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GRADING OF These language guidelines represent a rigorous

grading system unique to Penguin Readers. The


guidelines for each grading level are based on the
language which a learner at that level is likely to have
studied in class or be able to understand from the
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LANGUAGE context and illustrations. The Series Editors have


used many resources to develop the guidelines:
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widely-used English Language Teaching textbooks

E ASYS TA R T S LE VE L 1 LE VE L 2 LE VE L 3 LE VE L 4 LE VE L 5
2 0 0 H E A DWO R D S 3 0 0 H E A DWO R D S 6 0 0 H E A D WO R D S 12 0 0 H E A DWO R D S 170 0 H E A D WO R D S 2 3 0 0 H E A D WO R D S
A1 A1 A2 A2 B1 B2
As previous level plus As previous level plus As previous level plus As previous level plus As previous level plus

NOUNS NOUNS PRONOUNS PRONOUNS PRONOUNS VERBS


Singular forms and plural forms with s Possessive form (s’) Indefinite: some-, no-, any-, every- (body/thing) Indefinite: someone, anyone, everyone Indefinite: no one Past perfect continuous
Common irregular plural forms Gerunds for activities and pastimes Interrogative: Whose? (also as determiner) Relative: whose Future continuous
Possessive form (’s) DETERMINERS one/ones Reflexive, for emphasis get something done
PRONOUNS
Transparent compounds Ordinal numbers: first - hundredth Reflexive (but not for emphasis) Reciprocal: each other may for permission
As indirect objects Quantifiers with more Relative: who, which, that Pronoun + of, to, adjective, relative clause would for willingness/refusal
PRONOUNS Possessive Distributives: another, other, each
Personal, subject and direct object Demonstrative: these, those DETERMINERS DETERMINERS CONJUNCTIONS
Demonstrative: this, that (also determiners) ADJECTIVES the + adjective Predeterminer: such as soon as
(also as determiners) Interrogative: Which? (also determiner) Comparative: -er/more + adjective...than, as ... as All cardinal and ordinal numbers
Interrogative: Who? What? Superlative: the -est (in/of), most + adjective Predeterminers: all ADJECTIVES SENTENCES
DETERMINERS
It (+ be) in impersonal expressions better, best, worse, worst, more, most Relative: whose Intensifiers: nearly as, just as, not quite as Relative clauses: embedded, defining
Cardinal numbers (also as pronouns): 101 - 1,000 Distributives: both, either, neither Comparative/superlative with less/least Responses with so/neither/nor
DETERMINERS Demonstrative: these, those VERBS Adjective + enough Third conditional
a meaning per
Articles: a, an, the or zero + noun (phrase) (also pronouns) Negative questions
Cardinal numbers (also as pronouns): 1 - 100 Quantifiers: a little, a lot of, much, many Past simple of listed irregular verbs ADJECTIVES VERBS
Ordinal numbers (for dates): 1st - 31st Interrogative: Which …? (also pronoun) will for offers, requests, and with future meaning Intensifiers: much, a bit, a lot Simple passive verb forms (except modal perfects)
Possessives could for past ability and possibility Adjective + to Present and past continuous passive verb forms
VERBS
Quantifiers: some, any have to for obligation Present simple for future reference
Distributives: every, all + noun There was/were would like + infinitive VERBS Present perfect continuous
Negative imperative forms Common phrasal verbs with transparent Present perfect simple Past perfect
ADJECTIVES Present continuous with future meaning meanings Past continuous have something done
Simple adjectives (attributive and predicative) Past simple of listed regular verbs -ing forms after go, verbs of (dis)like Passive forms: present and past forms of be + past make/let + infinitive
Irregular past forms: came/did/had/said/was/were/ participle used to/was/were/going to
VERBS went going to for prediction and intention ADVERBS is/was/has been able to had better for advice or desirability
Parts of be, have, have got; can for possibility Adjective + (i)ly can’t to deny possibility may/might for possibility
There is/are would like + noun phrase how + adjective could for requests and suggestions must for deduced facts
Positive imperative forms -ing forms after like, stop Irregular adverbs of manner must for obligation should/ought to for advice, duty, desirability
LE VE L 6
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Short answers
Present simple (except negative questions)
CONJUNCTIONS
too + adjective
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need (to)/needn’t for necessity
should (positive only) for advice
Question tags: positive tag following positive
statement
C1
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negative questions) what/where etc CONJUNCTIONS
SENTENCES CONJUNCTIONS
can for ability and permission; Infinitives after permitted verbs and adjectives, as well as PRONOUNS
Let’s … Two clauses joined with because so, before, after, when with too/enough/very, after indefinite pronouns/
SENTENCES Reciprocal: one another
adverbs, infinitive of purpose
ADVERBS SENTENCES Complex sentences where the relations between VERBS
Question tags: positive tag following negative
Some adverbs of frequency, place and time Two clauses joined with so, before, after, when statement and vice versa clauses are uncomplicated Future perfect
Adjective +ly Direct speech + subject/verb inversion Common phrasal verbs with non - transparent Non-defining relative clauses Modal perfects
Interrogatives: Where? When? Why? How (much/ Reported speech with present tense meanings Second conditional might for a suggested course of action
many)? Reporting verb if clauses after verbs of asking, wondering etc must have/can’t have for assumptions
Intensifier: very know, think, hope etc + that clause ADVERBS Reported speech with past tense reporting verbs should (have) for expectation
Additive: too Comparative: -er/-est, more/most + adverb will (have) for assumptions
CONJUNCTIONS would for habitual past actions
SENTENCES
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Direct speech + noun/pronoun + say/ask Clauses ending in so, not
Reported speech with to + infinitive
Participle clauses
Adjectives/nouns + that clause

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Between Two Worlds
Stephen Rabley
Original / British English
Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse in Australia. She
works with a Flying Doctor. One day a
baby is very ill. Joanna takes the baby to
Sydney. It’s her first visit to a big city, and

EASYSTARTS she loves it. Does she stay in the city or


go home?

Book 978 1 4058 6943 0 / 20 pages


Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8053 4

(200 HEADWORDS)
Dino’s Day in London
Stephen Rabley
Original / British English
A1 Tommy Grant is a taxi driver. One
morning his boss telephones him. ‘Can
you be at the Ritz hotel at 9 o’clock?’ he
asks. The 12-year-old son of a film star is
in London. His name is Dino. ‘Be very nice
to the boy,’ Tommy’s boss says.

Book 978 1 4058 6945 4 / 20 pages


Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8056 5

Hannah and the Hurricane


John Escott
Original / British English
Hannah loves her job on old Mr Duval’s
small boat. The boat takes people to the
beautiful coral reef every day. Then a rich
man arrives with a big new boat. Suddenly,
there isn’t any work for Hannah and Mr
Duval. Then the hurricane comes ...

Book 978 1 4058 6947 8 / 20 pages


Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8059 6

Lucky Break
John Escott
Original / American English
Tom breaks his leg in a football game —
it’s not his lucky day! A week later, Tom
sees his favorite movie star. But Tom falls
again—and suddenly the movie star is
falling too! Reporters are taking pictures
of Tom. Is this his lucky break?

Book 978 1 4058 7671 1 / 20 pages


Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8062 6

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The Big Bag Mistake Billy and the Queen
John Escott Stephen Rabley
Original / American English Original / British English
Ricardo and Gisela are going home to Billy and his sister want new bicycles,
Rio. Gisela likes reading and quiet people. but they don’t have any money. Then
Ricardo likes noise … and he likes Gisela. their grandmother has an idea. There’s
In Rio, a thief takes Gisela’s bag. What can a competition in Palace magazine. The
Ricardo do? first prize is £500. ‘What do you think?’
Billy asks his sister. ‘We can buy two new
Book 978 1 4058 7670 4 / 20 pages bicycles for £500,’ she says.
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8054 1
Book 978 1 4058 6944 7 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8055 8

The Fireboy Flying Home


Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley
Original / British English Original / British English
Hapu lives in Ancient Egypt. Hapu’s father Felix is not a happy bird. He comes from
is ill, but they haven’t got any money for a Brazil but he doesn’t live there. He lives
doctor. Hapu makes a beautiful necklace in New York in a cage. Then one day his
for Queen Cleopatra and takes it to her. cage opens and Felix says goodbye to
But a guard says, ‘Go home’. How can New York. Can he find his family in Brazil
Hapu meet the Queen and get a doctor again?
for his father?
Book 978 1 4058 6946 1 / 20 pages
Book 978 1 4058 6957 7 / 20 pages Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8058 9
Audio CD Pack 978 1 405 8805 7 2

The Last Photo The Leopard and


Bernard Smith the Lighthouse
Original / British English Anne Collins
Pam and Martin visit Cambridge. Pam Original / British English
takes a photo, but a man walks in front of One day a leopard swims across the sea
her. Later Martin sees a picture of a man to Sindi. He is hungry and he is looking for
in a newspaper. The police want this man. food. He runs into an old lighthouse. The
Is he the same man? And where is he now? people of Sindi do not want the leopard
Does Pam’s photo have the answers? in their lighthouse. But what can they do?
How can they catch the leopard?
Book 978 1 4058 6959 1 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8060 2 Book 978 1 4058 6966 9 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8061 9

Maisie and the Dolphin Marcel and the Mona Lisa


Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley
Original / British English Original / British English
Maisie King lives in the Bahamas. Her Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective.
mother and father work at an Animal One evening, at the Louvre museum, he
Hospital. Maisie has a new friend. His sees a man steal a famous painting – the
name is Ben and he’s a dolphin. Ben is very Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to
ill. Maisie helps him. Then Maisie has a big Venice and risks his life to get the painting
problem. Can Ben help her? back again.

Book 978 1 4058 6954 6 / 20 pages Book 978 1 4058 6955 3 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8063 3 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8064 0

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Marcel and the White Star A New Zealand Adventure
Stephen Rabley Jan Thorburn
Original / British English Original / British English
Marcel is a mouse and a famous detective. Sarah and Jessica arrive in New Zealand
He lives in Paris. One evening, two thieves for a holiday. They find a mobile phone
steal a very expensive diamond ring – the in the taxi from the airport. It is Michael’s
‘White Star’. Then they steal a car. Marcel mobile, but they can’t find him? He
follows them across Paris to a café. Can has messages from home – are they
he get the ‘White Star’ and bring it back? important? Go with the girls on a New
Zealand adventure.
Book 978 1 4058 6956 0 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8065 7 Book 978 1 4058 8277 4 / 16 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8066 4

The Pearl Girl Simon and the Spy


Stephen Rabley Elizabeth Laird
Original / American English Original / British English
Kate Grant comes from Canada. She Simon Simple is going on holiday and the
is visiting Europe with her mother and police are looking for a spy. On the train,
father. One evening she sees two men in Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her
a museum. They are taking a very famous and she likes him. But the spy is there too.
picture…“Girl with a Pearl Ear-ring.” Simon and the police can’t see the spy.
What can Kate do? Can you?

Book 978 1 4058 6783 2 / 16 pages Book 978 1 4058 6961 4 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8553 9 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8067 1

Tinker’s Farm Tinker’s Island


Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley
Original / British English Original / British English
It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New It’s 1798. Sam Tinker and his daughter
York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers Jenny live in London. One day a thief
are English. They’re starting a new life puts a watch in Sam’s hand. ‘Take this,’ he
in America. They want a farm, but they says, and runs away. Two policemen see
haven’t got any money. What can they the watch and take Sam away. What can
do? Jenny do? Can she help her father?

Book 978 1 4058 6967 6 / 20 pages Book 978 1 4058 6968 3 / 20 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8068 8 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8069 5

Tom Cruise The Troy Stone


Rod Smith Stephen Rabley
Original / American English Original / British English
One of Hollywood’s most successful Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey.
actors, Tom Cruise has starred in He visits the old city of Troy and finds a
numerous films since his début in Risky yellow stone. ‘I know this stone,’ he thinks.
Business. Read about his life and career, ‘It comes from … from ...’ Suddenly Mark
his major film roles, his involvement with goes back in time. He can see a beautiful
Scientology and his marriages. city, soldiers and a big wooden horse.

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10 EASYSTARTS
NEW FOR 2010 P E N GU I N
READERS
BIOGR APHIES

Pete and the Pirates


Stephen Rabley
Original / British English
Pete Morgan is on a boat in the Caribbean with his mother and father.
It is the only boat near Blue Sea Island. Or is it? One day, Pete has a
visitor …

Book 978 1 4082 2116 7 / 16 pages


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The White Oryx Who Wants to be a Star?


Bernard Smith Julia Allen and Margaret Iggulden
Original / British English Original / British English
Mandy Brown is in the desert with Tina Daniels is thirteen years old and a
Abdullah, and an oryx ranger. But there star. She sings beautifully, and everyone
are poachers in the desert too – and a loves her. Her mother has big ideas about
mother oryx is dead. Can Mandy and Hollywood, but Tina is not happy. One
Abdullah catch the poachers? And can day she goes away on a train. Who does
they find the dead oryx’s baby? she meet? What does she see? Read
about Tina’s new life.
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The Adventures of Ali and his Camera The Battle of Newton Road
Tom Sawyer Raymond Pizante Leslie Dunkling
Mark Twain Original / British English Original / British English
Classic / American English Ali wants to take photos of people The houses in Newton Road are small,
Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has and places in Istanbul, but he has a big but people are very happy there. Then a
them at home, at school, and with his problem. He hasn’t got a camera. How civil engineer wants to knock down the
friends —Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and can he get one? houses and build a new road. The people

LEVEL 1 Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure


in a graveyard, one in an old house, one
in a cave. Who does he see in those
Book
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of Newton Road are very angry. But can
they win the battle?

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BEGINNER
(300 HEADWORDS)
Daniel Radcliffe David Beckham The Gift of the Magi
Vicky Shipton Bernard Smith and Other Stories
Original / British English Original / British English O.Henry
A1 We all know Daniel Radcliffe’s face from David Beckham, captain of England Classic / American English
the Harry Potter films. But how did he and famous for his Number 7 shirt at O. Henry’s stories are very famous. He
get the job? Did he always want to be an Manchester United, is now playing for writes about New York, Texas, Oklahoma ...
actor? And what did he do before Harry LA Galaxy. But when did he start to Money and love are often problems. But
Potter? This is the story of Daniel’s young play football? And why is he now world how is a story going to finish? You never
life. famous? This is his story. know. Readers always remember his
stories.
Book 978 1 4058 6765 8 / 16 pages Book 978 1 4058 8149 4 / 20 pages
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Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7804 3

Girl Meets Boy The House of the Jennifer Lopez


Derek Strange Seven Gables Rod Smith
Original / British English Nathaniel Hawthorne Original / American English
A girl sees a quiet good-looking boy on Classic / American English Her movies are on TV. Her music is on
the boat to Spain. She loves his shy smile The House of the Seven Gables is the radio. Jennifer Lopez is a Hollywood
and she wants to see him again. The boy the home of an important family: the star and a successful singer. She is a Latin
wants to be with her too, but there are Pyncheons. They have the house and performer. And “Latin” is about color,
problems. Can the boy and the girl get a lot of land, but no money and many fun, and life! And who is the number one
together? Or do they never meet again? problems. Is there a curse on the family? Latina? Jennifer, of course.
This is a story about money, murder, and
Book 978 1 4058 6971 3 / 32 pages love. Book 978 1 4058 8150 0 / 20 pages
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Karen and the Artist Lisa in London Marcel and the


Elizabeth Laird Paul Victor Shakespeare Letters
Original / British English Original / British English Stephen Rabley
Karen’s job takes her to many places. She It is Lisa’s first visit to London. She is going Original / British English
loves art, and in Rome she sees some to learn English. Then she meets Michael. Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London.
beautiful pictures. But the artist can’t sell And suddenly her English lessons are very Henry knows a professor and he has
them and he has no money. Karen likes exciting. some very interesting letters – by William
the young man. Can she sell his pictures Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to
for him? Book 978 1 4058 7696 4 / 20 pages see the letters, but they are not in the
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7809 8 professor’s flat. Marcel is a detective. Can
Book 978 1 4058 7667 4 / 20 pages he find them?
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Marcel goes to Hollywood
Stephen Rabley
Original / British English
Michael Jordan
Nancy Taylor
Original / American English
Mike’s Lucky Day
Leslie Dunkling
Original / British English
NEW FOR 2010
Marcel and his friend Céline are on Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls’ number Mike is an assistant van driver. He meets
holiday in Los Angeles. They are staying in 23, is very famous. And he can fly! Maybe Jennifer in her father’s shop – and he likes
the home of Arnold Waldman, a famous he is the best basketball player of all time. her very much. Jennifer is going to go to
film director. But on the first night of their But where did he come from? How did he the cinema with him. But he is very late,
holiday, kidnappers take away Arnold’s start in basketball? Read about his life and and Jennifer is very angry. Is it really Mike’s
daughter… about his love of basketball. lucky day?

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The Missing Coins Mother Teresa Muhammad Ali


John Escott D’Arcy Adrian-Vallance Bernard Smith
Original / British English Original / British English Original / American English
Pete and Carla are students. One day they Mother Teresa was a small, quiet nun. She In 1974 two Black Americans fought in
look at some very old coins and stamps in lived for God and helped poor people on Zaire, in Africa. One was Muhammad
a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, the streets of India. She was very famous Ali. After the fight, he was the boxing
but they are very expensive. Later that for her work. She died in 1997, but people champion of the world — again. But why
day some coins are missing from the shop remember her today. People in many did a young boy from Kentucky start to
– and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete. countries love her. This is her story. box? Why did he stop boxing? And what
is he doing now?
Book 978 1 4058 7668 1 / 20 pages Book 978 1 4058 8152 4 / 16 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7814 2 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7815 9 Book 978 1 4058 8153 1 / 16 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7816 6

Pelé Rip Van Winkle and The Run For Your Life
Rod Smith Legend of Sleepy Hollow Stephen Waller
Original / American English Washington Irving Original / British English
Pelé is the number one player in the story Classic / American English Kim is running through the streets of the
of soccer. He won the World Cup three Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains old town. She is frightened. A man with
times with Brazil and the fans loved him. one day and meets some strange old dark eyes and a knife is looking for her.
Today, Pelé is famous in every country of men. He comes home twenty years later. He is going to catch her. This holiday
the world. In 1950, he was a young boy One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding in beautiful Barcelona is suddenly very Speed Queens
with no shoes. This is his story. home and sees a man on a black horse dangerous. Where is Kim’s friend Dave?
behind him. The man has no head. Are What can she do? Rod Smith
Book 978 1 4058 7692 6 / 20 pages there ghosts in these stories? What do Original / American English
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7817 3 you think? Book 978 1 4058 6970 6 / 32 pages Racing was a men’s sport – and then came the women. Danica Patrick is
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7819 7 from the United States. Milka Duno is Venezuelan. Laleh Seddigh is from
Book 978 1 4058 4280 8 / 32 pages Iran. They race with men and they are winners. Read their stories.
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7818 0
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Audio CD Pack 978 1 4082 3208 8

Six Sketches Surfer Twenty Thousand Leagues


Leslie Dunkling Paul Harvey Under the Sea
Original / British English Original / British English Jules Verne
Norma is always right. But has she got the On the beach near Nick’s home there is a Classic / British English
right train tickets? What happens when surfing competition with a big prize. Nick This is the story of Captain Nemo and his
Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price? is a very good surfer. He wants to win submarine, the Nautilus. One day, Nemo
And is David ready for his wedding? The the prize and go to Australia. But Nick’s finds three men in the sea. For months
answers are in these six sketches. father is not happy. Can Nick win the the men live on the Nautilus. They find
competition and go to Australia? a town on the sea floor, beautiful coasts
Book 978 1 4058 7669 8 / 20 pages and a lot of gold. But they want to go
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7820 3 Book 978 1 4058 6969 0 / 32 pages home. Can they escape from Nemo’s
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7821 0 submarine?

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Alice in Wonderland American Life Apollo 13
Lewis Carroll Vicky Shipton Dina Anastasio
Classic / British English Original / American English Contemporary / American English
One hot summer day, Alice sees a white Most people around the world today Apollo 13 is an exciting movie — and a
rabbit and runs after it. She follows it know something about American life. true story!
down a rabbit-hole – and arrives in The United States is a big country. Not all It is Monday, April 13, 1970 and Apollo 13
‘Wonderland’. Here, caterpillars can talk Americans are the same! In this book you is flying to the Moon. Suddenly, something

LEVEL 2 and rabbits have watches. And the Queen


wants to cut off everybody’s head!
will see the many faces of American life.

Book 978 1 4058 8155 5 / 32 pages


goes wrong. The ship is losing power and
oxygen. Will the astronauts walk on the
Moon? Will they get home again?
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Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7823 4 Book 978 1 4058 8156 2 / 48 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7826 5

ELEMENTARY
(600 HEADWORDS)
Audrey Hepburn Babe – Pig in the City Babe – The Sheep Pig
Chris Rice George Miller, Judy Morris Dick King-Smith
Original / American English and Mark Lamprell. Contemporary / British English
A2 Audrey Hepburn was a beautiful and great Novelisation by Justine Korman One day, Farmer Hogget wins a young pig.
actress. When there were unhappy times Original characters by Dick King-Smith He likes the pig, but he is a sheep farmer
for her, Audrey always showed a warm, Contemporary / British English not a pig farmer. Mrs Hogget wants the
friendly face to the world. The world Babe leaves the farm for the city. He wants pig for the dinner table. The little pig has
loved her, and people love her now! to make some money. ‘But nobody wins other ideas, and he’s a very clever pig ...
in the city,’ says Bob, a chimpanzee. ‘And
Book 978 1 4058 7698 8 / 28 pages nobody helps anybody. Understand?’ Book 978 1 4058 6974 4 / 48 pages
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The Birds Black Beauty A Christmas Carol


Daphne du Maurier Anna Sewell Charles Dickens
Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Classic / British English
Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat ‘Always be good, so people will love you. Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves
watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly Always work hard and do your best.’ money, and he doesn’t like people. He
the weather is colder, and there is These were the words of Black Beauty’s really doesn’t like Christmas. But when
something strange about the birds. They mother to her son when the two horses some ghosts visit him, they show him his
are angry. They start to attack. They want lived with Farmer Grey. But when Black past life, his life now, and a possible future.
to get into the house. They want to kill. Beauty got older, this was sometimes very Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can
difficult for him. Not everybody was as he change?
Book 978 1 4058 6976 8 / 56 pages kind as Farmer Grey.
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7830 2 Book 978 1 4058 4282 2 / 48 pages
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Dante’s Peak Dragonheart Extreme Sports


Dewey Gram Adriana Gabriel Michael Dean
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English Original / American English
Scientist Harry Dalton knows about Young Prince Einon is dying. Only the Up in the air! Down on the ground!
volcanoes. His boss, Paul Dreyfus, sends Great Dragon can help him! But first the Under the water! Extreme sports are
him to Dante’s Peak, a small town in the boy has to say, ‘I won’t be a cruel king. new, exciting, and dangerous! Learn
Cascade Mountains, because one of the I’ll love my people and be kind to them.’ about extreme sports from aerial ballet
mountains is moving. Can Harry help But Einon is cruel, and everybody in the to zorbing. Read about the crazy people
the town’s people before the volcano country is afraid. Now the Dragon, good who love extreme sports. Are extreme
explodes? Why is Paul stopping him? How Sir Bowen and the peasants have to fight sports for you?
much time have they got? in a great battle between Good and Bad.
Book 978 1 4058 8159 3 / 40 pages
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Five Famous Fairy Tales
Classic / British English
When a fisherman opens an old jar, a
Fly Away Home
Patricia Hermes
Contemporary / British English
Freckles
Andrew Matthews
Original / British English
NEW FOR 2010
giant comes out. When a donkey opens Amy Alden finds a nest of goose eggs, but Susie has freckles, and she hates them.
its mouth, gold falls out. There is magic there isn’t a mother goose. So she takes Her best friend, Donna, has pretty hair,
in these five fairy tales. Good people are the eggs home. The baby geese think nice teeth and blue eyes. Donna never has
often very unhappy – but in the end they Amy is their mother. They follow her problems with boys. Now there is a new
have happy lives. everywhere. But when the winter comes, boy at school, and Donna is interested.
they must fly south. Can Amy help them But Susie likes him too...
Book 978 1 4058 4283 9 / 48 pages to fly away?
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Gandhi The Ghost of Genny Castle Gulliver’s Travels


Jane Rollason John Escott Jonathan Swift
Original / American English Original / British English Classic / British English
Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948, but his Claire is staying with her aunt Min. There Gulliver travels across the sea from
name is famous around the world. He is an old castle with a black tower in England and has an accident. He arrives
fought for change in South Africa and then the village. It has a dangerous secret – in a country of very, very small people.
at home in India. But he lived a simple accidents happen there, animals and What will they do with him? How will he
life and he protested without violence. people die. One day, Claire goes to the talk to them? And why are the Big-enders
People watched him and they loved him. castle. She wants to know its secret. fighting the Little-enders?
Many follow his ideas today.
Book 978 1 4058 6953 9 / 48 pages Book 978 1 4058 4284 6 / 64 pages
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Heidi Jaws Johnny English


Johanna Spyri Peter Benchley Contemporary / British English
Classic / British English Contemporary / British English Johnny English is a Secret Service agent.
He often makes very bad mistakes. But
Heidi lives with her grandfather in his little Amity is a quiet town near New York.
now he’s got an important job: security
wooden house, high up in the mountains One night a woman goes for a swim in
for the Queen and her crown. There
of Switzerland. One day Heidi’s aunt the sea. The next morning somebody
are problems – a lot of problems. But is Five Plays for Today
arrives and takes her to Clara’s home in finds her body on the beach. Brody is the
Johnny English England’s only hope?
Frankfurt. Heidi likes her new friend, but Amity policeman. He thinks there’s a killer Tonya Trappe
she doesn’t like living in a big house in the shark out there. But the important people
Book 978 1 4058 8162 3 / 36 pages Original / British English
city. Can she go back to her home in the don’t listen to him.
mountains? Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7845 6 Paul is shy and Judy has no friends. Oliver is afraid of other boys. Jane
Book 978 1 4058 6952 2 / 48 pages and Leo can’t talk about their feelings, and Sue lies to her boyfriends.
Book 978 1 4058 4285 3 / 48 pages These five short plays tell the stories of young people with problems.
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7844 9
Are there any answers? What do you think?
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Jumanji The Jungle Book Jurassic Park III Kidnapped


Todd Strasser Rudyard Kipling Novelisation by Scott Ciencin Robert Louis Stevenson
Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Contemporary / American English Classic / British English
Be careful when you throw the Jumanji A family of wolves take a little boy into Young Eric Kirby is in Jurassic Park with After his parents die, young David Balfour
dice! What will happen? Nobody knows, their home in the jungle. The child learns live, dangerous dinosaurs. His parents goes to the house of his uncle Ebenezer.
but it will be dangerous. Two children find and plays with the other cubs. But can want to get him out—but how? Dr. But his uncle is a dangerous man. When
the game and start to play. Jungle animals he really live in the jungle? Will the other Alan Grant knows about dinosaurs. He he puts David on a ship to America, a
and a man with a gun come out of the wolves want him to stay? And will the also knows that he doesn’t want to visit difficult and dangerous time begins. But
board. How can they stop them? They dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him? Jurassic Park again! who is the stranger on the ship? Can he
must finish the game. help David?
Book 978 1 4058 4286 0 / 48 pages Book 978 1 4058 8163 0 / 56 pages
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King Arthur and the Knights The Lady in the Lake The Last of the Mohicans
of the Round Table Raymond Chandler James Fenimore Cooper
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Classic / British English
Only the next king can pull the sword out
Contemporary / American English
Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for
Classic / American English
Uncas is the last of the Mohican Indians.
LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
of the stone. Many people try, but they Derace Kingsley’s wife, Crystal. Is she He is with his father and Hawkeye when
cannot move the sword. Then young dead or not? Marlowe finds more than they meet Heyward. Heyward is taking
Arthur tries, but it comes out easily. Now one dead body and learns about women, the two young daughters of a British
he will be king. But will he be a good king? drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. colonel to their father. But a Huron Indian
And will his life be happy? Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why? who hates the British is near. Will the girls
see their father again?
Book 978 1 4058 5532 7 / 56 pages Book 978 1 4058 6975 1 / 56 pages
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London Lost in New York Lost Love and Other Stories


Vicky Shipton John Escott Jan Carew
Original / British English Original / British English Original / British English
London is one of the great cities of the This is Nicky’s first visit to New York. He The stories in this book are exciting and
world. It is the biggest city in Britain and in is going to stay with his aunt, but she is not sometimes very strange. Some are sad
Europe. In 1900, it was the biggest city in at the airport. Then some older boys on and some are happy. We meet many
the world. In this book you will find a lot motorbikes play a dangerous game with interesting people – a young man in love,
of interesting information about London. him. Not long after he arrives, the police a lonely customer in a shop, a shy soldier.
You will read about its history from are looking for Nicky. Can he find his aunt Strange things happen to all these people.
Roman times. You will learn about its before the police find him? But life is strange sometimes.
famous people – and the shops, museums
and palaces of this exciting city. Book 978 1 4058 7697 1 / 28 pages Book 978 1 4058 8165 4 / 32 pages
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Men in Black Moby Dick Mr Bean in Town


J.J.Gardner Herman Melville Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis,
Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Robin Driscoll and Andrew Clifford
Kay and Jay are Men in Black. They have an Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in Contemporary / British English
important job – they watch all the aliens the oceans. Captain Ahab fought him and
Mr Bean doesn’t understand the world. Moonfleet
in the world. ‘There are usually fifteen lost a leg. Now he hates Moby Dick. He
There are problems for him everywhere. In
hundred aliens on Earth at any one time.’ wants to kill him. But can Captain Ahab J.M.Falkner
the restaurant, he doesn’t like his food. He
Things are usually quiet. But then a new and his men find the great white whale? Classic / British English
tries to hide it in very strange places. Then
alien arrives and this one wants to fight. A young sailor, Ishmael, tells the story of
Mr Bean goes to the launderette. What Fifteen-year old John Trenchard lives in a quiet village. But after dark,
their exciting and dangerous trip.
happens? He loses his trousers, of course! Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man walks the streets, and
Book 978 1 4058 6972 0 / 48 pages
smugglers do their work. When John accidentally learns about this
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7856 2 Book 978 1 4058 8166 1 / 48 pages
Book 978 1 4058 8167 8 / 36 pages dangerous world, his life suddenly changes. But will he live – or will he
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The Mummy The Mummy Returns The Mysterious Island Of Mice and Men
David Levithan John Whitman Jules Verne John Steinbeck
Contemporary / American English Contemporary / American English Classic / British English Classic / American English
In Egypt Imhotep, High Priest of the Dead, This is the second exciting Mummy There are three men, a boy and a dog in a George and Lennie are friends and they
stays in the ground for 3215 years. Then movie. Ten years after their last battle balloon over the Pacific, but only two men have plans for the future. But Lennie is
he wakes up from his half-life and he with Imhotep, Evelyn and Rick O’Connell and the boy arrive on a strange island. not very smart and he sometimes makes
starts to kill. Evelyn works in a museum. are back in Egypt. It is the Year of the Mysterious things happen to them there. trouble. George wants to help him but
Rick is a soldier. Can these very different Scorpion and people in Egypt are afraid. Are there other people on the island? that is not always easy. Then one night,
people send Imhotep back to the dead — Somebody has to kill the Scorpion King, Where is the other man and his dog? Will when Lennie is alone, something happens.
and also find love? or the world will end. they see their homes again? What can George do now? Can he help
— or is it too late?
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20 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 2 CONTINUED > 21


Persuasion Pirates of the Caribbean The Prince and the Pauper
Jane Austen
The Curse of the Black Pearl Mark Twain
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Classic / British English Contemporary / American English
Elizabeth lives on a Caribbean island, a
Classic / British English LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
When they were very young, Anne Elliot Two babies are born on the same day
and Captain Wentworth were in love. very dangerous place. A young blacksmith in England. One boy is a prince and the
They did not marry, but Anne never forgot is interested in her, but pirates are other boy is from a very poor family. Ten
her love for him. Now, many years later, interested too. Where do the pirates years later, they change places for a game.
they meet again. Does Wentworth feel come from and what do they want? Is But then the old king dies and they cannot
anything for Anne, or is he only interested there really a curse on their ship? And why change back. Will the poor boy be the
in her pretty young friends? can’t they enjoy their gold? new King of England?

Book 978 1 4058 6949 2 / 64 pages Book 978 1 4058 8170 8 / 48 pages Book 978 1 4058 4290 7 / 48 pages
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© Disney
Project Omega The Railway Children Robin Hood
Elaine O’Reilly E. Nesbit Classic / British English
Original / British English Classic / British English The story of Robin Hood is very famous.
Charles Hatfield Baker III, one of the Roberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in Robin Hood robbed rich people and
richest men in New York City, suddenly London with their parents. Then, suddenly, gave the money to the poor people. He
disappears. His daughter, Julia, wants to their father goes away. The children and loved adventure, and he was the best
find him. The directors of his company their mother move to a smaller house fighter in England. The greedy Sheriff
want power and money. Do they know near a railway line. Exciting things happen, of Nottingham hated Robin, and the
where he is? And what is Project Omega? and they make new friends. But where is beautiful Lady Marian loved him. His most
Can Julia find her father and save his their father? When is he coming home? famous adventures are in this book.
company?
Book 978 1 4058 6964 5 / 48 pages Book 978 1 4058 4291 4 / 48 pages
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Robinson Crusoe The Room in the Tower The Scarlet Letter


Daniel Defoe and Other Ghost Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne
Classic / British English Rudyard Kipling and Others Classic / American English
Robinson Crusoe is at sea when there is a Classic / British English Boston in the 1600s is a small town, but
great storm. His ship goes down, and his Three stories, three ghosts. A young a large crowd waits for Hester Prynne
friends die. The sea throws Crusoe onto woman marries an older man. His first outside the prison. She carries a baby in
a beach. He is on an island. But which wife is dead. Or is she …? Why does a her arms and the scarlet letter “A” is on The Amazon Rain Forest
island? Are there other people on it? And dead man walk through his house each her dress. “A” is for adulteress. Who is the Original / American English
are they friendly? What will Crusoe do night? An old woman has a house with a father of her baby? Nobody knows and
The Amazon Rain Forest is the largest rain forest in the world. It is
now? tower. Why does she visit a young man in Hester will not say.
10,000,000 years old and many different kinds of plants and animals live
his dreams? here. The forest is important for the world’s weather and wildlife, but it
Book 978 1 4058 5533 4 / 56 pages Book 978 1 4058 5534 1 / 48 pages
is disappearing fast. Read this book and learn about this wonderful forest
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Simply Suspense Stranger than Fiction: Tales from the Arabian Nights Tales from Hans Andersen
Frank Stockton, Alfred Burrage, Urban Myths Classic / British English Hans Andersen
Stacy Aumonver Phil Healey and Rick Glanvill Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She Classic / British English
Classic / British English Contemporary / British English also knows a thousand and one wonderful Hans Andersen wrote many stories, and
There are three exciting short stories A man fell from a very tall building. Why stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but these are some of the best. We meet
in this book. They are all about … fear! didn’t he die? Why did a dead woman he can’t. Sheherezade tells him stories a very, very small child, a bird with a
Three people are in dangerous places. have a frozen chicken under her hat? about a clever servant girl and a boy beautiful voice, a mermaid with legs, an
What can they do? Will anybody help What fell out of an old man’s ear, and judge, about Ali Baba and Aladdin. What ugly duckling with no friends – and an
them? why did everybody laugh? And how did a happens next? Her husband wants to emperor with some very strange new
cow fly? Find the answers in these strange know. He listens – and she lives. clothes. These stories teach us lessons
Book 978 1 4058 6948 5 / 56 pages stories. for life.
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
Classic / British English
Three Short Stories
of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
NEW FOR 2010 READAND
Classic / British English

LISTEN
D’Artagnan wants to be a musketeer. He
wants to fight for his king and his country. Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man.
But the Queen has a problem with the When people have strange, difficult
Cardinal, so d’Artagnan and his new problems, they come to him. Where is
friends have to help her. The Cardinal is a Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student saw
very dangerous man. Who will win? Who the exam paper before the exam? Why is
will lose? And who will die? somebody following Miss Smith? Can you
find the answers before Sherlock Holmes
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Treasure Island The Voyages of


Robert Louis Stevenson Sindbad the Sailor
Classic / British English Classic / British English
Jim Hawkins and his parents have a quiet Sindbad the Sailor went to sea seven times
inn by the sea. Then one day, an old sailor and his voyages were always dangerous.
arrives at the inn. What is he afraid of? He met giant men, snakes and birds,
Dangerous men come to the inn. Jim’s and the Old Man of the Sea. He visited
quiet life changes, and he goes across the different countries and strange islands –
sea by ship to Treasure Island. and he told wonderful stories about his
journeys.
Book 978 1 4058 6963 8 / 48 pages
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Walkabout The Wave


James Vance Marshall Morton Rhue
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
This is the story of an Aboriginal boy and Mr Ross wants to teach his history class
two American children in the Australian about Hitler and the Nazis. He starts
desert. When they meet the boy, Mary a class team. He calls it The Wave. His The Importance of Being Earnest Listening while reading will
and Peter learn about the desert. They students love it. Other students want
Oscar Wilde
follow him to food and water. But they to be in it. But some people don’t like it.
are lost. Can they finish their journey and And then it starts to feel dangerous. Can Classic / British English r bring the story to life and familiarise
find their way home? anybody stop it? Gwendolen thinks that she loves Ernest. Cecily thinks that she loves learners with regional accents
Ernest too. But who is Ernest really? What kind of man is he? Read this
Book 978 1 4058 8172 2 / 56 pages Book 978 1 4058 6965 2 / 56 pages funny play and laugh. Or act it to your friends and they will laugh. This is rFODPVSBHFVOXJMMJOHPSSFMVDUBOUSFBEFST
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readers
White Fang The Whistle and The Wind in the Willows
Dead Men’s Eyes “Penguin Readers audio CDs are invaluable in
Jack London Kenneth Grahame
Classic / American English M.R.James Classic / British English improving reading fluency.
White Fang is a wolf from the mountains Classic / British English This is the story of four friends – Toad, The controlled vocabulary and grammar offer
of Canada. His life is hard but he is happy Two Englishmen go away for a quiet Rat, Mole and Badger. Rat loves the river. students enjoyable books at the appropriate reading
in his world. Then he is taken to the world holiday. But it is not very quiet in one man’s Mole is often afraid. Badger likes to stay
of men. There he learns to fight and to kill. hotel room. Somebody – or something – at home. But Toad is always looking for level, while the audio CD familiarizes students with
White Fang knows nothing about love. is using the other bed. What is it and why new adventures – and some of his ideas pronunciation, intonation and the speed at which
But one day he meets Scott… is it angry? The other man sees things, but are dangerous.
they are not really there. Or are they?
the book should be read.
Book 978 1 4058 5538 9 / 48 pages What is happening? Read these ghost Book 978 1 4058 5541 9 / 56 pages Together, the book and audio CD promote efficient
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7883 8 stories and be afraid. Be very afraid! Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7884 5 and motivating reading.”
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Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7882 1 Dr Patrick Kennell
Florida State University

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Amistad An Ideal Husband The Beatles
Joyce Annette Barnes Oscar Wilde Paul Shipton
Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Original / British English
It is 1839. The slave ship, Amistad, is Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful The year was 1963, and Beatlemania was
carrying African slaves to America. There politician and an honest man. He is an only just beginning. Soon the Beatles had
is a bloody fight on the ship, and the ideal husband for the beautiful and serious fans all around the world. For the rest of
Africans are free. But soon they are in Lady Chiltern. But somebody knows a the 1960s their music led the way and they

LEVEL 3 prison in the US. Must they return to their


‘owners’, or are they free people?
dangerous secret about Sir Robert. Can
Sir Robert’s charming Society friends save
his job and his marriage?
changed modern music forever. This book
tells the story of the greatest band in the
world from the early days in Liverpool to
the Beatles’ music in the world today.
Book 978 1 4058 8174 6 / 56 pages
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Becoming Jane The Black Cat Braveheart
Contemporary / British English and Other Stories Randall Wallace
Jane, a 20-year-old writer falls in love Edgar Allan Poe Contemporary/ British English
A2 with Tom Lefroy who studies law. Jane’s Classic / British English ‘Sons of Scotland! You have come here
romance inspired her to write Pride and Are you brave enough to read four of to fight as free men. If you fight, perhaps
Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Read Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan you’ll die. If you run, you may live for a
the story of Jane Austen and how she Poe wrote strange stories about terrible time. But at what cost?’
became one of the greatest writers of people and evil crimes. Don’t read this Braveheart is the story of William Wallace,
English literature. book late at night! who gave hope to Scottish people in their
fight to be free.
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British Life The Canterbury Tales The Climb


Anne Collins Geoffrey Chaucer John Escott
Original / British English Classic / British English Original / British English
Who are the British? This book will tell ‘We’ll give a free dinner to the person A mysterious stranger has come to the
you about their lives, TV programmes, who tells the best story. Now, put up your island where Costas lives. Why is the man
business, family, life, pets – and the food. hands if you agree.’ The pilgrims all held there, and why is he looking at Eagle’s
This is a book about real people and real up their hands. Rock? Costas wants to be the first person
life in Britain today. A group of pilgrims are travelling together to climb the dangerous rock. But will the
for five days from London to Canterbury. stranger climb it first?
Book 978 1 4058 8178 4 / 64 pages On the way, each pilgrim has to tell a
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stories are happy, and some are sad. But Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7893 7
they all have a message, and we can learn
from them.

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The Count of Monte Cristo Dangerous Game The Darling Buds of May
Alexandre Dumas William Harris H. E. Bates
Classic / British English Original / British English Contemporary / British English
Edmond Dantes is a clever young seaman, For a number of years, William plays Meet the Larkin family! They enjoy a
but he has enemies who tell lies about a game with a ghost before he goes to wonderful country life, never worrying
him. On the day of his wedding to the sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that about money, work – or the law. But
beautiful Mercedes, Edmond is thrown William calls ‘Poldy’. At the beginning then, one day, a man arrives from the tax
into prison. There he meets a man who William and Poldy play a friendly game office. Is the taxman going to change the
tells him about some treasure on the every night, but then the game begins to Larkin’s lives? Or is his life going to change
island of Monte Cristo. Will Edmond change. It becomes a dangerous game. forever?
escape from prison and find the treasure? Who will win?
And will he see Mercedes again? Book 978 1 4058 6769 6 / 64 pages
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David Copperfield Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Dracula
Charles Dickens Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Classic / British English Classic / British English Classic / British English
LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
David Copperfield’s happy life suddenly Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks
changes when his mother marries again. of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little people’s blood. He lives in a lonely castle
Her new husband is cruel to him and man? And why does he seem to have in the mountains of Transylvania. But then
sends him away to school. When David’s power over the doctor? After a terrible he comes to England and strange things
mother dies, he is sent to work in London. murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. start happening. People change. People
He hates his job so he runs away. He has But he has disappeared. Or has he? become ill. Professor Van Helsing knows
no money for food or for travelling. But it about vampires, but can he stop Count
is the beginning of his life of adventure. Book 978 1 4058 5545 7 / 64 pages Dracula?
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Emil and the Detectives The Fall of the House of Five One-Act Plays
Erich Kästner Usher and Other Stories Donn Byrne
Classic / British English Edgar Allan Poe Original / British English
Emil is travelling alone to his grandmother’s Classic / American English Has Mrs Brown killed Granny on the
house in the city. He is carrying money to There are five stories in this book. ‘The beach? Why does Mrs Hill want to leave
her from his mother. Then a man on the Fall of the House of Usher’ and ‘The Barrel her husband? Who wants to steal the
train steals the money. Emil follows the of Amontillado’ are stories of madness; Professor’s invention? And what is little
thief and an exciting adventure begins, ‘The Maelström’ describes fear of death Johnny trying to say? Discover the answers
with lots of detectives, a lift boy, and a during a storm on the ocean; and in ‘The when you read the plays in this book.
fight in a bank! Murders of the Rue Morgue’ and ‘The They are plays about ordinary people
Stolen Letter’ meet C. Auguste Dupin, and the unusual, often funny, things that
Book 978 1 4058 6231 8 / 72 pages Poe’s famous Parisian detective. happen to them.
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Food for Thought Forrest Gump The Fugitive


Pauline Francis Winston Groom J.M.Dillard
Original / British English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
Billy Elliot
Farm work isn’t Joe’s idea of holiday fun. Everybody tells Forrest Gump that he’s Why did a man with one arm go into
He wanted to spend the summer surfing. an idiot. But he’s a great football player, Dr Richard Kimble’s house and murder Melvin Burgess
But when he finds himself in the middle and he plays the harmonica beautifully. his wife? The police think Kimble did Contemporary / British English
of a disagreement about GM (genetically- He’s also a brave soldier. But can he ever it. Kimble is wrongly put in prison but Eleven-year old Billy Elliot is different from other boys. He is not very
modified) crop trials, life becomes more marry the girl he loves? This story of his escapes. He wants one thing – to find the clever or good at sport. Then, one day, he discovers ballet dancing. Finally
interesting. He also meets two very journey through life is sometimes sad and killer. Detective Gerard is searching for he has found something that he can do well. But everybody knows that
different girls. But what do they really sometimes very funny. Kimble and is very close behind. ballet is for girls, not boys! Will Billy continue to dance? Or have his father
want from him? and brother got other plans for him?
Book 978 1 4058 7675 9 / 56 pages Book 978 1 4058 7691 9 / 56 pages
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Ghost in the Guitar Grey Owl Hamlet A History of Britain


Paul Shipton Vicky Shipton William Shakespeare Fiona Beddall
Original / British English Original / American English Classic / British English Original / British English
Katy and her boyfriend Tom are happy In the 1930s Grey Owl was the most Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His Britain is a small country but it has a long
in their band, Steel City. But then Tom famous North American Indian in the heart is filled with sadness and pain. Why? history. Two thousand years ago it was
gets a new guitar and the trouble begins. world. He wanted to save his land, its Only his two best friends, Horatio and part of the Roman Empire. In the 1930s
Suddenly he can play very well, but he forests and animals. He wanted to change Marcellus, know the true reason. The new the British Empire was the biggest empire
seems to be a different person. Why is he the world. He also had a very strange king, Claudius, murdered Hamlet’s father in world history.
always so angry? When Katy discovers the secret. This book tells his true story. and married the young prince’s mother. In the past, kings and queens fought to rule
secret of the guitar she is very afraid. Can Will Hamlet be strong and brave enough Britain. Discover how wars, revolutions
she save her boyfriend’s life? Book 978 1 4058 8185 2 / 56 pages to take revenge? Is he mad? Or does he and religion have changed its history. Read
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Book 978 1 4058 8184 5 / 48 pages Kingdom – and the great men and women
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7905 7 Book 978 1 4058 8186 9 / 64 pages who have shaped the British nation.
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How to be an Alien
George Mikes
Contemporary / British English
The Hunchback of
Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo
The Interpreter
Contemporary / American English
Silvia Broome is an interpreter at the United
NEW FOR 2010
This is the funniest book that you will read Classic / American English Nations. One night she hears a plan to kill
about English people! Ugly and unwanted by the outside the President of the African state of Matobo.
world, Quasimodo the hunchback lives Agent Tobin Keller of the US Secret Service
Why are the English different from
under the protection of the priest in the must stop the killers. But is Silvia telling the
Europeans? George Mikes’ book describes
Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Then his quiet truth? Is she hiding something from him? Is
the strange things the English do and say.
life is destroyed by the priest’s evil plans she more dangerous than the President’s
And the English don’t get angry when they
for a beautiful gypsy girl. The priest needs other enemies?
read the book. They love it! You will too!
Quasimodo’s help. But the hunchback has
other ideas. Book 978 1 4058 8189 0 / 64 pages
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The Island of Dr Moreau Jane Eyre Jim Smiley and his Jumping
H.G.Wells Charlotte Brontë Frog and Other Stories
Classic / British English Classic / British English Mark Twain
Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel Classic / American English
Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved aunt’s house and goes away to school. Mark Twain is one of America’s most
after many days at sea by another ship, and a Later, she becomes a teacher and works famous and best-loved writers. He wrote
passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him about every important subject of his time.
health. Prendick becomes interested in the and wants to marry him. He loves her too, Twain’s stories are usually amusing but
mystery of Montgomery’s life. Why does he but he has a dark secret ... with a serious message too. You will read
live on an unknown Pacific island? Why is he about people’s hopes and fears, happiness
taking animals there? And should Prendick Book 978 1 4058 7663 6 / 56 pages and terrible sadness—and wonderful
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Moreau? Book 978 1 4058 6239 4 / 72 pages
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K’s First Case Madame Doubtfire The Man with Two Shadows
L.G. Alexander Anne Fine and Other Ghost Stories
Original / British English Contemporary / British English Thomas Hood and Others
Katrina Kirby is a detective. People call Miranda Hilliard does not live with her Classic / British English
her ‘K’. There has been a murder in a big husband, Daniel. He wants to see the In these six stories, strange and frightening
country house. ‘K’ knows that one of five children more often, but they live with things happen. Dead people return as King Lear
people murdered Sir Michael Gray. Who Miranda. One day Madame Doubtfire ghosts. One ghost returns to catch a
William Shakespeare
did it? How? Why? This is a detective story comes to work for Miranda and help with murderer; another ghost brings bad luck
with a difference: ‘K’ needs your help with the children. But Madame Doubtfire seems and death; and another gives warning of Classic / British English
her case. strange, more like a man than a woman ... danger. You may or may not believe in King Lear is old but not wise. He loves the two daughters who secretly
ghosts, but we all enjoy a good story. hate him. He hates the only daughter who really loves him. In time, he
Book 978 1 4058 8191 3 / 72 pages Book 978 1 4058 8192 0 / 56 pages discovers his mistake. Has he learnt his lesson? Or will his proud and
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Matilda A Midsummer Night’s Dream My Fair Lady My Family and


Roald Dahl William Shakespeare Alan Jay Lerner Other Animals
Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Contemporary / British English Gerald Durrell
Matilda is a clever and unusual little girl. This wonderful story of fairies, dreams My Fair Lady is the story of a poor young Contemporary / British English
But her parents aren’t interested in her, and lovers is as popular today as it was flower-seller and a professor who doesn’t This very funny story is about an English
and the terrible head teacher at her in Shakespeare’s time. In a wood outside like women. The professor decides to family who go to live on the Greek island
school hates clever children. But Matilda Athens, four young people are following teach the flower-seller to speak better of Corfu. Gerald, the youngest boy, loves
finds a way to be strong, and the results their dreams, while fairies play strange English. He wants to change her from animals and insects. He brings scorpions,
are very funny. games with them. Their world seems street-girl to lady. But what will he learn spiders, birds, snakes and other animals to
unreal – but is it really very different from from her? the house, and they get him into lots of
Book 978 1 4058 7676 6 / 56 pages our own? trouble.
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New York Notting Hill Othello
Vicky Shipton Richard Curtis William Shakespeare
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Original / American English Contemporary / British English Classic / British English LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
Every year, millions of tourists visit New Anna Scott is an American film star. She is Othello is a popular soldier who is in love
York—the most exciting city in the world. rich, beautiful and very famous. William with his beautiful new wife. He also has
Read about its history, its sights and its Thacker is a shy man who has a small, good friends – like Iago, another soldier.
people. What makes New York “the city unsuccessful bookshop in London. Their lives So when Iago tells him terrible stories
that never sleeps?” are different in every way, but they are both about his wife, Desdemona, who should
looking for someone special. Can a future Othello believe? Will jealousy destroy
Book 978 1 4058 8197 5 / 56 pages together be more than a dream? Notting Hill all their lives? This is one of William
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7923 1 is a wonderful – and very funny – love story. Shakespeare’s greatest plays.

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Pirates of the Caribbean Pirates of the Caribbean The Prince of Egypt –


Dead Man’s Chest At World’s End Brothers in Egypt
Contemporary / American English Contemporary / American English Adapted from the novelisation
Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, Lord Cutler Beckett thinks that pirates are by David A. Adler
is back in a new adventure. This time very bad for business. He wants to take Contemporary / British English
he, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and command of the oceans. The Pirate Lords,
of course, have other ideas. But can they In Egypt, the Pharaoh’s soldiers are ordered
Commodore Norrington are all looking to kill every Hebrew baby boy. But one baby
fight him and win—together? They need
for a chest that belongs to the terrible the help of Captain Jack Sparrow, but he escapes. He grows up in a palace and has a very
Captain Davy Jones. But Davy Jones has and his ship are at the bottom comfortable life. But one day Moses learns the
other plans for Jack Sparrow... of the ocean. Is this the end for secret of his past, and his life changes forever.
the Pirates of the Caribbean?
Book 978 1 4058 6773 3 / 64 pages Book 978 1 4058 8200 2 / 64 pages
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© Disney

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Princess Diana Psycho Rain Man
Cherry Gilchrist Robert Bloch Leonore Fleischer
Original / British English Contemporary / American English Contemporary/ British English
Princess Diana, one of the most famous Marion’s dream is coming true. She only Charlie Babbit needs money. But when his The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
and popular women in the world – the needs a room for one more night before rich father dies, Charlie gets two surprises.
Alexander McCall Smith
People’s Princess. she can marry Sam. Driving through the One: he has a brother, Raymond, who
night, she’s lost and tired. Then she sees lives in a special hospital. Two: all their Contemporary / British English
Read here about Diana’s short life, her
the Bates Motel. She thinks she is lucky. father’s money goes to Raymond. Charlie Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is
marriage to Prince Charles, her ‘war’ with
But there, something terrible is waiting is angry, but the journey across America also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency – the No.1
the Royal Family and her love and hard
for her. with Raymond changes his life. Ladies’ Detective Agency – is the best in the country. With help of her
work for sick and poor people all over the
secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves
world.
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The Return of The Ring The Road Ahead Romeo and Juliet
Sherlock Holmes Bernard Smith Bill Gates William Shakespeare
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Original / British English Contemporary / American English Classic / British English
Classic / British English One day Rafael was well; the next day he Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, Romeo and Juliet is one of the most
In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock was completely mad. What happened to started Microsoft in 1975 with a friend famous love stories in the world. But
Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while him? The story of Rafael and his gold ring when he was only nineteen years old. it is more than a great love story. It is
working on a dangerous case. Everyone is a strange story of murder, mystery and Twenty years later he wrote this book also about life and death, happiness and
thought that he was dead. But three years love. Many people know part of the story. about the future of computers and the sadness, and the terrible hate between
later, he returned to England. Holmes and But only Rafael knows the true facts. And Internet. Read the ideas and dreams of a two great families. Shakespeare’s beautiful
his friend, Dr Watson, had many more Rafael is mad. man who has changed the world. tale is still as popular today as it was more
adventures together. Three of his most than 400 years ago.
interesting cases are in this book. Book 978 1 4058 8202 6 / 64 pages Book 978 1 4058 7690 2 / 56 pages
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A Scandal in Bohemia Sense and Sensibility
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Austen FE ATU RE D TITLE
Classic / British English Classic / British English
All kinds of people, from shopkeepers to Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two
kings, want the help of Sherlock Holmes in very different sisters. Marianne loves
these six stories about the adventures of excitement and always shows her feelings;
the famous detective. Who put a diamond Elinor is quiet and has more good sense.
in a chicken? Why is there a club for men They both fall in love and both suffer
with red hair? How did the man at the broken hearts. Will they ever find the
lake die? Can Sherlock Holmes solve the right man to love and marry?
mysteries?
Book 978 1 4058 8203 3 / 56 pages
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Sherlock Holmes and the StarGate


Mystery of Boscombe Pool Devlin, Emerich and Black
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Contemporary / British English
Classic / British English The mysterious StarGate is 10,000 years
Who killed Charles McCarthy at old. When a group of soldiers go through
Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective it, they travel millions of miles to a strange
Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it new world. There they have to fight to
was McCarthy’s son, James. Things do stay alive. Will they live? Will they find a
not look good for James. But the famous way to get back to Earth?
English detective, Sherlock Holmes, sees
things differently. His friend, Dr Watson, Book 978 1 4058 8204 0 / 56 pages
joins him and tells the story. Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7937 8
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Stories from Shakespeare The Swiss Family Robinson


Classic / British English Johann Wyss
These are the stories of some of Classic / British English Martin Luther King
Shakespeare’s most famous plays. We ‘It was the seventh day of the storm. We Coleen Degnan-Veness
travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and didn’t know where we were. Everyone on
Rome, and meet many different people. Original / American English
the ship believed that death was very near.’
There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live
The Robinson family do not die at sea; they
king and queen, some Roman politicians together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were
find their way to a small island. But what
and a young prince who meets the ghost not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won
can they do now? Where will they live?
of his murdered father. changes for the blacks of America. But has King’s dream really come
What will they eat? Luckily, the father and
true today?
their mother have useful skills and they can
Book 978 1 4058 5549 5 / 72 pages teach their four young sons. But how long
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The Thirty-nine Steps The Turn of the Screw Vanity Fair


John Buchan Henry James William Thackeray
Classic / British English Classic / British English Classic / British English
A man is killed in Richard Hannay’s A young woman comes to a big house to Becky Sharp, an intelligent young lady with
home. Before his death he tells Hannay teach two young children. It’s her first job no family or money, becomes a governess.
a dangerous secret. Now Hannay’s life and she wants to do it well. But she begins But this type of life is not enough for her.
is in danger. Who are his enemies and to see strange things – the ghosts of dead She has big plans for herself. Is she clever
what are they trying to do? And how will people. Do the ghosts want the children? enough to find success? Will she marry
he solve the mystery of ‘the thirty-nine and be happy? Or will life be unkind to
steps’? Book 978 1 4058 8205 7 / 56 pages her?
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1984
George Orwell
Classic / British English
Alexander the Great
Fiona Beddall
Original / British English
NEW FOR 2010
Winston Smith lives in a society where Alexander the Great has fascinated people
the government controls people’s lives since his death more than 2300 years ago.
every second of the day. Alone in his By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest
small, one-room apartment, Winston Empire the world had ever known. This

LEVEL 4 dreams of a better life. Is freedom from


this life of suffering possible? There must
be something that the Party cannot
control – something like love, perhaps?
remarkable leader brought civilization to
millions and shaped our world.

Book 978 1 4058 8206 4 / 72 pages


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The Breathing Method The Canterville Ghost
Stephen King Oscar Wilde
Contemporary / British English Classic / British English
B1 There is a club in New York where men The famous Canterville Ghost haunts
tell each other stories. Some of these are an old house, but the ghost becomes
mysterious, some are horrible. One night unhappy when the new owners play tricks
a doctor tells the story of a young woman on him! In the other stories, we meet
who gives birth to her baby. A normal Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder
enough event? Not this one. someone before he can get married, and
we discover the secret life of beautiful
Book 978 1 4058 8207 1 / 72 pages Lady Alroy.
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Cinderella Man The Client


Marc Cerasini John Grisham
Contemporary / American English Contemporary / British English
Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a The Bourne Identity
York. But in October 1929 the American terrible secret. He knows where a body Robert Ludlum
economy fails, and at the same time Jim is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous
starts to lose in the boxing ring. Does the that it’s better not to tell. But it’s just as
Robert Ludlum / American English
true story of Jim Braddock — the Cinderella dangerous if you don’t. So Mark needs The man has been shot many times, but he lives. Who wants to kill him,
Man — have a happy ending? help fast... because there isn’t much time. and why? The man can’t remember. He can’t even remember his name.
As he begins to learn about his past, he becomes even more confused.
Book 978 1 4058 8208 8 / 88 pages Book 978 1 4058 8209 5 / 72 pages Does he have a future? Or will he be killed before he knows who – and
what – he really is?
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The Day of the Jackal Detective Work The Diary of a Young Girl Doctor Faustus
Frederick Forsyth John Escott Anne Frank Christopher Marlowe
Contemporary / British English Original / British English Contemporary / British English Classic / British English
A secret organisation plans to assassinate A diamond necklace is stolen from a It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have Doctor Faustus is a clever man who is
the French President, General de Gaulle. museum. Everyone who works at the invaded. All Jewish people are frightened greedy for knowledge and power. After
Their leader, Colonel Marc Rodin, decides museum could be guilty. But who really for their lives, so the Frank family hide. he signs an agreement with the Devil, in
to hire a professional, someone unknown took the necklace, and why? The police Life is dangerous but they hope for the his own blood, his new skills are admired
to French police. He and his men choose suspect Paul, a young student. So Paul best – until they are finally discovered. around the world. But there are two sides
“the Jackal.” Can police detective Claude must find the real thief. Anne Frank was a real person, and this to an agreement with the Devil. There is
Lebel stop the killing and save the is her diary. a price to pay...
President’s life? Book 978 1 4058 8211 8 / 72 pages
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The Doll’s House Emma Evening Class Falling Leaves
and Other Stories Jane Austen Maeve Binchy Adeline Yen Mah
Katherine Mansfield Classic / British English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
Classic/ British English Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever Thirty people join an Italian evening class. This book is the life story and family
Katherine Mansfield is one of the most and rich. She likes to arrange marriages All have their own reasons. Connie needs history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was
famous short story writers in the English between her friends and neighbours in to escape from an unhappy home life; born in China at a time of great change and
language. These four stories take place the village of Highbury. But Emma makes a Lou has criminal intentions. Aidan and trouble. At the same time, she suffered
about a hundred years ago in England and lot of mistakes and causes more problems Signora have organised the classes. All terrible unkindness from the members of
New Zealand. They are sometimes funny, than happy marriages. Then she almost their lives are changed forever. her own family. Falling Leaves is a story of
sometimes sad and often cruel. loses her own chance of love. pain and fear, but also of hope as Adeline
Book 978 1 4058 8215 6 / 88 pages fights for her independence.
Book 978 1 4058 8213 2 / 72 pages Book 978 1 4058 8214 9 / 80 pages Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7954 5
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7952 1 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7953 8 Book 978 1 4058 8216 3 / 88 pages
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Far from the Madding Crowd Gladiator The Go-Between The Godfather

Cover art copyright © 2000 Universal Studios Publishing Rights, a division of Universal Studios Licensing Inc.
All rights reserved. TM & Copyright © Dreamworks Pictures and Universal Pictures, 2000. All rights reserved.
Thomas Hardy Dewey Gram L.P.Hartley Mario Puzo
Classic / British English Contemporary / American English Classic / British English Contemporary / British English
Gabriel Oak is an honest, hard-working Maximus is a general in the Roman army. It is the summer of 1900 and Leo is staying Don Vito Corleone is the ‘Godfather’
young farmer, who falls in love with the After his last battle he wants to return with his friend Marcus. Leo likes Marcus’s of New York’s richest Mafia family. His
beautiful and independent Bathsheba to his family. But the new Emperor beautiful older sister very much. To make business is built on fear and murder. Vito’s
Everdene. After a tragic accident, Gabriel Commodus hates Maximus, and kills his her happy, he becomes a secret messenger son Michael wants a quiet life away from
loses his farm. Bathsheba, on the other family. Soon Maximus is a prisoner, then for her and a local farmer. But then he the family business. But that’s not easy,
hand, becomes rich. Is there any hope for a slave, and finally a gladiator. When realises what their messages are about, and slowly Michael becomes the most
Gabriel? Emperor Commodus joins Maximus in and his whole life begins to change. dangerous gangster of them all …
the arena they fight for their lives.
Book 978 1 4058 8217 0 / 72 pages Book 978 1 4058 6244 8 / 168 pages Book 978 1 4058 8219 4 / 72 pages
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Gone with the Wind Gone with the Wind The House of Stairs Inventions that
Part One Part Two Barbara Vine Changed the World
Margaret Mitchell Margaret Mitchell Contemporary / British English David Maule
Classic / British English Classic / British English Twenty years ago a group of people lived Original / American English
Gone with the Wind is a story of love and Gone with the Wind is a great romantic in a house in London. One of them was Inventors are special people. They see
war and one of the best-selling books of all story of love and war and one of the murdered, but who was it? We slowly find everyday objects and imagine something
time. Part 1 follows the popular but selfish best-selling books of all time. In Part 2, out the truth, as the past, the present and better. They solve old problems with new
Scarlett O’Hara, the gentlemanly Ashley the American Civil War has destroyed the future join together in a frightening ideas. Their inventions can help people or
Wilkes, and dangerous but charming Scarlett O’Hara’s comfortable world. Will story. destroy them, but only the greatest ideas
Rhett Butler as their world is destroyed in she lose her home too? Or can she save it will change the world. This book will tell
the terrible American Civil War. and rebuild her life? Book 978 1 4058 8222 4 / 72 pages you about many of the most interesting
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7962 0 and important inventions, from 2,500
Book 978 1 4058 8220 0 / 80 pages Book 978 1 4058 8221 7 / 80 pages
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years ago to the present day.
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7961 3 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7960 6
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PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINES Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7963 7
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The Kalahari Typing School King Solomon’s Mines The Locked Room and Lorna Doone
for Men Sir H. Rider Haggard Other Horror Stories R.D.Blackmore
Alexander McCall Smith Classic / British English M.R.James Classic / British English
Contemporary / British English Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and Classic / British English In 1673 young John Ridd meets a little
When a new detective agency opens Allan Quatermain are travelling to the A tree full of enormous spiders, a living girl called Lorna Doone. Seven years
in town, Precious Ramotswe has an mysterious, unmapped heart of Africa. Sir thing with no face, a picture that comes later they meet again, and fall in love. But
unexpected problem – competition! At Henry wants to find his missing brother. alive, and a boy with no heart. These are the Doone’s are a family of robbers and
the same time her assistant, Mma Makutsi, Quatermain wants to find King Solomon’s some of the frightening things in these murderers. One of them, Carver, killed
has problems of her own. As always, secret treasure. Is Sir Henry’s brother stories by M. R. James, one of the greatest John’s father and now wants to marry
solutions can be found at Botswana’s still alive? Will they find King Solomon’s horror writers of all time. Lorna. Can John save Lorna from her
No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, thanks to treasure? Does the treasure even exist...? worst fears?
the sensible Mma Ramotswe and plenty Book 978 1 4058 8224 8 / 72 pages
of red bush tea. Book 978 1 4058 6513 5 / 88 pages Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7965 1 Book 978 1 4058 6514 2 / 88 pages
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park Love Actually Macbeth The Merchant of Venice
Michael Crichton Richard Curtis William Shakespeare William Shakespeare
Contemporary / American English Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Classic / British English
Six years ago the dinosaurs were In London, Christmas is coming and the Macbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by Bassanio wants to get married, but he
destroyed and Jurassic Park was closed. people in this story have love on their the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting has no money and a lot of debts. He
But now people are finding dead animals minds. Some have found love; some have with three witches makes him greedy for asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but
again—are they dinosaurs? Dr. Levine is lost it. Some accept their loneliness; others power. Macbeth wants to be king. He and Antonio is waiting for his ships to return.
going to find out. On Isla Sorna, off the live in hope. Even the new British prime his evil wife make murderous plans. But Until then, he has nothing to lend. To

Cover art copyright © 2003 Universal Studios Publishing Rights,


coast of Costa Rica, he and his friends find minister’s thoughts are not always on his job how many people will have to die before help Bassanio, he borrows money from a

a division of Universal Studios Licensing Inc. All rights reserved.


themselves in a lost world. – because love, actually, is all around us. their dreams come true? money-lender – and agrees to an unusual
This Penguin Reader play is written for condition. If Antonio cannot repay the
Book 978 1 4058 8225 5 / 80 pages Book 978 1 4058 8226 2 / 72 pages acting – making English come alive. loan in three months, the money-lender
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7967 5 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7968 2 will cut a pound of flesh from his body.
Will Antonio be able to repay the loan?
NOT AVAILABLE IN USA AND CANADA Book 978 1 4058 6243 1 / 72 pages
Or will he die?
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7969 9
Book 978 1 4058 8227 9 / 88 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7970 5

The Mosquito Coast Murder on the Orient Express On the Beach The Picture of Dorian Gray
Paul Theroux Agatha Christie Nevil Shute Oscar Wilde
Contemporary / American English Contemporary / American English Contemporary / British English Classic / British English
Allie Fox hates the United States and he A train journey from Turkey to France Nuclear war has destroyed all life in the An artist paints a picture of the young and
hates the twentieth century. He takes his is delayed by thick snow. So when a northern countries of the world. Now handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it,
wife and children to the jungle in Honduras passenger on the train is found murdered the deadly radiation is travelling south. Dorian makes a wish that changes his life.
to find a new, simpler way of living. But in his bed, it is the perfect opportunity In Australia, where people are still alive, As he grows older, his face stays young
things go wrong, and their lives become for Agatha Christie’s famous detective, Peter and Mary Holmes are trying to live and handsome. But the picture changes.
much worse and more frightening than Hercule Poirot, to prove his ability and their lives as normally as possible as the Why can’t Dorian show it to anybody?
anything back home. solve the crime using the power of his radiation comes closer and closer. What What is its terrible secret?
brain. can they do? Is this the end of life on
Book 978 1 4058 7664 3 / 72 pages earth? Book 978 1 4058 8229 3 / 88 pages
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Book 978 1 4058 8228 6 / 136 pages
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Seven Shakespeare – Strangers on a Train Teacher Man


Anthony Bruno His Life and Plays Patricia Highsmith Frank McCourt
Contemporary / American English Will Fowler Contemporary / American English Contemporary / American English
Detective Somerset has seven days before Original / British English Guy Haines is travelling through Texas When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher
he can retire from work and escape from Shakespeare’s plays are famous all over on a train when a stranger invites him in New York, he finds himself standing in
the city. Detective Mills is starting his first the world – in the theatre, in film and in to share a meal. But the stranger has a front of bored, confused, angry students.
week on the job. This story is about seven the classroom. What do we know about terrible plan. ‘You murder my father, Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use
days and seven shocking murders. The the man? What kind of life did he have? and I’ll murder your wife,’ he suggests. his miserable Irish childhood to help his
serial killer has one thing on his mind — Who were his friends? Why can we still So begins Guy’s journey into a world of students? This is the true story of one
seven deadly sins. laugh and suffer with his characters 400 madness, lies and death. man’s surprising, upsetting, but sometimes
years after his death? very funny experiences in the classroom.
Book 978 1 4058 8230 9 / 72 pages Book 978 1 4058 8232 3 / 72 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7974 3 Book 978 1 4058 8231 6 / 72 pages Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7976 7 Book 978 1 4058 8233 0 / 88 pages
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Tears of the Giraffe Three Adventures of The Time Machine Women in Business
Alexander McCall Smith Sherlock Holmes H.G.Wells David Evans
Contemporary / British English Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Classic / British English Original / British English
The second exciting story from The No.1 Classic / British English The Time Traveller has built a time At the beginning of the twentieth century,
Ladies’ Detective Agency series. Precious Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. machine and has gone into the future to the idea of women in business seemed
Ramotswe is now known as Botswana’s There are few cases that he cannot solve. the year 802,701. He expects to find a strange. Today more and more women
first and only lady detective and has many In these three stories we meet a young better world with highly intelligent people are reaching the top of business life. This
cases. She’s looking for a young American woman who is terrified of a mysterious and great inventions. Instead, he finds book tells the business success stories of
who disappeared ten years ago. Will she ‘speckled band’, a family who think that that people have become weak, child-like five very different women: Coco Chanel,
finally marry Mr JLB Matekoni? five orange pips are a sign of death, and a creatures. They dance and sing and wear Hanae Mori, Anita Roddick, Oprah
banker who believes that his son is a thief. flowers. They seem happy, but why are Winfrey and Madonna.
Book 978 1 4058 6777 1 / 88 pages But are things really as they seem? they so frightened of the dark? And who
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8550 8 or what has taken his time machine? Will Book 978 1 4058 8235 4 / 72 pages
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2001: A Space Odyssey The Body The Brethren
Arthur C. Clarke Stephen King John Grisham
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / American English
2001: A Space Odyssey – a great film and Gordie Lanchance and his three friends Three former judges are in prison. They
a famous novel. are always ready for adventure. When call themselves the Brethren and organize
An object is found on the Moon. Who they hear about a dead body in the forest a pen-pal scam. The money is pouring
made it? Men travel into space to find they go to look for it. Then they discover in. But then the Brethren contact the

LEVEL 5 out – a billion kilometres to the rings of


Saturn. Something is waiting for them…
how cruel the world can be.

Book 978 1 4058 8237 8 / 88 pages


wrong pen-pal — a powerful man with
dangerous friends.

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UPPER INTERMEDIATE CANADA AND PHILIPPINES

(2300 HEADWORDS)
British and American The Citadel Death on the Nile
Short Stories A.J.Cronin Agatha Christie
D.H.Lawrence and Others Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
B2 Contemporary / British English When Andrew Manson starts work as Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and
These stories paint colourful pictures of a doctor he discovers some unpleasant clever. She appears to have everything.
life in Britain and America in the past. facts about the medical profession. He But Linnet also has enemies. When she
We meet some unusual people. There’s struggles against a system that seems to is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt,
the dreamy boy who wakes up one day value money more than curing illness. But it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also
to find a bird making a nest in his hair! the system is extremely powerful. Will he on the trip. But even for the great Belgian
And there’s the man who tries to catch win his battle? detective, this is not a simple case.
a ghost.
Book 978 1 4058 8240 8 / 144 pages Book 978 1 4058 6779 5 / 104 pages
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Dr Zhivago The Firm Four Weddings and a Funeral


Boris Pasternak John Grisham Richard Curtis
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
The Russian Revolution – four young Mitch McDeere is young, intelligent and Four Weddings and a Funeral – one of the
people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, ambitious. When he gets a job with the most successful films from Britain.
find love and lose it in this extraordinary law firm of Bendini, Lambert & Locke It’s a Saturday morning, and Charles is still
time. Their heart-breaking stories make it seems to be the path to money and asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and
Dr Zhivago one of the greatest romantic power. But soon Mitch finds that the firm Laura’s wedding! Charles is always late, and
books, and films, of the century. is listening to all his phone calls, and the FBI he is worried that he will never find the right
want to speak to him. Money and power woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie…
Book 978 1 4058 8242 2 / 88 pages has a price – and it could be Mitch’s life.
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7987 3 Book 978 1 4058 8244 6 / 88 pages
Book 978 1 4058 8243 9 / 96 pages
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The Grapes of Wrath The Great Gatsby Heart of Darkness


John Steinbeck F.Scott Fitzgerald Joseph Conrad
Classic / American English Classic / British English Classic / British English
During the Great Depression in the United During one hot summer on Long Island, Resting one night on a boat on the River
States, and after the loss of their farm in Jay Gatsby throws an amazing party every Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends
Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a weekend. He is an extremely wealthy about his experiences as a steamboat
journey of more than one thousand miles man, although no one knows where he or captain on the River Congo. There, in
to California in search of a better life. Can his money have come from. But Gatsby the heart of Africa, his search for the
hope defeat poverty, illness, hunger, and has a purpose: he is following a dream of extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused him to
even death as they follow their dream? love. Will his dream come true? question his own nature and values – and
the nature and values of his society.
Book 978 1 4058 6251 6 / 104 pages Book 978 1 4058 6517 3 / 104 pages
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7990 3 Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7991 0 Book 978 1 4058 8245 3 / 104 pages
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Invisible Man Jamaica Inn
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Classic / British English H.G.Wells Daphne du Maurier
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead
just outside his home, Baskerville Hall.
Classic / British English
A stranger arrives in a small village
Classic / British English
When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes
LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
Many of the Baskerville family have died wearing a long coat and gloves. His head is to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica
mysteriously. People say that they were covered in bandages and dark glasses hide Inn. Strange things happen there at night,
killed by a gigantic devil-like creature – his eyes. The villagers are curious. Who and Mary slowly discovers that she and
the Hound of the Baskervilles! Can that is he? When they discover the stranger’s her aunt are in terrible danger. Can she
be true? And can Sherlock Holmes save terrible secret, they realize that they are save herself and her aunt before it is too
the new owner of Baskerville Hall from a in great danger. late?
terrible death?
Book 978 1 4058 6250 9 / 96 pages Book 978 1 4058 6257 8 / 136 pages
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Jane Eyre The Mayor of Casterbridge More Tales from Shakespeare


Charlotte Brontë Thomas Hardy Charles and Mary Lamb
Classic / British English Classic / British English Classic / British English
Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in Michael Henchard is a wealthy and This collection of six short stories, based
misery until she becomes the governess respected man, but he has a terrible on Shakespeare’s plays, is the perfect
in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester secret. Twenty years ago, when he was introduction to one of the world’s
and falls in love. But mysterious events unemployed and penniless, he sold his greatest writers. Meet the tragic young
take place in the house at night, and wife to a sailor. Now she is looking for him lovers Romeo and Juliet, mad King Lear,
Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a again. Why? And what will happen when angry young Hamlet, and many more
terrible secret. Can Jane even hope for she finds him? of the most famous characters in world
happiness? literature.
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On the Road Outstanding Short Stories The Partner


Jack Kerouac Edgar Allan Poe and Others John Grisham
Contemporary / American English Classic / British English Contemporary / American English
One of the most famous American books This collection brings together some of Patrick Lanigan, a lawyer, dies in a car
of the century. the best examples of late nineteenth- crash. Later, the partners in his law firm
Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all and early twentieth-century short stories. discover that Patrick is not really dead.
Some are about ordinary people to He is living in Brazil, and he has 90 million Cold Mountain
part of Sal Paradise’s adventures “on the
road” with wild friend Dean Moriarty, whom something unexpected happens. dollars of his partners’ money… Charles Frazier
and their crazy companions, as they travel Others are about unusual characters or Contemporary / American English
across the USA. events. Some of the stories are funny and Book 978 1 4058 8247 7 / 104 pages
others are more serious. All of them are Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long,
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The Pelican Brief The Phantom of the Opera Pride and Prejudice Comments from the Extensive
John Grisham Gaston Leroux Jane Austen Reading Foundation judges.
Contemporary / British English Classic / American English Classic / British English
Cold Mountain is storytelling at its best. This version intelligently
In Washington, two Supreme Court There is a climate of secrecy and fear Jane and Elizabeth Bennet are the oldest pares down the characters and incidents of the original, yet vividly
judges are murdered and only the young at the Paris Opera. People are dying of five sisters in need of husbands, but it conveys its pastoral and anti-war themes, and depiction of humans
and beautiful law student Darby Shaw and a beautiful, talented young singer isn’t easy to find the right man. Are Mr at their cruellest and most generous. It is notable that, in spite
knows why. She has uncovered a deadly has disappeared. Is this the work of the Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all
of compression, the adaptation retains the leisurely, sometimes
secret but will anyone believe her? Can Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or a that they seem? Will pride and prejudice
dreamlike mood of the original. Reteller Mary Tomalin inhabits
she stay alive long enough to persuade monster? And what else will he do to get ever be defeated in the search for true
them she is right? what he wants? love?
this material as Charles Frazier did in the source book. Here is a
masterwork of language learner literature.
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The Prisoner of Zenda The Rainmaker Rebecca
Anthony Hope John Grisham Daphne du Maurier
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Classic / British English Contemporary / American English Classic / British English
After the death of his beautiful wife
LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
Rudolf Rassendyll, a daring young I have no job. I have no money. I have debts
Englishman looking for adventure, arrives I can’t pay. I do, however, have a case. Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to
in Ruritania for the new king’s coronation. Rudy Baylor is ready to finish law school Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he
The two men meet by chance the day but loses his first job before he has even meets and marries a quiet young woman
before and are shocked to find that they started. Then Dot and Bud Black ask for and takes her back to Manderley, his family
look exactly the same! A trick leaves his help in their fight against a powerful home in Cornwall. But will the memory of
Rudolf in the king’s place while the king insurance company. Their son, Donny Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
becomes the Prisoner of Zenda. Ray, is dying. His claim for medical
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Round the World in Eighty Days Sherlock Holmes Sons and Lovers
Jules Verne Short Stories D.H.Lawrence
Classic / British English Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Classic / British English
Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Classic/British English This moving story follows the emotional
Then he makes a bet that he can travel In these six stories we join the brilliant development of Paul Morel. Paul is torn
around the world in eighty days. The detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his between his passionate love for his
result is a crazy, exciting race against time friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting mother and his romantic friendships with
across Europe, Asia and America. There adventures. These include several Miriam and Clara.
are many dangers along the way – and a suspicious deaths, the mystery of the
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Stories of Detection The Story of the Internet The Strange Case of


and Mystery Stephen Bryant Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Agatha Christie and Others Original / British English Robert Louis Stevenson
Classic / British English The Internet is the fastest growing Classic / British English
Is Alix’s new husband really going to phenomenon in technology the world has Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked
Ripley’s Game
murder her for her money? Who has ever seen, revolutionising business and and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an Patricia Highsmith
killed the young Englishman on his return the lives of almost every person on the evil man, completely unknown in London Contemporary / American English
from America? And why have a young planet – in less than ten years. society. There is a murder and Hyde
One night, Tom Ripley is insulted by a man at a party. An ordinary person
couple suddenly disappeared from their seems to be responsible. So why does the
would just be upset by this, but Tom Ripley is not an ordinary person. Months
home? In this collection of mysteries by Book 978 1 4058 8252 1 / 88 pages good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his
later, when a friend asks him for help with two simple murders, he remembers
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the night and plans revenge. He starts a game – a very nasty game, in which
quite what you expect. Mr Hyde in his will?
he plays with the life of a sick and innocent man. But how far will he go?
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A Tale of Two Cities The Talented Mr Ripley Tales from Shakespeare Tales of Mystery
Charles Dickens Patricia Highsmith Charles and Mary Lamb and Imagination
Classic / British English Contemporary / American English Classic / British English Edgar Allan Poe
This great story is set against the Tom Ripley goes to Italy. He needs to This Book includes stories based on seven Classic / British English
background of the French Revolution. find Dickie Greenleaf. Dickie’s father of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. We meet Edgar Allan Poe, ‘the father of the
Two men – one French, one English, but wants him to go back to America. But many of Shakespeare’s most famous detective story’ and a master of horror, is
very similar in appearance – are in love Tom wants to stay in Italy, and he will do characters – magical Prospero; Puck, one of the greatest American short story
with the same woman. The three of them, anything to get what he wants. the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; writers. In these stories we meet people
like the people of France, are faced with The Talented Mr Ripley is now an exciting Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and struggling with fear, revenge, mental illness
the dangers of life at a time when the movie with Matt Damon, Gwyneth many more. This is a wonderful first and death. Which of them will win – and
guillotine never rests. Paltrow and Jude Law. step on the journey into the world of which will lose – their battles?
Shakespeare.
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FIRST CERTIFICATE
Taste and Other Tales
Roald Dahl FE ATU RE D TITLE
Contemporary / British English
In this collection of Roald Dahl’s finest
stories we meet some quite ordinary

IN ENGLISH
people who behave in extraordinary
ways. There is a man who is sure he can
hear plants scream and the wife who
discovers a perfect way to get rid of her
husband. And there’s a woman who finds
an unusual use for a leg of lamb…

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FCE SET TEXTS
From December 2008, when the
The War of the Worlds updated FCE exam is introduced,
H.G.Wells there will be two set texts with one
Classic / British English text specific question on each.
The War of the Worlds is one of the most
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written. When a spaceship falls from the December 2009 — December 2010
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Web
John Wyndham
Contemporary / British English A Time to Kill
The island of Tanakuatua seems like
John Grisham
heaven to the forty people who go there
to create a new society. But soon they Contemporary / American English
start to die in a horrible way. Something Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl
strange is in the forest. Two of the group Lee, Tonya’s father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake
decide to fight! Brigance, stands between him and the electric chair. Is there a legal
defense for Carl Lee’s actions?
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World Folktales Wuthering Heights


Classic / American English Emily Brontë
These nine stories will take the reader on Classic / British English
an exciting journey to distant cultures and On the wild and lonely Yorkshire moors,
times. The collection includes folktales a tragic story unfolds as Catherine
from South America, Africa, India, China, Earnshaw and Heathcliff fall in love. But it
and Europe. is a dangerous love, filled with unhappiness
and suffering. When Catherine finally
Book 978 1 4058 6252 3 / 104 pages breaks Heathcliff ’s heart, Heathcliff
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Anna Karenina The Beach Brave New World
Leo Tolstoy Alex Garland Aldous Huxley
Classic / British English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
Anna Karenina, one of world literature’s ‘Close your eyes … imagine idyllic white Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is one
greatest novels, tells the story of a sands and coral gardens.’ of the great works of science fiction.
beautiful young woman who is unhappily Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears It is the year After Ford 632 in the New
married to a man much older than herself. about ‘the beach’, a secret island. It is World. People are born and live by scientific

LEVEL 6 When she falls in love with a handsome


young soldier, life suddenly seems
wonderful. But real happiness is not so
easily found ...
paradise on earth. He goes there, but
paradise soon turns into hell…
methods. There is worldwide happiness and
order. Then John comes from the Savage
Reservation to the New World and with
Book 978 1 4058 8257 6 / 112 pages him he brings strong emotions – love, hate,
Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 8026 8 anger, fear. Suddenly, danger threatens the
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Business @ the Speed The Chamber Crime and Punishment


of Thought John Grisham Fyodor Dostoevsky
Bill Gates Contemporary / American English Classic / British English
C1 Contemporary / American English The horror of death row is that you die a Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been
All the computers in the world today little each day. The waiting kills you. forced to give up his university studies
make up a living being. They have a Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on because of lack of money. He withdraws
“digital nervous system.” Bill Gates, in this Mississippi’s death row. Sam hates lawyers from society and, poor and lonely, he
fascinating book, explains business in the but his date with the gas chamber is close, develops a plan to murder a greedy old
twenty-first century. Information is the and time is running out. Then Adam Hall, moneylender. Surely the murder of one
new business tool, and it can travel at the a young lawyer arrives. Can he and his worthless old woman would be excused,
speed of thought. secret persuade Sam to accept his help? even approved of, if it made possible a
thousand good deeds? But this crime is
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Cry, the Beloved Country The Double Helix East of Eden


Alan Paton James D. Watson John Steinbeck
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English Classic / American English
‘When people go to Johannesburg, they James D. Watson and Francis Crick won “All novels … are built on the never-ending
do not come back.’ the Nobel Prize in 1962 for the discovery contest in ourselves between good and evil.”
Cry, the Beloved Country is the moving of the double helix, the structure of John Steinbeck, one of America’s greatest
story of two families in South Africa – one DNA. In this book, James D. Watson tells writers, considered East of Eden to be his
black and one white – who are brought the exciting story of this discovery. most important work. Set in California,
into violent contact. From a remote valley the novel is a story of love and jealousy,
in Natal, Reverend Kumalo sets off for Book 978 1 4058 8264 4 / 120 pages forgiveness and revenge—and what it
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Great Expectations I Know Why the Les Misérables


Charles Dickens Caged Bird Sings Victor Hugo
Classic / British English Maya Angelou Classic / British English
Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed Contemporary / American English Jean Valjean is free at last after nineteen
forever by two very different meetings Today Maya Angelou is one of the world’s years in prison. Cold and hungry, he is
– one with an escaped convict and the most respected writers and poets. In the rejected by everyone he meets. But Jean’s
other with an eccentric old lady and the 1930s and 1940s she was a poor Black girl life is changed forever when he discovers
beautiful girl who lives with her. And who growing up in the segregated American love. He spends the rest of his life helping
is the mysterious person who leaves him South. She suffered prejudice and cruelty people, like himself, who have been
a fortune? from people she trusted as well as at victims of poverty and social injustice
the hands of an unjust society. Above all, – ‘les misérables’.
Book 978 1 4058 6528 9 / 128 pages Maya learned about the power of love
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Madame Bovary Man from the South Misery
Gustave Flaubert and Other Stories Stephen King
L ANGUAGE LE AR NE R
Classic / British English
Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes
Roald Dahl
Contemporary / British English
Contemporary / British English
LITE R ATU RE AWAR D
A story by Stephen King – the master of horror.
from her boring life with her father by Roald Dahl is the master of the Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes’s favourite
marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life unexpected. Things are not always what writer. She loves all his books about Misery
does not bring her the love and excitement they seem and nobody should be trusted. Chastain. When Annie finds Paul after a
she expected. She looks for love outside In this collection of his short stories we car accident, she takes him home to look
her marriage, and one of literature’s great learn some strange lessons about the after him. The Annie discovers that Paul
tragedies begins to unfold. dangerous world we live in. But you will wants to kill Misery and to write different
have to wait until the final pages of each kinds of book. She is determined to stop
Book 978 1 4058 6531 9 / 120 pages story to discover the last, terrible twist! him, and Paul becomes her prisoner.
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Memoirs of a Geisha The Moonstone North and South


Arthur Golden Wilkie Collins Elizabeth Gaskell
Contemporary / American English Classic / British English Classic / British English
Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great The Moonstone is an ancient Indian Life changes completely for Margaret
stories of our time. We follow Sayuri’s life: diamond which brings disaster to Hale and her parents when they move to
her early years in a small fishing village and everyone who owns it. Rachel Verinder’s a smoky northern city. There, Margaret
as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her uncle gives her the diamond as a birthday meets Mr Thornton, a wealthy cotton mill
struggle, we know of her secret love for present, but that same night it is stolen… owner, and dislikes him immediately. But
the only man who ever showed her any The Moonstone is now seen as the first, the mill owner falls passionately in love
kindness — a man who seems to be out and one of the best, English detective with her. Then his workers strike. Against
of her reach. novels. a background of industrial drama and
personal tragedy, is there any hope for Mr
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Oliver Twist The Remains of the Day A Room with a View


Charles Dickens Kazuo Ishiguro E.M.Forster
Classic / British English Contemporary / British English Classic / British English
His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing Lucy Honeychurch is a young middle-class
brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. English girl. Her life is comfortable and
starved, he runs away to London, where But it is a journey that will also take him she lives in a protected existence. But Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
he joins Fagin’s gang of thieves. By chance deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is her experiences on holiday in Italy show Louis de Bernières
he also finds good new friends – but can a remarkable story: a man’s exploration of her a different side of life. She learns to Contemporary / British English
they protect him from people who rob his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt look more closely at the people around
and murder without mercy? to make sense of it. her and discovers the power of her own This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian
heart. officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But
Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army… Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is
Book 978 1 4058 6525 8 / 136 pages Book 978 1 4058 8269 9 / 120 pages
now a film, starring Nicolas Cage.
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The Runaway Jury Saving Private Ryan Schindler’s List Snow Falling on Cedars
John Grisham Max Allan Collins Thomas Keneally David Guterson
Contemporary / American English Contemporary / American English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
Pynex, a tobacco company, could lose Saving Private Ryan – one of the greatest war Thomas Keneally’s famous novel tells It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial
hundreds of millions of dollars in a big films ever made! Steven Spielberg – Academy the true story of Oskar Schindler, a for murder. He is a Japanese American
court case. The jury is being watched. One Award® winner for Best Director! businessman who risked his life every day living on the island of San Piedro, off the
of the jurors is working with a mysterious It’s June 9 1944, three days after D-Day. On during the Second World War to save as north-west coast of America. The Second
woman outside the court. Both sides will the orders of the government, Captain John many Jews as possible. Steven Spielberg’s World War has left an atmosphere
do anything to win. Miller and his men go to look for Private film of Schindler’s List won seven Oscars, of anger and suspicion in this small
James Ryan. They must bring him home. But including Best Picture and Best Director. community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial?
Book 978 1 4058 8270 5 / 120 pages how many will survive the mission? And will the true cause of the victim’s
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The Penguin Guide
to Literature in

LITERATURE /
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding FE ATU RE D TITLE English: Britain
Classic / British English
and Ireland
When Mr Allworthy finds a baby boy
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in his bed, he decides to keep him and
An introduction to the most

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Bernard Smith Anne Collins
Original / British English Original / British English
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Good Day, Bad Day The Hat


Paul Shipton John Escott
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Kim’s Choice The Long Road


Brigit Viney Rod Smith
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hero.
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Meet the Martians Newspaper Chase


Stephen Rabley John Escott
Original / British English Original / American English
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They live on Mars and there are no picture and hides it in a newspaper in his
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JTOUCPSJOH8IBUDBOUIFZEP -JOHIBT papers ...
an answer...
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Amazon Rally The Barcelona Game Little Women The Rainbow Serpent
Eduardo Amos and Stephen Rabley Louisa May Alcott James Vance Marshal
Elisabeth Prescher Original / British English Classic / American English Classic / British English
Original / British English Holly and her brothers go to Barcelona The story of the four March sisters and In an old Australian story, the Rainbow
Riding in a motorcycle rally across the for a football game. First, Holly wants their loves, problems and adventures is Serpent opened her eyes and looked
Brazilian jungle is hard and exciting. But to see famous places in the city, but her sometimes sad, often funny but always at the young Earth. There were no
when they agree to help their Indian brothers want to go to a funfair. Then a charming. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little animals or birds, no rivers or trees.
friends, Brian and David find themselves man takes Holly’s bag, and the tickets for Women in 1868. It is also a film starring Then a Man and a Woman came, and
racing to save lives ... the game are in it! Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon. the Rainbow Serpent was their teacher.
But what did she teach them? And did
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The Crown The Galapagos Theseus and the Minotaur Under the Bridge
M. R. James Izabella Hearn Ken Beatty Lynda Edwards
Classic / British English Original / American English Classic / British English Original / British English
What is the crown, and why is it important The Galapagos islands are beautiful. They Theseus is the son of Poseidon, the god of Bea lives under a bridge. She watches
for England? Who is William Agers? In are full of interesting animals and birds. the sea, but he is the son of King Aegeus people, but they don’t look at her.
this gripping mystery, the answers are all One famous visitor to the islands, in of Athens too. Every year the Minotaur Then, one day, a policeman stops and
in Seaburgh. 1835, was the scientist Charles Darwin. eats people from Athens. Theseus is talks to her. Bea doesn’t like talking and
Now two young Americans, Sophie and strong and angry, but he is only a young she doesn’t remember much. But he is
Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5200 5 David, are making a movie there. What man. Can he kill the Minotaur? looking for a little girl, and there was a
do they find? child in Bea’s old life. Can she remember
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Island for Sale Kylie Minogue The Wrong Man


Anne Collins Liz Kilbey Kris Anderson
Original / British English Original / British English Original / British English
Duncan McTavish lives in a castle on Kylie Minogue was a star – a famous A man wants to kill the Police
a Scottish island. He doesn’t have any singer with a lot of money and beautiful Commissioner. But who is he? Can Steve
money, and he can’t pay a large bill. clothes. And then, in 2005, the music Malone find the killer? He only has two
There is only one thing he can do – sell stopped. Kylie had cancer. People waited. days ... An Australian thriller told in
his island. And then she came back. Read her story, cartoon form.
from her early days in Australia to her
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Anne of Green Gables Another World Mr Bean Nelson Mandela
L.M. Montgomery Elaine O’Reilly Richard Curtis and Robin Driscoll Coleen Degnan-Veness
Classic / American English Original / British English Contemporary / British English Original / British English
The Cuthberts ask the orphanage for a For BZXY741, a student, life in Eden City A famous painting is going to the Grierson Nelson Mandela’s life is the story of a
boy to help at their farm, but a little girl seems perfect. But one day he meets Gallery in LA and they want a top man to country boy and his fight for the black
steps off the train. Anne causes chaos at Eve, a girl who shows him that there is come to the United States. He can talk people of South Africa. The extraordinary
Green Gables, but her good nature wins another world ... An intriguing science about the artist. The National Gallery in story of a great man, a freedom fighter
everyone’s heart. fiction story. London send Mr Bean. But something is and one of the world’s most important
very wrong with Mr Bean! He’s very, very leaders.
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The Call of the Wild Don Quixote Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Round the World
Jack London Miguel de Cervantes Before Christmas in Eighty Days
Classic / American English Classic / British English Contemporary / American English Jules Verne
Buck is a strong, intelligent dog who Don Quixote wants a different life, so Everybody in Halloweentown loves Classic / British English
moves from an easy life in California to he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. Halloween–but not Jack Skellington. Can Phileas Fogg go round the world
the Klondike. Life is tough in the cold The two men want to be a knight and Every year he has to sing the same scary in eighty days? He doesn’t know that
north of Canada and Buck has to learn his squire from an earlier age. Will they songs. He is bored with them. Then, one somebody wants to stop him. Then
many hard lessons to survive. But can he find adventures? Will they be famous? day, he visits Christmastown … Fogg will lose his bet – twenty thousand
ever be happy there? Will they change the world? This is their pounds!
story. Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5210 4
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The Earthquake E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial The Secret Garden Stories of other Worlds
Elizabeth Laird Contemporary / American English Frances Hodgson Burnett H.G. Wells
Original / British English Millions of people know and love the story Classic / British English Classic / British English
Gabriel loves Silvia, but Silvia loves Marco. of E.T.—the little visitor from the stars. Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle A mountain climber, high in the Andes,
Marco wears expensive clothes and Earth is interesting for E.T. but he wants in a big, old house in the country. There falls into a strange valley. In London, a
drives a fast car. He is more exciting than to go home. Can his new Earth friend, are many gardens round the house. One man is looking for a green door. A third
Gabriel. Then, one evening, something Elliott, help him? This is the famous story day Mary finds a garden that has high man tries to help an unhappy ghost.
terrible happens. It changes the lives of of one of the world’s favorite movies. walls and no door. What is the secret of Each of these exciting stories shows us
everybody in the city. Where are Marco the garden? two very different worlds. But which is
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The First Emperor of China Kong Water for Life Wonders of the World
Jane Rollason Christopher Golden, retold by Bernard Smith Vicky Shipton
Original / British English Coleen Degnan-Veness Original / British English Classic / American English
Ying Zheng, king of Qin, became the first Contemporary / American English Water. We drink it. We cook with it. Around the world there are many beautiful
emperor of China. He had new ideas Ann Darrow is an actor with no work We wash with it. We can’t live without places. There are famous buildings, old
and made new laws. He built big palaces and no money. Carl Denham wants to it. Most of us don’t think about it much. and new. Some are interesting; some
– and a great wall. But life was difficult make a movie–but not in the United But it is not there for everybody, and our are important. Some are the tallest or
for his people and dangerous for the States. A long, long way from New York world is changing fast. We have to think the biggest in the world. The Great Wall,
emperor. So he took an army with him there is an island. And on that island lives very carefully about water, and about our Machu Picchu, the Grand Canyon, the Taj
into the next world. the giant King Kong. Who will live–and use of it. Mahal … Which are your wonders of the
who will die? world?
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The Adventures Breakfast at Tiffanys Mysteries of the The Pearl
of Huckleberry Finn Truman Capote Unexplained John Steinbeck
Mark Twain Contemporary / American English Kathy Burke Classic / American English
Classic / American English It is New York in the 1940s. In the Original / British English Kino finds a large pearl, which he thinks
Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi expensive jewelry store Tiffany’s, Holly Read about the strangest things in the will save his family from poverty. But the
from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a Golightly feels calm and safe. The rest universe – other worlds, strange objects pearl is what they think they want instead
runaway slave so they have to be careful. of her life is very different. Every night is and peculiar happenings. How much do of what they need. The misfortune it
They have a lot of adventures on the party night in her apartment. Men come you believe? Encounter the evidence and brings changes the life of the family
river. They even meet a king! But is he and go; everything is possible. But Holly is make up your own mind! forever.
real? Huck soon finds out the truth. searching for her place in the world. Can
any of these men offer her happiness? Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5212 8 Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5213 5
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Charles Dickens Frankenstein The Romans Silas Marner


Paul Shipton Mary Shelley David Maule George Eliot
Original / British English Classic / British English Original / British English Classic / British English
Charles Dickens is one of Britain’s greatest Frankenstein is probably the most Over hundreds of years, the Romans built Silas Marner loves only one thing – his
writers. Through his writing he fought for famous horror story in the world. Victor an empire. As they occupied the countries money. Each night he takes it out from
better conditions for children and the Frankenstein is a young scientist who around them, they took with them their his hiding place and counts it. Then two
poor, but most of all he is remembered creates a monster from parts of dead skills as builders and their language, laws things happen to change his life – his gold
today for his wonderful stories and his bodies. At first the monster looks for and lifestyle. They changed the western coins are stolen and a little girl comes to
unforgettable characters. love and wants to be kind. But soon, he world. But who were the Romans? live with him. Slowly, Silas Marner starts
learns to hate people and becomes evil. to change.
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life. But will this life destroy him? Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4082 0953 0

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The Horse Whisperer The Incredible Journey Six Ghost Stories The Snow Goose
Nicholas Evans Sheila Burnford S. H. Burton and Other Stories
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / American English Original / British English Paul Gallic
One winter morning in New York State, The country is wild and dangerous. What is the secret of Room 7? Why do Classic / British English
there is an accident on an icy mountain Mountains are high, rivers run fast, and the Frobishers feel so uncomfortable Philip Rhayader is a painter. He lives alone
road. Thirteen-year-old Grace and her there are strange animals in the woods. with their young visitor? Why is Roger in an old lighthouse. But his life changes
much-loved horse, Pilgrim, are very But three family pets—two dogs and a Wingate afraid to drive his new car? And when a young girl brings him an injured
badly hurt. Grace’s mother believes her cat—begin a long, long walk through is the old woman at Number 91 really snow goose. The other stories are ‘The
daughter will only recover if her horse western Canada. They miss their family waiting for a birthday card that never Doll’ and ‘The Silver Swans.’
can be saved. Can the Horse Whisperer and they are trying to get home. But will comes? The answers to these questions
nurse Pilgrim back to health? anyone see them again? are in the stories in this book. Will you Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 5215 9
sleep well after you finish them?
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Japanese Ghost Stories Logan’s Run Stories of Courage Sweeney Todd


Lafcadio Hearn William F. Nolan and Clare Gray Anonymous
Classic / British English George Clayton Johnson Original / American English Classic / British English
A blind musician plays to the spirits of the Contemporary / American English Eight inspiring true stories of people In the narrow, crowded streets of
dead. A priest is attacked by heads that Logan has to die. That is the law in this showing great courage in the face of 18th century London, Sweeney Todd
have left their bodies. An old man meets world of the future. Young people enjoy incredible difficulties. Read about the runs a successful barber’s shop, but his
a woman who has no face. Read these themselves in ways that will shock some real Erin Brockovich, an incredible escape neighbours worry about his strange
and many more strange, ghostly stories readers now. But at the age of 21 their from death in Africa, Cuba’s bravest appearance and frightening laugh. Is the
from old Japan – and be afraid! lives must end. Logan has always policed runner... and more! Sometimes true barber hiding something? Tobias, his
this law—but is there any other way? stories are more amazing than-fiction! young employee, thinks he is. Then other
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Titanic! The Yearling


Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings All new vocabulary clearly
Paul Shipton
Contemporary / American English highlighted in the text
Original / American English
Jody Baxter makes friends with a young
On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic
orphaned deer called Flag. A powerful
hit an iceberg and sank. This is the full
tale famous for its descriptions of the
story. Why did the Titanic sink so quickly?
natural world.
Why did so many people die? What are
the stories of all those people, young and
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The Young King


and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde
Classic / British English
Strange and wonderful things happen
in the seven short stories in this book.
Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of
kings and queens, mermaids and witches,
giants and dwarfs, and talking animals.
Exciting an amusing, happy and sad, these On-page glossaries with example
are stories for people of all ages. sentences, definitions and

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In the book pronunciation support

rPre-reading activities to get the


reader interested and to develop
predicting skills
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learners consolidate what they’ve read
rLanguage in use exercises that offer
practice in key grammar structures
rSpeaking and Writing communicative
tasks that encourage learners to
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The Monkey King
Th
The ABC Murders About a Boy Leonardo da Vinci Wu Ch’êng-ên
Agatha Christie Nick Hornby Georgia Clarke Originally translated by
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
Arthur Waley
Hercule Poirot has received a letter Will Freeman wants an easy life Leonardo da Vinci is known world-wide Abridged by Alison Waley
which is simply signed ‘ABC’. The writer with no responsibilities. But then he as the painter of the Mona Lisa, for Contemporary / British English
promises a mystery that is too difficult meets Marcus – an unusual twelve designs for flying machines and for his
even for the great mind of the famous year old boy with serious problems. studies of the human body. He brought Monkey is an excitable, selfish creature
Belgian detective. Poirot is worried by About a Boy is a modern classic – a very his scientific and artistic abilities together with magic skills. As punishment for bad
the letter, but there seems to be no case funny story about a very serious subject: so successfully that he is as famous now, behaviour, he is sent by the gods on a long,
to solve. And then the murders begin. love. It’s also a popular movie starring five hundred years after his death, as in hard journey to the West, to protect a
Hugh Grant. his lifetime. young Buddhist priest. The travellers have
many frightening and amusing adventures
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Bleak House The Body in the Library Nicholas Nickleby The Odyssey
Charles Dickens Agatha Christie Charles Dickens Homer
Classics / British English Contemporary / British English Classic / British English Classic / British English
The legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce Early one morning the Bantrys wake to Nicholas Nickleby is a kind man who The great hero Odysseus has been away
has become a joke to some. People are find the dead body of a young woman in works at a cruel school full of poor, hungry from his family for twenty years when the
born, marry and die, and still the case their library. Who is she? How did she get children. Can he ever find happiness in a goddess Athene decides to help him find
continues. But will the lives of Ada and there? The police are called, of course, world where stupid, greedy people have his way back to the island of Ithaca. But
Richard be ruined, like the lives of others but Dolly Bantry quickly invites her friend all the power and brave, honest people the journey will not be easy. Odysseus
before them, by the expectation of Jane Marple to solve the mystery. have nothing? Now a major film. must face storms, monsters and the
money? And how will their friend Esther terrible anger of the sea god Poseidon.
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home?
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Crime Story Collection The Dream and Other Stories


Sara Paretsky and Others
Contemporary / British English
Daphne du Maurier and Others
Contemporary / British English
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lessons go with a bang!ng
Evil Under The Sun The Full Monty
Agatha Christie Wendy Holden
Contemporary / British English Contemporary / British English
At the Jolly Roger Hotel, the guests Gaz and five others decide to form a
appear to be relaxing in the sun. But strippers’ group. None of the men has
when a beautiful woman is killed, there stripped before. Gaz must make sure the
are many possible suspects. What can local women come to the show, so he tells
the motive be? Is evil at work on the them that the group will take all their clothes
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Animals Colors Goldilocks and Tom’s Cake and Kate’s Lunch The Musicians of Bremen Sleeping Beauty
Meet some exciting wild animals and their Margaret Lo the Three Bears Audrey McIlvain A cat, donkey, cock and dog decide to make A bad fairy puts a spell on a beautiful
babies. What are they like, what do they do, Learning about ten colours. The Monster The three bears go for a walk while their Tom decides to bake a cake but it isn’t their fortune by becoming singers. princess. Only her true prince can wake her
and what do they eat? likes yellow food and two children find lots breakfast is cooling down Meanwhile as simple as he expected ... And what from the spell.
of colours in a rainbow. Goldilocks pays a visit ... birthday surprises are waiting for Kate this Book 978 0 5823 4403 7
Book 978 0 5827 8896 1 lunchtime? Book 978 0582 42845 4
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Families The Little Mermaid The Sorcerer’s Apprentice The Three Billy Town Mouse and
Georgina Cretegny The Little Mermaid falls in love with a The apprentice learns about magic and uses Goats Gruff Country Mouse
Brothers, sisters, cousins and aunts! Learn handsome man but will he ever be able to it to help his village. The three Billy Goats want to cross the Town Mouse and Country Mouse are good
about different families from all over the love her? bridge but they have to get past the troll friends despite having very different lives.
ives.
world through facts and stories. Book 978 0 5823 4405 1 who lives under the bridge and likes to
Book 978 0 5824 2866 9 eat goats for lunch! Book 242 9
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Dick Whittington The Elves and the Shoemaker The Ghost House
Dick Whittington sets off to seek his A poor shoemaker finds that his shoes are John Escott
fortune in London, where people say that mended mysteriously overnight Who is Do ghosts exist? When Rick and Mia explore
the streets are paved with gold. helping him and why? a mysterious old house, perhaps they will find
out. Download these free Teacher’s Resources from www.penguinreaders.com
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Aesop’s Fables Poppet Puss-in-Boots Seasons Story Shop: The Present Tom Thumb The Velveteen Rabbit
Aesop, who lived over 2000 years ago, used Dick King-Smith Puss-in-Boots is a very unusual cat. He Audrey McIlvain A selection of photostories, cartoons A man and a woman wish for a child – Margery Williams
fables to illustrate human failings and they Poppet is an elephant. His mother warns wears long boots and is so clever that he A look at the four seasons and different and articles in a magazine-style Reader. even one as small as a man’s thumb. The enchanting classic story about a
are still relevant today. him against mice but Poppet makes friends makes his master a rich and happy man. types of weather. toy rabbit.
with a mouse. Book 978 0 5823 4412 9 Book 978 0 5824 2846 1
Book 978 0 5825 1230 6 Book 978 0 5824 2847 8 Book 978 0 5824 5621 1 Audio Pack 978 0 5824 6098 0 Book 978 0 5827 7858 0
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TM & © 2000 DreamWorks L.L.C., Aardman.
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The Best Christmas Chicken Run Cinderella Eddie and the Halloween The Jungle Book Little Red Riding Hood My Home The Tinderbox The Wizard of Oz
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Cinderella would love to Magic Potion Margaret Lo
Rudyard Kipling Little Red Riding Hood meets a Margaret Lo A soldier finds a magical tinderbox, L. Frank Baum
Four children are left alone over The chickens of Coop 17 plot go to the ball. Can her fairy Deirdra Morris A fun look at the history, stories bad wolf on the way to see her Short stories, fun activities which makes all his wishes come A tornado whisks Dorothy and
a daring escape to avoid being godmother help her? Rudyard Kipling’s famous story grandmother. true.
Christmas and decide to make their Eddie has a very funny day after and games around this exciting and all sorts of fascinating facts her dog, Toto, to the magical
made into pies by the evil Mrs about a boy who was brought
own Christmas preparations. he drinks some magic potion but festival. about different homes around land of Oz. Will they find their
Tweedy. Book 978 0 5824 2868 3
up by wolves. Book 978 0 5824 2867 6 Book 978 0582 34415 0
his grandmother manages to bring the world. way back home.
Book 978 0 5823 4408 2 him back to earth with a bump! Book 978 0 5827 7857 3
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Aladdin and the Lamp Ghosts The Golden Goose The Selfish Giant Snow White and Rose Red
A genie lives inside a magic lamp and makes Melanie Williams A simple but goodhearted boy finds Oscar Wilde Snow White and her sister, Rose Red, befriend
wishes come true for whoever owns the lamp. Full of facts about ghosts and real-life ghost happiness with the help of a golden goose. The giant doesn’t want to share his garden a bear in the forest. But is the bear all that he
stories. What are ghosts really like? with the children. What will happen when the seems?
Book 978 0 5824 3254 3 Book 978 0 5824 3096 9 children find a way into his garden?
Book 978 0 5824 4812 4 Book 978 0 5824 3095 2
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The Hundred and One Dalmatians Peter Pan Jack and the Beanstalk The Princess and the Frog Sindbad the Sailor The Ugly Duckling
Dodie Smith J. M. Barrie Jack sells his cow for some magic beans. His A beautiful princess meets an ugly frog. She Cherry Gilchrist An unhappy duckling grows into a beautiful
When some of their puppies go missing, Pongo Peter Pan teaches the Darling children to fly. They mother is furious but the beans lead to a doesn’t like the frog but she soon learns not Sindbad sails away to very strange swan in this magical fairytale.
and Missis suspect the evil Cruella de Vil of fly off and have adventures in Neverland where magic castle and a giant with lots of gold. to judge by appearances. places. Here are three of his most exciting
stealing them. They set out to rescue them. there are pirates and the scary Captain Hook. adventures … Book 978 0 5824 2858 4
Book 978 0 5824 2859 1 Book 978 0 5823 4398 6
Book 978 0 5824 6572 5 Book 978 0 5824 6140 6 Book 978 0 5825 1257 3
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Hansel and Gretel The New Adventures Peter and the Wolf The School Bus Shapes Snow White and Charlie and the
Hansel and Gretel live with their father of Tom Thumb Peter is clever and brave. With the Deidra Morris Caroline Laidlaw the Seven Dwarves Chocolate Factory
near the forest. When he re-marries, Tom Thumb is very, very small. But he is help of the cat and bird he catches the Some lively clothes transform an Read what happens to a school of mice Snow White’s stepmother does not Roald Dahl
their stepmother tricks Hansel and Gretel clever. Find out how Tom escapes from wolf. ordinary school bus ride into a crazy
and leaves them in the forest. Can they and learn about shapes. like her and tries to kill her. Snow Charlie Bucket finds a Golden Ticket,
ever find their way home? a hungry cat and helps a Princess. journey. White escapes and finds the kind seven which wins him a whole day at Willie
Book 978 0582 51233 7 Book 978 0 5824 4803 2 dwarves in the forest. Can the dwarves Wonka’s chocolate factory!
Book 978 0 5828 1999 3 Audio Pack 978 0582 51235 1 Book 978 0582 45606 8 help Snow White?
Book 978 0 5824 2869 0
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Beauty and the Beast Famous Sports Happy Granny and The Wood Circle Stories from the Odyssey The Waters of Life
Ali Baba overhears the secret password Beauty has to go and live with the Beast. At Cameron Fox Antoinette Moses Three exciting stories. Odysseus meets Cherry Gilchrist
to the cave where the thieves hide their first, she is very afraid but the Beast is kind Great stories, facts and quizzes about football, In Happy Granny, Tim doesn’t like his granny the Cyclops, the Sirens and Scylla and Three traditional folk tales with a water theme
treasure. He takes some gold coins from the and soon Beauty grows to like him. Charybdis.
cave but the thieves want them back. basketball, athletics, tennis and more … much until she helps him out. Penny and from North America, India and China.
Mira put their secret on the internet in The
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Chants to reinforce language and
teach young learners the natural
rhythm of English
I sell fast food
Come and buy a pizza
I like fast food
I’ll have a pizza
Food Pinocchio The Toy Soldier
Cheese and tomatoes
Caroline Laidlaw Pinocchio is a puppet who causes lots The Toy Soldier is very brave. He loves Mushrooms too
A tasty look at food from all over the of trouble. He would like to be a real the ballet dancer but can they ever be Fast food’s slow
world. It will make everyone hungry! boy, but first he has to learn how to together?
be good. When the mushrooms grow
Book 978 0 5824 6569 5 Book 978 0 5824 2863 8
Book 978 0 5824 2864 5 Chant taken from Food, Level 4

LEVEL 4 AGE 7- 9 M E D IU M FO R MAT (70 wor d s per page)

How the Grinch stole Christmas! book and characters TM & ©Dr. Seuss Enterprises, LP 1957,

Licensing, Inc. All rights reserved.


Copyright © 2001 Universal Studios Publishing Rights, a division of Universal Licensing, Inc. The
Movie Dr. Seuss ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas!’ © 2000 Universal Studios. Based on the book
renewed ©1985. All rights reserved

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is a trademark and copyright


of Universal Studios. Licensed by Universal Studios
The Amazing Universe Ancient Egypt Dr Seuss’ How the E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. A Monkey’s Tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin Rapunzel
Paul Shipton
Coleen Degnan-Veness
Grinch Stole Christmas! The Book of the Green Planet Two communities of monkeys have The Pied Piper helps the town of Rapunzel has been imprisoned in a
Find out everything you need to know The Grinch hates Christmas and decides to spoil William Kotzwinkle been divided for centuries – and are Hamelin get rid of rats. The Mayor has tower by a wicked old woman. Rapunzel
Meet pharaohs and an Egyptian queen, learn deeply suspicious of one another. Can promised him money and when he is very lonely until a handsome prince
about the planets and our solar system in it for the people of Whoville. This humorous E.T. has returned to his home, the
hieroglyphics and how to build a pyramid.
this book full of fantastic facts. story shows there is more to Christmas than Green Planet. He is in disgrace and he the two communities be reunited? doesn’t pay, the Piper decides to make finds her. Will she ever manage to
lots of food and presents. misses his friend from Earth, Elliott. E.T. him pay another way. escape from the tower?
Book 978 0 5827 7763 7 decides he must try to return to Earth.
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A Christmas Carol The Crane’s Gift Danny Morton and The Emperor and Rumpelstiltskin The Snow Queen The Swiss Family Robinson
Charles Dickens Steve and Megumi Biddle the Eyes of Morn the Nightingale Rumpelstiltskin helps a miller’s daughter Gerda goes in search of her brother, The classic tale of a family shipwrecked
Ebenezer Scrooge is rich and mean. An old man rescues an injured crane Michael Nation The Emperor is very rich and he turn straw into gold. In return, she who has been imprisoned by the Snow on a strange faraway island.
At Christmas, he is visited by three and it changes his life. Danny’s life changes when he goes to loves music, but he soon realizes that promises to give him her first child. Can Queen in a palace of ice.
ghosts, who show him his past, present Nextworld, a world of magic and a castle.
the nightingale from the forest is his she manage to keep her child? Book 978 0 5828 1998 6
and future. Book 978 0 5824 6143 7 greatest treasure. Book 978 0 5824 3099 0 Audio Pack 978 0 5828 3116 2
Audio Pack 978 0 5824 6145 1 Book 978 0 5824 3247 5
Book 978 0 5825 1227 6
Book 978 0 5827 7864 1
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TITLE / MAJOR
AUTHOR INDEX
Binchy, Maeve 39 Far from the Madding Crowd PR 4 38
SERIES ABBREVIATION FULL SERIES NAME D
Birds, The PR 2 16 Fenimore Cooper, James 21
PAR Penguin Active Reading Black Beauty PR 2 17 Fielding, Henry 54
Dahl, Roald 30, 50, 54, 81
LF AT Longman Fiction Advanced Text Black Cat and Other Stories, The PR 3 27 Fireboy, The PR es 9
Dangerous Game PR 3 27
PR Penguin Readers Blackmore, R. D. 39 Firm, The PR 5 43
Daniel Radcliffe PR 1 12
PYR Penguin Young Readers Blue Cat Club, The PAR es 59 First Emperor of China, The PAR 2 62
Danny Morton and the Eyes of Morn PYR4 82
Body, The PR 5 43 Fitzgerald, F. Scott 43
TITLE SERIES AND PAGE Dante’s Peak PR2 16
Body in the Library, The PAR 4 68 Five Famous Fairy Tales PR 2 18
LEVEL Darling Buds of May, The PR 3 27
1984 PR 4 36 Bourne Identity, The PR 4 37 Five One-Act Plays PR 3 29
David Beckham PR1 13
Bleak House PAR 4 68 Five Plays for Today PR 2 19
2001: A Space Odyssey PR 5 42 David Copperfield PR 3 28
Brave New World PR 6 51 Fly Away Home PR 2 18
Day of the Jackal, The PR 4 36
Braveheart PR 3 27 Flying Home PR es 9
A Death on the Nile PR 5 43
Breakfast at Tiffany’s PAR 3 64 Food PYR 4 82
ABC Murders, The PAR 4 68 de Berniéres, Louis 53
Breathing Method, The PR 4 36 Food for Thought PR 3 28
About a Boy PAR 4 68 de Cervantes, Miguel 62
Brethren, The PR 5 43 Forrest Gump PR 3 28
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The PAR 3 64 Defoe, Daniel 22
British and American Short Stories PR 5 42 Forster, E M 53
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The PR 1 12 Detective Work PR 4 36
British Life PR 3 26 Forsyth, Frederick 36
Aesop’s Fables PYR 2 78 Diary of a Young Girl, The PR 4 37
Brontë, Charlotte 30, 44 Four Weddings and a Funeral PR 5 43
Aladdin and the Lamp PYR 2 78 Dick Whittington PYR 1 76
Brontë, Emily 48 Frank, Anne 37
Alcott, Louisa May 61 Dickens, Charles 17, 28, 46, 50, 52, 69, 82
Business @ the Speed of Thought PR 6 50 Frankenstein PAR 3 64
Alexander the Great PR 4 37 Dino’s Day in London PR es 8
Freckles PR 2 19
Ali and his Camera PR 1 13 Doctor Faustus PR4 37
C Fugitive, The PR 3 29
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves PYR 3 80 Doll’s House and Other Stories, The PR 4 38
Full Monty, The PAR 4 68
Call of the Wild, The PAR 2 62 Don Quixote PAR2 62
Alice in Wonderland PR 2 16
Canterbury Tales, The PR 3 27 Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 51
Amazing Universe, The PYR 4 82 G
Canterville Ghost and Double Helix, The PR 6 51
Amazon Rain Forest, The PR 2 23
Other Stories, The PR 4 37 Galapagos, The PAR 1 60
Amazon Rally PAR 1 60 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde PR 3 28
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin PR 6 53 Gandhi PR 2 18
American Life PR 2 17 Dr Seuss’ How the
Carroll, Lewis 16 Grinch Stole Christmas PYR 4 82 Gaskell, Elizabeth 53
Amistad PR 3 26
Chamber, The PR 6 51 Dr Zhivago PR 5 42 Gates, Bill 33, 50
An Ideal Husband PR 3 27
Chandler, Raymond 20 Dracula PR 3 29 Ghost House, The PYR 1 76
Ancient Egypt PYR4 82
Charles Dickens PAR 3 64 Dragonheart PR 2 17 Ghost in the Guitar PR 3 28
Angelou, Maya 61
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory PYR 3 81 Dream and Other Stories, The PAR 4 68 Ghost of Genny Castle, The PR 2 18
Animal Farm LF AT 55
Chaucer, Geoffrey 27 du Maurier, Daphne 45, 47, 68 Ghosts PYR 2 78
Animals PYR 1 76
Chicken Run PYR 2 78 Dumas, Alexandré 24 Gift of the Magi and
Anna Karenina PR 6 50
Christie, Agatha 40, 43, 46, 70 Other Stories, The PR 1 13
Anne of Green Gables PAR 2 62
Christmas Carol, A PR 2 17 E Girl Meets Boy PR 1 12
Another World PAR 2 62
Christmas Carol, A PYR 4 82 Gladiator PR 4 38
Apollo 13 PR 2 17 Earthquake, The PAR 2 62
Cinderella PYR 2 78 Go-Between, The PR 4 39
Audrey Hepburn PR 2 16 East of Eden PR 6 51
Cinderella Man PR 4 36 Godfather, The PR 4 39
Austen, Jane 22, 34, 38, 45 Eddie and the Magic Potion PYR 2 78
Citadel, The PR 5 43 Golden Goose, The PYR 2 78
Eliot, George 65
Clarke, Arthur C. 42 Goldilocks and the Three Bears PYR 1 76
B Client, The PR 4 37
Elves and the Shoemaker, The PYR 1 76
Gone with the Wind – Part One PR 4 38
Emil and the Detectives PR 3 28
Babe – Pig in the City PR 2 17 Climb, The PR 3 27 Gone with the Wind – Part Two PR 4 38
Emma PR 4 38
Babe – The Sheep-Pig PR 2 17 Cold Mountain PR 5 45 Good Day, Bad Day PAR es 59
Emperor and the Nightingale, The PYR 4 82
Barcelona Game, The PAR 1 60 Collins, Wilkie 52, 54 Grahame, Kenneth 25
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial PAR 2 62
Bates, H.E. 27 Colors PYR 1 76 Grapes of Wrath, The PR 5 42
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.
Battle of Newton Road, The PR 1 13 Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur 24, 32, 34, 40, 44, 46 Great Expectations PR 6 50
The Book of the Green Planet PYR 4 83
Beach, The PR 6 51 Conrad, Joseph 43 Great Gatsby, The PR 5 43
Evening Class PR 4 39
Beatles, The PR 3 27 Count of Monte Cristo, The PR 3 26 Grey Owl PR 3 28
Evil Under The Sun PAR 4 68
Beauty and the Beast PYR 3 80 Crane’s Gift, The PYR 4 82 Grisham, John 37, 43, 45, 48, 52, 54, 70
Extreme Sports PR 2 17
Becoming Jane PR 3 26 Crichton, Michael 40 Gulliver’s Travels PR 2 19
Best Christmas, The PYR 2 78 Crime and Punishment PR 6 51
F H
Best Detective Stories Crime Story Collection PAR 4 68
of Agatha Christie LF AT 55 Fall of the House of Usher Haggard, Sir H. Rider 38
Crown, The PAR 1 60
Between Two Worlds PR es 8 and Other Stories, The PR 3 28 Halloween PYR2 78
Cry, the Beloved Country PR 6 50
Big Bag Mistake, The PR es 9 Falling Leaves PR 4 39 Hamlet PR 3 29
Cup in the Forest, The PAR es 59
Billy and the Queen PR es 9 Families PYR 1 76 Hannah and the Hurricane PR es 8
Curtis, Richard 32, 40, 43, 68
Billy Elliot PR3 29 Famous Sports PYR 3 80 Hansel and Gretel PYR 3 80

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Happy Granny and The Wood Circle PYR 3 81 Leopard and the Lighthouse, The PR es 9 Legend of Sleepy Hollow PR 1 14
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