Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. When we think of a detective, we think first of Sherlock Holmes. Even now, a hundred years after the first story about him, he is still the …
Mark Miles has many trucks. They drive all over Europe taking different things to different places. But today, Mark and his son Andy are having a bad morning. One of their drivers, Gary Slater, …
Anna wants to be a writer, so when she gets a summer job at a fashion and beauty website called Gloss. She is very excited. But things are not easy. Anna's best friend Katie is upset with her, h…
Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away and is soon floating down the great Mississip…
Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories 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 th…
Sally has a phone and busy life. She gets many phone calls--mostly from her boyfriend, Andrew, Andrew likes telling Sally what to do-- and what to wear. Sally and Andrew are going to a party toni…
"How can Mr.Frank be angry now?" thinks Mike happily. His film is good and he is the only cameraman on the volcano. Now he can go home. But then he finds Jenny and she is dying. Rocks start to …
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…
"Good luck Jack. Don't forget us!" Jack work friends are saying goodbye to him. They are having a party for him because he is leaving for a new job. He gets a card and a present--a mobile phone. …
Kenny is going across America by bus to San Francisco. It is a long way, so he stops sometimes and stays the night in a motel. One evening he stays in a motel in a little town in California--not …