Dorothy lives in Kansas, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she…
We all know how difficult love can be. When you meet someone you like, there are so many things that can go wrong, sometimes because you are trying too hard, sometimes because of a misunderstandin…
As they walk through a park in the distant future, Hart 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…
When Lord Asano drew his sword on Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it began a story that is now a national legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but Lord Asano died, and after his death, his samurai …
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a…
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…
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…