Saddleback Educational Publishing

Harvey Cheyne, the son of a millionaire, learns lessons about life, responsibility, determination, and self-reliance when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is forced to share the life and hard work of his rescuers.

When Phileas Fogg read in his newspaper that it was possible to travel around the world in only eighty days, his friends laughed. "It can't be done!" said one. So Phileas Fogg set out to prove it could. He insisted he was prepared for anything but he couldn't have expected to be chased around the world by a policeman. Detective Fix is convinced Fogg has stolen money and he's determined to stop him at any cost.

When chance brings Edward Tudor and Tom Canty together, they decide for fun to switch clothes and places. Exchanging their roles as heir of the throne of England and as a pauper's son, they learn how the other half really lives.

Contains the complete and unabridged text plus detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot and summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.

A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.

Contains the complete and unabridged text plus detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also includes a wide range of questions and activities for work in class together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.

"It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France struggle for ascendancy. Their conflict, however, overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands and between the native peoples and white colonisers. Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative, in which Cora and Alice Munro, daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war, attempt...

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

Contains the complete and unabridged text plus detailed explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also includes a wide range of questions and activities for work in class together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays.

After orphan Oliver Twist asks for more food, he has to flee the workhouse and ends up on the streets of London. There he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr. Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back.