Libros de Lecturas graduadas de inglés 3120 resultados

Bassett, Jennifer

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long...

Vicary, Tim

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him `The Elephant Man`. someone speaks to him and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film. ...

Escott, John

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café. in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She`s young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick `Mr Hollywood`? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table the man with short whit...

Border, Rosmary

Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventythree years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lotter...

Akinyemi , Rowena

It is Molly Clarkson`s fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die. But one person can`t wait. And so, on her fi...

Wymark Jacobs, William

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal –. a monkey`s paw. Outside, in the dark, the visit...

Vicary, Tim

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. `Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you`re a dead man!` he says. The mutiny on th...

Lindop, Christrine

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn`t. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some sa...

Bassett, Jennifer

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast,...

Bassett, Jennifer

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. St...

Bassett, Jennifer

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom the singers, the dancers, the di...

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, and someone kills his trainer. ...

Escott, John

Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that ...

Akinyemi , Rowena

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . . In a colony under the moon, people wait for news news from home, news from the planet Ea...

Vicary, Tom

Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they ...

Akinyemi , Rowena

Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it . . . and a few weeks later you are dead. Today, of course, most people don`t believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot...

Hardy, Thomas

A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no weddingring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It`s an old story. Yes, it`s an old, old story. It happens all the time today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don`t change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern...

Baum, L. Frank

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country`s famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to f...

Bates, H.e.

A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watching and waiting . . . In these three short stories, H. E. Bates presents ordinary people like you and me. But as we get to know them better, we see that their feelings are not at...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

`I ran to the side of the ship. Help, help! Murder! I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head. I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground . . .` And so begin David Balfour`s adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many dangers. He also meets a fri...

Cresswell, Helen

'Moondial!' As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears - and the voices and the wind went away. Minty opened her eyes . . . and knew that she was in a different morning, not the one she had woken up to. And so Minty's strange adventure begins - a journey throug...

Cross, Gillian

When Tug wakes up, he is not in his own bedroom at home. The door is locked and there are bars across the window. Loud music hammers through the house and through his head. Then a woman comes in and says that she is his mother, but Tug knows that she is not his mother . . . Outside, Jinny stares through the trees at the lonely house on the hill. She hears strange noises, but sh...

Cookson, Catherine

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks` time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he`s too young to leave home he must stay in the town and get a job in shipbuilding, like his father. They also say he can`t go on a camping holiday with his friends. And they say he can`t keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson ba...

Boston, Lucy M.

When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in a cage, behind bars and locked doors? Then Hanno escapes from the zoo. And a few days later his footprints are seen near Green Knowe, the old house deep in the English countryside whe...

Vv.aa.

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes. ...

Bennett, Arnold

Every town should have a `card` someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a `card`: Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twentythree pence a week. But before he`s thirty, he`s made a lot of money, and had more adventures than ...

Trease, Geoffrey

High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer passes, Alexis writes his play for the next year's Festival. But then, with his friend Corinna, he learns that Athens has enemies - enemies who do not like Athenian democracy, and who are ...

Carroll, Lewis

There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, `Who are you?`()What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbithole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter`s tea party, pl...

Montgomery, Lucy Maud

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.()They didn`t want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canad...

Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville`s family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost because of course Americans don`t believe in ghosts.()The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. Bu...