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Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green KnoweTolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic.

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Suitable for younger learners Word count 5,310

Suitable for younger learners Word count 10,710 Bestseller

[Penguin Readers Level 2]'All for one and one for all' is the motto of the Three Musketeers. Young d'Artagnan wants to fight for the King and his country, but other fights and adventures come first. Who are the Three Musketeers and why do they want to kill him?

Some time after their eventful trip on the river, George, Harris and J suffer a renewed attack of itchy feet and decide to take off on a 'bummel'. However they find that they get into more than a few scrapes on their cycling jaunt in Germany

Un barco, que navega rumbo a Guinea en busca de esclavos, naufraga a causa de una impotente tormenta. Toda la tripulación desaparece, salvo un hombre, Robinson Crusoe, que consigue alcanzar la costa de una isla desierta, sólo frecuentada por antropófagos. Durante veintiocho años cultiva la tierra, cría ganado y afronta su soledad hasta que salva de los caníbales a Viernes, que se convierte en su fiel compañero.

Tras el auge del romanticismo en Inglaterra, el misterio cae como la niebla sobre las calles de la mítica Albión. Proliferan novelas en las que los fantasmas se apoderan dl alma de los vivos hasta la obsesión, las vidas marcadas pro destinos infaustos, los personajes lejanos que buscan la inmortalidad y ganan por amor... al mismo diablo. No es sino el manierismo del gusto romántico por las novelas de misterio, por el amor a los parajes desconocidos y llenos de historia y ruinas. Pero Drácula, pese a beber de esta tradición y esta corriente, es mucho más que una novela gótica. Drácula, encarnación viviente de las fuerzas del mal, se apodera del lector para hacer del vampiro un héroe. En Drácula el mito del vampiro, asombrósamente bien documentado de acuerdo a las tradiciones más oscuras y demoníacas, entabla una lucha a muerte contra el espíritu racional capaz de vencer a las fuerzas del mal. Realmente no es una casualidad que Bram Stoker, su autor, fuese miembro alternativamente de sociedades literarias y científicas. El darwinismo imponía en la época su racionalidad, los mitos caían ante la fuerza de la lógica y la capacidad del hombre por descubrir, y Stoker se enfrentó a un mito, Drácula, con la fuerza del hombre de su tiempo, encarnado en Van Helsing.

"If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what to you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you think? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them."--Back cover

When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.