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Norlando Pobre 1 Summary of the book: „On the Edge“

On the Edge – Gillian Cross

Book summary Tug is a very sportive teenager. After a long walk he comes back to his house, but after he enters the entrance he can’t see anything. The room was too dark. Suddenly he feels an arm around his neck and a hand over his face. What has become of him?

At the same time, two hundred kilometers away in a rural environment - Jinny Slattery, a young girl, lives there with her family. Tonight, Jinny goes with her father to chase a hare. Jinnys family is very special. They get them food by their own hands, because this, Jinny must learn to chase animals. It is a very dark night and Jinny is very afraid.

In the dark silent night, Jinny hears some noise from the cottage near the farm. It is a loud, hammering sound. Her father doesn’t matter; he doesn’t care. While they walk home Jinny thinks about the strange sound from the cottage.

The next morning Tug wakes up, he doesn’t know where he is and what has happened. He finds out that he was kidnapped by some curious people. The couple is Mr. Doyle and Mrs. Hollins. The woman demands him, to call her “ma”. But she is not Tug’s mother. Her mother is in London and searches all the time for Tug. But the man is not better than “ma”, he is very angry. If Tug doesn’t cooperate with them, they’ll take his food away. Tug can’t disappear; he is caged in his bedroom. The only way to the outside world is a message on a paper he throws outside the window.

Norlando Pobre 2 Summary of the book: „On the Edge“ At the same time, Jinny see Mrs. Hollins in the post office of the village. She never met this person before. Jinny finds out that this woman lives in the cottage, where the strange sounds come from. She will go to find out more, but Doyle stopped her. Jinny can’t stop thinking about it. She tells the story to her best friend Keith. He is very busy at the moment with reading newspaper and watching the news on TV. A boy in London was kidnapped, and the police suppose that the guy is stored in a house in London. Keith’s father is a police officer. Jinny and Keith asked him to check the cottage together. But all what they find was a “happy family”, no ominous things. After this deflating visit, Jinny thinks many times about it. She compares the picture of the kidnapped boy in the newspaper, with the boy from the cottage. Indeed – it’s the same boy. Finally, Jinny and Keith the mother of Tug. She comes to the village and they make a plan to release Tug from the hands of the kidnappers. It comes to a very dangerous situation. But you can read it by yourself, how this situation will end!

My opinion to the Book “On the Edge”:

I liked the story of this book. It was exciting to read the story about Tug and the kidnappers. Sometimes it was not very easy to understand some turnarounds in the story, but when I read these phrases twice, I understood the most things. In my view, the story was too short, but the book seems to be a special book for learning English so I’ll find it ok. I would recommend this book, because the story is not boring and I had never read a similar story before.