Norman Whitney A dark and handsome stranger opens a shop in the quiet village of Woodend. Anna begins to wonder about the visitors who come to Dave Slatin’s shop. What do they buy and what exactly is behind the door marked Special Orders Only? At first, Anna finds Dave exciting and attractive but soon she becomes very frightened.
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley,retold by Margaret Tarner. ‘The lightning was all around me. I looked at the huge body. The silver light reached the hands, the feet and the head. For a moment everything wasquiet. Was it moving? No, yes! An arm moved and then a leg. Then I heard breathing. Yes, the man was breathing. He was alive!’
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens, retold by F. H. Cornish. ‘“I don’t have a merry Christmas,” said Scrooge. “Christmas is nonsense. It’s humbug! I don’t believe in Christmas. I’m not giving money to anyone else so they can have a merry Christmas.”’ A retelling of Dickens’s famous story of the transformation of the cold- hearted miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde, retold by Stephen Colbourn Three short stories by one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire and Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime.
Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux, translated and retold by Stephen Colbourn The singers and dancers at the Opera House are frightened. They have seen a stranger behind the stage – a man in a mask. This story has been the basis of many films and plays, as well as a world-famous musical.
El fantasma del profesor de matemáticas.
Dirigido a niños a partir de 10 años, Brian Bones trata en este libro el valor de la amistad a través de la historia de Ulises Fax, un alumno bastante normal, casi mediocre que cambia su vida cuando ingresa en el internado Wallaby. Allí conocerá a los miembros de El club de los empollones y… Continue reading El fantasma del profesor de matemáticas.