Keep Calm and Read: Read with Understanding

By Baloi Modise Keabetswe

Keep Calm and Read has amazing short stories and dialogues that will blow childrens minds. It has short questions after each and every story and a dialogue. It is educational, and some of the questions are based on grammar. It can also be used by schools as their literature book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Nov 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781546281955

Baloi Modise Keabetswe

Baloi Modise Keabetswe was born and bred on the 21 February 2001 in a village called Lesetlheng. He was raised by his both parents Baloi Phillimon and Baloi Monicca. He never thought that one day he will be given a title as an author. He began to write his book somewhere around 2015, during school holidays. He finished to write the book in 2016. His book was rejected several times but that didn't stop him . Infect, it encouraged him to even fight harder to achieving his goal of being a well known author. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A special thanks to my Setswana teacher ,Mr Ntshabele, who always encouraged me to writing a book. I would also like to thank Bokamoso Molale for editing my book. Rammutla Amantle, Motloba Phemelo and Ntshole Mpho, I would also like to thank them for their motivation. To my mother Baloi Monicca, I really appreciate all the support and and your selfless heart.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/12/2018

ISBN: 978-1-5462-8196-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5462-8195-5 (e)

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Acknowledgements

A special thanks to my Setswana teacher, Mr. Ntshabele, who always encouraged me to writing a book. I would also like to thank Bokamoso Molale for editing my book. Rammutla Amantle, Motloba Phemelo and Ntshole Mpho, I would also like to thank them for their motivation. To my mother Baloi Monicca, I really appreciate all the support and and your selfless heart.

About the Author

Baloi Modise Keabetswe was born and bred on the 21 February 2001 in a village called Lesetlheng. He was raised by his both parents Baloi Phillimon and Baloi Monicca. He never thought that one day he will be given a title as an author. He began to write his book somewhere around 2015, during school holidays. He finished to write the book in 2016. His book was rejected several times but that didn’t stop him. In fact, it encouraged him to even fight harder to achieving his goal of being a well known author.

Contents

1. History

2. Mom I am old enough

3. The Trip

4. Long Time No See

5. April fool

6. Happy Birthday ‘To You’

7. The little one

8. Burned in the house

9. The royalties

10. The magician

11. Lightning powers

12. The magic frog

13. In twenty years time

14. There’s a thief

15. Technology

16. Torture

17. Gambling

18. The past

19. Imaginary friend

20. The right

1. History

When I was young, I started my preschool at Lesetlheng, however I often forgot the name of the school as I was very young, the name was just difficult to grasp. I was lucky when I began schooling at Lesetlheng Primary because one of my favourite cousin was my Classmate; I was fortunate because I had a friend whom I knew well and unfortunate because she was a girl and I got teased by my other classmates who undoubtedly believed that she was my girlfriend or rather my crush.

During my time at this school which I came to love there is a day that I can never forget. On this particular day my stomach was not kind to me and my lack of toilet paper did not make the situation any better: I could not access all that I needed to go to