Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Graded reader level 4: The Amsterdam connection - Sue Leather





Kate Jensen – is a professional reporter. She likes her work but her impulsive boss often annoys her by tantrums. One day she had a nice meeting with her old friend and ex-colleague Max who proposed her to write the story about a football club that he has ruled with his brother. They arranged to get in touch on the phone in a few days. But two days later Max was killed. When Kate found out that Max had been found dead in Amsterdam, she tried to get business trip from her boss and finally went to Holland. The main police version was a murder for stealing pocket money. But Kate’s experience and her knowledge about dead friend’s life style said her that there was something else. And exactly not the elementary muggers attack. Later Kate learned more about last Max’s business and his 25 percent share of the club. So who was interested in Max’s death?

Saturday, April 22, 2017

Graded reader level 1 - Miami police file: The O'nell case - Gina D. B. ...





Peter O'Nell, Montego High School's favorite teacher, goes missing in the Bermuda Triangle, and the Miami Police can't solve the case. Peter O’Nell’s pupils come to help the police with the teacher’s faithful dog. Will they be able to find out the truth?

Monday, April 17, 2017

Graded reader level 5: Dr. No (James Bond series) - Ian Fleming





James Bond travels to the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a secret service team. As he uncovers the astonishing truth about strange energy waves that are interfering with U.S. missile launches, he must battle deadly assassins, and even a poisonous tarantula. The search takes him to an exotic tropical island, where he meets a beautiful nature girl and discovers the hideout of Doctor No, a six-foot-six madman with a mania for torture, a lust to kill, and a fantastic secret to hide.

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Graded reader level 3: The Beast - Carolyn Walker





This story takes its beginning in the West-London at Susie’s apartment at the end of twenty century. Susy and her lovely husband Charlie worked hard a lot. Once they decided to spend time together and rented a house at the little village far away from their home. Then they have heard from the people a strange things about their rented house. Someone said it was a bewitched house! Farmers in this village lost their sheep, and they said a strange creature was guilty in their disappearance. Horrible curses has been begun to follow the married couple.
At first it was a road accident with the hospitalization of Charlie, then kidnapping of Susy and finally a werewolf who has been appeared in their life.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Graded reader level 2: Five children and It - Edith Nesbit



When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. It was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. How wonderful! the children said. But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Graded reader level 6: Officially Death | Richard Prescott



Colin Fenton runs a computer-software company, and he knows that the business is in debt. When a chance meeting in a pub leads him to an offer that he thinks will quickly and easily solve all of his problems, he accepts. But he loses the gamble and subsequently his identity, leaving his wife to try to prove whether or not he is officially dead.

Saturday, April 1, 2017

Graded reader level 4: The Time Machine | H. G. Wells



The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895 and written as a frame narrative. Wells is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposely and selectively forwards or backwards in time. The term "time machine", coined by Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle.