Level: Grade 9 Genre: Short Stories
The Burnell children receive a doll’s house from Mrs. Hay and they show it off to their school friends. Soon enough, the doll’s house becomes a talk for everyone in the school. Read to find out where this story, The Doll’s House by Katherine Mansfield, takes along.
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Level: Grade 6 Genre: Classics
I have only one holiday a week. And I wouldn’t like it if I am made to work on that holiday instead of playing with my friends. Tom Sawyer is in the same situation, for he is made to whitewash the long fence by Aunt Polly oh his holiday. Aunt Polly is a strict lady, and she wouldn’t approve Tom neglecting his work. But Tom is a clever lad. Let’s see how he solves his problem in this story Painting the Fence by Mark Twain.
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Level: Grade 3 Genre: Fairy Tales
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. Let us hear a story of a little mermaid now.
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I love it when the sunrays fall on my face early in the morning. It feels as if they want to tell me something. And Emile Poulsson knows what those sunbeams are trying to tell me. Let us read about the sunbeams and find out.
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Level: Grade 3 Genre: Fables And Folktales
I love the spring season the most, with flowers blooming and birds chirping all around. But I don’t like the winter season. It is too cold to play outside. I cannot have ice creams.
In this story you will read how all the four seasons we see around us came into existence.
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Level: Grade 5 Genre: Myths And Legends
Long ago, the earth was a happy place. There were no troubles at all. There was no jealousy, envy or sickness. How did they come then? Myths say that it came from Pandora’s box. Let’s read to find out about Pandora’s box of troubles.
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Level: Grade 7 Genre: Nonfiction
The first known convention of Astronomers was held in the Mayan city of Copán, in the year 700 A.D. This means Mexico was interested in science and technology from long ago. Read this profile to know everything about Mexico.
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Level: Grade 6 Genre: Nonfiction
When people die in Egypt, they are mummified. It means they are preserved so that the body organs do not get damaged. This was done in Egypt since the ancient times. Read this chapter to find out what else happened in ancient Egypt.
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Level: Grade 4 Genre:
This is the world of Neverland. Here are mermaids, pixies, gnomes and fairies. All of them are nice. But Pirate Hook is not-so-good. Let us read what happens when three children from the real world enter the magical world of Neverland.
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Have you heard of the movie ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’? You must have. It is a multi-billion dollar film produced by Walt Disney Company, the same one which made Mickey Mouse famous! In this story, you will come across pirates and treasures again. Read this story and find out.
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