Bea lives under a bridge. She watches people but they don't look at her. Then, one day, a policeman stops and talks to her. Bea doesn't like talking a ...

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A little visitor from the stars who finds Earth fascinating but misses his family, he wants to 'go home'. Can his friend Elliot him him? The story of ...

Around the Ying Zheng, king of Qin, became the first emperor of China. He had new ideas and made new laws. He built big palaces - and a great wall. Bu ...

More than 2000 years ago, traders brought spices and incense by camel caravan across deserts and mountains from the south of Arabia to the Mediterrane ...

A mountain climber, high in The Andes, falls into a strange valley. In London a man is looking for a green door. A third man tries to help an unhappy ...

Original / British English Gabriel loves Silvia, but Silvia loves Marco. Marco wears expensive clothes and drives a fast car. He's more exciting than ...

In Clanton, Mississippi, not much happens. There aren?t many interesting stories for Willie Traynor?s newspaper. But then there?s a murder. When the k ...

Paris, 1792, people are dying. Aristocrats are running from angry revolutionaries, and a brave Englishman is helping them. He and his friends are tak ...

Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. There are many gardens round the house. One day Mary finds a garden that h ...

Around the world there are many beautiful places. There are famous buildings, old and new. Some are interesting; some are important. Some are the tall ...