'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face,and when I looked down,I saw a very small human being,only fifteen centimetres tall...I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels.He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk...
'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face,and when I looked down,I saw a very small human being,only fifteen centimetres tall...I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels.He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk...
'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face,and when I looked down,I saw a very small human being,only fifteen centimetres tall...I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.' But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels.He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk...
' Please,Mr Murdstone!Don't beat me!I've tried to learn my lessons,really I have,sir!'sobs David. Although he is only eight years old,Mr Murdstone does beat him,and David is so frightened that he bites his cruel stepfather's hand.Forthat,he is kept locked in his room for five days and nights,and nobody is allowed to speak to him. As David grows up,he learns that life is full of troubleand misery and cruelty.But he also finds laughter andkindness,trust and friendship...and love.
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)
'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?
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?
'You're a brave man,but I am afraid for you,'says Lady Marian to Robin of Locksley.She is afraid because Robin does not like Prince John's new taxes and wants to do something for the poor people of Nottingham.When Prince John hears this,Robin is suddenly in great danger.
