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Pearson Readers Level 3: The Black Cat and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Are you brave enough to read four of Poe's famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don't read this book late at night!
Pearson Readers Level 3 "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available June 2008) Edmond Dantes is a clever young seaman, but he has enemies who tell lies about him. On the day of his wedding to the beautiful Mercedes, Edmond is thrown into prison. There he meets a man who tells him about some treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Wil ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 4: Alexander the Great by Fiona Beddall
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Original / British English (Available April 2008) Alexander the Great has fascinated people since his death more than 2300 years ago. By the age of thirty he ruled the biggest Empire the world had ever known. This remarkable leader brought civilization to millions and shaped our world.
Pearson Readers Level 4: "Teacher Man" by Frank McCourt
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / American English (Available February 2008) When Frank McCourt becomes a teacher in New York, he finds himself standing in front of bored, confused, angry students. Will he fail as a teacher? Or can he use his miserable Irish childhood to help his students? This is the true story of one ma ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 4: Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / British English (Available May 2008) The second exciting story from The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Precious Ramotswe is now known as Botswana's first and only lady detective and has many cases. She's looking for a young American who disappeared ten years ago. Will she finally m ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 4 : Women in Business by D. Evans
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Original / British English (Available June 2008) At the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed strange. Today more and more women are reaching the top of business life. This book tells the business success stories of five very different women: Coco Chanel, Hanae Mori, A ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 4: the Client by John Grisham
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / British English (Available April 2008) Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it's better not to tell. But it's just as dangerous if you don't. So Mark needs help fast... because there isn't much time.
Pearson Readers Level 5: "2001" by Arthur C. Clarke
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) 2001: A Space Odyssey a great film and a famous novel. An object is found on the Moon. Who made it? Men travel into space to find out a billion kilometres to the rings of Saturn. Something is waiting for them
Pearson Readers Level 5: "Four Weddings and a Funeral" by Richard Curtis
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / British English (Available April 2008) Four Weddings and a Funeral one of the most successful films from Britain. It's a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura's wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find t ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 5: "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 5: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Jane and Elizabeth Bennet are the oldest of five sisters in need of husbands, but it isn't easy to find the right man. Are Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all that they seem? Will pride and prejudice ever be defeated in the search for true love? ...Show more
Pearson Readers Level 5 "Taste and Other Tales" by Roald Dahl
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) In this collection of Roald Dahl's finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And there's ...Show more