Penguin Readers Level 3: Liar’s Beach (ELT Graded Reader)

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reading series, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign language.

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.

Liar's Beach, a Level 3 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing first conditional, past continuous and present perfect simple for general experience. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages.

Lindon visits his friend Jasper at his parent's huge beach house in Martha's Vineyard. Jasper's family are rich but Linden's family is working class and he wants to keep this a secret. Liar's Beach is a story about friends, money, secrets, love, and lies.