Originally published as The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry. "Who the hell are you?" A.J. asks the baby. For no apparent reason, she stops crying and smiles at him. "Maya," she answers. That was easy, A.J. thinks. "How old are you?" he asks. Maya holds up two fingers. "You're two?" Maya smiles again and holds up her arms to him." A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and a prized rare first edition has been stolen. But one day A.J. finds two-year-old Maya sitting on the bookshop floor, with a note attached to her asking the owner to look after her. His life - and Maya's - is changed forever.

Contents:
Marco Polo who taught the world about China
Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries
Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds
James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions
David Livingstone who explored Africa
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 14,679
Headword count: 1,163

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 3 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 3 is equivalent to CEF lev

Contents:
Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature
William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history
Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place
Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor
Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace
Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 12,886
Headword count: 1,039

Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

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Contents:
Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona Lisa
Christopher Wren who rebuilt London
Antoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Pablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painter
Frida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artist

BRITISH ENGLISH
Word count: 10,172
Headword count: 941
Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.
PLUS: visit www.collinselt.com/readers for videos, teacher resources and self-study materials.

This book is Level 2 in the Collins ELT Readers series.
Level 2 is equivalent to CEF level A2–B1.

About the Amazing People series:
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