Eleven-year-old Ellie does not like the changes after entering middle school. Ellie always wonder whether Brianna still is her best friend after she has discovered her interest in volleyball and now spends most of her time with her teammates. Then they are Ellie's divorced parents, a high school drama teacher…
Writer: Midred Wirt (1930). Revised By: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1959). Nancy Drew is the daughter of Carson Drew, one of the well-known lawyers in their hometown, River Heights. One day, as she drives on the street, she sees a little girl falls into a river. Luckily, she able to rescue…
Dr. Temperance Brennan takes on a challenging assignment as a Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec. Firstly, she must stop at a newly uncovered burial site in the heart of the city. The dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery.…
Miranda lives with her single mother who has a nice boyfriend, Richard. Miranda has a best friend called Sal who she knew since she was a small child. They walk back home together everyday. They already familiar with the neighbourhood such as crazy guy on the corner that they need…
Mr. Popper is a poor house painter who always dreams of faraway places and has strong interest in reading anything related to Arctic and Antarctic. He always wish to go there. One day, he receives a package from his favourite explorer. Inside the package, it is a penguin. From that…
The story begins in the kitchen with two kids want to have breakfast cereal. Unfortunately, they are out of milk. Their father goes to the corner shop to buy more milk so they can have cereal and also for his tea. It takes extremely long for their father to return…
Harriet M. Welsch is an 11-year-old girl who always wants to be a spy when she grows up. She writes down everything she knows about everyone, including her classmates, her best friends (Sport and Janie) and even people who live around her place. She follows an afternoon "spy route&…
This is a simple story about two girls who find several items from a drawer in an old chest. The drawer contains a little round mirror with a tarnished silver frame, a long bathrobe with a hood, a pair of gloves, a pair of red rubber boots and an old…
There are several short scary stories in this book. The illustrations are quite good and indeed, it does look scary to the readers. As for the stories, I personally feel the stories are more to funny than scary. It's really amusing. Although it's not as scary as what I assumed…
The narrator starts the story with a picture of a boa constrictor with an elephant digesting in its stomach which he once drew it when he was a young boy. Unfortunately, every adult mistakenly interpret his drawings and they advised him to pick up another hobby instead. The narrator has…