• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Penguin Readers Level 5)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    Oskar Shell is a clever nine-year-old boy. When his father is killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th 2001, Oskar wants to learn the secret about a key that he discovers in his father’s closet. His search takes him on a journey through New York and into the lives of strangers and relatives. But will it bring him any closer to his lost father?

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

  • Freddie Mercury (Penguin Readers Level 5)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    This book tells the story of Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock stars of all time. Learn about his early years as a shy young boy from Zanzibar. Discover how he became the lead singer of one of the most famous rock bands in history, Queen.

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    Frankenstein, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

  • Wuthering Heights (Penguin Readers Level 5)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    It is winter in Yorkshire, England. A man rides through the snow to visit a house called Wuthering Heights. While there, the man learns about Catherine, who lived in the house years before. Catherine’s story of love and sadness still affects the lives of those in the present.

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    Wuthering Heights, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

  • Darkest Hour: How Churchill Changed History (Penguin Readers Level 6)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    It is May 1940. Western countries are falling into Nazi hands. Britain must prepare to be invaded any day. The future of the world lies on the shoulders of one man. This is the story of how British Prime Minister Winston Churchill changed history over twenty-five difficult days during World War II.

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    The Darkest Hour, a Level 6 Reader, is B1+ in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future continuous, reported questions, third conditional, was going to and ellipsis. A small number of illustrations support the text.

  • The Woman in White (Penguin Readers Level 7)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious ‘woman in white’. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie. But Laura is engaged to Sir Percival Glyde. Then Laura receives a letter warning her not to marry Glyde. Walter is sure that the letter comes from the woman in white…

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    The Woman in White, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.

  • The Days of Silence

    Osasé has a secret she cannot share.

    Not even with her two sisters and mother, as they all battle to cope with the complexities of sisterhood, the fragile balances in mother-daughter relationships, and the deep scars of marriages gone awry. The story traces Osasé’s girl-to-woman journey of self-discovery from Kano, to Abuja, to Grenoble, and her fight for survival as her life slowly comes undone at the seams. The heart-warming narrative is reminiscent of Little Women but modern, urban, and with a blindsiding twist in the tale.

     The Days of Silence is a poignant coming-of-age story about identity, the unbreakable bonds of family, displacement, survival, and the triumph of a woman’s spirit.

  • Aviara: Who Will Remember You

    When twenty-five-year-old Anthony Mukoro returns from the city, to his hometown Aviara, it is with news that shatters the hopes of his retired parents – he is dying. This startling revelation sends his family into a frantic search for answers. But the answers they seek will come at a cost.

    To save his life, he must confront forgotten memories from a traumatic experience in his past and a darkness that swells and grows unnoticed within the town. Unknown to Anthony, this begins a journey that will lead him into a dark world of murder and a town’s history steep in blood and shadows.

    Aviara explores the complex balance between science and spirituality, fate and ancestry, within the labyrinth of one man’s unravelling reality.

  • Where’d You Go?

    Where’d You Go? is a collection of short stories about terrorism in Northern Nigeria. From Captain Shola and his men who are ambushed by killer herdsmen while on patrol, and need to hold their ground; to a retired Special Forces officer who leads his men to protect his village and its environs from killer herdsmen; to Lieutenant Colonel Abel whose team had to extend their tour by two days to escort the Senate President’s daughter to an IDP Camp and then wait out an assault by Boko Haram insurgents; to Kunle Pierce who is a CIA operative, but comes to avenge the murder of his brother-in-law by the Boko Haram sect; to the Corps members caught in a post-election violence and fight back; and then there is Halima, an abducted girl from Chibok who suffers from Stockholm syndrome, and tries to settle down to normalcy after her release with some other girls.

     The stories are action-packed, depicting loss, justice, vengeance, bravery, courage under fire, sacrifice and patriotism.

  • The Enormous Crocodile (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    The Enormous Crocodile is incredibly hungry-and incredibly greedy. His favorite meal is a plump, juicy little child, and he intends to gobble up as many of them as he can! But when the other animals in the jungle join together to put an end to his nasty schemes, the Enormous Crocodile learns a lesson he won’t soon forget. Dahl’s wicked humor is as delightful as ever in this new, larger edition of a hilarious favorite.

  • The Twits (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    “A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams

    Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

    Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard.

    Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye.

    Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet.

    Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage. But not for much longer, because the monkeys are planning to trick the terrible Twits, once and for all . . .

  • Esio Trot (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    “A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams

    Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

    This is the wonderful and warm-hearted Roald Dahl classic, Esio Trot.

    Mr Hoppy really loves his neighbour Mrs Silver, and Mrs Silver really loves her tortoise, Alfie. One day Mrs Silver asks Mr Hoppy how to make Alfie grow, and suddenly Mr Hoppy knows the way to win her heart. With the help of a magical spell and some cabbage leaves, can Mr Hoppy be happy at last?

  • More About Boy (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    “A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams

    MORE ABOUT BOY contains a wealth of new photos, facts and writings about Roald Dahl and his childhood, together with the original text and illustrations from his much-loved memoir.

    As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl.

    There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop.

    There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting chocolate for Cadbury’s.

    You’ll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the car accident when Roald’s nose was nearly sliced clean off . . Now you can discover even more about Roald Dahl’s childhood, including some secrets he left out. Some are painful, some are funny, but all of them are TRUE.

  • Boy (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    “A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams

    Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

    BOY, Roald Dahl’s bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days, illustrated by Quentin Blake.

    As a boy, all sorts of unusual things happened to Roald Dahl. There was the time he and four school friends got their revenge on beastly Mrs Prachett in her sweet shop.

    There are stories of holidays in fishing boats, African adventures and the days of tasting chocolate for Cadbury’s.

    You’ll hear tales of horrible school bullies and the motor-car accident when Roald’s nose was nearly sliced clean off . . .

    Roald Dahl vividly shares his memories; some are funny. Some are painful. Some are unpleasant. All are true.

  • Boy and Going Solo (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    Boy and Going Solo is the whole of Roald Dahl’s extraordinary autobiography in one volume.

    Reissued in the exciting new Roald Dahl branding.

    Roald Dahl wasn’t always a writer. Once he was just a schoolboy. Have you ever wondered what he was like growing up?
    In BOY you’ll find out why he and his friends took revenge on the beastly Mrs Pratchett who ran the sweet shop. He remembers what it was like taste-testing chocolate for Cadbury’s and he even reveals how his nose was nearly sliced off.

    Then in GOING SOLO you’ll read stories of whizzing through the air in a Tiger Moth Plane, encounters with hungry lions, and the terrible crash that led him to storytelling.

    Roald Dahl tells his story in his own words – and it’s all TRUE.

  • The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (Roald Dahl)

    Age Range: 7 – 11  years

    “A true genius . . . Roald Dahl is my hero” David Walliams

    Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World’s NUMBER ONE Storyteller!

    The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me is a classic Roald Dahl story.

    Billy’s biggest wish is to turn a weird old wooden house into a wonderful sweet shop. But then he finds a giraffe, a pelly and a monkey living inside – they’re the Ladderless Window Cleaners! Who needs ladders when you’ve got a giraffe? They become best friends and when they meet the richest man in all England, there’s a chance Billy’s scrumptious-galumptious dream just might come true . . .

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