Jennifer Bassett

Kate loves singing and playing her guitar – and she’s good, too. One Saturday, she goes to the town square with her friend Lucy, and plays there. It’s a big thing, playing in front of people, and Kate isn’t the only street performer in the square... Lire la suite

It is 2088, and life in the city where Sala lives is hard: it’s overcrowded, there are no jobs, and no one can leave, because the world outside is contaminated. Sala is lucky, because she has Cham, and they love each other. But when Cham gets the... Lire la suite

Solomon Northup left home in 1841 as a free black man. He wanted to go and work in New York City for a few days, see the city, and then return home to his wife and children. But this was the start of a terrible journey for Solomon: a journey into... Lire la suite

There are broken hearts and kisses and then weddings, so this is a story about love. There are actors who are funny because they cannot act, so it is also a story that makes people laugh. And there are fairies, spirits of the night, so it is a story... Lire la suite

Maria is from Pamplona in Spain, and she’s having English classes at a summer school in London for three weeks. She’s nervous at first: she misses her friends and family and she’s afraid of speaking English. But soon she has a new friend, Emilia, a... Lire la suite

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has... Lire la suite

‘I want to learn to fly,’ Amelia Earhart tells her family one evening. But it is 1920. Flying is expensive and dangerous, and most people think it is for men, not women. But nothing can stop Amelia Earhart, and she works hard to be a pilot. Soon,... Lire la suite

It is 1866, and there is trouble in the world’s oceans. What is the extraordinary thing that people have seen there, travelling faster than a whale and cutting holes in the bottom of the strongest ships? Professor Aronnax joins the search for the... Lire la suite

Emma Woodhouse, beautiful, clever, and rich, has no wish to marry, but she enjoys making matches for those around her. It was Emma who found the perfect husband for her governess Miss Taylor. So when her dear friend Mr Knightley tells her that she... Lire la suite

In sixteenth-century Venice – a city of wealthy merchants and bankers – money is all-important. Bassanio is penniless, but his great friend Antonio offers to help him by borrowing the money that he needs. To do this, though, Antonio must make an... Lire la suite

It is early morning on a warm day in Roman Italy. Sixteen-year-old Tiro gets the water, makes breakfast, and works in the kitchen – like he does day after day. Tiro is a slave. He can never be free, never eat when he wants to eat, or sleep when he... Lire la suite

Sherlock Holmes is famous around the world. When the police cannot solve a crime, they turn to Holmes. He never misses a clue, and when he looks carefully at a person, he can understand everything about them. These are two of the best Sherlock... Lire la suite

New York, 1925. While her children play, Rosalia unpacks boxes in the family’s new apartment. In one of them, she finds her old sketchbook, and when she looks at the pictures, they take her back to her journey to America from Italy by sea in 1910,... Lire la suite

Arthur Clennam is back in England after many years abroad. He finds his mother as cold and hard as ever, but his father’s recent death has thrown up a mystery, and he is determined to get to the bottom of it. Could it have anything to do with Little... Lire la suite

Two visitors come to Sherlock Holmes’s London home in Baker Street to ask for the detective’s help. Holmes is interested in the story, but he sends his friend, Dr Watson, to Dartmoor to begin the investigation. Dartmoor is the dark and lonely place... Lire la suite

Alex’s family are always moving from town to town. He doesn’t make new friends now, because he doesn’t like saying goodbye to them. He has his music, his songs, and his guitar, and they’re only for him. It’s best like that, he thinks. Then he meets... Lire la suite