El Camino

Daniel el Mochuelo is an eleven-year-old guy who has to go to the city to study at highschool, but he doesn’t want to leave his village, where he lives. He has to go because his father wants Daniel no to be like him.
The book is about all his memories the night before leaving his village, and he tells us everything, including an important event in his life that makes him grow up earlier.
This book was written by Miguel Delibes and I read it because our Spanish language teacher told us that we had to, but I found that I liked it very much.
I liked it because this book shows how a kid that is supposed to be happy and careless about anything, has to grow up and mature very soon because of some things that happened to him.
I think that if someone read this book, he/she will be surprised because it is a very deep book, but at the same time, it is easy to read and to understand.

Alba de la Fuente Ugalde. 4ºB

This book tells the story of a child who lives in a little village. Daniel, the main character, has grown in a rural culture where people don’t usually have studies, but his father thinks that Daniel must go to the city to study. All the book happens the night when Diel remembers all his life. How he grows up, how the people changed him and a tragic event which will change his thoughts about life.
I really like this book because I can feel Daniel’s feelings and at the end of the book, it transmited me a feeling of peace.

Carmen Esperilla Morales. 4ºB

El Camino
This book is about a boy called Daniel, el Mochuelo, who is eleven years old. It’s by an author called Miguel Delibes. I bought this book because we needed for school.
«El Camino» is a novel about the childhood of a boy and the things which happened to his friends and his neighbours. It also describes his acts and how he lived. His father wanted him to go to the city to study at highschool. The night before, Daniel couldn’t sleep and he was thinking about all the things that had happened in his life and the good feelings that he had for his family, friends and neighbours. It shows us the life of an old village in Spain.
I really like this book because it transmits us a lot of values and it helped me to know how my grandparents lived.

Celia García. 4ºB

Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carrol

Alice in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carrol and the story is about a young girl who was bored in her garden and suddenly, she saw a rabbit who she chased to his burrow. She went into the burrow chasing the rabbit and ended up in another place where the rabbit could talk, normal cards were soldiers and lots of strange things happened; in the end, she gets back to the normal world waking up from a dream and with a new adventure to tell.
While she is in this other place, which they call «wonderland», Alice lives a lot of things, which are worth reading and have a lot of philosophical meaning. I read this book because they have made many films from it and I thought it would be good, and it is. It’s got pictures on it and in my opinion, although it’s a bit of a children’s book, it’s still interesting to read. I enjoyed it because it made me think about what I would do if I saw myself in that situation.

Samuel York Alcalde. 4ºB

Tristes Armas
Marina Mayoral

This book is about the Spanish civil war. It tells the story of Harmonia and Rosa, two little sisters who live in this period and whose parents send to Russia trying to give them a a better life because they couldn’t have it in Spain because of the war.
Harmonia, the oldest one, tells her experience and how she feels in her childhood, which was affected by the war at this time.
It is a very moving novel that shows the poverty and the suffering that there was in this period from the point of view of a child.
I really liked this book and it reminds me when my grandma told me her experience. And that’s why it is moving to me.

Irene Naranjo Gómez. 4ºB

Tristes Armas

This book was written by Marina Mayoral. It is located in Spain, Russia, Argentina and France during the Spanish civil war. Two girl, whose parents are republican, are in a boarding school in Cantabria but they moved to Leningrado (Russia) to be protected. Harmonia, the biggest sister, falls in love with León, another Spanish child. Rosa, the youengest sister, finds out that she really likes dancing and she is very good at it. They both miss their parents and their land. Their father dies during a battle, but their mother escapes to France, from there she goes to Argentina to work as a maid. There she falls in loxve with one of her bosses. She couldn’t go back to Spain because the Second World War started and the frontiers were closed. As she was in the USA and her children in Russia, they thought her daughter, Harmonia and her husband were Russian spies.

In my personal opinion, this book is very good and makes you think about the war and its consequences. It is very moving and a bit sad, but it has a ray of hope. I would reconmmend it to anyone who likes reading stories without fantasy and a bit of drama.

Tristes Armas

It is a book that I read two years ago. This book is about two sisters: Harmonia and Rosa. They have to go in a boat because of the Civil War. In that boat, there were a lot of children and also people who took care of them. Harmonia met a boy called Leon and then everything went better for her.
I really like this book because of the main charaters, Harmonia is a very intelligent girl.

Mercedes Martínez. 4ºB

The novel tells the story of Anna, a seventeen-year.old girl from Atlanta, who is sent to the American school in Paris. When she’s there, she meets some of her new friends. She will get to know what love is like, on the one hand pleasant and passionate, but on the other hand, it can be treacherous and complicated. That’ll be thanks to Étennie St. Clarr. The perfect boy for her. Anna will have to fight for what she wants.
I liked the book a lot. I think it tells everything that a teenager can feel and it’s funny.
I would recommend it to teenagers, specially girls because it talks about love and all that stuff.
Ana Gómez. 4ºB

Around the World in 80 days

One book I really like is Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, in which a scientist goes around the world only to win a bet between him and the royal science academy director.
At first you can think Fileas has only lost 80 days to prove he was right, that could be a wast of time for many people, but really in this trip he found two fundamental requirements for happiness: love and friendship. And isn’t that what everyone is looking for? Won’t we do the same for less?

Alberto Cañamero Arroyo.4ºB