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Jake Paul

A humorous, motivational memoir in the vein of Tyler Oakley's Binge and Marcus Butler's Hello Life, from high-energy comedic social media phenomenon Jake Paul. How do you become Vine famous? What is life like when you have millions of followers on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and Instagram? In this extremely positive, motivational, and often laugh-out-loud memoir, unstoppable Jake Paul pauses long enough from his super-charged life as a nineteen-year-old social media superstar and smiling heartthrob on the Disney Channel series Bizaardvark to share his takes on life, love, fame, and shooting for your dreams.

Surfer!

Paul Harvey

Nick is sixteen and a brilliant surfer. He wants to go to Australia for an important surfing competition. His mother and father don't like Nick's plan. They want him to go to college. But Nick has worked in a surf shop and he has nearly eight hundred pounds in the bank. The exciting, competitive world of surfing is brought vividly to life in this story. Recommended for younger learners.

Pride and prejudice

Jane Austen 

Mr and Mrs Bennet live with their five daughters at Longbourn in Hertfordshire. Jane, the eldest, falls in love with Charles Bingley, a rich bachelor who takes a house nearby with his two sisters and friend Fitzwilliam Darcy. Darcy is attracted to the second daughter, Elizabeth.

A safari mistery

Micky Jenkins

20-year-old Julie O'Neils is on safari in the Masai Reserve - "The Land of the Elephants" in Kenya. Julie loves elephants and she is very disappointed because she doesn't see any in the reserve. Where are they all? Julie has the impression that something strange is happening at the reserve and she is determined to solve the mystery. But someone else is equally determined to stop her. Soon, Julie finds herself involved in a very dangerous adventure to protect the elephants.

Danger at shark Rock

Pauline Francis

Jenny isn't at all happy that she's going to spend her summer holiday at her grandfather's house on a small Sottish island. But one night there's a terrible storm and a ship hits Shark Rock, a dangerous rock near the island. Jenny learns that life on a small Sottish island con be exciting afer all.

The Swiss Family Robinson

Johan David wyss

Chris (RTL) Tait; Jamel (ILT) AkibAn easy-to-read edition of the classic 1812 tale of survival follows the adventures of a Swiss pastor, his wife, and their four sons who are shipwrecked on a tropical island. An abridged version of the story that relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to li fe on an island with abundant animal and plant life.

The call of the wild

Jack London

  Buck, a powerful dog, half St. Bernard and half sheepdog, lives on Judge Miller’s estate in California’s Santa Clara Valley. He leads a comfortable life there, but it comes to an end when men discover gold in the Klondike region of Canada and a great demand arises for strong dogs to pull sleds. Buck is kidnapped by a gardener on the Miller estate and sold to dog traders, who teach Buck to obey by beating him with a club and, subsequently, ship him north to the Klondike.     

Revolution

Jann Huizenga and Linda Huizenga

When Thomas Jefferson wrote these words in June 1776, in the American Declaration of Independence, he started something that was very much bigger than he imagined.

This book looks at the history around that Declaration, and at the Revolution that led to the birth of the United States of America.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

 Artur Conan Doyle

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the Southwest of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

Superbird

  Brian Tomlinson

 A spaceship crashes on a strange planet. The only survivor, Mary Mount, is taken prisoner by an alien civilization. In time she is allowed to return to her old planet with some of her new friends. But when they arrive back at her home, the plan seems to have changed. And Mary doesn't receive the welcome she expects.

Sentido y sensibilidad (Sense and sensibility)

 Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility, título original en inglés, también conocida como Sentido y sensibilidad, es una novela de la escritora británica Jane Austen publicada en 1811. Fue la primera de las novelas de Austen en ser publicadas, bajo el seudónimo de "A Lady" (una dama). Trata sobre la vida de dos hermanas cuyas opuestas personalidades ejemplifican las dos respuestas femeninas a la hipocresía dominante. Ha sido adaptada para el cine y la televisión numerosas veces, destacando la versión de Ang Lee en 1995.

Evening class

 Maeve Binchy

Thirty people join an Italian evening class. All have their own reasons. Connie needs to escape from an unhappy home life; Lou has criminal intentions. Aidan and Signora have organised the classes. All their lives are changed forever.

The Woman in White

  Wilkie Collins

Walter Hartright is going to teach art in Cumberland in the North of England, but shortly before he leaves London, he has a strange meeting with a mysterious woman dressed all in white. He meets her again in Cumberland and when he tries to find out the truth about her, he discovers a mystery of intrigue and kidnapping.

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Juliet: Come on, night! Come on, Romeo! You will turn my night into day. For you will come shining on the wings of the night like snow on a raven's back. Come on, night, give me my Romeo.
Shakespeare's story of the tragic lovers Romeo and Juliet, is as relevant and popular now as it was over 400 years ago.
This Macmillan Reader is written as a playscript and includes original extracts from Romeo and Juliet.

Evening glass

Maeve Binchy

Thirty people join an Italian evening class. All have their own reasons. Connie needs to escape from an unhappy home life; Lou has criminal intentions. Aidan and Signora have organised the classes. All their lives are changed forever.

The picture of Dorian Grey

Oscar Wilde

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the traces of his decadence. The novel was a succès de scandale and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. It has lost none of its power to fascinate and disturb.

Asterix and son

Goscinny / Uderzo

A baby boy is left in a basket outside Asterix's hut - who can have dumped the foundling there, and why? Childcare is something new to the Gaulish warriors, but Asterix and Obelix do their best, although they have had more practice in thumping Romans. Childcare is also new to Crismus Cactus, Prefect of Gaul, who finds himself masquerading as a Gaulish nursemaid.

Why are the Romans after the baby - and just what plot is the treacherous Brutus hatching against Julius Caesar? As usual, it's up to Asterix and Obelix to find out … and to save the day …

Asterix and the great crossing

Goscinny / Uderzo

Out at sea fishing, Asterix and Obelix are blown off course in a storm. Luckily they land on the shores of a Roman colony - or is it? Teepees, totems, gobbling birds: it's not what they're used to.

And what are the Viking explorers in their longships doing? But perhaps 50 BC is a little too early for a voyage of discovery to this strange New World …

Asterix in Spain

Goscinny / Uderzo

The brave Iberians are holding out against Julius Caesar, like Asterix and his friends. So when Chen Huevos y Bacon's son is taken hostage, who better to rescue him than the Gauls?

Taking him home to Hispania, now Spain, they tangle with the tourist industry and flamenco, and face a wild aurochs in the arena - or bullring. And can it be true? Cacofinix finds a fan in little Pepe!

Asterix in Britain

Goscinny / Uderzo

One little ancient Briiths village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedicus Britannicus's Romans declining and falling.

Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink. It's not quite cricket - how about a nice cup of hot water, though? Or even the first ever tea-party?