The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea.
But there they are in someone else’s boat, drifting out to sea in a thick fog. When the fog lifts, they can turn round and sail back to the harbour. But then comes the wind and the storm, driving them out even further across the cold North Sea . . .
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Frances Hodgson Burnett - Jennifer Bassett - Little Lord Fauntleroy (Oxford Bookworms)
Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world.
But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather...
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden (Oxford Bookworms)
Egyszerűsített olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 3. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1000 szavas szókincs szükséges.
Ismeretlen szerző - Mickey's Holiday / Mickey vakációja
Mickey és barátai nyaralni mennek, és nagyszerűen szórakoznak - még akkor is, ha a móka és a játék nem mindig úgy végződik, ahogyan szeretnénk.
- Vidám Disney-mese angolul.
- Párhuzamos fordítás, kiemelt kulcsszavak minden oldalon.
- Egyszerű szöveg kevés nyelvtudással rendelkező gyerekeknek.
Ismeretlen szerző - Thomas to the Rescue / Thomas a macskamentő
Amikor Edgar, a gonosz komornyik elrabolja őket, a macskák nagy bajban vannak. Thomas, a bátor kóbormacska menti meg őket.
- Vidám Disney-mese angolul.
- Párhuzamos fordítás, kiemelt kulcsszavak minden oldalon.
- Egyszerű szöveg kevés nyelvtudással rendelkező gyerekeknek.
Anna Sewell - John Escott - Black Beauty (Oxford Bookworms)
Egyszerűsített olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 4. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1400 szavas szókincs szükséges.
Ismeretlen szerző - Donald's Art Lesson / Donald rajzórája
Donald és a többiek a művészet rejtelmeibe merültek. De vajon milyen a jó kép? Piros? Sárga? Vagy kék? Donald hamar megtalálja a választ, és arra is rájön, hogy miért jó rajzolni, festeni, egyszóval: miért szeretjük a művészetet?
- Vidám Disney-mese angolul.
- Párhuzamos fordítás, kiemelt kulcsszavak minden oldalon.
- Egyszerű szöveg kevés nyelvtudással rendelkező gyerekeknek.
Ferenc Molnár - The Paul Street Boys (Bluebird Reader's Academy)
B1 szint Bluebird Readers Academy sorozat: Ismert magyar irodalmi mûvek rövidített változatainak angol fordításai három nyelvi szinten • nyelvvizsgára, érettségire készülõknek • kikapcsolódásra vágyó nyelvtanulóknak • átfogó szószedettel és szövegértési feladatokkal
Thomas Hardy - Tales from Longpuddle (Oxford Bookworms)
Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it.
These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
Ismeretlen szerző - Lady Runs Away / Suzy világgá megy
Suzy élete elviselhetetlenné válik, amikor Sarah néni eljön a ronda macskáival. A bátor kis kutya elszökik, és találkozik Tekergővel, a kóbor kutyával, akiről kiderül, hogy igaz barát.
- Vidám Disney-mese angolul
- Párhuzamos fordítás, kiemelt kulcsszavak minden oldalon.
- Egyszerű szöveg kevés nyelvtudással rendelkező gyerekeknek.
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Readers)
Unhappy with life after his adventures with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn runs away from home. He meets Jim, a runaway slave, and they travel down the Mississippi River searching for freedom. Mark Twain's classic sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Mark Twain - Nick Bullard - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Oxford Bookworms)
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.
C. S. Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia - Lucy's Adventure
Lucy Pevensie and her brothers and sister are evacuated from wartime London,but she terribly sad, and cannot understand hy she is being sent far away from her beloved home and mothe
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Readers)
From the famous episodes of the whitewashed fence and the ordeal in the cave to the trial of Injun Joe, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is redolent of life in the Mississippi River towns in which Twain spent his own youth. A somber undercurrent flows through the high humor and unabashed nostalgia of the novel, however, for beneath the innocence of childhood lie the inequities of adult reality - base emotions and superstitions, murder and revenge, starvation and slavery.
Meg Cabot - Holiday Princess
A princess always knows how to celebrate the holidays. There's Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Chinese New Year, Saturnalia ... to name just a few.
Then there's gift giving, the royal Genovian Fabergé advent calendar, hot chocolate with marshmallows—oh, and all those fabulous holiday movies.
How will YOU celebrate this holiday season? Mia and her subjects have a few ideas.
C. S. Forester - Mr Midshipman Hornblower (Oxford Bookworms)
'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.'
But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself.
Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Long cherished by readers of all ages, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is both a hilarious account of an incorrigible truant and a powerful parable of innocence in conflict with the fallen adult world.
The mighty Mississippi River of the antebellum South gives the novel both its colorful backdrop and its narrative shape, as the runaways Huck and Jim—a young rebel against civilization allied with an escaped slave—drift down its length on a flimsy raft. Their journey, at times rollickingly funny but always deadly serious in its potential consequences, takes them ever deeper into the slave-holding South, and our appreciation of their shared humanity grows as we watch them travel physically farther from yet morally closer to the freedom they both passionately seek.
Noel Streatfeild - White Boots
Harriet Johnson has been sick, and her doctor recommends taking up ice skating to build up strength in her legs. At the ice rink, Harriet meets Lalla Ward. Harriet has three brothers - Alec, Toby and Edward - and they live with their parent over the shop owned by Mr Johnson. The only reason they can afford for Harriet to skate is that the doctor has arranged for her to get free entry to the rink, and Alec pays for hire of skating boots by doing a paper run. Lalla lives with her wealthy Aunt Claudia and Uncle David, as her parents are dead - they drowned when her father, a champion skater, took her mother skating on thin ice. Aunt Claudia is determined that Lalla will become a champion like her father. She is looked after by Nana, has lessons with a governess, Miss Goldthorpe ("Goldie"), and as well as daily skating lessons, she learns ballet and fencing.
Harriet and Lalla soon become best friends, as Lalla teaches Harriet to skate. However, Lalla's training does not leave her much free time to see Harriet away from the rink. However, this changes when Goldie and Uncle David decide it would be good for her if Harriet was able to share her lessons. Before long, Harriet is not only doing schoolwork with Lalla - she is also joining in ballet and fencing ... and she, too, is learning to skate well.
Zizou Corder - The Chase
Lionboy Trilogy #2
Charlie and his lion friends have made it safely to Venice, but it turns out that their journey has only just begun. King Boris's palace was meant to be a haven, but it's starting to feel more like a prison. When word arrives from the cat grapevine that his parents are not being held in Italy after all, Charlie knows he must take fast action. Luckily a new ally has come on the scene-and just in the knick of time: Rafi is in hot pursuit.
This second book in the Lionboy trilogy is even more action-packed than the first, offering clever escapes, shipwreck, a prehistoric beast named Primo who will prove himself a great hero, and surprises that will shock and delight. It's an exhilarating, suspenseful whirlwind of a story, and readers will be clamoring for more.
Zizou Corder - The Truth
Lionboy Trilogy #3
At the end of LIONBOY: THE CHASE Charlie Ashanti has restored the lions to their home in the wilds of Morocco and been reunited in the port town of Essaouira with his parents, Magdalen and Aneba. But just as Charlie is beginning to think that his adventures might be over, who should reappear but the nasty lion-tamer Maccomo and the raffish Rafi. Before he knows it, Charlie has been kidnapped once again and is in the hold of a ship bound he knows not where.
All is not lost, however. Eventually the entire cast of the LIONBOY trilogy find themselves on a Caribbean island, the home of the sinister Corporacy. Can Charlie bring the story to a triumphant conclusion by vanquishing the Corporacy and ridding the world of its nefarious schemes?
Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows (Oxford Bookworms)
Egyszerűsített olvasmány angol nyelven. Hasznos segítség a nyelvtanulásban. A kötet 3. nehézségi fokozatú, az olvasásához kb. 1000 szavas szókincs szükséges.
"Oxford Bookworms Stage 3"
Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars-goes mad about them in fact...