The Crown / James, Montague Rhodes

  Stage / Nivel 1

"You aren't from Seaburgh', the old man said. 'Go back to your hotel. Don't think about the crown again." Paxton is on holiday in Seaburgh, a small English town near the sea. He likes old things and old stories... but he doesn't always listen. He takes a famous old crown from the ground. Suddenly, there is a shadow behind him, and Paxton is very afraid.

📕 Classics

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección General, 428/J27.

The Street Lawyer / Grisham, John

 Stage / Nivel 4

Michael is a successful lawyer with Drake and Sweeney when a homeless man attacks him. As Michael tries to discover who the man was, he uncovers a dangerous secret about Drake and Sweeney.

💫 Contemporary

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección General 428/G869.

A Special Kind of Neighborhood /National Geographic Digital Media

 Stage / Nivel 2

Most cities have local areas called "neighborhoods." The Mission District is one of San Francisco's oldest neighborhoods. Many people think it's very special because it's so multi-cultural. What makes the Mission District so multi-cultural? Why does that make it special?

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección General, 428/W276.

The Secret Garden / Hodgson Burnett, Frances

 Stage / Nivel 2

Mary Lennox goes to live with her uncle in a big, old house in the country. There are many gardens round the house. One day Mary finds a garden that has high walls and no doors. What is the secret of the garden?

📕 Classics

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección General, 428/H691.

Saladin / Prentice, Nina

Stage / Nivel 2

‘Well, Yusuf, are you sure that you want to be a soldier?’

‘I’ll do my best, Uncle.’ When Yusuf went to Aleppo to learn to fight under General Shirkuh, no one knew what this young man would do with his life.

But years later, Yusuf became the great and chivalrous general, Saladin – the man who helped to bring Muslims together to win back the holy city of Jerusalem from the Franks. This is his story…

📝 Dominoes

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/P927.

The Boy Who Could Fly / Hill, David A.

Stage / Nivel 5

No one knows where Michael comes from or who his parents are. One day he starts to grow wings and his life changes forever. Michael moves from hospitals to research clinics to life in isolation on a remote island.

Will he ever manage to have a normal life?

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/H645b.

Sons and Lovers / Lawrence, D. H

Stage / Nivel 5

Mrs Morel’s marriage is not a happy one. She is antagonistic to her husband and gives all her love to her sons. The Morels’ younger son is torn between a passionate love for his mother and his lovers. 

💖 Romance

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/L419son.

Blackbeard / Escott, John

Starter / Principiante

The year is 1717. It is a bad time to be the captain of a ship in the Caribbean because of pirates. The most frightening pirate on the sea is Edward Teach, or ‘Blackbeard’.

‘The Governor of Virginia wants us all dead!’ Blackbeard thinks. ‘But can he kill me – the most famous pirate in the Caribbean? No!’

This is his story…

📝 Dominoes

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/E74b.

A Pretty Face / Escott, John

Starter / Principiante

Zoe Baker works in a bookstore. She also likes acting, and she has a part in the play Romeo and Juliet. Mike Morrison writes about the play for the newspaper. What does he write about Zoe? Is Zoe a good actress… or is she just ‘a pretty face’?

What does Zoe think when she reads the newspaper? What does she do?

📝 Dominoes

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/E74.

Hard Times / Dickens, Charles

Stage / Nivel 3

Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important than feelings and imagination. After Sissy Jupe – a circus child – is left alone in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teaching her facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa becomes a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work.

In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and imagination.

📝 Dominoes

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/D548h.

The Secret Agent / Conrad, Joseph

Stage / Nivel 3

Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes a meeting place for anarchists. One day Verloc is told to plant a bomb – but the plan goes terribly wrong…

Does Verloc really love Winnie, or is she just part of his cover? Can Winnie ever forgive him? Who is Verloc really working for?

📝 Dominoes

💿 Audio available /CD disponible

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/C754se.

Sheep in the Snow / Shipton, Paul

Stage / Nivel 2

Ben, Rosie, and Alice are at Aunt Katy’s farm. It’s snowing, and some sheep are up on the hills. How can the children help?

⚽ Imagine

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/S557.

Invisible! / Shipton, Paul

Stage / Nivel 6

‘I’m the greatest criminal in this city. I’ve never been caught by the police, and I never will be caught,’ said Cooger. But what was this clever – and dangerous – man planning? And could Ben and Rosie stop him from stealing Grandpa’s inventions – and a lot more, too?

⚽ Imagine

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/S557i.

The Drive to Dubai / Till, Julie

Stage / Nivel 2

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussain, and she could never marry someone from a bad family.

So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly - with a little help from Samira.

📝 Dominoes

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/T574.

Tristan and Isolde / Bowler, Bill

Starter / Principiante

Tristan and Isolde are in love, but Isolde must marry King Mark. So a happy love story seems impossible…

The lovers meet every day but then, one night, King Mark finds them together. Now Tristan must leave the castle, but he is badly hurt and dying. Only Isolde can help him.

Can Isolde find Tristan in time? Can Their love survive.

📝 Dominoes

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 843/T838tr.

The Tempest / Shakespeare, William

Starter / Principiante

Prospero, the Duke of Milan, and his daughter Miranda are far away from home, alone on an island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. They want to return to Milan... 

Then, one day, Prospero sees a ship near the island carrying his greatest enemies. Prospero with the help of his magic and the island spirit, Ariel, makes a magic storm - a tempest - to bling them to the island.

📝 Dominoes

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 822.33/S527t.

The Secret Garden / Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Stage / Nivel 1

After the dead of her parents, Mary is brought back from India to live with her uncle in England. She is sickly and spoilt, and her uncle´s 600-year-old house is strange and mysterious. She thinks she hears a child crying in the house in the middle of the night.

Mary is told of a secret garden that has been locked up for ten years, and she is determined to find it. One day a robin leads the way.

Mysteries remain. What does Mary find in the secret garden? And where does the crying come from? Read this story to find out the answers to these questions.

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/H691s.

Soccer in the Street / Shipton, Paul

Stage / Nivel 3

Ben is going to play a soccer match, but he wants new soccer shoes. Far away, a boy called Victor plays soccer in the street. He's a fantastic player. He doesn't have any soccer shoes. Find out how the two boys become friends, and what Ben learns.

⚽ Imagine

Este libro hace parte del Sistema de Bibliotecas, puede ser consultado en la Biblioteca del Carmen de Viboral.

Colección Cerrada (Solicítelo al personal de Biblioteca), 823/S557s.