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

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

Colección General, 428/J27.

Help! / Prowse, Philip

Stage / Nivel 1

Frank Wormold is a writer. He doesn't have much money and his wife is unhappy. To help him finish one of his stories he starts to use a computer. But the computer gives him more help than he wants. Then he really needs 'help'!

😂 Comedy

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/P968.

Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son / Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Stage / Nivel 1

Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school.

But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the train down to London and go to Baker Street? Why does he need the help of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes?

Because someone has kidnapped the Duke’s son…

🔪 Crime & Mystery

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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/D754d.

Three Tomorrows / Brennan, Frank

Stage / Nivel 1

Three stories which ask questions about the world in five years, in a hundred years and in fifteen hundred years. Can an email tell us what to buy? How can you know if someone is a machine or a person? What are the dreams of the last woman to live?

📖 Short Stories

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/B838.

One-Way Ticket – Short Stories / Bassett, Jennifer

Stage / Nivel 1

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life.

This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains – and all of them happen here.

💬 Human Interest

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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/B319.

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp / Dean, Judith

Stage / Nivel 1

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee.

With the jinnee’s help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan’s daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

✨ Fantasy & Horror

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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), 892/A316.

Deserts / Hardy-Gould, Janet

Stage / Nivel 1

Look at a desert, and what do you see? Nothing much – just a hot, flat, dry place, with lots of sand, and no animals or people.

But look again. There are deserts with mountains, and deserts with snow. There are millions of people – some live in towns, and some move across the desert all the time. There are plants that live for hundreds of years, and animals that can sleep for months under the ground. When you look closely, the desert is a wonderful place, full of exciting things…

📑 Factfiles

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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), 910.021/H268.

Love or Money? / Akinyemi, Rowena

Stage / Nivel 1

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die.

But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

🔪 Crime & Mystery

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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/A315.

Under the Moon / Akinyemi, Rowena

Stage / Nivel 1

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire.

There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die...

In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid.

✨ Fantasy & Horror

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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/A315u.

The Witches of Pendle / Akinyemi, Rowena

Stage / Nivel 1

Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it . . . and a few weeks later you are dead.

Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family.

🎭 True Stories 

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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/A315w.

The Wizard of Oz / Baum, L. Frank

Stage / Nivel 1

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.

But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz...

✨ Fantasy & Horror

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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), 813/B347w.

Animals in danger / Hopkins, Andy

Stage / Nivel 1

People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals.

But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for medicine. Now there are about 7,000 species of animals in danger. What can we do to protect the animals of the world- from us?

📑 Factfiles

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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), 591/H793.

A Ghost in Love: and Other Plays / Dean, Michael

Stage / Nivel 1

Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears.

The first of these three original plays is set in the seventeenth century, and the other two take place in modern times. In each play, a ghost comes back from the dead to change the lives of living people.

🎭 Playscripts

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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), 812/D281.

Hotel Casanova / Leather, Sue

Stage / Nivel 1

Dino was 21 and worked in a hotel in the beautiful city of Venice. The women who came to the hotel liked to talk to him. Dino was kind to them. But he knew what he wanted. "when I´m 26" he thought, "I´m going to meet a woman, the woman I want to marry." Then Dino met Carla and...

💖 Romance

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/L438h.

A Little Princess / Hodgson Burnett, Frances

Stage / Nivel 1

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin’s school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school.

But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world…

💬 Human Interest

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/H691l.

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.