1st week -The Railway Children-

Title: The Railway Children

Author: Edith Nesbit

Publisher (level): Penguin Readers (2)

Summary:
This is the story of three children whose name is Roberta, Peter and Phyllis.
In the beginning of the story, their family lived in the peace. One day two men came to their home and their father was taken away! Although they asked their mother, she didn’t answer.
After that, they moved away to a smaller house. There is a railway road near the house. Since they had visited a station, they made many friends mainly on the train. While they had not so much money, they lived being helped by friends and helping them.
One day, Roberta got a lot of old newspapers for Peter, badly hurted and required staying bed, to read so that he doesn’t get tired. When she read the newspaper, she knew the reason why the father was taken away. He was suspected as a spy. She couldn’t believe that. So she asked an old man who is their friend to help them to find the spy.
Finally, their father came back. A hot newspaper said that the real spy was caught. His innocence was proved! (181 words)

Evaluation: 4 stars
This book is easy to read for me because most of sentence is simple and used not so difficult words. While this book is so simple, I felt warm things: for example, their vivid spirit and love for families. So I evaluate it “Good”. (44 words)