When Pollyanna's farther dies, she goes to live with her Aunt, Miss Polly Harrington. Miss Harrington likes doing good, but she doesn't like children very much! Pollyanna always tries to find the …
Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for hi…
Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams - they want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go an…
Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two Americans girls on the train. They were nice and…
In the summer of 1910, a race begun. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long jou…
When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law.…
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: they need her mo…
Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan... Then, one day Prospero sees…
'Bring me something new and exciting. Bring me a BIG story!' says Rosie's editor at The Record newspaper. And, when she leaves the office, Rosie does find a story. A story that is bigger than she …
In Hamburg, Germany, Professor Otto Lidenbrock comes home with an old Icelandid book. In it there is a message about a journey to the centre of the Earth. This is the beginning of one of Jules Vern…
One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road... A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an arti…
Hal works at the zoo every day and his life isn't exciting until he meets Tim. Tim is a movie star. He has a difficult life, and he is unhappy until he meets Hal. But when they meet, and agree to c…
In the first of these stories, Rip van Winkle sleeps for over twenty years, and then wakes up to a world that he no longer understands. In the other story, Ichabod Crane, the school teacher, meets …
Sherlock Holmes needs a rest, so Dr Watson takes him to the country. They stay with Watson's old friend, Colonel Hayter, in his nice house near Reigate. And of course everything is quiet here, away…
Keawe buys a magic bottle that can give him anything he wants. He builds a beutiful house, falls in love with and marries Kokua, and is very happy. But if you have the bottle and die, you go to he…
The men and the woman in this book - William Tell, Tom Blood, Lord Bao, King Matthias, Johnny Appleseed, and Lady Godiva - are all real people from history. But every time someone tells an old stor…
King Shahriyar cannot trust women. Every afternoon he marries a wife, but the next morning he always kills her. One day, the Vizier cannot find any more wives for the King. What can he do? 'I can b…
Sinbad the sailor spends many years at sea. He visits strange countries, meets some strange people and some frightening animals. He is sometimes rich, sometimes poor and always in danger. But all t…
Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a…
"Istri Anda, Rosemary, tidak bunuh diri. Dia dibunuh!" George Barton menerima surat kaleng yang misterius itu setahun setelah kematian istrinya, Rosemary. Semua berawal pada pesta ulang tahun Rosem…