When Vencouver Social Services tell foster parants Joseph and Janice Hardy that they  must install another bathroom in their old house- or lose two of their fourfoster children, the finacial problem seems insolvable. A new bathroom would cost $10,000, wich Mr and Mrs. Hardy simply do not have. So will teenagers Nell, Billy and Tom, and nine-year-old Lisa, have to split up and leave the home and foster parents they have grown to love so much? Then 14-year-old Billy has an idea: there is plenty of money in the local banks. Why don’t they just rob a few of them? Before long Nell, Billy and a reluctant Tom,  ‘‘The Three Musketeers‘‘, are following the example of Robin Hood: robbing the rich to help the poor.

The book is about Annie and her friend Pat. They are on holiday in Australia to visit Pat´s mother. They find a new friend, his name is Josh. They go surfing together. Suddenly accidents start to happen. They don´t find Josh because he is under water. But Pat can find him. Then a black man stands in front of the them and says:” Josh come with me.” In the evening Josh comes home for dinner. Next day they see a man surfing at a place where he is not allowed to surf, they can not find the men.

                The book has 60 pages and there are 6 chapters.

Alicia and Sarah are best friends but Alicia has a boyfriend named Ritchie Timmons.

He is Alicia’s first real friend.

Sarah does not want him to leave Alicia and then she has a broken heart.

Alicia and Sarah are participating in a rap contest and make a video for it.

Later, they celebrated the successful video with pizza and drinks.

Alicia does not know what their parents think it to be with a rapper.

Ritchie had a great concert.

Sarah and Alicia can be found nowhere rapper Ritchie.

The learn Alicia Ritchie had cheated on her.

And Ritchie sees a pink-colored lipstick on the cheek.

This book is about a girl named Joanna Jones. The girl dreams of being on the big stag to stand. She is terribly disappointed when she does not get a part in the school play. But then she meets Mr. Joseph , a kind old man who knows a lot about acting and singing. He believes in Joanna and offers to teach her what he knows. The two then work together in secret, and when an unexpected opportunity comes along , Joanna is ready. At the end of the book dies of a tragic accident Mr. Joseph theater at a performance performing . A sad but exciting end of book.

Murder Weekend

In an old country house, the celebrations for Adrian Bennett´s 40^th birthday are going well. Everyone is enjoying themselves – the guests; the actors who are acting out a murder mystery to entertain them; and Milly, who is helping her mother cook all the food. But then a real crime takes place. The road to the house is closed because of bad weather, and the police can´t get there. So Milly decides to find out for herself who did it.

The story is about a team. They help people who are trapped, injured or in danger in the mountains. That work is very hard. A special training is needed  for the job. But all members love this job. And it´s very dangerous.

Andy and Mary are on holiday with their parents in Capitola. Andy gets a MP3 player and Mary gets a new camera to their birthday. When Mary takes lots of photos at the beach they meet a dirty man called Darryl and a man, who takes boxes off a boat and puts them into a white car. Next day they see the white car again and follow it to a building. They go inside and they see the same boxes. There are turtles inside. When Andy and Mary leave the building Darryl stops them. He is detective. The children tell him about the man and the turtles. Then they go back to their parents, which are talking to an officer. When they look at him, they see a bird on the arm. The man on Mary`s photo has the same bird. The officer is the man, who sells the turtles. Darryl brings the officer to prison.

Andy and Mary are on holiday with their parents in Capitola. Andy gets a MP3 player and Mary gets a new camera to their birthday. When Mary takes lots of photos at the beach they meet a dirty man called Darryl and a man, who takes boxes off a boat and puts them into a white car. Next day they see the white car again and follow it to a building. They go inside and they see the same boxes. There are turtles inside. When Andy and Mary leave the building Darryl stops them. He is detective. The children tell him about the man and the turtles. Then they go back to their parents, which are talking to an officer. When they look at him, they see a bird on the arm. The man on Mary`s photo has the same bird. The officer is the man, who sells the turtles. Darryl brings the officer to prison.

Sing with Sting this nice song.

By the way, you also improve your English while reading and writing English stories.

So it´s great that you write reports about books you have read

for others  to get curious and start reading themselves.

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This isn’t Brown’s first crack at the subject. In 2001, The Canadian Canoe Museum published published his book The Invention of the Board Canoe: the Peterborough stories from their sources, which compiled primary source material to explore competing claims for the origin of the Peterborough area’s unique wide-board method of canoe construction. This first book was a modest pamphlet, which did invaluable service in clarifying an important part of the local canoeing story. It wasn’t, however, a book that you would be likely to leave out on your coffee table, or give to anyone but the most hardened canoe-head as a Christmas or birthday present (don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a criticism. I’ve read and enjoyed and used it, and I’ll be forever grateful that he wrote it.) With the publication of this new volume, which has been more than fifteen years in the making, Brown has really raised the bar. Now we’re definitely in gift and coffee table territory, and several people I know will be getting one for Christmas.

Reading through this book and learning about the challenges that faced these entrepreurs as they developed their businesses, we are reminded that although the canoes they built are revered today for their craftsmanship, they were originally made in an un-romantic, hard-headed commercial environment. Brown has done an excellent job with the business history of this industry, not surprising considering that his working life was spent as a chartered accountant. This is an aspect of maritime history that is often neglected, and it is refreshing to see it treated in such detail. It also helps to bring the story out, for we see both the sucesses and the failures of these companies, both the good decisions and the bad.

The book is amply illustrated and visually sumptuous, and publisher Karen Taylor and graphic designer Louis Taylor have done a fine job bringing the story to life. The 16 pages of colour plates at the end are a real treat, as is the back inside cover, which identifies the sites of companies connected with Peterborough’s canoe industry from 1858-1961. This map is particularly valuable because few of these structures are still extant today and these industries which were such a prominent part of downtown Peterborough for so many years are now invisible.

Highly-recommended and just in time for Christmas, The Canadian Canoe Company & the early Peterborough Canoe Factories is available from Cover to Cover Publication Services and from The Canadian Canoe Museum, which also carries The Invention of the Board Canoe: The Peterborough stories from their sources.

Matters to a Head - cannabis, mental illness and recovery

Check out this great new book by New Zealand author Kate, who’s written about marijuana, psychosis and recovery. As a registered nurse who’s dealt with the fallout, she combines her own story with the science behind the growing epidemic of pot-induced psychosis.

http://www.matterstoahead.co.nz/

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