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It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come an[...]![]()
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There were six of them -three Katherines, two Annes, and Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life.After [...]![]()
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Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first.And when they are adults, Al still[...]![]()
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Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few week's time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like h[...]![]()
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The room was on th fourth flour, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside . The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the[...]![]()
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There, on top of hte mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of his mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, "Who are you?"What strange things happen when Alice falls down the ra[...]![]()
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Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can [...]![]()
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All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they[...]![]()
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A housewife, a tramp , a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. This city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some ar[...]![]()
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As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Ear[...]![]()
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Arnold Bennett is famous for his story about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things.![]()
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This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.![]()
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Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know ? And who is the[...]![]()
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Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a moto-car and drive it...very fast.![]()
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In 1956, a young man called Elvis Presley made a ricord that change the history of music. When he started, others followed: Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Madonna and Nirvana. This book looks at the way pop music has changed and grown over the last [...]