Black Cat English Readers 2016

BLACK CAT
READERS
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Contents
Earlyreads 10
Level 1.................................................................................... 10
Level 2.................................................................................... 11
Level 3.................................................................................... 13
Level 4.................................................................................... 15
Level 5.................................................................................... 17
Green Apple 20
Starter..................................................................................... 20
Step 1..................................................................................... 24
Step 2..................................................................................... 30
Green Apple Drama 32
Reading & Training 34

Step One................................................................................. 34
Step Two................................................................................. 36
Step Three.............................................................................. 41
Step Four................................................................................ 46
Step Five................................................................................. 53
Step Six.................................................................................. 57
Reading & Training Discovery 58
Interact with Literature 60
Reading Classics 62
Index 64
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William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Hamlet, Prince
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Step Four B2.1
of Denmark
Bassanio wants to impress Portia but he doesn’t have enough money to do
so. He turns for help to Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a
Jewish moneylender. When Antonio’s business starts going badly, repayment
becomes impossible and Shylock is allowed to demand a pound of the
merchant’s flesh.
This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING approach, where the text
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

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Classics retold in today’s language.
A tale at every level
(1564 - 1616)
love power
ambition lies war
magic jealousy hate
STARTER
STEP 1
STEP 2
tragedy betrayal
“We know what we are,

but know not what we may be”
Green Apple Drama

A reader for everyone
CFR CAMBRIDGE EXAMS TRINITY AGE
Read and grow EARLYREADS

Level 1 Pre-level A1 Exam preparation: Starters 1 4-6
Black Cat graded readers range from original
stories to adapted classics and are in line with Level 2 Pre-level A1 Exam preparation: Starters 1 6-8
the levels of the Common European Framework
of Reference. Level 3 Pre-level A1 Exam level: Starters 2 7-9
All the readers offered answer the learning Level 4 Early A1 Exam preparation: Movers 2, 3 8-10
needs of the target age group.
Level 5 A1 Exam level: Movers 3 9-12
Features:
• expansive reading approach GREEN APPLE
• organisation according to CEFR language Starter A1 Exam preparation: 1, 2 Teenagers
levels Flyers and/or Key
• beautiful and extensive illustrations
Step 1 A2 Exam level: 3, 4 Teenagers
• interdisciplinary dossiers Flyers and/or Key
• grammar and comprehension activities
• activities practising the four skills (before Step 2 A2 Exam level: 2, 3 Teenagers
and after reading) early B1 Flyers and/or Key
• vocabulary activities and games (before
and after reading) READING & TRAINING / READING SHAKESPEARE / READING AND TRAINING DI
• exam style activities (Cambridge and Trinity Step 1 A2 Exam level: Key 3, 4 Young Adults
College London) and Adults
• audio of the text
• picture dictionary (Earlyreads)
• scripts to dramatise the texts downloadable
on our website (Earlyreads). Step 2 B1 Exam preparation: Preliminary 5 Young Adults
and Adults
Step 3 B1 Exam level: Preliminary 6 Young Adults
and Adults
Step 4 B2 Exam preparation: First 7 Young Adults

and Adults
Step 5 B2 Exam level: First 8, 9 Young Adults

and Adults
Step 6 C1 Exam preparation: Advanced 10,11 Young Adults

and Adults

Be and have got; Present Simple; Imperative
Present Continuous; can/can’t
Must/mustn’t; shall in interrogatives; would/wouldn’t like
Going to for future; comparison of adjectives and adverbs
Past Simple of to be and common verbs; will for future
Present Simple; Present Continuous; going to; Imperative: 2nd person; let’s; Infinitives; Gerunds; can; would... like; shall; must; co-ordination: but, and, or, and then; subordination: to know, to think, to say,
to tell; subordination after: because, when; zero, definite and indefinite articles; possessive ’s and s’; countable and uncountable nouns; some, any; much, many, a lot; (a) little, (a) few; all, every; etc.
All the structures used in the previous step, plus the following: regular and common irregular verbs; passive forms; will; may; mustn’t; have (got) to; zero and 1st conditionals; defining relative clauses
with who, where; comparative and superlative of adjectives; formation of adverbs.
All the structures used in the previous steps, plus the following: Present Perfect Simple; indefinite past with yet, already, still; recent past with just; duration form; question tags; should; might; defining
relative clauses with: which, that, zero pronoun; time clauses introduced by when, while, until, before, after, as; soon as; clauses of purpose.
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Present Simple; Present Continuous; Past Simple; Past Continuous; going to; will; Present Perfect Simple: indefinite past with ever, never; Imperative: 2nd person; let’s; Passive forms; Gerunds (verb +
-ing); can; could; will; would … like; shall; should; may; must; mustn’t; have (got) to; need; co-ordination: but, and, or, and then; subordination after verbs such as: to know, to think, to say, to tell; zero
and 1st conditionals; defining relative clauses with: who, which, that, zero pronoun, where; possessive ’s and s’; countable and uncountable nouns; some, any; much, many, a lot; (a) little, (a) few; all,
every; order of adjectives; comparative and superlative of adjectives; formation and comparative/superlative of adverbs.
All the structures used in the previous step, plus the following: regular and common irregular verbs; passive forms; will; may; mustn’t; have (got) to; zero and 1st conditionals; defining relative clauses
with who, where; comparative and superlative of adjectives; formation of adverbs.
All the structures used in the previous steps, plus the following: Present Perfect Simple; indefinite past with yet, already, still; recent past with just; duration form; question tags; should; might; defining
relative clauses with: which, that, zero pronoun; time clauses introduced by when, while, until, before, after, as; soon as; clauses of purpose.
All the structures used in the previous steps, plus the following: Present Perfect Simple: the first, second… time that...; Present Perfect Continuous (duration form); reported speech introduced by
precise reporting verbs; get used to + -ing; had better; types of clause: 3rd Conditional: if + Past Perfect, would(n’t) have / conditionals with may; might; non-defining relative clauses with: which,
whose; clauses of concession: even though; in spite of; despite.
All the structures used in the previous steps, plus the following: Present Perfect Simple (duration form) / Past Perfect Simple: narrative; causative: have / get + object + past participle; reported questions and
orders with ask and tell; ought to (present and future reference); used to: past habits and states; types of clause: 2nd Conditional: if + past, would(n’t); zero, 1st and 2nd conditionals with unless; non-defining
relative clauses with who and where; clauses of result: so, so... that, such... that; clauses of concession: although, though.
All the structures used in the previous steps, plus the following: Present Perfect Simple: the first, second… time that...; Present Perfect Continuous (duration form); reported speech introduced by
precise reporting verbs; get used to + -ing; had better; types of clause: 3rd Conditional: if + Past Perfect, would(n’t) have / conditionals with may; might; non-defining relative clauses with: which,
whose; clauses of concession: even though; in spite of; despite.

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EARLYREADS
◗◗ LEVELS: A1

Level 1
Dorothy The Enormous Turnip The Gingerbread Man The Star and the Colours A Trip to the Safari Park
Paola Traverso Retold by Ruth Hobart Jennifer Gascoigne Paola Traverso Gigliola Pagano
Every night, Dorothy delivers A farmer plants a turnip seed and One day Grandma makes a A very curious star wants to know A class of young South African
dreams – to adults, children and overnight it grows into an enormous gingerbread man for tea but, when what the sun is like. When the schoolchildren go on a trip to a
even pets. Usually everyone gets turnip! But, even though he and his he is cooked, he jumps off the table moon calls the stars to go to bed, safari park. They have been looking
the dream they want, but one dark family pull and pull, they can’t pull and runs away. He doesn’t want to she hides under a cloud and waits. forward to it and they can hardly
night Dorothy can’t see, and she the turnip out of the ground. Read be eaten! Grandma, Grandpa and Little by little the sun comes out contain their enthusiasm, so their
delivers the wrong dreams… But in how, in this retelling of a delightful Billy and all the animals he passes and a world of colourful things teacher has to be very patient!
this delightful, original tale tale, a little mouse makes a big try to catch him, but he runs too appears. The star loves what she They have a lot of laughs and a lot
everything ends happily as a chorus difference, and everyone enjoys an fast for them. Unfortunately, he sees and every time she discovers of fun, but they also manage to
of cats comes to the rescue! enormous turnip meal. doesn’t know how to swim! a new colour she sings a magic learn something!
song because she wants to become
coloured. Nothing seems to
change, but in the end the star gets
a great surprise.
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Level 2
Earlyreads
The Ugly Duckling Henny Penny Little Red Riding Hood The Mad Teacher The Magic Pot
Retold by Ruth Hobart Retold by Emily Flynn Retold by Ruth Hobart Cristina Ivaldi Emily Flynn
This little duckling is different from Henny Penny is going to the village A modern-looking girl on the way to Teachers are often rather strange Maggie is very poor and has little to
the other ducklings. Everyone when a big acorn falls on her head her grandmother meets an old- people, particularly English eat, but fortunately she meets an old
laughs at him, animals and humans from an oak tree. She thinks that fashioned wolf in the woods. But teachers! They repeat the same woman that gives her a magic pot.
alike, and only his mum loves him. the sky is falling and she runs to tell there’s a happy ending. The girl, her words and ask children to say and All Maggie needs to do is to say
But when spring comes, he sees his the king. Along the road she meets grandmother and a wood-cutter all do absurd things. This teacher, special words and the pot cooks a
reflection in the water, and… what a Cocky Locky, Ducky Lucky and have tea together, while the wolf however, is not just a bit strange, delicious soup. When Maggie and
change has taken place! other animal friends. They all join runs away, scared but still alive! he is really mad... raving mad! her mum are hungry, they can have
her, while the fox is waiting for By the end of the story children will soup, a lot of soup! One day, while
them in the wood. He’s hungry and realise that a mad teacher can be Maggie is out, something goes
he wants to eat the animals. But, at better than a sane and boring one! wrong. The magic pot cooks and
the last moment, something cooks and it doesn’t stop. The soup
unexpected happens…This version goes all over the kitchen, the house,
of the traditional tale ends in a the garden! Will Maggie arrive in time
different and quite surprising way. and stop the pot?
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Level 2
Miss Grace Green and Mowgli learns The Owl’s Song Rapunzel
the Clown Brothers to swim Paola Traverso Retold by Ruth Hobart
Paola Traverso Ruth Hobart Every early morning the little birds A witch takes Rapunzel away from
The four little clown fish just love When Mowgli meets the tiger Shere in the wood fly everywhere to wake her parents when she is a small
swimming and playing, although Khan and isn’t able to cross the their animal friends up. One day a child. When Rapunzel grows into a
they are afraid of three particularly river to escape, he realises that he big brown owl comes. He wants to beautiful young woman the witch
big, bad fish! But help is at hand in must learn to swim. With a little join the little birds but they do not locks her in a tower in the forest!
the shape of Miss Grace Green. help from his friends Baloo, want him, because they say he is However, the story ends happily
This delightful story also shows us Bagheera, Hathi and the others, too big and ugly and he can’t sing. with Rapunzel reunited with her
how life is so much better when we Mowgli discovers that swimming The poor owl hides inside an old parents and then marrying a prince!
live together. isn’t so difficult after all! black tree. But the night comes
again and… fairies arrive. It’s time
for the owl to sing his song. He
sings beautifully! The fairies start
dancing and the night becomes
magic!
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Level 3
NEW
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Bugaboo Cinderella Maggie and Max Visit The Musicians of Bremen The Jungle Book
the Wicked Witch Retold by Ruth Hobart the Haunted Castle Retold by Paola Traverso Gaia Ierace
Cristina Ivaldi Poor Cinderella! She has to do all Gabriella Coates A donkey decides to leave his This delightfully illustrated story,
This is a story about a wicked witch the housework, and her sisters It’s a lovely summer day. Max and master and go to Bremen, the town loosely based on Kipling’s The
who is so silly that she is actually won’t take her to the ball! But Maggie decide to go and visit the of music. Along the way other Jungle Book, will introduce children
harmless! However, she becomes thanks to a fairy godmother – and castle on the hill near the town. animals join in: a dog, a cat and a to Mowgli as a baby and watch him
extremely dangerous when a blow her pets! – she does go to the ball. Everybody says it’s a haunted cock. They all want to go to Bremen grow up in the jungle with the wolf
to her head turns her into a good There, the Prince falls in love with castle but Maggie doesn’t believe and become musicians. It’s night, family. His teachers, Baloo the bear
witch… There is nothing worse than her, but will he find her again? it. Max thinks that castles are the road is long and they are and Bagheera the panther, will
a very silly person who wants to do perfect homes for ghosts and he is hungry... teach Mowgli a number of
good, particularly if she has magic not sure that he wants to go. important things about surviving in
powers! When they are in the castle lots of the jungle.
strange things happen! First it’s
only Max who sees funny faces and
people moving in the pictures on
the walls but then Maggie starts
feeling a bit worried, too.
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Level 3
The Little Mermaid Monster in the Box Peter and the Wolf
Retold by Judith Percival Cristina Ivaldi Retold by Ruth Hobart
The little mermaid lives in a Bullies at school pick on Bobo, who Peter’s grandfather warns him
magical, beautiful world at the is a bit small for his age. Not to about going into the forest: it’s still
bottom of the sea, but she wants to worry, for Bobo is a resourceful winter, so the wolves are hungry!
see what the world above is like. young lad with a few surprises of But of course, Peter doesn’t listen...
When she goes up she falls in love his own, and he soon teaches the This version of the much-loved
with a human. What will the little bullies a lesson! Russian tale ends in a way that that
mermaid have to do to be able to will surprise and delight all readers!
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the man she loves?
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Level 4
Earlyreads
Aesop’s Fables Dracula and his Family Frankenstein at School Freddy Finds the Thief The Magic
Retold by Ruth Hobart Gaia Ierace Gaia Ierace Victoria Heward Computer Mouse
In three stories three characters This is the ‘ordinary’ life of Count A team of scientists headed by none When the Queen’s golden harp Nella Burnett-Stuart and Liz Taylor
teach us lessons: the tortoise Dracula, his wife Felicia, their three other than Doctor Frankenstein disappears nobody knows where to Martin, who is very good at English,
‘slowly but surely’ wins the race; children, Adam, Eve and Brian, and creates a tender-hearted monster, look or what to do. The King offers goes to see his penfriend in
the mouse becomes a ‘great little their butler, Roman Blenski. who a group of nosy children find in 500 gold pieces to the person who London. He doesn’t fly there, or
friend’ to the mighty lion; the the school lab. can find it. Clever Freddy is the only take a coach or catch a train… he
country mouse prefers the quiet life one who has the answer and can arrives there magically by
back home to the luxury – and find the thief. computer.
dangers – of the town.
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Level 4
Puss in Boots Sleeping Beauty Space Monsters Christmas Fun Festivals!

Retold by Judith Percival Retold by Catherine E. White Cristina Ivaldi Ruth Hobart Ruth Hobart
Daniel is a poor young man who is The King and Queen are proud of Not all aliens are bad. However, Christmas Fun captures that Some festivals are popular all over
in love with the beautiful Princess their baby daughter, Princess being friends with a kind alien typically ‘English’ Christmas the world. Festivals! tells children
Caroline. To make matters worse, Aurora, and they invite everyone to may have its negative side too! atmosphere. Father Christmas how Christmas, Easter, Halloween
he lives in a village which is a party, including the Flower Especially if it might all be a introduces the children to Rudolph and other festivities are celebrated
terrorised by an Ogre. But Daniel’s Fairies. But one of the Fairies puts a dream. the red-nosed reindeer and his in many countries of the world.
cat comes to the rescue, and finds curse on Aurora, and despite the team. He organises an exciting The young readers are encouraged
a way of both getting rid of the King’s precautions, on her sixteenth football match between the to use manual skills to colour in, cut
Ogre and bringing Daniel and the birthday she meets an old lady in a Reindeer Rangers and the Polar out, glue on and create fun
Princess together… tower in the castle… Bears United football clubs. decorations and greetings cards.
This highly-entertaining book, filled
with songs, games and a wide
variety of learning and manual
activities, will create a wonderful
Christmas feeling in and outside the
classroom.
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Level 5
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Halloween Holiday Aladdin Ali Baba and
Ruth Hobart Retold by Ruth Hobart the Forty Thieves
It’s Halloween and the Beast family A magician tricks Aladdin, but when Retold by Catherine E. White
receive a very special invitation Aladdin rubs an old lamp a genie Ali Baba’s life changes on the day
from Dracula. Follow them on their comes out, and life is never the he sees forty thieves hiding their
adventures as they fly across same again, for him or his mum! treasure in a secret cave and hears
Europe to Dracula’s castle in Despite the magician’s plots, the thieves’ leader say the words
Transylvania. Find out what Aladdin manages to keep the magic ‘Open Sesame’ to get into the cave.
happens when they get lost in the lamp… and the beautiful princess! But before Ali and his family can
forest and all the fun they have enjoy the riches, Ali finds there are
at Dracula’s amazing Halloween many dangers they have to face…
party!
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Level 5
The Canterville Ghost Nasreddin – Ten Stories Snow White and Two Monsters Zed the Magician
Oscar Wilde Retold by Jennifer Gascoigne the Seven Dwarfs Cristina Ivaldi Nella Burnett-Stuart
Retold by Catherine E. White and Liz Taylor
Adapted by Gaia Ierace Nasreddin does and says some How can a health-freak bogey boy
strange things. Why does he look Snow White’s life is in danger when and a junk-freak human boy put up A lively mystery story involving a
When the American Otis family
for his key in the garden when he her father marries again and his with living in their demanding magician called Zed, some daring
move to their new house in
lost it in the house? Why does he new wife, Queen Bella, becomes families? By the way, which one of schoolchildren and a crime to be
England, interesting things begin to
weigh his cat? Why does he invite a terribly jealous of Snow White’s them is the monster? solved. Readers follow the
happen – especially when they
beggar onto his roof? But perhaps beauty. But Queen Bella’s plans adventure, read the clues and find
meet Mr Ghost!
Nasreddin is cleverer than we first fail, and Snow White finds safety at out how the friends uncover the
think! Read this collection of ten the cottage of the seven dwarfs mystery.
amusing stories and decide! before becoming reunited with her
father.
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GREEN APPLE
◗◗ LEVELS: A1-A2/B1

Starter A1
Alice’s Adventures Anne of Green Gables Bathsheba the Witch Beauty and the Beast Black Beauty
in Wonderland Lucy M. Montgomery Jane Elizabeth Cammack Jeanne-Marie Leprince Anna Sewell
Lewis Carroll Adapted by Sally M. Stockton de Beaumont Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen
Fairy tale & fantasy
Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen
Human interest Bathsheba, a beautiful Weather Human interest
Activities by Mary Johnson Witch, lives with her cat, Cobweb, Fairy tale & fantasy
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert want a Black Beauty, a handsome and
Fairy tale & fantasy boy from the orphanage to help them on top of a high mountain near the A rich man suddenly becomes poor intelligent horse, lives in Victorian
on their farm, but the orphanage village of Sunnyville. The people in and he goes to live in the country England on a peaceful farm with a
Alice follows the White Rabbit down the village don’t know about
a rabbit hole and finds herself in the sends them Anne, a funny little girl with his children. One day he goes wonderful master.
with long red hair who gets up to all Bathsheba. Her life is peaceful until to the city on business. His But his life changes when he is sold
magical world of Wonderland, where one day she goes down to the
anything can happen. kinds of adventures. What can daughter, Beauty, only wants a rose. to different masters.
Matthew and Marilla do? Find out village and meets some of the On his way back the man takes a Published in 1877, Black Beauty is
Dossiers: people there, including a very
how Anne makes their lives happier, rose from the garden of a castle. an unforgettable classic for readers
A Drink Called Tea, A Real Queen special soldier…
and wins their hearts… But the owner of the castle, a of all ages.
Dossiers: beast, becomes angry and
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Scotia Dossiers: Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
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Starter A1
Five Children and IT The Ghost Ship Halloween Horror The Happy Prince The Jungle Book
Green Apple
E. Nesbit of Bodega Bay Gina D. B. Clemen and The Selfish Giant Rudyard Kipling
Adapted by Cheryl Thompson Gina D. B. Clemen Mystery & horror Oscar Wilde Adapted by Kelly Reinhart
Adventure Adapted by Elizabeth Ann Moore Activities by Eleanor Donaldson
Mystery & horror It’s fun to get ready for Halloween
Five children go on holiday and and it’s even more fun to have a Fairy tale & fantasy Adventure
When Kate and Mike Sullivan invite
discover a sand fairy near their spooky Halloween party!
their friend Carlos to sail to the The Happy Prince is the story of the Mowgli, a baby boy, is raised by a
home! The sand fairy is an unusual Farallon Islands on their father’s But what happens to a group of family of loving wolves in India.
touching friendship between the
creature that grants wishes, and new boat, The Pelican, they expect young teenagers when their Bagheera, the panther, and Baloo,
golden statue of the Happy Prince
this is just the beginning of an to see the fascinating birds and Halloween party becomes a living the bear, teach him the laws of the
and a little swallow.
incredible adventure for them. animals which live there. But this nightmare? Find out what horror is jungle.
The enchanted garden of The
The children go from one exciting exciting boat trip on the Pacific all about in this spine-tingling story! The adventure begins!
Selfish Giant is the perfect place for
adventure to another until things Ocean turns into a night of horror Dossiers: children to play, until the Giant Dossiers:
become complicated… when ghastly ghosts from the past The Origins of Halloween, Salem decides to keep it all for himself! Let’s Meet Some of the Animals in
Dossier: appear… Halloween Cookies, Make a Bat the Story, India
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NEW
Just So Stories The Nutcracker Peter Pan Pinocchio Sandokan
Rudyard Kipling E. T. A. Hoffman J. M. Barrie Carlo Collodi Emilio Salgari
Adapted by Elizabeth Ann Moore Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Gina D.B. Clemen Adapted by Sally M. Stockton
Activities by Eleanor Donaldson
Fairy tale and fantasy Fairy tale & fantasy Fairy tale & fantasy Adventure
Adventure
Rudyard Kipling surprises us again One Christmas Eve in 19th-century Join Wendy, John and Michael as The world’s most famous puppet
with these five tales from the animal Nuremberg Uncle Drosselmeyer they fly off to Neverland with Peter comes to life in this beautifully Sandokan and his pirates rule the
kingdom. Have you ever wondered arrives with presents for everyone Pan, where incredible adventures illustrated book. Meet Pinocchio Malaysian Sea in the 1840s, and the
why elephants have such long noses and Clara gets a nutcracker. That await them. Meet the Lost Boys in and join him as he gets into and out British want to capture him. One
and why leopards have spots? Do night Clara discovers that her their secret underground home and of all kinds of trouble. Laugh at his day he meets Marianna, Lord
you know why kangaroos hop nutcracker is much more than a toy. swim with the lovely mermaids in incredible adventures, admire his James’s young niece, and they are
around Australia? Find out how a Together they go to the magic Land Mermaids’ Lagoon. But watch out courage and find out how he finally immediately attracted to each other.
clever young sailor tricked a whale of Sweets! But on Christmas morning for cruel Captain Hook and his becomes a real boy... Their love is impossible, but
and meet many other characters. there is another surprise for her… pirates, who have terrible plans for Dossiers: Sandokan and his friend Yanez
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Animals in Australia, Whales The ballet of ‘The Nutcracker’ Dossiers: Great Amusement Parks Marianna away from her uncle.
London, Fairies and their Magic, Dossiers:
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Starter A1
The Secret Garden The Secret of the Stones The Tempest The Wind in the Willows The Wonderful
Green Apple
Frances Hodgson Burnett Victoria Heward William Shakespeare Kenneth Grahame Wizard of Oz
Adapted by Elizabeth Ann Moore Mystery & horror Adapted by Victoria Heward Adapted by Rebecca Raynes L. Frank Baum
Human interest Twins Max and Laura spend an Human interest Adventure Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen
Life with her uncle is uneventful for exciting summer in a small village Prospero, Duke of Milan, lives on a This classic story, set in the English Fairy tale & fantasy
bad-tempered Mary Lennox until near Stonehenge. A mysterious lonely island with his daughter countryside, features the lovable
The incredible adventures of
one day she finds a secret garden. symbol, their uncle’s old book of Miranda, Caliban (a monster) and characters Rat, Mole, Toad and
Dorothy, her dog Toto, the Tin
Then Mary meets her cousin Colin, codes and secrets, strange people Ariel (a magic spirit). He learns to Badger. When Mole decides to
Woodman, the Scarecrow and the
an invalid, who is confined to bed. looking for a secret and much more. do magic and he wants to punish leave his underground home and
Cowardly Lion. Join Dorothy and
With Mary and Dickon’s help Colin The two young and brave his bad brother, Antonio. He meets Rat, he discovers a
her friends as they travel down the
goes out into the secret garden and ‘detectives’ will be involved in many creates a magic storm – a tempest. completely new world on the river
yellow brick road to the Emerald
discovers the meaning of true exciting adventures. All the people on Antonio’s ship bank and the Wild Wood. And
City to meet the wonderful Wizard
friendship and happiness. Dossiers: land on Prospero’s island and many Toad’s passion for fast cars leads
of Oz.
Dossier: Welcome to Stonehenge, Symbols strange things happen to them. them on a series of adventures…
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Zorro! The Adventures Akron House Mystery American Folk Tales
Johnston McCulley of Tom Sawyer Gina D. B. Clemen Retold by George Gibson
Adapted by Sally M. Stockton Mark Twain Mystery & horror Legend
Adventure Adapted by Sally M. Stockton
Carol and Steve Taylor move into an Enjoy three of America’s most-
Read about the daring adventures Adventure old, mysterious house which hides loved folk tales of the 1800s! Meet
of Zorro, the legendary masked many secrets. Carol hears footsteps Johnny Appleseed, who planted
Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
hero of Spanish California. He is a at night, Steve finds an old love apple seeds across America. Find
and their friends as they go on a
champion of justice and an expert letter from the American Civil War out how Pecos Bill became King of
series of exciting adventures on the
with the sword. He is invincible as and the people in town hear a the Cowboys of Texas. Visit a
Mississippi River. Read about how
he defies corrupt politicians and woman crying in the night. Who is Southern plantation and laugh with
they witness a murder while looking
defends the oppressed. trying to give them a message and cunning Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox.
for ghosts in a graveyard, and how
why? Carol, Steve and their friend Dossiers:
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Halim solve an incredibly difficult Young America and its Settlers,
Spanish California, California today Dossiers: and touching mystery. Life on a Ranch, Fox Hunting, Brer
The One-room School, Missouri
KEY TRINITY Dossiers: Tales and the South and others
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Step 1 A2
The Black Arrow The Bottle Imp British and The Canterville Ghost The Great Adventure
Green Apple
Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson American Festivities Oscar Wilde at Yellowstone
Adapted by George Gibson Adapted by Patrizia Caruzzo Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Gina D.B. Clemen Gina D. B. Clemen
Activities by Stuart Cochrane
Mystery & horror Festivals Mystery and Horror Adventure
Adventure
Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, is Why do we celebrate Halloween? A rich American family decides to Karen, Sally and Alex are three
Set in 15th-century England, this is offered the opportunity to buy a What do people do to celebrate the buy a haunted house in England. teenagers who take a camping trip at
the exciting story of Richard bottle containing an imp which will New Year? Why is the egg a symbol They certainly don’t believe in ghosts Yellowstone National Park. Two of the
Shelton and the band of the Black grant all his wishes. However, the of Easter? Who invented the until they meet Sir Simon – the 300- park’s wolves are missing and the
Arrow. bottle must, from then on, be resold Christmas card? year old ghost with a frightening three teens decide to look for them.
Sir Daniel is like a father to Richard, for a price lower than what he paid This unique book explores the reputation, who takes his job very Their trip becomes an exciting, yet
but one day Richard discovers a for it, or he will be condemned to origins of our festivities, their seriously. All kinds of bizarre things dangerous adventure when they meet
terrible truth from the past. Now he live out the rest of his days in historical significance, and how we happen at Canterville Chase, until a hungry grizzly bear, an angry
must fight against Sir Daniel and his excruciating torment. celebrate them today. young Virginia meets Sir Simon… mountain lion and a herd of bison. Will
men. Dossiers: Dossiers: they ever find the missing wolves?
Can Richard and the band of the KEY TRINITY
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Step 1 A2
Great Expectations Halloween… I Want To Be You Jason and the Argonauts The Last Unicorn
Charles Dickens Magic, Witches and Vampires Andrea M. Hutchinson Retold by Jennifer Gascoigne Jane Elizabeth Cammack
Adapted by Derek Sellen Kelly Reinhart
Additional activities
Human interest Legend Fairy tale & fantasy
by Joanna Burgess Festivals Holly and Rosie are cousins but they When he was very young, Jason’s It is the summer holidays and
Human interest An exciting and informative book on are very different. When the school uncle took the kingdom of Iolkos Megan’s mother is very ill. She has
the history and culture of basketball team fails to win the from his father, but now Jason to stay with her uncle on the Isle of
Pip, a poor young boy, receives championship because Holly misses wants it back. First he must find Skye in Scotland, but she doesn’t
Halloween, which gives details
amazing news. Someone has given a penalty, Holly discovers just how and bring back the Golden Fleece. want to go.
about an authentic American
him a vast amount of money and cruel her cousin can be. Holly always It is a dangerous mission: the It is quiet, too quiet, until Megan
Halloween party! The beginnings of
wants to make him a gentleman. thought that Rosie had everything; Argonauts must battle against meets Ben, her uncle’s neighbour,
witchcraft, magic and astrology are
Who is his mysterious benefactor? lots of friends and lots of money to giants, huge birds and sea and sees a silvery unicorn. The
explained. There is a chilling
Is it Miss Havisham, the strange buy lots of designer clothes. But monsters. unicorn has woken from its long sleep
chapter on vampires and
lady who lives in an old house with then she meets a old lady at a fair and it is Megan who has woken him…
werewolves, too! Dossiers:
the beautiful Estella? Life is full of and soon finds out that things aren’t
Dossiers: Greek Pottery, Greek Mythology Dossiers:
surprises... always what they seem…
Stonehenge, How to make a Jack The Isle of Skye,
Dossiers: Dossier: KEY TRINITY Clans, Kilts and Tartan,
O’Lantern and others
Ladies and Gentlemen, Travelling Funfairs Scottish Music
Transportation to Australia Step 1
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Step 1 A2
Legends from Little Women The Lost Treasure A Midsummer
Green Apple
the British Isles Louisa May Alcott of Bodega Bay Night’s Dream
Retold by Deborah Meyers Adapted by Kelly Reinhart Gina D. B. Clemen William Shakespeare
Activities by Eleanor Donaldson Human interest Adapted by Janet Cameron
Mystery & horror
Legend Growing up in New England during Human interest
Kate, Mike and Carlos go on
Enjoy four popular legends from the American Civil War isn’t easy for another trip to Bodega Bay near Hermia and Lysander are in love,
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales the March sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth San Francisco, where more than a but Hermia’s father wants
that tell us about a girl who makes and Amy. With their father away, year ago they found a pirate’s old Demetrius to marry his daughter, so
friends with a unicorn, a wizard who they must learn to make sacrifices treasure map. An incredibly exciting Hermia and Lysander decide to run
casts terrible spells, a king who hides and accept disappointments. and dangerous adventure awaits away to get married. But in the
a strange secret and a prince’s loyal Discover how the four sisters’ them as they follow a mysterious wood some fairies perform some
dog… all unforgettable! dreams finally come true in this clue and go on a treasure hunt to magic and some strange things
timeless classic about love, find a lost treasure from centuries
Dossiers: start to happen...
kindness, and generosity. ago.
Haunted Castles in Scotland, Dossiers:
Man’s Best Friend Dossiers: Dossiers: Fairies, Acting and Theatres in
The American Civil War and others Sharks, Pirates Shakespeare’s Time
KEY TRINITY
KEY TRINITY KEY TRINITY KEY TRINITY
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Step 1 A2
Mystery in San Francisco The Prince Project Vampire The Railway Children Robinson Crusoe
Gina D. B. Clemen and the Pauper Victoria Heward E. Nesbit Daniel Defoe
Mystery & horror Mark Twain Mystery & horror Adapted by Elizabeth Ann Moore Adapted by Benjamin Anderson
Adapted by Kelly Reinhart Adventure Adventure
An abandoned mansion, a ghostly Max and Laura are involved in
face at the window and mysterious Adventure another mysterious case. This time After their father is mysteriously When Robinson Crusoe tells his
happenings at one of the city’s a phantom thief seems to be able to forced to leave home, the three parents he wants to go to sea they
Edward and Tom look alike; in fact,
favourite landmarks all mark the get in and out of important children and their mother go to live don’t want him to, but he ignores their
they’re identical! They both live in
start of a thrilling adventure for Jim museums in London stealing in a cottage in the country near a wishes and joins a ship. This is just
15th-century London, but there is
Reilly and his teenage friends. valuable paintings. Max and Laura railway track. The children make the beginning of his many adventures
one difference: Edward is a prince
Set in San Francisco, California, decide to explore the area around friends with the station master, the at sea, which end with him being
and Tom is a pauper.
this is a mystery story full of one of the museums. Something porter and a friendly old gentleman. shipwrecked on a desert island.
One day they meet and decide to
suspense with an unexpected twist, very spooky is going to happen… Peter, Bobbie and Phyllis enjoy Dossiers:
play a game. Edward becomes a
solved by three young detectives. Dossier: several exciting adventures and The Atlantic Slave Trade, The Real
pauper and Tom becomes a prince.
Dossiers: But something goes wrong. Will London museums, Travelling even become the heroes of the Robinson Crusoe: Alexander Selkirk
A Guide to San Francisco, Edward ever return to his palace around London, Top five things to village. But the mystery of their
Natural Resources and Pollution and become King of England? do in London father remains unsolved, until one KEY TRINITY
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Step 1 A2
Sherlock Holmes The Treasure of Franchard The True Story
Green Apple
and the Red Circle Robert Louis Stevenson of Pocahontas
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Adapted by Deborah Meyers Retold by Kelly Reinhart
Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Human interest History
Mystery & horror Jean-Marie is an orphan who is Pocahontas is the touching story of
A mysterious lodger has just rented happily adopted by Doctor Desprez a Native American princess whose
rooms at Mrs Warren’s lodging house. and his wife Anastasie. When the courage saved a white man’s life.
She is frightened by this strange doctor finds the precious Treasure No one could have imagined that
individual, so she asks Sherlock of Franchard he plans to take his Pocahontas would be the first
Holmes to help. He and Dr Watson family away from their lovely, old Native American to marry a white
discover cryptic messages, a sinister country home go to Paris and live a man!
secret society and a terrible murder… rich life. Jean-Marie does not want
to go to Paris and during the Dossiers:
Dossiers: The Origins of Virginia, Indian Life,
night the treasure mysteriously
Victorian Writers, Police and Detectives Virginia Today
disappears…
of the 19th Century
Dossier: KEY TRINITY
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Adventures of The Call of the Wild David Copperfield Great English Monarchs King Arthur
Huckleberry Finn Jack London Charles Dickens and their Times and his Knights
Mark Twain Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Gina D. B. Clemen Retold by George Gibson
Adapted by Gina D.B. Clemen Adventure Human interest History Legend
Adventure Buck, a big happy dog, is kidnapped David’s life changes for the worse Do you know that Henry VIII was Learn about how Arthur became
When Huckleberry Finn meets Jim, a from his comfortable home in when his mother dies and he is left happily married for almost 20 years King and where he found his great
runaway slave, they decide to travel California and is sold as a sled dog with a cruel stepfather who sends him to the same queen before meeting sword Excalibur, about his love for
North on the mighty Mississippi River. in the cold Yukon Territory during to work in London. But he doesn’t his other wives? Do you know Guinevere, and all about the
They have all sorts of incredible the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896. want to work in a factory all his life, Queen Elizabeth refused to marry in courageous Knights of the Round
adventures, meet all kinds of people and His new life in the Northland is so he runs away and finds a kind spite of all the men who loved her? Table.
get into a lot of trouble, until one day... difficult, challenging, adventurous… relative who is willing to help him. As And do you know what particular Dossiers:
Mark Twain’s masterpiece is one of the and full of surprises! David grows up, he learns that life is events during Queen Victoria’s long Knights, Castles, The Round Table,
greatest novels in American literature. Dossiers: full of trouble, hardship and cruelty. reign contributed to making the Old Castles of Great Interest and
The Klondike Gold Rush, Wolves But he also finds friendship, kindness British Empire the biggest ever? others
Dossiers:
and… love.
America’s Great River: The Mississippi
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The Slave Trade
Dover, Australia the world for centuries.
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Step 2 A2-B1
Million Dollar Theft Oliver Twist Oscar Wilde’s Robin Hood Treasure Island
Green Apple
in San Francisco Charles Dickens Short Stories Retold by Gina D. B. Clemen Robert Louis Stevenson
Gina D. B. Clemen Adapted by Gina D. B. Clemen Oscar Wilde Legend Adapted by Derek Sellen
Mystery and Horror Adventure Adapted by Victoria Heward Adventure
Robin Hood, the legendary hero of
Two years have passed since Susan, Set in the dark streets of 19th-century Fairy tale & fantasy Sherwood Forest, has captured the Read about the thrilling adventures
Brian and Jim solved a baffling London, this unforgettable classic imagination of generations of of young Jim Hawkins and his
‘The Young King’ tells how a
mystery in San Francisco. This time tells the story of Oliver Twist, a readers. Why did Robin Hood friends, who set sail for Treasure
shepherd boy becomes a king and
they have to solve a million dollar penniless orphan who lives through become an outlaw? How did Marian Island in search of treasure.
realises that money is not worth
mystery: Mark Twain’s secret diary has all kinds of hardship for many years. find Robin in Sherwood Forest?
human suffering. But will the cruel Long John Silver
just been discovered and publishers all Find out how, in spite of adverse How was the wicked Sheriff of
In ‘The Star Child’ a baby is found get to the treasure first?
over the world want to get their hands circumstances, he finds happiness in Nottingham punished?
in the forest and discovers his true Dossiers:
on it… but it suddenly disappears the end. Dossiers:
identity after many adventures. A Pirate Ship, Famous Pirates
without a clue! Susan, Brian and Jim Dossiers: Medieval Times in England,
are determined to find it. ‘The Nightingale and the Rose’ is a Medieval Life in a Castle Town,
Child Labour, Crime in Victorian PRELIMINARY TRINITY
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Mark Twain in the Gold Country her life to create the perfect red rose The Magna Carta Step 2
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Drama
Green Apple Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Drama Adapted by Victoria Heward Adapted by Victoria Heward
Additional activities by Mary Johnson Additional activities by Robert Hill
The GREEN APPLE DR AMA titles are
versions of Shakespeare’s plays in comic- Adventure Love
strip form and include music and mime
‘Hail, Macbeth, who will be king one Nobody can remember why the
activities. They contain tips and
day.’ Capulet family and the Montague
explanations to help students and
On a cold Scottish heath, three family hate each other so, when
teachers prepare for a complete
witches make a prophecy. Inspired Juliet Capulet and Romeo
production of these famous plays. They
by their words and encouraged by Montague meet and fall in love the
are at Step 2 level.
his evil wife, Macbeth begins his result is tragic, and peace between
trail of destruction to gain and keep the two families is possible only
Special features: the Scottish throne. after the death of many people.
• comic-strip form Dossiers: Dossiers:
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• preparatory activities for diction and
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a complete production Step 2 Playscript
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READING & TRAINING
◗◗ LEVELS: A2-C1

Step One A2
Alien Alert in Seattle Home for Christmas A Message from a Ghost Miami Police File: Missing in Sydney
Gina D. B. Clemen Andrea M. Hutchinson Andrea M. Hutchinson the O’Nell Case Andrea M. Hutchinson
Mystery & horror Activities by Laura Clyde Mystery & horror Gina D. B. Clemen Activities by Laura Clyde
and Robert Hill Adventure
There has been a UFO sighting in Bella and her friends, Elise and Crime
the Cascade mountains near Adventure Gracie, are going on a school trip. Three best friends are travelling
Peter O’Nell, Montego High School’s
Seattle, Washington, and everyone Three young women need to get to But then they get lost. They set out favourite teacher, goes missing in around Australia in search of
is excited. But no one believes London from Ireland in time for to find their school friends and the the Bermuda Triangle, and the adventure before they start university
there could possibly be an alien in Christmas. When all flights are youth hostel where they should be police can’t solve the case. back home in the UK. But after
town, until Karen, Barbara and cancelled, they are forced to share staying but before they can find His students decide to investigate, celebrating Christmas Day one of
Walter notice that one of the a car and make the journey by road. them, strange and spooky things with the help of O’Nell’s dog, Rover. them goes missing. Lisa is just an
teachers at their high school is They have to decide together what start to happen. First Bella sees a But the truth behind O’Nell’s ordinary 18-year-old, so why would
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beautiful woman returns and Dossiers: three men ask D’Artagnan to join
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defeats death. E. Nesbit shows us Fox-Terriers, Queen Elizabeth I, them in their struggle to protect
a strange creature in ‘The Yellow Face’. becomes stronger and stronger…
how there really is a good reason to Life on the River, Preserving Food, Queen Anne against the plots of
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After a long civil war between the After surviving a shipwreck off the
Houses of Lancaster and York, Adventure and piracy in the 18th coast of Illyria, Viola disguises summer job at the museum and
Edgar Allan Poe is one of the first
England is enjoying a period of century! When young Jim Hawkins herself as a boy to get a position at invites his friends Bill and Michelle
masters of modern short stories and
peace under King Edward IV. But finds a map of an island where the court of Duke Orsino, who is in to join him for a summer of fun.
modernist poetry. But he is best
Edward’s younger brother, Richard, Captain Flint has hidden his love with beautiful Olivia. Unknown One night the diamond disappears
remembered for his strange style of
resents Edward’s power, Richard treasure, Jim, Squire Trelawney and to Viola, her twin brother Sebastian and a security guard is found dead.
horror, with characters who cannot
begins to aspire secretly to the his friend Dr Livesey sail to the has also survived the shipwreck. Suddenly there is a vampire scare
be forgotten. A man who drains away
throne and decides to kill anyone island to look for it. But during the When he too arrives in Illyria, in New York City. The three
his wife’s life to make his painting
he has to in order to become king. voyage Jim discovers more about confusion and misunderstandings teenagers start investigating…
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and the ‘Galateo’, Niccolò one leg. And then the battle for the The Meaning of ‘Twelfth Night’, City, Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia,
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The mighty warrior Beowulf offers to
help the King of the Danes in a quest In Chaucer’s classic, much-loved Mean old Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t When Jonathan Harker goes to Tragedy
to kill the vicious monster Grendel collection of tales a host of medieval like Christmas. He doesn’t like Transylvania to visit Count Dracula The most famous play by the world’s
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return to his homeland, where he years ago! In this retelling of five of it’s the beginning of a very strange than they first appeared. father, the King. One night the ghost of
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the Seven Gables Peter Foreman Short Stories James Fenimore Cooper William Shakespeare
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Since the autumn of 1888, when he Adventure
Activities by Monica Marszewska Human interest Tragedy
terrorised London, Jack the Ripper During the Seven Years’ War
Human interest has become famous all over the In The Garden Par ty, Mansfield between the French and the British, Macbeth is a loyal and courageous
world. Who was he? There have explores class consciousness, Cora and Alice Munro are on their servant of King Duncan. But, one day,
The seventeenth-century house of
been hundreds of suspects and sensitivity and the co-existence of way to Fort Henry to join their after a battle he meets three witches,
the seven gables shelters an old
theories but nobody has yet life and death. In The Sing ing father, the commander. But their who tell him that one day he will be
curse and a terrible secret.
discovered his identity. Lesson, a young music teacher American Indian guide, Magua, King of Scotland. Soon his obsession
Hepzibah and Clifford Pyncheon are
Jack the Ripper takes you back to experiences a cascade of emotions betrays the group to the Iroquois. to become king and his wife’s cold-
tormented by the memories and
the dark streets of Victorian in the space of a few hours. This is only the beginning of their blooded ambition lead to murder.
ghosts of the past, until the love of
London, to investigate the story of Feminism, vanity and materialism many adventures.
two young people changes the Dossiers:
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Bassanio wants to impress Portia by Rebecca Raynes
but he doesn’t have enough money Moby Dick is an epic tale of the On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Le Morte d’Arthur tells the story of
to do so. He turns for help to Humour & comedy voyage of the whaling ship the Verinder receives a very special King Arthur and the Knights of the
Antonio, who is forced to borrow Two young lovers, Hermia and Pequod and its captain, Ahab, who present, the Moonstone – a large Round Table. The tale begins with
from Shylock, a Jewish Lysander, meet in the wood with pursues the great white whale yellow diamond from India. But that Arthur’s birth, his education, and
moneylender. When Antonio’s the intention of running away and almost around the world. night the Moonstone is stolen… his rise to the throne. It also
business starts going badly, getting married secretly. They are Ishmael, a sailor, arrives in New In what T. S. Eliot called ‘the first, recounts the tragic love story of Sir
repayment becomes impossible and followed by Demetrius, who loves Bedford, where he meets Queequeg, the longest, and the best of modern Lancelot and Guinevere, the
Shylock is allowed to demand a Hermia, and Helena, who is in love a harpooner from the South Pacific, detective novels’, Wilkie Collins destruction of the Round Table and
pound of the merchant’s flesh. with Demetrius. What they don’t who becomes his inseparable friend. tells a story full of mystery, Arthur’s mysterious disappearance
Dossiers: know is that the wood is Captain Ahab’s voyage is one of suspense and psychological insight. or death.
Venice, a Centre of Commerce enchanted… revenge and, in the end, one of Dossier: Dossiers:
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William Shakespeare Jane Austen William Shakespeare in Shakespeare Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Nancy Timmins Adapted by Lucy Parker Adapted by Jane Elizabeth Cammack Adapted by Nancy Timmins
Activities by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Eleanor Donaldson
Tragedy
Humour & comedy Mystery & horror Tragedy Crime
A power-hungry Richard III, a
Claudio is in love with Hero, but is Catherine Morland is going on her Othello is a successful general, but remorseful Macbeth, a revengeful Sherlock Holmes is bored. But a
afraid that she will reject him. His first visit to the city of Bath. She is a very simple man who trusts Iago Prince Hamlet, a powerful Julius fascinating new case is just around
friend, Don Pedro, volunteers to seventeen and comes from a small, completely. When he elopes with Caesar, and a ruthless and the corner. The attractive Mary
make her fall in love with him at a quiet town in the English countryside. and marries Desdemona, he is ambitious King Henry V: various Morstan arrives at 221B Baker Street
masked ball. The trick works and She likes Gothic novels. When she overwhelmed by the happiness that aspects of power and ambition with a strange story to tell. Her father
Hero agrees to marry Claudio. But makes friends with the handsome seems to be his. Iago, embittered feature in these five stories based vanished ten years ago: four years
Don Pedro’s brother, Don John, young Henry Tilney and his sister by his failure to win promotion in on plays by William Shakespeare. later she receives six beautiful
organises a plot to make Claudio Eleanor, she will find herself in the the army, decides to poison the Dossiers: pearls, one each year. She has been
think that Hero is unfaithful… middle of a family tragedy. Henry’s general’s happiness… Ghosts, Witches and Revenge, invited to meet the sender of these
Dossiers: home, Northanger Abbey, is the Dossiers: The Influence on Shakespeare’s pearls and asks Sherlock Holmes
Tragic and Comic Elements in scene of a crime. Or is it all just a The First London Theatres, The Plays and Doctor Watson for their help.
‘Much ado About Nothing’, Women product of Catherine’s imagination? Portrayal of Othello Dossiers:
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Human interest Humour & comedy
and Eleanor Donaldson Activities by Kenneth Brodey
Thirteen years ago Prospero was Adventure
Three friends, George, Harris and J
Crime robbed of his title and sent to die at Tragedy
need a change in their lives and Kindly Mr Allworthy returns home to
In an empty house lies a dead man. sea with his daughter. They made they decide to go on a bicycle trip find that someone has left a baby Doctor Faustus, a brilliant scholar,
There are no wounds on his body. their home on a remote island. One through the beautiful Black Forest boy in his house. He adopts him enters into an agreement with the
On the wall, the word RACHE – day a ship passes near the island. in Germany, where they meet with and names him Tom Jones. Devil. He agrees to sell his soul in
German for ‘revenge’ – is written in Prospero, now a powerful magician, all kinds of hilarious adventures as Mr Allworthy’s sister, Bridget, has a return for twenty-four years of
blood. With the help of his friend creates a big storm and makes it they get into and out of trouble… son called Blifil. What happens knowledge, power and riches. But
Doctor Watson can Sherlock sink. All the passengers manage to Dossiers: when Tom falls in love with a he eventually realises the full
Holmes use his deductive powers get to the island safely. The storm is The Golden Age of Bicycles neighbouring gentleman’s daughter, implications of his rash action.
to find the murderer? part of Prospero’s plan for revenge. The Black Forest Sophia, whose family want her to
Dossiers:
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Christopher Marlowe and
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Love
In the 1840s, a young woman is The great detective Sherlock A dramatic intrusion ends a long Late one night, on a lonely road
employed as governess to two Holmes is needed to solve a murder Catherine Sloper, an insignificant, family feud, a man is strangely near London, Walter Hartright, a
children in an English country house. in Sussex, England. A card with the plain girl, will one day inherit a influenced by his pets, a cat brings young drawing teacher, meets a
The children are beautiful and initials VV 341 has been left by the substantial fortune from her father. scandal to British society and a solitary woman dressed in white.
charming, and – for a while – the body, and discovering the facts of When her overwhelming passion for little boy battles to enjoy life with This is the opening scene of The
young woman thinks her position is the case gets ever more difficult. a handsome fortune hunter the help of his own personal god. Woman in White, a great Victorian
both easy and pleasant. Then she The answers to this mystery lie far transforms her dull existence, sensation novel full of mystery,
These are just a few of the amazing
begins to see the ghosts of the away from the scene of the crime Catherine’s distinguished father, excitement, and suspense.
stories created by Hector Hugh
former governess Miss Jessel and and across the Atlantic, in a place her interfering aunt and her selfish Dossier:
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the manservant Peter Quint... known as ‘The Valley of Fear’. lover all play with her feelings to Victorian Asylums
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Kenneth Brodey and Kenneth Brodey
Mystery & horror Love
Pip is destined to become a village
Love Mystery & horror
A fascination with science and the blacksmith, but a chance meeting A rich man with a mysterious past
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, aspiration to understand the Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) with an escaped prisoner and the hosts Long Island’s most extravagant
clever and rich, has a perfect life. mysteries of creation lead Victor takes student Malcolm Malcolmson acquaintance of an eccentric old parties, while he desperately seeks
She has decided never to get Frankenstein to create life from through a terrifying ordeal inside a woman and a beautiful young girl his long lost love.
married but to live as the mistress death. But the results are not what judge’s house. Travel, if you dare, change the course of his life. He is Scott Fitzgerald’s novel is both a
of Hartfield, her father’s house in he expects and his rejection of his in a ghostly coach – with three dead suddenly dissatisfied with his social pitiless and moving exposure of
the beautiful English countryside. monstrous creation causes dire men as your fellow passengers. Or status and wants to become a ‘the American Dream’.
But when she starts matchmaking consequences for himself and all visit the deadly House of Usher! But gentleman. But one day he
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Heart of Darkness Jane Eyre The Murders in the Pamela A Passage to India *
Joseph Conrad Charlotte Brönte Rue Morgue and Samuel Richardson E. M. Forster
Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Christopher Hall The Purloined Letter Adapted by Nancy Timmins Adapted by Maud Jackson
Activities by Louis Vaughan Activities by Tessa Vaughan Activities by Louis Vaughan
Love Edgar Allan Poe
Human interest Adapted by Graeme and Human interest Human interest
Plain orphaned Jane Eyre lives
Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels unwanted with her aunt and cousins Silvia Thomson
Pamela is a maid in a big country Adela Quested visits India with Mrs
through colonial Africa. He makes a until she is sent away to school. Additional activities by Kenneth Brodey
house. But, when her mistress dies, Moore to decide whether to marry
perilous journey by steamboat to There, hungry and humiliated, she Crime Pamela is left at the mercy of Mr B, the latter’s son, Ronny. Obsessed
rescue Kurtz, an ivory agent, who is grows and studies. When Jane her mistress’s son, who sets out to with understanding the ‘real India’,
seriously ill. He arrives at Kurtz’s leaves school to work as a governess Two cases of detection for
seduce her. Will Mr B succeed, or the two women make friends with
station to find that the agent has at the aristocratic Thornfield Manor Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s
will Pamela’s virtuous behaviour Dr Aziz, who invites them to the
taken control of the whole area. In owned by the intriguing Mr great detective.
find its own reward? A fascinating mysterious Marabar caves…
his complete isolation from civilised Rochester, she finally finds some Who committed the atrocious
study of the struggle for power Dossiers:
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between men and women. Hindus and Moslems in India, The
system of human sacrifice and are signals that the mysterious past the murderer get in, or out?
Will Dupin find the purloined letter Dossiers: British in India
magic to became the leader of the of Mr Rochester’s is about to return. English Country Houses and their
natives. and save the royal personage?
Dossiers: Where is the minister hiding it? Owners, Letters and the Postal FIRST TRINITY
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The Picture of Dorian Gray Pride and Prejudice The Problem of Cell 13 Robinson Crusoe The Scarlet Letter
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Love Love
Mystery & horror Mystery & horror Adventure
Mrs Bennet has five daughters to be In 17th-century Puritan Boston,
When the superbly handsome Dorian married: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty ‘Lock me in any cell in any prison When the captain tells Robinson, Hester Prynne gives birth to an
Gray sees his portrait he makes a and Lydia. So, when rich and friendly anywhere at any time, wearing only ‘Young man, you should never illegitimate child and is condemned to
terrible wish: that the portrait will Mr Bingley comes to live in their normal clothes and I’ll escape in a go to sea again…’, Robinson wear the scarlet letter ‘A’ as a sign of
grow older and that he will remain village bringing an even richer, but week.’ ignores his advice, with terrible her adultery. Hester refuses to reveal
young forever. But what happens to unfriendly, Mr Darcy with him, Mrs For Professor Van Dusen, otherwise consequences. He is forced into the identity of her lover, and is forced
the portrait that no one ever sees? Bennet is delighted and hopeful. known as ‘The Thinking Machine’, slavery and escapes, but he is then to lead a life of humiliation.
A brilliant and disturbing story of a However, something goes wrong, as nothing is impossible. Logic is his shipwrecked on a desert island, Meanwhile, Hester’s husband settles
man who is willing to sell his soul for Mr Bingley loses interest in Jane and passion. One hour later he finds where he manages to survive in Boston and, after making her swear
eternal youth, while he pursues Mr Darcy and Elizabeth clearly dislike himself locked up in Chisholm through resourcefulness and luck. to keep his identity secret, tries to
pleasure and passion. each other... or do they? prison and has to use all his mental Dossiers: discover who Hester’s secret lover is.
Dossiers: Dossiers: resources to find the solution to the The Slave Trade, Shipwrecks, Dossiers:
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Sense and Sensibility Sons and Lovers A Tale of Two Cities The Taming of the Shrew Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Jane Austen D. H. Lawrence Charles Dickens William Shakespeare Thomas Hardy
Adapted by Blanche Malvern Adapted by Blanche Malvern Adapted by James Butler Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Maud Jackson
Activities by Jane Cammack Activities by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Kenneth Brodey and Lucia De Vanna Activities by James Tierney
Love Love Adventure Humour & comedy Love
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are Mrs Morel is a strong, intelligent, Dr Manette is falsely imprisoned for Baptista’s two beautiful daughters The Durbeyfield family are poor and
sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, domineering woman. She is 18 years by the Marquis of are ready for marriage. Bianca, simple people, but their ancestors
charming, and beautiful, but there the antagonistic to her husband and Evrémonde. He is eventually pursued by three different suitors, were the mighty d’Urbervilles, an
similarities end. Elinor values gives all her love to her sons. The released and goes to England to cannot marry until someone dares to ancient and noble family. When the
propriety and common sense; Morels’ younger son, Paul, grows join his daughter Lucie, who marries marry her sister, the proud and Durbeyfields meet with misfortune,
Marianne, by contrast, has up close to his mother. As he grows the Frenchman Charles Darnay of contemptuous Katharine. Then they send their oldest daughter,
extravagant Romantic ideas. In this up, he is torn between a passionate the Evrémonde family. During the Petruchio arrives in Padua and Tess, to visit her wealthy cousin
brilliant novel, Jane Austen explores love for his mother and his lovers, Reign of Terror Darnay travels to proposes to Katharine. Will he be and ask for help, but the wealthy
two different ways of thinking and first Miriam and then Clara. Paris where he is imprisoned and able to turn her into a model of cousin has a young son, Alec
acting – the ‘sense’ of Elinor and the Dossiers: sentenced to be executed... devotion and obedience? Stoke-d’Urberville, who finds Tess
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to find happiness in a world full of Women’s Social and Political Union The French Revolution, The French Shakespeare and English Comedy, Dossiers:
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Vanity Fair Wuthering Heights The Mill on the Floss Silas Marner Wuthering Heights
Reading & Training

William Makepeace Thackeray Emily Brontë George Eliot George Eliot Emily Brontë
Adapted by James Butler Adapted by Maud Jackson Adapted by Maud Jackson Adapted by Maud Jackson Adapted by Maud Jackson
Activities by Kenneth Brodey Activities by Justin Rainey Activities by Justin Rainey Activities by Justin Rainey Activities by Justin Rainey
and Robert Hill
Human interest Love Human interest Love
Love
Amelia Sedley and Becky Sharp are Wuthering Heights is home to the Silas, a weaver, is betrayed by his Wuthering Heights is home to the
two friends. Amelia comes from a Earnshaw family, who adopt an Maggie and Tom Tulliver are sister best friend and the woman he Earnshaw family, who adopt an
wealthy family but her father is made orphan called Heathcliff. When they and brother. Maggie is passionate, loves. He loses all faith in humanity orphan called Heathcliff. Catherine
bankrupt. She marries George grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and impulsive, intelligent and often and moves to the village of Earnshaw becomes great friends
Osborne, a vain and shallow young Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But makes mistakes. Tom is practical, Raveloe. There he lives a solitary with Heathcliff and they fall in love.
man who does not really love her. Catherine decides to marry Edgar unimaginative, judgemental, honest life, working and hoarding his gold But Catherine decides to marry
Becky Sharp, on the other hand, Linton from the big house across the and hardworking. When their father coins, until one day his gold is Edgar Linton since she feels it
comes from a penniless family, and moors. Heathcliff runs away in is declared bankrupt, Tom works stolen… would degrade her to marry
is determined to use her beauty and despair. When he returns some hard to pay his father’s debts, while Dossiers: Heathcliff. Desperate without his
charm to find a good position in life. years later, a series of terrible events Maggie forms unsuitable Evolutionary Theory, Weaving and Catherine, Heathcliff runs away. But
Dossiers: destroys the relationship between friendships and is eventually the Industrial Revolution when he returns a few years later a
Thackeray and Waterloo, A Critic’s the Lintons and the Earnshaws. ostracised by her family and local series of events starts to destroy
Assessment of ‘Vanity Fair’ Dossier: society. Step Six C1 the relationship between the
A Family of Writers Dossier: Lintons and the Earnshaws.
FIRST TRINITY The ‘Woman Question’ in Victorian Dossier:
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Step Five B2.2 Brontë Children
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EAR – EARLYREADS English-speaking World (The) 59 Katherine Mansfield Short Stories 48 Nutcracker (The) 22 Splintering Frame (The) 61
GA – GREEN APPLE Enormous Turnip (The) 10 Kidnapped 38 Oliver Twist 31 Star and the Colours (The) 10
RT – READING & TRAINING Exploring Places 59 Kim 42 Oscar Wilde’s Short Stories 31 Stories for the Curious 35
RC – READING CLASSICS Festivals! 16 King Arthur and his Knights 30 Othello 50 Stories of Ghosts and Mystery 40
IL – INTERACT WITH LITERATURE Final Problem and Other Stories (The) 41 Last of the Mohicans (The) 48 Owl’s Song (The) 12 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
£1,000,000 Banknote (The) 41 Fisherman and his Soul (The) 37 Last Unicorn (The) 26 Pamela 54 and Mr Hyde (The) – RT 45
NE Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 30 Five Children and IT 21 Legends from the British Isles 27 Passage to India (A) – RT 54 Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
Adventures of Tom Sawyer (The) 24 Four Continents 62 N Les Misérables 43 Passage to India (A) – RC 63 and Mr Hyde (The) – RC 63
Aesop’s Fables 15 Frankenstein at School 15 Little Mermaid (The) 14 Peter and the Wolf 14 Study in Scarlet (A) 51
Akron House Mystery 24 Frankenstein – RT 53 Little Red Riding Hood 11 Peter Pan 22 Sweet and Sour 61
Aladdin 17 Frankenstein – RC 62 Little Women 27 Phantom of the Opera (The) 44 Tale of Two Cities (A) 56
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 17 Freddy Finds the Thief 15 London 58 Picture of Dorian Gray (The) – RT 55 Tales from The Thousand
Alice’s Adventures Ghost Ship of Bodega Bay (The) 21 Look Back in Anger 63 Picture of Dorian Gray (The) – RC 63 and One Nights 36
in Wonderland – GA 20 Gingerbread Man (The) 10 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime Pickwick Papers (The) 44 Tales of the Supernatural 45
Alice’s Adventures Gothic Short Stories 53 and Other Stories 43 N Pinocchio 22 Tales to Talk About 61
in Wonderland – RT 36 Lost Treasure of Bodega Bay (The) 27 Power and Ambition in Shakespeare 50 Taming of the Shrew (The) 56
Great Adventure at
Alien Alert in Seattle 34 Yellowstone (The) 25 Lost World (The) 38 Pride and Prejudice 55 Tempest (The) – GA 23
Amazing Characters 60 Great British Writers 58 Love in Shakespeare 43 Prince and the Pauper (The) 28 Tempest (The) – RT 51
American Cities 59 Great English Monarchs N Luckiest Girl in the World (The) 38 Problem of Cell 13 (The) 55 Ten Women Ten Stories 61
American Folk Tales 24 and their Times 30 Macbeth – GA Drama 32 Project Vampire 28 Tess of the D’Urbervilles 56
American Horror 46 Great Expectations – GA 26 Macbeth – RT 48 Puss in Boots 16 Three Men in a Boat 45
Animal Tales 36 Great Expectations – RT 53 Mad Teacher (The) 11 N Rain, Rain, Go Away! 44 Three Men on the Bummel 51
Anne of Green Gables 20 Great Gatsby (The) – RT 53 Maggie and Max Visit the Railway Children (The) 28
Around the World in Eighty Days 37 Three Musketeers (The) 45
Great Gatsby (The) – RC 63 Haunted Castle 13 Rajah’s Diamond (The) 39 Time Games 40
Bathsheba the Witch 20 Great Mysteries of Our World 41 Magic Computer Mouse (The) 15 Ransom of Red Chief
Beauty and the Beast 20 Tom Jones 51
Gulliver’s Travels 42 Magic Pot (The) 11 and Other Stories (The) 39 Tragedy of Dr Faustus (The) 51
Beowulf 47 Halloween Horror 21 Master of Ballantrae (The) 43 Rapunzel 12
Black Arrow (The) 25 Tragedy of Richard III (The) 46
Halloween… Magic, Witches Merchant of Venice (The) 49 Recipe for Success 35
Black Beauty 20 Treasure of Franchard (The) 29
and Vampires 26 Message from a Ghost (A) 34 Relationships 60
Bonds of Love 60 Treasure Island – GA 31
Halloween Holiday 17 Miami Police File: the O’Nell Case 34 Return of Sherlock Holmes (The) 44
N The Boscombe Valley Mystery 37 Treasure Island – RT 46
Hamlet Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – GA 27 Robin Hood 31
Bottle Imp (The) 25 Trip to the Safari Park (A) 10
Brave New World 62 N Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 47 Midsummer Night’s Dream (A) – RT 49 Robinson Crusoe – GA 28
Tristan and Isolde 36
British and American Festivities 25 Happy Prince and Mill on the Floss (The) 57 Robinson Crusoe – RT 55
True Story of Pocahontas (The) 29
British Isles (The) 59 The Selfish Giant (The) 21 Million Dollar Theft Rob Roy 39
Romeo and Juliet – GA Drama 32 The Truth about Professor Smith 36
Bugaboo the Wicked Witch 13 Heart of Darkness – RT 54 in San Francisco 31
Romeo and Juliet – RT 44 Turn of the Screw (The) – RT 52
Call of the Wild (The) 30 Heart of Darkness – RC 63 Mind the Characters 60
Miss Grace Green Room with a View (A) – RC 63 Turn of the Screw (The) – RC 63
Canterbury Tales (The) 47 Henny Penny 11
and the Clown Brothers 12 Sandokan 21 Twelfth Night 46
Canterville Ghost (The) – EAR 18 Home for Christmas 34
Missing in Sydney 34 Scarlet Letter (The) 55 Two Monsters 18
Canterville Ghost (The) – GA 25 Hound of the Baskervilles (The) 42
Moby Dick 49 Secret Garden (The) – GA 23 Ugly Duckling (The) 11
Canterville Ghost (The) – RT 41 House of the Seven Gables (The) 48
Christmas Carol (A) – RT 47 I Want To Be You 26 Monster in the Box 14 Secret Garden (The) – RT 40 Valley of Fear (The) 52
Christmas Carol (A) – RC 62 Ideal Husband (An) 60 Moonfleet 43 Secret of the Stones (The) 23 Vampire’s Tear (The) 46
Christmas Fun 18 Importance Moonstone (The) 49 Sense and Sensibility 56 Vanity Fair 57
Cinderella 13 of Being Earnest (The) – IL 60 Morte d’Arthur (Le) 49 Seven Short Stories 63 Voices from Inside 61
Classic Detective Stories 41 Importance Mowgli learns to swim 12 Sherlock Holmes and the Red Circle 29 Washington Square 52
David Copperfield 30 of Being Earnest (The) – RC 63 Mrs Dalloway 63 Sherlock Holmes Investigates 45 Waiting for Godot 63
Dorothy 10 Jack the Ripper 48 Much Ado About Nothing 50 Sherlock Holmes Stories 35 Wicked and Humorous Tales 52
Dracula 47 Jane Eyre – RT Step 3 42 Murder at Coyote Canyon 39 Short Stories Willing Ghost (The) 40
Dracula and his Family 15 Jane Eyre – RT Step 5 54 Murders in the Rue Morgue and – Dickens, Stevenson et al. 63 Wind in the Willows (The) 23
Dream Come True (A) 37 Jason and the Argonauts 26 The Purloined Letter (The) 54 – Oscar Wilde 63 Woman in White (The) 52
Index
Dubliners Journey to the Centre of the Earth 38 N Musicians of Bremen (The) 13 Sign of Four (The) 50 Wonderful Wizard of Oz (The) 23
– A selection from 62 Julius Caesar 42 Mystery in New Orleans 39 Silas Marner 57 World of Difference (A) 61
– Complete edition 62 Jumping Frog (The) 38 Mystery in San Francisco 28 Sleeping Beauty 16 Wuthering Heights – RT Step 5 57
Emma 53 Jungle Book (The) – EAR 13 Natural Environments 59 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 18 Wuthering Heights – RT Step 6 57
Eighth Sister (The) 37 Jungle Book (The) – GA 21 Nasreddin – Ten Stories 18 Sons and Lovers 56 Zed the Magician 18
Empire Tales 62 Just So Stories 22 Northanger Abbey 50 Space Monsters 16 Zorro! 24
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