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Penguin Readers Easystarts: Tinker`s Island

Stephen Rabley

Original / British English (Available February 2008) It`s 1798. Sam Tinker and his daughter Jenny live in London. One day a thief puts a watch in Sam`s hand. Take this,` he says, and runs away. Two policemen see the...

Penguin Quick Guides Common Errors in English

Hancock, Paul

Penguin Readers 2: The Room in the Tower and Other Ghost Stories

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) 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...

Penguin Readers Easystarts: Marcel and the Mona Lisa

Stephen Rabley

Original / British English 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...

Penguin Active Reading 3: Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Frankenstein is probably the most famous horror story in the world. Victor Frankenstein is a young scientist who creates a monster from parts of dead bodies. At first the monster looks for love and wants to be kind....

Penguin Readers 5: The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux

Classic / American English There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or...

Penguin Readers 4: The Time Machine

H. G. Wells

Classic / British English (Available February 2008) The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and...

Penguin Readers 4: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

Classic / British English An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the...

Penguin Readers 4: Lorna Doone

R.D. Blackmore

In 1673 young John Ridd meets a little girl called Lorna Doone. Seven years later they meet again, and fall in love. But the Doones are a family of robbers and murderers. One of them, Carver, killed John`s father and...

Penguin Readers 1: Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters

Stephen Rabley

Original / British English Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are...

Penguin Readers 3: British Life

Anne Collins

Original / British English Who are the British? This book will tell you about their lives, TV programmes, business, family, life, pets and the food. This is a book about real people and real life in Britain today.

Penguin Active Reading 1: Kylie Minogue

Liz Kilbey

Kylie Minogue was a star a famous singer with a lot of money and beautiful clothes. And then, in 2005, the music stopped. Kylie had cancer. People waited. And then she came back. Read her story, from her early days in...

Penguin Active Reading 1: The Rainbow Serpent

James Vance Marshall

In an old Australian story, the Rainbow Serpent opened her eyes and looked at the young Earth. There were no animals or birds, no rivers or trees. Then a Man and a Woman came, and the Rainbow Serpent was their...

Penguin Readers 3: Forrest Gump

Winston Groom

Contemporary / British English Everybody tells Forrest Gump that he`s an idiot. But he`s a great football player, and he plays the harmonica beautifully. He`s also a brave soldier. But can he ever marry the girl he...

Penguin Readers 1: Run for Your Life

Stephen Waller

Original / British English (Available February 2008) Kim is running through the streets of the old town. She is frightened. A man with dark eyes and a knife is looking for her. He is going to catch her. This holiday...

Penguin Readers 3: Matilda

Roald Dahl

Contemporary / British English Matilda is a clever and unusual little girl. But her parents aren`t interested in her, and the terrible head teacher at her school hates clever children. But Matilda finds a way to be...

Penguin Readers 2: The Birds

Du Maurier, Daphne

Contemporary / British English Nat and his family live near the sea. Nat watches the birds over the sea. Suddenly the weather is colder, and there is something strange about the birds. They are angry. They start to...

Penguin Active Reading 3: Japanese Ghost Stories

William Shakespeare, Lafcadio Hearn

A blind musician plays to the spirits of the dead. A priest is attacked by heads that have left their bodies. An old man meets a woman who has no face. Read these and many more strange, ghostly stories from old Japan...

Penguin Readers Easystarts: The Leopard and the Lighthouse

Anne Collins

Original / British English (Available February 2008) One day a leopard swims across the sea to Sindi. He is hungry and he is looking for food. He runs into an old lighthouse. The people of Sindi do not want the...

Penguin Readers 3: The Fugitive

J.M. Dillard, Richard Curtis

Contemporary / British English Why did a man with one arm go into Dr Richard Kimble`s house and murder his wife? The police think Kimble did it. Kimble is wrongly put in prison but escapes. He wants one thing to find...

Penguin Readers 3: My Fair Lady

Alan Jay Lerner

Contemporary / British English (Available February 2008) My Fair Lady is the story of a poor young flower-seller and a professor who doesn`t like women. The professor decides to teach the flower-seller to speak better...

Penguin Active Reading 4: Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

Oliver`s 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 Bill Sykes. They...

Penguin Readers 4: King Solomon`s Mines

H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and Allan Quatermain are travelling to the mysterious, unmapped heart of Africa. Sir Henry wants to find his missing brother. Quatermain wants to find King Solomon`s secret...

Penguin Readers 4: The Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

Contemporary / 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 they...

Penguin Readers 3: Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool

Arthur Conan Doyle

Classic / British English Who killed Charles McCarthy at Boscombe Pool? And why? Detective Lestrade from Scotland Yard thinks it was McCarthy`s son, James. Things do not look good for James. But the famous English...