Life in Space

Is there life in space? Will people be able to travel to extra solar planets in the future? Learn about astronauts, space stations and space travel in Life in Space. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, written for learners of English as a foreign language. The series

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) is the story of a boy in Missouri in the 1840s. Tom Sawyer’s parents are dead and he lives with his aunt in a small village next to the long Mississippi river. One night, Tom and his friend, Huckleberry Finn see Injun Joe kill Dr Robinson. “We can’t say

The Extraordinary Life of Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai lived in Pakistan where she was one of the best students in her class. But then a group of Islamist extremists called the Taliban came and a war began. Then, one day, two men from the Taliban shot Malala on the bus home from school. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics,

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars

In 2008, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown, and Bobby Murphy made a photo app called Snapchat. Just two years later, Facebook wanted to buy Snapchat for $3 billion. This is the story of how Snapchat grew from a university student’s idea into a multibillion-dollar company. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction,