297. Journey to the lion's den.

In this book, Thea Stilton works as a professor in a Mouseford Academy and gives a project about photo essay to the students.  For that, the five Thea sisters – Colette, Nicky, Pamela, Paulina and Violet, go to a wildlife reserve in Africa.  There was a lion cub named Mosi and his mother Leah.  The Thea sisters’ guide, Malik showed them around.  The Thea sisters loved Mosi and took great care of him.  But, one day, Mosi fell down a pit and got hurt in his leg.  They took him to the vet.  He put a bandage around Mosi’s leg and set him in a large cage with food and water.  There was a mouse named Fadhili who was cunning and wanted to steal Mosi.  He was the one who set the pit.  He wanted to steal Mosi and give it to two other cunning people, Edgar van Lupin and Ludmilla van Lupin.  He also mixed sleeping pills in Mosi’s food.  When Mosi was in deep sleep, he opened the cage and stole him.  He wanted to sell him to people of different countries and earn money.  So, when the Thea Sisters seach for Mosi, they also fall inside the pit and they come to know about Fadhili’s cunningness.  So, they all make a plan and save Mosi, giving him back to his mother.  This was a nice book and I liked it.

                                      

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296. The BFG

This was a nice book written by Roald Dahl.  There was a giant called BFG.  He was a dream – blower, who blows dreams through a long trumpet into the bedrooms of children.  There was an orphan called Sophie.  One day, when she could not sleep well and was awake, she spotted this giant who was 24 feet tall, blowing dreams into the bedrooms.  The giant, who also noticed Sophie watching him, took her in his huge hands and walked away to Giant country, where nine other human – eating giants lived.  But the BFG was not a human – eating giant, he was a BIG FRIENDLY GIANT.  The BFG collected dreams from a place called Dreamland and kept each dream in thousands and thousands of jars.  His diet was Snozzcumbers, a disgusting vegetable and a sweet, tasty drink.  One night, when the other giants, Fleshlumpeater, Bloodbottler, Meathugger, Childchewer, Butcher Boy, etc. went to hunt poor little boys and girls, Sophie could not bear it and asked the BFG to do something.  He was helpless, so Sophie herself thought of an idea.  She wanted to tell about it to the Queen of England, as the giants went to England to hunt.  But how could she tell?  She had a plan.  She thought of conveying the message through dreams.  She asked the BFG to mix dreams about the Queen, the giants, the little children, Sophie sitting on the window sill of the Queen’s bedroom and BFG himself. He mixed the dreams and they set off to England with the dreams.  BFG blew it in the bedroom of the Queen around midnight and Sophie waited in the window sill.  In the morning, when the queen’s maid opened the curtains, Sophie jumped into the bedroom and narrated the story of the giants killing the children like in the dream.  So, the queen made arrangements and soldiers were sent to Giant country where the giants where sleeping.  They all capture the giants, tie them to helicopters and fly back to England.  There was a prison which was 500 feet deep and several feet high built to imprison the giants.  It was done and Sophie and BFG lived in England happily ever after.

                                       

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295. The 3 mistakes of my life.

This is the first time I am reading Chetan Bhagat’s book.  This book was about a boy named Govind who made three major mistakes in his life and because of depression, ate so many sleeping pills and was admitted ia a hospital.  He e – mailed to Chetan Bhagat, who was in Singapore about this and he came in the next flight to India.  This book was a mixture of cricket, business, religion, and of course, friendship.  Govind, his friends Ishaan and Omi started a cricket shop.  Many children come and buy cricket bats and balls.  Then, while running the sports shop, Ishaan coaches the children cricket and Govind, who was a maths expert, taught maths to students.  After a few days, they come to know about Ali, a 12 – year – old boy who always hits sixes in cricket, but after a few balls, his head aches.  So, Ishaan teaches him cricket and makes him improve his stamina.  Then, an Australian named Fred calls them to Australia to give Ali special coaching for a week.  They go to Australia and Ali gets special coaching and all of them return to India.  After a few months, there was a war between the Hindu party and the Muslim party.  Omi’s uncle Bittoo, who was a devotee of Hindu Gods, killed Ali’s father and stepmother and searched for Ali.  Omi, knowing this, hid Ali in a secret room.  But, Bittoo finds him and tries to kill him with his trishul.  But, Omi dies when he tries to defend Ali as the trishul pierces through his body.  After that, Ishaan and Govind try and kill Bittoo and they bring peace between Hindus and Muslims.  This was a very nice book.