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Edith Nesbit The Railway ChildrenClassic / British English. Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a railway line...
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John Grisham The Rainmaker ENI have no job. I have no money. I have debts I can’t pay. I do, however, have a case. Rudy Baylor is ready to finish law school but loses his first job before he has even started. Then Dot and Bud Black ask for his help in their fight against a powerful insurance company. Their son, Donny Ray, is dying. His claim for medical insurance has been refused. Can Rudy, an inexperienced student, really give them any hope? …
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Bernard Smith The RingOne day Rafael was well, the next day he was completely mad. What happened to him? The story of Rafael and his gold ring is a strange story of murder, mystery and love...
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Rudyard Kipling The Room in the Tower and Other StoriesClassic / British English. Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she …? Why does a dead man walk through his house each night? An old woman has a house with a tower...
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John Grisham The Runaway JuryContemporary / American English. Pynex, a tobacco company, could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in a big court case. The jury is being watched. One of the jurors is working with a mysterious woman outside the court...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne The Scarlett LetterClassic / American English. Boston in the 1600s is a small town, but a large crowd waits for Hester Prynne outside the prison. She carries a baby in her arms and the scarlet letter is on her dress. is for adulteress...
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Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden ENMary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. There are many gardens round the house. One day Mary finds a garden that has high walls and no doors. What is the secret of the garden? Classic / British English
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Francis Hodgsen Burnett The Secret GardenWhen Mary's parents suddenly die in India, she goes to live with her uncle in a large, dark, lonely house in England. Mary is not happy in her new home, but she soon discovers the key to a secret garden....
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The Selfish GiantA giant does not want to share his garden with the children of the town. He builds a big wall around the garden to stop the children getting in. After that it is always winter in the garden...
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The Snow QueenTwo children, Gerda and Kay, live with their grandmother in Denmark. Something horrible happens to Kay one snowy day and he is taken away by the Snow Queen. Where does she take him? What has happened...
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Stephen Bryant The Story of the InternetOriginal / British English. The Internet is the fastest growing phenomenon in technology the world has ever seen, revolutionising business and the lives of almost every person on the planet – in less than ten years...
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The Swiss Family RobinsonA ship is caught in a huge storm. One family are able to get to an island. They find food, build a treehouse and start to enjoy their new life there. But what will happen to them when winter comes? How long will they stay there...
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John Buchan The Thirty-None StepsClassic / British English. A man is killed in Richard Hannay’s home. Before his death he tells Hannay a dangerous secret. Now Hannay’s life is in danger. Who are his enemies and what are they trying to do? ...
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The Three Billy Goats GruffThe three Billy Goats Gruff like to eat. One day they see some tall, green grass but there is a Troll. The Troll is hungry, too. Do the goats eat the grass? Does the troll eat the goats?
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Alexandre Dumas The Three MusketeersClassic / British English. D'Artagnan wants to be a musketeer. He wants to fight for his king and his country. But the Queen has a problem with the Cardinal, so d'Artagnan and his new friends have to help her...
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H. G. Wells The Time Machine ENThe Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will the Time Traveller…
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Stephen Rabley The Troy StoneOriginal / British English. Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. 'I know this stone, ' he thinks. 'It comes from ... from ...' Suddenly Mark goes back in time...
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Henry James The Turn of the ScrewClassic / British English. A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things - the ghosts of dead people...
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Roald Dahl The TwitsRoald Dahl’s thrillingly grotesque book for young readers is now available in a gorgeous new gift edition, featuring the deliciously wicked artwork of Quentin Blake.Mr. and Mrs. Twit are the smelliest, nastiest, ugliest people in the world...
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The Voyages of Sinbad the SailorClassic / British English. Sindbad the Sailor went to sea seven times and his voyages were always dangerous. He met giant men, snakes and birds, and the Old Man of the Sea. He visited different countries and strange islands...
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George Herbert Wells The War of the WorldsClassic / British English.The War of the Worlds is one of the most frightening science fiction novels ever written. When a spaceship falls from the sky and lands in southern England, few people are worried...
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Bernard Smith The White OryxOriginal / British English. Mandy Brown is in the desert with Abdullah, and an oryx ranger. But there are poachers in the desert too — and a mother oryx is dead. Can Mandy and Abdullah catch the poachers?...
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Kenneth Grahame The Wind in the Willows: Mole and Rat become FriendsMole is happy in his little house - so happy, he plays and sings outside. Then he meets Water Rat, and his new friend shows him many things - horses, the river, boats, a village, and a gypsy caravan! ...
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Wilkie Collins The Woman in WhiteClassic / British English. Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlie's cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret? From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman...