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The Cuthberts decide to adopt an orphan boy to help them on their farm. But an 11-year-old girl named Anne Shirley arrives instead and changes their lives forever.
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Cathy was adopted from an orphanage in Sri Lanka by a family in England. When she has dreams that come true, she and her mum travel to Sri Lanka to learn the truth about her past.
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Hercules is the son of the god Zeus. Zeus’ wife hates Hercules and puts an evil spell on him, and his life is changed forever.
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One day, Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew find a mysterious message in an old book. An amazing adventure begins that takes them to the centre of the Earth.
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Amy doesn’t show up to meet her friends at an abandoned house. The friends want to know what happened to Amy and are taken on an adventure
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Tom Sawyer lives in a small town on the Mississippi River in the USA. Tom and his friend Huck Finn, both mischievous boys, have many exciting adventures together.
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Claire and Philip’s mother buys a new painting. The mysterious painting has an evil power over their mother. But why?
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Sandy and Ricky are on holiday in the mountains. They are warned to stay away from White Mountain, but they are determined to discover its terrible secret.
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Jenny is bored on the small Scottish island where she is spending the summer. One night, when a ship crashes into the rocks nearby during a storm, life starts to get interesting.
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This novel is set in eighteenth-century Scotland and tells the story of David Balfour. After he is kidnapped, David escapes and goes on an amazing adventure with his friend Alan.
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The Parkers go to visit their strange aunt who lives on Kilmarny Island. But she’s not the only thing that’s strange about the island – there’s a man living on the island who is said to be a leprechaun.
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The team that raises the most money for a fund-raising competition wins a trip to Paris. Bobby, Helen and Lisa team up. Are they up to the challenge?
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Mysterious things are happening at Billy’s new boarding school. There’s a thief on the loose and a ghost that haunts the lake near the school.
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Tony Baker is falsely accused of hacking into his school’s computer system. He goes on a mission to catch the real hacker.
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A scientist discovers how to become invisible. Then something goes very wrong.
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A mysterious figure walks the corridors of the Paris Opera House. He is known as the Opera Ghost, but who is he?
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How is it possible that there aren’t any elephants at the reserve Julie O’Neil is visiting in Kenya? Julie knows something is terribly wrong and decides to solve the mystery of the vanished elephants.
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Count Dracula is a vampire whose goal is to turn as many humans as he can into vampires. Will the war of good against evil succeed?
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Oliver Twist is an orphan who becomes trapped in London’s criminal world. Will he escape this life and learn the truth about his true identity?
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Kate Armstrong has always wanted to be a gymnast representing Britain in the Olympics. Her dream comes true, but then she is devastated when she tests positive for drugs and is disqualified.
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Buck is part of a dogsled team that delivers mail to the people living in the frozen north of the USA and Canada. The story describes the harsh life of the dogs and the special relationship between man and dog under these difficult conditions..
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Richard Anderson is arrested for a crime he did not commit and put in prison. It is up to his girlfriend Alison to prove that he is an innocent victim.
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The title story in this collection tells of a kidnapping that goes wrong in a humorous way. All the stories have an unexpected ending, which is what O. Henry is best known for.
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Two brothers, Eddie and Jon Marks, are spending the summer in their cabin at Silver Lake. The boys begin a scary adventure when they learn that a gangster once lived in the deserted house next door.
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From surfing in Bondi Beach, Sydney, to hitchhiking through the Outback, Daniel has an amazing adventure in Australia. But no adventure is complete without romance, which arrives in the form of Emily.
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Linda Stevenson moves from London to Cornwall and thinks life is boring. But it isn’t boring for long – one morning Linda discovers a dead body on the beach.
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Mr. and Mrs. Bennet want to make good marriages for their daughters. This, however, is problematic in the society of nineteenth-century England because they are poor.
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While trying to stop a Mafia lawyer from killing himself, 11-year-old Mark Sway learns an important secret. The FBI wants to know the secret and the Mafia doesn’t want him to tell. Mark turns to lawyer Reggie Love for help, but in the end, only Mark can decide what to do.
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A governess named Catherine Blake is hired to care for two children. It isn’t long before she discovers that the children are keeping dark secrets from her.
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An art teacher meets a strange woman dressed all in white. When he tries to find out more about her, he discovers a mystery that involves greed and kidnapping.
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Andrea, the editor of the school newspaper, doesn’t care for the new boy on her staff or his articles about the supernatural. But the stories are very popular with the students. Andrea is very set in her ways, but will her feelings change?
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The police think Bob Marsh’s death was the result of a drug overdose. But his children, Jack and Susan, think differently and set out to solve the mystery of their father’s death.
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A scientist named Frankenstein experiments with the secrets of nature and creates a monster. The monster escapes and begins to commit terrible crimes.
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Wanting to give her poor niece a better life, Lady Bertram invites 10-year-old Fanny to come live with her family in Mansfield Park. While she feels different from the rest of the family, Fanny realizes as she grows up that Mansfield Park is indeed her home.
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Dr. Sloper thinks that the penniless man his daughter, Catherine, is in love with is only interested in her money. Catherine is caught between respecting her father’s wishes and marrying the man she loves.
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