Title: The Call of the Wild
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: London, Jack
Genre: AD
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Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 9,280
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Summary: Buck is a strong, intelligent dog who moves from an easy life in California to the Klondike. Life is tough in the cold north of Canada and Buck has to learn many hard lessons to survive. But can he ever be happy there?

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Title: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 2 (PAR2)
Author: Degnan-Veness, Coleen
Genre: FA
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Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 8,038
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Summary: Everybody in Halloweentown loves Halloween but not Jack Skellington. Every year he has to sing the same scary songs and do the same dangerous dances. He is bored with them. Then, one day, he visits Christmastown and he has an idea. Why can't the vampires, witches, and skeletons of Halloweentown celebrate Christmas, too their way?

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Title: Amazon Rally
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Amos, Eduardo and Prescher, Elisabeth
Genre: MY
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Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 1,376
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Summary: Riding in a motorcycle rally across the Brazilian jungle is hard and exciting. But for Brian and David some things are worse than mud and motorcycle breakdowns. When they agree to help their Indian friends, they find themselves racing to save lives? What happens when two very different cultures meet?

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Title: Island for Sale
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Collins, Anne
Genre: HU
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Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 1,664
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Summary: Duncan McTavish lives in a castle on a Scottish island. He doesn't have any money, and he can't pay a large bill. There is only one thing he can do sell his island.

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Title: Little Women
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Alcott, Louisa May
Genre: CL
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Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 3,552
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Summary: The story of the four March sisters and their loves, problems and adventures is sometimes sad, often funny but always charming. Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868. It is also a film starring Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon.

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Title: The Crown
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: James, M R
Genre: CL
YL:
Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 3,937
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Summary: What is the crown, and why is it important for England? Who is William Agers? In this gripping mystery, the answers are all in Seaburgh.

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Title: The Wrong Man
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Anderson, Kris
Genre: MY
YL:
Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 1,482
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Summary: A man wants to kill the Police Commissioner. But who is he? Can Steve Malone find the killer? He only has two days ... An Australian thriller told in cartoon form.

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Title: Theseus and the Minotaur
Series: Penguin Active Reading Level 1 (PAR1)
Author: Beatty, Ken
Genre: CL
YL:
Headwords: 300
Total Word Count: 1,558
Rating:





Summary: Theseus is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, but he is the son of King Aegeus of Athens too. Every year the Minotaur eats people from Athens. Theseus is strong and angry, but he is only a young man. Can he kill the Minotaur?

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Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Genre: HR
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 19,000
Rating: ****


Summary: The chilling tale of a wealthy doctor with a double personality, in terror of the evil Mr Hyde who is living within his own skin.

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Title: Treasure Island
Series: Penguin Readers Level 2 (PGR2) YL 2.4~2.6
Author: Stevenson, Robert Louis
Genre: AD
YL: 2.4-2.6
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 6,000
Rating: ****


Summary: A young boy, Jim Hawkins, lives quietly by the sea with his mother and father until Billy Bones comes to live with them. From that day on, everything is different and Jim soon meets Long John Silver and travels with him in search of Treasure Island.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: The Hounds of the Baskervilles
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 18,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: The ancient legend of the Baskervilles has persisted in the family history for generations. It is Sir Charles's mysterious death in the grounds of Baskerville Hall that brings Sherlock Holmes to the scene of one of his most famous and intriguing cases.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 33,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: In these six stories we join the brilliant detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, in a variety of exciting adventures. These include several suspicious deaths, the mystery of the engineer with the missing thumb, and the strange case of the two men who share a very unusual name.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 4 (PGR4) YL 4.0~5.0
Title: Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 4.0-5.0
Headwords: 1700
Total Word Count: 16,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: Why is a young woman terrified of a mysterious 'speckled band'? Are the five orange pips a sign that someone will soon die? And what about the banker who believes his son is a thief. Join the great detective Sherlock Holmes in solving the mysteries in these three thrilling stories.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 3.4-3.6
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 12,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: In 1891, the great detective, Sherlock Holmes, disappeared in Switzerland while working on a dangerous case. Everyone thought that he was dead. But three years later, he returned to England. Holmes and his friend, Dr Watson, had many more adventures together. Read three of Sherlock Holmes most interesting cases and look out for other Sherlock Holmes stories at different levels in Penguin Readers.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 3.2-3.4
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 7,800
Rating: ****

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Summary: Who killed Charles McCarthy, and why? Was it really his son? Sherlock Holmes, the brilliant detective, must answer these questions with the help of his trusted friend Dr Watson.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: A Scandal in Bohemia
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: MY
YL: 3.6-3.8
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 20,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: Why put a diamond inside a chicken? Why is there a special club for men with red hair? And why does a woman disappear on the day of her wedding? These are some of the strange questions which Sherlock Holmes has to answer.
In these six stories we join Holmes and his friend Dr Watson on some exciting adventures. Will they solve every mystery? Or are some people even cleverer than Sherlock Holmes?

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 2 (PGR2) YL 2.4~2.6
Title: Three Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
Genre: AT
YL: 2.4-2.6
Headwords: 600
Total Word Count: 9,500
Rating: ***

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Summary: A young woman is about to marry when her fiancé suddenly disappears. Three students are suspected of stealing an important exam paper. And a young woman is being followed by a mysterious stranger – but who is this stranger and what does he want? Only Sherlock Holmes can solve these problems. Three intriguing mysteries that demonstrate the exceptional skills of the great detective.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: The Black Cat and Other Stories
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: HR
YL: 3.2-3.4
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 9,000
Rating: ***

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Summary: Four short stories of murder and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe wrote about terrible people who lead strange lives. If you have a black cat yourself, watch out!

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 3 (PGR3) YL 3.2~3.8
Title: Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: CS
YL: 3.4-3.6
Headwords: 1200
Total Word Count: 11,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: There are five stories in this book. "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Barrel of Amontillado" are stories of madness; "The Maelstrom" describes fear of death during a storm on the ocean; and in "The Murders of the Rue Morgue" and "The Stolen Letter" meet C. Auguste Dupin, Poe's famous Parisian detective.

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Series: Penguin Readers Level 5 (PGR5) YL 5.0~6.0
Title: Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Author: Poe, Edgar Allan
Genre: AT
YL: 5.0-6.0
Headwords: 2300
Total Word Count: 29,000
Rating: ****

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Summary: A man is haunted by his own imagination, hidden writing that leads to buried treasure, a fisherman fighting for his life in a powerful whirlpool. In these short stories by Edgar Allan Poe we meet people struggling with death. Others are trying to solve the darkest of mysteries. Which of them will succeed?

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