Bookworm Series (Lower Intermediate Level - 4th Grade, Set of 7 Books) New

Author: (British) T.S. Eliot (Eliot, G.) wrote, (British) C. West adapted, translated by Zou Xiaoming
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: The Weaver on the Moors, in the quiet countryside of early 19th-century England, life followed an unchanging pattern. The changing of the seasons was the same for the squire and his family living in the grand house as it was for the villagers in their small cottages. Anything new or strange would be met with suspicion in a village like Ruffalo. The weaver Silas Marlowe was peculiar. He lived alone, and no one knew anything about his family. If you didn’t know who his parents were, how could you trust him? He was pale, with strange eyes, and always stared because he worked long hours at the loom every day, even on Sundays when he should have been attending church. He must be the devil’s friend, the villagers whispered among themselves. Poor Silas! He was a melancholic, solitary man, his only friends being the shiny gold coins he earned from weaving, which he hid beneath the floorboards. But changes always happen, even in the quiet village of Ruffalo. There was a secret between the squire’s two sons, leading to quarrels, thefts, and death. It was on a snowy night, near Silas’s cottage, that The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde occurred. Have you ever thought about becoming someone else? Have you ever looked at someone you know and thought, “Why can’t he do whatever he wants, but I can’t?” If you could become someone else, even for just one day, you could do whatever you wanted, and no one would blame you, because no one would know it was you—well, it wouldn’t be you anymore. How exciting would it be to become someone else! One day, maybe just occasionally, but not too long, or else if you kept changing into other people, you might really become someone else and find it hard to turn back. These thoughts can be dangerous for some people, especially for Dr. Jekyll, because he was a brilliant scientist who found a way to turn fantasy into reality. A Tale of Two Cities, set in 1775, takes place in a room on the top floor of a tavern in Paris. An elderly man with white hair is busy making shoes. He had spent 18 years in the Bastille as a prisoner. Now he was free, but he didn’t know his own name or recognize his friends. All he knew was that he had to keep making shoes. On a carriage heading to Paris sat Lucie, his daughter whom he had never met. Lucie brought her father back to London, and under her love and care, he forgot his past and learned to live again as a free man. However, during the storm of the French Revolution, the past neither disappeared nor was forgotten. Soon, the dangerous secrets of his past brought Lucie and those she loved back to Paris, where the terrifying death machine—the guillotine—hungered for the enemies of France. This series also includes: Gulliver’s Travels, Treasure Island, Black Beauty, The Scarlet Letter.