Washington Irving, retold by Anne Collins
Two dark comedies with ghost/mystery themes which are set around the period of the American War of Independence.
Ichabod Crane is the hero of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Peculiar-looking and socially inept, this schoolmaster is a joke to the people of Sleepy Hollow as he tries to win the love of the beautiful daughter of a rich farmer.
Original work by Washington Irving
ISBN: 9781405076548
English Type: British
Published Date: 23 May 2005
Pages: 64
Kieran McGovern
Tom has failed his exams, so he cannot study photography at art college. He is bored with his job in a library and he doesn't know what he wants to do. Rita knows what she wants to do - she wants to be a model. When she steps into Tom's library one rainy day, the couple's futures become linked.
ISBN: 9781405072724
English Type: British
Published Date: 31 March 2005
Pages: 64
Philip Prowse
Lenny Samuel is hired to find a retired championship racehorse. The private eye thinks that he is going to enjoy this job. After all, what could be easier? All he has to do is hang around California's racetracks, ask a few questions and then report back to his very pretty client.
ISBN: 9781405076975
English Type: British
Published Date: 17 May 2005
Pages: 64
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, retold by Anne Collins
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of Ed Malone, a young newspaper reporter who joins a team of explorers, led by the eccentric Professor Challenger. 'You have found a place which no one knows about - a lost world. A world where creatures from the past still live."
Original work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781405072717
English Type: British
Published Date: 31 March 2005
Pages: 64
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, retold by Stephen Colbourn
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson travel to Dartmoor to investigate the bizarre death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Is there really a curse on the family? And is there a huge dog living on the moor?
Original work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781405076524
English Type: British
Published Date: 31 March 2005
Pages: 64
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley, retold by Margaret Tarner
Frankenstein is an Elementary-level book written by Mary Shelley for the Macmillan Readers Series. This classic story is about the eccentric scientist Victor Frankenstein who has a passion for studying old science theories and this leads to the creation of a huge monster during an unusual scientific experiment. Includes an Audio CD.
Original work by Mary Shelley
ISBN: 9781405076500
English Type: British
Published Date: 20 April 2005
Pages: 64
W. Somerset Maugham, retold by John Davey
Four amusing twentieth-century short stories: The Escape, Louise, The Ant and the Grasshopper and The Fall of Edward Barnard.
Original work by W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9781405072663
English Type: British
Published Date: 19 May 2005
Pages: 64
Robert Louis Stevenson, retold by Stephen Colbourn
This is a horror story about a scientist and his investigations into his own character, but soon he finds himself under the control of a darker, evil force.
Original work by Robert Loius Stevenson
ISBN: 9781405072656
English Type: British
Published Date: 20 April 2005
Pages: 32
Michael Hardcastle, retold by Philip King
Tom is given a lift in a car by a middle-aged man and an attractive young girl. The man says he needs someone small and strong to recover his property from a sunken ship. Tom is attracted to the girl and the glamour of the job - diving for lost diamonds. But one man has already died trying to get the small plastic bags out of the cramped hold of the sunken ship.
Original work by Michael Hardcastle
ISBN: 9781405072649
English Type: British
Published Date: 20 April 2005
Pages: 64
John Landon
Larry applies for a job as a cook on an expedition to search the mountains of northern Afghanistan for the legendary and fearsom Toruk. At the interview, Larry has nagging doubts. But he loves mountains and he needs a job.
ISBN: 9781405072595
English Type: British
Published Date: 31 March 2005
Pages: 64