Hana Walker and the Foreign Student

Isabela, a beautiful student from Brazil, joins the school. When her bag is stolen, can Hana solve the crime and keep her group of school friends together? My name is Hana Walker. I am 14 years old. My Mum is Japanese, my Dad is English. Japanese call me "half". But I am not 50/50. I am 100 percent me. My Mum got ill and died. I speak English, but I don't speak Japanese. I go to a Japanese Junior High School. I solve mysteries by looking and thinking. Every day is a mystery to me......
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Isabela, a beautiful student from Brazil, joins the school. When her bag is stolen, can Hana solve the crime and keep her group of school friends together? My name is Hana Walker. I am 14 years old. My Mum is Japanese, my Dad is English. Japanese call me "half". But I am not 50/50. I am 100 percent me. My Mum got ill and died. I speak English, but I don't speak Japanese. I go to a Japanese Junior High School. I solve mysteries by looking and thinking. Every day is a mystery to me... This series of Hana Walker mystery short stories is designed to engage students of English as a foreign language who typically are in their second year of junior high school. Every book features an engaging mystery with the same cast of characters, a vocabulary section and set of questions. The books can be used as a focus of a reading and discussion lesson or given as homework for students to work on by themselves. Word Count: 2,543 words. Tenses: Simple present and present continuous. Target language: Nationalities and languages.