"Factfiles" is a sub-series of "Bookworms" with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students who are not so much interested in fiction.
Simon Wilson has been missing in Africa for two weeks. When his children receive a letter from him, they realize he is in danger and set off into the jungle to rescue him. This is a story of courage, adventure and quick thinking. You will follow John and Karen into all sorts of thrilling situations. You will help them read messages in code, discover where their father is being held, and find ways to avoid wild animals and other dangers. Hotshot puzzles are readers with a difference. Every two pages there is a puzzle to solve. The stories are carefully graded and are written for young teenagers.
Part of a series of elementary readers which offers students the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of the English language, this reader at Stage 1 contains 400 headwords. It is the tale of Captain Bligh and mutiny on the South Seas.
When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! And there isn''t much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.
The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. il changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't see the real poison - until it was too late.
On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontes of Haworth then? Branwell died while he was still a young man, but the three sisters who were left had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvellous stories - Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ...But Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.
A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love...But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love for the Englishman John Smith.
All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. all they could see was the night. they could not see the sh1p, broken in two. they could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. and they could not hear the cries for help-only the wind. how could they save the people on the rock? was their wooden boat stronger than the iron sh1p? were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the sh1p in two? the forfarshire was wrecked off the north-east coast of england in 1838. this is the true story of grace darling-a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night.
