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 funny and stirring tales sets […]
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 a “Rich Man – […]
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 farmer. But in the city, his […]
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.
There is a war in Northern Ireland. Hundreds of British soldiers have died in the fighting there. This story is abour «Death of a Soldier«.
How does a detective learn his job? How long does a police dog hold a thief? Which was the fingerprint that led to a killer? Lewis Jones tell us the answers in this book titled «The Story of Scotland Yard «
Lewis Jones tells us in «The Story of Madame Tussaud’s» how she opens its doors every morning, but for two hours before that, people had been hard at work on some of the models washing or cleaning hairs and clothes and coluring the faces of the models. They must do this, because every year 3 […]