Pearson The Slave Boy of Pompeii. EasyStarts (+CD) Smith Bernard

Around the Ying Zheng, king of Qin, became the first emperor of China. He had new ideas and made new laws. He built big palaces - and a great wall. But life was difficult for his people and dangerous for the emperor. So he took an army with him into the next world • This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format

Pearson English Story Readers present all-time favourite stories carefully written and graded across four language levels for young learners of English • With 24 titles in 3 formats corresponding to age, there is a book to suit every young reader

Pearson English Story Readers present all-time favourite stories carefully written and graded across four language levels for young learners of English • With 24 titles in 3 formats corresponding to age, there is a book to suit every young reader • Age 7-9

What would it be like to become Idi Amin's personal physician? Giles Foden's best-selling thriller is the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos he realizes action is imperative - but which way should he jump?

I was twelve when the coat was made. Nathan, our tailor and dear friend, cut it for Grandfather in the first week of March 1938. It was the last week of freedom for Warsaw and for us • Even in the most difficult of lives, there is hope. When Mika's grandfather dies in the Warsaw ghetto, he inherits not only his great coat, but its treasure trove of secrets. In one remote pocket, he finds a papier mache head, a scrap of cloth... a puppet prince. And what better way to cheer the cousin who has lost her father, the little boy who is ill, the neighbours living in one cramped room, than a puppet show? Soon the whole ghetto is talking about the puppet boy - until the day when Mika is stopped by a German officer and is forced into a secret life

Oscar-winning screenwriter and actress Emma Thompson continues the adventures of Peter Rabbit in this super Christmas tale • Featuring Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, his comical little cousin Benjamin Bunny, and a rather pompous turkey called William • This Christmas, Peter and Benjamin have put their mischievous ways aside, and are working together to try and rescue William from a Christmas dinner he most certainly won't enjoy! • This beautiful paperback edition comes with an audio CD read by Emma Thompson, making it the perfect Christmas gift book for Beatrix Potter fans old and new alike