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Fourteen-year-old Thomas Laventure has been living for the last six months with his family in Nunavut, an Inuit-populated territory in northern Canada, searching for meteorites. One day, while building an igloo in the garden, he suddenly finds a mysterious, warm red stone...

Fanny, a seventeen-year-old student, dreams of becoming a journalist. So she goes with her brother to the Cannes Film Festival, to do a report on a famous actress, Nina Maje. But something happens and Fanny and her brother are dragged into a mystery.

Poor Cinderella! She has to do all the housework, and her sisters won’t take her to the ball! But thanks to a fairy godmother – and her pets! – she does go to the ball. There, the Prince falls in love with her, but will he find her again?

In three stories three characters teach us lessons: the tortoise ‘slowly but surely’ wins the race; the mouse becomes a ‘great little friend’ to the mighty lion; the country mouse prefers the quiet life back home to the luxury – and dangers – of the town.

Where’s Éric? He hasn’t come home from school. Has he run away? Has he been kidnapped? Éric’s parents are very worried, but the Police Commissioner is able to solve the mystery in his own unique way. Includes a playscript.

There is discontent in Rome among the people and aristocrats. The people are angry because of a grain shortage and the aristocrats are worried that Julius Caesar will seek to become king. A group of conspirators led by Brutus decides to assassinate Caesar. At first everything seems to go well for them, but soon the conspirators find themselves pursued by the ‘Spirit of Caesar’. Shakespeare’s text has been adapted into an accessible narrated story which retains the drama of the original play.

What can possibly happen to three friends and their dog when they take a peaceful boat trip on the River Thames? Well, just about anything! They have incredibly funny adventures as they visit historic sites on the beautiful Thames.

Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it?

Plain orphaned Jane Eyre lives unwanted with her aunt and cousins until she is sent away to school. There, hungry and humiliated, she grows and studies. When Jane leaves school to work as a governess at the aristocratic Thornfield Manor owned by the intriguing Mr Rochester, she finally finds some happiness. But some strange events are signals that the mysterious past of Mr Rochester's is about to return.

Young John Trenchard lives in Moonfleet, an English village with dark secrets. One day he discovers a hidden crypt below the cemetery where smugglers meet and hide their goods. Here he accidentally finds the skeleton of evil Colonel Mohune, better known as Blackbeard, and a precious clue that could help him find Blackbeard’s treasure… Thrilling adventures with smugglers, the king’s soldiers, a corrupt magistrate, a greedy diamond dealer and others await John in this exciting story set in the eighteenth century.

Find out about the legend of King Arthur and how he became King, where he found his great sword Excalibur, about his love for Guinevere, and all about the courageous Knights of the Round Table.

The school year has just finished and group of young friends from New Zealand, prepare to go on a cruise. When a disaster happens, the friends find themselves shipwrecked in the middle of the ocean, without the ship’s captain or crew. Will they be able to survive all the dangers? Will they ever see their families again?

Entrepreneur Monsieur Delaunaye is well-known all over France and abroad. His brand of products are, in fact, considered to represent a high degree of taste, elegance and style… When he mysteriously disappears without a trace, Inspector Gaudin leads the investigation. They uncover the other side of the picture: a business in crisis with risky managerial problems and family conflicts…

Sherlock Holmes battles against a criminal organisation in Conan Doyle’s ‘The Five Orange Pips’; in Charles Dickens’ ‘Hunted Down’ a ruthless murderer is brought to justice; in ‘The Stir Outside the Café Royal’ by Clarence Rook an American woman tracks down her fiancé’s killer; and in G. K. Chesterton’s ‘The Oracle of the Dog’ Father Brown solves a difficult murder case.

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever and rich, has a perfect life. She has decided never to get married but to live as the mistress of Hartfield, her father’s house in the beautiful English countryside. But when she starts matchmaking she finds that her imagination has led her into danger.

This great historical novel, published in 1831, is a formidable representation of life in Paris in the fifteenth century. Four people dominate the story: Quasimodo, the hunch-backed bell-ringer of Notre-Dame; Claude Frollo, the tortured arch-deacon; Esmeralda, the beautiful gypsy and Phoebus, the captain of the King’s archers.

Valeria, a beautiful and intelligent teenager, is a very good student, but can’t seem to make friends. ‘She’s not one of us’, her neighbours say, convinced that strange things happen in Valeria’s mysterious house on the cliffs. However, when Marco, the most popular guy in the class, becomes interested in her, everything seems like it is about to change. But is Marco the right guy? And what is the mystery that is hiding in that house on the cliffs?

The daring adventures of Zorro, the legendary masked hero of Spanish California, continue to delight readers everywhere. A story filled with excitement and intrigue!

This is the second in the series «English Grammar Framework» and is suitable for students at pre-intermediate level. It covers all the structures found in the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference and is ideal for students preparing for the Cambridge ESOL PET exam, Trinity exams (Grades 5 and 6) and the Achiever level of the City and Guilds International ESOL and SESOL exams. «English Grammar Framework B1» contains 65 units and the supplementary exercises offer practice for the PET exam. As well as the recordings of the dialogues and other selected exercises, the accompanying audio CD/CD-ROM offers numerous interactive exercises to practise the four skills including fun lexical activities on all the topic areas of the Threshold learning objectives of the CEFR.

This is the second in the series «English Grammar Framework» and is suitable for students at pre-intermediate level. It covers all the structures found in the B1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference and is ideal for students preparing for the Cambridge ESOL PET exam, Trinity exams (Grades 5 and 6) and the Achiever level of the City and Guilds International ESOL and SESOL exams.

Through the narratives of Mr Enfield, Mr Utterson, Dr Lanyon and Poole, Jekyll’s butler, the mystery of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is revealed: Dr Jekyll, an eminent scientist, has discovered a drug which changes him into the embodiment of his evil impulses. Which side of Jekyll, the good or the evil, will triumph?

A fascination with science and the aspiration to understand the mysteries of creation lead Victor Frankenstein to create life from death. But the results are not what he expects and his rejection of his monstrous creation causes dire consequences for himself and all the people he cares about.

Macbeth is loyal and courageous, and is a friend of King Duncan’s. However, after a battle he encounters three witches who tell him that one day he will be King of Scotland. Soon his obsession to become king is reinforced by his wife’s cold-blooded ambition...

With «À vous la France!» students set off on a fun and lively journey of discovery of France and French-speaking countries. Two teenagers, Camille and Thomas, show students the most interesting and motivating aspects of the French-speaking world, both near – France e French-speaking countries, and afar – French Polynesia, Quebec or Senegal. A photo, illustration or vignette of Camille or Thomas stimulate oral and written interaction, opening the window to various topic-based units: metropolis, cities, villages, countryside, mountains, the seaside, oceans, rivers, lakes and islands. From one discovery to the next, on the trail of the pirates in Saint-Malo or in the footsteps of Leonardo in Amboise, students increase their knowledge of culture, geography, history, art, gastronomy, customs and sport in French-speaking countries. All subjects are approached through active learning in a way that is appropriate to the interests and motivation of the students. The oral and written comprehension activities – true/false, multiple choice, tables, matching – alternate with those of oral and written production, which are based on numerous illustrations, games, guided practice and freer exercises, such as editing and email or a page from a log book. A variety of motivating activities provide a light-hearted dimension: language games (anagrams, charades, riddles, crosswords), figurative language and proverbs all connected with the topics of the different units. Intercultural understanding is transmitted through consideration of symbols, comparison with the students’ own cultures and independent research on the Internet in the Civilis@ction rubric. French history is covered at the end of the topic-based units in a fun, illustrated way. At the end of the volume, there are maps of the French-speaking countries, France and Paris and its underground. There is also an index of the main places and a multilingual word list of the most difficult words and phrases.