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Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are very good friends. - Cedric is a kind, ...

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where ...

'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 ...

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. ...

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop, of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope ...

After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with ... with ...

'You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy's place and no one will ever know the difference. You'll be rich for life!'And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar ...

Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti.There is only one old man who ...

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can ...

Bill and Sam arrive in the small American town of Summit with only two hundred dollars, but they need more, and Sam has an idea for making a lot of money. When things start to go ...

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who ...

Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings. Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of ...

Dorothy Lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the ...

William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty ...

Pinewood Academy is an expensive school in the most fashionable part of town - and scholarship kids like Liza and her friends Marco and Suki aren't always welcome there. There's a ...

'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to ...

London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a ...

What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, ...

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they ...

They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace7 They said revolution; so why did he talkof friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body ...

Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place... a place wiht a csholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again ...

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night...isitadoorbanginginthewin$1, $2r a murdered man knocking ...

The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and ...

COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED: A burning curiosity draws Rudolf Rassendyll, a young Englishman, to Ruritania to see the coronation of the new King. His distinctive red hair and long ...