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George Orwell, Bibliographic antecedent ; Michael Dean, Adapter | New York; London; Madrid : Penguin Books | Penguin Readers | 2003Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's[...]
Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be someth[...]
Harriet Muncaster, Author ; Vanesa Pérez-Sauquillo, Translator | Barcelona (Spain) : Penguin Random House | 2019Su mamá es un hada, su papá un vampiro y ella tiene un poquito de los dos. Así que, cuando su amiga Zoe la invita a su fiesta de pijamas, Isadora está encantada: ¡nunca ha ido a una! Zoe e Isadora jugarán a disfrazarse, harán una tarta y cont[...]
Las abejas autóctonas de América Central son muy importantes para los granjeros, los bosques tropicales y la producción de alimentos. Sin embargo, una nueva especie de abeja muy agresiva está invadiendo esta selva. ¿Qué pasará con las abejas aut[...]
What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's... ' But they are usually wrong, be[...]
Amy Randall, una periodista inglesa, viaja por diferentes países de Latinoamérica, desde México hasta la Isla de Pascua en Chile. Particicipa n el carnaval de Humahueaca (Argentina) y en el de Santiago (Cuba), toca los tambores la noche de San [...]
Alexander the Great became king of Macedonia at the age of twenty. When he died, twelve years later, he ruled the biggest empire that the world had ever known. Many people died as he and his army fought their way east. But he became a hero to ma[...]
Read these five amusing stories and you will discover why elephants have trunks, how it's best to work out the correct price for pigs traight away and what happened to an English lady when she went hunting for a tiger! You will also find a stole[...]
Carolyn Walker, Author | Cambridge; New York; Madrid : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge English readers: Level 3 | 2006Award-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. Talk in the local pub is of strang[...]
Anthony smiled at the girl and she looked into his clear, blue eyes. Gloria was beautiful. She was shining with beauty. Her golden hair shone like sunshine. Her eyes were grey and very cool. 'Hello, Anthony Patch,' Gloria said. 'I think that's[...]
"Opposites go together. Just ask Ashley Sanchez (Ash) and Ashlee Taylor (Lee), who have been best friends forever. Ash is messy as can be, and Lee likes things neat and tidy. Ash loves sports and Lee prefers dance. Ash doesn't like chocolate, bu[...]
Anna Sewell, Author ; Alan Marks, Illustrator | London (United Kingdom) : Usborne | Usborne Young Reading | 2008When the young Black Beauty is sold, he has no idea of the hardships he's about to face. Read his story in his own words as Black Beauty overcomes danger and cruelty, working at everything from pulling cabs in a smog-filled city to carriages in [...]
Osiris held up the blue scarab. "This is what we will use to speak to the living. Through this the souls of the dead will be judged. We hope that the living will understand what we say..." When Monica found out the importance of what she had han[...]
Arthur Conan Doyle, Bibliographic antecedent | Madrid : McGraw-Hill, Interamericana de España | Picture readers | [2006]In 1875, there is a murder in beautiful Boscombe Valley, between England and Wales. James McCarthy, the murdered man's son, is in prison for the crime. his friend, Alice Turner, believes he is innocent and she tells Inspector Lestrade to send fo[...]
Buchi Emecheta ; Deborah Loftus ; Rosemary Border, Author | Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008; Readers (Adult) ; English language -- Readers ; Africa -- Fiction ; Colonies -- Fiction ; Women-Social conditions -- Fiction ; Love stories ; Realism (Literature) ; Grades 8-10 ; B1When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is [...]
