Penguin Readers & Pearson English Readers (1200 headwords)

Quasimodo is gentle and kind, but his body is ugly and deformed. Lonely and sad, he hides from the world. But then he meets Esmeralda, a beautiful, innocent, young girl who is running for her life.

Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?

Edward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes interested in the mystery of Montgomery's life. Why does he live on an unknown Pacific island? Why is he taking animals there? And should Prendick fear the dark secrets of Montgomery's master the even more mysterious Doctor Moreau?

Classic / British English

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?

Sephy Hadley and Callum McGregor are two young people who fall in love. But Sephy is a Cross, the daughter of a government minister, and Callum is a nought. In their world, Crosses and noughts cannot be friends. Must they become enemies? Or is there hope for them - and for their unhappy country?

British English

Some people choose adventure. Other suddenly find themselves in danger in their ordinary lives. This book tells the true stiries of survivors. Ib the cold od Antarctice or the heat of the Sahara Desert, in the wide Atlantic Ocean or a small Rwandan bathroom, these people have known terrible suffering - but have lived.

American English

Lord Cutler Beckett wants to command the oceans and put an end to pirates. The Pirate Lords have other ideas. Follow William Turner, Elizabeth Swann and the crew of the Black Pearl as travel to World's End to rescue Jack Sparrow and save the pirates of the Caribbean. American English

‘It was the seventh day of the storm. We didn’t know where we were. Everyone on the ship believed that death was very near.’ The Robinson family do not die at sea; they find their way to a small island. But what can they do now? Where will they live? What will they eat? Luckily, the father and their mother have useful skills and they can teach their four young sons. But how long will they be there, on the island?