Penguin Readers Level 5: Boys Don'T Cry (Lll Award Winner 23

Description: WINNER OF THE LANGUAGE LEARNER LITERATURE (LLL ) AWARD 2023 OF THE EXTENSIVE READING FOUNDATION (ERF))

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR).

* The Level 5 text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. Seventeen-year-old Dante is waiting for his exam results. If they are good, he'll go to university.

But Dante's plans have to change when he hears that he is the father of a baby girl. With the help of his father and brother, Dante must learn how to be a single father.