Author: ClaireD

This short story is very interesting. If you would like to just read the actual story, read it, but for now, this is my summary.

It is about a nice seventeen-year-old boy named Billy Weaver and a landlady. It takes place in London, England at about 9 in the evening. he was walking along a street. It had no shops along the sides just house after houses. At one time, they were all luxurious, but now, the paint is peeling and the fronts were blotchy and cracked.

Suddenly, a window that was brightly lit caught his eye. A sign said “Bed and Breakfast.” he peered into the window and a brightly burning fire in the fireplace was the first thing he saw. then a dachshund cuddled up sleeping and a parrot in a cage. He was about to go when he saw the sign again, “Bed and Breakfast.” he turned around and before he knew it he was pressing the doorbell. Before he could take his hand off the doorbell, the door swung open.

A woman was standing in the doorway. she invited Billy to come and stay there for five and sixpences. he was drawn into the door automatically. She helps him with everything that is needed. When he was done, he went downstairs to fill out the guest book as instructed. There were only two other entries. Christopher Mullhound and George W. Temple.

Billy had seen those names somewhere maybe the newspapers and he thought they were somehow related. The last entry was two years ago and the other was three years ago. then the landlady offered him a cup of tea and some ginger biscuits before bed. when he sat down, he noticed that the parrot wasn’t alive and nor were the dachshund.

You should read this story because I think this story was very intriguing and I hope you like it too.

I think that this story is a very good one. It can be relatable when you are trying to impress a girl you like. I think the theme fo the story is that don’t always be overconfident at something you don’t know how to do. If you do you could be embarrassing yourself.

This story is about a seventh-grader that is in love with this other girl named Teresa. He knows that Teresa is going to learn french so he decides to take it too. He meets with his friend and he had seen many men modeling. they were all scowling so he decided to try it.

When he was in french class, he wanted to impress Teresa so when the teacher asked who knew french, he raised his hand. When the teacher said some french he started to blush. he said some weird things. The teacher knew he didn’t know french, but the rest of the class didn’t. When class ended Teresa told him that she didn’t know he could speak french and that could he teach her some.

I think he is now in a big issue. He’s got to learn some french to teach Teresa and fast or else he might lose her. If you want, go read the short story. I hope you will like it.

Rules of the Game is a good short story by Amy Tan. It is about a girl named Wave-ly Jong and how she became a chess master. It is an interesting short story and I hop

One day her brother won a chessboard at the secret Santa at the church. They soon found out that it was missing two pieces so the boys used buttons instead. She would plead her brothers to let her play. One day the boys gave in and let her play. She decided to use her lifesavers instead of the buttons so that whoever wins gets to eat it. She soon learned much from her brother and the library books that she had borrowed.

One day, she brought the chess set and asked an old man if he wanted to play. The man was delighted. She lost many lifesavers but learned all the skills that the old man had known. Shortly, she started playing in local tournaments. She had won her first trophy and a new chessboard. when she goes back home, her mom scolded her saying next time to win more and lose less.

At the next tournament, she won again. Her mom told her that this time she lost 8 pieces; last times was 11. She quickly won all the games and in all the divisions. After she won a regional tournament, all the shops wanted to sponsor her in the next tournament. She was even on the front cover of the magazines. After that, her mom decided she didn’t have to do any chores, so her brothers had to do it.

When she practiced, her mom would always be looking at her making a “humph” noise with her nose. She was able to make her brothers sleep in the living room because she could focus when sleeping, and she didn’t have any chores, though there is one that she could never get away from. Going shopping every Saturday with her mom.

At the mall, if she had seen anyone looking in her direction, she would say this is my daughter Wave-ly Jong. one day when they were walking out she said to her mom why do you have to embarrass me like that? Why do you show off like that? Then she took off running. When she got home no one cared about her. She went to her bedroom and laid on the bed “Strongest wind is not seen” echoing through her mind as she closed her eyes and pondered her next move.

This short story is very interesting to me. I think that Wave-ly Jong didn’t deserve what her mom had done to her. I hope you read this story and I hope you like it.

Finding diseases from bats is harder than you might think. The researchers have to go out at night all in suits that covered them from head to toe. They would find a cave and set up a net to catch bats and a tarp on the floor to get guano, the droppings.

The researchers from Smithsonian’s Global Health Program found 6 new coronaviruses in the same family of viruses as the COVID-19. Though they do not think these new viruses to be harmful to humans or closely related to COVID-19.

Zoonotic pathogens, a germ that can spread from animals to humans or vice versa, are responsible for 3/4 of the infectious diseases in humans this century. A major source of these diseases are bats. Bats have a very strong immune system so they can host pathogens without getting infected. this together with their ability to fly far distances makes them very good at transmitting these diseases to humans. When humans pass on a virus, the bat could start spreading it everywhere.

In one cave they studied, Myanmar, Linno Cave, had more than half a million bats. Some times, tourists would come at night to see all the bats fly out of the cave, and others would collect the droppings for fertilizers for their gardens. They tested 464 bats and collected 759 samples. 48 of them had coronavirus and found 7 coronaviruses, 6 of them were unknown to the researchers.

Now that I think about it, finding new diseases is important because if we know about it we can find a cure and not have to get quarantined again.

In this story, I think that Johnny had higher ground instead of the criminals because he was using them as donkeys and he had cauterized one of Bill’s hand. On the other hand, the criminals gave him food a place to live and didn’t physically hurt him.

I still don’t blame Johnny for being mean to the criminals because I think he just wanted to play with them. Though I think the criminals got what they deserved because they are not supposed to kidnap anyone just for the ransom because it is not polite and it is also a crime.

I think the author of this story was teaching us a life lesson. It is to never do anything bad or else carma will get you!!! 😀

If you are in the village that this story takes place, you may be in trouble. The people who live there have a chance of dying at the lottery. Some adults may not like this even though it is a tradition that they have had for more than 70 years, because it can be a bit harsh on people. But other adults may think it is fair since it has been a tradition and should always be a tradition. Most children think it is fun to stone someone to death because they don’t understand the risk that they are taking. I think it is not fair because I don’t think to kill a person every year is not fair. So what do you think? Fair or not fair?