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Penguin Readers Level 2: The Puffin Keeper (ELT Graded Reader)

Abridged Edition
By Michael Morpurgo
Series: Penguin Readers
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Five-year-old Allen Williams arrives on Puffin Island and meets Benjamin Postlewaite, the lighthouse keeper. They become friends, and years later Allen returns to find Ben caring for a puffin. Together, they embark on a new chapter, as Ben transitions from lighthouse keeper to puffin keeper.
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Designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language, this Level 2 ELT graded reader offers accessible language with carefully adapted text and supporting illustrations. Ideal for A1+ learners seeking engaging, easy-to-read fiction.

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practice activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction.

The Puffin Keeper, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.

Five-year-old Allen Williams arrives on Puffin Island and meets an old man, Benjamin Postlewaite. Ben is the lighthouse keeper, and Allen is soon friends with him. Allen travels back to the island many years later and finds Ben is keeping a puffin. Allen helps Ben to change from lighthouse keeper to puffin keeper.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241542538

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 April 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd

Edition: Abridged edition

Audience: Primary and secondary education, Tertiary education, Children, Teenage, EFL / TEFL / TESOL

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 6.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 112g

Pages: 64

Collections

Children's Fiction Children's Historical Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Historical Fiction Michael Morpurgo Non-Fiction Penguin Books Series: Penguin Readers Young Adult

About the Author

Michael Morpurgo has written over 120 books, many of them award-winning. His most well-known work, War Horse, was adapted into a multi-Oscar nominated film by Steven Spielberg, and a widely-acclaimed play at the National Theatre. In 2003 Michael became the third Children's Laureate, a position he helped create with the poet Ted Hughes. With his wife, Clare, he set up the charity Farms for City Children, and for their pioneering work they were both awarded the MBE in 1999.

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