Clouds Over California

Level 4 Penguin Reader

Karyn Parsons

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PENGUIN GROUP USA
25 March 2025

Family & home stories (Children's&YA); Historical fiction (Children's&YA); Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes; Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism (Children's&YA); Languages & ESL; English as a Second Language; English as a Second Language

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.

Clouds Over California, 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.

Clouds over California is a story about an eleven-year-old girl called Stevie, and the changes that happen in her life when her older cousin comes to stay. It is also about life in the 1970s and important events that changed things in the United States of America for women and Black people.

By: Karyn Parsons
Imprint: PENGUIN GROUP USA
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 7mm
Weight: 78g
ISBN: 9780241700570
ISBN 10: 0241700574
Series: Penguin Readers
Pages: 80
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: Active

Karyn Parsons is perhaps best known for her role as Will Smith's ditsy cousin Hilary Banks on NBC's The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. After leaving acting behind, Karyn went on to found and produce Sweet Blackberry, an award-winning series of children's animated films, to share stories about unsung black heroes in history, featuring narration from stars such as Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah and Chris Rock. The serie has been screened on HBO and Netflix, and is enjoyed by schools and libraries across the USA. How High The Moon is Karyn's self-authored debut middle grade novel. She lives and works in New York.