Penguin Readers Level 5

Ashes in the Snow (ELT Graded Reader): Abridged Edition

Ruta Sepetys

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Penguin Books Ltd
25 March 2025

Series: Penguin Readers

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.

Ashes in the Snow, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Ashes in the Snow follows fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas as she's taken from her home in Lithuania with her mother and younger brother. Lina uses her love of art to try and find her father and keep herself and her family alive.

By: Ruta Sepetys
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780241700549
ISBN 10: 024170054X
Series: Penguin Readers
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 25 March 2025
Recommended Age: From 12 to 17 years
Audience: Young adult , Children/juvenile , ELT/ESL , Preschool (0-5) , English as a second language
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ruta Sepetys is a New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Carnegie Medal. She was born and raised in Michigan in a family of artists, readers and music lovers. The daughter of a refugee, Ruta is drawn to under-represented stories of strength through struggle and hopes to give a voice to those who weren't able to tell their story. Her award-winning historical novels are published in over fifty countries and have received over forty literary prizes.