Product Description: An English classic available for the first time in Spanish, Stig of the Dump tells the story of Barney, a young boy who stumbles across the den of Stig, a caveman, in a garbage dump near Barney’s grandparents’ home. No one believes Barney when he tells them about his new friend, but that hardly matters to Barney and Stig, who get along famously despite not being able to communicate through language...read more

An illustrated collection includes adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors such as Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain. Reprint.

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Barney is a solitary 8-year-old, given to wandering off by himself. One day he falls into a disused chalk-pit, landing in a sort of cave, and meets somebody wearing a rabbit-skin and speaking in grunts. He names him Stig, they learn to understand one another and enjoy a series of adventures.

An illustrated collection of adventure short stories and excerpts from longer works by a variety of authors, including Robert Graves, Doris Lessing, and Mark Twain

Rescued by military aircraft, Apu travels to a strange and new environment after his island home in the Indian Ocean is destroyed by a cyclone

This adventure of a slave boy's flight to Britain in the fifth century is fraught with danger and catastrophe and blends humor with fact and legend

Product Description: This book is designed to enable students of botany to gain some knowledge of the relationships between families of plants. The text of each of the 100 plant families described is in two parts. The first part gives the general characteristics of the family, mentions some of the principal economic and ornamental plants and includes a section on classification...read more

Una, whose family just moved from Africa to England, learns that the martins nesting outside her window return to Africa each winter

When Ringo, a young Londoner, finds himself in sudden possession of a stolen painting worth a million pounds, his life turns into a series of wild adventures.