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Reader mit CD-ROM/Audio-CDEin kleines Madchen feiert Geburtstag. Beim Kerzenauspusten schliesst es die Augen und wunscht sich etwas ganz Besonderes. Plotzlich gehen seltsame Dinge vor sich, von denen die Eltern des Madchens nichts bemerken. Kann das Madachen ihre Eltern davon uberzeugen, dass es sich das nicht einbildet?Die neue Reihe Helbling Young Readers richtet sich an Kinder im Grundschulalter und bietet fesselnde Lekture, Multimedia-CD-ROM und prachtvolles Bilderbuch in einem. Speziell fur...

O casatorie regala e ceea ce viseaza cele mai multe fete. Dar pentru Kestrel inseamna o viata traita intr-o colivie pe care ea insasi a creat-o. Pe masura ce nunta se apropie, ea tanjeste sa-i spuna lui Arin adevarul despre logodna ei: ca a acceptat sa se marite cu printul in schimbul libertatii lui Arin. Dar poate Kestrel sa aiba incredere in Arin? Poate sa se increada in ea insasi? Caci Kestrel se pricepe de minune la arta deceptiei. Ea actioneaza ca spion la curte, dar daca va fi prinsa, va f...

Drumul catre Little Dribbling. Noi insemnari de pe o insula mica Cistigator al National Geographic Traveller Reader Award pentru cea mai buna carte de calatorie a anului 2016Dupa succesul Insemnarilor de pe o insula mica, Bill Bryson porneste intr-o noua calatorie de explorare a Marii Britanii, de data aceasta de-a lungul „Liniei Bryson”, un traseu imaginar stabilit chiar de el intre punctele cele mai indepartate ale insulei. Cu mult umor, cu ironie tonica si adesea cu melancolia pe ...

Reader mit CD-ROM/Audio-CDDie Schildkrote und der Hase tragen ein ungleiches Wettrennen aus. Die Schildkrote muss sich abmuhen, denn mit ihrem schweren Panzer und den kurzen Beinen ist sie bedeutend langsamer als der Hase. Doch sie gibt nicht auf. Gleich zu Beginn des Rennens geht der Hase in Fuhrung, wird aber rasch mude. Er rastet und schlaft dabei ein. Wird die beharrliche Schildkrote das Rennen nun fur sich entscheiden?Die neue Reihe Helbling Young Readers richtet sich an Kinder im Grundschu...

Ein wunderschoner Tag bricht an, das Gras ist grun und der Himmel ist blau. Alle Tiere des Dschungels sind glucklich und zufrieden. Doch was ist das? Plotzlich leuchtet der Himmel orange und uberall ist Rauch. Oh nein, ein schreckliches Feuer ist ausgebrochen. Werden die kleinen Vogel es schaffen, den Brand zu loschen? Und wer kann ihnen dabei helfen?Die Helbling Young Readers Big Books im Grossformat (47 x 34,7 cm) eignen sich als Zusatz zu den Lekturen im Normalformat optimal fur den Einsatz i...

Levy ist Schiffsmaschinist auf der "Albatross" und auf seiner letzten Fahrt vor dem ersehnten Ruhestand. Da stellt er fest, dass die Schiffsladung aus etwas Anderem besteht, als sie eigentlich sollte.Die 16-jahrige Molly geht mit ihrem Hund am Strand spazieren - und findet einen leblosen Korper.Was sagt wohl der Kapitan zu Levys Entdeckung? Wieso verschwindet der Korper vom Strand? Und welche Verbindung gibt es zwischen Levy und Molly?Levy, an old Greek sailor, takes on his last job and discover...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Likened to Louisa May Alcott\\''s Little Women, What Katy Did Next is a timeless classic for both children and adults to enjoy.The story of Katy Carr, the lanky, good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle and patient, is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge\\''s popular Katy series. When Mrs Ashe, a widower, discovers that her visiting nephew has scarlet fever, she sends her only daughter Am...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.`And now, Katy, it\\''s your turn. Tell us what you\\''re going to be when you grow up.\\''`I\\''m not sure about what I\\''ll be,\\'' replied Katy; `beautiful, of course, and good if I can. That\\''s what I\\''d like to be. But now I\\''ll tell you what I mean to do...\\''Tomboyish Katy Carr is tall, gangling and full of mischief. Constantly scheming and playing with her brothers and sisters, 12-year-old Ka...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby. A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.\\''Poor Tom is an orphan, employed by the underhand Grimes as a chimney sweep. While cleaning a chimney one day, Tom becomes lost and appears in Ellie\\''s bedroom. She mistakes him for a thief and he flees in fright, down to the edge of a stream whe...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind...''Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, `A Room of One''s Own'' interweaves Woolf''s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Bronte to Shakespeare''s gifted (and imaginary) sister. `Three Guineas'', Woolf''s most impassioned polemi...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2). Each reader includes: * A CD with a reading of the adapted story * Helpful notes on characters * Cultural and historical notes rele...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners.Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully adapted versions are shorter with the language targeted at upper-intermediate learners (CEF level B2).Each reader includes:* A CD with a reading of the adapted story* Helpful notes on characters* Cultural and historical notes relevant ...

The shocking first-hand account of one man\\''s remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture.`Why had I not died in my young years - before God had given me children to love and live for? What unhappiness and suffering and sorrow it would have prevented. I sighed for liberty; but the bondsman\\''s chain was round me, and could not be shaken off.\\''1841: Solomon Northup is a successful violinist when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Taken from his family in New York St...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`If music be the food of love, play on;Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,The appetite may sicken, and so die.\\''A comedic romance of mistaken identity, Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck, splitting up Viola and her twin brother, Sebastian. Alone in a strange land, Viola disguises herself as a male servant, Cesario, in order to work for the Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with Lady Olivia, but it is Cesario ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within as on the state of things without and around us.\\''Considered one of her less well-known novels, Shirley is Charlotte Bronte\\''s only historical work, set during the Napoleonic Wars. Wealthy and independent, Shirley is very different from her friend Caroline, who has few prospects and is dependent on her uncle. Strug...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Featuring the last 12 stories ever written about the infamous detective, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains some of Conan Doyle''s most villainous and unusual characters.The 1920s was a disenchanting era, and the darker mood of many of these stories reflects the environment at the time. Some even felt that the stories showed Conan Doyle exploring Spiritualism as it was an area he was interested in at the tim...