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"Sandy, something bad is going on," he says.(p.20)  A man, Joe, who works for the Murray Echo, a newspaper, lives in Canada with his wife. He thinks that Canada is beautiful because there's no dirt and no noise. However, one day, he hears a noise. When he looks around, he find two big machine on the mountain, near his house. One of them is taking tree down and another one is digging a hole in the ground. He doesn't know what it is so he goes out to check it. On the mountain, he gets to know they find diamonds under the ground. After he goes back to his house, a lot of neighbor visit him. They all want him to help by writing an article about the incident. Then he goes to work and tells his boss about the incident. However, his boss, Grady doesn't admit him to write about that. "Why?". He can't understand. He thinks there is something wrong about all this and he goes to check at night. Then he sees a white car and it drives into the back of Joe'

"Can you tell me something more?" I asked.(p.12) One evening, Nat Marley, who is a private investigator in New York, meet a man and drinks beers together. The man says that he drinks a beer for the first time in ten years. The next morning, a man visits Marley's office. It is the man! His name is Jorge Hernandez and he asks the investigator to find his old friend. Then he gives Marley a bit information. However, he find that the client doesn't give him an enough information to find his friend. He tells the client to tell him everything. He wants the friend to return money which is Hernandez's and wants to step to a new start. Also, he reveals that he was in a jail for having sold drugs and the person he wants the investigator to find was selling drugs together. After even getting to know this fact, Marley decides to help to find the friend. A few days later, he finds out the target, Mula Mike Lopez. However, he isn't a good man and he dislikes Marley. The

"Remember - this is your last chance."(p.4)  One day, Mike's boss, Mr Frank says to Mike "this is the last chance".Mr Frank doesn't like Mike's job so he is so angry. After hearing this word, Mike also feels very angry but he says nothing and decides to go Hawaii to make an exciting film. On the day leaving for Hawaii, he takes his video camera with him. It is his old friend. When he arrives at Hawaii, some news people are leaving Hawaii. Then, a woman tells him that her friend Jenny is in the volcano and she stops him to go there. However, his decision is so strong and he starts to go there. After two hours, he is on the volcano. There is a lot of smoke and fire, but he tries to film it. To do god job, he goes. Suddenly a big rock goes over his head and then he hears a noise. " Help!" He helps the woman and turns out to be Jenny. However, to help her life, he keeps his "old friend" in the volcano. He thinks that there are no

" Come back, everyone!" shouted Wendy's mum. " You've left a lot of litter behind. " (p.4)  One day, Chip's family go for a picnic. First, they enjoy eating at the bottom of the hill. After eating lunch, children begin to run to go to the top of the hill first. Then, their mother shouts to them to come back because they left a lot of litter. They pick up the litter and take it back to the car. After that, they walk back through a wood. And then, a dog Floppy injures his paw. That is because there was a broken bottle. At night, a magic key take Chip to the Litter Queen's palace. Chip is forced to spoil a lot of pretty places. he is unwilling to do such a terrible job. Then the queen gets angry and makes him ride on microlight to spread litter all over the countryside.　After a while, he falls from the microlights and come back to the real world. Then he starts to pick up all the litter around his school with his classmates...    This is in Oxford

" Diamonds are diamonds, Mr Kirkpatrick, " said Lafon. " And business is business."(p.28)  A woman, Annie Shepherd and a man, Harley Kirkpatrick work together to write interesting stories on the newspaper. They looked up some information about "Blood Diamonds". And now, they find new information about it. That is about Erik Van Delft, who is a businessman. However, he is just a businessman, he buys and sells guns and blood diamonds! Kirkpatrick gets to know about it and tries to talk with the businessman. How? Surprisingly, he pretend to have known Erik. And they starts conversation. Kirkpatrick thinks that he won the game. However, an incident happens. Kirkpatrick promises to meet with Erik in spite of the advice by Shepherd. And now the day of the promise. He gets on the car of Erik which has a driver. When he gets off the car and is talking with Erik, someone hits Kirkpatrick and he goes down... What happens after that? Does he wake up?, or...  This

I'm not just a robot. I can feel. I feel angry. I can hate. I hate Sam. Sam must go. A 30 year old man, John lives in an apartment with his dog, Sam and he makes robots as his job. One day he made a robot named Nolan. This is a story about John's life with Sam and Nolan. John lives in apartment, but he can't clean his room. This is where Nolan comes in! He is a such a clever robot. He can follow perfectly what John say. He can clean John's room, make coffee for John, and even open and close the door for his master. Now, he can control the apartment. However, there is one thing he can't control. It's Sam! Sam doesn't do anything for John but John likes Sam. He don't understand this. Gradually, Nolan starts to hate Sam and think "He must go.". What does he do?" He drops Sam from a kitchen window. John feels sad and say to Nolan " I must stop you". Nolan doesn't want to die. What does he do?... Antoinette, Moses. (2006)  Le

"I want to be a lamb. They can jump and run and be happy."  Most of people who are on TV such as acters, actresses and TV stars look happy and seem to have a good time in their life. However, is it really true? Can she do what she want to do only? In this story, a main character, Tina Daniels have so compricated feeling for being a star. She is a famous singer and dancer, so a lot of fans cheer up and support her. many people want to get her picture and love her. It is because she makes effort!!   This book is in the Penguin Readers series. English words used in this book are easy so good to read. The illustrations are drawn in soft touch and so beautiful. All of the contents are wonderful.