Hilary Burningham

It's Christmas Eve but Ebenezer Scrooge a wealthy but miserly old moneylender will not be celebrating. That night he has four ghostly visitors who torment him by showing him his mean even cruel past. Will they be able to shock him into changing his ways in the future

Thrashed by a cruel stepfather tormented at boarding school forced into factory work at the age of ten - life is hard for young David Copperfield. A kind but eccentric aunt helps him to turn his live around and ultimately to confront his arch-enemy the treacherous Uriah Heep. But does he find his heart's desire the happy-ever-after ending to his story

The cold, misty Kent marshes--Pip, an orphan, is terrified when an escaped convict appears out of the gloom and threatens him, and then the strange and sinister Miss Havisham sends for him. What will Pip do when he discovers he has come into riches--and will he ever find out who his benefactor is?

Fiction/English

Fiction/English

London in the 1830s - dirty dangerous and no place for a young orphan. Oliver Twist must use all his wits to stay out of the clutches of a gang of pickpockets thieves and murderers. Will he stay safe long enough to discover the truth about who he really is

In "Macbeth," the witches' prophecies prompt Macbeth to seize the throne of Scotland.

In The Tempest, Prospero uses magic to reclaim his dukedom and find a husband for his daughter Miranda.

In "Romeo and Juliet," as a fued between two families escalates, two star-crossed lovers are forced to take fate into their own hands.