Libros de Lecturas graduadas de inglés 3120 resultados

Wallace, Randall

Sons of Scotland! You have come here to fight as free men. If you fight, perhaps you?ll die. If you run, you may live for a time. But at what cost?? Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, who gave hope to Scottish people in their fight to be free. ...

Cox, Alwyn

Four members of a team making a geological survey for a mining company find themselves trapped deep in a forest when they are delayed by heavy rains. Can Leon successfully lead them to safety? ...

Dickens, Charles

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 try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape to find a better life? ...

Vance Marshall, James

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 teacher. But what did she teach them? And did they listen? ...

Dainty, Peter

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said `No!` He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirtynine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to ...

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1848)

Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting . . . In these sto...

Bennett, Arnold

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There`s Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he f...

Hardy, Thomas

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he`s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the ninetee...

Lawrence, D.h.

It is haymaking time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From th...

West, Clare

`Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.` In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years . . . Bo...

West, Clare

'At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air.' Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories. The stories in this volume of World Stori...

West, Clare

'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lank...

Conrad, Joseph

A hundred years ago a seaman`s life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures and the chance to show the world what a hero he is. But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test...

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

At nineteen Anne Elliot refuses an offer of marriage from Frederick Wentworth, persuaded to do so by Lady Russell, a friend of her dead mother. Wentworth is a sailor, with no money and an uncertain future, says Lady Russell just a nobody, certainly not worthy of a baronet`s daughter. Eight years later Wentworth returns, a rich and successful captain, looking for a wife. Anne ...

Ford, Martyn

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous? Perhaps you hear that...

Lindor, Christine

Nani Tama looked at each of us Dad, Auntie Hiraina, my cousin Timi, and myself. His eyes were angry. `You fullas want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four walls? When the whakapapa is not yet finished?` But Nani Tama gets his own way, and his grandson drives him through the night, to find the missing pieces from the family history. The stories in this volume of ...

National Geographic

Hornby, Nick

Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus ? an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic ? a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It?s also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant. ...

Rabley, Stephen

Lectura graduada sobre un niño en el Antiguo Egipto que busca ayuda para su padre enfermo. Incluye CD. 64 páginas.La mirada de Luces: Perfecto para jóvenes aprendices de inglés que buscan una lectura emocionante. ...

Chaucer, Geoffrey

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the greatest works in English literature. The tales are told by a group of pilgrims going to Canterbury who meet at an inn in London and decide to take part in a game. The one who tells the best story will be given a free meal at the inn. ...

Smith, Bernard

Pam and Martin visit Cambridge. Pam takes a photo, but a man walks in front of her. Later Martin sees a picture of a man in a newspaper. The police want this man. Is he the same man? And where is he now? Does Pam?s photo have the answers? ...

Dickens, Charles

Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn?t like people. He really doesn?t like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change? ...

Rabley, Stephen

Holly and her brothers go to Barcelona for a football game. First, Holly wants to see famous places in the city, but her brothers want to go to a funfair. Then a man takes Holly?s bag, and the tickets for the game are in it! ...

Dickens, Charles

David Copperfield's happy life suddenly changes when his mother marries again. Her new husband is cruel to him and sends him away to school. When David's mother dies, he is sent to work in London. He hates his job so he runs away. He has no money for food or for travelling. But it is the beginning of his life of adventure. ...

Rabley, Stephen

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 painting back again. ...

Verne, Jules

Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? He doesn?t know that somebody wants to stop him. Then Fogg will lose his bet ? twenty thousand pounds! ...

Escott, John

Bernardo likes hats. One day he buys a new hat at a street market and people laugh at it. "Why do you want another hat, Bernardo?" his wife says to him. "You have twenty." But what can she do? ...

Rabley, Stephen

Tommy Grant is a taxi driver. One morning his boss telephones him. ‘Can you be at the Ritz hotel at 9 o'clock?' he asks. The 12-year-old son of a film star is in London. His name is Dino. ‘Be very nice to the boy,' Tommy's boss says. ...

Shipton, Vicky

We all know Daniel Radcliffe's face from the Harry Potter films. But how did he get the job? Did he always want to be an actor? And what did he do before Harry Potter? This is the story of Daniel's young life. ...

Twain, Mark

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. Who does he see in those places?and why is he afraid? ...