- Three Cups of tea - The Railway Children -Knots in my Yo-Yo Strings

1. 3 BOOKS REVIEW
- Three cups of tea
- The Railway Children
- Knots in my Yo-Yo string
Aayush Sharma
Mohit Sharma
Aman Kumar Das
Shekhar Mahato
Sanket Shrivastav
Abhijeet Kumar

2. THREE CUPS OF TEA
- GREG MORTENSON
AND
- DAVID OLIVER RELIN

3. CHARACTERS
 Greg Mortenson
 Ali Changazi
 Haji Ali
 Ghulam Parvi
 Jean Hoerni
 Syed Abbas
 Tara Bishop
 Julia Bergman
 Faisal Baig
 Mohammed Aslam Khan
 George McCrown
 Mouzafer Ali
 Jahan
 Abdul Shah
 Shakeela
 Sir Edmund Hillary

4. Main Character sketch
1. Greg Mortenson –
Co-author of the book, co-founder of the Central Asia Institute, and noted
humanitarian. Mortenson receives help from Pakistani villagers when he becomes lost
after a failed mountaineering expedition.
2. Haji Ali –
Village chief of Korphe and one of those who inspired Mortenson’s mission. Mortenson
stays in Haji’s home on his trips to Korphe, and over time Haji explains the customs of
his people, helping Mortenson to a better understanding of human relationships.
3. Jean Hoernin –
A successful scientist, avid mountain climber, and philanthropist who endows the CAI.
Hoerni funds Mortenson’s first project to build a school in Korphe.

5. SUMMARY
Three Cups of Tea is the true story of one of the most extraordinary humanitarian missions of our time.
In 1993, a young American mountain climber named Greg Mortenson stumbles into a tiny village high in
Pakistan’s beautiful and desperately poor Karakoram Himalaya region. Sick, exhausted, and depressed
after a failing to scale the summit of K2, Mortenson regains his strength and his will to live thanks to
the generosity of the people of the village of Korphe. Before he leaves, Mortenson makes a vow that
will profoundly change both the villagers’ lives and his own—he will return and build them a school.
The book traces how Mortenson kept this promise (and many more) in the high country of Pakistan and
Afghanistan, despite considerable odds. The region is remote and dangerous, a notorious breeding
ground for Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists. In the course of his work, Mortenson was kidnapped and
threatened with death. He endured local rivalries, deep misunderstandings, jealousy, and corruption,
not to mention treacherous roads and epic weather. But he believed passionately that balanced, non-
extremist education, for boys and girls alike, is the most effective way to combat the violent
intolerance that breeds terrorism.
To date, Mortenson’s Central Asia Institute has constructed fifty-five schools, and his work
continues.Mortenson initially approached Karakoram as a climber and he never lost the
mountaineer’sThe war-torn mountains of Pakistan and Afghanistan appear in the news as the breeding
grounds of terrorist training camps, Al Qaeda hide-outs, and fierce religious extremism. In Three Cups
of Tea, Mortenson and Relin take readers behind the headlines to reveal the true heart and soul of this
explosive region and to show how one man’s promise might be enough to change the world.

6. THE RAILWAY CHILDREN
- E.NESBIT

7. CHARACTERS
 Father
 Mother
 Roberta
 Peter
 Phyllis
 Ruth
 Mrs. Viney
 Mrs. Ransome
 Aunt Emma
 The old Gentleman
 Albert Perks
 Mrs. Perks
 Dr. Forrest
 The Stationmaster
 Bill (Driver)
Bill’s Wife

8. Main Character Sketch
1. Father –
A high-ranking civil servant, very intelligent and hard-working, and a devoted husband and father. He is
wrongfully imprisoned for espionage, but is eventually exonerated.
2. Mother –
A talented poetess and writer of children's stories. She is devoted to her family, and is always ready to help
others in need. She is also a homely type.
3. Roberta –
Nicknamed "Bobbie", she is the oldest and most mature of the three children, and the closest in personality to
their mother.
4. Peter –
The middle child and only boy. He is intelligent and resourceful, though at times rather insensitive. He considers
himself the leader of the three and usually does take the lead in crisis situations.
5. Phyllis –
The youngest and least mature of the children.

9. SUMMARY
The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine
during 1905 and published in book form in the same year. It has been adapted for the screen several times,
of which the 1970 film version is the best known.
The story concerns a family who move from London to 'The Three Chimneys', a house near a railway, after
the father, who works at the Foreign Office, is imprisoned after being falsely accused of spying. The
children, Roberta (nicknamed "Bobbie"), Peter and Phyllis, befriend an old gentleman who regularly takes
the 9:15am train near their home; he is eventually able to help prove their father's innocence and the
family is reunited.
Before Father is freed, the family takes care of a Russian exile, Mr. Szczepansky, who came to England
looking for his family (later located) and Jim, the grandson of the Old Gentleman, who suffers a broken leg
in a tunnel.
The Russian exile, persecuted by the Tsars for writing "a beautiful book about poor people and how to help
them" and subsequently helped by the children, was most likely an amalgam of the real-life dissidents
Sergius Stepniak and Peter Kropotkin who were both friends of the author.
The book refers to the then current Russo-Japanese War and to attitudes taken by British people to the
war. This dates the setting to the spring, summer The theme of an innocent man being falsely imprisoned
for espionage and finally vindicated might have been influenced by the Dreyfus Affair, which was a
prominent worldwide news item a few years before the book was written.and early autumn of 1905.

10. KNOTS IN MY YOYO STRING
- JERRY SPINELLI

11. CHARACTERS
 Jerry Spinelli
 Johnny Seeton
 Roger Adelman
 Judy Brooks

12. Main Character Sketch
1. Jerry Spinelli –
He was born in February 1, 1941 is an American writer of children's novels that
feature adolescence and early adulthood. His novels include Maniac Magee,
Stargirl, and Wringer. Spinelli was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, and
currently lives in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. At the age of 16, his love of sports
inspired him to compose a poem about a recent football victory, which his father
published in the local newspaper without his knowledge.

13. SUMMARY
Knots in My Yo-Yo String (1998) is an autobiography written by Jerry Spinelli. The book describes the life of
Spinelli from the time he was a child to the time he was a senior. Spinelli was born in Norristown, PA and
has the fondest memories of his childhood where he was raised.
This work is considered a variation on Spinelli's autobiography. It has been referred to as a "montage of
sharply focused memories" and "the evolution of an exceptional author." This book demonstrates Spinelli's
gift for being able to speak to his young readers. It has been utilized as part of library summer reading
programs.
In this early memoir, Jerry Spinelli reveals a loving childhood memory filled with humor and drama from a
starting point first punch to an outrageous first kiss to that fifty-yard dash when for seven astound seconds
no one was ahead of him. And although he didn’t realize it, Jerry Spinelli was watching closely and
becoming a writer along the way.
‘A warm deeply personal memoir. Marvelous’

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