Kylie Minogue was a star - a famous singer with a lot of money and beautiful clothes. And then, in 2005, the music stopped. Kylie...

The Galapagos Islands are beautiful. They are full of interesting animals and birds. One famous visitor to the islands , in 1835,...

Charles Dickens is one of Britain's greatest writers. His novels have been popular around the world for more than 150 years....

Kerry is visiting her brother, Mike, for the first tme in his new home. She sees a sign for a fortune teller. Mike doesn't...

James and Chantal are enjoying an evening of magic at the Blue Cat Club. Merlin the magician is clever and his tricks are...

Bea lives under a bridge. She watches people but they don't look at her. Then, one day, a policeman stops and talks to her. Bea...

One night, away from his family, Eric finds a golden seal. People want to shoot golden seals for their beautiful fur. Eric's...

Can Phileas Fogg go round the world in eighty days? He doesn't know that somebody wants to stop him. Then Fogg will lose his bet,...

The legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has become a joke to some people. People are born, marry and die, and still the case...

Oliver's mother dies when he is born and he is brought up in a workhouse. His first years are cold and lonely and they he runs...

Water. We drink it. We cook with it. We wash with it. We can’t live without it. Most of us don’t think about it much. But it is...

Every four years the best athletes - runners, swimmers, boxers, gymnasts and more - come together to compete in the biggest...

Strange and wonderful things happen in t seven short stories. Oscar Wilde takes us into a world of kings and queens, mermaids and...

Read about the strangest things in the Universe - other worlds, strange objects and peculiar happening. How much do you believe?...

Leonardo da Vinci is known world-wide as the painter of the Mona Lisa, for designs of flying machines and for his studies of the...

In Clanton, Mississippi, not much happens. There aren't many interesting stories for Willie Traynor's newspaper. But then there's...

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 –...

Holly and her brother, go to Barcelona to see a football match. Before the match, Holly hopes to do some sightseeing, but the...

Huck and Jim travel down the Mississippi from St. Petersburg to Cairo. Jim is a runaway slave so they have to be careful. They...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Rose lives alone, has no friends and never goes out. One day, a boy comes into her home. He has problems too. Can she help him?...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...

Pearson English Active Readers is perfect for classrooms and group reading, the additional exercises and mini-projects encourage...