In the summer of 1910, a race began. 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 Nove, and began the long j…
Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. When they are adults, Al still comes fi…
This is the story of a poor, ugly man. Nobody loved him, everyone laughed at him. They put him in a cage, like an animal at the zoo. Then one day a doctor saw him and thought, "This poor man is i…
Anna Harland thinks that she knows her daughter, Sarah. She knows that Sarah does not sell heroin. But love can change people. And Sarah is in love with a stranger. Why did she have heroin in h…
All they could hear was the wind, and the wave crashing onto 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 …