Hana Walker and the Stolen Dream

Why is Aiko crying? "I'm crying because somebody stole my dream!" Hana wrinkles her nose and thinks: How can someone steal a dream? And who is the prime suspect? My name is Hana Walker. I am 13 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 sick 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...
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Why is Aiko crying? "I'm crying because somebody stole my dream!" Hana wrinkles her nose and thinks: How can someone steal a dream? And who is the prime suspect? My name is Hana Walker. I am 13 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 sick 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 first 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 the focus of a reading and discussion lesson or given as homework for students to read by themselves. Word Count: 1,840. Tenses: Simple present, present continuous and simple past. Target language: Using third person simple present.