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Contemporary / American EnglishThe horror of death row is that you die a little each day. The waiting kills you.Seventy-year-old Sam Cayhall is on Mississippi.

Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. The...

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN addresses the meaning of life, and life after death, in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE.An elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who,...

Classic British English David Copperfields happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When Davids mother dies, he is sent...

Michael Jordan, the Chicago Bulls number 23, is very famous. And he can fly Maybe he is the best basketball player of all time. But where did he come from How did he start in basketball Read about his...

This is Nickys first visit to New York. He is going to stay with his aunt, but she is not at the airport. Then some older boys on motorbikes play a dangerous game with him. Not long after he arrives, ...

Its 1798. Sam Tinker and his daughter Jenny live in London. One day a thief puts a watch in Sams hand. Take this, he says, and runs away. Two policemen see the watch and take Sam away. What can Jenny ...

Original British English Farm work isnt Joes idea of holiday fun. He wanted to spend the summer surfing. But when he finds himself in the middle of a disagreement about GM genetically-modified crop t...

Bernardo likes hats. One day he buys a new hat at a street market and people laugh at it. Why do you want another hat, Bernardo his wife says to him. You have twenty. But what can she do

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

Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To hel...

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich.She loves `matchmaking` - arranging marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. However, she often creates more heartache th...

Sheherezade is beautiful and clever. She also knows a thousand and one wonderful stories. Her husband wants to kill her, but he cant. Sheherezade tells him stories about a clever servant girl and a bo...

Uncas is the last of the Mohican Indians. He is with his father and Hawkeye when they meet Heyward. Heyward is taking the two young daughters of a British colonel to their father. But a Huron Indian w...

His mother is dead, so little Oliver Twist is brought up in the workhouse. Beaten and starved, he runs away to London, where he joins Fagins gang of thieves. By chance he also finds good new friends ...

When a notice appears in the local newspaper, the villagers are curious. Is it a joke, or is there really going to be a murder at Little Paddocks At the announced time, the lights go out. Gunshots are...

Jack Sparrow, captain of the Black Pearl, is back in a new adventure. This time he, Will Turner, Elizabeth Swann, and Commodore Norrington are all looking for a chest that belongs to the terrible Capt...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language,...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language,...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to the audio edition and digital book. Written for learners of English as a foreign language,...

* Logan`s Choice (Level 2) - `I`m Inspector Logan of the Edinburgh police,` Jenny said. `I`m very sorry about the death of your husband.` * Who killed Alex Maclennan? His friend, his wife or he...

Quando o terrível pirata Bill Bones morre, o jovem Jim Hawkins fica com o mapa perdido da Ilha do Tesouro. Jim e seus amigos vão em busca do tesouro perdido, mas não percebem que sua tripulação é de p...

British English Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll Who is the evil little man And why does he seem to have power over the doctor After a terrible murder, everyone is looking...

A young boy, Pete Morgan, is on holiday in the Caribbean with his parents. They are staying on their boat called the Summer Sun. It is the only boat near Blue Sea Island. Or is it One day, Pete has a ...

Classic British English Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan t...

Olivers mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely and then he runs away to London. But he falls into the hands of Fagin and the terrifying Bi...

Known world-wide as the painter of the Mona Lisa, for designs of flying machines and for his studies of the human body. He brought his scientific and artistic abilities together so successfully that h...