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It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers are English. They’re starting a new life in America. They want a farm, but they haven’t got any money. What can they do? Stephen Rabley tells us how They became to get their “Tinkers...

"Inspector Thackeray Arrives" tells us about three adventures of the detective. He has to find the criminal. That's not easy, but the criminal makes several mistakes. Can you see the mistakes? Can you find the criminals?

I felt vey unhappy. I was afraid to go home. 'What will my grandmother say?' I asked myself. 'What will she think? I will be sent away from school expelled!' What is the story that T. C. Jupp tells us in "Winning and Losing"?

It was the custom for lads to gather at the street corner on summer evenings and discuss trolleying. Spit Nolan was the champion trolley-rider. He had very good balance, sharp wits and he was very brave. The dramatic story of Spit Nolan is one of thirteen in this collection of...

Ivan runs along the street. Ivan runs fast. Everybody is looking at Ivan. Why is he running alon the street? Where is he going? Do belonge to him "The Briefcase" that is carrying?

Rebecca and Sue like skiing. The suns’s shinning. There’s lots of snow. They are good skiers. But Mark and David are godos skiers too. And there is going to be a race. Who is going to win?

Adam’s money order was for 100 pounds. Sudenly he was a rich man! ‘Go to the post-office,’ sdaid the school teacher. ‘They will give you the money.’ Adam went to the post-office. But the oficial did not give him the money. Adam felt old and he felt poor again. He was...

Two short stories about Toby, a "Newspaper Boy" who wants to be a detective while he was distributing the papers.

The main character of this story is “Marco”, who is boy and live on a farm near a small village. One day, he leaves his home and gets on a train to go to a big city, because he has nothing to do and he dislikes the life as...

Janie loves karate. She wants to be a black belt. Her brother, Richard, always laughs at her. But, on school prize-giving day, Richard isn't laughing.