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Can Lidenbrock and Axel – and their
Icelandic guide, Hans – find the
centre of the Earth? And can they
all get home alive after their many
underground adventures?
‘My friend Queequeg and I are
looking for whaling work,’ Ishmael
says. Ishmael is a sailor from New
York. With Queequeg the harpooner,
he takes work on Captain Ahab’s
whaling-ship, the Pequod. The ship’s
first mate, Starbuck, wants to hunt
whales for their oil.
One cold winter morning, a famous
movie star and her teenage daughter
are driving along a country road . . .
A blue van is waiting for them.
Tom is in the van, but he’s not a
kidnapper – he’s an artist.
Keawe buys a magic bottle that
can give him anything he wants.
He builds a beautiful house, falls
in love with and marries Kokua,
and is very happy. But if you
have the bottle and die, you go
to hell.
KIDNAP!
John Escott
Word count 1933
ISBN
Pack: 9780194610056
JOURNEY TO THE
CENTRE OF THE EARTH
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson
Word count 2674
ISBN
Pack: 9780194610032
MOBY-DICK
Herman Melville
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson
Word count 3650
ISBN
Pack: 9780194610087
HERCULES
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 4308
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246798
THE GREAT FIRE
OF LONDON
Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 1901
ISBN
Pack: 9780194610223
THE BOTTLE IMP
Robert Louis Stevenson
Text adaptation by Rachel Bladon
Word count 3496
ISBN
Pack: 9780194245500
HEIDI
Johanna Spyri
Text adaptation by Paul Davenport
Word count 3716
ISBN
Pack: 9780194249119
THE HAPPY PRINCE
Oscar Wilde
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 3137
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246767
A PRETTY FACE
John Escott
Word count 2541
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246682
TRISTAN AND ISOLDE
Retold by Bill Bowler
Word count 2163
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246774
SHEHERAZADE
Retold by Bill Bowler
Word count 3355
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246804
THE TEMPEST
William Shakespeare
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 2359
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246712
SINBAD
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 2782
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246736
2
Dominoes
NEW
WILLIAM TELL AND OTHER
STORIES
Retold by John Escott
Word count 2217
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246675
When the Emperor calls every man
to join the army and fight the enemy,
Mulan’s father is old and ill, and
cannot go. Wearing men’s clothes
and riding a horse, Mulan leaves her
family and fights bravely the Emperor
in her father’s place.
MULAN
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 1917
ISBN
Pack: 9780194610094
TRUE TALES
STORY COLLECTIONS
WORLD LITERATURE
WORLD LITERATURE
WORLD LITERATURE
WORLD LITERATURE
WORLD LITERATURE
HUMAN INTEREST
HUMAN INTEREST
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
TRUE TALES
WORLD LITERATURE
MYSTERY & HORROR
MYSTERY & HORROR
THE BIG STORY
John Escott
Word count 2176
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246743
MYSTERY & HORROR
BLACKBEARD
Retold by John Escott
Word count 2210
ISBN
Pack: 9780194246781
TRUE TALES
Editor’s Choice
In the first story, Rip Van Winkle
sleeps for over twenty years, and
then wakes up to a world that he no
longer understands. In the other story,
Ichabod Crane, the school teacher,
meets a headless rider in the middle
of a dark night.
RIP VAN WINKLE
& THE LEGEND OF
SLEEPY HOLLOW
STORY COLLECTIONS
Washington Irving
Text adaptation by Alan Hines
Word count 2000
ISBN
Pack: 9780194610117
