Book review by Andrés Savchynets

• Tittle: The boy of the striped pyjama
• Author: John Boyne
• Genre: Fiction
• Publisher: Random House
• Pages: 224

Irish writer John Boyne's fourth novel is the first he has written for children. It's a hard story of an odd friendship between two boys in terrible circunstances during the jewish holocaust.

Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. They have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With.

When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick. He has left his school, his three best friends, his house, his grandparents... His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a group of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he responds that they aren't really people.

Bruno is forbidden to explore. But one day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Samuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's world.

The story puts you directly into Bruno´s worlwiew. The book is really hard, i also have seen the film and it is also nice. But i prefer th book i recomend it to people from 14 years i think it is interesting as a compulsory reading at school.

A DIRTY JOB

A Dirty Job

Written by Christopher Moore and published in 2006. An irresistible best seller of our time.

The story is about Charlie who is the owner of a second-hand store in San Francisco. He was married to Rachel who died in the hospital after the birth of their first child, Sophie; Charlie becomes involved in a new sideline of retrieving the souls of the deaths so as to protect them from the forces of the underworld. The story shows the life of Charlie been a successor of the death.

The first part of the book is a little bit boring but then it becomes more and more interesting. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to read a different type of book with a real interesting plot inside it.

Las cosas que no nos dijimos.

The name of the book that I have chosen is "Las cosas que no nos dijimos", the author of this book is Marc Levy.

This book i about a woman that is called Julia who recieves a phone call from her father's secretary four days before her wedding.

The secretary says to her that her father has died.

The next day after the funeral.Julia recieves a strange box and she discovers that her father has reserved the last surprise for her.

Thanks to this surprise Julia is going to have an extraordinary journey.

In this journey she is going to discover an unexpected past.

In my opinion,this is a good book to read because you don't know what is going to happen in the next chapter because it is a unpredictable book.

I recomend to the people taht like unreal stories with love and funny moments.

Book review Andrés Savchynets

• Tittle: The boy of the striped pyjama
  
• Author: John Boyne
• Genre: Fiction
• Publisher: Random House
• Pages: 224

Irish writer John Boyne's fourth novel is the first he has written for children. It's a hard story of an odd friendship between two boys in terrible circunstances during the jewish holocaust.

Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. They have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With.

When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick. He has left his school, his three best friends, his house, his grandparents... His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a group of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he responds that they aren't really people.

Bruno is forbidden to explore. But one day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Samuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's world.

The story puts you directly into Bruno´s worlwiew. The book is really hard, i also have seen the film and it is also nice. But i prefer th book i recomend it to people from 14 years i think it is interesting as a compulsory reading at school.

Las Cartas de Invierno

CARTAS DE INVIERNO

I´m going to talk about this book. I like it a lot because it is a horror and a thriller book.

The author is Agustín Fernández Paz.

This book was written in 1995.

The characters are:

Xavier: the main character

Adrián: the best friend of Xavier

Teresa: Xavier's sister

PLOT

This story is about Adrián moving to a new house in a small village.

This house is a "hounted" house.

Xavier received many letters from Adrián telling that lots of strange things were happening in the house.

Adrián went to the house and then Teresa arrived too because Xavier had told Teresa about the strange events ocurred in the house.

I like it a lot because I love this type of books, and it is that type of books that you can´t stop reading it.

I really enjoyed reading this book.

By: Elisa Manrique Sastre 4ªC

Mini Saga

I can't run any further.I'm exausted and my legs don't propertly.It is trying to catch me,a shadow of nobody.I asked it; What are you?It answered me.I'm your friday math's exam.I woke up quickly.I'm still scared and sweeding a lot. What a nightmare!!