Pearson English Readers

Thanos, a cruel, violent warlord, has used the Infinity Stones to destroy half of all life in the universe. The remaining Avengers feel guilt and pain at the loss of so many lives. Is there anything that they and their friends can do to destroy Thanos and to change the...

Scott Lang is a loving father to Cassie, but he is also Ant-Man. When Avengers fought Avengers in Germany, he was there. He is now under arrest and cannot leave his home. But Hope - The Wasp - and her father have an important job for him ... now. 

Steve Rogers wants to fight for his country, but he is a small, weak man. The United States Army doesn't want him. Then a super serum changes him - suddenly, Steve is tall and very strong. Can the new Steve Rogers be a soldier? Can he save his country -...

While Thor, the God of Thunder, is a prisoner of the King of Muspelheim, the King describes his terrible plans for Asgard, Thor’s home. Thor realizes then that he has to escape immediately—but how? And if he reaches Asgard, what will he find? Are other enemies also preparing to attack?...

Original / British EnglishOne day a leopard swims across the sea to Sindi. He is hungry and he is looking for food. He runs into an old lighthouse. The people of Sindi do not want the leopard in their lighthouse. But what can they do? How can they catch the...

Original / British EnglishIt is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers are English. They're starting a new life in America. They want a farm, but they haven't got any money. What can they do?

Original / British EnglishMike is an assistant van driver. He meets Jennifer in her fathers shop and he likes her very much. Jennifer is going to go to the cinema with him. But he is very late, and Jennifer is very angry. Is it really Mikes lucky day?

Who hurts Sleeping Beauty and makes her sleep and sleep? Who can go to the castle and wake her?

With over 60 titles in a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, horror or romance, biographies and big film tie-ins, the 'Penguin Active Reading' series will make learning the English language a pleasurable and rewarding activity.

A mountain climber, high in The Andes, falls into a strange valley. In London a man is looking for a green door. A third man tries to help an unhappy ghost. Each of these exciting stories shows us two very different worlds. But which is better? And can we be...

Contemporary / British EnglishA man fell from a very tall building. Why didnt he die? Why did a dead woman have a frozen chicken under her hat? What fell out of an old mans ear, and why did everybody laugh? And how did a cow fly? Find the answers in...

Around the Ying Zheng, king of Qin, became the first emperor of China. He had new ideas and made new laws. He built big palaces - and a great wall. But life was difficult for his people and dangerous for the emperor. So he took an army with him into...

Mowgli is a little boy. He grows up with a wolf family in the jungle. Most of the animals like him and are friendly, but one animal does not like him. What happens to Mowgli as he gets older? Does he stay in the jungle with the animals?

A giant does not want to share his garden with the children of the town. He builds a big wall around the garden to stop the children getting in. After that it is always winter in the garden. Can the children find a way back into the garden and make...

Hannah is a scientist and she studies animals. She wants to show you two animals with amazing life cycles … a butterfly and a frog.The Peacock butterfly lives in Europe. The Red-eyed tree frog lives in the rainforests of Central and South America. Which one hibernates? Which one is nocturnal?...

Hansel and Gretel are brother and sister and they are lost in the forest. They find a pretty house, made of cookies and candy. But who lives there and what does she want to do with the children?

Classic / British EnglishEdward Prendick is travelling in the South Pacific when his ship goes down. He is saved after many days at sea by another ship, and a passenger, Montgomery, nurses him back to health. Prendick becomes interested in the mystery of Montgomery’s life. Why does he live on...

Original / American EnglishMartin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won changes for the blacks of America. But has King’s dream...

Classic / British English Elinor and Marianne Dashwood are two very different sisters. Marianne loves excitement and always shows her feelings Elinor is quiet and has more good sense. They both fall in love and both suffer broken hearts. Will they ever find the right man to love and marry?

Classic / American English (Available February 2008) Ugly and unwanted by the outside world, Quasimodo the hunchback lives under the protection of the priest in the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Then his quiet life is destroyed by the priest's evil plans for a beautiful gypsy girl. The priest needs Quasimodo's help....

One day a princess loses her golden ball in a pond. A frog finds it for her and she promises to give him anything he wants. Oh dear! The frog wants to come into the palace with her but the princess is not happy about that. Does she keep her...

A witch takes Rapunzel from her parents and keeps her at the top of a tall tower. There are no doors in the tower. Rapunzel is a prisoner. The witch climbs up Rapunzel's long hair to come inside. How can Rapunzel get out? Who is going to come and help...

The Emperor has everything he wants. One day he learns that there is a nightingale in his garden and he wants that too. What will he do when he catches the nightingale? Will the nightingale want to stay?

A ship is caught in a huge storm. One family are able to get to an island. They find food, build a treehouse and start to enjoy their new life there. But what will happen to them when winter comes? How long will they stay there? Will a ship ever...

Classic / British EnglishThe 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...

Contemporary / British English In this collection of Roald Dahl's finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And...

Classic / American EnglishThere is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or a monster? And what else will he do to get...

Contemporary / British EnglishThis is a great love story set in the tragedy of war. It is 1941. The Italian officer, Captain Corelli, falls in love with Pelagia, a young Greek girl. But Pelegia’s fiancé is fighting the Italian army…Captain Corelli’s Mandolin is now a film, starring Nicolas Cage.

The Tesseract is a very powerful weapon and Loki plans to use it for an attack on Earth. Who can protect the Tesseract and save our world from the angry Asgardian? Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Thor are the Avengers - and they are Earth's only...

Charles Dickens is one of Britain's greatest writers. His novels have been popular around the world for more than 150 years. Through his writing he fought for better conditions for children and the poor, but most of all he is remembered today for his wonderful stories and his unforgettable characters.