Black Cat Publishing, 2008. — 130 p. The Age of Innocence. In the New York of the 1870s, Newland and May are about to marry. Then May's cousin, Ellen, arrives from Europe and everything changes. This reader uses the EXPANSIVE READING approach, where the text becomes a springboard to improve language skills and to explore historical background, cultural connections, and other...
Black Cat Publishing, 2000. — 148 p. Author Daniel Defoe. Adapted by Maud Jackson. Activities by Adeline Richards. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Adventure. Level B2.2. Examinations First, Trinity. When the captain tells Robinson, ‘Young man, you should never go to sea again…’, Robinson ignores his advice and goes to sea again, with...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 164 p. Mrs Bennet has five daughters to be married: Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia. So, when rich and friendly Mr Bingley comes to live in their village bringing an even richer, but unfriendly, Mr Darcy with him, Mrs Bennet is delighted and hopeful. However, something goes wrong, as Mr Bingley loses interest in Jane and Mr Darcy and...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 64 p. Author Kenneth Grahame. Adapted by Rebecca Raynes. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Adventure. Level A1. Examinations Key, Trinity. This classic story, set in the English countryside, features the lovable characters Rat, Mole, Toad, and Badger. When Mole decides to leave his underground home and meets Rat,...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 82 p. Adapted by Kelly Reinhart. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Historical novel. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. The True Story of Pocahontas is the touching story of an Indian princess, whose courage saved a white man’s life. No one could have imagined that Pocahontas would be the first Indian to marry a...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 82 p. Author Victoria Heward. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level A1. Examinations Key, Trinity. Twins Max and Laura spend an exciting summer in a small village near Stonehenge. A mysterious symbol, their uncle’s old book of codes and secrets, strange people looking for a secret, and much...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 66 p. Are you looking for a great adventure? Then traveled with the American pioneers to the Wild West and met the worst outlaws and the best sheriffs. Ride a stagecoach to California and look for gold. Live the life of a cowboy and get ready for an Indian attack. Meet Indian Chief Geronimo... and much more! Wide range of fun activities in the four...
Black Cat Publishing, 2005. — 84 p. Author Mark Twain. Adapted by Sally M. Stockton. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Adventure. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. Join Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and their friends as they go on a series of exciting adventures on the Mississippi River. Read about how they witness a murder while looking...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 98 p. Author Oscar Wilde. Adapted by Victoria Heward. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Fairy tale & Fantasy. Level A2/B1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. The Young King tells how a shepherd boy becomes a king and realizes that money is not worth human suffering. In The Star Child a baby is found in the forest...
Black Cat Publishing, 2000. — 82 p. Author Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. An abandoned mansion, a ghostly face at the window and mysterious happenings at one of the city’s favorite landmarks is the start of a thrilling adventure for Jim Reilly and his teenage...
Black Cat Publishing, 2000. — 96 p. Adapted by Deborah Meyers. Activities by Eleanor Donaldson. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Legend. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. The Legend of the Unicorn tells the story of Rhiannon Carter, a pretty English girl, who lived in the days of King Arthur. One day she makes friends with a young unicorn...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 66 p. Author Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Green Apple. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level A1. Examinations Key, Trinity. It’s fun to get ready for Halloween and it’s even more fun to have a spooky Halloween party! But what happens to a group of young teenagers when their Halloween party becomes a living nightmare?...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 82 p. Here are three of America's most-loved folk tales of the 1800s. Mast Johnny Appleseed who planted apple seeds across America. Find out how Pecos Bill became king. of the Cowboys of Texas. Visit a Southern plantation and laugh with cunning Brer Rabbit. Accessible adaptation at step 1 level. Wide range of activities to practice the four skills...
Black Cat Publishing, 2007. — 130 p. At the beginning of the 1900s, the whole world has been explored. There is nothing left to discover. But maybe this is not true. The eccentric Professor Challenger says that there is a place where time stopped, where dinosaurs still live. All the other scientists do not believe him. So, Professor Challenger decides to lead an expedition to...
Black Cat Publishing, 2005. — 114 p. A story on love and friendship by Oscar Wilde. The story is about a fisherman who catches a mermaid. He lets her go because she promises to help him fish. Each day the mermaid appears and sings her song, so he falls in love with her! However, she cannot marry him until he has lost his human soul.
Black Cat Publishing, 2008. — 114 p. The Chumash are American Indians who live in California. When an unscrupulous property developer starts building new homes in Coyote Canyon, the Chumash become angry – the development is located in their ancient cemetery. During the night of the Fourth of July celebrations, a mysterious American Indian warrior appears, and a murder is...
Black Cat Publishing, 2008. — 114 p. Author Andrea M. Hutchinson. Activities by Janet Cameron. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Human interest. Level B1.1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Ellie is mad about music: she dreams of becoming a singer and she desperately wants to go to the Glastonbury Festival, where her favorite singer,...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 114 p. Author Joseph Conrad. Adapted by James Butler. Activities by Louis Vaughan. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Human interest. Level B2.2. Examinations First. Marlow, a merchant sailor, travels through colonial Africa. He makes a perilous journey by steamboat to rescue Kurtz, an agent, who is...
Black Cat Publishing, 1996. — 116 p. FBI agents Mulder and Scully are investigating a series of very unusual murders: all the victims' livers have been removed without the help of tools and there is no apparent point of entry. The only traces left by the murderer are inhumanly long fingerprints. Scully and Mulder begin to get nearer to the truth when they discover that these...
Black Cat Publishing, 2000. — 132 p. Author William Shakespeare. Adapted by James Butler, Lucia De Vanna. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Humor & Comedy. Level B2.2. Examinations First. Baptista’s two beautiful daughters are ready for marriage. Bianca, pursued in love by three different suitors, cannot marry until someone dares to...
Black Cat Publishing, 1994. — 138 p. 'I cannot put a pistol to my head and pull the trigger; something stronger than me stops me, even though I hate life. It is for people like me that the Suicide Club was begun.' Intrigue, fear, and death follow the characters in these three tales created by master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson, who uses the excitement of adventure to ask...
Black Cat Publishing, 2004. — 134 p. Author Autori Vari, W. W. Jacobs, Amelia B. Edwards. Adapted by Kenneth Brodey, Peter Foreman. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level B2.2. Examinations First, Trinity. Follow Bram Stoker (the author of Dracula) as he takes student Malcolm Malcolmson through a terrifying ordeal...
Black Cat Publishing, 1998. — 146 p. Author Jane Austen. Adapted by Derek Sellen. Activities by Kenneth Brodey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Love. Level B2.2. Examinations First, Trinity. Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield,...
Black Cat Publishing, 2000. — 114 p. Arthur Mowbray is the brilliant inventor of the Mowbray Murder game and head of the company that bears his name. When his body is discovered in the dining room of his country home, Inspector Barry Ainsworth is sent to investigate the crime. The Inspector knows that the murderer is one of the company directors and to solve the crime he has to...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 148 p. Author Henry Fielding. Adapted by James Butler. Activities by Justin Rainey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Adventure. Level B2.1. Examinations First, Trinity. The kindly gentleman, Mr. Allworthy, returns home from a voyage to find that someone has left a baby boy in his house. He adopts the...
Black Cat Publishing, 2008. — 130 p. Author Wilkie Collins. Adapted by Christopher Hall. Activities by Janet Cameron. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level B2.1. Examinations First, Trinity. On her eighteenth birthday, Rachel Verinder receives a very special present: the Moonstone – a large yellow diamond from India:...
Black Cat Publishing, 2009. — 132 p. ‘Where did you bury him?’ ‘I think it’s better if you don’t know. Don’t worry, nobody will ever find him.’ lan thinks he is going to spend a quiet weekend in his uncle’s house by the sea — but a late-night encounter with two visitors leads to an unforgettably frightening holiday... This collection of six original stories at pre-intermediate...
Black Cat Publishing, 2001. — 132 p. Author William Shakespeare. Adapted by James Butler. Activities by Kenneth Brodey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Humor & Comedy. Level B2.1. Examinations First, Trinity. Claudio is in love with Hero, but is afraid that she will reject him. His friend, Don Pedro, volunteers to make her fall in...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 132 p. Author Bram Stoker. Adapted by Kenneth Brodey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level B2.1. Examinations First, Trinity. When Jonathan Harker goes to Transylvania to visit Count Dracula on business, he discovers that his client’s motives for coming to England are rather more...
Black Cat Publishing, 2012. — 114 p. Author William Shakespeare. Adapted by Richard Elliott. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Tragedy. Level B1.2. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. After a long civil war between the Houses of Lancaster and York, England is enjoying a period of peace under King Edward IV. But Edward’s younger brother,...
Black Cat Publishing, 2003. — 100 p. Author Robert Louis Stevenson. Adapted by James Butler, and Lucia De Vanna. Activities by Jennifer Gascoigne, and Kenneth Brodey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level B1.2. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Through the narratives of Mr Enfield, Mr Utterson, Dr Lanyon, and Poole,...
Black Cat Publishing, 1997. — 124 p. Author Mark Twain. Adapted by Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Humor & Comedy. Level B1.2. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Have you ever made a bet – a big bet? In the 1850s, a young American finds himself in London by chance. He is penniless, and yet he leads the luxurious life...
Black Cat Publishing, 2006. — 98 p. Author Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, et al. Adapted by Peter Foreman. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level B1.2. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Four chilling tales take you into a world where anything can happen. Charles Dickens adds extra horror to his famous tale of a...
Black Cat Publishing, 2011. — 114 p. Author William Shakespeare. Adapted by Jennifer Gascoigne. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Love. Level B1.2. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end...
Black Cat Publishing, 2009. — 130 p. Author Rudyard Kipling. Adapted by Kenneth Brodey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Human interest. Level B1.2. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy...
Black Cat Publishing, 2002. — 148 p. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Crime. Level B1.2. Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organization in Conan Doyle’s The Five Orange Pips; in Charles Dickens’ Hunted Down a ruthless murderer is brought to justice; in The Stir Outside the Café Royal by Clarence Rook an American woman tracks...
Black Cat Publishing, 2007. — 124 p. Publisher Ediciones Vicens Vives, S. A. Publication date 2007. ISBN: 10 8431644613. ISBN: 13 9788431644611. Number of pages 124. That is the meaning of ‘bizarre’. For those who enjoy strange surprises, these five original stories will be a delight. Take Fiona the fashion model who decided to show her invisible self instead of clothes! Or...
Black Cat Publishing, 2012. — 98 p. Author Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training Discovery. Genre Nonfiction. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. How many different languages are spoken in London? What’s the Square Mile all about? How did Piccadilly get its name? Book a seat in a haunted theatre and enjoy the show! Get to know...
Black Cat Publishing, 2010. — 98 p. Author Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training Discovery. Genre Nonfiction. Level B1.1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Today we know a lot about faraway places – we have maps, photographs, and detailed descriptions. But the first explorers knew nothing about where they were going. Their...
New York: Basic Books, 2015. — 906 p. The best-selling citizen’s guide to economics. Basic Economics is a citizen’s guide to economics, written for those who want to understand how the economy works but have no interest in jargon or equations. Best-selling economist Thomas Sowell explains the general principles underlying different economic systems: capitalist, socialist,...
Black Cat Publishing, 2012. — 98 p. Author Janet Cameron. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training Discovery. Genre Non fiction. Level B1.1. Examinations Key, Trinity. English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Have you ever wondered why? Here we go on a journey over five continents to look at countries where English is used in...
Black Cat Publishing, 2010. — 108 p. Author Sir Walter Scott. Adapted by Kenneth Brodey. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Adventure. Level B1.1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. 1715: Frank Osbaldistone likes poetry and he does not want to enter the family business. The young man is then sent by his father to the north of England....
Black Cat Publishing, 2013. — 84 p. Author Victoria Heward. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mistery. Level B1.1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Like many 15-year-olds, Adam prefers computer games to school work, but he can’t understand why one of his favorite games seems to have a life of its. And why is he suddenly hearing...
Black Cat Publishing, 2013. — 78 p. Author Lewis Carroll. Adapted by Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Fairy tale & Fantasy. Level B1.1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Join Alice as she follows the white rabbit into the amazing world of Wonderland, where anything can happen! Watch Alice change size, meet the Mad...
Black Cat Publishing, 2017. — 78 p. Author M.R. James. Adapted by Eleanor Donaldson. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. What happens when a professor finds an object on the beach? Why does an antique dealer go to Germany to look for hidden treasure? Who is the man in the library? In...
Black Cat Publishing, 2004. — 114 p. Author Rudyard Kipling, E. Parker Butler, et al. Adapted by James Butler. Activities by Claudia Fiocco. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Humor & Comedy. Level B1.1. Examinations Preliminary, Trinity. Read these amusing stories and you will discover why elephants have trunks, how it’s best to work...
Black Cat Publishing, 2009. — 98 p. Author Gina D.B. Clemen. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Mystery & Horror. Level Beginner. Stage A2. There has been a UFO sighting in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle, Washington, and everyone is excited. But no one believes there could be an alien in town until Karen, Barbara, and Walter notice...
Black Cat, 2008. - 82 p. Author Andrea M. Hutchinson. Activities by Robert Hill, and Laura Clyde. Language ENGLISH. Category Graded Readers. Series Reading & Training. Genre Adventure. Level A2. Examinations Key, Trinity. Three young women need to get to London from Ireland in time for Christmas. When all flights are canceled, they are forced to share a car and make the journey...