Knihy PEARSON English Readers

A young husband and wife buy a puppy and call him Marley. Marley gets bigger and bigger, and he is not an easy dog. He eats everything. He breaks things. He doesn't listen. But he loves John and Jenny and they love him. Is this really the story of the...

Contemporary / British English Close your eyes … imagine idyllic white sands and coral gardens.’Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears about ‘the beach’, a secret island. It is paradise on earth. He goes there, but paradise soon turns into hell…

Contemporary / British English In London, Christmas is coming and the people in this story have love on their minds. Some have found love some have lost it. Some accept their loneliness others live in hope. Even the new British prime minister’s thoughts...

Classic / American English There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or a monster? And what else will he...

Classic / British English Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer broken hearts. Will they ever...

Classic / British English An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can’t Dorian...

Contemporary / British English A man fell from a very tall building. Why didnt he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old mans ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in...

Classic / American English (Available February 2008) Ugly and unwanted by the outside world, Quasimodo the hunchback lives under the protection of the priest in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Then his quiet life is destroyed by the priest's evil plans...

Contemporary / British English This is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army…Captain Corelli’s...

Hannah is a scientist and she studies animals. She wants to show you two animals with amazing life cycles … a butterfly and a frog.The Peacock butterfly lives in Europe. The Red-eyed tree frog lives in the rainforests of Central and South America. Which...

The Tesseract is a very powerful weapon and Loki plans to use it for an attack on Earth. Who can protect the Tesseract and save our world from the angry Asgardian? Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Thor are the Avengers - and...

Classic / British English Rudolf Rassendyll, a daring young Englishman looking for adventure, arrives in Ruritania for the new king’s coronation. The two men meet by chance the day before and are shocked to find that they look exactly the same! A trick...

A witch takes Rapunzel from her parents and keeps her at the top of a tall tower. There are no doors in the tower. Rapunzel is a prisoner. The witch climbs up Rapunzel's long hair to come inside. How can Rapunzel get out? Who is going to come and...

Classic / American English Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends —Huck Finn, Joe Harper, and Becky Thatcher. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard, one in an old house, one in a cave. Who does he see in those...

Classic / British English The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly-intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak,...

Original / British English Mark Jackson is on holiday in Turkey. He visits the old city of Troy and finds a yellow stone. 'I know this stone, ' he thinks. 'It comes from ... from ...' Suddenly Mark goes back in time. He can see a beautiful city, soldiers...

Original / British English Tommy Grant is a taxi driver. One morning his boss telephones him. 'Can you be at the Ritz hotel at 9 o'clock?' he asks. The 12-year-old son of a film star is in London. His name is Dino. 'Be very nice to the boy, ' Tommy's...

Original / British English It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers are English. They're starting a new life in America. They want a farm, but they haven't got any money. What can they do?

Classic / British English Resting one night on a boat on the River Thames, Charlie Marlow tells his friends about his experiences as a steamboat captain on the River Congo. There, in the heart of Africa, his search for the extraordinary Mr Kurtz caused...

Original / British English One day a leopard swims across the sea to Sindi. He is hungry and he is looking for food. He runs into an old lighthouse. The people of Sindi do not want the leopard in their lighthouse. But what can they do? How can they catch...

Original / American English Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won changes for the...

Sephy Hadley and Callum McGregor are two young people in love. But Sephy is a Cross, 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...

The Emperor has everything he wants. One day he learns that there is a nightingale in his garden and he wants that too. What will he do when he catches the nightingale? Will the nightingale want to stay?

A ship is caught in a huge storm. One family are able to get to an island. They find food, build a treehouse and start to enjoy their new life there. But what will happen to them when winter comes? How long will they stay there? Will a ship ever come...