READERS I2 CAMBRIDGE Level 5

A Tangled Web Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Alan Maley 3 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686433 | ISBN-10: 0521686431) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Dan Combes is a former MI6 agent living peacefully in France. After being attacked by a former colleague, he realizes his relationship with the British Secret Service has not yet finished. He believes the attack is linked to his roles in Berlin and Central America. But that was years ago so why do they want him dead now? Dan returns to England and confronts his difficult past - a web of lies and deceit that he knows must end.

All I Want Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Margaret Johnson 3 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686266 | ISBN-10: 0521686261) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Alex is a 30-year-old art gallery assistant and hopelessly in love with her boss, Brad. Then, an incident at the gallery means they have to spend a few days at Brad's country house. This is Alex's opportunity to impress but nothing seems to go the way she planned. A surprise guest and a Christmas party help Alex to discover what she really, really wants.

Death in the Dojo Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (2) Pack Sue Leather 2 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686334 | ISBN-10: 0521686334) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Reporter Kate Jensen investigates the death of a karate master in a 'dojo', a karate training room in London. Another death quickly follows and Kate finds herself drawn into the mystery. The trail takes her to Japan, back to London, and back in time to a crime committed over thirty years earlier.

Dolphin Music Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Antoinette Moses 3 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686464 | ISBN-10: 0521686466) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. It is 2051. CONTROL, the government of Europe, keeps everyone happy in a virtual reality where music made by dolphins gives exquisite pleasure. When Saul Grant, a writer, discovers the truth about the music, the illusion is shattered. He soon sets out to free the dolphins but CONTROL is aware of his actions and will stop him at any cost.

East 43rd Street Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Alan Battersby 2 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686075 | ISBN-10: 0521686075) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. It's Christmas in New York and private investigator Nathan Marley is hired by a rich attractive woman to reclaim a briefcase of jewellery from a locker at Grand Central station. Marley is right not to trust the woman and soon finds himself involved in a case of criminal activity involving fraud, computer hacking and kidnap.

Emergency Murder Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Janet McGiffin 3 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686440 | ISBN-10: 052168644X) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. When the wife of a prominent surgeon dies suddenly in the hospital emergency room of Mercy Hospital in Milwaukee, USA, Dr Maxine Cassidy suspects murder. Maxine is determined to find the killer and starts an investigation of her own. However, when someone tries to kill her, she begins to wonder which of her medical colleagues she can trust.

In the Shadow of the Mountain Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (2) Pack Helen Naylor 2 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686501 | ISBN-10: 0521686504) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. A tragic love story is uncovered as journalist Clare Crowe goes to Switzerland to bring home a relative's body. Clare's grandfather has been found frozen in a glacier, 74 years after a climbing accident. Clare knows this could make an interesting story for her newspaper, but as she investigates her grandfather's last climb, she learns that the accident wasn't as simple as she had first thought.

The Sugar Glider Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Rod Nielsen 3 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686518 | ISBN-10: 0521686512) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Pilot Don Radcliffe returns to Australia hoping to rescue a failed marriage and to spend more time with his daughter, Judy. But a routine cargo flight in an old DC4 airplane turns into tragedy when the plane crashes in the Australian Outback killing the co-pilot. Don and Judy's chances of survival seem slim as they struggle against sabotage, unscrupulous businessmen and the inhospitable landscape.

Windows of the Mind Level 5 Upper Intermediate Book with Audio CDs (3) Pack Frank Brennan 3 Audio CDs, 1 Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521686129 | ISBN-10: 0521686121) Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. Five stories about the senses: Arlo hates noise and has a plan to bring the world silence. Gopal uses smell to protect the memory of his sister. Journalist Kathy uses her blindness to get a clear picture of human characters. Daniel has a tongue that earns him a living but could also be his downfall. And Jamie learns to balance the benefits of t'ai chi in his search for health and happiness.

OXFORD Bookworms stage 5

The Accidental Tourist FINALIST: The Language Learner Literature Award 2005 Anne Tyler Retold by Jennifer Bassett STAGE 5 - Human Interest Description Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors . . . After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd. Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon's life gets more and more complicated.

The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta Retold by Rosemary Border STAGE 5 - Human Interest Description When her father dies, Aku-nna and her young brother have no one to look after them. They are welcomed by their uncle because of Aku-nna's 'bride price' - the money that her future husband will pay for her. In her new, strange home one man is kind to her and teaches her to become a woman. Soon they are in love, although everyone says he is not a suitable husband for her. The more the world tries to separate them, the more they are drawn together - until, finally, something has to break.

The Dead of Jericho Colin Dexter Retold by Clare West STAGE 5 - Crime & Mystery Description Chief Inspector Morse is drinking a pint of beer. He is thinking about an attractive woman who lives not far away. The woman he is thinking of is hanging, dead, from the ceiling of her kitchen. On the floor lies a chair, almost two metres away from the woman's feet. Chief Inspector Morse finishes his pint, and orders another. Perhaps he will visit Anne, after all. But he is in no particular hurry. Meanwhile, Anne is still hanging in her kitchen, waiting for the police to come and cut her down. She is in no hurry, either.

Deadlock Sara Paretsky Retold by Rowena Akinyemi STAGE 5 - Crime & Mystery Description V. I. Warshawski, private investigator, Chicago, USA. People imagine private detectives to be tired-looking men in raincoats, but Vic is female. She's tough, beautiful, carries a gun - and goes on asking questions until she gets answers. When her cousin Boom Boom dies in an accident, Vic is naturally upset. She wants to know how and why the accident happened, and she isn't satisfied by the answers she gets. So she goes on asking questions . . . and more people start to die.

The Garden Party and Other Stories Katherine Mansfield STAGE 5 - Human Interest Description Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are young and inexperienced and travelling alone across Europe . . . or if you are a child from the wrong social class . . . or a singer without work and the rent to be paid. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

Ghost Stories Retold by Rosemary Border STAGE 5 - Fantasy & Horror Description After dinner we turned the lights out and played 'hide-and-seek'. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with . . . with this cold person - not speaking, not knowing who it was. Slowly the others found us, hid with us, until we were all there - all thirteen. Thirteen? But there were only twelve people in the house! We touched each other in the dark, counting. Thirteen. Quickly, nervously, I lit a match to see . . .

Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Retold by Clare West STAGE 5 - Human Interest Description Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indian summer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone who experiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, in these modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed. Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty, we see that it is not things that change, but people. And, in the heat and dust of an Indian summer, even people are not very different after all.

Jeeves and Friends - Short Stories P.G. Wodehouse Retold by Clare West STAGE 5 - Human Interest Description What on earth would Bertie Wooster do without Jeeves, his valet? Jeeves is calm, tactful, resourceful, and has the answer to every problem. Bertie, a pleasant young man but a bit short of brains, turns to Jeeves every time he gets into trouble. And Bertie is always in trouble. These six stories include the most famous of P. G. Wodehouse's memorable characters. There are three stories about Bertie and Jeeves, and three about Lord Emsworth, who, like Bertie, is often in trouble, battling with his fierce sister Lady Constance, and his even fiercer Scottish gardener, the red-bearded Angus McAllister .

King's Ransom Ed McBain STAGE 5 - Crime & Mystery Description 'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000. A lot of money. But it's not too much to pay for a little boy's life . . . is it?

The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers Retold by Peter Hawkins STAGE 5 - Thriller & Adventure Description When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret - a secret that could mean great danger for England. Erskine Childers' novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.

PENGUIN Level 5

PLPR5:Four Weddings and a Funeral Contemporary / British English (Available April 2008) Four Weddings and a Funeral – one of the most successful films from Britain. It’s a Saturday morning, and Charles is still asleep. He should be on his way to Angus and Laura’s wedding! Charles is always late, and he is worried that he will never find the right woman to marry. Then he meets Carrie…

PLPR5:Jane Eyre Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Jane Eyre, a poor orphan, grows up in misery until she becomes the governess in the house of wealthy Mr Rochester and falls in love. But mysterious events take place in the house at night, and Mr Rochester appears to be hiding a terrible secret. Can Jane even hope for happiness?

PLPR5:On the Road Contemporary / American English (Available April 2008) One of the most famous American books of the century. Love, jazz, and excitement! These are all part of Sal Paradise’s adventures “on the road” with wild friend Dean Moriarty, and their crazy companions, as they travel across the USA.

PLPR5:Outstanding Short Stories (Edgar Allan Poe) Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This collection brings together some of the best examples of late nineteenthand early twentieth-century short stories. Some are about ordinary people to whom something unexpected happens. Others are about unusual characters or events. Some of the stories are funny and others are more serious. All of them are highly enjoyable.

PLPR5:Pride and Prejudice Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Jane and Elizabeth Bennet are the oldest of five sisters in need of husbands, but it isn’t easy to find the right man. Are Mr Bingley, Mr Darcy and Mr Wickham all that they seem? Will pride and prejudice ever be defeated in the search for true love?

PLPR5:Rebecca Classic / British English (Available February 2008) After the death of his beautiful wife Rebecca, Maxim de Winter goes to Monte Carlo to forget the past. There he meets and marries a quiet young woman and takes her back to Manderley, his family home in Cornwall. But will the memory of Rebecca destroy the new marriage?

PLPR5:Ripley's Game Contemporary / American English (Available February 2008) One night, Tom Ripley is insulted by a man at a party. An ordinary person would just be upset by this, but Tom Ripley is not an ordinary person. Months later, when a friend asks him for help with two simple murders, he remembers the night and plans revenge. He starts a game — a very nasty game, in which he plays with the life of a sick and innocent man. But how far will he go?

PLPR5:Round the World in Eighty Days Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. There are many dangers along the way – and a detective who wants to arrest him!

PLPR5:Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, The Classic / British English (Available February 2008) Dr Jekyll is a London doctor who is liked and respected for his work. Mr Hyde is an evil man, completely unknown in London society. There is a murder and Hyde seems to be responsible. So why does the good doctor give Mr Hyde the key to his house – and decide to leave everything to Mr Hyde in his will?

PLPR5:Tale of Two Cities, A Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This great story is set against the background of the French Revolution. Two men – one French, one English, but very similar in appearance – are in love with the same woman. The three of them, like the people of France, are faced with the dangers of life at a time when the guillotine never rests.

PLPR5:Talented Mr Ripley, The Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Tom Ripley goes to Italy. He needs to find Dickie Greenleaf. Dickie’s father wants him to go back to America. But Tom wants to stay in Italy, and he will do anything to get what he wants. The Talented Mr Ripley is now an exciting movie with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law.

PLPR5:Tales from Shakespeare Classic / British English (Available April 2008) This Book includes stories based on seven of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. We meet many of Shakespeare’s most famous characters – magical Prospero; Puck, the badly-behaved fairy; evil Macbeth; Shylock, the greedy moneylender, and many more. This is a wonderful first step on the journey into the world of Shakespeare.

PLPR5:Tales of Mystery and Imagination Classic / British English (Available April 2008) Edgar Allan Poe, ‘the father of the detective story’ and a master of horror, is one of the greatest American short story writers. In these stories we meet people struggling with fear, revenge, mental illness and death. Which of them will win – and which will lose – their battles?

PLPR5:Taste and Other Tales Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) In this collection of Roald Dahl’s finest stories we meet some quite ordinary people who behave in extraordinary ways. There is a man who is sure he can hear plants scream and the wife who discovers a perfect way to get rid of her husband. And there’s a woman who finds an unusual use for a leg of lamb…

PLPR5:Time to Kill, A Contemporary / American English (Available June 2008) Ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is attacked and raped by two local men. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, shoots them. Now only his lawyer and friend, Jake Brigance, stands between him and the electric chair. Is there a legal defense for Carl Lee’s actions?

PLPR5:World Folk Tales Classic / American English (Available April 2008) These nine stories will take the reader on an exciting journey to distant cultures and times. The collection includes folktales from South America, Africa, India, China, and Europe.

OTROS De entre los que he añadido aquí, como son originales, los recomendaría para el 2º semestre (Siempre está bien que lean libros “de verdad”). The curious inciden…t es más fácil que The boy in the striped pyjamas, y los dos de Roald Dahl han sido escritos para niños (como The curious incident y The boy in the striped pyjamas), pero son un poco infantiles. De todos modos a mí me encantan, pero decidid vosotros según el alumnado que tengáis.

THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS 224 pags de BOYNE, JOHN CORGI BOOKS LTD. ISBN: 9780552774734 Nine year old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with.

THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME de HADDON, MARK ARROW (RANDOM) ISBN: 9780099450252 Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order and predictability shelter him from the messy, wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing. Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher's mind.

Boy. Tales of Childhood, Roald Dahl, ed. Puffin

In Boy, Roald Dahl recounts his days as a child growing up in England. From his years as a prankster at boarding school to his envious position as a chocolate tester for Cadbury's, Roald Dahl's boyhood was as full of excitement and the unexpected as are his world-famous, best-selling books. Packed with anecdotes — some funny, some painful, all interesting — this is a book that's sure to please.

Matilda, Roald Dahl, ed. Puffin Matilda is a genius. Unfortunately, her family treats her like a dolt. Her crooked car-salesman father and loud, bingo-obsessed mother think Matilda's only talent is as a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong in their miserable lives. But it's not long before the sweet and sensitive child decides to fight back. Faced with practical jokes of sheer brilliance, her parents don't stand a chance.