Penguin Readers Level 4: Clouds Over California (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition

By Karyn Parsons

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 . Clouds Over California, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. Clouds over California is a story about an eleven-year-old girl called Stevie, and the changes that happen in her life when her older cousin comes to stay. It is also about life in the 1970s and important events that changed things in the United States of America for women and Black people.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241700574
• ISBN13: 9780241700570
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 0.3" x 5.1"