Five-year-old Allen Williams arrives on Puffin Island and meets an old man, Benjamin Postlethwaite. Ben is the lighthouse keeper, and Allen is soon friends with him. Allen travels back to the island many years later and finds Ben is keeping a puffin. Allen helps Ben to change from lighthouse keeper to puffin keeper.
Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, written for learners of English as a foreign language. The series is aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for languages and includes activities that help develop key skills.
CEFR |
Story |
Headwords |
|
S |
Pre- A1 |
400-600 |
350 |
1 |
A1 |
1,000-1,600 |
550 |
2 |
A1+ |
3,000-5,000 |
700 |
3 |
A2 |
7,000-10,000 |
1,000 |
4 |
A2+ |
11,000-14,000 |
1,200 |
5 |
B1 |
15,000-18,000 |
1,600 |
6 |
B1+ |
18,000-22,000 |
2,000 |
7 |
B2 |
22,000-26,000 |
2,500 |