The Hana Walker Mysteries

Where to get the 3 collections of junior high school mysteries

There are three books featuring six short stories each for Junior High School Year 1, six stories for Year 2 and six stories for Year 3.

All three anthologies are available from every Amazon site worldwide or directly from Tower English (email: tower.english.info@gmail.com). The Amazon links are as follows:

For First Year Junior High School kids (aged 12+):

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For Second Year Junior High School kids (aged 13+):

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For Third Year Junior High School kids (aged 14+):

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My name is Hana Walker. I am 13 years old. My Mum is Japanese, my Dad is English. My Mum got ill and died. Japanese call me “half”. But I am not 50/50. I am 100 percent me. I speak English, but I don’t speak Japanese. I go to a Japanese Junior High School. I solve mysteries by looking and thinking. Every day is a new mystery…

For the teenage reader:

1. Hana Walker is a 13-year-old hafu in a Japanese junior high school.

2. She’s a hero. She puts herself on the line by solving mysteries for her school friends.

3. Hana’s got no time for teachers, bullies or cops. She’s no snitch.

4. She gets to the point. Every story is no more than 12 pages and each page has the difficult vocab translated into Japanese in footnotes.

5. She doesn’t use present perfect until the second year.

6. She’s feisty and fun.

And for the teacher:

1. No preparation needed.

2. Every story has multiple choice questions to check comprehension after each chapter, and open-ended questions to encourage class discussion at the end of every story.

3. Stories are short enough to be read in one session, assigned as homework or read chapter-by-chapter for a few minutes as the literacy part of a classroom lesson.

4. They are graded readers, the vocabulary and grammar used is controlled to follow the usual progression in Japanese junior high school classes.

5. They are feisty and fun.