'Train frighten you much, Vern?' Billy Tessio cried in a terrible, accusing voice. I had to go on. My mother was fifty-five. He's standing there on the left of the tracks, one hand protecting his eyes from the lightning that has just come down, the other stretched out and pointing. After you read 10 Choose the correct answer. Penguin Readers Level 5: Doctor Who: Borrowed Time (ELT Graded Reader) Naomi Alderman 'Right,' I said, and for a moment we looked in each other's eyes and saw some of the true things that made us friends. 'He isn't going to find out. 'But we're going to see a dead guy. 'Come on' he said to the others. 'We're going to enjoy getting you, Chambers. d The boys don't usually discuss their parents. 'OK,' I said. 'Here we all are,' Ace said, grinning. I was glad I wasn't sleeping there that night, and the thought of where we were going made me excited again. He could take an ear, an eye, a foot, a leg o r . 'It's something.' I doubt I was the only one. 'Milo Pressman knows better,' I said. I looked back when we reached the top of the bank. He doesn't know anything about your father. . 69 I knew straight away whose car it was, before Ace and Fuzzy got out of it. I took off my clothes and washed all over, until the skin began to hurt. Chris and Teddy were a long way in front, almost halfway across the bridge. Popular books. 'No.' We were exhausted from what had happened at the dump and on the bridge, but it was more than that. 'Come on, then. We had slowed down; Vern and Teddy were almost half a mile in front. Teddy was the stupidest boy in our gang, I suppose, and he was crazy. . 'And whatever there is between you and your father, talk can't change that. 'You're a pussy, Lachance,' Teddy said. Chris turned his back to me. 'Leeches!' 'If I say I want to go and look for it, then I'm going to go and look for it! It tore the air and it was the sound of death. 'We'll, spin coins for it when we get to the dump. Chris joined the college courses. I was walking up Carbine Street towards the clubhouse when Chris caught up with me. guy puke pussy Which of them means a to be sick? c An animal used for carrying things. a 'If you go, we'll take him.' I gave the gun to Chris and he pushed it into his backpack as we ran up the alley. They flashed in the sunlight. Try not to lose it." . Stones began to hit my shoulders; it felt as if some evil creature 62 was throwing them, intending to hurt. His eyesight was just naturally bad, but there was nothing natural about what had happened to his ears. Let's go.' When he came back he said, 'We did it.' They went back into the trees between the bog and the road. . After school he got a job filling holes in the road. 'I can't! Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close. But we were doing it, and none of us wanted to stop. by Eric Seltzer (2012, Mass Market) at the best online prices at eBay! If we had been camping in Vern's field —where our parents thought we were — we probably would have run. 'Nine of them — all that was left in the box. A nasty thrill of fear shot through me and the sound 63 of Chris moving his feet let me know that he too had seen it. Why is a bog dangerous to walk on? But Castle Rock was too far, and the thought of trying to run across that bridge in the dark made my blood freeze. One day when it was full of his friends, and they were all drinking, he crashed into a tree, turned the car over. . Now what are you going to do about it? Does it?' I held on to it tightly and pulled. Then he had lain awake down there in the mud, too frightened to move, in pain and not knowing where he was. That was just possible, if he had been trying to get out of the train's way. He was wrong to mention Denny. Penguin Readers Level 5 book. We complained a bit about how wet we were going to get, but of course we were looking forward to it. Wuthering Heights, a Level 5 … They were big leeches. 'Come on,' Teddy said. We can cross the bridge and get to the same place in ten minutes.' We were going to have to move faster. 'Great!' He was wearing a dark green T-shirt and blue 56 jeans. I was halfway through the dump, towards the back where I had left the others, when I saw something I didn't like: Milo Pressman's car was parked beside his office building. You can't save them. Will the boys cross it, do you think? The insects were worse. Chris asked. Chapter 22 Hailstones His face fell and I saw sudden terror in it. So if walking along the tracks turned out to be harder than we had expected, maybe we thought that was right. Arm or leg? Teddy screamed happily. 41 'But no woman could scream that loud,' Chris said . Then Vern swam into the shallower part, went under and stood on his hands. and there would be no leeches in this water. 'Sorry.' Maybe not for years.' Come on.' 'Yeah, right,' Billy agreed. My mouth opened — I didn't open it, it opened by itself. But what if those guys -' 'I don't care about those guys. You can also read Stephen King's The Breathing Method and Misery in Penguin Readers. 'OK,' Ace said. We had nowhere to go. We crossed the bridge in safety, passed through the dump with no sign of Milo Pressman and the now-not-so-awful Chopper, and finally reached town. What can you remember about being twelve? 'Did you put your tent up in the field?' He dropped to the ground, wiped his hands and climbed back up beside us. I made myself an enormous breakfast. . it?' Be the first to receive exclusive offers and the latest news on our products and services directly in your inbox. He's put you to sleep. He had been on the beaches in Normandy and had just got worse and worse ever since. The Penguin Young Readers group is looking for a Senior Designer for the Grosset & Dunlap, Price Stern Sloan, Penguin Young Readers, Frederick Warne, and Cartoon Network Books imprints. I don't know about the others, but I was too busy thinking to talk. ASEGURATE DE QUE ESTE AUDIOLIBRO LO RECIBAS CON SU RESPECTIVO CD, YA QUE ASI LO ESPECIFICA EN SU CONTRAPORTADA. That was what finally made me realize that the guy was dead. There was a pause, and then the storm really started. And now I sit here trying to look through an I B M screen and see that time, and I can almost feel the thin, brown boy buried in this 34-year-old body, and I can almost hear the sounds I heard then. Readers Pearson English Readers offer an incredible range of popular titles and best-selling authors across a range of genres written for teenage and adult learners. 'That's when a cigarette tastes best,' Chris said. Come on, then,' Teddy suddenly shouted. . 'This is really a good time,' Vern said simply. Strange, eh?' Fuzzy suggested that they could all become heroes by 'finding' the body. Most of the time I was alone. Your dad doesn't hit you, but maybe that's even worse. But summer boredom was nothing like the school boredom that always started by the end of the second week, and by the beginning 34 of the third week you were busy with the really important stuff: Could you hit Stinky Fiske in the back of the head with a paper bullet while the teacher was writing the capital cities of South America on the blackboard? No, it didn't change anything. I asked. 'Listen, Teddy, does it matter what a fat old bag of puke like him 25 said about your father? 'Are you going to hang there for five or ten minutes?' 'People. He wasn't going to pull a single girl's hair. One night when I was nine, I said, 'Jesus, these potatoes taste like garbage.' 'It's Brower,' Teddy whispered. I spun round, sure that Ace and the others were coming back, but it was Vern and Teddy. When that happened the train would be right behind us. We didn't talk. We had walked all night. My dad was in the garden, hopelessly watering the dry plants. Teddy's dad took him over to the big oven at the back of the kitchen and pushed the side of Teddy's head down against one of the burner plates. 'He wants to get you over there and beat you and take you to the police.' Vern ran up to me, still bare. I know I didn't.' I dropped my school books and ran, but they caught me within a few yards. He was good at it. The sun, which was lower now, came at us through the trees overhead in broken columns of light and turned everything gold. Afterwards Chris opened his backpack. The sky was alarming. and that was when Chris used the gun he had taken from his father's desk. Back in those days, when it was the fashion to get your hair cut really short, Teddy had Castle Rock's first Beatle haircut — four years before anyone in America had even heard of the Beatles. After you read 15 Which of these sentences are true? Then all three of us made our way as fast as we could for the side. Teddy started to laugh his crazy laugh — eee-eee-eee. 'Oh God Gordie oh Gordie God ooooooh, heeeell!' I watched him drop to his knees and touch a track. He kept very quiet. If you told him you were joining the shop course, do you know what he'd do? 'That will be a good place to rest, anyway.' Penguin Readers Level 5: Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Level 5 (1:00) (Stop Listening. After you read 25 How are these things important to the story? He looked threateningly at Chris for a moment longer, nodded, then turned round. She stood there for a moment and then she was gone in three leaps, disappearing into the forest with no sound except one dry branch that cracked like a gun. Before he could see how weak my argument was, I said, 'Come on, you guys. But he wasn't, although for a second I wished he was. Jesus!' Twenty feet beyond us it suddenly burst and disappeared. 'Are you afraid?' He was still looking down at the body and I didn't know whether he was talking to me or to it. We climbed over the fence and jumped down to the ground. And I puked on my new shoes. , I sat up, frightened. 'And you puked. When Vern finally sat up, shaking all over and wetting his lips. I almost expected to turn a corner and see my deer standing there. 'Ooooooh,Jesus!' 'A grown man against a boy!' I shouted, and hit him on his back with my hand. When we were all dressed we just stood there looking at one another for a moment, and then we began to climb the bank up to the tracks. 'Of course there is,' Teddy said. If Milo saw me, I was going to be in a world of pain. 'Let's go.' I had to, you know.' unite the best authors, illustrators, and brands from the Penguin Young Readers Group under one umbrella. He grinned. Besides playing cards, the club was a good place to go and smoke cigarettes and look at girlie books. ISBN-13: 978-1405865173. Teddy and Vern were staring at him in amazement, because nobody had ever seen Chris Chambers cry before. Your big brother was the one they cared about. 'I DON'T CARE!' A second later I understood what had happened, but understanding didn't make the horror less. Chris stood up and we gathered round him. We were all crazy to see that boy's body — I can't say it any more simply or honestly than that. When the ambulance came for Teddy, his dad explained to the ambulancemen that although the captain said the area was clear, he knew there were still German soldiers around. He and his friends have got enough wine to keep them drunk for a week. Everyone nodded at that. PATRICIA J. MURPHY 'I'm going to go and look for it.' And I remember those days at the end of that summer so well, and I think: that boy was me. THERE HE IS! 'Yes,' Chris said. We knew, from listening to the story on the radio, that they were never going to find him alive. Now I was just behind Vern. What we didn't know as we walked around The Bluffs was that Billy Tessio, Charlie Hogan, Jack Mudgett, Norman 'Fuzzy' Brackowicz, Vince Desjardins, Chris's older brother Eyeball and Ace Merrill himself were all on their way to take a look at the body themselves. 'Gordie? A Note to Parents and Teachers DK READERS is a compelling reading programme for childr, READERS When he started to get up, Chris and I pulled him back down. I looked back at the burst leeches lying on top of the flattened grass where we had danced and screamed them off our bodies. Teddy did it, though - he reached the top. And maybe I took it to old Mrs Simons and told her, and gave her all the money; and maybe I wasn't allowed back at school for two weeks anyway, because the money still never appeared; and maybe the next week Mrs Simons had this new skirt on when she came to school.' We had reached the corner of my street. Milo screamed. he screamed, and leapt at me. . 'What?' W h e n t h e y h e a r a b o u t a dead body in t h e forest t h e y go to look for it. 'Ace, if you don't stand still, I'm going to shoot you, I swear to God.' Perhaps the train had hit him hard enough to knock him down the bank but not hard enough to kill him. 'No one must know we're here. 'Teddy's crazy,' I said softly. 60 Ace and his gang moved towards us in a line through the mud. You weren't frightened?' 'Come on, guys,' Vern shouted. T h e n t h e y discover how cruel t h e w o r l d can b e . . I wanted to tell him about the train on the bridge; about Milo Pressman and his fearless but stupid dog; about the leeches. I got down on my knees and began to search through the water and grass with my fingers. 'And you know what? 'But if a train comes, there's nowhere to go,' Vern said. My ears were still ringing from the thunder when Vern began to shout: 'THERE! I shouted back. 'I'm a cry-baby, right?' 'Nothing,' Billy said. I was sometimes awake and sometimes half asleep. There's something horrible about the way darkness comes to the forest. We stood in front of our tree house and looked at it, so that we didn't have to look at one another. Activity worksheets LEVEL 5 PENGUIN READERS Teacher Support Programme The Wooden Horse 7 Who … a is at least 100 years old and ugly?very b does the horse take closer and closer to the sun? 'You're crazy, man. 'Right,' agreed Teddy 'You bet we did.' 5.0 out of 5 stars Not a King fan, but love this book. Me, Chris Chambers. 'Why is it foolish to want to be with your friends?' 'Gordie! I pulled their soft, boneless bodies off him. 'What are we going to do, man?' Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. I put all the money into my pocket and was just tying my shirt around my waist again when Chris shouted, 'Train!' Now, Mr Chambers, we'll hear the poem "Mending Wall", please.' I was glad for him, but I was also jealous as hell. None of us came from rich families, and neither Vern's nor Chris's house had a telephone. Vern cleared his throat and said 'no' in a small voice. 'I think that'll work,' I said. Students have the pleasure and satisfaction of reading these stories in English, and at the same time develop a broader vocabulary, greater comprehension and reading fluency, improved grammar, and greater confidence and ability to express themselves. An army lorry hit the jeep he was in and he died immediately. 'The dump opens at four,' Vern said. 'Vern, Teddy Duchamp, Chris.' 'What about food?' 'OK,' I said. Do you think they guessed something was wrong?' Readers Handbook 7.1MB. But he had to mention Denny, and instead of a reasonable argument, what I heard coming out of my mouth was certain death: 'Go to hell, Ace,' I said. We both graduated. 'If we find the body, they'll know we weren't camping in Vern's back field.' 'You and your stupid dog!' He nodded and pushed them into his pocket. I heard the tearing fall of some big tree about sixty yards away. You could almost believe he was glad to see us, boys his own age. 'I promise I'll be good.' Teddy shouted. I think he was down here and fairly undamaged instead of up there between the tracks and completely knocked out of shape because he was trying to get out of the way when the train hit him. . So we didn't take the shorter way, the easier way. Chris hated alcohol - he'd already seen too much of what it can do. This time the other three all had tails and I had heads. 24 Find the word cartridge in your dictionary. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. 'I know it,' Chris said. 'So what's this all about, Vern?' Is that what you want?' It's not surprising you're behaving the way you are, with a madman for a father.' 'We'll say Milo frightened us and that's when we decided to go up on the Brickyard.' Teddy said. In a strange way you could even get excited about the long, boring lessons, because by the time the summer holidays were nearly over you sometimes got bored enough to believe you could learn something at school. There were more — five or six of them, running down his back like horrible black buttons. Chris and I stood perfectly still, in spite of the hail which was so hard that it was making our skin red and which was piling up all around us like snow. I untied my shirt and laid it on the ground. Through the imagination of some of the world’s greatest authors, the English language comes to life in pages of our Readers. He had just started training in the army. As soon as Vern was sure that they were really gone, he ran all the way to our tree house with the news. 'Yes, I'm OK.' He stood up and put his glasses back on. Eyeball said loudly. Nobody wanted to get too close to him with night approaching. I'll let Charlie beat up the one with glasses a bit, but that's all. 'I know about you and your parents. 'Right.' He ran around in a big circle three times — 21 perhaps giving himself courage — and then threw himself with full force at the fence. Teddy asked suddenly. Here comes Gordie!' I can't help it!' He didn't seem to be badly hurt. Everything was there and around us. 'Yeah, and I put two lamps in it and turned them on, so it'll look as if we're there after dark.' But Vern refused to believe this, although he hated Billy. Oh, Billy, what are we going to do? When they got down Chris was grey-faced and almost puking from fear. The guy was just lying there — did you see him, man?' 'Shut up, Vern,' Chris said. Billy and Charlie had managed to keep their enormous secret for just about twenty-four hours. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework AND include language activities that help readers to develop key skills. Chris held Teddy until he became calm and just stood there, his glasses bent and hanging off one ear. Events had turned our trip into what we had always suspected it was: a serious matter. Self-study worksheet for Levels 3 to 7 0.1MB. His voice rose to a scream. . c a cat? I asked in puzzlement. The memory of that hand comes back to me every time I hear or read of some tragic 54 At the bottom of the bank was a boggy, smelly mess of bushes and appearing out of the bushes was a single, pale, white hand. Chris went on. 'There's still a chance of a train,' I added. 'Let me go, you asses!' Wait till I get you to the police.' Out of the corner of my eye I saw that Chris was digging in the bottom of his backpack, but I didn't immediately understand. 'It is going to rain like it's never rained before!' The train had knocked him out of his shoes just as it had knocked the life out of his body. All that was only part of it. * Jeep: an army vehicle which is especially good at travelling off the roads. 2 Find these words in your dictionary: backpack dump garbage hail tracks Which of them go in the following spaces? It was shaking hard, although it hadn't made a sound. Soon the river was so far behind us that we couldn't even hear its sound. Penguin Readers Handbook. It's like my dad. Milo looked uncertain. Teddy did so eagerly, Vern with a desperate look on his face. He pointed down an alley between two shops. He was silent for a moment. door came to ask if Teddy was OK - she had heard the screamingTeddy's dad pointed the gun at her. 71 Chapter 27 Tears for a Friend Vern Tessio was killed in a fire that destroyed a house in Lewiston in 1966. We played around in the water for almost half an hour before we realized that the pool was full of leeches. You see things you would prefer not to see, things that keep you awake all night. He saw my attempt at running and knew straight away that I wasn't joking. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. The gun jumped in my hand. 'Shut up, Vern,' Chris said. Series: Penguin Readers, Level 5; Paperback: 120 pages; Publisher: Pearson Education ESL; 2 edition (April 12, 2008) Language: English; ISBN-10: 1405865199; ISBN-13: 978-1405865197; Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.4 x 7.6 inches Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Customer Reviews: 4.7 out of 5 stars 3 customer ratings Chris and I were swimming at White's Beach, a lake in Brunswick. 'That's you, Gordie,' Chris said. They were black on the outside, red on the inside and completely delicious. Chapter 3 The Forests of Maine We'd all heard about it on the radio, of course. No, they didn't die in the forest or on the railway tracks. Why? Probably he was afraid that Billy would laugh and say, 'Of course I took them, you stupid pussy, and there were twenty dollars in the jar and I spent it all.' Then I grabbed him, pulled him to the top of the bank and pushed him over the edge. I had never asked him before, and if you had told me I ever would I'd have called you crazy. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! He pointed at Vern and Teddy, who were standing and waiting for us to catch up. 'Sincerely. It made us know that death was real. and then added helplessly, 'Could she, Gordie?' Please try again. Instead of some enormous creature from hell with red eyes and cruel teeth, I was looking at an ordinary, black and white, middlesized dog. I didn't hate Denny or think he was the greatest person in the world either. Younger brother of Dave Chambers and Eyeball Chambers.' I've thought of driving to the end of the Back Harlow Road and chasing a twentyyear-old dream. Pearson E, The Gift of the Magi and Other Stories O. HENRY Level 1 Retold by Nancy Taylor Series Editors: Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn. Unlocking the Universe. Flick through a Level 5 Reader. 'It's his ghost,' Teddy whispered again. 'From my dad's desk.' I think I'm going to sleep till then.' a Trains travel along b Travellers carry c The rubbish collectors took our to the d stones are frozen rain. I went down the back stairs to avoid meeting my dad. He looked exactly like a schoolboy locked in the school playground by mistake, calling for someone to let him out. We all thought we could use one. It's true that he came from a bad family: his eldest brother Dave was in prison, and Richard (called Eyeball because he had a bad eye) went round with Ace Merrill and the other local hard men. 'You'd better put that down before you shoot your foot off. It was lucky the girls didn't see him. Charlie asked as they walked away. But I don't know if I can do it.' Isn't that right, man?' They had discovered a whole new group of people our age who would do what they said. And Teddy was angry with him for pulling his hair! 'Stay with me, Gordie,' Chris said in a low, shaky voice, 'Stay with me, man.' My dad had retired from work, Vern's dad worked at a factory in town. 'I don't know,' said Vern. Especially on the nights when I wake up from dreams in which the hail falls into his open eyes. It will really be something to walk along the tracks.' When Mrs Burroughs from next 2 The club was a good place to go and smoke cigarettes. . b An informal American English word for part of the body. 'Chris —' 'Shake.' I was still feeling cold; the heat of the day was interrupted. It was as if he had lived that whole life already, and his words made me frightened. 53 'Jesus!' But it's a pity we stole that car, Billy. Although I enjoyed the victory too, I was worried. The Castle River was to our left, and to our right some empty land, covered in small bushes. 'No way,' I said, and had a drink of my Coke. Vern cried. But for me it was the best part of that trip, the cleanest part, and it was a moment I found myself returning to, almost helplessly, when there was trouble in my life: my first day in the forest in Vietnam, when this guy walked up with his hand over his nose, and he took his hand away and there was no nose there, because a bullet had taken if off; the time the doctor told us that our son might have a brain infection; the long, crazy weeks before my mother died. He also refused to ask Billy about it. Does that sound right to you, Gordie?' What?' I would find my thoughts turning back to that morning. 'You'll go to jail,' Ace said. Chris was next to me, hands in his pockets, shirt slapping against his knees. The doctor said it was amazing, and that my parents should thank God and be happy with Denny because he would be the only child. 'But what about our parents?' Chris and Teddy had nearly reached the other side. Let's go. 'The other guys wouldn't understand.' I was sure that sleep would be impossible, but I did sleep — a light, uneasy sleep that was as near to being awake as it was to being asleep. Vern looked up at the sky. In daylight it seemed more foolish than interesting — almost embarrassing. 'Almost seven dollars.' Vern asked. Ace stepped back. I shouted at the top of my voice . 'You go away, Rich,' he said. But those ten miles were measured in a straight line, and the railway tracks made a long, slight curve around some hills called The Bluffs. In the hour between two and three the quality of the day's light began to change. b Teddy gets angry with Milo because (i) he insults his father. 'Let me go!' Charlie Hogan jumped up into the air. Teddy asked. He was starting to smile again. Sooner or later they would just stop searching. I decided it was a piece of mud and didn't think any more about it. 'Oh, Jesus, that's bad luck,' Vern said, not telling us anything we didn't know. 'OhGodOhGodOhGodOhGod!' It's as if God gave you something—all those stories — and said, "Here you are. Now water was running down his cheeks as if he was crying. After a moment or two I walked back to the bank, climbed it and sat down on one of the tracks. It was said that Milo had trained him to go for particular parts of the body. Chris shouted happily. I mean, I could even get a little frightened, if you know what I mean.' 'His ghost is out walking in the forest.' 'Now we go,' Chris said. 'You see through people, Gordie.' 'Let's go.' Teddy cried. It's a must read, your psyche will thank you and crave more. 'He always slept with the curtains open and the blankets . He was looking only at me, his eyes shining. 'You remember that time in the tree?' Then he called the hospital and told them to come and fetch his boy. What I almost landed on was Teddy, who was bent over with laughter. I didn't move. A Note to Parents DK READERS is a compelling program for beginning readers, READERS His mouth made that O again. www.penguinreaders.com Front cover shows a film still from 'Stand By Me' reproduced by courtesy of Columbia Pictures © 1986 Columbia Pictures Industries Inc. (Photo: Kobal Collection) ISBN 0-582-41817-8 Published and distributed by Pearson Education Limited. Besides, it's frightening out in the forest at night.' Each book has an introduction and extensive activity material. 'But you know what's going to happen to you, don't you?' I saw one of those things then; I saw it clearly and with absolute certainty. The rain had started. I nodded. It took a moment or two to know what it was: although the moon was down, I could see my hands resting on my jeans. Eyeball laughed and Fuzzy slapped Ace on the back. It was the sort of scream you might expect from a woman who was dying in extreme pain and extreme fear. That summer had been the driest and hottest since 1907, the newspapers said, and on that Friday in September, a few days before school started again, the grass was dry and brown. He stared calmly up into the rain with his one eye. That hand told us the truth of the whole matter. . I could go on all day and not explain the distance between his bare feet on the ground and his dirty shoes hanging on the bush. 'No, man!' I've never spoken or written about 45 I nearly told them about the deer, but in the end I didn't. Chapter 14 Darkness in the Forest We went another mile and then decided to camp for the night. It was just as hot as before, but we knew. 'So what?' . Before I go any further I'd better tell you why he was digging there. (page 71) 27 Why does Chris cry after Ace Merrill's gang have gone, do you think? Chris stopped. The fence seemed to stretch, and then Chopper fell back to the ground in a cloud of dust. He started to pull the leeches off his bare body, still screaming. 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