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Every day someone takes money from people near the shops. we must stop this, says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many ...

Tom Sawyer does not Like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his ...

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors.There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out ...

In the future country of Airstrip One, you're being watched. Special screens inform the Thought Police about your every move. Winston Smith begins to rebel secretly. Why, he asks. ...

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; ...

When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.' Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world ...

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The ...

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time ...

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: ...

The human brain is an amazing organ, but it is also very complex. So how does it control everything that we do and feel? How does it change as we get older? And what happens when ...

'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric ...

Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born ...

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage B behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his ...

'I ran to the side of the ship. "Help, help! Murder!" I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then ...

When the pigs become the farm's new leaders, everyone is happy. After all, some of these pigs really are so clever and have excellent ideas. But then things start to go badly ...

Nick Lortz is sitting Outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. ...

When Anna Delvey arrived in New York in 2013, everyone thought that she was rich. She ate at the best restaurants, went to the most exclusive parties, stayed in the most expensive ...

Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His ...

The murder plan seems so neat, so clever. How can it possibly fail? And when Sonia's stupid, boring little husband is dead, she will be free to marry her handsome lover. But ...

Dr HuxtabLe has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his youngson there, that is good news for the school, The Duke is a very ...

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that ...

Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and ...

The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ...

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, ...