Val's Diary【Book Review】

I like living here in the city. I've got my school and all my friends and my bedroom here in our little flat. I certainly don't want to go and live in Greenhill! What a silly name for a town anyway!

Summer holidays come, and Val's birthday also come. However, she wasn't happy for a birthday present from her mother, and because her friends stay at the seaside or abroad and they can't attend the party. One day, she and her family go to Greenhill. At first, she is boring. There are only a few houses. Anything can't attract her at all, but she meet a man, that changes her mind...

I like not only this story but also cute pictures on Val's Diary, especially cake. At the end of this book, A World of Cakes is featured. The pictures make me hungry...

-Vocabulary-

humiliated : 恥をかく

extraterrestrial : 地球圏外の
cream bun : 小さなケーキ

Flagan, M (2009). Val's Diary: Teen ELI Readers　

［5,100 words］

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