Libros de Lecturas graduadas de inglés 3120 resultados

Marryat, Captain

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell`s men are fighting the King`s men. These are dangerous times for everybody.()The four Beverley children have no parents. their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell`s soldiers have come to burn the house with the children in it.()The four of them escape into the New Forest but ...

Stoker, Bram

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls.()In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he ...

Wright, Reg

Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him.()How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive gold earrings?()Only Richa...

Nesbit, Edith

When the children dug a hole in the gravelpit, they were very surprised at what they found. `It` was a Psammead, a sandfairy, thousands of years old.It was a strange little thing fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes one wish a day. `How wonderful!` the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They...

Vicary, Tim

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help only the wind.()How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the...

Kypling, Rudyard

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee WolfPack has a new cub. He is not a wolf he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the maneating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling`s famous story of Mowgli`s adventures in the...

Foreman , Peter

Allegra is an unusual name. It means `happy` in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose...

Christopher, John

As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long and dangerous journey through space. Ellen plans to stay on Earth, to change the way the human mind works. When Harl retu...

Gilbert, Harry

Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motorcar and drive it . . . very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the forest with the wild animals. H...

London, Jack

When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in ...

Tam, Amy

There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary ...

Wyndham, John

It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionally fall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds ...

Mac Lean, Alistair

On the Polar ice-cap, 640 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, the deadly, icy winds can freeze a man to death in minutes. But the survivors of the crashed airliner are lucky - they are rescued by three scientists from a nearby weather station. But why did the airliner crash in the first place? Who smashed the radio to pieces? And why does the dead pilot have a bullet hole in...

Hardy, Thomas

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd`s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night . . . In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us picture...

Carroll, Lewis

`I wish I could get through into lookingglass house,` Alice said. `Let`s pretend that the glass has gone soft and . . . Why, I do believe it has! It`s turning into a kind of cloud!` A moment later Alice is inside the lookingglass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks. The chess pieces talk and argue w...

Peyton, K.m.

Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team that he has chosen for the competition think Sam has gone crazy. 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?' says little Hoomey, his eyes round with horror. 'We'll never beat Greycoats,' the others cry. 'N...

Bagley, Desmond

Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wave from the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy house...

Pilkington Garimara, Doris

Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following...

Forester, C.s.

The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat. No one would expect a missionary`s sister and a rough, uneducated mechanic to take a boat like that down a dangerous river through the forests of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnutt do just that. Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a wild and crazy plan. She and Charli...

Chandler, Raymond

General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He's an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn't like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe knows the dark side of life in Los Angeles well, and nothing much surprises him. But the Sternwood girls are a lot wi...

Gaskell, Elizabeth

Life in the small English town of Cranford seems very quiet and peaceful. The ladies of Cranford lead tidy, regular lives. They make their visits between the hours of twelve and three, give little evening parties, and worry about their maidservants. But life is not always smooth there are little arguments and jealousies, sudden deaths and unexpected marriages . . . Mrs Gaskel...

Nabb, Magdalen

Una intrigante novela de misterio ambientada en Florencia, donde un asesinato ordinario se convierte en un caso complicado. 88 páginas.La mirada de Luces: Perfecto para quienes disfrutan de un buen misterio en un entorno cautivador como Florencia. ...

Leather, Sue

Lecturas graduadas en inglés sobre tres mujeres valientes en entornos extremos. 88 páginas. Ideal para mejorar el inglés de manera amena.La mirada de Luces: Para quienes desean practicar inglés con historias inspiradoras y emocionantes. ...

Wesley, Mary

In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry`s life miserable. `Poor Henry!` say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. `What an awful life he has!` But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to be. ...

Vv.aa.

In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost. Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring i...

Stewart, Mary

When Nicola arrives in Crete a day early, she gets more than just an extra day of holiday. She comes to a village where no one can be trusted, and she becomes involved in a murder mystery that puts her own life in danger. This story is set in a small village in the mountains of Crete. This is an island where people have strong feelings, where arguments begin suddenly, and end q...

Francis, Dick

People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to lose. Why? And what is the mystery about the photographer, George Millace, who has just died in a car crash? Philip Nore knows the answer to the first question, and he wants to find out ...

Serraillier, Ian

Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. 'This will bring me luck,' he said to Mr Balicki. 'And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me.' The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold, and afraid, the four children try to stay alive among the ruins of bombed cities in war-torn Europe. Soon they will begin th...

Clarke, Arthur C.

'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa . . .' And with the starship comes knowledge...

James, M.r.

If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don`t try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don`t blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don`t expect to sleep peacefully ever again. Read th...