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#50 NEW YORK
Penguin Readers Level 3

Author: Vicky Shipton
American English
Introduction:
Every year, millions of tourists visit New York – the most exciting city in the world. Read about its history, its sights and its people. What makes New York “the city that never sleeps?”

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#51 MORE HEROIC FAILURES
Penguin Readers Level 3

Author: Stephen Pile
Retold by Stephen Waller and Deirdre Taylor
Introduction:
‘We all know that people are really good at doing things badly.’
In these true stories we meet some of these people – the robber who lost more money than he stole, the man who burned down half his house and the fighters who did not fight.

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#52 THE NO.1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY
Penguin Readers Level 3

Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Retold by Anne Collins
British English
Introduction:
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 the help of her secretary, Mma Makutsi, and her best friend, Mr JLB Matekoni, she solves a number of difficult – and sometimes dangerous – problems. A missing husband, a missing finger and a missing child – she will solve these mysteries in her own special way.

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#53 THE YOUNG KING AND OTHER STORIES
Penguin Readers Level 3

Author: Oscar Wilde
Retold by Sue Harmes
British English
Introduction:
Strange and wonderful things happen in the seven short stories in this book. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and witches, giants and dwarfs, and talking animals. Exciting and amusing, happy and sad, these are stories for people of all ages.

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#54 MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
Penguin Readers Level 3

Author: Gerald Durrell
Retold by Jocelyn Potter and Andy Hopkins
British English
Introduction:
This very funny story is about an English family who go to live on the Greek island of Corfu. Gerald, the youngest boy, loves animals and insects. He brings scorpions, spiders, birds, snakes and other animals to the house, and they get him into lots of trouble.

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#55 SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Penguin Readers Level 3

Author: Jane Austen
Retold by Cherry Gilchrist
British English
Introduction:
Sense and Sensibility tells the story of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. Elinor is sensible and self-controlled; Marianne is emotional and loves excitement. Both fall in love and experience heartbreak. Will they ever find the right man to love and marry?

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#56 CINDERELLA MAN
Penguin Readers Level 4

Written by Marc Cerasini
Based on the Motion Picture Screenplay by
Cliff Hollingsworth & Akiva Goldsman
Motion Picture Story by Cliff Hollingsworth
Retold by Paul Shipton
American English
Introduction:
Jim Braddock is a successful boxer in New York. Life is good for him and his young family. But in October 1929 the American economy fails, and at the same time Jim starts to lose in the boxing ring. How will he support his wife and children now? Will he get a second chance to return to the ring? Does the true story of Jim Braddock – the Cinderella Man – have a happy ending?

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#57 AS TIME GOES BY
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Michael Walsh
Retold by John Mahood
American English
Introduction:
It is 1941 and there is war in Europe, Ilsa and her husband, Victor Lazio, leave Morocco for Lisbon. They want to fight in the war. Rick Blaine, the man Ilsa loves, stays in Morocco. But for how long...?

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#58 LORNA DOONE
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: R. D. Blackmore
Retold by Mary Tomalin
British English
Introduction:
John Ridd of Somerset is twelve years old in 1673 when his father is killed by Carver Doone. John later meets and falls in love with Lorna Doone. She turns out to be the daughter of a rich Lord, and Carver Doone intends to marry her to get her inheritance. Can John save Lorna from her worst fears?

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#59 PRIMARY COLORS
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Anonymous
Retold by Brent Fumas
American English
Introduction:
Jack Stanton is a young governor and he wants the job of president of the USA. Henry Burton must help him do it, but Stanton will do almost anything to win. Henry is about to discover the dark secrets in Stanton’s past. He must decide for himself what is right and what is wrong!

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#60 STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Patricia Highsmith
Retold by Michael Nation
British English
Introduction:
“You murder my father and I’ll murder your wife.”
After Guy Haines meets Charley Bruno on a train he tries to forget about Bruno’s plan for the perfect murder. But from this moment Guy is pulled into a world of madness, lies and death – and there is no escape.

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#61 THE TIME MACHINE
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: H. G. Wells
Retold by David Maule
British English
Introduction:
The Time Traveller has built a time machine and has gone into the future to the year 802,701. He expects to find a better world with highly intelligent people and great inventions. Instead, he finds that people have become weak, child-like creatures. They dance and sing and wear flowers. They seem happy, but why are they so frightened of the dark? And who or what has taken his time machine? Will the Time Traveller ever be able to return to the present?

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#62 THE FULL MONTY
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Wendy Holden
Based on the screenplay by Simon Beaufoy
Retold by Anne Collins
British English
Introduction:
The Full Monty is a very popular and funny British film!
Gaz and five others decide to form a strippers’ group. None of the men has stripped before. Gaz must make sure the local women come to the show, so he tells them that the group will take all their clothes off. Will these unlikely strippers dare to go for the ‘full monty’?

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#63 THE LOCKED ROOM AND OTHER HORROR STORIES
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: M. R. James
Retold by Louise Greenwood & Carolyn Jones
British English
Introduction:
There are strange and horrible creatures, witches, a boy with no heart, and screams that are heard in the night. M.R. James was one of the greatest ghost and horror writers of all time, and this collection of nine stories introduces you to his chilling genius.

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#64 THREE GREAT PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: William Shakespeare
Retold by Karen Holmes
British English
Introduction:
These are three of Shakespeare’s greatest, and most tragic, plays. In each story, the main characters die – cruel Lord Macbeth, unhappy King Lear and the doomed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. They die because they, or others, are weak, greedy or very foolish. But, like real people, they have good qualities and moments of greatness too.

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#65 SHAKESPEARE HIS LIFE AND PLAYS
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Will Fowler
British English
Introduction:
Shakespeare’s plays are famous all over the world – in the theatre, in film and in the classroom. What do we know about the man? What kind of life did he have? Who were his friends? Why can we still laugh and suffer with his characters 400 years after his death?

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#66 THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Oscar Wilde
Retold by Kieran McGovern
British English
Introduction:
An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can’t Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible secret?

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#67 THE CANTERVILLE GHOST AND OTHER STORIES
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Oscar Wilde
Retold by John Davage
British English
Introduction:
The famous Canterville Ghost haunts an old house, but the ghost becomes unhappy when the new owners play tricks on him!
In the other stories, we meet Lord Arthur Savile, who has to murder someone before he can get married, and we discover the secret life of beautiful Lady Alroy.

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#68 1984
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: George Orwell
Retold by Mike Dean
British English
Introduction:
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? There must be something that the Party cannot control – something like love, perhaps?

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#69 THE GODFATHER
Penguin Readers Level 4

Author: Mario Puzo
Retold by Chris Rice
British English
Introduction:
The Godfather is one of the best films ever made, which starred Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
Don Vito Corleone is Godfather of one of the richest Mafia families in New York. He is a gangster and his business is built on fear and murder. Corleone’s son, Michael, wants a quiet life away from the family business. But slowly Michael changes into the most dangerous gangster of them all...

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