CATALOGUE 2015 • Pearson English Kids Readers • Pearson English Active Readers • Pearson English Readers Better learning comes from fun. What are Pearson English Readers? Pearson English Readers are world-renowned stories re-written for English learners and graded to 7 different levels of English. With Pearson English Readers learners of any age can enjoy reading whatever their language level is. •Bring learning to life! When students enjoy what they’re doing they are more motivated to read, learn and succeed. •Give students the opportunity to choose a reader that is right for them! Choose from a large selection of books and film-based titles across 13 different genres, appropriate for different age groups. 2 •Engage with young learners! Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Readers help kids discover the world around them through topics such as art, science, and geography, presented in English. •Make the most of your Readers with additional teacher’s resources including Teachers’ notes, Activity worksheets and audio CDs. With teacher’s resources you can bring more practice into your classroom, improving your students’ reading confidence, topic comprehension, vocabulary and spoken and written English. Exciting new name for ELT Readers What is new in Pearson English Readers? In May 2015, 60 of our best-selling titles will be freshly rebranded from Penguin Readers to Pearson English Readers, to better represent us - who we are (Pearson!) and what we do best (English!). Pearson English Readers all have new Pearson branded covers complete with beautiful original visuals. With GSE and CEFR-aligned levelling tables on the back covers of Pearson English Readers and Pearson English Active Readers, it will be easier to match your students with the right Reader and the right level for them. Word counts and levels have all been re-checked and fine-tuned. This is just the first step on our exciting journey! Over the next two years, all of our Readers will be rebranded to Pearson English Readers and new iOS and Android apps for eReaders will be released. New in 2015! Pearson English Kids Readers app for Android and iOS tablets. •Learning can be more fun with stunning animated illustrations, interactive exercises with soundtrack and other exciting features delivered through the technologies that young learners love and understand. •Learning can be more efficient with the instant feedback feature and the voice recording tool. Students can compare their voices with the modelled audio and master their pronunciation. The app will be available for free on the app Store and Google Play with a free sample eReader. More eReaders will be available for purchase through the app. •Learning can be more flexible! With Pearson English Kids Readers app students can learn and read from tablets anytime, anywhere. 3 Correlation chart Titles Primary Young Learners Secondary Upper-secondary Adults 4 Big English Islands Well Done! English Adventure Look! 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(Esp-Eng) My GrammarLab Diccionario Pocket Plus (Esp-Eng) Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 6th Edition Longman Diccionario Pocket Plus (Esp-Eng) Longman Active Study Dictionary Choose your level! This chart is a rough guide to choosing Pearson English Readers and Pearson English Active Readers books for your students. Pearson English Readers Pearson English Readers Cambridge ESOL Exams CEFR Level Cambridge YL Tests Trinity College ESOL Spoken TOEFL TOEIC PTE General C2 5 CPE 12 276+ 910+ 910+ Level 6 C1 4 CAE 11 236-275 701-910 701-910 Level 5 B2 3 FCE 7/8/9/10 176-235 541-700 541-700 Level 4 B1 2 PET 4/5/6 126-175 381-540 381-540 Level 3 A2 1 KET 2/3 96-125 246-380 246-380 Level 2 A1+ 1 Level 1 A1 A1 Trinity College ESOL Spoken TOEFL TOEIC PTE General 4/5/6 126-175 381-540 381-540 2/3 96-125 246-380 246-380 Flyers 2 Movers Easystarts 1 Startes Pearson English Active Readers Pearson English Active Readers Cambridge ESOL Exams CEFR Level Level 4 B1 2 PET Level 3 A2 1 KET Level 2 A1+ 1 Level 1 A1 A1 Easystarts Cambridge YL Tests Flyers 2 Movers Starters 1 5 PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLIL Pearson English Kids Readers CLIL LEVEL 1 Pearson Kids are now ‘Worldly-Wise’ kids too! Ages from 5 to 12 Series Editor: Melanie Williams • 18 NEW CLIL titles for balanced learning that reinforce and extend content from other areas of the primary curriculum. 6 Katie Grows a Bean Plant Marie Crook Making Music Nicole Taylor Wheels Go Round Rachel Wilson • 6 levels that maintain the highest quality design and the same stringent criteria for levelling and writing. Katie likes beans. They are her favourite vegetable. She gets a small jar, some tissue paper and a bean seed. Does the seed grow? • From ‘Butterflies and Frogs’ and ‘Where I live’ to ‘Island Hopping’, there’s a whole range of different areas and topics to choose from. The town is busy today. Swishswash! Toot-toot! Nee-naw! Dinga-ling! Two wheels, four wheels, six or eight Is it a car, a bicycle or a bus? British English 16 pages 124 words in length 200 headwords In this book, the students learn about making music – making a beat and making a tune. The images of people singing, clapping, dancing and playing different musical instruments help the students to understand why we like to make music. A cartoon bird expresses his responses to music through simple adjectives. • Lots of additional content and resources on Pearson English Kids Readers website: sample pages and MP3 audio; teacher’s notes and a wide variety of activity sheets for each title. ISBN 9781408288238 British English 16 pages 115 words in length 200 headwords ISBN 9781408288214 British English 16 pages 143 words in length 200 headwords ISBN 9781408288221 PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLIL LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 Where I Live Linnette Erocak Awake at Night Laura Miller Clothes at Work Linnette Erocak Tom at the Harbour Barbara Ingham Butterflies and Frogs Rachel Wilson Emma loves her neighbourhood. There is a park. There are shops and a market. Where does she go every day? Amy and Jack are on holiday. They are visiting Max. It is dark. They cannot sleep. Suddenly, Amy points. ‘Look!’ she says. ‘What are they?’ Bats, birds, butterflies, moths... ? Learn about animals of the night! This Level 2 Reader looks at the work clothes worn by people in six different jobs: airline pilot, vet, dentist, firefighter, chef and mechanic. Each double page describes a job and some of the important things the person does in that job. Tom loves the harbour. Every weekend he buys an ice cream and watches the boats. What can he show you? What can he see with the binoculars? There are big boats, small boats and strong boats. What are the names of the boats? What do they do? Hannah is a scientist and she studies animals. She wants to show you two animals with amazing life cycles ... a butterfly and a frog. The Peacock butterfly lives in Europe. The Redeyed tree frog lives in the rainforests of Central and South America. Which one hibernates? Which one is nocturnal? Let’s take a look! British English 24 pages British English 16 pages 121 words in length LEVEL 3 200 headwords British English 16 Pages ISBN 9781408288207 275 words in length British English 16 Pages British English 16 pages 400 headwords 263 words in length 267 words in length ISBN 9781408288283 400 headwords 400 headwords ISBN 9781408288139 ISBN 9781408288276 752 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408288337 7 PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLIL LEVEL 3 8 LEVEL 4 Festival Fun Barbara Ingham Sport with Trainer Tim Maria Iturain Up in the Air Marie Crook Animal Athletes Caroline Laidlaw Brain Gym Laura Miller A festival is a celebration, to have a party on a special day. Visit different festivals in the World. Scotland, New Zealand, Africa and more. Which is your favourite festival? The Reader looks at five different sports which are easily transferable to a child’s world. These are athletics, basketball, football, gymnastics and tennis A hot air balloon is an aircraft. A helicopter moves in an interesting way. An A380 jet plane has got 22 wheels. Let’s read and learn about flying. The fastest flying insect is a dragonfly. A kangaroo can jump 13.5 metres. Dolphins are intelligent and friendly animals. Animal Athletes of land, sea and air. There are cool cats and other acrobats. Let’s read about them all. You use your brain all the time. It is like a very intelligent computer inside your head. What does your brain look like? What does it do? Come on, let’s exercise your brain! British English 24 pages 714 words in length 600 headwords British English 24 pages 770 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408288146 ISBN 9781408288313 British English 24 pages 707 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408288320 British English 24 pages 1,117 words in length 800 headwords ISBN 9781408288382 Bristish English 24 pages 964 words in length 800 headwords ISBN 9781408288153 PEARSON ENGLISH KIDS READERS CLIL LEVEL 5 LEVEL 6 Harry’s Clothes Project Marie Crook Island Hopping Caroline Laidlaw A World of Homes Nicole Taylor Animal Camouflage Caroline Laidlaw Our Changing Planet Coleen Degnan-Veness How many different clothes can you see in the street? Think about all the different clothes you wear in just one day, in just one week. And the different clothes for different times of the year! Harry did a project about clothes for his teacher. He knows a lot about clothes now. How about you? A penguin decides to look for a new home. Somewhere quiet, with more space. Let’s go with her on a journey to different islands around the world. And see what we discover. There are old homes, new homes and mobile homes. ‘Green’ homes, intelligent homes and strange homes too! There’s a home made from bottles. A tree house made from glass. Palaces for kings and queens. And people living in rocks! So, what is a home and what are homes made of? When they are hunting, or when they are prey, lots of different animals hide in different ways. An octopus changes colour, insects look like sticks. Seahorses hide in coral and lizards with two heads! Can you think of any more animals that use camouflage? More than 1.2 million plant and animal species live on Earth. There are dry deserts, icy deserts, rainforests, grasslands, mountains and oceans. All amazing habitats for life on this planet. But the climate is changing... Find out the things YOU can do to help protect our planet. British English 32 pages 1,982 words in length 1,000 headwords ISBN 9781408288412 British English 32 pages 2,036 words in length 1,000 headwords ISBN 9781408288436 British English 40 pages 3,152 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781408288160 British English 40 pages 3,288 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781408288481 British English 40 pages 3,362 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781408288467 9 PEARSON ENGLISH ACTIVE READERS Pearson English Active Readers EASYSTART LEVEL 2 Integrating Skills Through Reading Research showed teachers wanted a special series of books that could be used specifically in the classroom with more exercises and project work. We produced titles with materials allowing teachers to take an integrated skills approach to using readers. All Pearson English Active Readers titles are supported by audio recordings and an interactive CD-ROM. Newspaper Chase John Escott The Secret Garden Frances Hodgson Burnett A fictional story about a thief who steals a very expensive painting. Harry goes back to the house where he rents a room and hides the painting under his bed. Janey, the daughter of the house owner, thinks recycling is very important—she always recycles bottles and newspapers. On Fridays, she collects old newspapers, including the newspaper under Harry’s bed. Mary Lennox is born in India to English parents. Her mother isn’t interested in her and she is looked after by an Indian servant. Mary is a spoilt, illtempered and unhealthy child. When she is nine, her parents die and she goes to live with her reclusive uncle in a big old manor house in Yorkshire. American English 24 Pages 806 words in length 200 headwords 10 ISBN 9781292108520 British English 64 pages 9,944 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781447967484 Nightmare Before Christmas Daphne Skinner Everyone in Halloweentown loves Halloween-but not Jack Skellington. Then one day he visits Christmastown and has an idea. Why can’t everyone in Halloweentown celebrate Christmas, too - their own way. American English 64 pages 8,038 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781447967460 PEARSON ENGLISH ACTIVE READERS LEVEL 3 Stories of Courage Clare Gray Some people refuse to give in to terrible personal problems. Some courageously put their own lives in danger as they fight for others. The eight true stories in this book show how brave men and women can be. American English 48 pages 9,451 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781447967606 LEVEL 4 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Huckleberry Finn, known as Huck to his friends, lives with Widow Douglas in St. Petersburg, Missouri. His best friends are Tom Sawyer and Jim, the Widow’s black slave. Huck likes Tom because he is very smart and has lots of good ideas, which often get the boys into trouble… American English 80 pages 13,826 words in length 1,200 headwords About a Boy Nick Hornby Oliver Twist Charles Dickens About a Boy is a modern classic -a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It’s also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant. Oliver was poor and and lonely, so he ran away to London. He meets people, who try to turn Oliver into a criminal. Will he escape and find a better life? British English 96 pages 21,322 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781447967668 British English 96 pages 16,791 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781292098661 ISBN 9781447967507 11 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS Pearson English Readers EASYSTART LEVEL 1 Something for Everyone! From original titles to film adaptations, from classics to comedies and plays, our readers stay true to the original texts but are underpinned by extensively researched grammar and vocabulary syllabuses meaning your students read real books in language they understand... while all the time improving their language skills. Maisie and The Dolphin Stephen Rabley Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain The Missing Coins John Escott Maisie King lives in the Bahamas. Her mother and father work at an Animal Hospital. Maisie has a new friend. His name is Ben and he’s a dolphin. Ben is very ill. Maisie helps him. Then Maisie has a big problem. Can Ben help her? Tom Sawyer loves adventures. He has them at home, at school, and with his friends. Tom has one adventure in a graveyard and one in a cave. Who does he see there? Why is he afraid? Pete and Carla are students. One day they look at some very old coins and stamps in a shop. Pete wants to buy some stamps, but they are very expensive. Later that day some coins are missing from the shop and the shopkeeper wants to find Pete. British English 20 pages 973 words in length 200 headwords ISBN 9781405880633 12 American English 32 pages 4,003 words in length 300 headwords ISBN 9781405878005 British English 20 pages 1,711 words in length 300 headwords ISBN 97814058781420 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS LEVEL 2 Pirates of the Caribbean. The Curse of the Black Pearl Elaine O’Reilly Elizabeth lives on a Caribbean island, a very dangerous place. A young blacksmith is interested in her, but pirates are interested too. Where do the pirates come from and what do they want? Is there really a curse on their ship? And why can’t they enjoy their gold? American English 48 pages 7,438 words in length 600 headwords A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Alice in Wonderland Lewis Carroll American Life Vicky Shipton Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift Scrooge is a mean man. He loves money, and he doesn’t like people. He really doesn’t like Christmas. But some ghosts visit him. Will Scrooge learn from the ghosts? Can he change? One hot summer day, Alice sees a white rabbit and runs after it. She follows it down a rabbit hole and arrives in Wonderland. A classic tale and a wonderful story. Most people around the world today know something about American life. The United States is a big country. Not all Americans are the same! In this book you will see the many faces of American life. British English 48 pages 8,882 words in length 600 headwords British English 56 pages 7,693 words in length 600 headwords Gulliver travels across the sea from England and has an accident. He arrives in a country of very, very small people. What will they do with him? How will he talk to them? And why are the Big-enders fighting the Littleenders? ISBN 9781408278017 ISBN 9781408277997 American English 40 pages 3,082 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408284902 British English 48 pages 9,681 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408278031 ISBN 9781408289471 13 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS LEVEL 2 Robin Hood Liz Austin Apollo 13 Dina Anastasio The Prince and the Pauper Mark Twain Matilda Roald Dahl Billy Elliot Melvyn Burgess The story of Robin Hood is very famous. Robin Hood robbed rich people and gave the money to the poor people. He loved adventure, and he was the best fightaer in England. The greedy Sheriff of Nottingham hated Robin, and the beautiful Lady Marian loved him. His most famous adventures are in this book. Apollo 13 is an exciting movie - and a true story! It is Monday, April 13, 1970 and Apollo 13 is flying to the Moon. Suddenly, something goes wrong. The ship is losing power and oxygen. Will the astronauts walk on the Moon? Will they get home again? Two babies are born on the same day in England. One boy is a prince and the other boy is from a very poor family. Ten years later, they change places for a game. But then the old king dies and they cannot change back. Will the poor boy be the new King of England? Matilda is a very clever little girl, but her parents don’t like her and the head teacher at school is frightening. Then one day, she discovers that she can move things with her mind! Billy Elliot is not very clever or good at sports. One day he discovers ballet dancing, and it’s something he can do well. His father and brother don’t approve. Will Billy continue to dance? British English 56 pages 8,070 words in length 1,200 headwords British English 64 pages 12,931 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781447925668 ISBN 9781447925378 British English 48 pages 8,760 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408289488 14 LEVEL 3 American English 48 pages 8,119 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408284919 British English 48 pages 9,137 words in length 600 headwords ISBN 9781408278130 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS LEVEL 3 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare Martin Luther King Coleen Degnan-Veness Notting Hill Richard Curtis Why is the frightening Mr Hyde a friend of the nice Dr Jekyll? Who is the evil little man? And why does he seem to have power over the doctor? After a terrible murder, everyone is looking for Mr Hyde. But he has disappeared. Or has he? Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous love stories in the world. But it is more than a great love story. It is also about life and death, happiness and sadness, and the terrible hate between two great families. Shakespeare’s beautiful tale is still as popular today as it was more than 400 years ago. Martin Luther King had a dream. He wanted blacks and whites to live together happily. But in America in the 1950s and 1960s, all men were not equal. King led peaceful protests against the government and won changes for the blacks of America. But has King’s dream really come true today? Can the most famous film star in the world fall for the man in the street? Notting Hill is a wonderful and very funny love story. The award-winning movie starred Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. British English 72 pages 13,684 words in length 1,200 headwords American English 56 pages 9,272 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781447925798 ISBN 9781447925651 British English 64 pages 33,680 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781447925460 The Black Cat and Other Stories Edgar Allan Poe Are you brave enough to read four of Poe’s famous horror stories? Edgar Allan Poe wrote strange stories about terrible people and evil crimes. Don’t read this book late at night! British English 64 pages 13,451 words in length 1,200 headwords British English 56 pages 7,423 words in length 1,200 headwords ISBN 9781447925712 ISBN 9781447925385 15 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS LEVEL 4 Three Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes is a great detective. There are few cases that he cannot solve. In this collection, Sherlock Holmes skills are put to the test in three adventures: The Speckled Band, The Five Orange Pips, and The Crown of Diamonds. British English 80 pages 15,431 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408294468 16 1984 George Orwell Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank The Client John Grisham The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Winston Smith lives in a world where everyone is watched every second of the day. It’s a world where Big Brother and the Thought Police control the past as well as the present. It is 1942 in Holland and the Germans have invaded. All Jewish people are frightened for their lives, so the Frank family hides. Life is dangerous but they hope for the best – until they are finally discovered. Mark Sway is eleven and knows a terrible secret. He knows where a body is hidden. With that body, the FBI can prove a Mafia murder. Mark needs help and he needs it now. Basil Hallward paints a portrait of a handsome young man, Dorian Gray. Dorian wishes that he could always stay handsome and young, and his wish comes true. But there are consequences. British English 88 pages 19,465 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408294222 British English 72 pages 12,701 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408294277 British English 72 pages 12,166 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408294253 British English 88 pages 16,326 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408289570 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 The Merchant of Venice William Shakespeare Love Actually Richard Curtis Taste and Other Tales Roald Dahl Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Death on the Nile Agatha Christie Bassanio wants to get married, but he has no money and a lot of debts. He asks his friend Antonio for a loan, but Antonio is waiting for his ships to return. Until then, he has nothing to lend. To help Bassanio, he borrows money from a money-lender – and agrees to an unusual condition. If Antonio cannot repay the loan in three months, the money-lender will cut a pound of flesh from his body. Will Antonio be able to repay the loan? Or will he die? In London, Christmas is coming and the people in this story have love on their minds. A romantic comedy about very different people who have found love and lost love. 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... 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? Linnet Ridgeway is rich, beautiful and clever. She appears to have everything. But Linnet also has enemies. When she is shot dead on a passenger boat in Egypt, it is fortunate that Hercule Poirot is also on the trip. But even for the great Belgian detective, this is not a simple case. British English 88 pages 16,776 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408289563 British English 72 pages 13,673 words in length 1,700 headwords ISBN 9781408294376 British English 112 pages 29,948 words in length 2,300 headwords ISBN 9781408276648 British English 152 pages 42,445 words in length 2,300 headwords ISBN 9781408276488 British English 104 pages 26,246 words in length 2,300 headwords ISBN 9781408276303 17 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS LEVEL 5 Round the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne 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! British English 136 pages 35,572 words in length 2,300 headwords ISBN 9781408276532 18 LEVEL 6 The Phantom of the Opera Gaston Leroux There is a climate of secrecy and fear at the Paris Opera. People are dying and a beautiful, talented young singer has disappeared. Is this the work of the Opera ghost? Is the ghost a man or a monster? And what else will he do to get what he wants? American English 104 pages 26,075 words in length 2,300 headwords ISBN 9781408276471 Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Brave New World Aldous Huxley The Woman in White Wilkie Collins 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. One of the great works of science fiction. It is the year After Ford 632 in the New World. People are born and live by scientific methods. There is worldwide happiness and order. Then John comes from the Savage Reservation to the New World and with him he brings strong emotions - love, hate, anger, fear. Suddenly, danger threatens the New World. Only the Woman in White knows the truth of Laura Fairlie’s cruel husband. Can Walter Hartwright discover the terrible secret? From the moment Walter meets this mysterious woman, his future and that of Laura are linked forever. British English 136 pages 35,476 words in length 2,300 headwords British English 136 pages 35,240 words in length 3,000 headwords ISBN 9781408276549 ISBN 9781408274354 British English 120 pages 25,937 words in length 3,000 headwords ISBN 9781408274408 PEARSON ENGLISH READERS E R U T N E V AD LEVEL 6 SCIENCE FICTION FANTASY Content and Language Integrated Learning Non-fiction Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky Les Misérables Victor Hugo Raskolnikoff, a young student, has been forced to give up his university studies because of lack of money. He withdraws from society and, poor and lonely, he develops a plan to murder a greedy old moneylender. Surely the murder of one worthless old woman would be excused, even approved of, if it made possible a thousand good deeds? But this crime is just the beginning of the story... After spending nineteen years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean is at last a free man. But he is a cold, tired, hungry man with no money and not a friend in the world. But then something happens that will change his life forever. As a result, he spends the rest of his life helping the victims of poverty and social injustice. British English 120 pages 32,748 words in length 3,000 headwords ISBN 9781408274385 British English 120 pages 30,142 words in length 3,000 headwords ISBN 9781408274255 Auto/biography PLAYS LITERARY CLASSICS BUS NESS Ghosts Spine Chillers Horror Historical Fiction ? Crime/Mystery Thriller 19 Find out more about PEARSON ENGLISH READERS www.pearsonenglishkidsreaders.com www.pearsonenglishactivereaders.com www.pearsonenglishreaders.com Want to contact us? pearsonELT.es • pearsonELT.com/pt Please email us at [email protected] Phone us on 902 123 503 @PearsonELTweets facebook.com/PearsonEnglishHub We’d love to hear from you!