Pre-intermediate

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.

The Oxford Bookworms Library offers high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience, with a world wide range of classic and modern fiction, non-fiction and plays. Bookworms include original and adapted texts in seven carefully graded lan

'Could Johnny English became Britain's best secret agent again?'

After many years in Tibet, Johnny English is back in London, ready for adventure! M17 needs him again for a very important task. Who or what is Vortex and can Johnny stopthem before they kill the Chinese Premier?

- With Fact Files on the stars, film spies and Tibet.

Scholastic Readers are a series of contemporary film and TV adaptations, original teenage fiction, and a classic literature, simplified for students of English. Each title is especially chosen to motivate and engage teenage classes, and the magazine-style Fact Files explore the themes raised in each story, as well as providing contextual background.

The Olympic Games are the most famous sporting event in the world, but how much do you know about their history? In this Macmillan Reader, Rachel Bladon describes the games’ beginnings back in ancient Greece to the billion-dollar international event that they have become in the present day.

In the early 1970s, a young Scottish doctor goes to work in Uganda. Then he meets President Idi Amin, a dangerous, crazy man. His new boss is a killer - frihgtening but, to the young doctor, also in a strange way wonderful. Nicholas should leave, bu he can´t. So how will his story end?

On January 20th, 2009, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States of America. He is the first African-American to be president of one of the most powerful countries in the world.

Read about Barack Obama’s life before he became President – his early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, his Kenyan and his American roots, and his decision to run for President.

This range of Scholastic ELT readers reflects a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics like Billy Elliot and Angela’s Ashes.

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Orphaned as a young child, Jane Eyre has an unhappy start to life living with her cruel aunt and cousins and later enduring the hardships of Lowood school. After taking up a post as a governess, her life begins to improve, helped by her growing friendship with Mr Rochester, her surly employer. But can she achieve true happiness in a place filled with dark secrets?

With Fact Files on Charlotte Brontë, and women and children in Victorian England.

This range of Scholastic ELT readers reflects a world that teenagers will instantly recognise. It includes popular films and TV series and coming-of-age classics like Billy Elliot and Angela’s Ashes.

Inspiring full-colour graphics attract your

Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal.

Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories - some are funny, some are sad, but all are unforgettable. Everybody should have a friend like Red Dog.

For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die.

One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting...

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with. It means the end for many animals, people, even whole islands - but will this happen soon, or hundreds of years from now?

What is the true story about climate change? Why is it happening, and what can we do about it? If we learn about the past, then perhaps there will be time to make changes for the future...

Read and discover more about the world...

These motivating non-fiction readers are rich in content and beautifully illustrated. Fascinating information in carefully graded language appeals to a broad range of students and support English across the curriculum, which makes the series perfect for CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning).

Stunning colour photos, with maps, diagrams and charts support understanding, while activities and projects develop language and critical thinking skills.

- Fascinating information will appeal to a broad range of students
- Beautiful photos support understanding
- Clean signposting takes the students to activity pages
- Activity pages at the back allow uninterrupted reading<b