Every day Aiko brings fresh flowers to school because every day the flowers are dead. "There is a killer," I say. But who is it? And why do they kill? My name is Hana Walker. I am 13 years old. My Mum is Japanese, my Dad is English. 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 mystery... This series of Hana Walker mystery short stories is designed to engage students of English as a foreign language who typically are in their first year of junior high school. Every book features an engaging mystery with the same cast of characters, a vocabulary section and set of questions. The books can be used as a focus of a reading and discussion lesson or given as homework for students to work on by themselves. Word Count: 1,427 Tenses: Simple present Target language: Third person vs first person verbs