American English Available February 2008 O. Henrys stories are very famous. He writes about New York, Texas, Oklahoma ... Money and love are often problems. But how is a story going to finish You neve...

Marcel and his friend Céline are on holiday in Los Angeles. They are staying in the home of Arnold Waldman, a famous film director. But on the first night of their holiday, kidnappers take away Arnold...

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...

Sephy Hadley and Callum McGregor are two young people in love. But Sephy is a Cross, daughter of a government minister, and Callum is a Nought. In their world, Crosses and Noughts cannot be friends. M...

William Tell is a good man, but his country is a dangerous place. The Swiss people dont like the Austrian emperor or his governor in Switzerland. Can William Tell help them in their fight with the Aus...

Contemporary American English Apollo 13 is an exciting movie - and a true story It is Monday, April 13, 1970 and Apollo 13 is flying to the Moon. Suddenly, something goes wrong. The ship is losing po...

Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she Why does a dead man walk through his house each night An old woman has a house with a tower. Why doe...

Classic British English 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...

Original American English The Amazon Rain Forest is the largest rain forest in the world. It is 10,000,000 years old and many different kinds of plants and animals live here. The forest is important ...

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...

Classic / British EnglishMacbeth, a brave soldier, is trusted by the Scottish king. Then a strange meeting with three witches makes him greedy for power. Macbeth wants to be king. He and his evil wife...

Contemporary American English Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonyas father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him...

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, ...

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...

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.

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...

Original British EnglishA girl sees a quiet good-looking boy on the boat to Spain. She loves his shy smile and she wants to see him again. The boy wants to be with her too, but there are problems. Ca...

On the beach near Nicks home there is a surfing competition with a big prize. Nick is a very good surfer. He wants to win the prize and go to Australia. But Nicks father is not happy. Can Nick win the...

Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind hi...

Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead just outside his home, Baskerville Hall. Many of the Baskerville family have died mysteriously. People say that they were killed by a gigantic devil-like creature...

Jim Hawkins and his parents have a quiet inn by the sea. Then one day, an old sailor arrives at the inn. What is he afraid of Dangerous men come to the inn. Jims quiet life changes, and he goes across...

It was the quiet ones you had to watch. Thats where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take ...

A story by Stephen King the master of horror. Paul Sheldon is Annie Wilkes´s favourite writer. She loves all his books about Misery Chastain. When Annie finds Paul after a car accident, she takes him ...

Original British English Available May 2008 Ali wants to take photos of people and places in Istanbul, but he has a big problem. He hasnt got a camera. How can he get one

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...

Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlies cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman, his future and that of L...

Original American English Most people around the world today know something about American life. The United States is a big country. Not all Americans are the same In this book you will see the many ...

Classic British English The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who ha...

British English It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hide. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best - until the...

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.