Macmillan Readers (1100 headwords)

Ed Malone - a young newspaper reporter - joins a team of explorers, headed by the eccentric Professor Challenger, who claims he has found a lost world where animals believed to have become extinct millions of years ago still survive. Are there really dinosaurs living deep in the Amazon jungle? Nakl. Macmillan klasifikuje úroveň angličtiny v této knize jako Elementary.

A new strand of readers focusing on countries and culture, with chapters on history, traditions, daily life, cities, nature and sport. This title provides an informative and entertaining overview of Brazilian history, culture, traditions and sport, and the events that have helped Brazil become one of the fast-developing ‘BRIC nations’. CD included.

Viking Tales is a collection of five short stories about the Vikings and their myths. In their world humans and Gods live side by side, along with angry giants and greedy elves. In this collection you will find out why it is very difficult to trap a giant wolf; who stole Thor’s hammer; who can play tricks even better than Loki, and more.

Three tales by one of the masters of horror-story writing: The Judge's House, The Iron Maiden and The Return of Abel Behena.

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr Watson, solve the strange cases of: The Blue Carbuncle, Silver Blaze and The Six Napoleons.

Tom is given a lift in a car by a middle-aged man and an attractive young girl. The man says he needs someone small and strong to recover his property from a sunken ship. Tom is attracted to the girl and the glamour of the job - diving for lost diamonds. But one man has already died trying to get the small plastic bags out of the cramped hold of the sunken ship.