With Tprepet15 we worked with Glogster to make posters about some monuments in the United Kingdom.

• This is the glog that Martina and Melina made about Hadrian's wall. To see their glog click HERE.
• Franco and Federico chose the Uffington White Horse to design their glog. Click HERE to see it.
• This one, which is also about Hadrian's wall, was made by Lautaro and Aldana. To see their glog click HERE

DESTINATION KARMINIA

   Destination Karminia is an adventure book written by Maureen Simpson, a dedicated kid’s books writer. She was born in Great Britain.

   The story begins in York, with three guys –Jasmine, Simon and Stella– who are very interested in archeology. Suddenly, they receive an e-mail from Professor Peng –Sonia–, who gives them the best opportunity to follow their interests! The plan is to travel to Ben Nevis to find an ancient city… Karminia. But they aren’t alone on the trip! Two men –Jim and Tony–, hired by Philip Cummins, follow them there, because he wants to win a lot of money telling the people he found it, and making them pay for the visit. Anyways, the four adventurers don’t let them do what they want!

   In my opinion, the book isn’t very nice. A good book should make you doubt about the next parts, and make you keep reading. But Destination Karminia is too predictable! The plot of the book is great. I love adventure books, but this story didn’t attract me at all! I guess it should be a bit different. 

 Malena C.

Pre-Pet1745

                                           Destination Karminia

                                             By Maureen Simpson

Maureen Simpson is a British writer of children’s books. We chose Destination Karminia for a review because It’s an interesting reading.

Professor Peng is a young woman who is looking for a lost city called Karminia. She needs help for find it. A group of archaeologists (Simon, Stella and Jasmine) see her email so they meet her and start to search for this place. After this, they travel to find it. While they are travelling they find clues of the location of Karminia.  but they are not the only ones who are looking for Karminia. A man called Philip Cummins and his helpers Jim and Tony are also interested in this city and will follow them.

The biggest weakness is that it can be boring because it is predictable. Anyway, it is a short reading that you can read in one day. A strength is that little children and adults will enjoy this book if they are interested in archaeology

 In our opinion, the book is boring and predictable. Also, the characters do not have real feelings so you don’t know how do they feel, what they do in life and it’s not so interesting.

 

Paula and Celeste Pre-Pet 1745

Destination Karminia.

By Maureen Simpson.

Maureen Simpson is a famous British writer. Her book “Destination Karminia” was published in 2011.

It is about three teenagers: Jasmine, Stella and Simon. They loved archaeology, and they were very happy when they knew that they could go on the trip of their lives.

One day they were together, when Jasmine looked at her computer and she saw she had an e-mail. It said: “WANTED: Internet surfers who love archaeology. Are you ready to leave inmediatly? Destination: Karminia. If you want to find out more go to www.karminia.co.uk”. Karminia had disappeared because of an earthquake. When they were reading it, they saw that it belonged to Sonia Peng, an archaeology professor at York University.

They decided to visit Professor Peng. She told them they were not the only people who wanted to find Karminia: Philip Cummins wanted it too.

After they talked with Sonia about Karminia, they decided how to start the adventure.

They started it, at 6.am. But they didn’t notice that Philip Cummins was listening to them. Since that day, he started to watch them, every step they took.

To find Karminia, first they had to find four pieces of terracotta. Once they had found all the pieces, they went into a cave, and then, they found Karminia.

When they got into the cave, they saw that Philip Cummins was there.

Simon tricked him, with a false gun. He and his helpers left Karminia, and the teenagers and Professor Peng were the discoverers of Karminia. Then they created a web site, where you can see and read everything about Karminia, also you can take a virtual tour of the city.

Personally, I didn’t like the book, so much, because it is told abruptly, everything happens quickly, and you don’t want to keep reading, because it is so unreal too. Reading other books, you want to know what is going to happen, and in Destination Karminia, it is too obvious what is going to happen.

Josefina B. Pre-Pet1745

The students from Pre-Pet 1745 have written reviews on Destination Karminia. Have a look at them

                  Destination Karminia

                                     By Maureen Simpson

Maureen Simpson is a famous British author of children's books.

The characters are just 7: the main characters are three teenagers (Stella, Jasmine and Simon), a university professor, Sonia Peng, and three villains (Jim, Tony and Philip Cummins, the boss).

The book is about three adventurous friends, who received an e-mail from Sonia Peng, a university professor that wanted to find a lost city. This city had disappeared because of an earthquake. It was called Karminia, and it was situated in Ben Nevis, Scotland.

They went on an expedition to find it, but they had a problem with Phill Cummins and his followers, Tony and Jim. They wanted to find Karminia too, following the archeologist steps.

This book has strengths and weaknesses:

The strengths are that it has a lot of adventures and magic and it’s quite interesting. And the weaknesses are that some parts are boring. It’s very short there is not much descriptions about the characters, is very predictable so you can imagine what will happen before you read it.

 Our opinion about the book is that is a little boring and predictable. If you like short, fantasy books you should read it.

Ben Nevis, Scotland.        

Clara and Julia, Pre PET 1745.