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Young John Trenchard lives in Moonfleet, an English village with dark secrets. One day he discovers a hidden crypt below the cemetery where smugglers meet and hide their goods. Here he accidentally finds the skeleton of evil Colonel Mohune, better known as Blackbeard, and a precious clue that could help him find Blackbeard’s treasure… Thrilling adventures...
At Lady Windermere’s party a famous palm reader predicts that Lord Arthur Savile will commit a murder. Will the handsome young nobleman become an assassin or will he marry Sybil, his beautiful fiancée? Read about Lady Alroy’s mysterious ways in ‘The Sphinx without a Secret’ and how it pays to be nice to beggars in ‘The...
Discover how a midnight ritual transforms the life of a young Puritan in ‘Young Goodman Brown’. Witness what happens to three old friends who discover the potion of eternal youth in ‘Dr Heidegger’s Experiment’. Experience the tragedy of the scientist who strives to achieve perfection at all costs in ‘The Birthmark’. *Accessible Adaptation in American...
A diamond is on display at an important show on Eastern Europe and Vampires at a New York City museum. Nick has a summer job at the museum and invites his best friends Bill and Michelle to join him for a summer of fun. One night the diamond disappears and a security guard is found dead. Suddenly there is a vampire scare in New York City. The three...
Retold by Nancy Timmins Humour & comedy After surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Illyria, Viola disguises herself as a boy to get a position at the court of Duke Orsino, who is in love with beautiful Olivia. Unknown to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian has also survived the shipwreck. When he too arrives in Illyria, confusion and misunderstandings...
Rudolf Rassendyll comes from an ancient English family that has had a romantic connection with the royal household of Ruritania. He decides to visit Ruritania and is rapidly caught up in the political events of the country... *PET-style activities *Trinity-style activities (grade 5/6) Wide range of activities covering the four skills *Internet Project...
For those who enjoy strange surprises these five original stories will be a delight. Take Max, who thought that sleeping was a waste of time – until the media got to know about him. Or what about Fiona the fashion model who decided to show her invisible self instead of modelling clothes! Just open the book and you will enter a strange world where things...
In California five teenagers create a successful club that organises jobs from babysitting to dog walking. One day the carnival comes to town and mysterious things start to happen to some members of the club... eerie! Who will solve the mystery?
Young love, unbelievable wealth, greed, cruelty and adventure are the themes Fitzgerald brilliantly combines to create a highly unusual story with a surprise ending that no reader will be able to put down. In this story the great Fitzgerald reveals a bizarre segment of the rich and careless American society of the 1920s, which he often criticized and yet...
Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge...
Adapted by Kenneth Brodey Human Interest Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India. This is Rudyard Kipling's greatest book - a story about the British empire, spies,...
A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing with no face, a picture that comes alive, and a boy with no heart. These are some of the frightening things in these stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest horror writers of all time.
Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New York. But in October 1929 the American economy fails, and at the same time Jim starts to lose in the boxing ring. Does the true story of Jim Braddock — the Cinderella Man — have a happy ending?
Guy Haines is travelling through Texas on a train when a stranger invites him to share a meal. But the stranger has a terrible plan. ‘You murder my father, and I’ll murder your wife,’ he suggests. So begins Guy’s journey into a world of madness, lies and death.
Follow Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes solving the problem of the goose and hat in ‘The Blue Carbuncle’; finding a missing fiancé in ‘A Case Of Identity’; and discovering the identity of a mysterious person in ‘The Yellow Face’. *PET-style activities *Trinity-style activities (grade 5,6) *Wide range of activities coveringthe fourskills *Recording of all...
Jane Eyre, a penniless and unattractive orphan, becomes a governess at Thornfield Hall and falls in love with Edward Rochester, the guardian of her ward. But she soon discovers that he is hiding a terrible secret… *Wide range of activities on the four skills *Pet-style activities *Trinity-style activities (grades 5/6) Dossiers on Victorian Schools,...