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)
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)
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.
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.
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…
Sometimes the Dashwood girls do notseem like sisters.Elinor is all calmnessand reason,and can be relied upon forpractical,common sense opinions.Marianne,on the other hand,is allsensibility,full of passionate and romantic feeling.Shehas no time for dull common sense-or for middle-agedmen of thirty-five,long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by the young,of course.And ifyour heart is broken at the age of seventeen,how can youever expect to recover from the passionate misery that fillsyour life,waking and sleeping?
There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny becausethey cannot act, so it is also a story thatmakes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story about mischief and magictoo. What happens when love and laughter come togetherwith magic in an Athenian forest? A Midsummer Night's Dream was written in about 1596 and is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. It hasbeen retold for Bookworms, not as a play, but as a story.
Sherlock Holmes is famous around theworld.When the police cannot solve acrime,they turn to Holmes.He nevermisses a clue,and when he lookscarefully at a person,he can understand everything about them. These are two of the best Sherlock Holmes stories.In 'The Dead Coachman',Holmes investigates a burglary and a murder while he is staying in the countryside with his friend Doctor Watson.In 'The Last Mystery',Holmes is in danger from the evil Professor Moriarty,who is as clever as the detective himself.They are both ready to fight to the death.But who will win?[Word count 8,351]
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…
