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    "Listen to this," he announced to his friends."It says it's possible to travel around the world in only eighty days!"     Despite his friends' laughter, Fogg was convinced he could do it.   Over one hundred years ago, there lived a man named Phileas Fogg. He had spent quiet time for many years. However, one day, he found an article said you could travel around the world in only eighty days. All his friends thought it was impossible, but Fogg was different. He believed that he could do it and he promised his friends to come back in eighty days. During his trip, things aren't always going well. While Fogg was crossing Europe, the police were hunting a runaway thief. The thief really resembled Fogg so the police was trying to arrest Fogg! Could he finished his trip for eighty days safely?   As Fogg in this book, I have a dream to travel around the world. Nowadays, we can see and know what happens in the world and experience things as if we wer

 The glass was melting away, like a bright silvery mist. In a moment, Alice was through and had crossed over into the looking-glass room.  One day, Alice is playing with her cat, Kitty and she held up the cat up to the mirror. She pretends the glass has gone soft in order to get through. Surprisingly, it really becomes soft!! Then, her mysterious journey begins. In the mirror world, various creatures like Humpty Dumpty come across her. I felt a little bit difficult just after reading this book because the scenes were changing rapidly. But I could understand little by little through a literature circle.   In a literature circle, a discussion leader asked us if we had been to wonderland. I answered yes. When I was a high school student, I went to Taiwan as a school trip. Everything that I saw was new and fantastic for me. Especially, my Taiwanese friend recommended that I eat fermented tofu. I was really surprised to smell that. Its smell was stinky so I couldn't eat it. At that

     Today, football matches still arouse incredible passion. Over 240 million people play in teams around the world - that’s 1 in every 25 people on the planet. So wherever you are, you’re never far from someone kicking a ball.        I learned the history of women soccer in a French class last week. So I got interested in the history more and I went to the library and found this book. This book shows how the football had begun and how it had spread around the world. I was surprised to find the sport was started in the ancient China over 2000 years ago. People living there made balls that were stuffed with goat fur. Of course, at that time, football was not completed. A hundred years later, the Roman army also trained with footballs. Gradually they were spreading all over the world. In 1904, FIFA was created to make sure every country played by the same rules. In 1930, a new competition was created between different nations. It is called the World Cup. In Japan, football is loved

When Clara stood up, he was astonished and when she walked up to him, he had to sit down.    “Is it really you?” he said. “I can’t believe it. You’re walking!”      “Isn’t it wonderful,” laughed Clara. “Grandfather and Heidi made it happen.”     “And Peter,” Grandfather put in, his eyes twinkling.      “You did it, Clara,” said Heidi. “It was your hard work.”      “It’s a miracle,” Mr. Sesemann beamed. “Clara I’m proud of you. Thank you, thank you everyone.”     We talked about this book in the literature circle this week. Heidi is a little girl in Switzerland. Unfortunately, she has no father or mother so she lives with her grandfather in his little wooden house. She is really active and has curiosity to anything. However, one day, her aunt Dete takes her to Frankfurt in order to go to school. Then, she meets Clara Sesemann who sits in her wheelchair every day. One of Heidi's friend, Peter is jealous of Clara because she is always with Heidi and they seem to have better friend

Jo Crox is my secret admirer! But who is he? He wanted to see me in class. So we must take a class together. But there is no one in any of my classes with the name Jo.       This book is a sequel to "The Princess Diaries". Mia is a high school students in New York, but she is not a usual girl. One day, she is told she is a princess of Genovia by her father. Her unusual life had began since that day. In Princess Diaries 2, Mia is getting used to being princess little by little. One day, she caught a cold and had got a fever. Of course, she was absent from class and she stayed at home all day. lying on bed, she got an e-mail from someone named Jo Crox. Mia didn't know who he is. So she asked him to tell his own name but he didn't. He only told her he was a classmate with Mia. She couldn't help thinking about him all the time.  You will enjoy who the secret admirer is with Mia in this book. More surprising event happened in Mia's life. Mia's mother Helen

    WHAT? A PRINCESS? ME? It can't be true. My mouth opened but no words came out . I started to cry. My dad leaned across the table and touched my hand.   Mia is a usual high school student in New York until her father tells her a secret. What's the secret? She lives in a apartment with her mother, and her father lives in Genovia which is situated between France and Italy. One day, her father visited them and he takes Mia to the rich restaurant. Then, she will know the important truth. She is a princess of Genovia!! Of course, her father is a prince of that country so she is his heir. If you were Mia, could you believe that truth? Maybe, I couldn't. I would be really panicked because the truth is way too surprising.  Her life drastically changes. When she goes to school, her bodyguard pick her up with limousine. In school, her bodyguard always follows her wherever she goes.   When I was a child, I want to be a Disney Princess like Rapunzel. Because I thought princess

   The Borrowers are very small and very clever. They can climb, they make machines and they want to fight Ocious P. Potter before he squashes them!      Have you ever met very small people?  The Lender family lives happily but something mysterious happens often. Their things are lost and maybe someone steals them. In fact, the Clock family, borrowers’ family who are very small people live under the floors in Lender’s house. They take Lender’s things away and bring to their home. But they say they have never stolen one’s things, just borrow them. One day, the Clock family go up to the floor and look for useful things. Father Pod, his daughter Arrietty, and his son Peagreen enjoy their life. But, unfortunately, Pete Lender finds them. Pod’s family thinks human beings are really dangerous and they squash borrowers as soon as they find them. So the borrowers run away quickly. The lender family also face difficult things. They have to sell their house because a bad lawyer called Mr. Pott

  And people always said, "Mr Scrooge knows how to celebrate Christmas, better than any other man on Earth." May somebody say that about us, too. All of us! Once upon a time, an old man named Scrooge lived in a cold and dark house. Many people thought he was a cold, greedy, mean, old man. They weren't trying to be his friends. So Scrooge didn't have any friends, and to make matters worse, his only friend, Marley had passed recently. He completely became alone. One cold night, something visited his house... It was a ghost!! It warned him to escape his fate. What is his fate?? The following nights, other ghosts came to his house, and took him to his past, present, future. What will happen to him?? Before reading this book, I thought this book is a happy story about Christmas, but actually it wasn't. Some lessons were in it. First, be kind to other people. Second, change one's self is not easy, but very important. After reading it, my heart became warmer.

Where do you want to hold a wedding ceremony? At a beautiful church? Or by brilliant sea? Ms. Teal was asked to get married by his boyfriend when they were skydiving and  she said "Yes!". Then, they started to plan their wedding ceremony. But the thing was not going well. In contrast, her students were really happy to hear about their teacher's wedding. They couldn't wait it. One of her students came up with a great idea about her wedding. But many things bother their way!! Can they hold their wedding ceremony without mishap??