Tuesday, November 28, 2006

THE BAD BEGINNING: by Lemony Snicket:

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are the three Baudelaire children. They were in the beach when Mr. Poe, a friend of their parents tells them that their parents had died. Mr. Poe says that they will go and live with Count Olaf. Olaf wants to steal their fortune. He is so mean that he makes them do the chores for him! Olaf is an actor. Then one day Olaf asks Violet if she wants to do a play with him. He says that she would do the part of his wife, otherwise he would kill Sunny. During the play when she has to sign the piece of paper that would says that they are married she signs it with her left hand. At the end Olaf says that the marryiage was true. But Violet says no because she is right handed and she signed with her left hand. As Mr. Poe hears this he calls the police and they free Sunny.

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE: by J.K. Rowling:


Harry Potter is a sixteen year old that goes in a magic school at Hogwarts. There he finds a secret book of potions with written on it "The Half Blood Prince". Then Silente tells to Harry that once Voldemort divided himself in six parts and with Harry's approvation they went to find them. Once there they saw a cup with a liquid inside and Silente ordered to pour it all in his mouth and afterwards he fainted. Harry takes the object that is inside, puts on his invisibilty mantle and brings Silente to Hogwarts. There they find professor Snape with some followers of Voldemort. Suddenly they kill Silente and then he runs away. Then Harry manages to free himself and run after him, they fight and Snape confesses that he was the Half Blood Prince and runs away. Everyone is sad and don't know if the school will open again.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY: by Roald Dahl:

Charlie is a little boy and he is very poor. He lives with his four grandparents and his parents. Charlie hopes to get a Golden Ticket because it will give him access to a lifetime supply of sweets from the Wonka Chocolate Factory. Four very spoiled children find the first Golden Tickets. One day Charlie comes home from school and finds some money with wich he buys two chocolate bars. In one of them, to his great surprise, he finds a Golden Ticket. Charlie gets to go to the Willy Wonka Factory with the other four winners to claim his prize. Here, he has a lot of adventures with candies, chocolate, elfs... and he remains the only one in the Chocolate Factory. Mr. Wonka says that he is the winner and says that Charlie is the new owner of the factory.!!!!
PELE: by James and Lynn Hahn:

Pele's real name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento. His father name was Dondinho and his mother was called Celeste. In school Pele had problems with school. In 1952, Waldemar de Brito, a famous soccer player, saw Pele play, and he said that "he was the only one who stood out". When Pele was thirteen he went to play with the "Brito young team". Then, when he was fifteen, he played with Santos, a major soccer team. On September 7, 1956, Pele scored his first goal for Santos. The 1958 World Cup was played in Sweeden and thanks to Pele, they won! During the 1959 he scored 127 goals. Many foreign teams wanted Pele to play for them and offered him millions of dollars, but he refused. Pele didn't drink liquors. In 1965, he scored 101 goals. On October 1, 1997, Pele gave a speech before playing his last game. He scored his last goal of 1, 281.

Monday, November 27, 2006

THE REPTILE ROOM: by Lemony Sniket:

Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are the three Baudelaire children, who are sent to live with Montgomery Montgomery. Unlike Count Olaf (that wanted to steal their fortune) Montgomery was a good uncle. They were having fun, and a planned trip to Peru because Montgomery had to go there for work. Montgomery had a room full of reptiles and he studied them. Uncle Monty's new assistant, Stephano (who was really Olaf in disguise) came to live with them. The three tried countless times to tell Uncle Monty who Stephano really was. On the day of the trip to Peru, the children were looking for their uncle when they found him dead on his chair. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny knew immediately that Stephano murdered him. But the doctor said that he was killed by a snake. But those clever children found that the doctor was Olaf's helper and they proved that Olaf and the doctor were guilty.