The Black Cat

John Milne

Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

A modern, action-packed detective story. Salahadin El Nur is an inspector in the Antiquities Department of the Egyptian police. The death of a visiting European archaeologist leads Salahadin to investigate the whereabouts of a priceless statuette. He is soon on the trail of a gang of international smugglers.

The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Short stories, Humour, Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Three short stories by one of the most witty and popular writers of the nineteenth century.
Stories include: The Canterville Ghost, The Model Millionaire and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime.

Christmas Carol

Dickens - retold by F. H. Cornish

Mystery/Horror/Ghost  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

A retelling of Dickens' famous story of the transformation of the cold-hearted miser, Ebenezer Scrooge.

Claws

John Landon

Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Larry applies for a job as a cook on an expedition to search the mountains of northern Afghanistan for the legendary and fearsom Toruk. At the interview, Larry has nagging doubts. But he loves mountains and he needs a job.

Dawson's Creek: The Beginning of Everything Else

Kevin Williamson - retold by F. H. Cornish

Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

The highly popular TV show Dawson’s Creek™ has been shown in more than 50 countries around the world. The popularity of the show is proven by its huge fan base. Visitors to its website want to know about past and current episodes, the actors, and the location where the programmes are filmed. Members of the young cast have gone on to star in successful feature films.

Dawson's Creek: Long Hot Summer

K. S. Rodriguez - retold by F. H. Cornish

Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Summer vacation. Dawson pursues his amateur film career with the reluctant help of Joey and Pacey. Jen enrols in lifeguarding classes and Pacey joins her, thinking that this will be an excellent way to meet girls as he is on the rebound from an illicit affair. Believing Dawson is now Jen's boyfriend, Joey makes him jealous by meeting other boys. Who will Dawson choose.

Dawson's Creek: Major Meltdown

K. S. Rodriguez - retold by F. H. Cornish

Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Jen invites her friends to stay the weekend in her parents' ski cabin in the mountains. Joey persuades her sister to give her time off from helping in the family restaurant. Dawson realises the depth of feelings he has for Joey, but cannot resist Jen.

Dawson's Creek: Shifting Into Overdrive

C. J. Anders - retold by F. H. Cornish

Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Angered by Dawson's indecision, Joey and Jen form a reluctant alliance and plan a weekend together in New York to attend the sixteenth birthday party of Jen's cousin. Joey is amazed on her first visit to the Big Apple.

Don't Tell Me What To Do

Michael Hardcastle - retold by Philip King

Mystery/Horror/Ghost  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Tom is given a lift in a car by a middle-aged man and an attractive young girl. The man says he needs someone small and strong to recover his property from a sunken ship. Tom is attracted to the girl and the glamour of the job - diving for lost diamonds. But one man has already died trying to get the small plastic bags out of the cramped hold of the sunken ship.

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stephenson - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Mystery Horror Ghost  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Dr Jekyll's scientific investigations are detached and professional. He wants to explore his own character through study and experimentation. But soon, he finds himself under a darker, indeed evil, driving force.

Escape and Other Stories

W. Somerset Maugham - retold by John Davey

Short Stories, Romance, Crime/Detection & Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Four witty and amusing twentieth century stories: The Escape, Louise, The Ant and the Grasshopper and The Fall of Edward Barnard.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley - retold by Margaret Tarner

Mystery/Horror/Ghost  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

A retold version of one of the most famous and inventive horror stories ever written.

Hound Of The Baskervilles

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson travel to Dartmoor to investigate the bizarre death of Sir Charles Baskerville. Is there really a curse on the family? And is there a huge dog living on the moor?

L. A. Winners

Philip Prowse

Humour, Crime/Detection & Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Lenny Samuel is hired to find a retired championship racehorse. The private eye thinks that he is going to enjoy this job. After all, what could be easier? All he has to do is hang around California's racetracks, ask a few questions and then report back to his very pretty client.

Legends of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving - retold by Anne Collins

Short Stories, Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Two dark comedies with ghost/mystery themes which are set around the period of the American War of Independence.

Ichabod Crane is the hero of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Peculiar-looking and socially inept, this schoolmaster is a joke to the people of Sleepy Hollow as he tries to win the love of the beautiful daughter of a rich farmer.

In The Legend of Rip Van Winkle the hero of the title is well-meaning and kind but inherently lazy. To escape the constant nagging of his wife, he leaves his house one day to go hunting in the Catskill Mountains with his dog and his gun. There he falls asleep, only to wake twenty years later to an utterly different world.

The Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - retold by Anne Collins

Adventure/Thriller/Spy & Science Fiction/Fantasy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Ed Malone - a young newspaper reporter - joins a team of explorers, headed by the eccentric Professor Challenger, who claims he has found a lost world where animals believed to have become extinct millions of years ago still survive. Are there really dinosaurs living deep in the Amazon jungle?

Love By Design

Kieran McGovern

Romance & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Tom has failed his exams so he cannot study photography at art college and must work in a library instead. Rita wants to be a fashion model but cannot find an agency to employ her. One rainy day, Rita and Tom's lives miraculously cross.

The Mark of Zorro

Johnstone McCulley - retold by Anne Collins

Humour, Western, Romance & Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

A dashing romantic story set in California in the previous century. This classic adventure comedy founded a whole genre of its own. Short stories, feature films, highly popular television series and animated cartoons have resulted, all featuring the people's hero with the flashing sword Zorro!
Don Diego Vega is pressed by his father Don Alejandro Vega, to court the eligible daughter of one of the oldest noble families in California. Once rich and powerful, Don Carlos Pulido has become impoverished; unjustly accused of dishonesty by the tyrannical provincial governor who is oppressing the people of the region.

Phantom Airman

Allan Frewin Jones - retold by Margaret Tarner

Mystery/Horror/Ghost, Romance & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Four teenage friends - Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack - are working together on a project for their school's archaeology club. A disused Second World War airfield near their home town in southern England is the subject of their investigation. Their research in to the history of the place and the members of the armed forces who lived and worked there in the summer of 1940 takes on another dimension when the kids are haunted by the ghost of a fighter pilot who died under mysterious circumstances.

Picture Of Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde - retold by F. H. Cornish

Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Basil Hallward has painted a picture of a young man he admires - Dorian Gray. Dorian wishes he would never age like the picture and hides it in the attic. But his wish has tragic consequences for many people.

The Princess Diaries: Book 1

Meg Cabot, retold by Anne Collins

Humour & Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Mia Thermopolis lives with her mother in New York City. One day her life changes forever as she discovers that she is the Princess of Genovia. Mia must forget her teenage ways and learn royal etiquette. But Mia doesn't want to be a princess or live in Europe. She wants to be a normal teenage girl. What will happen to Mia when her classmates find out who she really is?

The Princess Diaries: Book 2

Meg Cabot, retold by Anne Collins

Humour & Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

As if the fact that her mother is marrying her algebra teacher isn't bad enough, Mia then manages to announce the engagement on live television. Mia's grandmother immediately starts making arrangements for a grand state wedding - greatly upsetting Mia's mother. Then Mia's mother and her fiance go missing...
To add to her problems, Mia finds herself falling in love with her best friend's brother Michael.

Promise

R. L. Scott-Buccleuch

Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Pedro and Maria Moreira live in Brazil. When their son, Palito, is born, an old woman predicts that he will make them rich and happy. Palito shows a brilliant talent for playing football. He goes to play for one of the top clubs in Brazil and becomes rich and famous. But a defect in his legs, combined with an accident on the field during a cup final, almost end his career in football.

The Quest

Mandy Loader

Crime/Detection & Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

The Quest is the name of Mark Blackburn's boat. Mark, a marine archaeologist is joined by John Morgan in his search for wrecks of sixteenth century Chinese trading-ships submerged deep in the sea off the Gulf of Thailand. When a local fisherman brings a piece of rare porcelain to his boat, Mark is thrilled and can hardly wait to go to the place where the fisherman has netted the extremely valuable artifact. But John and Mark's enthusiasm turns to horror when they find the fisherman drowned the very next day.

Room 13 and Other Ghost Stories

M. R. James - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Short Stories, Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Five short stories to scare and enthral. Includes The Whistle, The Message of Death, and The Maze.

Seven Stories of Mystery and Horror

Edgar Allen Poe, retold by Stephen Colbourn

Short Stories & Mystery/Horror/Ghost  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Seven intriguing stories by one of the most famous and gifted writers of nineteenth century American literature.

Silver Blaze and Other Stories

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - retold by Anne Collins

Short Stories & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr Watson, solve the strange cases of: The Blue Carbuncle, Silver Blaze and The Six Napoleons.

The Stranger

Norman Whitney

Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

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 exactly do they buy?

Tales Of Horror

Bram Stoker, retold by John Davey

Short Stories & Murder/Horror/Ghost  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Three tales by one of the masters of horror-story writing: The Judge's House, The Iron Maiden and The Return of Abel Behena.

Tales Of Ten Worlds

Arthur C. Clarke - retold by Helen Reid-Thomas

Short Stories & Science Fiction/Fantasy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Ten short stories by a best-selling science fiction author. Sympathetically retold to provide readers with an exciting and thought-provoking introduction to science fiction.

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Adventure/Thriller/Spy  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Twelve-year-old Jim Hawkins sails with the Squire Trelawney to search for Captain Flint's treasure. But Long John Silver is on board The Hispaniola and he and his friends want the treasure for themselves. The story of Jim's adventure has been popular with young readers since it was first published in 1883.

Unquiet Graves

Allan Frewin Jones - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Crime/Detection  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

Four friends join an archaeological dig in south eastern England. As Regan, Tom and Jack find out more about the young ward of the ruthless nineteenth century owner of the manor house and the local village, they begin to get seriously worried about Frankie’s increasingly disturbed behaviour.

The Woman In Black

Susan Hill - retold by Stephen Colbourn

Mystery/Horror/Ghost & Romance  Elementary | 1 100 slov 

A retold version of a gripping ghost story set in a lonely house on a bleak and foggy marshland.