Libros de Lecturas graduadas de inglés 3120 resultados

Sewell, Anna

When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they...

Jerome, K. Jerome

`I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.` With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends and Montmorency the dog decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, w...

Stevenson, Robert Louis

`Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! It was Long John Silver`s parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run . . .` But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England wit...

Swift, Jonathan

`Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.` But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horse...

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person the greatest detective of ...

Alcott, Louisa May

When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his `little women` when he comes hom...

Manning, Anthony

Fay loves making The Friends` Hour for Studio Five, but her boss Jason is always angry with her. One day, a young man Simon Jones phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend Wing stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends? ...

Bowler, Bill

Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible... The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him. ...

Johnson, Margaret / Prowse, Philip

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities. Tess and Grant are tour leaders for a group walking holiday in France. And they don't get on at all. Tess is an artist and a dreamer, whose father owns the tour company...

Verbracken, Judith Ann

¿Tiene a veces tanto lío en su cabeza a causa del inglés que le impide hablar cualquier idioma con fluidez? ¿Tiene a veces la sensación que nunca va a saber suficiente inglés y quizás sea la hora de tirar la toalla? Si ha contestado «sí» a una o a ambas de estas preguntas entonces 1 don t speak english... pero me gustaría es el libro ideal para usted. Este libro, de tipo guía,...

Hannam, Joyce

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn`t she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but there a...

Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1848)

The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe...

Harmon, Dan

Powell, Claire