A very warm welcome to The Rise & Fall of Jack Drummond. This is the beginning of Jack's adventures and sets the scene for what I hope will be a popular series. Jack Drummond is your typical 13 year old schoolboy except that his life seems to attract the unusual You will find that every one of his short stories contains a well-known moral and your mission is to uncover it before you reach the end. If you find any vocabulary that is new to you, my advice is to try and work out the meaning from the context and then use a dictionary to confirm your suspicions. By using this method, it should help your mind to cement the information and to hopefully recall the meaning in the future. Jack has a vivid imagination and for those of you who also have the ability to let the story whisk you away to another world, you are the chosen ones who will probably get the most out of this book. I look forward to seeing you again in the sequel. Matt.