Bookworms

Egyszerűsített szövegű - rövidített kiadás nyelvtanulóknak.

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 96, Kiadó: Oxford University Press, Autor: Arthur Ransome, ISBN-13: 9780194791939, Kiadás éve: 2008

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. A pretty young girl has to leave home to make money for her family. She is clever and a

The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story. David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 80, Kiadó: Oxford University Press, Autor: Arnold Bennett, ISBN-13: 9780194791113, Kiadás éve: 2008

Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous -very rich, but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen. She has a difficult life, with three young kids and very little money. And she learns to hate her rich, famous, unkind

Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas - and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide ad a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man's head off, or a mouth with hundreds of teeth. It is any surprise that people are intrested in dinosaurs? Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaurs, but millions of us go to museums every year to stare at bones of these enormous animals. In books, films and games, we can't get enough of these secrets of the dinosaur worl

Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, \'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?\' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask. And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she

An idyllic snapshot of a boy's childhood along the banks of the Mississippi River, Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is the author's work that comes closest to his boyhood experiences of growing up in Hannibal in the 1840s. Mischievous and full of energy, Tom enjoys childish pranks and pastimes with his friends, Huck Finn, the town outcast and Joe Harper, his best friend. However, at the town graveyard, Huck and Tom witness a murder, carried out by local vagabond Injun Joe. They vow never to

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short white hair? Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later - in a police station on Vancouver Island.

There are two love stories in this fast-moving comedy. Brave young CLaudio and Leonato's pretty daughter Hero are in Love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all? Beatrice and Benedick are always arguing with each other, but how do they really feel? Perhaps they are more interested in each other than they seem to be! Their friends work hard to bring them closer together

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 48, Kiadó: Oxford University Press, Autor: Tim Vicary, ISBN-13: 9780194234252, Kiadás éve: 2007

Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors... After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly de

The murder plan seems so neat, so clever. How can it possibly fail? And when Sonia's stupid, boring little husband is dead, she will be free to marry her handsome lover. But perhaps the boring little husband is not so stupid after all... Murder plans that