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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...

“Martin Luther King” was the leader of the campaign for black civil rights in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s. This book tells the story of the peaceful demonstrations he held in the southern states demanding equal rights for blacks. He faced enormous opposition but his non-violent struggle...

"Marie Curie" was the brilliant scientist who discovered radium in the earliest years of XX siecle, a discovery that changed the world: doctors were later able to help people with cancer and scientists came to know more about the atom. This book tells her life of struggle, success and...

One day Pole-cat went to visit "Kalulu the Hare". He said, 'Near my home there is a village. In that village all the people are friends. They never quarrel... Frank Worthington tells us a lot of tales from Africa.

Emily Brontë tells us in this famous novel how the wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the...

“Jane Eyre”, a poor orphan, grows up in misery, but she becomes, trhought a lot of time and work, the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding...

Peter Cooper presents us to Robert Scott, Chief Superintendent of Police at Scotland Yard, the pólice headquarters in London. In “The Munich Connection” relate that one day of December the pone rings. It’s Detective John Lane from Wembley, an old friend of Scott’s. ‘But tisis the business…’, Lane tells him....

"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?

A story at Level 2 of a series of children's illustrated readers which are graded at five levels, according to length and complexity of plot. The stories cover a wide variety of genres, and have both British and foreign settings. Paul Shipton narrates us how Phil thinks Grantford is boring,...

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"?