This collection of six stories, based on Shakespeare's plays, is the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers. Meet the tragic young lovers Romeo and Juliet, mad King Lear, angry young Hamlet, and many more of the famous characters in world literature.
This book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare's greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare's most famous characters - magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more. This is a wonderful first step on the journey into the world of Shakespeare.
Hello! My name is Buddy. I am therapy dog at school.. I am also a detective. There is a something very strange in the school library. I thought it was a ghost, but now I think it's a MONSTER! What is it? And where did it come from?
Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not a simple case.
Is Alix's new husband really going to murder her for her money? Who has killed the young Englishman on his return from America? And why have a young couple suddenly disappeared from their home? In this collection of mysteries by famous authors, the answers are never quite what you expect.
2001: A Space Odyssey - a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out - a billion kilometers to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them...
Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused him to question his own nature and values - and the nature and values of his society.
Allie Finkle is excited when a new girl joins her class at Pine Heights Elementary. Now Allie won't be the newest girl anymore! But her excitement turns to dismay when the new girl, Cheyenne, starts telling everyone in the fourth grade to GROW UP. But Allie isn't sure she's ready to be all grown-up yet - not if it means chasing boys at recess, not playing queens anymore, and especially... …
When nine-year-old Aliie Finkle's parents announce that the family is moving, Allie's sure her life is over. She has to move to a scary new house, change schools, and leave her precious geode collection behind. With a room she's half-scared to go into, the burden of being "the new girl", and her old friends a half hour away, how will Allie ever learn to fit in.
When Andrew Manson starts work as a doctor he discovers some unpleasant facts about the medical profession. He struggles against a system that seems to value money than curing illness. But the system is extremely powerful. Will he win his battle?