Black Cat Readers

Text adaptation and activities by Kelly Reinhart

Adventure

Edward and Tom look alike - they’re identical! They both live in 15th-century London, but there is one difference: Edward is a prince and Tom is a pauper.
One day they meet and decide to play a game. Edward becomes a pauper and Tom becomes a prince. But something goes wrong, very wrong, and the two boys live some incredible and exciting adventures. Will Edward ever return to his palace and become King of England?

Dossier:
King Henry VIII

Exit test

Series:  Skladem (ihned expedujeme)

Picture Reader
Adapted by Derek Sellen

Human interest

Pip, a poor young boy, receives amazing news. Someone has given him a vast amount of money and wants to make him a gentleman. Who is his mysterious benefactor? Is it Miss Havisham, the strange lady who lives in an old house with the beautiful Estella? Life is full of surprises...

Dossiers:
Ladies and Getlemen
Transportation to Australia

Series: Green Apple | Level: <a href="http://www.blackcat-cideb.com/static/ga-step1.html?TB_iframe=true

Ghosts

What is the truth about ghosts and the supernatural? Do dead people really come back to haunt the world? Can an entire village be haunted? Can ghosts be photographed? Find out in this spine-chilling book that introduces you to some of the world's most ghastly ghosts and their macabre doings!

Dossier:
Halloween Apple Cake

Exit test

Series: Green Apple | Level: Step 1 | Exam:

Adventure

Sandokan and his fierce pirates rule the Malaysian Sea in the 1840s, and the British want to capture him. One day he meets Marianna, Lord James's young niece, and he is immediately attracted by her extraordinary beauty. And she is attracted by his great courage when he fights with a tiger and kills it.
Being the niece of the British commander, their love is impossible, but Sandokan and his friend, Yanez, make a daring plan to take Marianna away from her uncle.
Although Sandokan is captured by the British, he manages to escape and...

Dossiers:
Pirates
East Malaysia

Exit test
Series: Green Apple | Level: Starter | Exam: ket trinity

Karen, Sally and Alex are three teenagers who take a camping trip at Yellowstone National Park during a wolf alert. Two of the park’s wolves are missing and the three teens decide to look for them. Their trip becomes an exciting, yet dangerous adventure when they meet a hungry grizzly bear, an angry mountain lion and a herd of bison that destroy their tent. Will they ever solve the mystery of the missing wolves?

Dossiers
Yellowstone National Park; Wolves; Wyoming: the Cowboy State; The animals at Yellowstone

Max and Laura are involved in another mysterious case. This time a phantom thief seems to be able to get in and out of important museums in London stealing valuable paintings. Max and Laura decide to explore the area around one of the museums. Something very spooky is going to happen…

Dossier:
London museums
Travelling around London
Top five things to do in London