mar 10th) and finished it on Tuesday (Mar 16th).

The story talks about an astronaut Jim and his son Jeffrey. Jim went to the moon by the Apollo. Jim and other astronauts met lots of difficulties in outer space. But it is not important. It is important that they are careful to arrive back on Earth.

This story is an insightful one. Jim & his fellow astronauts are indeed determined in the face of danger. And the family is important.

I think the book is excellent because it gave me a vivid impression.

I recommend other students read this book.

On The Road

Dong Chen

Author: Donn Burne

The story takes place in a poor family. A man is the main character. There is a large family in a small village. The large family has two parents and six children. There isn’t any work for the man, so he can’t live in the village. The man doesn’t have any money, so he wanted to take a bandwagon to the city. He tries some times but no trucks were willing to stop. However a nice driver takes him to the city at last. But robbers drive the truck to a house. The robbers don’t find the man, because he sits in back the truck. The man drives the truck from the robber’s house when they are drunk. The man arrives at a village near there. He is telling his story to other people. The man saves the truck driver successfully. The truck’s driver says he is a good man and he wants him to work for him. The man got a job accidentally.

Through this story I know, you need to do something good for others. You should give others this help any time.

Simply Suspense

Wang Lu (Tony) Tang

Author: J.Y.K. Kerry

Genre: Suspense

Date Started:17th March, 2010

Date Finished:23rd March, 2010

The book has got three stories.

The Lady or the Tiger

Many, many, years ago there was a king in a far country. But in his country he had many wrongdoers. So he wanted to build a big stadium in the city center. Then the king made the wrongdoers choose one door of two doors in the stadium. If the wrongdoer opens the wrong door, he finds a tiger. It jumps out and kills him. If he opens the other door, he finds a beautiful young woman. She is to be his wife. But the princess was together with the gardener. The king was very angry. In the end the king needed the gardener to choose one door. One is to die, and other one is another lady. The princess can help her lover, but what will she choose to do? The issue you need to think about yourself.

Miss Bracegirdle's Night of Fear

The story is about an innocent abroad. A middle-aged English woman arrives in a small hotel in South-West France. After taking a nice hot bath, she goes into the wrong bedroom and gets locked in. She can't escape from the room. At that moment, she sees a man on the bed asleep. She doesn't know what she should do. She feels very worried because if she wakes the man, people will know she was with the man in one room. What will people think about her? Will the man do something to her? She stays under the bed until morning, and finds that the man is dead. She kepst cool to find a way of opening the door. She goes back to her room and sleeps. I don't know what message of this story is.

The Waxwork

A young reporter writes stories for newspapers. He has an idea for a story. He uses a night to stay in the murderers’ room at a waxworks museum. In the end he was dead. I think the terrible power of the imagination killed him.

Simply Suspense is a good book. The suspense is not hard. And the 3 stories aren't clear, and give lots to imagine for the reader. I hope other students read it.