I would lie on a big beach towel and get warm; then I would jump in the water and cool off. Sometimes I would just lie on the sand and watch the waves roll up on the shore.

Level - #Elementary #Intermediate

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📗 Sleeping Beauty
👤 Charles Perrault

📊#Elementary

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📗 The Charm
👤 Jan Carew

📊#Elementary

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People usually said about the main character of this book that he was a brave man and he was never afraid of anything. They were wrong. He really was brave, but he knew what fear was, like other people. One day he went home for a week and helped the old man cross the road when all the other people passed by. His life was changed after that.

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📗 The Way up to Heaven
👤 Roald Dahl

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Mrs. Foster was terrified of any delay. Either it was being late for a plane, a ship, a train or simply a curtain in a theater rising before she came to the auditorium. The woman left the house half an hour earlier than needed to go the train station. She took the hat, the umbrella and the gloves. But for Mr. Foster, his wife's behavior was annoying and he could not understand her.

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📗 Christmas in Prague
👤 Joyce Hannam

📊#Elementary

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Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever .

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📗 The Hound of the Baskervilles
👤 Conan Doyle

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
This legend has been passing from age to age of Baskervilles family. Two hundreds years ago at Baskerville Hall near bog was living Sir Hugo Baskerville. He was an aristocrat, alcoholic and rowdy. Once he was killed by a big black dog with shining eyes and mouth nearby of bogs. This dog punished his evil. Put a point in this deadly history would try Sherlock Holms.

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📗 An African Story
👤 Roald Dahl

📊#Elementary

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The man was preparing to become a pilot. Once he took a plane and flew to watch wild animals during maneuvering exercises in the sky. He damaged the wing of the plane, but was able to return to the airport. The next time the pilot was unlucky - the aircraft's engine died out and he had to make an emergency landing. He saw a small hut and went to her. There lived an old man who grew food. He warmly welcomed the pilot and allowed him to live in his hut.

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📗 An Adventure at Brownville
👤 Ambrose Bierce

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There is only one school in Brownville and the main character of the book works there as a teacher. Late at night the teacher is walking through the forest. He sits down on a log to rest and suddenly hears voices. Someone is cursing and threatening to kill another. Then he hears one of these voices in the boarding house. The teacher begins to realize that the city is too quiet and safe.

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📗 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
👤 Antoine Galland

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Ali Baba finds a thieves' treasure cave, and he is suddenly rich. Then his brother Kasim visits the cave, and things go wrong. The forty thieves find Kasim there, kill him, and cut him into four pieces. What can Ali Baba do? He wants to bury his brother quietly, but how can he? Morgiana, his servant-girl, has the answer. But what can she do when the thieves find Ali Baba and want to kill him, too?

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📗 Halloween
👤 Joss Whedon

📊#Elementary

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At the Halloween Eve Baffy was late on her date with Angel. She was distracted by the vampire. When she came at the club, she saw Angel was talking to pretty Cordelia. She left. She bought the beautiful dress and thought that she would a beautiful helpless girl from the 18th century. At the same time under the ground in the vampires group the seer told that Vampire Slayer became weak at the Halloween and they would be able to kill her…

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📗 A Case Of Identity
👤 Conan Doyle

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Mary inherited the small capital from his uncle, that she receives by small parts every year. This money she gives to family and earning for living herself by typing. Since Mary's father was a plumber, every year they receive the invitation to the plumbers' ball. Step-father does not allow Mary to go to the ball. But one year he is gone to France, she goes to the ball, where she met with Mr. Hosmer Angel and fell in love with him.

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📗 The Last Unicorn
👤 Gammack J. E.

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Megan had to leave London with its traffic and noise according to the prescription of her mother's doctor. She had been a lonely child. Megan had spent six months in London and hadn't found any friends. And now she came to this marvelous island where her uncle lived. On the way to her uncle Megan saw a unicorn which disappeared as quickly as it appeared.

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📗 The Railway Crossing
👤 John Escott

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
This whole story began a few years earlier. The man worked for a big company. He had enough money, although he was not rich. He loved a beautiful girl and wanted to marry her. But Dunstan did not have enough money to pay for the wedding, and he stole it from the company: he changed a few numbers in the forms and became the owner of thousands of pounds. This was the starting point.

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📗 Running for Her Life
👤 Clare Gray

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
Ana was born in the east of Cuba, in a small unremarkable town. She was a cheerful child and loved running from early childhood. She won most of the competitions in running, some of them - barefoot. She worked hard and waited for that moment, when someone would notice her. In the end, she succeeded - the girl was invited to one sports school. But soon Ana met a man who helped her regain motivation. She obtained a new life goal.

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📗 Marley and Me
👤 John Grogan

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
John and Jenny are young and in love with each other. One day they decide to buy a puppy. It changes their lives forever. Marley is not an obedient calm puppy. He doesn't not listen to commands, doesn't not try to behave well. But he is not a boring dog and makes the life of his owners much more fun. This story tells about the life of Marley - from a puppy to an old wise dog.

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📗 Jaws
👤 Peter Benchley

📊#Elementary

📖 Description:
One warm night, a young woman decides to swim in the sea. She does not return home. Soon, the police finds her dead. One of the local police officers decides that a shark appeared near the city. This is a great white shark, which is called the man-eater. Unfortunately, closing the beaches does not work. Local people start rebelling, because the danger always seems distant.

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