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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Return to Earth Audio CD Pack
John Christopher
Retold by Susan Binder
STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror
As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long and dangerous journey through space. Ellen plans to stay on Earth, to change the way the human mind works.
When Harl returns to Earth, Ellen will be long dead . . . and the world will be a very different
place.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Mystery of Allegra Audio CD Pack
Peter Foreman
STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror
Allegra is an unusual name. It means 'happy' in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know?
And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who comes only at night, and whose hands and face are cold, so cold . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 The Songs of Distant Earth and Other Stories
Arthur C. Clarke
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 4 - Fantasy & Horror
'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa . . .'
And with the starship comes knowledge, and love, and pain.
In these five science-fiction stories Arthur C. Clarke takes us travelling through the universe into the unknown, but always possible future.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Starter Starman Audio CD Pack
Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster
STARTER - Fantasy & Horror
The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried.
And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Year of Sharing
Harry Gilbert
STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror
Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it . . . very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests.
And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the forest with the wild animals. He must learn to share his world; he must learn how animals live and eat and fight . . . and die.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Audio CD Pack
Lewis Carroll
Retold by Jenifer Bassett
STAGE 2 - Classics
There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?'
What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Omega Files Audio CD Pack
Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers.
Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 2 - Classics
There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?'
What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Five Children and It
Edith Nesbit
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror
When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old.
It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said.
But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Five Children and It Audio CD Pack
Edith Nesbit
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror
When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old.
It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said.
But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble . . .
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