Why does a burglar keep smashing statues of Napoleon? Where is the blue carbuncle? And who is the mysterious Irene Adler? Join Sherlock Holmes and his trusted friend Dr. Watson as they unravel t…
The novel of 1984, written by George Orwell, is the major work towards which all his previous writing has pointed. Critics have hailed it as his "most solid, most brilliant" work. Though the story …
Nat Blake thinks the boys at Plumfield seem more like a big family than a group of school children. Nat is recently orphaned when he first arrives at the large house with its big, old-fashioned po…
People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to the zoo and watching animals in films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals…
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked--with the key in the side. The windows were closed and fastened--on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So …
Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful…
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…
Everyone knows about Brazil's beautiful beaches, the Amazon Rainforest, and the wonderful Carnival of Rio de Janeiro. But there is a lot more to Brazil than this: here you can find interesting ol…
Why does Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, look so sad? Why does he often say strange things? His family and friends are worried about him. Perhaps he is mad! But Hamlet thinks that he has d…
A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress--ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its peo…