Longman Easystarts is a series of low level readers aimed at students who are just starting to read and who want to read books which are simple but not childish. language level is controlled and each page has text and illustrations. This tells the story of a girl who makes friends with a dolphin.
"Felix is not a happy bird. He comes from Brazil but he doesn't live there. He lives in New York in a cage. Then one day his cage opens and Felix says goodbye to New York. Can he find his family in Brazil again?
Kelly Logan reads about the Tall Man in the newspaper. Hes a dangerous criminal, but nobody knows what he looks like, except that he is very tall. But sixteen-year-old Kelly has her own worries -how will she get on in the big city? Shes too busy to think about the Tall Man, until a late-night phone message makes her think again. Find out what happens next in this fast-moving thriller.
Original / British English Marcel is a French mouse, and a detective. One evening, at the Louvre museum, he sees a man steal a famous painting -- the Mona Lisa. Marcel follows the thief to Venice and risks his life to get the painting back again.
Original / British English 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?
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Original / British English Marcel and his friend Celine are on holiday in Los Angeles. They are staying in the home of Arnold Waldman, a famous film director. But on the first night of their holiday, kidnappers take away Arnold's daughter...
Longman Easystarts is a series of low level readers designed for students who are just starting to read and who want to read books which are simple but not childish. The stories are considered particularly suitable for students strting English at secondary school. The language level is pitched lower than Longman Structural Readers Stage 1 (which has a basic vocabulary of 300 words) and the vocabulary, structures and sentence length are carefully controlled. Each page of the book is made up of 2/3 of illustration and 1/3 of text, and the illustrations should facilitate and reinforce comprehension as well as making the books attractive to students. There are questions at the back, and an accompanying cassette is available which contains readings of all six stories in the series. "Flying Home" is the story of a parakeet who escapes from his cage in New York and sets off to find his rainforest home. Stephen Rabley has written several Longman Structural Readers, including "Customs and Traditions of Britain", "The Gold Lasso" and "Photo of the Tall Man".
Original / British English Tommy Grant is a taxi driver. One morning his boss telephones him. 'Can you be at the Ritz hotel at 9 o'clock?' he asks. The 12-year-old son of a film star is in London. His name is Dino. 'Be very nice to the boy, ' Tommy's boss says
