There are currently 24 Hana Walker short stories available now on Amazon as individual books and two anthologies of the short stories 1-12 and 13-24. Twelve more short stories (numbers 25-36) will be published as individual books and a third anthology in April 2024.
All 36 stories and 3 anthologies are available from every Amazon site worldwide including Amazon.com, Amazon.co.jp and Amazon.co.uk.
Titles 1-12 are as follows:
They are all included in Hana Walker’s First Year of Mysteries here:
Titles 13-24 are as follows:
They are all included in Hana Walker’s Second Year of Mysteries here:
Titles 25-36 (to be published by April 2024) are as follows:
They are all included in Hana Walker’s Third Year of Mysteries here (due to be published in April 2024):
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:
Hana Walker is a 13-year-old hafu in a Japanese junior high school.
She’s a hero. She puts herself on the line by solving mysteries for her school friends.
Hana’s got no time for teachers, bullies or cops. She’s no snitch.
She gets to the point. Every story is no more than 12 pages and each has a vocab list explaining any difficult words.
She doesn’t use present perfect until the second year.
She’s feisty, fallible and fun.
And for the teacher:
No preparation needed.
Every story has nine multiple choice questions to check comprehension, and three open-ended questions to encourage class discussion.
Stories are short enough to be read in one session, assigned as homework or read chapter-by-chapter over a month as the literacy part of a classroom lesson.
They are graded readers, the vocabulary and grammar used is controlled to follow the usual progression in Japanese junior high school classes.
They are feisty, fallible and fun.