ESOL Books: Print, Ebooks and Audiobooks: Level 4
Books recommended for Level 4 readers
This page recommends great books for Level 4 readers!
Even more options are available from these links:
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Fiction Level 4 (stories of all sorts)
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Biography Level 4 (information books about the lives of amazing people)
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Nonfiction Level 4 (information books on many different topics)
The vast wonder of the world : biologist Ernest Everett Just
The Vast Wonder of the World :Biologist Ernest Everett Just by African American scientist Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He noticed details others failed to see, and he persisted in his research despite the discrimination. His keen observations of sea creatures revealed new insights about egg cells and the origins of life.
Shererazade
SheherazadeKing Shahriyar cannot trust women. Every afternoon he marries a wife, but the next morning he always kills her ... 'I can be Shahriyar's new wife!' says Sheherazade ... But how can Sheherazade stay alive for a thousand and one nights? And does Shahriyar learn to trust women again in the end?
Jake's Parrot
Jake's Parrot by When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves talking about his job - making computer games for BananaTech in America. 'Your new game's going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Games Show!' people tell him. Then someone steals Jake's game the night before the show. Who - or what - can help him to get it back?
Catwings
Catwings by Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands. Book 1 in the Catwings series.
Available in print and audiobook (multiple audiobook copies available)
Catwings Return
Catwings Return by Wishing to visit their mother, two winged cats leave their new country home to return to the city, where they discover a winged kitten in a building about to be torn down. Book 2 of the Catwings series.
Available in print and audiobook (multiple audiobook copies available)
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings
Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings by The parents of Alexander the kitten think he is just wonderful. But when he goes exploring on his own one day, he gets stuck in a tree. Soon a black kitten with wings helps him and brings him home to a whole family of winged cats. How can Alexander repay her kindness? Book 3 of the Catwings series
I am farmer : growing an environmental movement in Cameroon
I Am Farmer: Growing an Environmental Movement in CameroonRead the true story of how environmentalist Farmer Tantoh is bringing bringing clean water and bountiful gardens to his home country of Cameroon.
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days by Phileas Fogg must get back to London by December 21st or lose all his money. And with the help of his servant, Passepartout, Fogg travels in many ways - from train to elephant - and has some surprising adventures on the way.
Available in print and audiobook.
Stone Fox
Stone Fox by Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm by winning money in a dog sled race.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson
Minecraft Creator Markus Notch Persson by Markus Persson designed his first computer game when he was just eight years old. Learn how Persson's love of computers and design helped him the popular video game Minecraft.
Sherlock Holmes : the blue diamond
Sherlock Holmes : The Blue Diamond by 'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.' One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans by This famous American novel is set in 1757, before American became an independent country, and is full of adventure and romance. This copy of the novel is adapted for Level 4 readers.
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