Frank Li has Korean parents, but he feels that he’s American. At high school, he falls in love for the first time with Brit, the girl of his dreams. But there’s a problem: Brit is not Korean… With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces
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The Secret Dreamworld Of A Shopaholic
Becky lives with her rich friend, Suze. Suze and her friends have lots of money, and they eat in expensive restaurants. Becky does not have as much money as Suze. Becky knows that she should stop spending money, but she can’t stop shopping. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online
The Picture of Dorian Gray
An artist paints a beautiful young man called Dorian Gray. When Dorian sees the picture, he decides to give his soul to keep his beautiful face. He lives a bad life and he is bad to many people, but his face never changes. However, in a room upstairs, the portrait gets uglier and uglier. With
BBC Dynasties: Chimpanzees
A few years ago, the BBC made the TV programme Dynasties about animal families across the world. They chose to film David and his family – a group of chimpanzees in south-eastern Senegal. Sometimes families are happy and sometimes they fight. Sometimes life is good and sometimes it is not easy. It is the same