PLARES:Newspaper Chase Multi-ROM for Pack (Penguin Active Reading

by John Escott

Harry Black steals a million-dollar picture and hides it in a newspaper in his room. But Janey is keen on recycling old papers...

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

22 pages, CD-ROM

First published May 15, 2003

About the author

John Escott started by writing children's books and comic scripts, but now writes and adapts books for students of all ages. He especially enjoys writing crime and mystery thrillers, and is a member of the British Crime Writers Association.

With Oxford University Press John has published London for the Oxford Bookworms Factfile series; Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery, Star Reporter, Girl on a Motorbike, The Fly and Other Horror Stories, and The Scarlet Letter for the Oxford Bookworms Library series; The Magician, Time for a Robbery, Star for a day, Tomorrow's Girl, and The Man with Three NAMEs for the Hotshot Puzzles series; and A Pretty Face for the Dominoes series.

Reviews

[Roya · Rating 3 out of 5]

احمق‌ترین دزد دنیا😹

[wafaa khairy · Rating 3 out of 5]

improvinnnnnnnnnnnng reading skills.
to the next ...

[Münevver]

Biraz İngilizce okuması yapmak niyetindeyim, belki işe yarar. Bu çok basit bir kitaptı, her şeyi anlayabildim 👌🏼

[A · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this story specially that justice will be clear in the end.

[Kamar Muhamed · Rating 3 out of 5]

Harry black is a thief. He takes a famous painting and puts it in an old newspaper. Then the recycling trucks arrives and takes the newspaper... And there is a chase..
Short story to improve my English.. And start reading novels in English 💪💖
Nice story 💖

[Wala Abdulaziz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Newspaper Chase is story with simple words to improve your reading skills

[Ayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The sixth book of the English Graded Readers Mega Collection.

[Hameed Muhammadian · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's an exciting short story, with a simple style..

[Santosh Thapa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shrawan 22, 2077, Thursday

Newspaper Chase - John Escott (2003)
[Penguin Readers Easystarts]

Genre: Fiction/ Children/ Graded Readers/ Penguin Easystarts
Pages: 22
Rating: 7/10

Theme: Justice/ Social responsibility/ Environmental responsibility/ Robbery

Opener:
“The time is one o'clock in the morning.
The place is the Ritesville town art gallery.
A window opens, and a man comes in. His name is Harry Black, and he is a thief.
It is dark in the art gallery, but Harry has a light. He
looks across the room at a painting.
‘There it is!’ he says.”

Summary:
Harry Black is a thief. He takes a famous painting and puts it in an old newspaper. But then the recycling truck arrives—and where is Harry's newspaper?”

Final Review:
The book is a better Easystarts book that I have read. The story progression is nice, and the ending is relatively smart.

[Буаро · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ooh i love the story, nice idea. How will the police catch the thief through a simple event that will change the course of the story... I like also the pictures, that made me travel and live the story

#1

[Carpe.Diem · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are many knowledge can be discovered

[Mostafa Ibrahim · Rating 2 out of 5]

nice one

[Saba Hamad · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like it .

[Lu ✨ · Rating 2 out of 5]

Leída con mis estudiantes de ingles.
Al menos es entretenida para la edad correspondiente, no puedo decir lo mismo de las elecciones de otras novelas para los años siguientes.

[Sumiya Tserendavaa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Choes. Good adventure easy book. Interesting detective Janey :)

[✘عَلـياء · Rating 2 out of 5]

I like this story.

[Ilearnenglish · Rating 1 out of 5]

This level was too easy, and the story annoying.