Libros de Lecturas graduadas de inglés 3120 resultados

Mansfield, Katherine

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealan...

Border, Rosemary

After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! ...

Mcbain, Ed

'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instead of ...

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no time for dull common sense or for middleaged men of thirtyfive, long past the age of marriage. True love can only be felt by t...

Vv.aa.

'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seve...

Bagley, Desmond

On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throws acid into her face. Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why ha...

Brontë, Charlotte (1816-1855)

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt`s family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once....

Austen, Jane (1775-1817)

`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 ...

Hardy, Thomas

A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a good worker. but she is uneducated and does not know the cruel ways of the world. So, when a rich young man says he loves her, she is careful but not careful enough. He is persuasive, and she is overwhelmed. It is not her fault, but the world says it is. Her young life is already stained ...

Waring, Rob

Waring, Rob

Waring, Rob

Waring, Rob

Waring, Rob

Rose, Mary

Dolphin Readers are an exciting and varied series of readers for young learners. Covering a range of topics, both fiction and non-fiction, they are available at five levels.Starter level contains 175 Headwords. ...

Brooke, Rebecca

Waring, Rob

Sanaa is a beautiful old city in the Middle East. In Sanaa, it is a tradition to carry beautiful knives, or tools, called `jambiya.` An unusual animal called a `rhinoceros` is often killed to make these knives. How can people keep their tradition and save the rhinoceros? ...

Waring, Rob

Cheju, South Korea, is known for its traditional women divers. They have long dived into the ocean to look for seafood. It`s dangerous, but there were no other jobs available. Now, women in Cheju have more choices. What jobs can they do? What will happen to the Cheju divers? ...

Waring, Rob

In Thailand, boxing is an important sport. Thai boys start training to become boxers at a very young age. They all want to win and become the best. a real champion. Thai boxing offers these boys many opportunities. Why is boxing so important? What makes a champion? ...

Waring, Rob

. In southern Africa, there is a group of people called `Bushmen.` These people know a lot about wild animals. However, sometimes the Bushmen cannot tell others about the animals, because they don`t speak the same language. How can the Bushmen share what they know? ...

Waring, Rob

The Foundation Reading Library is an exciting new sevenlevel series that includes six books per level of graded readers written specially to meet the needs younger learners beginning to read in English. The carefully crafted, ageappropriate stories revolve around a group of teenage characters living in a small US town, and the adventures they have. In the Foundation Reading Lib...

Waring, Rob

The Foundation Reading Library is an exciting new sevenlevel series that includes six books per level of graded readers written specially to meet the needs younger learners beginning to read in English. The carefully crafted, ageappropriate stories revolve around a group of teenage characters living in a small US town, and the adventures they have. In the Foundation Reading Lib...

Waring, Rob

In the Arctic Ocean, a baby whale goes too close to land. It cannot get back to the water. A group of whales are trapped by moving ice. They cannot get back to open water. Will the whales find safety before it`s too late? ...

Waring, Rob

Elephants are social animals. In nature, they live happily in family groups. However, people sometimes use elephants for work or put them in zoos. What can people do to make these elephants healthy and happy? How can they stay that way? ...

Waring, Rob

In parts of Thailand, monkeys are important animals. They are allowed to do anything they want to do. In the town of Lopburi, the people even have a party for the monkeys every year! What kind of party do the people of Lopburi have? Why do they have it? ...

Waring, Rob

Essaouira is a beautiful old town by the sea. Most local people there are fishermen. However, the number of fish has gone down. Now, there are not as many jobs for the people. How will the fishermen make money to live? What will happen to the town? ...

Waring, Rob

The Orinoco River is one of the longest rivers in the world. Many lives depend on this river. Many people, animals and plants live in or near the water. However, things are changing on the Orinoco. Why? What will happen to life on the Orinoco? ...

Waring, Rob

Australia`s Aboriginal culture is one of the oldest in the world. Aboriginal people have painted pictures of a story called `Dreamtime` for years. These paintings are famous and very valuable. What is the Dreamtime story? Who are the Dreamtime painters? ...

Waring, Rob

. Many people visit Alaska to see the beautiful national parks. One group of visitors wants to fly into a national park and go skiiing. However, the weather turns bad. Will the visitors be able to get to the park? What will they do there? ...

Waring, Rob

Camogli is a small town in Italy. People there paint in a special style called `trompe l`oeil.` These paintings are so good, viewers think they`re real things, but they`re not. They`re paintings! What things are real in Camogli? What things are actually paintings? ...