Saroo Brierley

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary. Lion, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. Five-year-old Saroo gets on the wrong train in India and is taken thousands of miles to the city of Kolkata. After months of living on the streets, he is adopted by a family in Australia. Many years later, Saroo decides to try and find his Indian family. Visit the Penguin Readers website Exclusively with the print edition, readers can unlock online resources including a digital book, audio edition, lesson plans and answer keys.

NOW NOMINATED FOR SIX OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, SUPPORTING ACTOR AND SUPPORTING ACTRESS *** Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring original true story of the lost little boy who found his way home twenty-five years later and is now a major film starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. As a five-year old in India, I got lost on a train. Twenty-five years later, I crossed the world to find my way back home. Five-year-old Saroo lived in a poor village in India, in a one-room hut with his mother and three siblings...until the day he boarded a train alone and got lost. For twenty-five years. This is the story of what happened to Saroo in those twenty-five years. How he ended up on the streets of Calcutta. And survived. How he then ended up in Tasmania, living the life of an upper-middle-class Aussie. And how, at thirty years old, with some dogged determination, a heap of good luck and the power of Google Earth, he found his way back home. Lion is a triumphant true story of survival against all odds and a shining example of the extraordinary feats we can achieve when hope endures. 'Amazing stuff' The New York Post 'So incredible that sometimes it reads like a work of fiction' Winnipeg Free Press (Canada) 'A remarkable story' Sydney Morning Herald Review 'I literally could not put this book down. Saroo's return journey will leave you weeping with joy and the strength of the human spirit' Manly Daily (Australia) 'We urge you to step behind the headlines and have a read of this absorbing account...With clear recollections and good old-fashioned storytelling, Saroo...recalls the fear of being lost and the anguish of separation' Weekly Review (Australia)

Mi történik akkor, ha egyszer csak egy zakatoló vonaton találjuk magunkat, és azt sem tudjuk, merre robogunk? Ha nem emlékszünk a kisváros nevére, ahonnan elindultunk? Mi lesz velünk, ha Kalkuttába keveredünk, és a múltunkról semmiféle információnk nincs? Szárú, az ötéves indiai kisfiú egy szerencsétlen véletlen folytán India egyik legveszélyesebb városába kerül. Volt otthona, most nincs semmije. Mit várhat az emberektől, az érzéketlen tömegtől? Vajon túl lehet élni azokat a megpróbáltatásokat, amelyek elé az élet állítja őt? Hogy juthat el egy kisfiú Indiából Ausztráliába? Képes lesz új életet kezdeni? Találkozhat még valaha az édesanyjával? Megtudhatja egyáltalán, hol élte le élete első öt évét? Vajon ki lehet az igazi oroszlán? Az Oroszlán Saroo Brierley valós története a kitartásról, az önfeláldozásról és a hitről. A könyv alapján készült a többszörös díjnyertes film Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara és Dev Patel főszereplésével.