The story is about an orphan, Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Naively unaware of their unlawful activities, Oliver is led to the lair of the...
Treasure Island follows young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and the good-hearted but obtuse Squire Trelawney, who help Jim on his quest for the treasure; the frightening Blind Pew, double-dealing I...
The Three Musketeers (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, which recounts the adventures of a young man named d'Artagnan after he leaves home to travel to Paris, to join the Musketeers of the Guard. D'Artagnan is not one of the musketeers of the title; those are his friends Athos, Porthos an...
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Chernobyl. Everyone has heard of this disaster one way or another. A blast of nuclear radiation clouded over the world when the Chernobyl power plant exploded, killing many and causing many health issues. But what if someone survived the radiation, becoming something unnaturally inhuman? Find out about the extended...
A breach in the system, an intruder...a glitch. She wakes up in the maze. If there isn't enough wrong with that sentence then I don't know what else to tell you. Autumn wakes up inside the maze, with no memory, no name and no idea where she is. What happens when she runs, quite literally into Newt...? Disclaimer - a...
WATTPAD ORIGINAL EDITION In 1955, mixed-race Ethan Harper leaves his progressive hometown for a summer in Alabama where he's not welcome, except by resident free spirit, Juniper Jones. ***** After getting himself into a bout of trouble, 16-year-ol...
Zac Brennon has won the 25th Hunger Games. He thinks he has escaped the treacherous pits of the bloodthirsty arena, but he doesn't know what he's getting himself into. And it'll only get worse from here. Troubles arise as he goes around on his Victory Tour, and he begins his years as mentor. And then, when he finds th...
The wallet has the license, contact list, and pictures of a certain boy. His name is Ashton.
"Should I get the ones with wings, or the super long ones?" I wondered aloud, pondering the mystery of feminine products. "I'd go with the wings, personally." --- All Heller White has known for the past two years is prison. When he is released, he's angry at the world. But when he finds himself upon socially awkward...
Samantha wishes she were someone else. Anastasia, to be exact. Anastasia doesn't sit in the corner and read because she's too shy to talk to anyone. She doesn't keep trying and failing. Anastasia slays dragons. Of course, Anastasia is only a character in Samantha's story. That's what Sam does, she writes. She writes t...