1. SOME BOOKS YOU MAY LIKE
These are just some ideas adapted to
you level. If you have any other
suggestions, let the class know!
Helena Manrubia.
EOI Cartagena

2. • Pick one (or more! The more, the merrier ).
• Read it and enjoy! Don’t worry too much
about looking up words you don’t know in the
dictionary.
• Fill in the book review worksheet you’ll find on
the blog).

3. About a boy
• About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and
heart-warming million-copy bestseller
• 'How cool was Will Freeman?'
• Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a
teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the
right clubs and knows which trainers to wear.
He's also found a great way to score with
women: attend single parents' groups full of
available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping
to meet a Nice Guy.
• Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest
twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit
strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and
Mozart, looks after his mum and has never
owned a pair of trainers. But Marcus latches
on to Will - and won't let go. Can Will teach
Marcus how to grow up cool? And can
Marcus help Will just to grow up?

4. Girl with a pearl earring
• An international bestseller with over two million
copies sold, this is a story of an artist’s desire for
beauty and the ultimate corruption of innocence.
• 17th Century Holland. When Griet becomes a maid in
the household of Johannes Vermeer in the town of
Delft, she thinks she knows her role:
housework, laundry and the care of his six children.
But as she becomes part of his world and his
work, their growing intimacy spreads tension and
deception in the ordered household and, as the
scandal seeps out, into the town beyond.
• Tracy Chevalier’s extraordinary historical novel on the
corruption of innocence and the price of genius is a
contemporary classic perfect for fans of Sarah Dunant
and Philippa Gregory.

5. The curious incident of the dog in the
night-time. (highly recommended!)
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time is a murder
mystery novel like no other. The
detective, and narrator, is
Christopher Boone. Christopher is
fifteen and has Asperger's
Syndrome. He knows a very great
deal about maths and very little
about human beings. He loves
lists, patterns and the truth. He
hates the colours yellow and
brown and being touched. He has
never gone further than the end
of the road on his own, but when
he finds a neighbour's dog
murdered he sets out on a
terrifying journey which will turn
his whole world upside down.

6. Bridget Jones’s diary

7. The Brooklyn follies
• The book describes a year in
the life of its protagonist, 59-
year-old Nathan Glass, a
cancer survivor who moves to
Brooklyn to live out what he
imagines will be the last
months of his life. This is a
compelling novel about
ordinary people with dreams
and
aspirations, disappointments
and
triumphs, embarrassments
and success - a depiction of
the modern human condition
with all its craziness, stupidity
and humour.

8. Boyne has written a sort of
historical allegory–a vividly
descriptive tale that clearly
elucidates the atmosphere in Nazi
Germany during the early 1940s
that enabled the persecution of
Eastern European Jews. Through
the eyes of Bruno, a naive nine-
year-old raised in a privileged
household by strict parents
whose expectations included
good manners and unquestioning
respect for parental authority, the
author describes a visit from the
Fury and the families sudden
move from Berlin to a place
called Out-With in Poland.

9. Wonder
• 'My name is August. I won't describe what I
look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's
probably worse.'
• Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old.
He does ordinary things - eating ice
cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary
- inside. But ordinary kids don't make other
ordinary kids run away screaming in
playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at
wherever they go.
• Born with a terrible facial
abnormality, Auggie has been home-
schooled by his parents his whole life.
Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a
real school - and he's dreading it. All he
wants is to be accepted - but can he convince
his new classmates that he's just like
them, underneath it all?
• WONDER is a funny, frank, astonishingly
moving debut to read in one sitting, pass on
to others, and remember long after the final
page.

10. James and the giant peach
• The hugely popular
story of James and his
journey to New York
with the strangest
group of insect friends.