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Hello, I'm Ernesto Carlos Jaldier and I'm going to talk about an incredible book called The Amazing Story of Adolfo's Tips.

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This book, which was written by Michael Morpurcov, is a fiction book.

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The story is set in the village of Slapton, which is at the south of England, and it occludes the forest around the Second World War.

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This story is about a boy who is called Michael and he is 12 years old.

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After his grandfather's death, Michael, also called Bobby, receives a letter from his grandmother.

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Most of the pages of this book are of a diary who wrote Michael's grandmother, who is called Lily Treganza, and it talks about all her life.

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Lily's dad was fighting in the war while Lily lived with her mother, her grandfather and her cat, Tips, which he loved very much.

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much. On those days, Slavtom started being invaded full of soldiers telling them they had to evacuate

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the village because they had to do practice for the war because it was in wartime. So after many

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complaints they made to soldiers finally they had to go out of their houses and they had to go to

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another village and Barry Turner who is a friend of Lily went to live with her because he lived

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alone with his mother and he wanted to live with her, with Lily and her family. So all the story

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also is written in the first person which is very important because it makes you really feel

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you're reading a diary of a person who has been there and mentioned everything that happens in

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their story in the world. I think the writer Michael Malpurgo wanted to show us how was the

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world in those times and how difficult in some parts was to change almost your entire life

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for the world. You have to change sometimes your house and your life completely sometimes because

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you have to change your life because of the war. So I think from this book we can get

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that wars are a horror and they never bring us good things so we should avoid wars. Finally

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I really invite you to read this book because it's an incredible book and all what I said

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before it's a very very good book. And finally thank you for hearing and watching me and

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I hope I have inspired you whether you're reading it or not.