(Written by Howard, P)
- Consists of twenty nine comprehension tests designed to improve reading for understanding and aspects of the vocabulary.
- Interesting short stories largely about famous people in history.
- Contents: the mysterious yeti,
- Boadicea,
- Leonidas,
- mischievous Michael,
- George Stephenson,
- Dawn Fraser,
- Joan of Arc.
- Charles 1st,
- the Southern Cross,
- Carl Benz,
- Rawdon Middleton,
- Challenger,
- William Wilberforce,
- Margaret Court,
- Endeavour,
- Anne Frank,
- Count Sandor,
- Atomic Bombs Fall,
- Pompeii,
- Bradman,
- Wilbur Wright,
- When Soccer Interrupted a Battle,
- Edward Jenner,
- Helena Rubenstein,
- Nelson,
- Elizabeth Fry,
- Florence Nightingale.