by Elizabeth Laird · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582402928
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«Dead Man's River» is the graded reader by Elizabeth Laird, published by Pearson Education Limited in paperback (16 pages, in English).
Jonas Clark, a young man with no means, is in love with Hetty Gray and cannot afford to marry her. In the midst of the gold rush, rumours circulate that the Dead Man's River hides gold, though it is also said that ghosts appear on its banks. Jonas sets out to find it and ends up succeeding, but in an unexpected way.
It belongs to the Penguin Readers series, EasyStarts level, with a vocabulary of 200 words. Edition published in 1998; illustrations by Darin Mount.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language and for readers who want to consolidate reading with simplified texts.
Elizabeth Laird is a British writer of children's fiction and travel. She is also known for the large body of folktales which she collected from the regions of Ethiopia. Her books have been translated into at least twenty languages.
