The+Boy+In+The+Burning+House

ESOLAcLit9 Philip Gu
 * The Boy in the Burning House- **

This is an interesting story, it contains mystery and friendship. The book was written by Tim Wynne-Jones, he wrote a lot of children fiction books. Such as "the Maestro", "A Thief in the House of Memory". The titles were all intresting as this one. The boy in the burning house, he got killed? Got rescue? Became a mystery? We nned to find out from the story!

Jim, a young boy which really worried about his father, and you may ask. Did his father go to a war or an adventure? Of course not, if like that, Jim should be proud of his father. Jim’s father was missing for one year already! Not gotten kidnap, not evaded debt, he just gone. Next, a girl that could be the most annoying friend in this world appeared in his life. She was a girl that had gotten adopted by a christian family, her name was Ruth Rose. She kept telling Jim, "I knew the truth", and it was my stepfather! Her stepfather was a pastor, but later on, Jim found out, his father and her stepfather were friends, and they also related to a fire which 25 years ago, there was a kid called Francis, he was about 17, and had been killed in a fire. Was there any relationship? Look it by yourself!

Tim Wynne-Jones put suspense in to the novel, such as “Died on New Year’s Eve. In a fire- a fire he started himself. It created a suspense that make me want to find out more, and get some clues about this fire. This was a exciting book, but only you read it, so you can know what’s going on about Jim’s father and Ruth Fisher- Rose’s father's relationship and the mystery between them and Francis.