Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl.She first comes to England when she is seven,and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London.Then he goes back to his work in India.Sara is very sad at first,but she soon makes friends at school. But on her eleventh birthday,something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family,no home,and not a penny in the world...
Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but oneday a cyclone blows her and her house toa strange country called Oz. There, Dorothymakes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person canhelp her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothyand her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz…
Tom Sawyer does not like school.He doesnot like work,and he never wants to getout of bed in the morning.But he likesswimming and fishing,and havingadventures with his friends.And he has a lot of adventures.One night,he and his friend Huck Finngo to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night.They see somethingworse than a ghost-much,much worse...(Word count 5,825)
He is not beautiful. His mother does notwant him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him ‘The Elephant Man’. Then someone speaks to him-and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for thefirst time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.
Sally is always running and she hasher phone with her all the time:at home,on the train,at work,at lunchtime,andat the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has adifferent phone and it changes her life.
Christmas is humbug,Scrooge says-just a time when you find yourself a yearolder and not a penny richer.The onlything that matters to Scrooge is business,and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him.They take him travelling on the wings of the night to seethe shadows of Christmas past,present,and future-and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.
'I often walked along the shore,and one day I saw something in thesand.I went over to look at it morecarefully…It was a footprint-thefootprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a smallisland off the coast of South America.After fifteen yearsalone,he suddenly learns that there is another person onthe island.But will this man be a friend-or an enemy?
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered,disagreeable child.When her parents diein India,she is sent back to England to livewith her uncle in a big,lonely,old house. There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens and watch the robin flying over the highwalls of the secret garden…which has been locked for tenyears.And no one has the key.
London in the 1830s was no place to be ifyou were a hungry ten-year-old boy,anorphan without friends or family,with nohome to go to,and only a penny in yourpocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver Twist finds some friends-Fagin,the Artful Dodger,and Charley Bates.They give him food and shelter,and play games with him,but it is not until some days laterthat Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are and whatkind of 'games' they play…
When men find gold in the frozennorth of Canada,they need dogsbig,strong dogs to pull the sledges onthe long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold asa sledge-dog.He has to learn a new way of life -howto work in harness,how to stay alive in the ice and thesnow...and how to fight.Because when a dog fallsdown in a fight,he never gets up again.[Word count 10,965]
A housewife,a tramp,a lawyer,a waitress,an actress -ordinary people living ordinary Lives in New York at the beginning of thiscentury.The city has changed greatly sincethat time,but its people are much the same.Some are rich,some are poor,some are happy,someare sad,some have found love,some are looking for love. O.Henry's famous short stories-sensitive,funny,sympathetic -give us vivid pictures of the everyday livesof these New Yorkers.(Word count 5,895)
