Come into the world of the vikings. The gods and giants are enemies. Loki’s mother is a goddess but his father is a giant. Is he the gods’ friend or is he their enemy? They don’t know… With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces
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
White Teeth is the story of three very different families who live close together in London in the 1980s and 1990s. The Bowdens are part-Jamaican; the Iqbals are from Bangladesh; and the Chalfens white. The story looks at how people’s pasts affect their lives now, and the lives and futures of their children. With carefully
Roald Dahl flew planes in the Second World War (1939-1945) when Germany, Italy and Japan fought against Britain, France, Poland, other European countries, the USSR and the United States of America. Going Solo is Dahl’s time with the RAF (Royal Air Force). He writes “I did not need to leave out anything here because every
