Deep
Trouble
Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study
for their exams. They want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at
West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he
jokes.
But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in
deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must
dive for their lives.
Five Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey
Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
The year is
1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going
to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell
stories on the way.
Who should be the stronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And
what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five
stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers to
these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford, the
Merchant, and the Franklin.
From the Heart
Anna
is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets
Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a
different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that
her father isn't going to like it.
Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And
can they find true happiness together?
Housemates
Alison
Watts
Chris
leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University
of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live.
But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house
has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In
fact, some of them are very difficult people!
Can Chris find the house that he needs with housemates that he can live
with?
New
When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months
in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves travelling, and talking about his job -
making computer games for BananaTech in America.
'Your new game's going to be the best thing at
the Irish Computer Games Show!' people at BananaTech Ireland tell him.
But living with a noisy parrot isn't easy, and
when Jake asks the most beautiful girl at work out to dinner, she says 'no'.
Then someone steals Jake's game the night before
the show. Who - or what - can help him to get it back?
Macbeth
A
dark, rainy day in Scotland, long ago. Returning from battle, Macbeth and his
friend Banquo meet three witches. 'Macbeth, the king!' they say, but Macbeth is
not a king, he is just a simple soldier.
Macbeth and
Banquo cannot forget the witches' words. Soon Macbeth is king, but his wife
walks in her sleep at night, and dreams of blood. What lies in the future for
Banquo? And how many people must die before Scotland finds peace once more?
Mystery
in Muscat
Julie Till
'How long is she in Oman for?'
'Ten days. And then they want to take her back
home.'
'Ah, yes. But she's not going back to London.
They're never going to see her again!'
Jamie and Taymour overhear this strange
conversation near their homes in Muscat. Two men want to kill an important
visitor, it seems. But who is the woman in danger? And what can the boys do to
save her?
Can they, their sisters Sarah and Nadine, and
their Australian friend Ruth find the answer to the mystery?
Pollyanna
Eleanor
H. Porter
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
When
Pollyanna's farther dies, she goes to live with her Aunt, Miss Polly
Harrington. Miss Harrington likes doing good, but she doesn't like children
very much!
Pollyanna always tries to find the good in everything. She soon makes
many different people in her new home feel happier. But is Miss Polly's life
going to change for better or worse after her niece arrives? And what happens
to Pollyanna when she has a very bad accident?
Sherlock Holmes: The Blue
Diamond
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
'He's
an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once,
but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its
owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a
beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can
find it.
Sherlock Holmes: The
Emerald Crown
A
man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at
Holder and Stevenson's - one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to
take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who
wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers.
Studio Five
Anthony
Manning
Fay
loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is
always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show.
Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend -
Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay
friends?
The Curse of the Mummy
Joyce
Hannam
For
thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the
sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find
and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper
Tariq tells the story in his diary.
But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun
angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with
the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?
The Real McCoy & Other
Ghost Stories
Lesley
Thompson
'Are
you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather.
Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon
sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of
Lord McCoy?
These six stories tell of ghosts - friendly, sad, and bad - from
Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America - and Egypt!
The Teacher's Secret and
Other Folk Tales
Retold by
Joyce Hannam
Are
men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about
teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students?
The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all
want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid?
The Travels of Ibn Battuta
'My
first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said
"Goodbye" to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.'
In this way Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travellers in the world,
begins telling his story to his nephew, Ahmed.
His many journeys take him to new and interesting places far from home.
He sees many strange and wonderful things, has many funny and frightening
experiences, and meets many different people along the way.
This is his story...
The Wild West
How
much do you know about the Wild West? What do you know about cowboys and
Indians, about wagon trails and gunfights?
Inside this book you will find the true story of the Wild West, and of
some of the famous people who lived and worked there. People like Wyatt Earp,
Jesse James, Billy the Kid - and Annie Oakley, the best shot in the West.
The Wrong Trousers
Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
It's
Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present
- a pair of Techno-trousers.
At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when
the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different -
very different.
This strange story won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.
True Heroes of Sport
Donatella
Fitzgerald
Some
people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their
sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius,
Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more.
All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through
sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times
that makes you into a true hero!
Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea
Jules
Verne
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson
When
ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant,
Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these
ships?
Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this
question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.
After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus,
the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the surface.
But how can they escape?
