2019 Pearson English Graded Readers Catalogue

Welcome to the 2019
Pearson English Graded

Readers Catalogue
Inspiring stories, incredible choice, improved learning
The pages of our 2019 Pearson English Graded Readers catalogue present over 480
superb titles to inspire and motivate learners of every age.
From children’s fairytales and Marvel kids and cinematic tiles, to best-selling thrillers and
non-fiction, these titles present an unbeatable selection of books for students to enjoy.
They are all built around carefully graded English, a comprehensive language syllabus
and activities to develop learners’ abilities and confidence in English.
Here you will find well-loved favourites, as well as many brand new titles to explore.
Happy reading!
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Contents
Pearson English Kids Readers 8 - 34
Marvel 12 - 13
Disney 14 - 21
Poptropica English 22 - 23
Classic, Contemporary & Original 24 - 26
Roald Dahl 28 - 29
CLIL 30 - 34
App 35
Pearson English Story Readers 36 - 43
Story Readers 40 - 43
Pearson English Active Readers 44 - 59
Active Readers 48 - 59
Pearson English Readers 60 - 116
Marvel 65
Doctor Who 69
English Readers 72 - 116
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For the
Joy of
Reading
Reading is one of the most powerful and effective ways for students to learn a language
and express themselves. Carefully written and graded into distinct ability levels, Pearson
English Graded Readers bring the joy of reading and opportunities for learning into the
hands of every student, whatever their age or ability.
From classic children’s stories, to blockbuster film titles, bestselling novels and fresh
original stories, our huge range of over 480 Graded Readers feature some of the world’s
best-loved authors and some of the greatest stories ever told.
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Pearson English Kids Readers
Delight young learners with colourful illustrations, unforgettable characters
and engaging stories – all presented in accessible English. From classic tales
to exciting original adventures, favourite Disney movies and fantastic stories
from Marvel, , our Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) allows
learners to discover the world around them.
Pearson English Story Readers

Use timeless children’s tales to create a wonderful, shared reading
experience perfect for use with young learners in the classroom or at home.
Pearson English Active Readers

Provide a more structured and intensive learning experience with regular
comprehension exercises throughout each book. Ideal for classroom use,
the extra educational content helps build vocabulary, prepares students for
English tests, and encourages collaborative learning.
Pearson English Readers

Great for use in the classroom, they are also perfect for learners who enjoy
reading for pleasure, on their own terms, at home or on the move.
They offer an incredible range of popular titles and best-selling authors
across a range of genres written for teenage and adult learners.
See more at: readers.english.com
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Intensive and Extensive Reading
Programmes
Pearson English Graded Readers are often used in one of two ways: for
intensive reading or extensive reading. These two approaches serve different
purposes, and can be used together in a complementary way to aid in
language development.
What is extensive reading? What is intensive reading?

Students read for enjoyment, without Students read books in detail, focus on
having to stop and focus on unknown challenging text, and complete tasks to aid
vocabulary; they read a large number of comprehension and further develop their
stories to increase their overall reading language skills.
fluency.
Pearson English Readers Pearson English Active Readers

Created for extensive reading. They Designed to be used for intensive reading.
provide: They provide:
• a large choice of titles covering • the right level of challenge for intensive
different genres so that students reading, to ensure progress in language
choose books they will enjoy and are acquisition
motivated to read more • vocabulary and grammar tasks that
• optional activities that allow students develop and assess language acquisition
to check their understanding and check comprehension
• texts in a variety of formats to suit • activities to enhance and build on

different learning styles developing language skills
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Making reading accessible to all
With different ability levels, Pearson English Graded Readers are perfect for all English
language students. From beginners and young learners taking their first steps into
reading English, to more advanced learners looking to expand their vocabulary and
improve reading fluency.
At each level, the texts are expertly written and edited to ensure the language,
vocabulary and grammar is carefully graded so that they are accessible to the
student. Learners can experience the satisfaction of reading stories in English themselves,
but meet the right level of challenge to reinforce and expand their English ability.
Pearson English Graded Readers
For Kids For Teens and Adults
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Inspiring young learners with the joy of reading
With their colourful illustrations, Marvel titles – young readers will love the
unforgettable characters and engaging full-colour illustrations that highlight the
stories, young learners will love exploring action throughout every story
our wide range of Kids Readers. Disney titles – feature some of the most
From Disney favourites and timeless fairy popular and well-loved characters in
tales, to epic adventures and discovering engaging and exciting tales from Disney
science and the natural world, the Poptropica English titles – 6 books
accessible English and lively content in to accompany our popular Primary ELT
every Person English Kids Reader will keep course or just great to read on their own
young readers engaged and motivated to
learn. Roald Dahl’s titles – much-loved stories
from one of the most imaginative writers of
our time
Components
Classic, Contemporary & Original –
Printed Reader children can enjoy tales and characters
Downloadable audio they know and love, as well as discover new
Downloadable Teachers’ Support adventures
Materials CLIL (Content and Language
Integrated Learning) titles – help
children explore the world around them
Downloadable Teachers Resources
include: teaching notes and guidance,
photocopiable worksheets, classroom
games and activities
The Pearson English Kids Readers app
delivers an exciting interactive reading
experience (see page 35)
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Pearson English Kids Readers are graded across 6 levels.
The complexity, scope and volume of written English within each book is carefully graded
at each level according to a rigorous system unique to Pearson English Kids Readers.
The grading system considers the language which a learner is likely to have studied in class,
or be able to understand from the context and illustrations.
The clear language guidelines mean levels can be accurately matched to the internationally
recognised standards of the Cambridge Young Learners English Tests (CYLET).
The Global Scale of English and the Common European Framework of Reference
Pearson English Kids Readers are aligned to the Global Scale of English and Common European
Framework of Reference.
The Global Scale of English (GSE) is the first truly global English language standard, allowing
teachers to more accurately and easily measure learner progress.
Based on research involving over 6000 teachers from more than 50 countries, it extends the
Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) by pinpointing on a scale from 10 to 90
what needs to be mastered for the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing within a
CEFR level, using a more granular approach.
Levels CEFR GSE* CYLET PTE YL
Level 1 <A1/A1 16-27 Starters Firstwords
Level 2 A1/A2 22-32 Starters/Movers Firstwords/ Springboard
Level 3 A1/A2 25-35 Movers Springboard
Level 4 A1/A2+ 27-38 Movers Springboard/ Quickmarch
Level 5 A2/A2+ 30-40 Movers/Flyers Quickmarch/ Breakthrough
Level 6 A2+/B1 36-48 Flyers Breakthrough
*Find out more about the Global Scale of English (GSE) at english.com/GSE
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MARVEL
Bringing thrilling Super Hero action to the English
classroom!
2 Levels
2 Levels
Exciting Marvel stories re-told for young learners of English.

Stunning graphics enhance the action on the page
Full audio available to download from readers.english.com
Comprehensive teachers’ notes and photocopiable resources available for
each title
© 2019 MARVEL
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS MARVEL
LEVEL 2
Marvel’s Avengers Freaky Marvel’s Spider-Man The

Thor Day Story of Spider-Man
Re-told by Coleen Degnan-Veness Re-told by Coleen Degnan-Veness
Kendra is a schoolgirl. She likes Thor. He is Peter Parker is a clever high school student.
her favorite Avenger! Thor has a hammer and A dangerous spider is on Peter’s hand – OW!
Kendra has a backpack. Now he is Spider-Man! He sees a robber –
POP! Kendra’s backpack is very heavy. what does he do? Is he a super hero?
American English American English
16 pages 16 pages
342 words 297 words
ISBN 9781292206226 ISBN 9781292206004
LEVEL 3
Marvel’s Spider-Man The Marvel’s Avengers Call for

Swashbuckling Spider Backup
Re-told by Marie Crook Re-told by Marie Crook
Nick Fury asks Spider-Man to help because The Thanos wants to find the leaders of Earth. Iron
Avengers are away. Spider-man falls through Man knows he has to get help from his super
a portal onto a pirate ship and there are many hero friends and fight Thanos. Can they stop
pirates to fight. Can Spider-Man and his new Thanos and his dangerous army?
friend win the fight?
American English
American English 24 pages
24 pages 749 words
711 words
ISBN 9781292205786 ISBN 9781292205960

© 2019 MARVEL
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DISNEY
Disney classics re-told for young learners!
2 Levels
6 Levels
From the hilarious Toy Story to the timeless charm of Pinocchio, these classic Disney
tales are adored by children all around the world. Young learners will love reading their
favourites.
Classic movies faithfully re-told with graded language
Beautifully illustrated with scenes from Disney movies
Activity pages engage learners and aid comprehension
Comprehensive teachers’ notes and photocopiable resources available for
each title
LEVEL 1
Disney Princess Cinderella Disney Dumbo Disney Pixar Finding Nemo:

Kathryn Harper Kathryn Harper Nemo in School
Cinderella is sad. Her sisters are at the dance at Dumbo is a baby elephant with big ears. Big, Melanie Williams
the Big House. POOF! It is the Fairy Godmother. BIG, BIG EARS! Dumbo Nemo is a fish. Nemo and his Dad live in the
Does Cinderella go to the dance? Does she see is sad. A bird gives Dumbo a magic feather. ocean. It is the first day of school today. Who
the Prince? Dumbo flies! does Nemo see?
American English
16 pages 16 pages
24 pages
132 words 122 words
726 words
ISBN 9781408288191 ISBN 9781408286999 ISBN 9781292205786
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS DISNEY
LEVEL 1
Disney Peter Pan Disney Princess Sleeping Disney Winnie the Pooh and
Comes to London Beauty the Money Tree
Nicola Schofield Caroline Laidlaw Melanie Williams
Wendy, John, and Michael live in a house in Princess Aurora lives in a big castle. Prince Winnie the Pooh is hungry. He looks in the
London. Peter Pan and Tinker Bell go to London Phillip is her friend. The Princess puts one hand house. Oh, no! There is no honey here. The
and fly in to the house. Who is Peter Pan? Who on a spindle and she sleeps and sleeps. Does bees have honey. Winnie the Pooh wants the
is Tinker Bell? And what is Neverland? Princess Aurora see Prince Phillip again? honey.
American English American English American English
16 pages 16 pages 16 pages
117 words 104 words 128 words
ISBN 9781408288528 ISBN 9781408288511 ISBN 9781408288542
LEVEL 2
Disney Bambi Disney The Jungle Book: Disney Princess

Dr Barbara Ingham Mowgli Meets Baloo The Little Mermaid:
Bambi, Thumper and Flower play and learn Nicola Schofield Ariel and the Prince
about the forest. One day, all the deer are in the Mowgli is a boy. He lives in the jungle. The Kathryn Harper
forest. Suddenly, there is a loud noise. BANG! dangerous tiger does not like Mowgli. Mowgli Ariel is a mermaid. One day she sees a Prince
Bambi runs quickly. Where is his mother now? meets Baloo the bear. Can Baloo help Mowgli? on a boat. Suddenly there is a storm. Can Ariel
American English American English help the Prince?
16 pages 16 pages American English
264 words 189 words 16 pages
250 words
ISBN 9781408288573 ISBN 9781408288566 ISBN 9781408288177
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LEVEL 2
Disney Pixar Monsters, Inc Disney Princess Snow White Disney Pixar Toy Story 1
Dr Barbara Ingham and the Seven Dwarfs Caroline Laidlaw
Mike and Sulley are friends. They are monsters! Kathryn Harper Andy is a boy with toys. Woody, the sheriff, is
Every night the monsters scare children in their Seven little dwarfs live in the house and love his favorite toy. It’s Andy’s birthday. He gets a
beds. One day, Sulley opens a door. He meets Snow White. The Queen is angry. She makes new toy, a space ranger. But can Woody and
Boo! Can Sulley, Mike, and Boo be friends? a poisoned apple for Snow White. Does Snow the space ranger be friends?
American English White eat the apple? American English
16 pages American English 16 pages
266 words 16 pages 225 words
229 words
ISBN 9781408288580 ISBN 9781408288559 ISBN 9781408288597
LEVEL 3
Disney 101 Dalmations Disney Princess Beauty and Disney Pixar A Bug’s Life
Marie Crook the Beast Marie Crook
Pongo and Perdita are Dalmatian dogs and have Caroline Laidlaw Every day the ants have to find food but the
15 puppies. Cruella De Vil wants to make a new Belle rides her horse through the forest. The grasshoppers come and take it. Flik has an
fur coat and steals the puppies! All the animals horse is scared. Suddenly, they see the Beast’s idea. Can he find some friends to help? Can
are looking for the puppies. Can they save them enchanted castle. Who is the Beast? What is she they work together to fight the grasshoppers?
in time? going to find in the castle?
British English
British English 24 pages
American English
24 pages 678 words
24 pages
745 words
756 words
ISBN 9781408287316 ISBN 9781408288627 ISBN 9781408287330
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LEVEL 3
Disney Lady and the Tramp Disney Pinocchio Disney Pixar Toy Story 2
Rachel Wilson Melanie Williams Paul Shipton
Tramp is very different than Lady, she lives in a Pinocchio is a puppet, but he can move, he can Buzz and the other toys want to save Woody,
house, and he is a street dog. One day a baby walk and he can talk. Pinocchio goes to school but Jessie shows him he is a famous toy.
arrives in Lady’s house and she has to leave. but Honest John and Giddy see him. ‘We can Woody has new friends now and it’s nice to be
Can Tramp and Lady be friends? make a lot of money!’ they say. Can Pinocchio famous. Does he want to go home?
find his way home? Can he find his father? Will
British English American English
he ever be a real boy?
24 pages 24 pages
784 words British English 736 words
24 pages
760 words
ISBN 9781408288603 ISBN 9781408288610 ISBN 9781408288634
LEVEL 4
Disney The Aristocats Disney Chicken Little Disney Pixar The Incredibles
Paul Shipton Marie Crook Helen Parker
Duchess and her kittens live in a fine house. When the sky fell, the people listened to Chicken The Incredibles are a family of superheroes,
O’Malley is a cat with no home. Edgar the butler Little. But when aliens came, the people did but people do not want superheroes anymore.
has an evil plan. Can O’Malley and his friends not listen! Will his father listen to the truth? Can Mr. Incredible gets a normal boring job.
stop him and save Duchess and the kittens? Chicken Little save the town from the aliens? One day he gets a message. He must stop
Syndrome the Omnidroid!
1,142 words 1,126 words 24 pages
1,144 words
ISBN 9781408288658 ISBN 9781408288665 ISBN 9781408288689
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LEVEL 4
Disney The Lion King Disney Robin Hood Disney Pixar Toy Story 3
Paul Shipton Jocelyn Potter Paul Shipton
Mufasa was the king of the Pride Lands. He was Prince John wanted to be king, and he wanted Andy is older now and doesn’t need his toys.
also Simba’s father. ‘You are going to be king of money. In Sherwood Forest, Robin Hood and his Woody and his friends arrive at their new
all this,’ Mufasa told his son. But Simba’s uncle, friends hated Prince John. They robbed him and home, a place where children don’t know how
Scar, had a different plan. Who will be The Lion gave the money to the poor. to play with toys. Woody must help his friends
King? escape.
American English
American English 24 pages American English
24 pages 1,188 words 24 pages
1,146 words 1,165 words
ISBN 9781408286975 ISBN 9781408288641 ISBN 9781408288672
LEVEL 5
Disney Aladdin Disney Alice in Wonderland Disney Hercules

Jocelyn Potter Paul Shipton Jocelyn Potter
‘One day we’ll be rich and we’ll always have ‘I’m late for a very important date!’ said the white Hercules is born to Hera and Zeus, the
enough to eat,’ said Aladdin. Follow him to the rabbit nervously. He wore clothes and he held a greatest of the gods. Hades, the god of the
Cave of Wonders and see if a Genie and a Magic big watch in one paw. Let’s follow Alice and the dead, wants to take control of the world from
Carpet can help his dreams come true. rabbit to Wonderland! Zeus, and only Hercules can stop him.

2,200 words 2,132 words 2,221 words
ISBN 9781408287354 ISBN 9781408287378 ISBN 9781408288719
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LEVEL 5
Disney The Hunchback of Disney Pixar Ratatouille Disney Pixar WALL-E

Notre Dame Paul Shipton Helen Parker
Jocelyn Potter Remy the rat loves to cook. He goes to Paris and People have escaped a dirty and dangerous
Quasimodo’s master Frollo keeps him trapped finds the restaurant of a famous chef. There, he planet Earth, where a little robot, WALL-E,
inside the tower of Notre Dame Cathedral. Why helps a boy who works in the kitchen to make moves through mountains of trash. When
does Frollo hate the gypsies? Can Quasimodo delicious food. WALL-E finds a small, green thing and sees a
find out the truth and can he find true love? strange red light, his life changes.
American English
British English 32 pages American English
ISBN 9781408288702 ISBN 9781408288726 ISBN 9781408288733
LEVEL 6
Disney Atlantis: The Lost Disney Pixar Cars Disney Lilo & Stitch
Empire Marie Crook Paul Shipton
Marie Crook Lightning McQueen wanted to be the most A lonely little girl called Lilo lives on a beautiful
famous race car in the world. Join him on his long island. Something strange happens; a spaceship
Thousands of years ago, a great storm came and
drive to California. Who does he meet? What does falls from the sky and there is a little blue creature.
the whole of Atlantis disappeared. Milo studied
he learn? Does he win the Piston Cup? What does he want, and can it help Lilo?
Atlantis and taught his students everything he
knew. Many did not believe him. Was it a real place? American English American English
40 pages 40 pages
American English 3,304 words 3,392 words
40 pages
3,229 words
ISBN 9781408288184 ISBN 9781408288788 ISBN 9781408288771
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LEVEL 6
Disney Princess Mulan Disney Princess Pocahontas Disney Pixar Up

Paul Shipton Andrew Hopkins Coleen Degnan-Veness
Centuries ago in China, a young woman called In 1607, John Smith and his sailors were excited Read about Carl’s amazing adventure. He is an
Mulan wanted to bring honour to her family. Join about traveling to the new land for adventures old man, and thousands of balloons on ropes
her on her adventure as she tries to save her and finding gold. What will John and his friends are coming out of his chimney, pulling his house
family, her friends, and her country. find in the new land? Will they meet Indians? UP into the air!

ISBN 9781408288757 ISBN 9781408288740 ISBN 9781408288764
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DISNEY
Disney classics re-told for young learners!
6 Levels
Disney classics re-told for young learners
Classic movies re-told with graded language

Beautifully illustrated with scenes from Disney movies
Activities encourage learning and aid comprehension
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POPTROPICA ENGLISH
Discover a world of adventure!
2 Levels
6 Levels
Original adventure stories will delight children with thrilling tales featuring exciting
characters, aliens, pirates and robots!
Fast-moving stories keep young learners engaged
Appealing colourful illustrations throughout
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3
Poptropica English Poptropica English Poptropica English

Family Island Adventure Tropical Island Adventure Space Island Adventure
Catherine Prentice Nicola Schofield Nicola Schofield
It’s the fair! Hooray! Bobby, Tabitha, Josh, and Tara, Tessa, and Tim are going to Parrot Island. Peter, Pepper, and Captain Cloud stop at
Waldo are excited. Tabitha has a bag. Oh no! Suddenly, their boat stops! They can see their Space Island. They meet some friendly green
Where is her book? Where is her orange juice? home, but they cannot get there! Can the aliens, but the aliens need their help. A big
Where is her chocolate? Waldo is hungry! children make a new boat? Can the parrots help meteor is coming! Can they rescue Space
them? Island?
British English
16 pages American English American English
120 words 16 pages 24 pages
272 words 718 words
ISBN 9781447979951 ISBN 9781447979975 ISBN 9781408288351
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS POPTROPICA ENGLISH
Poptropica English Poptropica English Poptropica English

Movie Studio Island Adventure Ice Island Adventure Future Island Adventure
Hawys Morgan Coleen Degnan-Veness Hawys Morgan
Max and Clara meet Zack, who is making a Jason Strong, the explorer, and his cousins On the island of Verdana, there are no trees
pirate movie on the beach. But Zach can’t find Megan and Greg, are looking for yetis on Ice or animals. Streets are dirty and polluted, and
Captain Crab’s pirate costume! ‘Can we help you Island. But something strange is happening - it horrible robots chase the children! Can Popp
find it?’ ask the children. is getting warmer. Can Jason save the town and and his young friends clean up the island and
the polar bears? stop the robots?
American English
1,123 words 32 pages 40 pages
ISBN 9781447971382 ISBN 9781408288443 ISBN 9781408288498
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CLASSIC, CONTEMPORARY &
ORIGINAL STORIES
2 Levels
6 Levels
Featuring stories and characters children know and love, as well as new adventures
to discover and enjoy
MP3 audio and teachers’ support material available
LEVEL 1
Magic Toys go on Holiday Rainbow Bird Rory Wants a Pet

Caroline Laidlaw Caroline Laidlaw Melanie Williams
Sam and Amy go on holiday to Thailand. Sam Lorikeet is sad. ‘I’m a grey bird. I like colours – Rory is a dinosaur. He wants a pet. He wants a
has a toy spider. Amy has a toy cat and a tablet. red, blue, green and yellow!’ He sees a rainbow cat, a bird or an elephant. What is the big ball
What is that magic picture on her tablet? in the sky! Now, his head is blue and his tail is in the kitchen?
British English green. He is a beautiful rainbow bird! It moves! Is it a pet?
16 pages British English British English
131 words 124 words
ISBN 9781408288245 ISBN 9781408288252 ISBN 9781447931287
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLASSIC, CONTEMPORARY AND ORIGINAL STORIES
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
Winston the Wizard Pirate Patch and Thumbelina

Melanie Williams the Treasure Map Hans Christian Andersen / Nicola
Winston is a magic wizard. He does a magic Helen Parker Schofield
spell. ‘Oh no! My black cat is a dog now! Where Pirate Patch and his friends read a map and Thumbelina is a very small girl. One night, an
is my wand? Where is my magic? I want my cat!’ look for treasure – but bad Captain Blackbeard ugly toad takes her. She is scared, she wants
American English is following them, and sharks are near their to go home! She meets fish, insects, and a
16 pages boat! Can they find the treasure? bird. Can she find a prince?
144 words
16 pages 16 pages
263 words 252 words
ISBN 9781447931270 ISBN 9781408288290 ISBN 9781408288306
LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4
Shaun the Sheep: The Wizard of Oz Pollyanna

Save the Tree L. Frank Baum / Helen Parker Eleanor H. Porter/
Kathryn Harper A great storm takes Dorothy, and her dog, to Colleen Degnan-Veness
Shaun the Sheep and his friends are having Oz. Dorothy meets new friends: a scarecrow, a Orphan Pollyanna Whittier is helping people
a party in their favourite tree. But the farmer tin man, and a lion. Can they help her find the in the town play the glad game, and they feel
wants to cut down the tree! Can Shaun and his Wizard and go home to her family? happier. Then, one day, a terrible accident
friends stop the farmer and save it? American English happens! Can it stop Pollyanna’s smile?
24 pages
British English British English
782 words
24 pages 24 pages
727 words 1,191 words
ISBN 9781447931348 ISBN 9781408288344 ISBN 9781408288405
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LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5
Sherlock Holmes Stories The Wind in the Willows Mole Gulliver’s Travels Lilliput
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rat become Friends Jonathan Swift / Melanie Williams
Enjoy two great stories about the famous Kenneth Grahame / Melanie Williams When his ship hits a rock, Gulliver swims to an
detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend island called Lilliput and meets a group of tiny
Rat shows his friend, Mole, many things and
Dr Watson. What is the strange “League of people. Will Gulliver help the Lilliputians win
they make new friends: Otter, Toad, Badger and
Redheads”? Why was an important exam paper their war? Will they help him get home again?
the Hedgehogs. But one day Mole starts to cry...
on the floor in “The Three Students”?
can Rat help Mole find his way home? British English
British English British English 32 pages
24 pages 24 pages 2,105 words
ISBN 9781447931294 ISBN 9781408288399 ISBN 9781408288450
LEVEL 6
The Secret Garden Wallace and Gromit, A Matter

Frances Hodgsen Burnett / Caroline of Loaf and Death
Laidlaw Caroline Laidlaw
Mary is not happy in her new home, but soon Wallace and his dog Gromit have a new business –
discovers the key to a secret garden and meets a bakery. When Wallace meets Piella Bakewell, he
new friends. Can they make the secret garden falls in love. But Gromit discovers a terrible, dark
beautiful again? And can they help Colin walk again? secret, and has to work fast to save his friend.

40 pages 40 pages
ISBN 9781408288504 ISBN 9781447931386
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Grading of language –
Headwords/vocabulary
Pearson English Kids Readers are written using a cumulative list of
Headwords, with 200 new words per level, reaching 1,200 words by Level 6.
This list is based on what a learner at each level is likely to have studied in class or is able
to understand from the context and illustrations. The list of Headwords covers 25 Topics
or Word Groups, as listed in the example below. These topics are refined into more than
170 Subtopics.
Pearson English Kids Readers - Topics and Subtopics
Actions Activities and free time Animals
Breaking or damaging Art and media Animal homes

Closing and opening Competitions Animal noises and
behaviour
Doing a task or job Daily routine
Animal parts
Falling or not falling Games
Insects and small
Hiding, losing and finding Hobbies and activities
animals
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Pets and farm animals
direction
Music
Wild and garden animals
Moving or holding
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someone or something
Sports
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Sports equipment
Showing your feelings
Teams and clubs
Touching, hitting or
throwing Toys
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ROALD DAHL
2 Levels
Levels 2-6
Fantastically funny and bursting with imagination, children across the globe adore these
timeless tales from one of the best-loved authors of all time.
Charming colourful illustrations from Quentin Blake throughout
The Enormous Crocodile The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me The Twits
Roald Dahl Roald Dahl Roald Dahl
The Enormous Crocodile is horrible. He eats Billy and his three friends - a giraffe, a pelican Mr and Mrs Twit are bad. They hit animals and
boys and girls, and he is hungry! Now the and a monkey - clean the windows of a rich children, glue birds’ feet to trees, and make a
crocodile is hiding and the children cannot see Duke’s house. But there is a jewel thief in the poor monkey do tricks. But the Roly-Poly bird
him. Can Humpy-Rumpy, Trunky, Muggle-Wump house! Can they stop him? wants to help the monkeys and turn the Twits
and the Roly-Poly bird help the children? upside-down!
British English
British English 16 pages British English
16 pages 806 words 24 pages
ISBN 9781447931324 ISBN 9781447931331 ISBN 9781447931300
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS ROALD DAHL
LEVEL 5
George’s Marvellous
Medicine
Roald Dahl
George’s grandmother was a nasty old woman.
George has a marvellous idea: he makes a
magic medicine from all the runny, powdery
and gooey things in the house. Open your
mouth wide Grandma!
British English
32 pages
2,175 words
ISBN 9781408288368
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CLIL
2 Levels
6 Levels
Children improve their English while exploring and learning about other cultures, science,
nature and different places, and people across the world.
Activities at the end of the book further explore the topic and aid comprehension
LEVEL 1
Katie Grows a Bean Plant Making Music Wheels Go Round

Marie Crook Nicole Taylor Rachel Wilson
Katie likes beans. They are her favourite Music has got a tune. A tune has got a beat. The town is busy today. Swish-swash! Beep!
vegetable. She gets a small jar, some kitchen roll Some tunes are good. Some tunes are loud. Do Beep! Wooo! Wooo! Ring! Ring! Two wheels, four
and a bean seed. Does the seed grow? you like music? wheels, six or eight? Is it a car, a bicycle or a bus?
British English British English British English
ISBN 9781408288238 ISBN 9781408288214 ISBN 9781408288221

ISBN 9781447944218 ISBN 9781447944225 ISBN 9781447944379
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLIL
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
Where I Live Awake at Night Clothes at Work

Linnette Erocak Laura Miller Linnette Erocak
Emma loves her neighbourhood. In the dark, Amy points. ‘Look’, she says. What Uniforms are clothes at work. Mechanics have
There is a park. There are stores are they? Bats, birds, butterflies, moths ... ? overalls, chefs have tall hats, some vets wear
and a market. Where does she go every day? Learn about animals of the night! white coats, and dentists wear masks.
ISBN 9781408288207 ISBN 9781408288283 ISBN 9781408288139

ISBN 9781447944386 ISBN 9781447944232 ISBN 9781447944249
LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3
Let’s Draw Shapes Tom at the Harbour Butterflies and Frogs

Kay Bentley Dr Barbara Ingham Rachel Wilson
Can you draw shapes? Ovals, circles, a square? What can Tom show you at the harbour? There Hannah the scientist shows you two amazing
Can you draw straight and curved lines? Now are big boats, small boats and strong boats. What animals: the peacock butterfly and the
you can draw a bird, a boat, and a beautiful are the names of the boats? What do they do? redeyed tree frog. Which one hibernates?
butterfly! Which one is nocturnal?
ISBN 9781408288269 ISBN 9781408288276 ISBN 9781408288337

ISBN 9781447944393 ISBN 9781447944348 ISBN 9781447944355

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LEVEL 3
Festival Fun Sport with Trainer Tim Up in the Air

Dr Barbara Ingham Maria Luisa Iturain Marie Crook
A festival is a celebration on a special day. Visit Learn about different sports and champions Read and learn about flying. A hot air balloon is
different festivals in the world: Scotland, New and try activities with your friends! Can you an aircraft. Helicopters move in an interesting
Zealand, Africa and more. balance, run and stretch? Yes, you can! way. A380 jets have 22 wheels.
ISBN 9781408288146 ISBN 9781408288313 ISBN 9781408288320

ISBN 9781447944362 ISBN 9781447944256 ISBN 9781447944263
LEVEL 4
Animal Athletes Brain Gym Storm!

Caroline Laidlaw Laura Miller Marie Crook
Read about the animal athletes of land, sea and You use your brain all the time. It is like a very You can know how hailstones form, how to stay
air. Fast flying dragonflies, jumping kangaroos, intelligent computer inside your head. What safe during a tornado, why sandstorms are so
and other animal acrobats. does it look like? What does it do? dangerous, and much more.
1,1096 words 958 words 1,066 words
ISBN 9781408288382 ISBN 9781408288153 ISBN 9781408288375

1,117 words 964 words 1,066 words
ISBN 9781447944270 ISBN 9781447944287 ISBN 9781447944416
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PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLIL
LEVEL 5
Harry’s Clothes Project Into I.T. Island Hopping

Marie Crook Caroline Laidlaw Caroline Laidlaw
Think about all the different clothes you wear. We love being online, we can shop, study, play A penguin looks for a new home. Let’s go with
Harry did a project about clothes and he knows games, send emails or talk with friends. But do her on a journey to different islands around
a lot about clothes now. How about you? you know how to be safe online? the world and see what we discover.
1,982 words 1.995 words 2,040 words
ISBN 9781408288412 ISBN 9781408288429 ISBN 9781408288436

ISBN 9781447944294 ISBN 9781447944423 ISBN 9781447944317
LEVEL 5 LEVEL 5
A Land of New Hope Animal Camouflage Astronauts in Space

Jocelyn Potter Caroline Laidlaw Caroline Laidlaw
In 1921, Ronan and Patrick Dooley leave Ireland Lots of different animals use camouflage. An Today, people can train to be astronauts,
to start a new life with a better future in New octopus changes colour, insects can look like work in space or join a future mission to Mars.
York City, in America. sticks and lizards look like they have two heads! Where will astronauts explore next?
ISBN 9781408286982 ISBN 9781408288481 ISBN 9781408288474

ISBN 9781447944430 ISBN 9781447944300 ISBN 9781447944409
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LEVEL 5
Our Changing Planet A World of Homes

Coleen Degnan-Veness Nicole Taylor
More than 1.2 million plant and animal species What is a home? There are old homes,
live on Earth. But the climate is changing. How new homes, mobile homes, green homes,
can YOU help protect our planet? intelligent homes and strange homes, too!

40 pages 40 pages
ISBN 9781408288467 ISBN 9781408288160

40 pages 40 pages
ISBN 9781447944324 ISBN 9781447944331
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LEVEL 1
Goldilocks and the Three Sleeping Beauty The Three Billy Goats Gruff
Bears Retold by Nicole Taylor Retold by Melanie Williams
Retold by Annie Hughes Who hurts Sleeping Beauty and makes her The three Billy Goats Gruff like to eat. One day
The three Billy Goats Gruff see some tall, green sleep and sleep? Who can go to the castle and they see some tall, green grass but there is a
grass but there is a hungry troll. Do the goats wake her? troll. The troll is hungry, too. Do the goats eat
eat the grass? Does the troll eat the goats? British English the grass? Does the troll eat the goats?
5-7 years British English
British English
69 words 7-9 years
5-7 years
71 words 204 words
ISBN 9781292239958 ISBN 9781292239965 ISBN 9781292239972
LEVEL 2
Town Mouse and Country Aladdin and the Lamp Little Red Riding Hood
Mouse Retold by Marie Crook Retold by Audrey McIlvain
Retold by Arlene Wong Aladdin is very poor, but he has a magic ring Little Red Riding Hood goes to visit her Granny
Town Mouse and Country Mouse are good and a magic lamp. Now he can have everything and meets a stranger in the woods. Who is
friends. Town Mouse visits the country and he wants. But another person wants to be rich he? And what happens when she arrives at
Country Mouse visits the town. Do they like it too and takes Aladdin’s lamp from him. Granny’s house?
there? Do they want to come home? British English British English
British English 7-9 years 7-9 years
7-9 years 684 words 372 words
184 words
ISBN 9781292239989 ISBN 9781292239996 ISBN 9781292240015
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PEARSON ENGLISH STORY READERS
LEVEL 2
The Jungle Book The Selfish Giant The Velveteen Rabbit

Retold by Rod Smith Retold by Marie Smith Retold by Audrey McIlvain
A little boy Mowgli grows up with a wolf family in A giant builds a big wall around his garden Tim loves his toy rabbit. Then he gets sick
the jungle. Most of the animals like him, but one to stop the children getting in. After that, it is and his mom puts all his toys in the garden.
animal does not. What happens to Mowgli as he always winter in the garden. Can the children Poor toy rabbit! Poor Tim! Does he find his toy
gets older? find a way to make it summer again? rabbit again?

7-9 years 9-11 years 5-7 years
ISBN 9781292240008 ISBN 9781292240022 ISBN 9781292240039
LEVEL 3
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Beauty and the Beast Hansel and Gretel
Retold by Fiona Kalinowski Retold by Fiona Kalinowski Retold by Cameron Fox
Ali Baba sees some thieves going into a cave. He Beauty’s father meets a monster who is half Hansel and Gretel are lost in the forest. They
goes inside and finds it full of gold and silver. He man and half beast. He promises the Beast that find a pretty house made of cookies and
is rich at last! But the thieves want their treasure Beauty will live at the Beast’s house. Is the Beast candy. But who lives there? What does she
back! horrible or friendly? want to do with them?
9-11 years 9-11 years 9-11 years
ISBN 9781292240053 ISBN 9781292240060 ISBN 9781292240077
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LEVEL 3
Jack and the Beanstalk The New Adventures of Tom Peter and the Wolf
Retold by Caralyn Bradshaw Thumb Retold by Lynne Doherty Herndon
Jack’s magic beans grow into a tall beanstalk and Retold by Lynne Doherty Herndon Grandfather tells Peter never to play near the
Jack climbs up it. ‘Fee. Fi, Fo, Foy’, says the giant Tom is as small as a thumb, so small, he can ride forest because a hungry wolf lives there. What
at the top. ‘I can smell a boy’. Does Jack get away on a butterfly. It takes him to a palace where does Peter do? Does he see the wolf?
from the giant? he meets a princess. How does Tom help her? British English
Does he come home? 7-9 years
British English
5-7 years British English 1371 words
788 words 7-9 years
1321 words
ISBN 9781292240084 ISBN 9781292240114 ISBN 9781292240091
LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4
Peter Pan The Princess and the Frog A Christmas Carol

Retold by Marie Crook Retold by Marie Crook Retold by David A. Hill
Wendy, John and Michael, fly off with Peter Pan A princess loses her golden ball in a pond. A Scrooge is an old man who loves work and
and Tinkerbell to Neverland. Do Wendy and her frog finds it for her and she promises to give money but hates Christmas. He does not want
brothers like it there? Do they decide to stay? him anything he wants. Does she keep her to share Christmas with anyone. But then, on
promise? What happens to the frog? Christmas Eve, he is visited by four ghosts!
British English
5-7 years British English British English
837 words 5-7 years 9-11 years
804 words 2666 words
ISBN 9781292240107 ISBN 9781292240121 ISBN 9781292240145
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PEARSON ENGLISH STORY READERS
LEVEL 4
Pinocchio Rapunzel The Emperor and the

Retold by Nicole Taylor Retold by Georgina Swinburne Nightingale
Geppetto makes a wooden puppet boy and calls Rapunzel is a prisoner at the top of a tall tower. Retold by Marie Crook
him Pinocchio. Pinocchio has many adventures, The witch climbs up Rapunzel’s long hair to The Emperor has everything he wants. One
but can he get what he really wishes for? come inside. How can Rapunzel get out? Who is day he learns that there is a nightingale in
going to help her? his garden and he wants that too. Will the
British English
5-7 years British English nightingale want to stay?
1264 words 7-9 years British English
1148 words 9-11 years
2715 words
ISBN 9781292240176 ISBN 9781292240183 ISBN 9781292240152
LEVEL 4
The Pied Piper of Hamelin The Snow Queen The Swiss Family Robinson
Retold by Marie Crook Retold by Audrey McIlvain Retold by Marie Crook
Rats are everywhere in Hamelin! Luckily, the Pied Gerda and Kay, live with their grandmother. But A ship is caught in a storm. One family are
Piper comes to town and says he will kill all the one snowy day, Kay is taken away by the Snow able to get to an island. They find food, build
rats – for money. But why does he come back to Queen! Where does she take him? Can Gerda a treehouse and start to enjoy their new life
the town angry? bring him home? there. But will a ship ever come and rescue
them?
7-9 years 9-11 years British English
1706 words 2520 words 9-11 years
2628 words
ISBN 9781292240169 ISBN 9781292240190 ISBN 9781292240206
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Pearson English Active Readers
Activating language learning through reading
This wide range of classic, original and • An excellent selection of stories, classic
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Levels CEFR GSE* Cambridge PTE YL
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Level 2 A2 - A2+ 32-42 Flyers/ Key for Schools Quickmarch
Level 3 A2+ - B1 37-50 Preliminary for Schools Breakthrough
Level 4 B1 - B2 46-60 Level 2
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EASYSTARTS
The Blue Cat Club The Cup in the Forest Good Day, Bad Day
Bernard Smith Anne Collins Paul Shipton
James and Chantal are enjoying an evening of Per and Nina are on holiday in the country. They Kerry is visiting her brother, Mike. She sees a
magic at the Blue Cat Club. Merlin the magician find a strange Viking cup in a dark forest. The sign for a fortune teller. Mike doesn’t believe
is clever and his tricks are exciting – but are they cup is very old and interesting. But now there is in fortune tellers, but he goes, too. What does
dangerous too? a strange man at the hotel and Per is afraid. Rosie say to him? And is she right?
British English British English American English
884 words 979 words 1,031 words
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The Hat Kim’s Choice The Long Road

John Escott Brigit Viney Rod Smith
Bernardo likes hats. One day he buys a new hat Kim loves running – and she’s very fast. She Terry Fox has cancer and he has an artificial
at a street market and people laugh at it. ‘Why works hard and wins many prizes. But Kim has leg. He runs across Canada for sick children
do you want another hat, Bernardo?’ his wife to make a difficult choice – and she knows that and he raises $10,000,000. Read this true
says to him, ‘You have twenty’. What can she do? it will hurt the people who love her most. story of a heroic athlete and his Marathon of
Hope.
American English British English
1,123 words
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PEARSON ENGLISH ACTIVE READERS
EASYSTARTS LEVEL 1
Newspaper Chase The Slave Boy of Pompeii African Safari

John Escott Bernard Smith Izabella Hearn
Harry Black steals a million dollar picture and Young Mico is a slave in Pompeii. His only Adam and Lily are on holiday in Africa. They
hides it in a newspaper in his room. But Janey is friend is a dog, Fortunatus. One day, Fortunatus want to see the animals. But one person in the
keen on recycling old papers ... suddenly runs away. What is the dog afraid of? group is not very happy, or very friendly. Who
American English Is it the mountain behind the town? is she? What is her problem?
LEVEL 1
Amazon Rally The Barcelona Game The Crown

Eduardo Arnos and Elisabeth Stephen Rabley M.R. James
Prescher Holly and her brothers go to Barcelona to see a What is the crown, and why is it important for
Riding in a motorcycle rally across the Brazilian football match. But Holly’s bag disappears – and England? Who is William Agers? In this gripping
jungle is hard and exciting. But when they agree she gets to see more of Barcelona than she mystery, the answers are all in Seaburgh.
to help their Indian friends, Brian and David find expected ...
British English
themselves racing to save lives. British English 48 pages
24 pages 24,937 words
British English
1,727 words
24 pages
1376 words
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LEVEL 1
The Galapagos The Golden Seal Island for Sale

Izabella Hearn James Vance Marshall Anne Collins
The Galapagos Islands are full of interesting One night, Eric finds a golden seal. People want Duncan McTavish lives in a castle on a Scottish
animals and birds. Two young Americans, to shoot golden seals for their beautiful fur. Eric island. He doesn’t have any money, and he
Sophie and David, are making a movie there. loves the seal. He wants her to live. But what can’t pay a large bill. There is only one thing he
What do they find? can he do? can do, sell his island.
American English American English British English
LEVEL 1
Little Women The Olympic Promise The Outsiders

Louisa May Alcott Lynda Edwards Lynda Edwards
The four March sisters – Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy There are two important things in young Rose lives alone, has no friends and never
– have happy times, but have problems too. Nelson’s life, running and his Granny Sarah. Can goes out. One day, a boy comes into her
Read this story of family love in a difficult year Nelson run at the Olympic Games? And does he home. He has problems too. Can she help
for the sisters. remember his promise to his grandmother? him? Or will they always be frightened of the
world?
48 pages 24 pages British English
2,650 words
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LEVEL 1
The Rainbow Serpent Theseus & the Minotaur The Tomorrow Mirror
and Other Stories Ken Beatty Nicola Prentis
James Vance Marshall Every year, the Minotaur eats people from Jason looks in the mirror and sees a bruise
In an old Australian story, the Rainbow Serpent Athens. Theseus is strong and angry, but he is under his eye. Why can’t his school friends see
looked at the young Earth. There were no only a young man. Can he kill the Minotaur? it? Later, a ball hits him in the same eye and
animals, rivers or trees. The Serpent teaches a then people can see the bruise. Jason doesn’t
British English
man and a woman, but did they listen? understand ...
24 pages
British English 1,558 words British English
48 pages 24 pages
LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
Under the Bridge The Wrong Man Anne of Green Gables

Lynda Edwards Kris Anderson Lucy Maud Montgomery
Bea lives under a bridge. She doesn’t like A man wants to kill the Police Commissioner. The Cuthberts ask the orphanage for a boy to
talking and she doesn’t remember much. But But who is he? Can Steve Malone find the killer? help at their farm, but a little girl steps off the
a policeman is looking for a little girl, and there He only has two days. An Australian thriller told train. Anne causes chaos at Green Gables, but
was a child in Bea’s old life. Can she remember in cartoon form. her good nature wins everyone’s heart.
now?
British English 16 pages 64 pages
24 pages 1,482 words 7,856 words
2,343 words
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LEVEL 2
The Call of the Wild Don Quixote The Earthquake

Jack London Miguel de Cervantes Elizabeth Laird
Buck is a strong, intelligent dog who moves from Don Quixote wants a different life, he wants to Gabriel loves Silvia, but Silvia loves Marco.
an easy life in California to the Klondike. Life is be a knight from an earlier age. So he leaves Marco is more exciting than Gabriel, he wears
tough in the cold north of Canada and Buck has his village with Sancho Panza. Will they find expensive clothes and drives a fast car. Then,
to learn many hard lessons to survive. adventure? Will they change the world? something terrible happens, and changes the
lives of everybody.
5,191 words
LEVEL 2
The First Emperor of China Journey Through Arabia The Last Juror
Jane Rollason Andy Hopkins John Grisham
Ying Zheng was the first emperor of China. He Over two thousand years ago, traders brought There aren’t many interesting stories for
had new ideas, made new laws, built big palaces, spices and incense from Arabia to the Willie Traynor’s newspaper. But then there’s a
and a great wall. But life was difficult, so he took Mediterranean Sea. This is the story of that murder. When the killer goes to jail, the story
an army with him into the next world. journey, and of the rich and beautiful cities on does not end. Everybody is afraid. Will there
the way. be more killings?
British English
48 pages British English American English
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LEVEL 2
Mr Bean Nelson Mandela The Nightmare before

Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll Coleen Degnan-Veness Christmas
A famous painting is going to Los Angeles, and Nelson Mandela’s life is the story of a country Tim Burton
The National Gallery in London send Mr Bean boy and his fight for the people of South Africa. EEverybody in Halloweentown loves
to talk about the artist. But Mr. Bean is very The extraordinary story of a great man, a Halloween, but not Jack Skellington. Then, one
strange. After he arrives, accidents start to freedom fighter and one of the world’s most day, he visits Christmastown. Why can’t the
happen. important leaders. vampires, witches, and skeletons celebrate
British English British English Christmas too, their way?
64 pages 48 pages
American English
64 pages
8,038 words
LEVEL 2
The Presidents of Mount Round the World in Eighty Days The Secret Garden
Rushmore Jules Verne Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fiona Beddall Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a
From the top of Mount Rushmore, the heads days? He doesn’t know that somebody wants big, old house in the country. One day, Mary
of four U.S. presidents look down on the world to stop him. Then Fogg will lose his bet, twenty finds a garden that has high walls and no
below. Who were these great men? And what thousand pounds! doors. What is the secret of the garden?
changes did they bring to America? British English British English
64 pages 64 pages
British English 8,579 words 9,944 words
48 pages
5,850 words
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LEVEL 2
Sharks Stories of Other Worlds Water for Life

Izabella Hearn H. G. Wells Bernard Smith
Freddy lives on a Pacific Island. There, the A mountain climber falls into a strange valley. Water. We drink it, cook with it and wash with
fishermen can only make good money from A man in London is looking for a green door. it. We can’t live without it. But our world is
shark finning. Can Freddy and his friends bring Another man tries to help an unhappy ghost. changing fast. We have to think very carefully
money to the island and protect the sharks? Each story shows us two very different worlds. about water, and about our use of it.
American English British English British English

LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3
Wonders of the World The Adventures And Then There Were None
Vicky Shipton of Huckleberry Finn Agatha Christie
The Great Wall, Machu Picchu, the Grand Mark Twain Ten strangers are invited to an island off the
Canyon, the Taj Mahal ... around the world Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi river. Devon coast. Most are happy to be there. But
there are many beautiful places. Which are your Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. then, very soon, one of them is dead. What is
favourite Wonders of the World? They have a lot of adventures on the river. They happening? Is it murder?
American English even meet a king! But is he real? British English

48 pages American English 80 pages
4,995 words 80 pages 18,683 words
13,826 words
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LEVEL 3
Carmilla Charles Dickens The Curious Case of Benjamin

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Paul Shipton Button and Other Stories
Laura and her father’s lives change when Charles Dickens is one of Britain’s greatest F. Scott Fitzgerald
beautiful, strange Carmilla becomes their guest. writers; remembered for his wonderful stories Benjamin Button is a very strange baby: with a
People start dying, and Laura also becomes ill. and unforgettable characters. His novels have white beard, he looks like his grandfather! As
Will she die too? Or can the deaths be stopped? been popular around the world for more than years pass, he seems to get younger. In these
150 years. three stories, people are not always as they seem.
British English
80 pages British English American English
LEVEL 3
Frankenstein The Horse Whisperer The Incredible Journey

Mary Shelley Nicholas Evans Sheila Burnford
In this famous horror story, young scientist After an accident, Grace and her horse, Pilgrim, The country is wild and dangerous. But three
Victor Frankenstein creates a monster from are badly hurt. Grace’s mother believes her family pets– two dogs and a cat, begin a long,
parts of dead bodies. Frankenstein has learnt daughter will only recover if her horse can be long walk as they try to get home. They miss
how to create life. But will this life destroy him? saved. Can the Horse Whisperer work his magic? their family, but will anyone see them again?

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LEVEL 3
Japanese Ghost Stories Mysteries of the Unexplained The Olympics

Lafcadio Hearn Kathy Burke Paul Shipton
A blind musician plays to the spirits of the dead. Read about the strangest things in the Universe This book looks at the history of the Olympic
A priest is attacked by heads. An old man meets – other worlds, strange objects and peculiar Games, including interesting facts about
a woman with no face. Read these strange, happenings. How much do you believe? Olympic events, relevant political issues, and
ghostly stories and many more! Encounter the evidence and make up your own some of the less fortunate incidents in the
mind. Games’ history.
British English
LEVEL 3
The Pearl Stories of Courage Sweeney Todd

John Steinbeck Clare Gray Anonymous
Kino finds a large pearl, which he thinks will save Eight inspiring true stories of people showing Sweeney Todd runs a successful barber shop
his family from poverty. But the misfortune it brings courage in the face of incredible difficulty. Read in London, but his neighbours worry about his
changes the life of the family, forever. about the real Erin Brockovich, an incredible strange behaviour. Then people searching for
escape from death in Africa, Cuba’s bravest missing friends become interested in his shop.
British English runner and more!
80 pages American English
13,824 words American English 80 pages
9,451 words
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LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4
Titanic! The Young King About a Boy

Paul Shipton and Other Stories Nick Hornby
On the night of April 14, 1912, the Titanic hit Oscar Wilde Will Freeman wants an easy life with no
an iceberg and sank. This is the full story. Why Enter a world of kings and queens, mermaids responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus,
did the Titanic sink so quickly? Why did so many and witches, giants and dwarfs, and talking an unusual twelve-year-old boy with serious
people die? What are their stories? animals. Strange and wonderful things happen problems. A very funny story about a very
in these seven short stories for people of all ages. serious subject: love.
British English
LEVEL 4
Bleak House The Confession Crime Story Collection

Charles Dickens John Grisham Sarah Paretsky and Margery
The legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce Donte Drumm is four days away from execution Allingham
continues and different people involved marry for a murder that he didn’t commit, when the real The murder of a stranger or a relative, in a
and die. But will the lives of Ada and Richard be murderer decides to confess to the crime. Is it too quiet English town or a crowded American city.
ruined? Will their friend Esther be affected by late now to save the innocent man? Short stories by some of the finest modern
past secrets? crime writers.
British English
British English
96 pages
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LEVEL 4
Leonardo da Vinci The Maltese Falcon Nicholas Nickleby

Georgia Clarke Dashiell Hammett Charles Dickens
Successfully bringing his scientific and artistic Joel Cairo, Casper Gutman and Brigid Nicholas is a kind man who works at a cruel
abilities together, Da Vinci is known world-wide O’Shaughnessy all want to find the Maltese school full of poor, hungry children. Can he be
as the painter of the Mona Lisa, for designs Falcon. And at the heart of this classic detective happy in a world where stupid, greedy people
of flying machines and for his studies of the novel is private eye Sam Spade, a man with own have power and brave, honest people have
human body. code of ethics. nothing?

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The Odyssey Oliver Twist The Street Lawyer

Homer Charles Dickens John Grisham
Odysseus is finding his way back home after Orphan Oliver is brought up in a workhouse and Michael is a successful lawyer with Drake and
being away from his family for twenty years. runs away to London. But he meets Fagin and Sweeney. Then a homeless man attacks him.
But the journey will not be easy, facing storms, the terrifying Bill Sykes who try to turn Oliver into As Michael tries to discover who the man was,
monsters and the terrible anger of the sea god a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life? he uncovers a dangerous secret.
Poseidon.
31,397 words
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LEVEL 4
Three Great Plays of

Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet are in love, but their families
are enemies. Macbeth is to be King of
Scotland – but at what cost? King Lear divides
his kingdom between his daughters with
unexpected consequences.
British English
80 pages
15,147 words
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The Doctor and Clara have to save a Viking In beautiful Sherwood Forest, the Doctor learns The Doctor and his companion, Clara, are on
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British English British English after they see it.
11,413 words

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Flatline Face the Raven The Woman Who Lived
Retold by David Maule Retold by Nancy Taylor Retold by Chris Rice
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of the most frightening beings imaginable, and to stay away from the gallows and protect the
when even the walls give no protection?
Earth from a terrible enemy?
Ashildr!
British English
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EASYSTARTS
Between Two Worlds The Big Bag Mistake Billy and the Queen
Stephen Rabley John Escott Stephen Rabley
Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse in Australia. One Ricardo and Gisela are going home to Rio. Billy and his sister want new bicycles, but they
day a baby is very ill. Joanna takes the baby to Gisela likes reading and quiet people. Ricardo need money. There’s a competition and the
Sydney. It’s her first visit to a big city, and she likes noise and he likes Gisela. In Rio, a thief first prize is £500. ‘What do you think?’ Billy
loves it. Does she stay in the city or go home? takes Gisela’s bag. What can Ricardo do? asks his sister. ‘We can buy two new bicycles
British English American English for £500,’ she says.
1,065 words
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EASYSTARTS
Dino’s Day in London The Fireboy Flying Home

Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley
Tommy Grant is a taxi driver in London. One When his father is ill, Hapu makes a beautiful Felix is not a happy bird. He comes from Brazil
day he has to drive for Dino, the 12-year-old necklace for Queen Cleopatra. He takes it to but he doesn’t live there. He lives in a cage in
son of a film star. ‘Be very nice to the boy,’ her but a guard stops him. Can Hapu meet the New York. Then one day his cage opens! Can he
Tommy’s boss says. Queen and get a doctor for his father? find his family in Brazil again?

EASYSTARTS
Hannah and the Hurricane The Last Photo The Leopard and the
John Escott Bernard Smith Lighthouse
Hannah works on Mr Duval’s boat, taking Pam takes a photo, but a man walks in front of Anne Collins
people to the coral reef. But when a rich man her. Later, Martin sees a picture of the man in a A hungry leopard swims across the sea to
arrives with a big new boat, there suddenly newspaper. The police want this man but where Sindi. He runs into an old lighthouse. The
isn’t any work for Hannah and Mr Duval. Then a is he now? Does Pam’s photo have the answers? people of Sindi do not want the leopard in their
hurricane comes ... British English lighthouse. But what can they do?
British English
24 pages 800 words
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EASYSTARTS
Lucky Break Maisie and the Dolphin Marcel and the Mona Lisa
John Escott Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley
Tom breaks his leg in a football game. A week Maisie King’s mother and father work at an Marcel is a mouse detective. He sees a man steal
later, he sees his favourite movie star. But Animal Hospital. Maisie has a new friend: Ben the the famous Mona Lisa painting from the Louvre
Tom falls again and suddenly the movie star is dolphin. Ben is very ill. Maisie helps him. Then museum. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and
falling too! Is this his lucky break? Maisie has a big problem. Can Ben help her? risks his life to get the painting back again.

EASYSTARTS
Marcel and the White Star A New Zealand Adventure The Pearl Girl
Stephen Rabley Jan Thorburn Stephen Rabley
Marcel is a famous mouse detective. One Sarah and Jessica arrive in New Zealand for a Kate Grant is visiting Europe. One evening she
evening, two thieves steal a very expensive holiday. They find Michael’s mobile phone in the sees two men in a museum. They are taking a
diamond ring, the White Star. Marcel follows taxi from the airport, but they can’t find him. He very famous picture– Girl with a Pearl Earring.
them across Paris. Can he get the White Star has messages from home, are they important? What can Kate do?
and bring it back?
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EASYSTARTS
Pete and The Pirates San Francisco Story Simon and the Spy
Stephen Rabley John Escott Elizabeth Laird
Pirate Pete and his parrot love gold. When they Ben has a job in Mr. Tyson’s store. Then Mr. Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police
hear the Queen has a treasure map, they must Tyson finds money in Ben’s bag. ’Get out of my are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets
have it! store!’ Mr. Tyson says. But is Ben the thief? Then a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him.
British English there is an earthquake – and Mr. Tyson gets his But the spy is there too!
24 pages answer.
1,397 words British English
American English 24 pages
24 pages 978 words
842 words

EASYSTARTS
Tinker’s Farm Tinker’s Island The Troy Stone

Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley Stephen Rabley
It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with One day a thief puts a watch in Sam Tinker’s Mark Jackson visits the old city of Troy and finds
her father. The Tinkers are English. They’re starting hand. ‘Take this,’ he says, and runs away. Two a yellow stone. ‘I know this stone,’ he thinks. ‘It
a new life in America. They want a farm, but they policemen see the watch and take Sam away. comes from ... ‘ Suddenly, he goes back in time.
haven’t got any money. What can they do? Can Sam’s daughter Jenny help him? He can see a beautiful city and a big wooden
horse.
957 words 1,021 words 24 pages
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EASYSTARTS LEVEL 1
The White Oryx Who Wants to be a Star? Twenty Thousand Leagues

Bernard Smith Margaret Iggulden Under the Sea
There are poachers in the desert, and a Tina Daniels is a thirteen year old star. She sings Jules Verne
mother oryx is dead. Can Mandy and Abdullah beautifully and everyone loves her, but Tina is Captain Nemo finds three men in the sea and
catch the poachers? And can they find the not happy. One day she goes away. Who does they live on his submarine, the Nautilus. After
dead oryx’s baby? she meet? What does she see? Read about her many months, they want to go home. Can they
new life. escape from Nemo’s submarine?
British English
24 pages British English
British English
910 words 24 pages
32 pages
911 words
4,402 words

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Ali and His Camera The Battle of Newton Road
Mark Twain Raymond Pizante Leslie Dunkling
Tom Sawyer loves adventures with his friends Ali wants to take photos of people and places in People are happy living in Newton Road. Then
Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. He Istanbul, but he has a big problem. He hasn’t got an engineer wants to knock down the houses
has adventures in a graveyard, an old house a camera. How can he get one? and build a new road. The people of Newton
and in a cave. Who does he see there? Why is Road are angry, but can they win the battle?
British English
he afraid?
American English 1,881 words 24 pages
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LEVEL 1
Daniel Radcliffe David Beckham The Gift of the Magi and Other
Vicky Shipton Bernard Smith Stories
We know Daniel Radcliffe’s face from the Harry He was captain of the England football team O. Henry
Potter films. But how did he get the job? Did and famous for his playing at Manchester O. Henry’s writes about places like New York,
he always want to be an actor? What did he United and Los Angeles Galaxy. But when did he Texas, and Oklahoma, and problems with
do before Harry Potter? This is the story of his start to play football? And why is he now world money and love. But how is a story going
young life. famous? to finish? You never know. Readers always
British English British English remember his stories.
4,349 words

LEVEL 1
Girl Meets Boy The House of the Seven Karen and the Artist
Derek Strange Gables Elizabeth Laird
A girl sees a quiet, good-looking boy on the boat Nathaniel Hawthorne Karen’s job takes her to many places. She
to Spain. She loves his shy smile and she wants The House of the Seven Gables is the home of loves art, and in Rome she sees some beautiful
to see him again. The boy wants to be with her an important family: the Pyncheons. They have pictures. But the artist can’t sell them and he
too. But can they get together and meet again? the house and a lot of land, but no money and has no money. Can Karen sell his pictures for
many problems. Is there a curse on the family? him?
British English
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LEVEL 1
Lisa in London Marcel and the Shakespeare Marcel goes to Hollywood

Paul Victor Letters Stephen Rabley
It is Lisa’s first visit to London. She is going Stephen Rabley Marcel and his friend Céline are on holiday in
to learn English. Then she meets Michael. A professor has some interesting letters by William Los Angeles. They are staying in the home of
Suddenly her English lessons are very exciting. Shakespeare. Marcel and his friend Henry want to Arnold Waldman, a famous film director. But
British English see them, but they are not in the professor’s flat. some kidnappers take Arnold’s daughter!
24 pages Marcel is a detective. Can he find them? British English
1,257 words British English 24 pages
24 pages 947 words
2,031 words

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Michael Jordan Mike’s Lucky Day The Missing Coins

Nancy Taylor Leslie Dunkling John Escott
Michael Jordan is maybe the best basketball Van driver Mike meets Jennifer in her father’s Pete and Carla look at some old coins and stamps
player of all time. But where did he come from? shop, and he likes her very much. Jennifer is in a shop, but they are very expensive. Later,
How did he start? Read about his life and about going to go to the cinema with him. But he is some coins are missing from the shop, and the
his love of basketball. very late, and Jennifer is angry. Is it really Mike’s shopkeeper wants to find Pete!
lucky day?
24 pages British English 24 pages
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LEVEL 1
Mother Teresa Muhammad Ali Pele

D’Arcy Adrian-Vallance Bernard Smith Rod Smith
Mother Teresa was a small, quiet nun. She lived In 1974, two American boxers fought in Zaire. Pele is the number one player in the story of
for God and helped poor people on the streets One was Muhammad Ali. After the fight, he was soccer. He won the World Cup three times with
of India. She was very famous for her work and the boxing champion of the world. But why did Brazil!. In 1950, he was a young boy with no
people in many countries love her. a young boy from Kentucky start to box? shoes; today, Pele is famous around the world.
British English American English American English

LEVEL 1
Rip Van Winkle and The Run For Your Life Sadie’s Big Day at the Office
Legend of Sleepy Hollow Stephen Waller Tonya Trappe
Washington Irving Kim is running through the streets of Barcelona. The team arrives for another day at the office.
Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains, meets A man with dark eyes and a knife is looking for The workers are happy, but their bosses have
some strange men and comes home twenty years her. She is frightened, her holiday is suddenly a surprise for them. Is it going to be a nice
later. Ichabod Crane sees a man with no head on a very dangerous. What can she do? surprise, or not?
horse. Are there ghosts in these stories? British English British English
American English 32 pages 24 pages
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LEVEL 1
Six Sketches Speed Queens Surfer!

Leslie Dunkling Rod Smith Paul Harvey
Norma is always right. But has she got the Racing was a men’s sport – and then came the There is a surfing competition near Nick’s home.
right train tickets? What happens when women. Danica Patrick is American. Mika Duno Nick is a very good surfer and he wants to win
Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price? The is Venezuelan. Laleh Seddigh is from Iran. They the prize and go to Australia. But Nick’s father is
answers are in these six sketches. race with men and are all winners. not happy. Can Nick win and go to Australia?
British English American English British English

LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2
William Tell Alice in Wonderland The Amazon Rainforest

Friedrich Von Schiller Lewis Carroll Bernard Smith
William Tell is a good man, but his country is a Alice sees a white rabbit and follows it down a The Amazon rain forest is 10,000,000 years old
dangerous place. Can he help the Swiss people rabbit-hole. She arrives in Wonderland where and many different kinds of plants and animals
in their fight with the Austrians? Or is he a man caterpillars can talk and rabbits have watches. live there. The forest is important for the world’s
of peace? And the Queen wants to cut off everybody’s weather and wildlife, but it is disappearing fast.
head!
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LEVEL 2
American Life Audrey Hepburn Barack Obama

Vicky Shipton Chris Rice Coleen Degnan-Veness
Most people around the world today know Audrey Hepburn was a great and beautiful In January 2009, Barack Obama moved into the
something about American life. The United actress. When there were unhappy times, she White House. But what do we know about his
States is a big country. Not all Americans are the always showed a warm, friendly face to the family and his early life? Why did he want to be a
same! In this book you will see the many faces world. The world loved her, and people still love politician? And how did he get the top job?
of American life. her now!
American English
American English American English 32 pages

LEVEL 2
Black Beauty A Christmas Carol Extreme Sports

Anna Sewell Charles Dickens Michael Dean
‘Always be good, so people will love you’ said Scrooge loves money and doesn’t like people Extreme sports are new, exciting, and
Black Beauty’s mother when the two horses lived or Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, dangerous! From aerial ballet to zorbing, learn
with Farmer Grey. But when Black Beauty got they show him his past life, his life now, and a about extreme sports and the crazy people
older, not everybody was as kind as Farmer Grey. possible future. Will Scrooge learn and change? who love them. Are extreme sports for you?

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LEVEL 2
Five Famous Fairy Tales Five Plays for Today Gandhi

Hans Christian Andersen Tonya Trappe Jane Rollason
When a fisherman opens an old jar, a giant Five short plays tell stories of young people with Mahatma Gandhi died in 1948. He fought for
comes out. When a donkey opens its mouth, problems. Paul is shy and Judy has no friends. change and protested without violence but
gold falls out. There is magic in these tales, Oliver is afraid of other boys. Jane and Leo can’t lived a simple life. People followed him and they
where good people are often unhappy, but talk about their feelings, and Sue lies to her loved him, and many follow his ideas today.
can have happy lives. boyfriends.
American English

LEVEL 2
The Ghost of Genny Castle Gulliver’s Travels Heidi

John Escott Jonathan Swift Johanna Spyri
An old castle with a black tower has a dangerous Gulliver has an accident at sea. He arrives in a Heidi lives with her grandfather in the
secret – accidents happen there, animals and country of very, very small people. What will they mountains of Switzerland. One day, Heidi’s aunt
people die. One day, Claire goes to the castle. She do with him? How will he talk to them? And why takes her to Clara’s home in Frankfurt. Heidi
wants to know its secret. are the Big-enders fighting the Little-enders? likes her new friend, but can she go back home
to the mountains?
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LEVEL 2
The Importance of Being Earnest The Jungle Book Kidnapped

Oscar Wilde Rudyard Kipling Robert Louis Stevenson
Gwendolen thinks that she loves Ernest; Cecily A family of wolves take a little boy into their home in After his parents die, young David Balfour goes
thinks that she loves him too. But who is Ernest the jungle. But can the child really live in the jungle? to the house of his uncle Ebenezer. But his
really? What kind of man is he? A wonderful funny Will the other wolves want him to stay? And will the uncle is a dangerous man. When he puts David
play by one of the greatest writers of his time. dangerous tiger Shere Khan catch him? on a ship to America, a difficult and dangerous
time begins.
9,104 words

LEVEL 2
King Arthur and the Knights of The Lady in the Lake The Last of the Mohicans
the Round Table Raymond Chandler James Fenimore Cooper
Deborah Tempest Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for a man’s Uncas, the last of the Mohican Indians, travels
Only the next king can pull the sword out of the missing wife. He finds more than one dead with his father, Hawkeye and Heyward who
stone. Many try, but cannot move the sword, until body and learns about drugs, men in love, and a is taking the daughters of a British colonel to
young Arthur tries, and it comes out easily. But will police cover-up. Who killed the lady in the lake, their father. But a Huron Indian who hates the
Arthur be a good king? Will his life be happy? and why? British is near!
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LEVEL 2
London Lost In New York Lost Love and Other Stories

Vicky Shipton John Escott Jan Carew
Read about its history from Roman times He is going to stay with his aunt in New York, Strange things can happen to people. In these
and learn about its famous people, shops, but some older boys play a dangerous game exciting stories we meet many interesting
museums and palaces. with him. Soon the police are looking for Nicky. people: a young man in love, a lonely customer
Can he find his aunt before the police find him? in a shop, a shy soldier.
British English

LEVEL 2
Marley & Me Moby Dick Moonfleet

John Grogan Herman Melville J. Meade Falkner
Marley the puppy grows bigger and bigger; he Moby Dick is the most dangerous whale in the Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man
eats everything, breaks things and doesn’t listen. ocean. Captain Ahab fought him and lost a leg. walks the streets, and smugglers do their work.
But he loves John and Jenny and they love him. Is Now he wants to kill Moby Dick. Young sailor, When young John Trenchard learns about this
this really the story of the world’s worst dog? Ishmael, tells the story of their exciting and dangerous world, his life suddenly changes.
dangerous trip.
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LEVEL 2
Mr. Bean in Town The Mysterious Island Of Mice and Men

Rowan Atkinson Jules Verne John Steinbeck
There are problems for Mr. Bean everywhere. In Three men, a boy and a dog are in a balloon over George and Lennie are friends but Lennie is not
the restaurant, he doesn’t like his food. He tries to the Pacific, but only two men and the boy arrive on very smart. One night, when Lennie is alone,
hide it in very strange places. Then Bean goes to a strange island. Mysterious things happen to them something happens. What can George do now?
the launderette and loses his trousers! there. Where is the other man and his dog? Can he help, or is it too late?

LEVEL 2
Persuasion Pirates of the Caribbean: The The Prince and the Pauper
Jane Austen Curse of the Black Pearl Mark Twain
When they were very young, Anne Elliot and Irene Trimble Two babies are born on the same day. One
Captain Wentworth were in love. Years later, Read about the adventures of Elizabeth Swann, boy is a prince; the other boy is from a poor
they meet again. Does Wentworth feel anything Will Turner, and Jack Sparrow – characters of family. Years later, they change places for a
for Anne, or is he only interested in her pretty this blockbuster Hollywood movie. game. But then the old king dies and they
young friends? cannot change back!
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LEVEL 2
Project Omega The Railway Children Robin Hood

Elaine O’Reilly E. Nesbit Liz Austin
When wealthy Charles Hatfield Baker III When, suddenly, their father goes away, Robin Hood robbed rich people and gave the
suddenly disappears, his daughter, Julia, wants Roberta, Peter and Phyllis move near to a money to the poor. The Sheriff of Nottingham
to find him. Do the directors of his company railway line. Exciting things happen and they hated Robin, but Lady Marian loved him. Read
know where he is? And what is Project Omega? make new friends. But where is their father? Is about his most famous adventures.
he coming home?
4,890 words

LEVEL 2
Robinson Crusoe The Room in the Tower and The Scarlet Letter
Daniel Defoe Other Ghost Stories Nathaniel Hawthorne
In a storm, Robinson Crusoe’s ship goes down, Rudyard Kipling A crowd waits for Hester Prynne outside the
and the sea throws him onto a beach on an A man’s first wife is dead. Or is she? Why does prison. She carries a baby in her arms and the
island. But which island? Are there other people a dead man walk through his house? Why does scarlet letter A is on her dress - A for adulteress.
on it? Are they friendly? What will Crusoe do now? an old woman visit a young man in his dreams? Who is the father of her baby? Hester will not say.
Three stories with three ghosts.
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LEVEL 2
Simply Suspense Stranger Than Fiction: Urban Tales from the Arabian Nights
Frank Stockton, Stacy Aumonier, Myths Anne Collins
Alfred Burrage Phil Healey, Rick Glanvill Sheherezade’s husband wants to kill her. But
There are three exciting short stories in this A man fell from a tall building. Why didn’t he die? she is beautiful and clever, and tells him many
book. They are all about fear! Three people are Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken wonderful stories. What happens next? Her
in dangerous places. What can they do? Will under her hat? And how did a cow fly? Find the husband wants to know. He listens, and she lives.
anybody help them? answers in these strange stories. British English

LEVEL 2
Tales from Hans Andersen The Three Musketeers Three Short Stories of
Hans Christian Andersen Alexandre Dumas Sherlock Holmes
In these classic stories, we meet a very, very small D’Artagnan wants to be a musketeer and fight Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
child, a bird with a beautiful voice, a mermaid for his king and his country. D’Artagnan and his Where is Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student
with legs, an ugly duckling with no friends and an new friends have to help the Queen. She has saw the exam paper before the exam? Why is
emperor with some strange new clothes. a problem with the Cardinal, a very dangerous somebody following Miss Smith? Can you find
man. the answers before Sherlock Holmes does?
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LEVEL 2
Treasure Island The Voyages Walkabout

Robert Louis Stevenson of Sinbad the Sailor James Vance Marshall
Jim Hawkins and his parents have a quiet Pauline Francis Mary and Peter meet an Aboriginal boy in the
inn by the sea. Then one day, an old sailor Sinbad went to sea seven times and visited Australian desert. They follow him to food and
arrives at the inn. What is he afraid of? Jim’s different countries and strange islands. His voyages water. But they are lost. Can they finish their
life changes, and he goes by ship to Treasure were always dangerous. He met giant men, snakes journey and find their way home?
Island. and birds, and the Old Man of the Sea.
British English

LEVEL 2
The Wave White Fang The Wind in the Willows

Morton Rhue Jack London Kenneth Grahame
Mr Ross wants to teach his history class about White Fang is a wolf from the mountains of Canada.
Hitler and the Nazis. He starts a class team When he is taken to the world of men, he learns to Mole’s new friend, Water Rat, shows him many
called ‘The Wave.’ Some students love it, others fight and to kill. White Fang knows nothing about exciting things. But one day, Mole starts to cry,
don’t like it. Then it starts to feel dangerous! love. But one day he meets Scott. ‘Rat! We’re near my old home. I want to go
there!’ Can Rat help Mole find his way home?
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Amistad The Beatles Becoming Jane

David Franzoni Paul Shipton Kevin Hood
It is 1839. There is a bloody fight on the slave This book tells the story of the greatest band in Read the story of how 20-year-old Jane Austen’s
ship, Amistad, and the African slaves are free. the world - from their early days in Liverpool, to romance with Tom Lefroy inspired her to write
But soon they are in prison in the U.S. Must they Beatlemania and how they changed modern the great novels Pride and Prejudice and Sense
return to their owners, or are they free people? music forever. and Sensibility.

LEVEL 3
Billy Elliot The Black Cat and Other Braveheart

Melvyn Burgess Stories Randall Wallace
Eleven-year old Billy Elliot finally finds something Edgar Allan Poe ‘Sons of Scotland! You have come here to fight
that he can do well: ballet dancing. But will Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s as free men...’ Braveheart is the story of William
Billy continue to dance? Or have his father and famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote Wallace, who gave hope to the Scottish people in
brother got other plans for him? strange stories about terrible people and evil their fight to be free.
crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!
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The Canterbury Tales The Cellist of Sarajevo The Climb

Geoffrey Chaucer Steven Galloway John Escott
A group of pilgrims travel together from Sarajevo is under siege. There is little food Why has a mysterious stranger come to the
London to Canterbury. On the way, each has or water and every day the city is attacked. island? Why is he looking at Eagle’s Rock?
to tell a story. Some stories are happy, some Ordinary people are losing hope. Then, one day, Costas wants to be the first person to climb the
are sad, all have a message. some decide to wait in a line for bread... dangerous rock. But will the stranger climb it first?


LEVEL 3
The Count of Monte Cristo Dangerous Game David Copperfield

Alexandre Dumas William Harris Charles Dickens
When people tell lies about him, Edmond Dantes For a number of years, William plays a game David Copperfield’s happy life suddenly changes
is thrown into prison. There, a man tells him with a poltergeist before he goes to sleep. At when his mother marries a cruel man. When
about some treasure. Will Edmond escape and first, the games are friendly, but then the game she dies, he is sent to work in London but runs
find the treasure? Will he see Mercedes again? begins to change and becomes dangerous. Who away - it is the beginning of his life of adventure.
will win?
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Dracula The Fall of the House of Usher

Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker and Other Stories
Why does the frightening Mr Hyde seem to have When Count Dracula comes to England from Edgar Allan Poe
power over the nice Dr Jekyll? After a terrible Transylvania, strange things happen. People change There are five stories in this book. Some are
murder, everyone is looking for Hyde, but he has and become ill. Professor Van Helsing knows about stories of madness. Another describes fear
disappeared. Or has he? vampires, but can he stop Count Dracula? of death during a storm at sea. Other stories
British English British English introduce Poe’s famous Parisian detective: C.
64 pages 72 pages Auguste Dupin.
13,232 words 12,755 words American English
64 pages
11,432 words

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Five One-Act Plays Food for Thought Forrest Gump

Donn Byrne Pauline Francis Winston Groom
Has Mrs Brown killed Granny on the beach? When Joe finds himself in the middle of Everybody tells Forrest Gump that he’s an
Why does Mrs Hill want to leave her husband? a disagreement about GM crop trials, life idiot. But the story of his journey through life is
Who wants to steal the Professor’s invention? becomes interesting, and he meets two very sometimes sad and sometimes very funny. But
And what is little Johnny trying to say? different girls. But what do they really want from can he ever marry the girl he loves?
him?
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The Fugitive Ghost in the Guitar Grey Owl

J. M. Dillard Paul Shipton Vicky Shipton
When police think Dr Richard Kimble When Tom gets a new guitar, he can suddenly The true story of a famous North American
murdered his wife, he is put in prison. But he play very well. But he seems to be a different Indian. Grey Owl wanted to save his land, and its
escapes to find the real killer. Detective Gerard person. When his girlfriend Katy discovers the forests and animals. He wanted to change the
is searching for Kimble and is very close secret, she is very afraid. Can she save his life? world. He also had a very strange secret.
behind.
American English 48 pages 48 pages
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Hamlet A History of Britain How to be an Alien

William Shakespeare Fiona Beddall George Mikes
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is filled with sadness Britain is a small country with a long history. This is the funniest book that you will read about
and pain. The new king, Claudius, murdered his Read about the men and women who shaped English people! Why are the English different
father and married his mother. Will Hamlet be the British nation, and discover how wars, from Europeans? George Mikes’ book describes
strong and brave enough to take revenge? revolutions and religion changed its history. the strange things the English do and say.


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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame An Ideal Husband The Island of Dr Moreau

Victor Hugo Oscar Wilde H.G. Wells
Ugly and unwanted, Quasimodo the hunchback In this play, Sir Robert Chiltern is an ideal Why does Montgomery live on a strange
lives in Notre-Dame Cathedral. But a priest has husband for Lady Chiltern, but somebody Pacific island? Why is he taking animals there?
evil plans for a beautiful gypsy girl. He needs knows a dangerous secret about him. Can his And should Prendick fear the dark secrets of
Quasimodo’s help, but the hunchback has other friends save his job and his marriage? Montgomery’s master - the mysterious Doctor
ideas. Moreau?
British English
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Jane Eyre Jim Smiley and his Jumping King Lear

Charlotte Bronte Frog and Other Stories William Shakespeare
Poor girl Jane Eyre becomes a teacher and Mark Twain King Lear is old but not wise. He loves the two
works for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him Mark Twain’ stories are usually amusing, but daughters who secretly hate him. He hates the
and wants to marry him. He loves her too, but with a serious message too. You will read only daughter who really loves him. In time,
he has a dark secret! about people’s hopes and fears, happiness and he discovers his mistake. Has he learnt his
terrible sadness, and wonderful practical jokes! lesson?
British English
56 pages American English British English

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K’s First Case The Last King of Scotland Leaving Microsoft

L.G. Alexander Giles Foden to Change the World
Katrina Kirby is a detective. People call her In Uganda, a Scottish doctor becomes John Wood
‘K’. There has been a murder in a big country irreversibly entangled with one of the world’s John Wood had a successful career at Microsoft.
house. But who did it? How? Why? This is a most barbaric figures: Idi Amin. Dr. Garrigan But a visit to a school in Nepal changed his life.
detective story with a difference. K needs your becomes Amin’s personal physician and closest He helped the school and decided to change
help with her case. confidante. the world! He started the charity ‘Room to Read’.

LEVEL 3
Madame Doubtfire Martin Luther King A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Anne Fine Coleen Degnan-Veness William Shakespeare
Daniel wants to see his children more often, but Martin Luther King had a dream. He led In a wood outside Athens, four young people
he does not live with them. One day, Madame peaceful protests and wanted blacks and whites are following their dreams, while fairies play
Doubtfire comes help with the children. But she in America to be equal and live together happily. strange games with them. Their world seems
seems strange, more like a man than a woman! But has King’s dream really come true today? unreal, but is it really very different from our
own?
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My Fair Lady New York The No.1 Ladies’ Detective

Alan Jay Learner Vicky Shipton Agency
A professor who doesn’t like women decides to Every year, millions of tourists visit New York, Alexander McCall-Smith
teach a poor young flower-seller to speak better the most exciting city in the world. Read about Precious Ramotswe is the only female private
English. He wants to change her from street-girl its history, its sights, and its people. What makes detective in Botswana and her agency is the best in
to lady. But what will he learn from her? New York the city that never sleeps? the country. With her secretary and best friend, she
American English American English solves mysteries in her own way.
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Notting Hill Noughts and Crosses Othello

Richard Curtis Malorie Blackman William Shakespeare
Anna Scott is a rich and famous American film Sephy is a Cross, Callum is a Nought. In Othello is in love with his beautiful new wife
star. Shy William Thacker has a small bookshop in their world, Crosses and Noughts cannot be Desdemona. But when his good friend Iago
London. Their lives are different in every way, but friends, but they are in love. Must they become tells him terrible stories about his wife, who
they are both looking for someone special. enemies? Or is there hope for them, and for should Othello believe? Will jealousy destroy
their unhappy country? all their lives?
British English

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Pirates of the Caribbean: Princess Diana

Dead Man’s Chest World’s End Cherry Gilchrist
Retold by Irene Trimble Ted Elliot, Terry Rossio Read about Princess Diana’s short life, her
Jack Sparrow, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, Lord Cutler Beckett thinks that pirates are bad marriage to Prince Charles, her war with the
and Commodore Norrington are all looking for business and wants to take command of the Royal Family and her love and hard work for sick
for a chest that belongs to the terrible Captain oceans. The Pirate Lords have other ideas. Can and poor people all over the world.
Davy Jones. But Davy Jones has other plans for they fight him and win together? British English
Sparrow! 48 pages
American English
American English 8,961 words
56 pages
56 pages
13,144 words
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Psycho The Return of Sherlock The Ring

Robert Bloch Holmes Bernard Smith
Marion’s dreams are coming true. Driving Sir Arthur Conan Doyle One day Rafael was well, the next day he was
through the night, she is lost and tired. Then she When the great detective Sherlock Holmes completely mad. What happened to him? The
sees the Bates Motel. She thinks she is lucky. But disappeared, everyone thought he was dead. story of Rafael and his gold ring is a strange
there, something terrible is waiting for her. But three years later, he returned, and with his story of murder, mystery and love.
friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures
56 pages together. 64 pages
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Romeo and Juliet A Scandal in Bohemia Sense and Sensibility

William Shakespeare Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Jane Austen
Shakespeare’s beautiful tale is more than a In these six stories, all kinds of people, from Marianne Dashwood loves excitement and shows
famous love story, it is also about life and death, shopkeepers to kings, want the help of the her feelings. Her sister, Elinor, is quiet and more
happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate famous detective, Sherlock Holmes. Can he sensible. They both fall in love and suffer broken
between two great families. solve these mysteries? hearts. Will they ever find the right man to love?


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Sherlock Holmes and the Stories from Shakespeare Stories of Survival

Mystery of Boscombe Pool William Shakespeare Fiona Beddall
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle In some of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, In the Antarctic cold or the Sahara Desert heat,
Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe we meet a greedy money-lender, a fairy king in the wide Atlantic Ocean or a small Rwandan
Pool, and why? Detective Lestrade thinks it was and queen, some Roman politicians and a bathroom, these true stories show people who
McCarthy’s son, James. But the famous detective, young prince who meets the ghost of his have known terrible suffering, and lived.
Sherlock Holmes, sees things differently. murdered father.
British English

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The Swiss Family Robinson The Thirty-nine Steps The Turn of the Screw
Johann Wyss John Buchan Henry James
After a storm at sea, the Robinson family find Before a man is killed, he tells Richard Hannay A young woman comes to a big house to teach
their way to a small island. What can they do a dangerous secret. Now Hannay’s life is in two young children. But she begins to see
now? Where will they live? What will they eat? danger. Who are his enemies? And how will he strange things – the ghosts of dead people. Do
Luckily, the father and mother have useful skills. solve the mystery of the thirty-nine steps? the ghosts want the children?


LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4
Vanity Fair 1984 Alexander the Great

William Thackeray George Orwell Fiona Beddall
Becky Sharp, an intelligent young lady with no Winston Smith lives in a society where the By the age of thirty, Alexander the Great ruled
family or money, becomes a governess. But this government controls people’s lives every second the biggest Empire the world had ever known.
type of life is not enough for her. She has big of the day. Winston dreams of a better life. Is This remarkable leader conquered millions and
plans for herself. Is she clever enough to find freedom from this life of suffering possible? shaped our world.
success?
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The Bourne Identity The Canterville Ghost and Checkmate

Robert Ludlum Other Stories Malorie Blackman
The man has been shot and can’t remember Oscar Wilde Callie Rose is mixed race in a country where
anything. As he begins to learn about his past, he A ghost in an old house is unhappy with the people are judged by their colour. Her Uncle
becomes even more confused. Will he be killed new owners. Lord Arthur Savile has to murder Jude seems to offer her friendship and comfort,
before he knows who, or what, he really is? someone before he can get married. And what but wants to use his niece in his war against
is the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy? society.
American English
British English
23,743 words 80 pages
80 pages
18,245 words
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The Client Detective Work The Diary of a Young Girl

John Grisham John Escott Anne Frank
Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible A diamond necklace is stolen from a museum. It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have
secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some Anyone who works at the museum could be invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for
secrets are so dangerous that it’s better not to guilty. The police suspect Paul, a young student. their lives, so the Frank family hide. Life is
tell. But it’s just as dangerous if you don’t! So Paul must find the real thief. dangerous but they hope for the best.


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Doctor Faustus The Doll’s House and Other Emma

Christopher Marlowe Stories Jane Austen
After Doctor Faustus signs an agreement with Katherine Mansfield Emma Woodhouse likes to arrange marriages
the Devil, his new skills are admired around Katherine Mansfield is one of the most famous between her friends and neighbours. But Emma
the world. But there are two sides to an short story writers in the English language. makes a lot of mistakes and causes problems.
agreement with the Devil. There is always a These four stories are sometimes funny, Then she almost loses her own chance of love.
price to pay ... sometimes sad and often cruel. British English

LEVEL 4
Evening Class Falling Leaves Famous Women in Business

Maeve Binchy Adeline Yen Mah David Evans
Connie needs to escape from an unhappy home Adeline was born in China at a time of great This book tells the business success stories
life. Lou has criminal intentions. Thirty different change and trouble. At the same time, she of five very different women: Coco Chanel,
people join an Italian evening class for different suffered terrible unkindness from the members Hanae Mori, Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey and
reasons. All their lives are changed forever. of her own family. A true story of pain, fear and Madonna.
hope.
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Gladiator The Go-Between Gone with the Wind Part One

Dewey Gram L. P. Hartley Margaret Mitchell
The Emperor Commodus hates Maximus, and Leo becomes a secret messenger for his friend A story of love and war follows the popular
kills his family. Soon Maximus is a prisoner, then Marcus’ beautiful older sister and a local farmer. but selfish Scarlett O’Hara, gentlemanly
a slave, and finally a gladiator. When Commodus But then he realises what their messages are Ashley Wilkes, and dangerous but charming
joins Maximus in the arena, they fight for their about, and his whole life begins to change. Rhett Butler as their world is destroyed in the
lives. American Civil War.
British English

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Gone with the Wind Part Two The House of Stairs Inventions that Changed the World
Margaret Mitchell Barbara Vine David Maule
In Part 2 of one of the best-selling books of Twenty years ago a group of people lived in a Inventors are special people. They solve old
all time, the American Civil War has destroyed house in London. One of them was murdered, problems with new ideas. Their inventions can help
Scarlett O’Hara’s comfortable world. Can she but who was it? We slowly find out the truth, as people or destroy them, but only the greatest ideas
save her home and rebuild her life? the past, present and future join together. will change the world.
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King Solomon’s Mines Knife Edge The Locked Room and Other
Sir H. Rider Haggard Malorie Blackman Stories
Sir Henry Curtis wants to find his missing Sephy is a dark-skinned Cross in a society where M.R. James
brother. Is his brother still alive? Allan people are judged by their colour and Crosses A tree full of enormous spiders, a living thing
Quatermain wants to find King Solomon’s have the power. But Sephy is alone with her with no face, a picture that comes alive and
secret treasure. Does the treasure even exist? mixed-race baby. Can she protect herself and a boy with no heart. These are some of the
her child? frightening things in these great horror stories.
British English

LEVEL 4
Lorna Doone Love Actually Macbeth

R. D. Blackmore Richard Curtis William Shakespeare
John Ridd falls in love with Lorna Doone. But Christmas is coming and people have love on A strange meeting with three witches makes
the Doone family are robbers and murderers. their minds. Some have found love, some have Macbeth greedy for power. He and his evil wife
Carver Doone, killed John’s father and wants lost it. Some accept their loneliness, others live in make murderous plans. But how many people
to marry Lorna. Can John save Lorna from her hope, because love, actually, is all around us. will have to die? This play is written for acting.
worst fears?
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The Merchant of Venice The Mirror Crack’d from Side On the Beach
William Shakespeare to Side Nevil Shute
If Antonio cannot repay the loan to a money-lender Agatha Christie After a nuclear war, Peter and Mary Holmes are
in three months, the money-lender will cut a pound Miss Marple complains of feeling old and trying to live their lives as normally as possible
of flesh from his body. Will Antonio be able to repay helpless. Then there is a death in the village. as deadly radiation comes closer and closer.
the loan? Or will he die? Is it murder? Suddenly, Jane Marple has a new What can they do? Is this the end of life on Earth?
British English interest in life. And then there are more deaths British English
88 pages ... 136 pages
16,776 words British English 32,655 words
80 pages
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Seven Shakespeare – His Life and Plays
Oscar Wilde Anthony Bruno Will Fowler
When Dorian Gray sees a painting of himself, Across seven days and seven shocking murders, Shakespeare’s plays are famous all over the
his life changes. As he grows older, his face a serial killer has one thing on his mind – seven world. What do we know about the man and his
stays young, but the picture changes. Why can’t deadly sins. Can Detective Somerset and life? Why do we still laugh and suffer with his
Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible Detective Mills stop him? characters 400 years after his death?
secret?
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Strangers on a Train Teacher Man Tears of the Giraffe

Patricia Highsmith Franck McCourt Alexander McCall-Smith
Guy Haines is travelling on a train when a When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher, Precious Ramotswe is Botswana’s first and only lady
stranger invites him to share a meal. But the he finds himself standing in front of bored, detective. She’s looking for a young American who
stranger has a terrible plan. So begins Guy’s confused, angry students. Will he fail as a disappeared ten years ago. Will she find him? Will
journey into a world of madness, lies, and teacher? Or can he use his miserable childhood she finally marry Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni?
death. to help his students?
British English
American English American English 80 pages

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Three Adventures of Sherlock The Time Machine Unbowed

Holmes H. G. Wells Wangari Maathai
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Time Traveller has travelled to the year 802,701. In 1940, food, fresh water and fuel were
In these three stories we meet a young woman He finds that people have become weak, child-like plentiful in Kenya. But European crops and
terrified of a mysterious ‘speckled band’, a family creatures. They seem happy, but why are they so farming methods disrupted the environment.
who think that five orange pips are a sign of frightened of the dark? This book describes Maathai’s struggle to save
death; and a banker who believes that his son the trees.
is a thief. British English
88 pages American English
British English
20,669 words
80 pages
15,431 words

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2001: A Space Odyssey The Body The Bourne Supremacy

Arthur C. Clarke Stephen King Robert Ludlum
An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Gordie Lanchance and his friends are always A Chinese politician is assassinated in Hong
Men travel into space, 750 million miles to the ready for adventure. When they hear about a Kong and Jason Bourne’s name is found at the
rings of Saturn, to find out. But something is dead body in the forest they go to look for it, scene. The killer has returned! Who will he kill
waiting for them. and discover how cruel the world can be. next? And how can he be stopped?


LEVEL 5
The Brethren British and American Short The Citadel

John Grisham Stories A.J. Cronin
Calling themselves the Brethren, three former D.H. Lawrence When Andrew Manson starts work as a doctor
judges are in prison. They organize a pen-pal Meet some unusual people in these colourful he discovers unpleasant facts about the medical
scam to make money. But then the Brethren short stories. There’s the dreamy boy with a bird profession. He fights a powerful system that
contact the wrong pen-pal: a powerful man with making a nest in his hair! And there’s the man seems to value money more than curing illness -
dangerous friends. who tries to catch a ghost. Will he win?
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Cold Mountain Dr Zhivago The Firm

Charles Frazier Boris Pasternak John Grisham
Inman leaves the horrors of the American Four young people, Yury, Tonya, Lara and Pasha, When Mitch McDeere gets a job with a law firm it
Civil War and begins a long, dangerous find and lose love during the Russian Revolution seems to be the path to money and power. But
journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. He Their heart-breaking stories make Dr Zhivago soon, the firm is listening to his phone calls, and the
witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. one of the greatest romantic books, and films, FBI want to speak to him.
But will he ever see Ada again? of the 20th century. British English
American English British English 88 pages

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The Five People You Meet in Four Weddings and a Funeral The Grapes of Wrath
Heaven Richard Curtis John Steinbeck
Mitch Albom Charles is late, he should be on his way to Angus and After losing their farm, the Joad family is faced
When amusement park worker Eddie dies and Laura’s wedding! He is worried that he will never find with a journey of more than one thousand
goes to heaven, he meets five people who were the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie … miles in search of a better life. Can hope defeat
instrumental in his life. Eddie learns more about poverty, illness, hunger and even death?
British English
his time on Earth, and what his true purpose was. 80 pages British English
American English
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The Great Gatsby Heart of Darkness The Hound of the Baskervilles

F. Scott Fitzgerald Joseph Conrad Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
During one hot summer on Long Island, Jay Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his Have members of the Baskerville family really
Gatsby throws an amazing party every weekend. experiences as a steamboat captain on the been killed by a gigantic devil-like creature, the
But this mysterious millionaire has a purpose: he River Congo. His search for the extraordinary Hound of the Baskervilles? Can Sherlock Holmes
is following a dream of love. Will his dream come Mr. Kurtz caused him to question his own, and save the new owner of Baskerville Hall from a
true? society’s, nature and values. terrible death?

LEVEL 5
The Invisible Man Jamaica Inn Jane Eyre

H.G. Wells Daphne du Maurier Charlotte Bronte
A stranger arrives in a small village with his head Mary Yellan lives with her aunt and uncle at Jane Eyre becomes the governess for Mr
is covered in bandages and dark glasses hiding Jamaica Inn, where strange things happen at Rochester, and falls in love. But mysterious
his eyes. When the villagers discover his terrible night. Mary discovers they are in terrible danger. events take place at night, and Mr Rochester
secret, they realise that they are in great danger. Can she save herself and her aunt before it is appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane
too late? even hope for happiness?
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The Mayor Of Casterbridge Middlemarch More Tales from Shakespeare

Thomas Hardy George Eliot Charles and Mary Lamb
Michael Henchard is a wealthy respected man Dorothea wants to change the world and Six short stories, based on Shakespeare’s plays,
with a terrible secret. Twenty years ago he sold Dr Lydgate hopes to make great scientific includes Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Hamlet,
his wife to a sailor and now she is looking for discoveries. But after disastrous marriages, they and many more. This collection is the perfect
him again. What will happen when she finds both lose control of their lives. Can they ever introduction to one of the world’s greatest writers.
him? achieve their dreams?
British English

LEVEL 5
A Murder is Announced On the Road Outstanding Short Stories

Agatha Christie Jack Kerouac Edgar Allan Poe
A strange notice appears in a local newspaper; Filled with love, jazz, and excitement, join A superb collection of short stories. Some
is there really going to be a murder at Little Sal Paradise’s adventures on the road with are about unusual characters, others
Paddocks? At the announced time, lights go out wild friend Dean Moriarty and their crazy about ordinary people to whom something
and gunshots are heard. Can Miss Marple solve companions as they travel across the USA. unexpected happens. Some are funny, some
the mystery? are serious, all are enjoyable.
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The Partner The Pelican Brief The Phantom of the Opera

John Grisham John Grisham Gaston Leroux
Patrick Lanigan, a lawyer, dies in a car crash. In Washington, two Supreme Court judges are At the Paris Opera, people are dying and
Later, the partners in his law firm discover that murdered and only the young and beautiful a beautiful, talented young singer has
he is not really dead. He is living in Brazil, with 90 law student Darby Shaw knows why. She has disappeared. Is this the work of the Phantom of
million dollars of his partners’ money. uncovered a deadly secret, but will anyone the Opera? And what else will he do to get what
believe her? he wants?
American English

LEVEL 5
Pride and Prejudice The Prisoner of Zenda The Rainmaker

Jane Austen Anthony Hope John Grisham
Jane and Elizabeth Bennet need husbands, but Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in Ruritania for the Dot and Bud Black ask inexperienced law student
it isn’t easy to find the right man. Are Mr Bingley, king’s coronation. The two men meet and Rudy Baylor for his help. Their son is dying and
Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all that they seem? find that they look exactly the same! A trick their claim for medical insurance has been
Will pride and prejudice ruin their search for leaves Rudolf in the king’s place, while the king refused. Can Rudy really give them any hope?
true love? becomes the Prisoner of Zenda.
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Rebecca Round the World in Eighty Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Daphne du Maurier Days Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
After the death of his wife Rebecca, Maxim Jules Verne Join detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson
de Winter meets and marries a quiet young Phileas Fogg makes a bet that he can travel in six exciting adventures, including the mystery
woman and takes her back to his family home. around the world in eighty days. Join this crazy of an engineer with a missing thumb, and the
But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the race against time across Europe, Asia and strange case of two men who share an unusual
new marriage? America with plenty of danger and excitement name.
American English along the way. British English

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The Strange Case of A Tale of Two Cities Tales from Shakespeare

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Charles Dickens Charles and Mary Lamb
Robert Louis Stevenson Two men, one French and one English, but very With seven stories based on Shakespeare’s
Dr Jekyll is a respected London doctor. Mr Hyde similar in appearance, are in love with the same greatest plays, we meet many of his most
is a mysterious evil man. There is a murder and woman. The three of them are faced with the famous characters – magical Prospero;
Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the dangers of life during the French Revolution. mischievous Puck; evil Macbeth; greedy Shylock,
good doctor give Mr. Hyde the key to his house? and many more.
British English

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Tales of Mystery and Taste and Other Tales A Time to Kill

Imagination Roald Dahl John Grisham
Edgar Allan Poe Meet some ordinary people who behave in Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped
In these stories, from one of America’s greatest extraordinary ways: a man who can hear plants by two men. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, shoots
writers. we meet people struggling with fear, scream, the wife who wants to get rid of her them, and now only his lawyer and friend, Jake
revenge, mental illness and death. Which of husband, and the woman with an unusual use Brigance, stands between him and the electric
them will win, and which will lose their battles? for a leg of lamb. chair.


LEVEL 5
The War of the Worlds World Folktales Wuthering Heights

H.G. Wells Kathy Burke Emily Bronte
One of the most frightening science fiction These nine stories will take the reader on an A tragic story of Catherine and Heathcliff, whose
novels ever written. When a spaceship lands exciting journey to distant cultures and times. love is filled with unhappiness and suffering.
in southern England, few people are worried. The collection includes folktales from South When Catherine breaks his heart, Heathcliff
But when strange creatures climb out and start America, Africa, India, China, and Europe. decides to break everyone else’s and plans a
killing, nobody is safe. terrible revenge.
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American English 104 pages British English

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LEVEL 6
Animal Farm Anna Karenina The Beach

George Orwell Leo Tolstoy Alex Garland
An old boar dreams of farms run by animals Anna is a beautiful young woman, unhappily Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears about an
for animals, with liberty and equality for all. married to a much older man. When she falls in idyllic beach on a secret island. It is paradise on
When farm animals set up Animal Farm, the love with a handsome young soldier, life seems Earth. He goes there, but paradise soon turns
dream seems to be coming true...until the pigs wonderful. But real happiness is not so easily into hell.
become powerful. found.
British English

LEVEL 6
The Bourne Ultimatum Brave New World Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Robert Ludlum Aldous Huxley Louis De Bernieres
Jason Bourne is looking for his old enemy, Carlos In the New World of the future, there is happiness This great love story, set in 1941 in the tragedy
the Jackal, who wants to kill him. Bourne’s plan is and order. But when John comes from the Savage of war, has an Italian officer, Captain Corelli,
simple: use himself as bait to lure the Jackal into Reservation, bringing strong emotions of love hate, falling in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl.
a trap. But only one will escape... anger and fear, a danger threatens the New World. But Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army.


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LEVEL 6
The Chamber Crime and Punishment Cry, the Beloved Country

John Grisham Fyodor Dostoyevsky Alan Paton
Seventy year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi’s A young student, is forced to give up his studies Reverend Kumalo sets off for Johannesburg in
death row. Sam hates lawyers but his execution because of lack of money. He plans to murder search of his younger sister and his son. The
date is close, and time is running out. Can young a greedy old moneylender. Surely this murder moving story of two families in South Africa,
lawyer Adam Hall persuade Sam to accept his could be excused if it made good deeds one black and one white, who are brought into
help? possible? violent contact.


LEVEL 6
East of Eden Great Expectations I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
John Steinbeck Charles Dickens Maya Angelou
An important novel from one of America’s Pip is a poor orphan whose life is changed Growing up poor in the segregated American
greatest writers. Set in California, a story of love forever by two meetings, one with an escaped South, Maya Angelou suffers prejudice and cruelty
and jealousy, forgiveness and revenge, and what convict, and the other with an eccentric old lady from an unjust society and also from people she
it means to be human. and the beautiful girl who lives with her. trusts. Through everything, she learns the power
of love and hope.
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LEVEL 6
The King of Torts Madame Bovary Man from the South and
John Grisham Gustave Flaubert Other Stories
Things are not what they seem when Clay Emma Bovary escapes her boring life by Roald Dahl
Carter defends a murderer. Fighting large marrying Charles. But when married life In this short story collection, things are not
pharmaceutical companies, this is his does not bring her the love and excitement always what they seem and nobody can be
opportunity to make money and a reputation, she expected, she looks for love outside her trusted. You will have to wait until the final pages
but will he become King of Torts? marriage, and tragedy unfolds. of each story to discover the last, terrible twist!

LEVEL 6
Memoirs of a Geisha Les Misérables Misery

Arthur Golden Victor Hugo Stephen King
The dramatic story of Sayuri, a geisha in Gion, After nineteen years in prison, Jean Valjean’s life Annie Wilkes loves Paul Sheldon’s books, and
Kyoto. Throughout her struggle, she secretly loves is changed forever when he discovers love. Jean looks after him after a car accident. But when
the only man who ever showed her any kindness, dedicates his life to helping victims of poverty and Paul wants to kill off Annie’s favourite character,
a man who seems to be out of her reach. social injustice: ‘les misérables.’ she is determined to stop him, and Paul
becomes her prisoner.
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LEVEL 6
The Moonstone North and South Northanger Abbey

Wilkie Collins Elizabeth Gaskell Jane Austen
In what is now seen as the first English detective This classic industrial drama is a story of love and Catherine Morland looks for the excitement she
novel, Rachel Verinder receives the Moonstone, personal tragedy. Life changes completely for finds in romantic fiction. But when she visits
an ancient Indian diamond which brings disaster Margaret Hale when she moves to a northern city Northanger Abbey, she experiences desperate
to everyone who owns it. But that same night, it and meets Mr. Thornton, a wealthy cotton mill unhappiness. What is real, and what is the
is stolen! owner. product of her wild imagination?


LEVEL 6
Oliver Twist The Runaway Jury Saving Private Ryan

Charles Dickens John Grisham Max Collins
Beaten and starved, the young orphan Oliver Pynex, a tobacco company, could lose millions It’s June 9, 1944, three days after D-Day. Captain
runs away to London, where he joins Fagin’s of dollars in a big court case. It is Rankin Fitch’s John Miller and his men are ordered to search
gang of thieves. He finds new friends, but can job to make sure that they win. But one of for Private James Ryan and bring him home. But
they protect him from people who rob and the jurors is also trying to influence the jury’s how many will survive the mission?
murder without mercy? verdict. Who is he? And whose side is he on?
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British English American English 112 pages

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LEVEL 6
Snow Falling on Cedars The Testament The Woman in White

David Guterson John Grisham Wilkie Collins
Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. The Powerful lawyer Nate O’Riley is sent on a Only the Woman in White knows the truth
Second World War has made people suspicious journey that will change his life forever; taking of Laura Fairlie’s cruel husband. Can Walter
and angry at Japanese Americans like him. Will he him from the courtrooms of Washington to Hartwright discover the terrible secret? When
receive a fair trial? And will the truth be discovered? the dangerous swamps of Brazil. he meets this mysterious woman, his future,
and Laura’s, are linked forever.
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INDEX
TITLE LEVEL PAGE TITLE LEVEL PAGE

Pearson English Kids Readers Katie Grows a Bean Plant 1 30
Animal Athletes 4 32 Land of New Hope, A 5 33
Animal Camouflage 6 33 Let’s Draw Shapes 2 31
Astronauts in Space 6 33 Magic Toys Go on Holiday 1 24
Awake at Night 2 31 Making Music 1 30
Brain Gym 4 32 Marvel’s Avengers Call for Backup 3 13
Butterflies and Frogs 3 31 Marvel’s Avengers Freaky Thor Day 2 13
Clothes at Work 2 31 Marvel’s Spider-Man The Story of Spider-Man 2 13
Disney – 101 Dalmations 3 16 Marvel’s Spider-Man The Swashbuckling Spider 3 13
Disney – Aladdin 5 18 Our Changing Planet 6 34
Disney – Alice in Wonderland 5 18 Pirate Patch 2 25
Disney – Aristocats, The 4 17 Pollyanna 4 25
Disney – Atlantis: The Lost Empire 6 19 Poptropica English – Family Island Adventure 1 22
Disney – Bambi 2 15 Poptropica English – Future Island Adventure 6 23
Disney – Chicken Little 4 17 Poptropica English – Ice Island Adventure 5 23
Disney – Dumbo 1 14 Poptropica English – Movie Studio Island 4 23

Adventure
Disney – Hercules 5 18
Poptropica English – Space Island Adventure 3 22
Disney – Hunchback of Notre Dame, The 5 19
Poptropica English – Tropical Island Adventure 2 22
Disney – Jungle Book, The 2 15
Rainbow Bird 1 24
Disney – Lady and the Tramp 3 17
Rory Wants a Pet 1 24
Disney – Lilo & Stitch 6 19
Secret Garden, The 6 26
Disney – Lion King, The 4 18
Shaun the Sheep 3 25
Disney – Peter Pan 1 15
Sherlock Holmes Stories 4 26
Disney – Pinocchio 3 17
Sport with Trainer Tim 3 32
Disney – Robin Hood 4 18
Storm 4 32
Disney – Winnie the Pooh 1 15
Twits, The 4 28
Disney PIXAR – A Bug’s Life 3 16
Thumbelina 2 25
Disney PIXAR – Cars 6 19
Tom at the Harbour 2 31
Disney PIXAR – Cinderella 1 14
Up in the Air 3 32
Disney PIXAR – Finding Nemo 1 14
Wallace and Gromit A Matter of Loaf and Death 6 26
Disney PIXAR – Incredibles, The 4 17
Wheels Go Round 1 30
Disney PIXAR – Monsters Inc 2 16
Where I Live 1 31
Disney PIXAR – Ratatouille 5 19
Wind in the Willows Mole 4 26
Disney PIXAR – Toy Story 1 2 16
and Rat become Friends, The
Winston the Wizard 1 25
Wizard of Oz, The 3 25
Disney PIXAR – Up 6 21
World of Homes, A 6 34
Disney PIXAR – WALL-E 5 19
Disney Princess – Beauty and the Beast 3 16
Disney Princess – Little Mermaid, The 2 15
Aladdin and the Lamp 2 40
Disney Princess – Mulan 6 20
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 3 41
Disney Princess – Pocahontas 6 20
Beauty and the Beast 3 41
Disney Princess – Sleeping Beauty 1 15
Christmas Carol, A 4 42
Disney Princess – Snow White 2 16
Emperor and the Nightingale, The 4 43
Enormous Crocodile, The 2 28
Goldilocks and the Three Bears 1 40
Festival Fun 3 32
Hansel and Gretel 3 41
George’s Marvellous Medicine 5 29
Jack and the Beanstalk 3 42
Giraffe and the Pelly and Me, The 3 28
Jungle Book, The 2 41
Gulliver’s Travels 5 26
Little Red Riding Hood 2 40
Harry’s Clothes Project 5 33
New Adventures of Tom Thumb 3 42
Into I.T. 5 33
Peter and the Wolf 3 42
Island Hopping 5 33
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Peter Pan 3 42 Mysteries of the Unexplained 3 56
Pied Piper of Hamelin, The 4 43 Nelson Mandela 2 53
Newspaper Chase Easystarts 49
Pinocchio 4 43
Nicholas Nickleby 4 58
Princess and the Frog, The 3 42
Nightmare before Christmas, The 2 53
Rapunzel 4 43
Odyssey, The 4 58
Selfish Giant, The 2 41
Oliver Twist 4 58
Sleeping Beauty 1 40
Olympic Promise, The 1 50
Snow Queen, The 4 43
Olympics, The 3 56
Swiss Family Robinson, The 4 43
Outsiders, The 1 50
Three Billy Goats Gruff, The 1 40
Pearl, The 3 56
Town Mouse and Country Mouse 1 40
Presidents of Mount Rushmore, The 2 53
Velveteen Rabbit, The 2 41
Rainbow Serpent and other Stories, The 1 51
Secret Garden, The 2 53
Pearson English Active Readers Sharks 2 54
About a Boy 4 57
Slave Boy of Pompeii, The Easystarts 49
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The 3 54
Street Lawyer, The 4 58
African Safari 1 49
Stories of Courage 3 56
Amazon Rally 1 49
Stories of Other Worlds 2 54
And Then There Were None 3 54
Sweeney Todd 3 56
Anne of Green Gables 2 51
Theseus and the Minotaur 1 51
Barcelona Game, The 1 49
Three Great Plays of Shakespeare 4 59
Bleak House 4 57
Titanic 3 57
Blue Cat Club, The Easystarts 48
Tomorrow Mirror, The 1 51
Call of the Wild 2 52
Under the Bridge 1 51
Carmilla 3 55
Water for Life 2 51
Charles Dickens 3 55
Wonders of the World 2 54
Confession, The 4 57
Wrong Man, The 1 51
Crime Story Collection 4 57
Young King and Other Stories, The 3 57
Crown, The 1 49
Cup in Forest, The Easystarts 48
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The 3 55
1984 4 98
Don Quixote 2 52
20,000 Leagues Under Sea 1 76
Earthquake, The 2 52
2001: A Space Odyssey 5 105
First Emperor of China, The 2 52
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The 1 76
Frankenstein 3 55
Alexander the Great 4 98
Galapagos, The 1 50
Ali and His Camera 1 76
Good Day, Bad Day Easystarts 48
Alice in Wonderland 2 80
Golden Seal, The 1 50
Amazon Rainforest 2 80
Hat, The Easystarts 48
American Life 2 81
Horse Whisperer, The 3 55
Amistad 3 89
Incredible Journey, The 3 55
Animal Farm 6 112
Island for Sale 1 50
Anna Karenina 6 112
Japanese Ghost Stories 3 56
Audrey Hepburn 2 81
Journey Through Arabia 2 52
Barack Obama 2 81
Kim’s Choice Easystarts 48
Battle of the Newton Road, The 1 76
Last Juror, The 2 52
Beach, The 6 112
Leonardo da Vinci 4 58
Beatles, The 3 89
Little Women 1 50
Becoming Jane 3 89
Long Road, The Easystarts 48
Between Two Worlds Easystarts 72
Maltese Falcon, The 4 58
Big Bang Mistake, The Easystarts 72
Mr Bean 2 53
Billy and the Queen Easystarts 72
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INDEX

Billy Elliot 3 89 Five Famous Fairy Tales 2 82
Black Beauty 2 81 Five One-Act Plays 3 91
Black Cat and Other Stories 3 89 Five People You Meet in Heaven, The 5 106
Body, The 5 105 Five Plays for Today 2 82
Bourne Identity, The 4 99 Flying Home Easystarts 73
Bourne Supremacy, The 5 105 Food for Thought 3 91
Bourne Ultimatum, The 6 112 Forrest Gump 3 91
Brave New World 6 112 Four Weddings and a Funeral 5 106
Braveheart 3 89 Fugitive, The 3 92
Brethren, The 5 105 Gandhi 2 82
British and American Short Stories 5 105 Ghost in the Guitar 3 92
Canterbury Tales, The 3 90 Ghost of Genny Castle, The 2 82
Canterville Ghost and Other Stories, The 4 99 Gift of the Magi and Other Stories, The 1 77
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 6 116 Girl Meets Boy 1 77
Cellist of Sarajevo, The 3 90 Gladiator 4 101
Chamber, The 6 113 Go-Between, The 4 101
Checkmate 4 99 Gone with Wind Part 1 4 101
A Christmas Carol 2 83 Gone with Wind Part 2 4 101
Citadel, The 5 105 Grapes of Wrath, The 5 106
Client, The 4 99 Great Expectations 6 113
Climb, The 3 90 Great Gatsby, The 5 107
Cold Mountain 5 106 Grey Owl 3 92
Count of Monte Cristo, The 3 90 Gulliver’s Travels 2 82
Crime and Punishment 6 113 Hamlet 3 92
Cry, Beloved Country 6 113 Hannah and the Hurricane Easystarts 73
Dangerous Game 3 90 Heart of Darkness, The 5 107
Daniel Radcliffe 1 78 Heidi 2 82
David Beckham 1 77 A History of Britain 3 92
David Copperfield 3 90 Hound of Baskervilles, The 5 107
Detective Work 4 99 House of the Seven Gables, The 1 77
Diary of a Young Girl, The 4 99 House of Stairs, The 4 101
Dino’s Day in London Easystarts 73 How to be an Alien 3 92
Doctor Faustus 4 100 Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The 3 93
Doctor Who: Face the Raven 3 69 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 6 113
Doctor Who: Flatline 3 69 An Ideal Husband 3 93
Doctor Who: The Girl Who Died 2 69 Importance of Being Earnest, The 2 83
Doctor Who: Mummy on Orient Express 3 69 Inventions that Changed the World 4 101
Doctor Who: The Robot of Sherwood 2 69 Invisible Man, The 5 117
Doctor Who: The Woman Who Lived 3 69 Island of Dr Moreau, The 3 93
Doll’s House and Other Stories, The 4 102 Jamaica Inn 5 107
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde 3 91 Jane Eyre 3 93
Dr Zhivago 5 106 Jane Eyre 5 107
Dracula 3 91 Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog and Other 3 93
East of Eden 6 113 Stories
Emma 4 100 Jungle Book, The 2 83
Evening Class 4 100 K’s First Case 3 94
Extreme Sports 2 81 Karen and the Artist 1 77
Fall of the House of Usher, The 3 91 Kidnapped 2 83
Falling Leaves 4 100 King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table 2 83
Famous Women in Business 4 100 King Lear 3 93
Fireboy, The Easystarts 73 King of Torts, The 6 117
Firm, The 5 106 King Solomon’s Mines 4 102
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Knife Edge 4 102 New York 3 95
Lady in the Lake, The 2 83 New Zealand Adventure, A Easystarts 74
Last King of Scotland, The 3 94 No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, The 3 95
Last of the Mohicans, The 2 83 North and South 6 115
Last Photo, The Easystarts 73 Northanger Abbey 6 115
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World 3 94 Notting Hill 3 95
Leopard and the Lighthouse, The Easystarts 73 Noughts and Crosses 3 95
Les Misérables 6 114 Of Mice and Men 2 85
Lisa in London 1 78 Oliver Twist 6 115
Locked Room and Other Stories, The 4 102 On the Beach 4 103
London 2 84 On the Road 5 108
Lorna Doone 4 102 Othello 3 95
Lost In New York 2 84 Outstanding Short Stories 5 108
Lost Love and Other Stories 2 84 Partner, The 5 109
Love Actually 4 102 Pearl Girl, The Easystarts 74
Lucky Break Easystarts 74 Pelé 1 79
Macbeth 4 102 Pelican Brief, The 5 109
Madame Bovary 6 114 Persuasion 2 85
Madame Doubtfire 3 94 Pete and the Pirates Easystarts 75
Maisie and the Dolphin Easystarts 74 Phantom of the Opera, The 5 109
Man from the South and Other Stories 6 114 Picture of Dorian Gray, The 4 103
Marcel and the Mona Lisa Easystarts 74 Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest 3 96
Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters 1 78 Pirates of the Caribbean 3: World’s End 3 96
Marcel and the White Star Easystarts 74 Pirates of the Caribbean: 2 85
Marcel Goes to Hollywood 1 78 The Course of the Black Pearl
Marley & Me 2 84 Pride and Prejudice 5 109
Martin Luther King 3 94 Prince and Pauper, The 2 85
Marvel’s The Avengers 2 65 Princess Diana 3 96
Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron 3 65 Prisoner of Zenda, The 5 109
Marvel's Captain America: Civil War 3 65 Project Omega 2 86
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy 4 65 Psycho 3 96
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy vol.2 4 65 Railway Children, The 2 86
Marvel's Thor 3 65 Rainmaker, The 5 109
Mayor Of Casterbridge, The 5 108 Rebecca 5 110
Memoirs of a Geisha 6 114 Return of Sherlock Holmes, The 3 96
Merchant of Venice, The 4 103 Ring, The 3 96
Michael Jordan 1 78 Rip Van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1 79
Middlemarch 5 108 Robin Hood 2 86
Mike’s Lucky Day 1 78 Robinson Crusoe 2 86
Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side, The 4 103 Romeo and Juliet 3 97
Misery 6 114 Room in the Tower and Other Ghost Stories, The 2 86
Missing Coins, The 1 78 Round the World in Eighty Days 5 110
Moby Dick 2 84 Runaway Jury, The 6 115
Moonfleet 2 84 Run For Your Life 1 79
Moonstone, The 6 115 Sadie’s Big Day at the Office 1 79
More Tales from Shakespeare 5 108 San Francisco Story Easystarts 76
Mother Teresa 1 79 Saving Private Ryan 6 115
Mr. Bean in Town 2 85 Scandal in Bohemia, A 3 97
Muhammad Ali 1 79 Scarlet Letter, The 2 86
Murder is Announced, A 5 108 Sense and Sensibility 3 97
My Fair Lady 3 95 Seven 4 103
Mysterious Island, The 2 85 Shakespeare - His Life and Plays 4 103
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TITLE LEVEL PAGE

Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery 3 97
of Boscombe Pool
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories 5 110
Simon and the Spy Easystarts 75
Simply Suspense 2 87
Six Sketches 1 80
Snow Falling on Cedars 6 119
Speed Queens 1 80
Stories from Shakespeare 3 97
Stories of Survival 3 99
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The 5 110
Stranger Than Fiction: Urban Myths 2 87
Strangers on a Train 4 104
Surfer! 1 80
Swiss Family Robinson, The 3 98
Tale of Two Cities, A 5 110
Tales from the Arabian Nights 2 88
Tales from Shakespeare 5 110
Tales of Mystery and Imagination 5 111
Taste and Other Tales 5 111
Teacher Man 4 104
Tears of the Giraffe 4 104
Testament, The 6 116
Thirty-nine Steps, The 3 98
Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4 104
Three Musketeers, The 2 87
Three Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes 2 90
Time Machine, The 4 104
Time to Kill, A 5 111
Tinker’s Farm Easystarts 75
Tinker’s Island Easystarts 75
Treasure Island 2 88
Troy Stone, The Easystarts 75
Turn of the Screw 3 98
Unbowed 4 104
Vanity Fair 3 98
Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, The 2 88
Walkabout 2 88
War of the Worlds, The 5 111
Wave, The 2 88
White Fang 2 88
White Oryx, The Easystarts 76
Who Wants to be a Star? Easystarts 76
William Tell 1 80
Wind in the Willows, The 2 88
Woman in White, The 6 116
World Folktales 5 111
Wuthering Heights 5 111
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Inspiring stories, incredible choice, improved learning

Pearson English Kids Readers 8 - 34

Pearson English Story Readers 36 - 43

Pearson English Active Readers 44 - 59

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Level 2 A1/A2 22-32 Starters/Movers Firstwords/ Springboard

Level 3 A1/A2 25-35 Movers Springboard

Level 4 A1/A2+ 27-38 Movers Springboard/ Quickmarch

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Exciting Marvel stories re-told for young learners of English.

Marvel’s Avengers Freaky Marvel’s Spider-Man The

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Marvel’s Spider-Man The Marvel’s Avengers Call for

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Disney Princess Cinderella Disney Dumbo Disney Pixar Finding Nemo:

ISBN 9781408288191 ISBN 9781408286999 ISBN 9781292205786

ISBN 9781408288528 ISBN 9781408288511 ISBN 9781408288542

Disney Bambi Disney The Jungle Book: Disney Princess

ISBN 9781408288573 ISBN 9781408288566 ISBN 9781408288177

ISBN 9781408288580 ISBN 9781408288559 ISBN 9781408288597

ISBN 9781408287316 ISBN 9781408288627 ISBN 9781408287330

ISBN 9781408288603 ISBN 9781408288610 ISBN 9781408288634

ISBN 9781408288658 ISBN 9781408288665 ISBN 9781408288689

ISBN 9781408286975 ISBN 9781408288641 ISBN 9781408288672

Disney Aladdin Disney Alice in Wonderland Disney Hercules

American English American English American English

ISBN 9781408287354 ISBN 9781408287378 ISBN 9781408288719

Disney The Hunchback of Disney Pixar Ratatouille Disney Pixar WALL-E

ISBN 9781408288702 ISBN 9781408288726 ISBN 9781408288733

ISBN 9781408288184 ISBN 9781408288788 ISBN 9781408288771

Disney Princess Mulan Disney Princess Pocahontas Disney Pixar Up

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ISBN 9781408288757 ISBN 9781408288740 ISBN 9781408288764

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LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3

Poptropica English Poptropica English Poptropica English

ISBN 9781447979951 ISBN 9781447979975 ISBN 9781408288351

LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 LEVEL 6

Poptropica English Poptropica English Poptropica English

ISBN 9781447971382 ISBN 9781408288443 ISBN 9781408288498