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Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean and lonely businessman who despises the meaning of Christmas until one Christmas Eve when he is visited by the ghosts of his past, present and future…

Captain Jack Absolute becomes his own rival in love; Lady Teazle hides behind a screen to avoid a comprising scandal. Here are two classic, comic gems, complete with gossips, lovers, fools and duels.

An award winning novel concerning the plight of the 'Okies' - the refugee farmers and sharecroppers fleeing the dustbowl of Oklahoma. Attracted by the golden promise of California, they meet only with abject hostility, shame and destitution.

Don Quixote wants a different life, so he leaves his village with Sancho Panza. The two men want to be a knight and his squire from an earlier age. Will they find adventures? Will they be famous? Wil

Its a lovely sunny day in Loony Town. The sky is blue and Kate and Charlie are playing in the park.But when Kate looks up she sees a fish flying in the sky. Then the mice start chasing the cats and the cats start chasing the dogs.The world is upside down!Now Kate and Charlie must put everything back in its place again.

In the middle of the sea, far far away, there is a blue island. On the island everything is blue: the houses, the fields, the trees and the butterflies.One day, after a storm, Jay finds a wooden box on the beach. The box is full of seeds and Jay and his mother and father plant them in their garden. But when the seeds grow there is a wonderful surprise for Jay and his family.

Zadie lives for sport. From football to running, its the biggest thing in her life.Zadie is preparing for a big race a race she really wants to win. But one evening while she is out training, she is involved in an accident and she finds herself in a race of life and death.Will she win the biggest race of her life?

Ideal for elementary learners of English looking to improve or practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading. Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse ...

The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights. When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

Jane Eyre is alone in the world. Disliked by her aunt's family, she is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor family to support her, can expect little from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr Rochester, she hopes she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night, behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.

Pre-1900 and modern writers are compared and contrasted in pairs. Authors include: D.H. Lawrence, V.S. Naipaul, Penelope Lively, Doris Lessing, Susan Hill, Graham Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens and others.

Moose lives on Alcatraz Island, home to the notorious prison and the infamous gangster, Al Capone. But living right down the street from theives and murderers is not Moose's only problem. His Dad's always working and his mum expects him to look after his autistic sister, Natalie. And when Moose gets mixed up with Piper, the warden's daughter, he soon finds out that life on Alcatraz in far from straightforward.

Everybody, it seems, is looking for the statue of a bird, and some of them are dying. Who has the bird? Who knows where it is? Who is telling the truth? Who knows what the truth is? Sam Spade one of the great private detectives of American fiction has a new client, and it is his job to find out.

White Fang is born part-dog, part-wolf, in the cold and snowy Northland of Alaska. He soon learns the laws of nature and before long he and his mother, Kiche, are fighting for survival. One day a native American, Gray Beaver, recognises Kiche and soon the mother and cub become his property. White Fang learns that men have laws, too, that can be both fair and cruel.But will White Fang ever learn to trust or love men?

It is Callie Rose's sixteenth birthday and she has a bomb in her bag. Callie Rose is mixed race in a country where people are judged by their colour. Her father is dead and she hates her mother. Her Uncle Jude seems to offer her friendship and comfort - but Jude wants to punish Callie Rose's mother and use his niece in his war against society ...

Dominoes are full colour readers with extensive Activities and Project pages. Quick Starters are the same level as Starter with shorter, simpler stories. They are suitable for students who need more support in their reading than is provided by traditional readers. The Activities and Projects can be used either in class or as homework.

Ideal for elementary or pre-intermediate learners of English looking to improve and practise their English. The book is filled with useful vocabulary that is carefully graded and easy to understand, it also comes with audio, so that you can listen to the story at the same time as reading.'He's great, Vera,' said Angie.When Viktor Sarav takes a job at Ballantine's, Angie and her brother Don - the young owners of the New York fashion company - are pleased. But soon there are strange deaths in the company. Is there a vampire at work at Ballantine's? Vera Donato, a company director with secrets to hide, is against Viktor. But Ed Valdemar, the company lawyer, trusts him. Who is right?

1877. The American Civil War is raging and Dick Dudgeon is the Devil, s Disciple, the black sheep in a self-righteous puritan family. But, then trapped in the house of the rebel leader, his mistaken identity leads him towards the gallows... and an act of heroism.

A good portrait is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter. I am afraid I show my soul in this painting.Tag FantasyIn this Reader you will find: - Information about Oscar Wildes life - Sections focusing on background and context - Glossary of difficult words - Comprehension activities - PET-style activities - Exit testLate nineteenth-century London: a city of contrasts. Great wealth and terrible poverty, beauty and ugliness, purity and immorality. Oscar Wilde takes the reader into this strange and fascinating world through the strange story of the picture of Dorian Gray. Young, handsome and innocent, the aristocratic Dorian is visiting his friend, the kind and gentle painter Basil Hallward, when he meets Lord Henry Wotton. Entertaining and cynical, Lord Henry introduces Dorian to the idea of a world where the only value is beauty, and everything must serve this ideal. But how can Dorian survive ageing and ugliness? In front of his beautiful portrait, painted by Hallward, Dorian makes a terrible wish. This wish will come true, dragging Dorian into a world of the senses, of beauty and joy, but also of terror, of fear and ultimately of murder

Can You Do What I Can Do? appointing all that can make a child get. A lot of activities and also many emotions to feel and express.Can You Do What I Can Do? nombra todo aquello que puede llegar hacer un niño. Un sinfin de actividades y tambien muchas emociones a sentir y a expresar.