Bea lives under a bridge. She watches people but they don´t look at her. Then, one day, a policeman stops and talks to her. Bea doesn´t like talking and she doesn´t remember much. But he is looking fo...

When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help h...

Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool And why Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthys son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English detective, Sher...

Classic British English Always be good, so people will love you. Always work hard and do your best. These were the words of Black Beautys mother to her son when the two horses lived with Farmer Grey....

Classic British English Well give a free dinner to the person who tells the best story. Now, put up your hands if you agree. The pilgrims all held up their hands. A group of pilgrims are travelling t...

Lord Cutler Beckett thinks that pirates are very bad for business.Hewants to take command of the oceans. The Pirate Lords, of course, have other ideas. But can they fight him and wintogether They need...

With over 60 titles in a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, horror or romance, biographies and big film tie-ins, the Penguin Active Reading series will make learning the English langua...

Shakespeares plays are famous all over the world in the theatre, in film and in the classroom. What do we know about the man What kind of life did he have Who were his friends Why can we still laugh ...

When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth were in love. They did not marry, but Anne never forgot her love for him. Now, many years later, they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anyth...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

Pete and Carla are students. One day they look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, but they are very expensive. Later that day some coins are missing from the s...

Jane Eyre, a poor girl, leaves her cruel aunt’s house and goes away to school. Later, she becomes a teacher and works for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him. He loves her too,...

Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His heart is filled with sadness and pain. Why Only his two best friends, Horatio and Marcellus, know the true reason. The new king, Claudius, murdered Hamlets father ...

Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer bro...

Contemporary American English Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruel...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. Its her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the c...

These are the stories of some of Shakespeares most famous plays. We travel to Venice, Greece, Denmark and Rome, and meet many different people. There is a greedy money-lender, a fairy king and queen, ...

Classic British English When a fisherman opens an old jar, a giant comes out. When a donkey opens its mouth, gold falls out. There is magic in these five fairy tales. Good people are often very unhap...

DArtagnan wants to be a musketeer. He wants to fight for his king and his country. But the Queen has a problem with the Cardinal, so dArtagnan and his new friends have to help her. The Cardinal is a v...

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This is the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. One day, Nemo finds three men in the sea. For months the men live on the Nautilus. They find a town on the sea floor, beautiful coast...

The Penguin Readers are graded at seven levels of difficulty from easystarts to level 6 (Advanced). They fall into three sub-categories (Contemporary, Classics and Originals) ithin the one series, mak...

Classic / British English [Available February 2008] Fifteen-year old John Trenchard lives in a quiet village. But after dark, Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man walks the streets, and smu...

The Universe is amazing and learners can find out all they need to know about the planets and our solar system in this book full of fantastic facts.

The houses in Newton Road are small, but the people are happy there. They are neighbours, and friends, too. But one day everything starts to change. A man from the Town Hall comes. He´s going to knock...

Today Maya Angelou is one of the worlds most respected writers and poets. In the 1930s and 1940s she was a poor Black girl growing up in the segregated American South. She suffered prejudice and cruel...

This complete course gives beginning through low-intermediate students the skills, strategies, practice, and confidence they need to increase their scores on the TOEIC test. Ideal for a TOEIC test pre...

When her mother dies, Mary Yellan goes to live with her aunt and uncle at Jamaica Inn. Strange things happen there at night, and Mary slowly discovers that she and her aunt are in terrible danger. Can...

One winter´s morning in New York State, there is an accident on an icy mountain road. Thirteen-year-old Grace and her much-loved horse, Pilgrim, are very badly hurt. Grace´s mother beleives her daug...

Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government...

Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They have a lot of adventures on the river. They even meet a king But is he re...