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 …
Sally Brown is a student and she wants to be a teacher. She is working at Happy hills in her holidays. Lots of people come to Happy Hills, to go on the rides and see the fun characters. Sally is…
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good "white" Australians. …
It is the year 650, and the people of England are not happy. There is no king and there is a lot of fighting. One night, Merlin the magician has a dream, " I see a wonderful king. His name is Art…
You are on a ferry going to the island of Skaran in Ireland. You are an archaeologist and you want to study the very old white stones on the island. But on the ferry, you meet a woman. " The peop…