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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.
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?
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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.
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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
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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
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Book 978 1 4058 4280 8 / 32 pages Iran. They race with men and they are winners. Read their stories.
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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
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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 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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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?
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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
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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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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?
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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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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
fear the dark secrets of Montgomery’s Audio CD Pack 978 1 4058 7913 2 practical jokes!
master – the even more mysterious Doctor
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
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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.
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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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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.
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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
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years ago to the present day.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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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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…
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?
Book 978 1 4058 8256 9 / 72 pages
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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LITERATURE /
Tom Jones
Henry Fielding FE ATU RE D TITLE English: Britain
Classic / British English
and Ireland
When Mr Allworthy finds a baby boy
Ronald Carter and John McRae
in his bed, he decides to keep him and
An introduction to the most
FULL TEXTS
gives him the name Tom Jones. But Tom
can’t keep out of trouble, and is sent important British and Irish writers,
from Chaucer and Shakespeare to
away. Follow Tom’s travels and read
Iain Banks and Irvine Welsh
of his adventures along the roads of
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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
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do they find? child in Bea’s old life. Can she remember
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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!
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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 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
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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.
be affected by secrets from her past? Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 4058 8451 8 Book/CD-ROM Pack 978 1 405 85220 3 And if he succeeds, will he be welcomed
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In the Multi-ROM
LEVEL 4 1700 Headwords
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Three Great Plays support for key words
of Shakespeare
Classic / British English
Romeo and Juliet are in love, but their
families are enemies. In desperation, they
marry in secret ... Macbeth is to be King
of Scotland – but at what cost? King Lear
divides his kingdom between his daughters
with unexpected consequences.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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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
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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.
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