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EASYSTARTS
Stephen Rabley
Original / British English
Maisie King lives in the Bahamas. Her mother and father work at an Animal Hospital. Maisie has a new friend. His name is Ben and he’s a dolphin. Ben is very ill. Maisie helps him. Then Maisie has a big problem. Can Ben help her?
ISBN: 9781405880633
EASYSTARTS
Original / British English
Original / British English
Simon Simple is going on holiday and the police are looking for a spy. On the train, Simon meets a beautiful girl. He likes her and she likes him. But the spy is there too. Simon and the police can’t see the spy. Can you?
ISBN: 9781405880671
LEVEL 1
John Escott
Original / British English
Pete and Carla are students. One day they look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, but they are very expensive. Later that day some coins are missing from the shop – and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete.
ISBN: 9781405876681
LEVEL 1
Washington Irving
Classic / American English
Rip Van Winkle walks into the mountains one day and meets some strange old men. He comes home twenty years later. One dark night, Ichabod Crane is riding home and sees a man on a black horse behind him. The man has no head. Are there ghosts in these stories? What do you think?
ISBN: 9781405878180
LEVEL 1
Precious Ramotswe is a kind, warm-hearted and large African lady. She is also the only female private detective in Botswana. Her agency – the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency – is the best in the country. With help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult problems.
A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child – she will solve these mysteries in her own special way.
ISBN: 9781405881982
LEVEL 1
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 places—and why is he afraid?
ISBN: 9781405842778
LEVEL 1
Scott Lang is a loving father to Cassie, but he is also Ant-Man. When Avengers fought Avengers in Germany, he was there. He is now under arrest and cannot leave his home. But Hope—The Wasp—and her father have an important job for him … now. Can he leave his home and his daughter? The FBI are watching and will send him to prison. But can he really do nothing? Will Ant-Man fly again?
ISBN: 9781292347455
LEVEL 2
Charles Dickens
Classic / British English
Scrooge is a cold, hard man. He loves money, and he doesn’t like people. He really doesn’t like Christmas. But when some ghosts visit him, they show him his past life, his life now, and a possible future. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change?
ISBN: 9781408278017
LEVEL 2
Rudyard Kipling
Classic / British English
Three stories, three ghosts. A young woman marries an older man. His first wife is dead. Or is she …? Why does a dead man walk through his house each night? An old woman has a house with a tower. Why does she visit a young man in his dreams?
ISBN: 9781408285176
LEVEL 2
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, and Hawkeye are the Avengers — and they are Earth’s only hope
ISBN: 9781292208169
LEVEL 2
Steve Rogers wants to fight for his country, but he is a small, weak man. The United States Army doesn’t want him. Then a super serum changes him—suddenly, Steve is tall and very strong. Can the new Steve Rogers be a soldier? Can he save his country—and the world?
ISBN: 9781292347462
LEVEL 3
The older son of Odin, King of Asgard, is strong and brave — but also proud and thoughtless. When Thor’s actions put Asgard in great danger from its enemies, Odin sends him away, without his powers, to Earth.Can Thor become wiser, far from home? Will he ever be able to return to Asgard? And what will he find if he does?
ISBN: 9781292208206
LEVEL 3
Based on the original script by James Mathieson
Alone, without the Doctor, Clara discovers a new danger from another dimension. But how do you hide when even the walls give no protection? People need help and the Doctor can’t leave the TARDIS. And Clara has to fight an enemy that can’t be seen.
ISBN: 9781292208176
Level 3
Original / British English
A mysterious stranger has come to the island where Costas lives. Why is the man there, and why is he looking at Eagle’s Rock? Costas wants to be the first person to climb the dangerous rock. But will the stranger climb it first?
ISBN: 9781447925415
LEVEL 3
The Avengers are superheroes with very special powers who defend the world against its enemies. Recently, though, they have made mistakes. Governments decide that the team will need permission for future fights. Some Avengers are happy to sign an agreement. Others angrily refuse. Suddenly Avengers are fighting Avengers.Will the superheroes realize in time who their real enemy is?
ISBN: 9781292205915
LEVEL 3
For thousands of years, tall mountains and thick forests have hidden the African country of Wakanda from the world. Using vibranium, the world’s strongest metal, Wakanda is now also protected by its technology. After his father’s death, T’Challa returns there to take his place as king. But then deadly challengers to his position appear. Can he protect his country from them? And when the fighting ends, will he still be king?
ISBN: 9781292347479
LEVEL 3
While Thor, the God of Thunder, is a prisoner of the King of Muspelheim, the King describes his terrible plans for Asgard, Thor’s home. Thor realizes then that he has to escape immediately—but how? And if he reaches Asgard, what will he find? Are other enemies also preparing to attack? Can Thor save his home, or will he have to accept Ragnarok—the end of Asgard?
ISBN: 9781292347493
LEVEL 3
When Dr. Stephen Strange, one of the world’s greatest surgeons, has a terrible car accident, his life changes completely. His hands are badly damaged, and he cannot work as a surgeon again. Then Strange learns about a mysterious place called Kamar-Taj, in Nepal. What happens there, and can it help him? Will it change his life again—forever?
ISBN: 9781292347486
Level 4
When Peter Quill finds the Orb, he doesn’t know that it is a stone with unimaginable power that everyone is looking for. Soon he is being chased by outlaws and aliens. But the real enemy is Ronan the Accuser, who wants to use the Orb’s power to control the galaxy.
Can Peter bring together a strange group of new friends and keep the Orb out of Ronan’s hands — or will Ronan win this fight?
ISBN: 9781292208220
Level 4
For six years, Vers has lived as a Kree on their planet, Hala. Now a trained soldier, she joins a team fighting with the Kree against their enemies, the Skrulls. But Vers has terrible, frightening dreams, and cannot remember her past. Who is she really? And is the war what it seems? On C-53, the planet known as Earth, she is going to find out.
ISBN: 9781292347509
LEVEL 5
Classic / British English
After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?
ISBN: 9781405862479
LEVEL 5
Thanos, a cruel, violent warlord, has used the Infinity Stones to destroy half of all life in the universe. The remaining Avengers feel guilt and pain at the loss of so many lives. Is there anything that they and their friends can do to destroy Thanos and to change the past? Can they even find a way to bring back “the disappeared”?
ISBN: 9781292347516
LEVEL 5
Thanos, a cruel, violent warlord, is searching the universe for the Infinity Stones, which will give him unbelievable power and allow him to achieve an unspeakably evil goal. The greatest super heroes in the galaxy unite in an attempt to stop him, but can they succeed—or is Thanos too powerful even for them?
ISBN: 9781292347523
LEVEL 5
Jules Verne
Classic / British English
Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. There are many dangers along the way – and a detective who wants to arrest him!
ISBN: 9781408276532