Blurb and Title Match - A These blurbs and titles are from some of the books in our reading library. When your partner reads a blurb, find the matching title on your paper. Then read a blurb for your partner. Take turns. Blurbs 1.  There is a war in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of British soldiers have died in the fighting there. This story is about one of them. 3.  The King of Bohemia is going to marry a princess. But he is afraid, very afraid that the marriage will be stopped. Why? Because of an old photograph. The king must get the photograph back.     Read how a scandal almost touched the king and how a woman became the only person to beat Sherlock Holmes. 5.  One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says.     In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him--and the music moves his fingers.    When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever ... 7.  Five short stories about ghosts, evil spirits and creatures of the night.     Beware! Don't turn your light out immediately after you've finished reading. Something may be waiting for you in the dark... 9.  What can you say about a 25 year old girl who died? That she was beautiful. And clever. That she loved Mozart and Bach. And the Beatles. And me.'     This story is about sadness and death, but it is also about life and how to live and how to really love..., 'Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.' 11. This man was born in a small seaside town in India in 1869. His family were simple people. But when he died in 1948, he had become "the father of the nation" and people in India and throughout the world were sad. How did he become so famous? Was he a saint or a politician? This is the life story of a man whose ideas are still valued and discussed everywhere today. 13.  She is alone in the world. She is sent away to school and learns that a young girl, with no money or family to support her, can expect little help from the world. She survives, but wants more. She wants respect and love. When she goes to work for Mr. Rochester, she hopes that she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns Jane that her troubles are only beginning. 15.  The old linen-weaver keeps his gold in a hole under the floor. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins, counting them again and again. The people of the town are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living.     But what would Silas do if a thief came in the night and took his gold away? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his gold--his only friend? 17.  He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him and think he looks like an animal. Then someone speaks to him--and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is now also a famous film. 19.  Maxim de Winter never talked about her, but others talked. Her death had been in all the newspapers. Everyone thought that Rebecca had drowned in the sea near Manderley...

Titles ___ A Scandal in Bohemia - L4 (Level 4) ___ The Black Cat - L3 ___ Brave New World - L5 ___ The Cleverest Person in the World - L3 ___ Cry Freedom - L5  1    Death of a soldier - L1 ___ Double Fear - L2 ___ Dracula - L4 ___ The Elephant Man - L2 ___ Ghandi: His Life Was the Message - L3 ___ Grace Darling - L2 ___ The Grapes of Wrath - L5 ___ The Hairless Mexican - L4 ___ The House on the Hill - L1 ___ Jane Eyre - L5 ___ K's First Case - L2 ___ Love Story - L4 ___ Money for a Motorbike - L1 ___ Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster - L1 ___ Of Mice and Men - L5 ___ Photo of the Tall Man - L3 ___ The Piano - L2 ___ Rebecca - L5 ___ Room 13 and Other Ghost Stories - L3 ___ San Francisco - L1 ___ Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - L2 ___ Silas Marner - L4 ___ The Sky's the Limit - L1 ___ The Stranger - L3 ___ Three Men in a Boat - L4

Blurb and Title Match - B These blurbs and titles are from some of the books in our reading library. When your partner reads a blurb, find the matching title on your paper. Then read a blurb for your partner. Take turns. Blurbs 2.  'Where do you live?' asked Paul.     'In the big white house on the hill,' said Maria. 'Where do you live?'     'In the little brown house near the market,' said Paul.     They laughed. But Paul was sad. The house on the hill was big and important.     Maria was rich and he was poor. And Paul was in love. 4.  Martin worked in garage. He had a bike for sale. It was a beauty! Martin wanted £350 for the bike, but Stuart didn't have £350. He didn't have any money. 6.  Whenever this man commits a crime, he leaves behind a small, silver card with his initials T.M. on it. Nobody knows who he is, or what he looks like--except that he is over two metres tall and a very dangerous man.     Kelley Logan reads about him in the newspaper on her way to London, but her main worry is whether she will find a job and how she will get on in London. 8.  Sir Michael Gray is dead. He was the victim of a murder and he was very rich. Who killed him? And why? Katrina Kirby is a detective and she wants to find the answers to these important questions. Was the killer Sir Michael's wife, Lady Elizabeth? Or was it his secretary? Or his housekeeper? Or his brother? Or his friend? One of these five people is the murderer. This is K's first case. Can you help her find the murderer. 10. Woodend was a small, quiet village with no shops, no visitors. Then a stranger came and opened The Corner Shop.     That summer, visitors came to Woodend. And customers came secretly to the shop. They wanted help and the stranger helped them. 12. Imagine a world in which all human values have changed; a world where family life has disappeared and babies are produced in bottles; a world in which people have no ideas of their own and their lives are planned for them from start to finish. This is the world of this story.     But is it so different from life today? Is this the way our world is going? Although written in a very light and often funny way, this story is a serious warning to us to think about what is happening before it's too late. 14. Greg's double is exactly like him. He wears the same clothes, he has the same face, hair and eyes. Only his smile is different; it is not a nice smile. Who is he? Where has he come from? And what does he want with Greg.     This is the first of three stories in this chilling new collection. 16. 'I like work. I find it interesting. . . I can sit and look at it for hours.'    With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good plan to spend a holiday taking a boat up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but it's not so much fun to wake up early on a cold, wet morning.    This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for 100 years. . . and they are still laughing. 18. They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised?     This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry 'Freedom!', and who are not afraid to die. 20. In this book, you can read a real story about a monster. Scientists think "she" is a creature from the past, but they cannot give us all the answers. This book has photographs and newspaper stories. In Scotland you can buy books, pictures and games about the monster, but is the monster real? What do you think?

Titles ___ A Scandal in Bohemia - L4 (Level 4) ___ The Black Cat - L3 ___ Brave New World - L5 ___ The Cleverest Person in the World - L3 ___ Cry Freedom - L5  1   Death of a soldier - L1 ___ Double Fear - L2 ___ Dracula - L4 ___ The Elephant Man - L2 ___ Ghandi: His Life Was the Message - L3 ___ Grace Darling - L2 ___ The Grapes of Wrath - L5 ___ The Hairless Mexican - L4 ___ The House on the Hill - L1 ___ Jane Eyre - L5 ___ K's First Case - L2 ___ Love Story - L4 ___ Money for a Motorbike - L1 ___ Mystery of the Loch Ness Monster - L1 ___ Of Mice and Men - L5 ___ Photo of the Tall Man - L3 ___ The Piano - L2 ___ Rebecca - L5 ___ Room 13 and Other Ghost Stories - L3 ___ San Francisco - L1 ___ Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - L2 ___ Silas Marner - L4 ___ The Sky's the Limit - L1 ___ The Stranger - L3 ___ Three Men in a Boat - L4