Passages
Sherlock Holmes is a London private detective in the 1880s. His new roommate is Dr. John Watson, a former Army medical doctor. As this passage opens, Holmes has been called by the police to help them with a possible murder case. Holmes wants to decline the request, but Watson encourages…
Tarzan of the Apes is a story about a boy raised by apes. Tarzan’s English parents had been stranded in a jungle of West Africa. It is there that Tarzan was born. When he was very young both of his parents died. He was adopted by a female ape named…
Imprisoned for stealing bread at the end of the French Revolution, Valjean is released after 19 years. Although he has money he earned in prison, no inn will allow him to stay because he is a convict. He sleeps on the streets until he meets Bishop Myriel who kindly gives…
Oh no, he had done it again. He’d forgotten something important. Last year on their family trip to his uncle’s cottage for Christmas, he had forgotten the bag with the toiletries in it. Neither he nor his brother had toothbrushes or toothpaste or shampoo. He’d had to borrow from his…
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