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)
Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer.Now another womanlies in a London street and there is bloodeverywhere.She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound;can you catch the killer before he escapes?
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.
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...
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan,to help on the farm at Green Gables.They ask for a boy, but they get Anne,who has red hair and freckles,and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl,but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel?So Anne stays,and begins a new life in the sleepy,quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there ... (Word count 5,860)
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan,to help on the farm at Green Gables.They ask for a boy, but they get Anne,who has red hair and freckles,and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl,but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel?So Anne stays,and begins a new life in the sleepy,quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there ... (Word count 5,860)
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan,to help on the farm at Green Gables.They ask for a boy, but they get Anne,who has red hair and freckles,and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl,but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel?So Anne stays,and begins a new life in the sleepy,quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there ... (Word count 5,860)
Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan,to help on the farm at Green Gables.They ask for a boy, but they get Anne,who has red hair and freckles,and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl,but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel?So Anne stays,and begins a new life in the sleepy,quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there ... (Word count 5,860)