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Looking for something great to read? Browse our editors´ picks for 2015´s Best Books of the Year in fiction, nonfiction, mysteries, children´s books, and much more.

Young orphan Oliver Twist runs away from the cruelty of a workhouse and meets Fagin and his gang of thieves on the streets of London. Who will save Oliver from a life of crime? And what is the secret ...

Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends - Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave....

British English Hapu lives in Ancient Egypt. Hapus father is ill, but they havent got any money for a doctor. Hapu makes a beautiful necklace for Queen Cleopatra and takes it to her. But a guard says,...

Penguim Active Reading provides reading and language learning at five levels, through full-dolour, beautofully illustrated Readers. As well enjoyable stories and texts, each book provides a range of i...

Maisie King lives in the Bahamas. Her mother and father work at an Animal Hospital. Maisie has a new friend. His name is Ben and hes a dolphin. Ben is very ill. Maisie helps him. Then Maisie has a big...

Sicilia, anno 1076. A quel tempo l´isola era giudata dai Normanni, popolazione di guerrieri nordici. Nella bella città di Palermo, latini e greci, arabi e cristiani, europei e africani vivono fianco a...

After dinner we turned the lights out and played "hide-and-seek". In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person ...

"England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens, Mary the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to b...

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no wa...

"You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy´s place and no one will ever know the difference. You´ll be rich for life!" And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the ide...

When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in ...

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student´s cap...

Fifteen-year old John renchard lives in a quiet village. But after dark, Moonfleet is a village with secrets. A dead man walks the streets, and smugglers do their work. When John accidentally learns a...

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Me...

Kate Grant comes from Canada. She is visiting Europe with her mother and father. One evening she sees two men in a museum. They are taking a very famous pictureGirl with a Pearl Ear-ring. What can Kat...

Norma is always right. But has she got the right train tickets What happens when Mrs Roberts has coffee with Mrs Price And is David ready for his wedding The answers are in these six sketches.

This is a 6 level series of readers for children learning English, bringing together a variety of enjoyable fiction and non=fiction titles. The series provides reinforcement of the basic structures an...

This is one of six short stories with plenty of activities for children to do as and after they read, encouraging them to become active readers. A picture dictionary and project ideas are provided at ...

This is a 6 level series of readers for children learning English, bringing together a variety of enjoyable fiction and non=fiction titles. The series provides reinforcement of the basic structures an...

Hannah loves her job on old Mr Duvals small boat. The boat takes people to the beautiful coral reef every day. Then a rich man arrives with a big new boat. Suddenly, there isnt any work for Hannah and...

Billy and his sister want new bicycles, but they don’t have any money. Then their grandmother has an idea. There’s a competition in Palace magazine. The first prize is £500. ‘What do you think?’ Billy...

Contemporary British English Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that its better not to tell. But its just as dangerous ...

Contemporary British English Aldous Huxleys Brave New World is one of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific method...

Pedro Calderón de la Barca, notable dramaturgo del Siglo de Oro español, propone, en LA VIDA ES UN SUEÑO, el mundo como teatro, la "vanidad de los bienes terrenales" y la debilidad de la ostentación. ...

Original British English Joanna Jimbuku is a nurse in Australia. She works with a Flying Doctor. One day a baby is very ill. Joanna takes the baby to Sydney. Its her first visit to a big city, and sh...

Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him. But the spy is there too. Simon and the police cant s...

Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. One evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting the Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the pai...