Kate, Mike and Carlos go on another trip to Bodega Bay near San Francisco, where more than a year ago they found a pirate’s old treasure map. An incredibly exciting and dangerous adventure awaits them…
Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert want a boy from the orphanage to help them on their farm, but the orphanage sends them Anne, a funny little girl with long red hair who gets up to all…
The Emperor of China invites the nightingale of the forest to stay at court. She sings beautifully and everyone loves her. Things change when a colourful artificial bird arrives in the palace. The nightingale is…
Ten Women, Ten Stories. A task-based approach to analysis of short stories by Antonella Mignani Love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, happy memories, a mythical creature and an uneventful shopping trip to an ordinary supermarket are only…
It is 1872. Phileas Fogg, a precise, calm, English Gentleman lives a quiet life. That is, until he makes a £20,000 bet with his friends at the Reform Club and begins an incredible journey. In…
Wuthering Heights is home to the Earnshaw family, who adopt an orphan called Heathcliff. When they grow up, Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff fall deeply in love. But Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton from the…
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are sisters. Both are intelligent, sensitive, charming, and beautiful, but there the similarities end. Elinor values propriety and common sense; she is prudent and cautious with a strong sense of duty….
A beautiful young woman wants Sherlock Holmes to investigate a terrible murder. All the evidence points to the man she loves, but she knows that he is not the murderer. How will Holmes find the…
• Autor distins cu Premiul Nobel pentru literatura in 1991. Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The…
An anthology of texts illustrating the development of the short story from the 19th century to the present day, by Charles Dickens, R. L. Stevenson, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, K. Mansfield, W. S….
Lola is fed up with being invisible. All she wants is for high school rugby star Matt to ask her to the prom, but he doesn’t even know she exists. She has a plan that…
Do you know that Henry VIII was happily married for almost 20 years to the same queen before meeting his other wives? Do you know Queen Elizabeth refused to marry in spite of all the…
David’s life changes for the worse when his mother dies and he is left with a cruel stepfather who sends him to work in London. But he doesn’t want to work in a factory all…
Bathsheba, a beautiful Weather Witch, lives with her cat, Cobweb, on top of a high mountain near the village of Sunnyville. Her life is peaceful until one day she goes down to the village and…
Set 15yh century England during the Wars of the Roses, this is the adventure story of Richard Shelton and the band of the Black Arrow. Sir Daniel Brackley is like a father to Richard, but…
You can’t break this bottle because it’s magic. Inside there is an imp. This imp is very powerful. You can have everything you want: love, money.’ When Keawe, a young Hawaiian sailor, hears this, he…
A boat trip to the Farallon Islands near San Francisco to see the birds and sea-life there turns into a journey of terror as ghastly ghosts from the past appear… This reader uses the Expansive…
Some festivals are popular all over the world. Festivals! tells children how Christmas, Easter, Halloween and other festivities are celebrated in many countries of the world. Young readers are encouraged to use fine-motor skills to…
What does Cymru mean? What did Emperor Hadrian build in England nearly 2000 years ago? What do competitors throw at the Highland games? Why do people „kiss the Blarney Stone”? The British Isles tells the…
Tales to Talk About. A collection of topics to analyse and discuss by Antonella Mignani Tales to Talk About is a riveting collection of twelve short stories which will appeal to all kinds of reader….
