Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a children’s novel by the British author Roald Dahl what published this novel in 1964 and is a most popular history. It’s about a young boy, Charlie Bucket, that his family was very poor and they live outskirts of a big town. His Grandpa Joe always explain him different histories about an enormous chocolate factory that there was near yours house.

One day, Mr Wonka, the chocolate Factory owner revels that he invited five persons to give more products of his factory and visit this. He has hidden five Golden Tickets inside his chocolate bars. Obviously, the protagonist, Charlie, want to visit this mystery factory. Finally, Charlie, despite of a lot of failed facts, achieve find one of this five Golden Tickets. Charlie choose his Grandpa Joe to bring in the Factory Chocolate with the others persons who find the Golden Tickets. After this factory tour Mr.Wonka had a surprise to Charlie, in spite of the attitude of the others visitors, chose Charlie to relieve him in  the factory.

All in all, I think that is good novel and it’s very amusing an interesting. For me, the best moment in the novel is when Charlie found this money in the street and decide to bought two bar chocolates which one contain one of the famous Golden Tickets. Finally, I would recommend everybody reading this popular novel.

Marc Vidal Sans

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a story about two very different children (one is the son of a Nazi commander, and the other is a jew in a concentration camp) who make friends but they are unlucky. Written by John Boyne and published in 2006.

The novel is narrated from the perspective of nine-year-old Bruno, the son of a Nazi commander.

When Bruno arrives home, he sees his family packing things and discovers that they are moving to Out-With and that he will have to leave his friends in Berlin. In Out-With, he finds himself alone by the lack of children and decides to go to visit the people behind the fence the place that Bruno can see from his bedroom window (the concentration camp that Bruno thinks is a farm); after a good time walking he finds Schmuel and they make friends, and all of days he goes to play with him. One day, Bruno finds Schmuel serving in his house, Schmuel asks him to eat, Bruno gives him but  Koter (a Nazi soldier) catches Shmuel eating and accuses him of stealing and Bruno did not do anything to deny it. The next day Schmuel asks Bruno for help to find his father. One day Schmuel gives him a suit like his to Bruno and passes the fence digging a hole with a shovel. Bruno decides go home, but it’s too late.

The guys are in line with hundreds of other prisoners and are sent to death in a gas chamber. Bruno’s family searches for several days until a Nazi soldier finds a pile of clothes near the hole in the fence. Finally, Bruno’s mother returned to Berlin with Gretel and Bruno’s father disappeared with a group of fellow soldiers.

The book is easy to read and is interesting because it explains how was the son of a Nazi commander life and how it was that of the Jews at that time. I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 10.

Joel Sambola

Wonder tells the history of a child called August, who lives a non common reality.

He was born with the deformed face. Since then he has suffered many surgery. He lives happily with his parents and an older a totally healthy sister. Although his parents had been strongly care, about him and her mother has taken charge of his education, one day, they decided August must carry on his education at the school. Their parents wanted August was able to be in a real life, as any ten years child, despite being difficult at the beginning.

At first, August felt afraid to go school; because of comments, jokes, teasing children could say to him. He meet great friends, Jack and Summer, who will be very close to August and will be a big support to him in front of the bad treat of other children, because of their appearance. The read shows as August as a brave child who understands people look at him scared o uncomfortable, but he don’t get angry. And the end he manages to have a good relationship with the children of the school.

One thing interesting from de book, is that the book was wrote in the first person but, not only form August, from Via, the August’ sister, Julius, the Via’s boyfriend,…. and that aspect do that the description of the situation, the point of the reader, become more real, full of different emotions  and more objective.

I like the character of Via, because it is a protective with August, but he feels the consequence to be absolutely focus in care of August, because when he born she was a little child and her parents don’t pay all the attention that she needed.

For me to read the book has been hard. But I recommend it, because it teaches people don’t judge people for the appearance, the most important is to now the real personality.

TAMARA GALERA

Paper Towns is about a story that starts with two characters; Quentin ‘Q’ Jacobsen and Margo Roth Spiegelman. Their lives and paths where completely different, but all changed when one day she appeared in his bedroom in the middle of the night asking him for help to join her on a mission of revenge.
Our protagonists spend all night in an adventure doing what she planned; getting revenge on his friends and her ex-boyfriend for cheating.

Margo has always been Quentin’s crush, furthermore she was his neighbour but he never had the chance to talk with her because they were opposite poles, he was shy and introverted and she was one of the most popular girls in their school.
The morning after Margo didn’t go at school, the days were passing by and Quentin was everyday more worried until one day he found one clue of her, that lead him to other clues and he came to the conclusion that she wanted him to go for her. In the research, two friends of Quentin, one friend of Margo and a detective join him to find her location.

At the end of the story they find her. Quentin and his friends go to a trip to Agloe, New York where they find Margo and she explains to Quentin that she wasn’t leaving clews to be searched but to leave signals of life. She also proposes to Quentin to stay with her in the Paper Town but he refuses her proposition because he tells her he has a life in Florida.
They finally kiss and say their last goodbye, Quentin leaves the town with his friends.

In my opinion, the book was interesting, I like the relation between the two protagonists but I hate how the story ends because it is all about how he searches for Margo and at the end she refuses him, making the plot twist so forced and sad, leaving the reader so disappointed and unhappy.
To sum up, I liked so much the story and the argument but the end was so surprisingly disappointing.

Maria Foix Franco

This story explains the exploits from Jay Gatsby to continue with the love relationship between them and Daisy Buchanan.

The main character, Nick Carraway, moved to live from the lake Forest to a small house near the huge mansion of Gatsby, near New York.  It’s a pretty place where the new fortunes moved to and built big houses and mansions near the sea.

Nick wants to be a writer but he declines to work as and work in a big company as a seller. His cousin, Daisy Buchannan is married to the almost richer man of New York, Tom Buchannan. Both of them live in front of Nick’s house.

One day, he goes to visit his cousin and eat something with her husband in their mansion and after having lunch, Nick and Tom travel to New York. They picked up on the way Myrtle Wilson, wife of Gorge Wilson, a car mechanics from the surround of the city. That day nick discovered they were lovers.

Jay Gatsby made huge parties in his mansion, where all the important people from New York went. In one of this parties, Nick met Gatsby and explain that they have to arrange a meeting with his cousin. They also explained to Nick that he already knows Daisy, because he met five years ago, but he had to go to the war and they lose the contact after. But he still loves her.

Gatsby was poor when he was young, left his house to look for something better. After the war met Dan Cody, a rich man to whom saved, and he explain everything he wants.

Nick finally arranged a meeting to Daisy and Gatsby. Daisy didn’t know that she would come back with Gatsby. They were lovers for a time and they decided to explain this to Tom one afternoon in New York.

Tom didn’t like what he had heard. Daisy and Gatsby left first and during the trip run over a woman walked out. When Tom returned from New York found the accident and stopped to know how was it. He found that the death woman was Myrtle Wilson, and when he talked to George Wilson, he said that the killer was Jay Gatsby.

George took the justice on his hand and kill Gatsby before suicide. Nobody know that the car was driven by Daisy.

Only went to Gatsby’s funeral Nick and Gatsby’s father and Tom and Daisy Buchannan marched to live somewhere else without saying anything to anyone.

Bruno is a boy who lives in Berlin with his parents and his older sister. They are a rich family because Bruno’s father is a soldier promoted to do important things for the nation. One of the conditions is that they have to move to another city, Out-with. Bruno does not like the idea because he is far from Berlin and will not be able to see his friends. The next day Bruno says goodbye to his friends sadly and they go to Out-with.

Bruno’s surprise is not the place or the house he expected, he was really close to the Out-with camp although he does not know it. Bruno did not understand anything of what was happening in that sinister place. His days were long since he was forbidden to leave the house, specifically, the back of the house. That made his desire to explore push him to run away from home and see what was in that strange place. He ran through the trees until he came to a large fence that enclosed the camp. In that instant he sees a boy sitting next to the fence. He goes to talk to him and asks him why he is there and why he is wearing blue and gray striped pajamas like all people. Bruno continues without understanding anything but they become friends with that boy named Shmuel. In all corners, hatred towards Jews is encouraged, including the teacher who educated Bruno and his sister. One day, Bruno finds Shmuel polishing glasses in a room in his house. He asks what he does there and offers him something to eat. At those moment, a soldier enters who believes that Shmuel got into the house and was stealing food. Bruno betrays Shmuel pretending he does not know him.

After a while, Bruno repents and he wants to apologize but is no longer there. For a few days Bruno goes to see Shmuel at the fence but does not appear. Bruno thinks he’s angry. At last, he met Shmuel and forgive Bruno. Bruno’s mother is not happy with the place and even less so that her children are raised in that environment. So they decide to move to a more secluded place. Just the day they leave, Bruno decides to go to the other side of the fence by making a tunnel and camouflaging himself with a pajamas that Shmuel gave him. Bruno felt indebted to Shmuel, so he helped him search his father who was missing. He marched cause they were being pushed by the soldiers. They were in a long room that was surprisingly warm…

After a long time, the soldiers had searched every part of the house, they discovered the clothes that bruno had left near the fence.The father formed a theory about what might have occurred…

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- time is a fantastic novel by Mark Haddon, published in 2003 and awarded with the Whitbread Novel of the Year, among others.

The story is about a 15-year-old boy called Christopher Boone who has Asperger’s Syndrome, but the book doesn’t give us this information. It’s a data that you discover meanwhile you read the book.  He lives in Swindon with his father and his pet, a rat called Toby.  He hates yellow and brown colours, for example, he has the theory that if he sees four yellow cars in a row made, from that moment it will be a Black Day.

One day, Christopher found out his neighbour’s dog had been murdered. So, he decided to investigate about that incident, because he is very curious about all the things that happen around him. During his investigation, he discovered a box of letters from his mum in his dad’s bedroom. At this point, he realises that his father had been lying him about her mum, because he told him that his mum was dead.

After this, he found out who actually killed the dog. Whit the mystery solved, he decided to search for his mum who lives in London.  Afterward some adventures, he arrived at his mother’s house and explained to her what had happened and that he thought she was dead, and why he had frightened from his dad.  Despite his parent’s arguments over Christopher, his mum and Christopher decided to come back to Swindon. Once there, Christopher took the A–level in maths and his relationship with his dad was slowly restored.

The novel ends when Christopher is planning to take more A-level exams in physics and further maths to be possible to attend to the university. He knows that he can do all of this because he solved the dog’s mystery, he went to London alone and wrote a book.

I think it is a brilliant book and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys mystery, because it surprises me the way that the book change the way of the story. Moreover, it teaches you how someone can do all the things that proposes himself and how is the life with Asperger’s Syndrome.

Laura Huguet

We are in the early 40’s involved in the middle of the Second World War. Bruno is a little son of a wealthy family from Berlin, he is really clever but he has many unanswered questions about the life and especially about the job of his father. He is only 9 years old and his father is one of the trusted people of Hitler’s Dictator.

A few days after an important lunch in which the “Furer” had come with his friendly wife to talk with Bruno’s father, Bruno finds Maria (the family’s Maid) pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them. From this moment, the life of Bruno’s family change completely as they go to live in a new place, empty of houses and schools and without friends of Bruno nor of his sister Gretel.

One day, Bruno goes to explore what is behind the fence that he can see far away from his bedroom’s window and, after a while walking, he arrives at the fence and knows Shmuel at the other hand of the fence. Shmuel is a boy with the same age as him, even he had borned at the same day. He looks extremely skinny, has shaved hair and wears a striped pyjamas. For a long time they meet almost every day.

After more than a year on this place, Mother convinces the father so that she and her children can return to Berlin. Although Bruno firstly had missed his friends from Berlin, now he has meet Shmuel and is happy seeing with him without anyone knowing.

Before to move to Berlin, Bruno want to help finding Shmuel’s father who had been disappeared a few days ago and ask Shmuel to bring him a stripped pyjamas like all of the people of the other side of the fence. Innocently, Bruno for the first time, goes through a small hole under the fence and they together goes towards the huts.

In a few minutes they end with the same fate that millions of Jews had in the concentration camps.