Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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Maggie Stiefvater

Sas Milledge

Full of magic, found family and impossible romance, this stunning hardback graphic novel adaptation of a YA classic weaves a thrilling plot around a cast of characters that are impossible to forget. 
 
‘A dizzying paranormal romance’ – LA Times Book Review 
 
The ley lines around Henrietta have been awoken, and nothing will ever be the same for Blue and the Raven Boys. 
 
As Ronan becomes increasingly entangled in his dreams, Gansey is pulled away from Aglionby and Adam makes new friends, Blue and Noah are stuck in the middle. Wrestling with the revelations unearthed in Cabeswater, along with new rivalries, old anxieties and some ominous new faces around town, the group discover that the magic that surrounds them runs far deeper, and far darker, than they’d imagined. 
 
For there is power in Cabeswater, and the Raven Boys aren’t the only ones looking for it.

The Dream Thieves

(A Graphic Novel)

Matilda Tristram

Matilda Tristram was 17 weeks pregnant and looking forward to having her first baby when she discovered she had cancer. 
 
This touching graphic memoir, never morose or self-pitying, starts when Matilda was diagnosed and ends when her chemotherapy finished. Recording the awkward conversations, the highs and lows of treatment, and the reality of still having to queue too long for croissants, Matilda captures her experiences with style and warmth. Along the way she cherishes the small details of life, and learns not to sweat the big things. Her beautiful and boisterous son James was born without complications.

Probably Nothing

A Diary of Not-Your-Average Nine Months

Charles Dickens

In this story, Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas. He is angry that people are not working. Then, he meets the ghost of his old partner, Jacob Marley. Can Scrooge be a good person before it is too late? 
 
Our Penguin Readers books include: 
• Simple text (CEFR-levelled) 
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• Fun exercises to help you learn and practise English 
 
With the print book, you can get even more help online: 
• Read the book online 
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Note: online resources not available with the eBook.

Penguin Readers Level 1: A Christmas Carol (ELT Graded Reader)

Graphic Novel

Anne Frank

David Polonsky

'June, 1942: I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.' 
 
In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe', fearing discovery. All that time, Anne kept a diary. The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. Anne Frank's Diary: The Graphic Novel is a stunning new adaptation of one of the greatest books of the last century.

Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation

‘In a young-adult market crowded with copycats, it’s refreshing to find a book that blazes a path as unique as Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys.’ – LA Times Book Review 
 
Blue Sargent has always felt ordinary. She was born into a family of clairvoyants, but she doesn’t share their gift. Her ‘gift’? A warning: if she kisses her true love, they will die. But who cares; who is there for Blue to love? 
 
Enter Gansey, a rich student from Aglionby, the town’s all-boys private school. Blue has always avoided Aglionby’s ‘Raven Boys’ – their wealth, their privilege, their trouble – that is, until Gansey invites her to join four Raven Boys on their hunt for a legendary Welsh king buried along a nearby ley line. But a strange and shifting world awaits, one far more dangerous than anything they could ever have imagined. 
 
Full of magic, found family and impossible romance, this stunning hardback graphic novel adaptation of a YA classic weaves a thrilling plot around a cast of characters that are impossible to forget.

The Raven Boys

Umi Takase

Being in love with your best friend is hard, but being a good friend is even harder.Hime and Akira have been best friends since childhood. But they haven’t spoken in weeks – not since their argument over Akira’s crush, who’s too distracted by Hime to notice Akira! 
 
The girls want to make up, but this rift runs deeper than a simple crush. Akira is upset that no one thinks twice about Hime being a girl, however she looks; while Hime is upset that people see her as nothing but a girl.Before they can repair their relationship, they’ll need to work through some big questions. Can they learn to accept each other and themselves, or will this be the end?This manga adaptation of the hit Japanese webcomic series is a joyous celebration of acceptance – both by others and oneself. Tackling universal teen themes of identity, relationships and friendship in a gentle, clean story filled with thoughtful (though imperfect) characters, this series is brilliantly inclusive and has clear crossover appeal.

I Wanna Be Your Girl Vol. 3

Raymond Briggs

Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack on an elderly couple in his usual humorous yet macabre way.

When the Wind Blows

The bestselling graphic novel for adults from the creator of The Snowman

Rebecca Hall

Hugo Martinez

Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. 
 
In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall's own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. 
 
Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake. 
 
'Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery' - Angela Davis

Wake

The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Being in love with your best friend is hard, but being a good friend is even harder. 
 
Childhood best friends Hime and Akira are finally ready to make up. After a big fight about a boy, and about what ‘being a girl’ means to them both, Hime and Akira have done the work to accept themselves and each other. 
 
But Hime has a secret. She has a huge crush on Akira! Hime know it's time to tell the truth ... But how will Akira react, and what will it mean for their friendship? Is Hime really ready to share her true feelings? The emotional rollercoaster of a series comes to a heartwarming and hopeful conclusion! 
 
This manga adaptation of the hit Japanese webcomic series is a joyous celebration of acceptance – both by others and oneself. Tackling universal teen themes of identity, relationships and friendship in a gentle, clean story filled with thoughtful (though imperfect) characters, this series is brilliantly inclusive and has clear crossover appeal.

I Wanna Be Your Girl Vol. 4

Being in love with your best friend is hard, but being a good friend is even harder. 
 
Hime and Akira have been best friends since childhood, and Hime has always protected Akira. But since Akira began openly identifying as a girl, Hime's constant need to speak out on her behalf is becoming a problem. 
 
When Akira becomes a manager of the school’s football team – and crushing on an older boy – Hime feels the rift with her friend growing wider. She’s desperate to save her relationship with Akira, but whatever Hime tries just seems to make things worse. Akira’s making so much progress, so why does Hime feel like she’s only falling behind . . . ? 
 
This manga adaptation of the hit Japanese webcomic series is a joyous celebration of acceptance – both by others and oneself. Tackling universal teen themes of identity, relationships and friendship in a gentle, clean story filled with thoughtful (though imperfect) characters, this series is brilliantly inclusive and has clear crossover appeal.

I Wanna Be Your Girl Vol. 2

Robert Louis Stevenson

With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise 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. 
 
Jekyll and Hyde, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels. 
 
Dr Jekyll is a good person. He is nice, and he has lots of friends. But Mr Hyde is a bad person. He walks in the streets of London at night and does bad things. Why are the two men friends?

Penguin Readers Level 1: Jekyll and Hyde (ELT Graded Reader)

Abridged Edition

Robert Macfarlane

Stanley Donwood

What happens when the land comes to life? 
 
Somewhere on a salt-and-shingle island, inside a concrete-and-iron structure called The Green Chapel, a figure called The Armourer is leading a black mass. He plans to detonate a thermonuclear missile. But something is coming to stop him. 
 
Five more-than-human figures - or forms, or forces - are traversing the landscape, moving steadily towards a point where they will converge and become Ness. Ness is the land awakened. Ness is lichen skin and willow-bones, condensing mist and tidal drift. Ness has hagstones for eyes and Ness speaks only in birds. And Ness has come to take this island back.

Ness

Nora Krug

Nora Krug grew up as a second-generation German after the end of the Second World War, struggling with a profound ambivalence towards her country's recent past. Travelling as a teenager, her accent alone evoked raw emotions in the people she met, an anger she understood, and shared. 
 
Seventeen years after leaving Germany for the US, Nora Krug decided she couldn't know who she was without confronting where she'd come from. In Heimat, she documents her journey investigating the lives of her family members under the Nazi regime, visually charting her way back to a country still tainted by war. Beautifully illustrated and lyrically told, Heimat is a powerful meditation on the search for cultural identity, and the meaning of history and home.

Heimat

A German Family Album

Philip Pullman

Thomas Gilbert

Enter the remarkable world of His Dark Materials like never before with this stunning, full-colour graphic novel. 
 
Lyra has stepped into a brand-new world. Will has just killed a man. 
 
Their paths cross in Cittàgazze. In a city haunted by soul-eating Spectres, troops of angels and vengeful witches, they find in each other a welcome ally. 
 
Both are hoping to find something in this strange world: Lyra must discover the meaning of Dark Matter, while Will is desperately searching for his missing father. 
 
What they find instead is a deadly secret, an object with extraordinary power. Each step of their journey brings them closer to an even bigger threat - and the shattering truth of their own destiny.

The Subtle Knife: The Graphic Novel

Eunnie

'Super sweet and totally heartwarming!' - Alice Oseman, bestselling author of Heartstopper 
 
Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who's always ready to lend a helping hand. She's introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. 
 
PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she's actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard. 
 
An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together, kicking off the beginning of an awkward yet endearing courtship. With their drastically different personalities, Momo's overprotective friend, and PG's past coming back to haunt her, Momo and PG's romance is put to the test.

If You'll Have Me

High school was already hard enough – now it’s cursed! 
 
Ashlyn and her classmates are trapped. Night after night, as darkness descends, the sky turns red and they’re forced to fight for their lives against the shadowy, murderous monsters that hunt them. They’ve survived so far. Barely. 
 
But survival isn’t enough. 
 
To escape the loop, they need to unravel the mystery of the curse – and fast! But the more they learn, the more they’ll wish it was as simple as a haunting … 
 
Volume 2 collects episodes 33–65 of this incredibly popular online comic and features additional character art from the author, making it a must-have for existing fans and 13+ thriller readers.

School Bus Graveyard, Volume 2

A wild seascape, a distant island, a full moon. Gradually the island grows nearer until we land on a primeval wilderness, rich in vegetation and huge, strange beasts. Time passes and things do not go well for the island. Civilization rises as towers of stone and metal and smoke, choking the undergrowth and the creatures who once moved through it. This is not a happy story and it will not have a happy ending. 
 
Working in his distinctive, monochromatic linocut style, Stanley Donwood carves out a mesmerising, stark parable on environmentalism and the history of humankind.

Bad Island

Kyle Thomas

John Reppion

Leah Moore

Amrit Birdi

Kyle Thomas, our favourite TikTok star and his much-loved meerkat Mylo, find themselves drawn into an extraordinary and magical alternate world filled with strange and wonderful creatures that roam wild. Everything seems perfect here but danger is lurking, a dark creature has found its way through an open portal into the real world and it's on the loose wreaking havoc. People are frightened for their lives and it's up to Kyle and Mylo to find the creature and save the world. 
 
Kyle and his incredible team: the No. 1 Sunday Times Bestselling Comic Book Artist, Amrit Birdi and scriptwriting powerhouse Leah Moore and John Reppion, who have written for the likes of 2000 AD, Channel 4, Dark Horse and DC Comics, have come together to create Kyle's first ever graphic novel that will transport you to an incredible animal dimension like no other . . .

Guardian of the Realm

The extraordinary and otherworldly adventure from TikTok sensation Kyle Thomas

R J Palacio

From the bestselling author of Wonder comes the graphic novel White Bird: soon to be a major film starring Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson. 
 
To the millions of readers who fell in love with R J Palacio's Wonder, Julian is best-known as Auggie Pullman's classroom bully. White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandmother, who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in occupied France during the Second World War. 
 
An unforgettable, unputdownable story about strength, courage and the power of kindness to change hearts, build bridges, and even save lives, from the globally bestselling author of Wonder. 
 
A full-colour graphic novel, brilliantly illustrated throughout by R. J. Palacio

White Bird

A graphic novel from the world of WONDER – soon to be a major film

High school is a nightmare. Literally. 
 
Casual badass Ashlyn likes being a loner. She always has. But after a field trip to an old house takes a supernatural turn, she’s forced to team up with a rag-tag group of classmates to face a sinister grinning phantom that’s invisible to everyone but them. 
 
Thankfully, it can’t hurt them. All it does is wait. Watching. Until midnight, that is, when the skies turn red and the world shifts into a waking nightmare. Here, the monster is deadly. And it’s not alone. 
 
To survive, they’ll have to work together to uncover the secret of the curse. But with the odds stacked against them, how long can they last? 
 
Volume 1 collects episodes 1–32 of this incredibly popular online comic and features additional character art from the author, making it a must-have for existing fans and 13+ thriller readers.

School Bus Graveyard, Volume 1

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