Pearson English Readers

Something for Everyone!

From original titles to film adaptations, from classics to comedies and plays, our readers stay true to the original texts but are underpinned by extensively researched grammar and vocabulary syllabuses meaning your students read real books in language they understand... while all the time improving their language skills.

Maisie and the Dolphin

EASYSTARTS

Stephen Rabley

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?

British English

ISBN: 9781405880633

Simon and the Spy

EASYSTARTS

Elizabeth Laird

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?

British English

ISBN: 9781405880671

Marcel and the Mona Lisa

EASYSTARTS

Stephen Rabley

Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. One evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting – the Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the painting back again.

British English

ISBN: 9781405880640

The Last Photo

EASYSTARTS

Bernard Smith

Pam and Martin visit Cambridge.Pam takes a photo, but a man walksin front of her. Later Martin sees apicture of a man in a newspaper. Thepolice want this man. Is he the sameman? And where is he now? DoesPam’s photo have the answers?

British English

ISBN: 9781405880602

The Missing Coins

LEVEL 1

John Escott

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.

British English

ISBN: 9781405876681

Rip van Winkle and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow

LEVEL 1

Washington Irving

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?

American English

ISBN: 9781405878180

Marcel and the Shakespeare Letters

LEVEL 1

Stephen Rabley

Marcel visits his friend, Henry, in London. Henry knows a professor and he has some very interesting letters – by William Shakespeare! Marcel and Henry want to see the letters, but they are not in the professor’s flat.

British English

ISBN: 9781405878111

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

LEVEL 1

Mark Twain

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?

American English

ISBN: 9781405842778

A Christmas Carol

LEVEL 2

Charles Dickens

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?

British English

ISBN: 9781408278017

The Room in the Tower and Other Stories

LEVEL 2

Rudyard Kipling

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?

British English

ISBN: 9781408285176

The Prince and the Pauper

LEVEL 2

Mark Twain

Two babies are born on the same day in England. One boy is a prince and the other boy is from a very poor family. Ten years later, they change places for a game. But then the old king dies and they cannot change back. Will the poor boy be the new King of England?

British English

ISBN: 9781408278130

Marvel Studios’ Captain America: The First Avenger

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?

American English

ISBN: 9781292347462

Marvel - Ant-Man and the Wasp

LEVEL 2

Jane Rollason

American English

ISBN: 9781292347455

Three Short Stories Of Sherlock Holmes

LEVEL 2

Stephen Rabley

Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student saw the exam paper before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith?

British English

ISBN: 9781408277980

Marvel's Thor: Ragnarok

American English

ISBN: 9781292347493

Marvel Studios’ Black Panther

LEVEL 3

Lynda Edwards

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?

American English

ISBN: 9781292347479

Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange

LEVEL 3

Mary Tomalin

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?

American English

ISBN: 9781292347486

The Climb

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

Braveheart

LEVEL 3

Randall Wallace

‘Sons of Scotland! You have come here to fight as free men. If you fight, perhaps you’ll die. If you run, you may live for a time. But, at what cost?’ Braveheart is the story of William Wallace, who gave hope to Scottish people in their fight to be free.

British English

ISBN: 9781292099347

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

LEVEL 3

Robert Louis Stevenson

Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he?

British English

ISBN: 9781447925460

The No.1 Ladie's Detective Agency

LEVEL 3

Alexander McCall Smith

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 JLB 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

K’s First Case

LEVEL 3

L.G. Alexander

Katrina Kirby is a detective. People call her ‘K’. There has been a murder in a big country house. ‘K’ knows that one of five people murdered Sir Michael Gray. Who did it? How? Why? This is a detective story with a difference: K’ needs your help with her case.

British English

ISBN: 9781447925637

The Black Cat and Other Stories

LEVEL 3

Edgar Allan Poe

Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night!

British English

ISBN: 9781447925385

The Ring

LEVEL 3

Bernard Smith

ISBN: 9781447925781

Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

LEVEL 4

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In these three stories we meet a young woman who is terrified of a mysterious ‘speckled band’, a family who think that five orange pips are a sign of death, and a banker who believes that his son is a thief.

British English

ISBN: 9781408294468

1984

LEVEL 4

George Orwell

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people’s lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible?

British English

ISBN: 9781408294222

Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel

Level 4

Karen Holmes

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.

American English

ISBN: 9781292347509

The Canterville Ghostand Other Stories

LEVEL 4

Oscar Wilde

The famous Canterville Ghost hauntsan old house, but the ghost becomesunhappy when the new owners playtricks on him! In the other stories, wemeet Lord Arthur Savile, who has tomurder someone before he can getmarried, and we discover the secretlife of beautiful Lady Alroy.

British English

ISBN: 9781408289518

The Client

LEVEL 4

John Grisham

Mark Sway is eleven and he knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. Some secrets are so dangerous that it’s better not to tell. But it’s just as dangerous if you don’t. So Mark needs help fast... because there isn’t much time.

British English

ISBN: 9781408294253

The Diary of a Young Girl

LEVEL 4

Anne Frank

It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hide. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best – until they are finally discovered. Anne Frank was a real person, and this is her diary.

British English

ISBN: 9781408294277

Rebecca

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

Marvel Studios’ Avengers: End Game

LEVEL 5

Lynda Edwards

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”?

American English

ISBN: 9781292347516

Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Infinity War

LEVEL 5

Mary Tomalin

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?

American English

ISBN: 9781292347523

Taste and Other Tales

LEVEL 5

Roald Dahl

In this collection of Roald Dahl’s finest storieswe meet some quite ordinary people whobehave in extraordinary ways. There is a manwho is sure he can hear plants scream andthe wife who discovers a perfect way to getrid of her husband. And there’s a womanwho finds an unusual use for a leg of lamb…

British English

ISBN: 9781408276648

Tales of Mystery and Imagination

LEVEL 5

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe, ‘the father of the detective story’ and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental illness and death. Which of them will win – and which will lose – their battles?

British English

ISBN: 9781408276624

The Body

LEVEL 5

Stephen King

Gordie Lanchance and his three friends are always ready for adventure. When they hear about a dead body in the forest they go to look for it. Then they discover how cruel the world can be.

American English

ISBN: 9781405882378