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Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'Be careful with Morfran,' Princess Adhan tells her young son, Merlin.Mordan, the son of the Echantress Ceridwen, is a bully. The one day, Merlin drinks one of Ceridwen's magic potions. After this, he can become different animals, see through walls, change the weather, and look into the future. But Morfran is angry with Merlin when Ceridwen dies. Years later, Morfran - now King Vortigern's magician - plans to kill Merlin, the boy with no father. How can Merlin's magic power help him to fight his old enemy?

here is going to be a big storm and Jenny's son John loves storms. John counts the seconds between the thunder and the lightning, this tells him how far away the lightning is. Their dog, Patty, is scared because thunder is louder for dogs! Do you know how hailstones form? How to stay safe on a tornado? Why sandstorms are so dangerous? Or how big a hurricane can be? John does and now you can too.

When we are happy we are always good says Lord Henry but when we are good we are not always happy. Lord Henry s lazy clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven even murder if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.

Ten short stories about a boy's childhood in the 1950s provide an insight into what it was like growing up in the post-war years. Stories include: The Balacava Story and notes; The Christmas Party and notes; The Long Walk and notes; The Holiday and notes; The Gang-hut and notes; The Fib and notes; The Firework Display and notes; The Mile and notes; The Foursome and notes; The Exam and notes.

Sarny, a twelve-year-old slave on a plantation in1850's America, is drawn to a new field hand, Nightjohn, when she hears about his past. Having escaped north to freedom, Nightjohn has now returned, his goal to secretly teach his fellow slaves how to read and write. Risking everything, Sarny embarks with Nightjohn on a quest for knowledge and freedom.

A non-fiction book, ideal for intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen at the same time as reading.You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it? In fact, your body is hard at work. Your lungs are taking oxygen from the air, and your heart is pumping blood round your body. Millions of pieces of information are travelling backwards and forwards to your brain all the time. Muscles are repairing themselves, and in your lymph nodes special cells are cleaning germs and waste from the body. You may think that nothing is happening, but in the extraordinary machine that is the human body, it is very busy indeed ...

Scott Fitzgeralds third novel was published in 1925 and has justifiably become a 20th century literary classic. Gatsby? asked Daisy urgently. What Gatsby? Could it be the same young army lieutenant whom Daisy Fay met five years ago and who owns a sumptuous house on Long Island, where New York society enjoys the best parties on offer? Is it just coincidence that Gatsby lives across the bay from Daisy now married to wealthy polo-player Tom Buchanan? As one mans mysterious dream moves towards its ultimately tragic conclusion, Midwesterner Nick Carraway is drawn into the dark world of Gatsbys past and present a world of hidden frustrations and superficial relationships which perfectly illustrates the careless and confused nature of Americas Jazz Age.

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

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This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.Familiar characters appeal to children''s imagination.Audio, available in British or American English.Glossary with illustrations and examples.Activities and puzzles encourage students to look more closely at the text.Activity Books offer extra language practice.Big Books for selected titles.

Sixteen-year-old Chanda Kabelo, living in sub-Saharan Africa, knows only too well the truth behind the secret people are trying to keep hidden: that all around her people are dying because of AIDS. When her young stepsister dies, Chanda takes charge, organising the funeral for her grief-stricken mother. But Chanda remains a girl like any other, with hopes, worries and secrets of her own. Can she stay strong while helping her family to survive in the face of this tragedy?

The Activity Book and Play offers a range of extra writing exercises, helping you to make the most of the language presented in each Classic Tale.The short play re-uses the same language in the story. Students can perform the play for the rest of the class, for other classes, or even the whole school. The play can also be used for a parents'' evening or drama competition.This richly illustrated series of retold fairy tales for children aged 5-12 years old will bring an extra dimension to your English teaching.With listening, speaking, reading, writing, and drama activities, Classic Tales graded readers make it easy for you to create complete language lessons around a popular and engaging traditional tale.Familiar characters appeal to children''s imagination.Audio, available in British or American English.Glossary with illustrations and examples.Activities and puzzles encourage students to look more closely at the text.Activity Books offer extra language practice.Big Books for selected titles.

Ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'There's going to be a storm,' Father told Fritz. 'Find your brothers and bring them to our room.'A Swiss family are going to Australia when their ship sinks in a storm. After that, Mother, Father, Fritz, Hans, Ernst, and little Franz must make their home on a Pacific Island. Like Robinson Crusoe, they have many exciting times on the island, and they learn a lot about its animals and plants. But do they always want to stay there, or are they going to leave one day?

My Friends works the diversity among friends thus the physical, the way to be, or culture ... With friends we have many things in common, but the features are what make us unique and set us apart from others.My Friends trabaja la diversidad entre amigos tanto sea por el fisico, la forma de ser, o la cultura Con los amigos tenemos muchas cosas en comun, pero las peculiaridades son las que nos hacen unicos y nos diferencian de los demas.

Ideal for intermediate and more confident learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.Elizabeth Gilbert, a successful writer, had everything - a husband, friends, a big house in New York. But one day she realized she did not want any of it. A new relationship brought more heartbreak, deep depression followed, and in desperation, she started to pray. She decided to spend a year without any new relationships, and to travel in Italy, India, and Indonesia, searching for meaning in his life.This memoir is the true story of her journey of discovery through pleasure, religion, and back to love again. It has also been made into a major movie.

Ideal for new learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.One cold winter morning, a famous movie star and her teenage daughter are driving along a country road ...A blue van is waiting for them. Tom is in the van, but he's not a kidnapper - he's an artist. He usually draws pictures for adventure stories. Now he's in a real life adventure.

Comedy, Jack Rosenthal believes, is the best way to learn the truth about ourselves. But this collection of very funny TV Plays also has an underlying theme -- loneliness. The volume makes and excellent introduction to the study of media texts and includes an introductory conversation with the writer.

Heart of Darkness is classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the 100 best novels and part of the Western canon. Marlow, a man who has spent his life at sea, tells the story of a journey up the River Congo which changed his life. His journey upriver to find Kurtz, the charismatic head of a colonial trading station, takes him into the very heart of Africa and leads Marlow to question both Kurtzs dubious methods and his own very nature. Conrads dark and powerfully evocative tale is a compelling study of inner conflict and a devastating critique of European imperialism.

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'The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,' said Elizabeth Bennet. And so Elizabeth rejects the proud Mr Darcy. Can nothing overcome her prejudice against him? And what of the other Bennet girls - their fortunes, and misfortunes, in the business of getting husbands? This famous novel by Jane Austen is full of wise and humorous observation of the people and manners of her times.