Penguin Readers Level 5: Boys Don't Cry (ELT Graded Reader) Synopsis
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series, for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language. · Carefully adapted text. · Accompanying audio with the print edition, accessed securely online. · The series includes popular classics, bestselling modern fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. · The eight levels of Penguin Readers are mapped to the CEFR, and Lexile measured. · Beautiful new illustrations for levels 2 to 6. Starter and level 1 titles in graphic novel format, for beginner learners. · Language practice exercises in every book, additional activities and lesson plans online. · Each book contains a glossary, with definitions of key vocabulary. · A digital version accompanies the print edition, available securely online. · Visit the Penguin Readers website for more information. · Boys Don't Cry, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. · The Level 5 text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. Seventeen-year-old Dante is waiting for his exam results. If they are good, he'll go to university. But Dante's plans have to change when he hears that he is the father of a baby girl. With the help of his father and brother, Dante must learn how to be a single father.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780241553381 |
| Publication date: |
8th September 2022 |
| Author: |
Malorie Blackman |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books Ltd an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
112 pages |
| Series: |
Penguin Readers |
| Primary Genre |
Young Adult Fiction
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About Malorie Blackman
Children's Laureate 2013-2015
Malorie Blackman had a variety of jobs before she became a full time writer and spent many years working as a Database Manager for Reuters travelling extensively within Europe and the United States.
After 82 rejection letters, her first novel, Not So Stupid!, was a selected title for the 1991 Feminist Book Fortnight, and Malorie participated in the first BBC TV Black Women’s Screenwriting Workshop in 1991. She has written a number of books for young readers including the Whizziwig series, which have been dramatised successfully for children’s television.
Her dystopian novel series Noughts and Crosses has won the Children’s Book Award, and she has twice won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award (for Hacker and Thief!) – the only author to have done so. Malorie writes across a range of subjects for children and teens, addressing diverse and sensitive issues.
In her spare time, Malorie likes going to the cinema, the theatre and watching TV, enjoys playing computer and board games, and reads absolutely everything...except Westerns.
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2008 Malorie received an OBE for her contribution to children’s literature and was awarded the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon award in 2005.
Malorie was selected as the Waterstones Children's Laureate in June 2013 taking over from Julia Donaldson. She will remain in the post for the next 2 years. The title of Children’s Laureate is awarded to an acclaimed author or illustrator in acknowledgment of their outstanding contribution to their field, and Malorie is the eighth recipient of this honour.
She lives in South London.
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