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...

Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious speckled band, a family who think that fiv...

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...

These nine stories will take the reader on an exciting journey to distant cultures and times. The collection includes folktales from South America, Africa, India, China, and Europe.

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...

Original British English Felix is not a happy bird. He comes from Brazil but he doesnt live there. He lives in New York in a cage. Then one day his cage opens and Felix says goodbye to New York. Can ...

Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. I know this stone, he thinks. It comes from from ... Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beaut...

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...

Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him. In...

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...

Danuta, Pablo and Ling are not happy. They live on Mars and there are no visitors to their planet. Why not Mars isnt boring What can they do Ling has an answer...

British English Tommy Grant is a taxi driver. One morning his boss telephones him. Can you be at the Ritz hotel at 9 oclock he asks. The 12-year-old son of a film star is in London. His name is Dino. ...

British English Katy and her boyfriend Tom are happy in their band, Steel City. But then Tom gets a new guitar and the trouble begins. Suddenly he can play very well, but he seems to be a different pe...

For six years, Vers has lived as a Kree on their planet, Hala. Now a trained soldier, she joins a team fighting with the Kree against their enemies, the Skrulls. But Vers has terrible, frightening dre...

Thanos, a cruel, violent warlord, is searching the universe for the Infinity Stones, which will give him unbelievable power and allow him to achieve an unspeakably evil goal. The greatest super heroes...

Sons of Scotland You have come here to fight as free men. If you fight, perhapsyoull die. If you run, you may live for a time. But at what cost Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, who gave hop...

Eight inspiring true stories of people showing great courage in the face of incredible difficulties. Read about the real Erin Brockovich, an incredible escape from death in Africa, Cubas bravest runne...

nn Darrow is an actor with no work and no money. Carl Denham wants to make a moviebut not in the United States. A long, long way from New York there is an island. and on that island lives the giant Ki...

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...

Duncan McTavish lives in a castle on a Scottish island. He doesnt have any money, and he cant pay a large bill. There is only one thing he can do sell his island.

Part of the Penguin Active Reading series, this book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work.

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...

The Avengers are superheroes with very special powers who defend the world against its enemies. Recently, though, they have made mistakes. Governments decide that the team will need permission for fut...

kim loves running and shes very fast. She works hard at the athletics club and wins more and more prizes. But Kim has to make a difficult choice and she knows that it will hurt the people who love h...

Part of the Penguin Active Reading series, this book provides a range of integrated activities designed to develop reading skills and consolidate vocabulary, and offers personalised project work.

Water. We drink it. We cook with it. We wash with it. We cant live without it. Most of us dont think about it much. But it is not there for everybody, and our world is changing fast. We have to think ...

Original British English For a number of years, William plays a game with a ghost before he goes to sleep. The ghost is a poltergeist that William calls Poldy. At the beginning William and Poldy play...

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...

Thanos, a cruel, violent warlord, has used the Infinity Stones to destroy half of all life in the universe. The remaining Avengers feel guilt and pain at the loss of so many lives. Is there anything t...

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...

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,...

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...