All Graded Readers

Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Cinderella Activity Book & Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Beauty and the Beast Activity Book & Play

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 A Time of Waiting: Stories from Around the World

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When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her.

Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Ghosts International: Troll and Other Stories

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In Sweden, nobody wants a troll to come into their garden, but how do you stop them? On a lonely road at night in Oman, Abdul's car breaks down and he takes a ride with a stranger, but perhaps it is safer to walk. In England some young people play a scary game, and in Asia, a soldier returns home - at last.

Every country in the world has stories about ghosts and spirits and monsters of one kind or another. Some people believe in ghosts, and some don't - but everyone enjoys a good ghost story.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 The Magic Brocade Activity Book & Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Goose Girl Activity Book & Play

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 San Francisco

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'It's a good place for gold,' said people in the 1840s, and they came from all over the world. 'It's a good place for a prison,' said the US government in the 1920s, and they put Al Capone there on the island of Alcatraz. 'It's a good place for love,' said the hippies in the 1960s, and they put flowers in their hair and came to Haight Ashbury. And San Francisco is still a good place - to take a hundred photographs, or see the Chinatown parade, or just to sit in a coffee shop and be in this interesting, different city . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Shirley Homes and the Lithuanian Case

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Jennifer Bassett

Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask.

And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Future Energy

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Right now, all over the world, people are using energy. As we drive our cars, work on our computers, or even cook food on a wood fire, we probably do not stop to think about where the energy comes from. But when the gas is gone and there is no more coal - what then?

Scientists are finding new answers all the time. Get ready for the children whose running feet make the energy to bring water to their village; for the power station that uses warm and cold water to make energy; for the car that saves energy by growing like a plant ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Cinderella

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Enjoy the famous tale of Cinderella, who wanted to go to the prince's party.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Twelve Dancing Princesses Activity Book & Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Activity Book & Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Beauty and the Beast

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Find out what happened when kind, clever Beauty had to live with a beast ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Goose Girl

Enjoy the tale of the princess who had to work as a goose girl.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 The Magic Brocade

Enjoy the tale of the old woman's magic brocade. What did her sons do when it blew away?

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Enjoy the famous tale of Snow White and the bad queen who wanted to kill her.

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Dominoes One Jake's Parrot

Paul Hearn and Yetis Ozkan
Retold by John Escott

When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves travelling, and talking about his job - making computer games for BananaTech in America.

'Your new game's going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Games Show!' people at BananaTech Ireland tell him.

But living with a noisy parrot isn't easy, and when Jake asks the most beautiful girl at work out to dinner, she says 'no'.

Then someone steals Jake's game the night before the show. Who - or what - can help him to get it back?

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Enjoy the tale of the princesses who had holes in their shoes every morning. What did they do every night?

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Dominoes Two The Curse of Capistrano

Johnston McCulley Retold by Bill Bowler

'Señor Zorro is on the road again, they say,' the landlord began.

'Why do I always hear his name?' cried Sergeant Gonzales angrily.

Zorro fights to help the poor and weak in California under the Spanish Governor's rule. Sergeant Gonzales has promised to catch and kill him, so how does Zorro always escape? And how will Señorita Lolita - the only daughter of a fine but poor old family - choose between Zorro, the exciting outlaw, and Don Diego, the rich but boring young man who wants to marry her?

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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles Teacher's Handbook

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Pinocchio Activity Book & Play

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Bridge and Other Love Stories

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful cakes, but does he make mistakes too? Nina and Dragan are in love, so deeply in love, but they live in the wrong place, at the wrong time ...

All love stories have moments of happiness, pain, misunderstanding, laughter, and sometimes great sadness. But love will nearly always find a way ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Sleeping Beauty Activity Book & Play

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Dominoes Two The Bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales

Tim Herdon

What is the secret of happiness, or the best thing for a wife to take with her when she leaves home?

How does a man pay for the smell of bread, or decide if he is lucky?

What happens when a friend steals a gift meant for you, or is careless when he tries to make his dreams of a better life come true?

How can you change dirt into gold, or get what you want?

The eight wise tales in this collection can teach us some important lessons about life.

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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles Pearl (Stages 2 and 3)

Short stories from Oxford Bookworms with a unique set of resources and information for running successful Reading Circles.

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Our World in Art Activity Book

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our world in art ... What are still lifes? Why do artists use perspective?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Weddings

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - Factfiles (non-fiction)

'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change.

But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or 'Elvis' can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride's shoe, and lots of noise - they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Pinocchio

Follow the adventures of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Sleeping Beauty

Enjoy the tale of the princess who slept for a hundred years ...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Dominoes One Mystery in Muscat

Julie Till

'How long is she in Oman for?'

'Ten days. And then they want to take her back home.'

'Ah, yes. But she's not going back to London. They're never going to see her again!'

Jamie and Taymour overhear this strange conversation near their homes in Muscat. Two men want to kill an important visitor, it seems. But who is the woman in danger? And what can the boys do to save her?

Can they, their sisters Sarah and Nadine, and their Australian friend Ruth find the answer to the mystery?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 All About Islands Activity Book

Author: James Styring
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about islands around the world ... How do islands form? Which island has dragons?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Materials to Products Activity Book

Author: Alex Raynham
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products ... How is glass made? What are microchips?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals at Night Activity Book

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animals at night ... Why do some animals come out at night? What special senses do nocturnal animals have?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 How to Stay Healthy Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about how to stay healthy... How much water should you drink every day? Why is exercise good for you?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Why We Recycle Activity Book

Author: Fiona Undrill
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about why we recycle waste ... What waste materials can we recycle? How long does plastic take to decompose?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Our World in Art

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our world in art ... What are still lifes? Why do artists use perspective?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Chocolate

Janet Hardy-Gould

You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses, and hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself. And of course you can eat it. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolates with gold on the outside - everybody loves chocolate.

Follow its story, from the forests of Central America hundreds of years ago, through Africa, Europe, and the United States, to the growing markets of India and China. Perhaps you need a little something to eat while you read ...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals in Art Activity Book

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about animals in art, all around the world... Where can you see animals in art? What are the oldest animal pictures?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Animal Life Cycles Activity Book

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animal life cycles ... Which animals hatch from eggs? What is metamorphosis?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Songs from the Soul: Stories from Around the World

Retold by Jennifer Bassett

Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber café in Nigeria ... The countries change, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place.

Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are by Shahana Chaudhury, Mary McCluskey, Nandita Ray, Suchitra Karthik Kumar, Susan Costello, Anthony C. Diala, Preeta Krishna, and Folakemi Emem-Akpan.

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 All About Islands

James Styring

Read and discover all about islands around the world ... How do islands form? Which island has dragons?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 World Wonders

Barnaby Newbolt

What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal - everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too - Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example.

Here is one person's choice of eleven wonders. Some of them are made by people, and others are natural. Everyone knows the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef - but what about the Iguazú Falls, or the old city of Petra? Come and discover new wonders ...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Materials To Products

Author: Alex Raynham
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products ... How is glass made? What are microchips?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals at Night

Rachel Bladon

Read and discover all about amazing animals at night ... Why do some animals come out at night? What special senses do nocturnal animals have?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Desert Life Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about desert life around the world ... How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Why We Recycle

Author: Fiona Undrill
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about why we recycle waste ... What waste materials can we recycle? How long does plastic take to decompose?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 How to Stay Healthy

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about how to stay healthy... How much water should you drink every day? Why is exercise good for you?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Exploring Our World Activity Book

Author: Alistair McCallum
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals in Art

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about animals in art, all around the world... Where can you see animals in art? What are the oldest animal pictures?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Animal Life Cycles

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animal life cycles ... Which animals hatch from eggs? What is metamorphosis?

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Dominoes One The Travels of Ibn Battuta

Janet Hardy-Gould

'My first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said "Goodbye" to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.'

In this way Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travellers in the world, begins telling his story to his nephew, Ahmed.

His many journeys take him to new and interesting places far from home. He sees many strange and wonderful things, has many funny and frightening experiences, and meets many different people along the way.

This is his story...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Great Migrations Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Wild Weather Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Desert Life

Julie Penn

Read and discover all about desert life around the world ... How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Plants Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Dominoes Two Saladin

Nina Prentice

'Well, Yusuf, are you sure that you want to be a soldier?'

'I'll do my best, Uncle.'

When Yusuf went to Aleppo to learn to fight under General Shirkuh, no one knew what this young man would do with his life.

But years later, Yusuf became the great and chivalrous general, Saladin - the man who helped to bring Muslims together to win back the holy city of Jerusalem from the Franks. This is his story...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Wonders of the Past Activity Book

Author: Alistair McCallum
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Transportation Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Alistair McCallum
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Incredible Earth Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Exploring Our World

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about explorers and exploring... Why is exploring important? Where did the first explorers go?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Ocean Life Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Red Dog

Louis de Bernières
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal.

Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories - some are funny, some are sad, but all are unforgettable. Everybody should have a friend like Red Dog.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Marco Polo and the Silk Road

Janet Hardy-Gould

For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a traveller could die.

One young boy listened, waited, and dreamed. Perhaps one day his father and uncle would return. Perhaps he too could travel with them to great markets in faraway places. For young Marco Polo, later the greatest traveller of his time, a dangerous, exciting world was waiting...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Great Migrations

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about great animal migrations... Why do animals migrate? How do they find their way?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Plants

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing plants... How many types of plant are there? Why are plants important?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Wild Weather

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about different types of weather... What is a hurricane? Where is the coldest place on Earth?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Wonders of the Past

Author: Kathryn Harper
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about wonders of the past, all around the world... Where is Chichen Itza? What is the Taj Mahal?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Scotland

Steve Flinders

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

More than 20 million visitors come to Scotland each year. Some love it for its long white beaches and quiet green hills. Some like the busy cities, with their shops and museums, castles and parks. Others come to see the home of their parents and grandparents, to hear Scottish music, to find their family tartan. And some come to visit the whiskey distilleries, eat wonderful food, and go to one of the world's biggest street parties. Scotland has something for everybody. Come and find what Scotland has for you.

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Dominoes One True Heroes of Sport

Donatella Fitzgerald

Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!

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Dominoes Two The Drive to Dubai

Julie Till

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussain, and she could never marry someone from a bad family.

So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly - with a little help from Samira.

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Dominoes One Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson

When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships?

Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.

After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the surface.

But how can they escape?

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Dominoes Two Green Planet

Christine Lindop

Once 'green' was just a colour. Now we use it to talk about a way of looking at our world and thinking about the environment. But how green is our planet today?

From nuclear power plants to Nemo the clownfish, from polar bears to pesticides, from Greenpeace to global warming, this book brings together many different stories that have made environmental history.

Read it, and perhaps you too can help to make our planet greener!

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Ocean Life

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about life in and near the oceans... Which tree can live in salt water? How do whales breathe?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Incredible Earth

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our incredible Earth... What is a volcano? Where is the deepest lake on Earth?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Machines Then and Now

Author: Robert Quinn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about machines in the past and today... When did people invent the wheel? What is a nanobot?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Machines Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Homes Around the World

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about homes around the world... What materials are homes made of? Why do people build homes on stilts?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Homes Around the World Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Transportation Then and Now

Author: James Styring
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about transportation in the past and today... What were the first planes made of? How fast can solar cars travel?

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Dominoes Two White Fang

Jack London
Text adaptation by John Escott

Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die.

When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any easier now?

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Dominoes Two Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon

When his father dies a poor man, Nicholas Nickleby goes to London with his mother and sister, Kate. He hopes for help from his rich Uncle Ralph. But Ralph Nickleby is only interested in making money.

So Nicholas takes a teaching job at Dotheboys Hall - a terrible school belonging to Mr Wackford Squeers. There he helps a poor boy called Smike who has no one to look after him.

Leaving Dotheboys, Nicholas makes both friends and enemies on his journey towards better things. But will Smike, who travels with him, ever find the happy family life that he so dearly wants?

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Dominoes Two Ariadne's Story

Joyce Hannam

'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.'

Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape - both from danger and from a life that she wanted to leave far behind her - many years ago in Ancient Greece...

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Dominoes Two Emma

Jane Austen
Text adaptation by Barbara Mackay

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She lives alone with her father, and spends a lot of her time thinking about future husbands - for her friends. When she meets Harriet Smith, a poor girl with no family, Emma decides that she must find a husband for her. Harriet is pleased to be Emma's friend - but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy?

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Dominoes Two The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas
Text adaptation by Clare West

It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends.

After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful Milady and the cruel Cardinal Richelieu?

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Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould

A man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at Holder and Stevenson's - one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers.

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Dominoes Two The Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Susan Kingsley

'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger.

Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for them.

Will they return alive?

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Dominoes One Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

When Pollyanna's farther dies, she goes to live with her Aunt, Miss Polly Harrington. Miss Harrington likes doing good, but she doesn't like children very much!

Pollyanna always tries to find the good in everything. She soon makes many different people in her new home feel happier. But is Miss Polly's life going to change for better or worse after her niece arrives? And what happens to Pollyanna when she has a very bad accident?

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Dominoes Two Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Jeremy Page

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes.
'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'

Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.

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Dominoes Two Typhoon

Joseph Conrad
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon

'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea.

The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others.

Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely?

And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the ship's hold?

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Dominoes One Studio Five

Anthony Manning

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend - Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

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Dominoes One Housemates

Alison Watts

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live.

But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In fact, some of them are very difficult people!

Can Chris find the house that he needs with housemates that he can live with?

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Dominoes One The Wild West

John Escott

How much do you know about the Wild West? What do you know about cowboys and Indians, about wagon trails and gunfights?

Inside this book you will find the true story of the Wild West, and of some of the famous people who lived and worked there. People like Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Billy the Kid - and Annie Oakley, the best shot in the West.

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Dominoes One Macbeth

William Shakespeare
Text adaptation by Alistair McCallum

A dark, rainy day in Scotland, long ago. Returning from battle, Macbeth and his friend Banquo meet three witches. 'Macbeth, the king!' they say, but Macbeth is not a king, he is just a simple soldier.

Macbeth and Banquo cannot forget the witches' words. Soon Macbeth is king, but his wife walks in her sleep at night, and dreams of blood. What lies in the future for Banquo? And how many people must die before Scotland finds peace once more?

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Dominoes Two A Close Shave™

Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit?

Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong.

Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?

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Dominoes Two Eight Great American Tales

O. Henry
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think.

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Dominoes Two Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations.

Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar - but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman - but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street?

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Dominoes Two The Turn of the Screw

Henry James
Text adaptation by Christine Lindop

A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

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Dominoes One Five Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way.

Who should be the stronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers to these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin.

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Dominoes One Deep Trouble

Lesley Thompson

Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams. They want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes.

But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.

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Dominoes One The Curse of the Mummy

Joyce Hannam

For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.

But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?

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Dominoes One The Teacher's Secret and Other Folk Tales

Retold by Joyce Hannam

Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students?

The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid?

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Dominoes One From the Heart

Alan C. McLean

Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that her father isn't going to like it.

Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And can they find true happiness together?

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Dominoes One The Wrong Trousers™

Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-trousers.

At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different - very different.

This strange story won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.

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Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'

One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

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Dominoes One The Real McCoy & Other Ghost Stories

Lesley Thompson

'Are you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather.

Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy?

These six stories tell of ghosts - friendly, sad, and bad - from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America - and Egypt!

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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles Teacher's Handbook

Short stories from Oxford Bookworms with a unique set of resources and information for running successful Reading Circles.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Climate Change

Barnaby Newbolt

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with. It means the end for many animals, people, even whole islands - but will this happen soon, or hundreds of years from now?

What is the true story about climate change? Why is it happening, and what can we do about it? If we learn about the past, then perhaps there will be time to make changes for the future...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Beautiful Game

Steve Flinders

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Some call it football, some call it soccer, and to others it's 'the beautiful game'. By any name, it's a sport with some fascinating stories. There is murder in Colombia, and a game that lasts for two days where many players never see the ball. There's the French writer who learnt lessons about life from playing football, and the women players who had to leave the club grounds because 'Women's football isn't nice'.

The cups, the leagues, the World Cup finals, the stars, the rules - they're all part of the world's favourite sport, the beautiful game.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world.

But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Activity Worksheets

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Tests

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Teacher's Handbook

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa

Retold by Jenifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - World Stories

'Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place . . . a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again.'

Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. He will need money to live on, money for his plane ticket . . . And then there is Mother . . .

The stories in this volume of World Stories come from Malawi, South Africa, and Tanzania by African writers Steve Chimombo, Farida Karodia, and M. G. Vassanji.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 William Shakespeare

Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - True Stories

William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays.

But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his only son died?

We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Teacher's Handbook

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Activity Worksheets

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Tests

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Ear-rings from Frankfurt

Reg Wright

STAGE 2 - Thriller & Adventure

Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer - again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him.

How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive gold ear-rings?

Only Richard can answer these questions. But nobody can find Richard.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Love among the Haystacks

D.H. Lawrence
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - Classics

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening.

Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Love among the Haystacks Audio CD Pack

D.H. Lawrence
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - Classics

It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening.

Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges around the hayfield comes the rich, sweet smell of wild flowers, and the hay will make a fine, soft bed . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Matty Doolin

Catherine Cookson
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a camping holiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes.

But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Stories from the Five Towns

Arnold Bennett
Retold by Nick Bullard

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Tales from Longpuddle

Thomas Hardy
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - Classics

Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it.

These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy's tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - Crime & Mystery

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery.

Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people. The answers to the mystery were all there, but only a clever man could see them.

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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 Too Old to Rock and Roll and Other Stories

Jan Mark
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he?

These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Children of the New Forest

Captain Marryat
Retold by Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody.

The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it.

The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 A Stranger at Green Knowe

Lucy M. Boston
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in a cage, behind bars and locked doors?

Then Hanno escapes from the zoo. And a few days later his footprints are seen near Green Knowe, the old house deep in the English countryside where Ping is spending his holiday . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

John Escott

STAGE 2 - True Stories

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's . . .' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book.

But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too?

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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 Grace Darling

Tim Vicary

STAGE 2 - True Stories

All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind.

How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the iron ship? Were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the ship in two?

The Forfarshire was wrecked off the north-east coast of England in 1838. This is the true story of Grace Darling - a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Hamlet

William Shakespeare
Retold by Alistair McCallum

STAGE 2 - Playscripts

This famous play by William Shakespeare, written in about 1600, is one of the finest in the English language.

Why does Hamlet, the young Prince of Denmark, look so sad? Why does he often say strange things? His family and friends are worried about him. Perhaps he is mad!

But Hamlet thinks that he has discovered a terrible secret about a recent crime in his family. Now he has no time for Ophelia, the sweet girl who loves him, or his friends, who were at school with him. He sits alone, and thinks, and plans. What will he decide to do? Will he ever be happy again?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays

O. Henry
Retold by John Escott

STAGE 2 - Playscripts

Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems?

These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted from short stories written a hundred years ago by the great American storyteller O. Henry.

Henry had his own difficulties with money and loneliness, and wrote from personal experience.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Return to Earth

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 Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde
Retold by Susan Kingsley

STAGE 2 - Playscripts

This famous play by Oscar Wilde is one of the finest comedies in the English language.

Algernon knows that his friend Jack does not always tell the truth. For example, in town his name is Ernest, while in the country he calls himself Jack. And who is the girl who gives him presents 'from little Cecily, with all her love'?

But when the beautiful Gwendolen Fairfax says that she can only love a man whose name is Ernest, Jack decides to change his name, and become Ernest forever. Then Cecily agrees to marry Algernon, but only if his name is Ernest, too, and things become a little difficult for the two young men.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Mystery of Allegra

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 2 The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

Edgar Allan Poe
Retold by John Escott

STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror

Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep.

But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting . . .

In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe, death whispers at you from every dark corner, and fear can send you mad . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Pilkington Garimara
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 3 - True Stories

Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home.

But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence north as part of their guide across the desert.

This is the true stoy of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Animals in Danger

Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals.

But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for medicine. Now there are about 7,000 species of animals in danger. What can we do to protect the animals of the world - from us?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Remember Miranda

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children's father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn't meet Miranda, the children's mother, because Miranda is dead.

She died two years ago, and Cathy cannot learn anything about her. Everybody remembers Miranda, but nobody wants to talk about her . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Crime & Mystery

Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win.

Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, and someone kills his trainer. The police want the killer, and the owner wants his horse, but they can't find them. So what do they do?

They write to 221B Baker Street, London, of course - to ask for the help of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Sherlock Holmes: Two Plays

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by John Escott

STAGE 1 - Playscripts

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective the world has ever seen, and he knows it. As the famous bank-robber, John Clay, says to him, 'You think of everything, Mr Holmes. You're very clever.' People come to him with problems that no one, not even the police, can solve. Holmes sits, and thinks, and smokes his pipe, and in the end he finds the answer.

In these plays, based on two of his stories, Holmes, helped by his old friend, Dr Watson, uses his great intelligence to solve two unusual and interesting cases.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Sister Love and Other Crime Stories

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Crime & Mystery

Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago.

They say that everybody has one crime in them. Perhaps they only take an umbrella that does not belong to them. Perhaps they steal from a shop, perhaps they get angry and hit someone, perhaps they kill . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Witches of Pendle

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 1 - True Stories

Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it . . . and a few weeks later you are dead.

Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Withered Arm

Thomas Hardy
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Classics

A woman and a man . . . words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her . . . It's an old story.

Yes, it's an old, old story. It happens all the time - today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People don't change. But this story, set among the green hills of southern England, has something different about it. Perhaps it is only a dream, or perhaps it is magic - a kind of strange dark magic that begins in the world of dreams and phantoms . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Under the Moon

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die . . .

In a colony under the moon, people wait for news - news from home, news from the planet Earth. And in a spaceship high above Earth, a young man watches numbers on a computer screen. The numbers tell a story, and the young man is afraid.

The planet Earth is burning, burning, burning . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Death in the Freezer

Tim Vicary

STAGE 2 - Crime & Mystery

Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first.

And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous - very rich, but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen. She has a difficult life, with three young kids and very little money. And she learns to hate her rich, famous, unkind brother...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare
Retold by Alistair McCallum

STAGE 2 - Playscripts

There are two love stories in this fast-moving comedy. Brave young Claudio and Leonato's pretty daughter Hero are in love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all?

Beatrice and Benedick are always arguing with each other, but how do they really feel? Perhaps they are more interested in each other than they seem to be! Their friends work hard to bring them closer together.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Rainforests

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell.

Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare
Retold by Alistair McCallum

STAGE 2 - Playscripts

This is the most famous of all Shakespeare's plays - a story of passionate young love.

What's in a name? Does it really matter if you are called Montague or Capulet? When Romeo, son of Lord and Lady Montague, falls in love with the most beautiful girl he's ever seen, he finds out that it does matter. It makes all the difference in the world, because both families hate each other bitterly.

For a time, Romeo and Juliet manage to keep their love secret. But when Romeo is sent away from Verona, and arrangements are made for Juliet to marry Paris, a friend of her father's, hope begins to die. Can any of their friends help the young lovers to be together for ever?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Seasons and Celebrations

Jackie Maguire

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

In English-speaking countries around the world people celebrate Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and other special days. Some celebrations are new, like Remembrance Day and Mother's Day; others, like the summer solstice, go back thousands of years.

What happens on these special days? What do people eat, where do they go, what do they do? Why is there a special day for eating pancakes? Who is the 'guy' that children take onto the streets in November? And where do many people like to spend the shortest night of the year in England?

Come on a journey through a year of celebrations, from New Year's Eve to Christmas.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Love of a King

Peter Dainty

STAGE 2 - True Stories

All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!'

He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman.

She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man.

It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to have love . . . and leave his country, never to return.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Voodoo Island

Michael Duckworth

STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror

Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti.

There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man.

But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 New York

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

What can you do in New York? Everything! You can go to some of the world's most famous shops, watch a baseball game, go to the top of a skyscraper, see a concert in Central Park, eat a sandwich in a New York deli, see a show in a Broadway theatre.

New York is big, noisy, and exciting, and it's waiting for you. Open the book and come with us to this wonderful city.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Bestseller Pack

Pack contains one copy of each of the following ten titles:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Elephant Man
A Little Princess
Love or Money?
The Monkey's Paw
The Phantom of the Opera
The President's Murderer
Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son
White Death
The Wizard of Oz

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 A Ghost in Love and Other Plays

Michael Dean

STAGE 1 - Playscripts

Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears . . .

The first of these three original plays is set in the seventeenth century, and the other two take place in modern times. In each play, a ghost comes back from the dead to change the lives of living people.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

Retold by Judith Dean

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee.

With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 England

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London.

But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day.

You can have an English afternoon tea, walk on long white beaches, watch a great game of football, or visit a country house. Yes, England has something for everybody - what has it got for you?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Five Short Plays

Martyn Ford

STAGE 1 - Playscripts

What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much.

What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous?

Perhaps you hear that someone has bought the last bag of salt in town. Do you buy a bag from him at a high price? Or try to make him give you a bag?

Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. These five short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected or difficult situations.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 London

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon.

Big, beautiful, noisy, exciting - that's London.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Mary, Queen of Scots

Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - True Stories

England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens - Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen.

Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her.

But she also had many enemies - men who said: 'The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth.'

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Mutiny on the Bounty

Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - True Stories

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says.

The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Ned Kelly: A True Story

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - True Stories

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor.

Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 One-Way Ticket - Short Stories

Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life.

This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Coldest Place on Earth

Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - True Stories

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian.

But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned to their homes again.

This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Lottery Winner

Rosemary Border

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive.

Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Meaning of Gifts: Stories from Turkey

Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - World Stories

'I'm afraid to look in the storeroom. All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, they eat more than their parents!'

Izzet Efendi and his family are afraid that their guests are never going to go home, but what can they do?

Bookworms World Stories collect stories from around the world. This volume has stories by Turkish writers Huseyin Rahmi Gurpinar, Ayse Kilimci, Sait Faik, and Yalvac Ural.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Omega Files - Short Stories

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 Dead Man's Island

John Escott

STAGE 2 - Thriller & Adventure

Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked.

Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an island? So she watches, and she listens - and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Ireland

Tim Vicary

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

There are many different Irelands. There is the Ireland of peaceful rivers, green fields, and beautiful islands. There is the Ireland of song and dance, pubs and theatres - the country of James Joyce, Bob Geldof, and Riverdance. And there is the Ireland of guns, fighting, death, and the hope of peace. Come with us and visit all of these Irelands - and many more . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling
Retold by Ralph Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy.

Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Murder of Mary Jones

Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - Playscripts

At the start of this play, the court room is full for today's trial. Two young men, Simon Clark and Dan Smith, stand up. The clerk asks, 'Are you guilty of the murder of Mary Jones?' 'Not guilty!' they reply. But perhaps they are guilty. The police found the murder weapon in their stolen car, and there was blood on Simon's face. If the court finds them guilty, they will go to prison for a very long time.

Can the lawyers find out the truth, by asking the right questions? Everyone in court wants to know who murdered Mary Jones, especially her mother, and her boyfriend, Jim. You can help to find the answer, too!

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Bestseller Pack

Pack contains one copy of each of the following ten titles:

Anne of Green Gables
The Canterville Ghost
The Death of Karen Silkwood
Dracula
Henry VIII and his Six Wives
Huckleberry Finn
New Yorkers
The Piano
Robinson Crusoe
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Christmas in Prague

Joyce Hannam

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas.

Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago - a Christmas that changed his life for ever . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Goodbye, Mr Hollywood

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure

Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her.

But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood'? Why does she give him a big kiss when she leaves? And who is the man at the next table - the man with short white hair?

Nick learns the answers to these questions three long days later - in a police station on Vancouver Island.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Butler Did It and Other Plays

Bill Bowler
Retold by Clare West

STAGE 1 - Playscripts

How do you get a licence if you want to keep a monkey? What can you do if your wife has a lover? How can you see into the future? Where can you go for an exciting but cheap holiday somewhere hot and far away? How can you persuade your girlfriend or boyfriend to marry you?

The characters in these six original short plays are looking for answers to these questions. While trying to solve their problems, people get into some very funny situations. Each play gives an amusing view of life today, and there is often an unexpected ending.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The President's Murderer

Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure

The President is dead!

A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns.

A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive.

Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose?

Long live the President!

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery
Retold by Clare West

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.

They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.

But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Henry VIII and his Six Wives

Janet Hardy-Gould

STAGE 2 - True Stories

There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life.

After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure.

So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends.

And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'

In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Clare West

STAGE 2 - Crime & Mystery

Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask.

In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who bring their troubles to the only man in the world who can help them.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Death of Karen Silkwood

Joyce Hannam

STAGE 2 - True Stories

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.

Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn't she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but there are no answers.

This is a true story. It happened in Oklahoma, USA, where Karen Silkwood lived and worked . . . and died.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Piano

Rosemary Border

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says.

In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers.

When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 New Yorkers - Short Stories

O. Henry
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love.

O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Love or Money?

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 1 - Crime & Mystery

It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die.

But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Crime & Mystery

Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school.

But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the train down to London and go to Baker Street? Why does he need the help of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes?

Because someone has kidnapped the Duke's son . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Mark Twain
Retold by Nick Bullard

STAGE 1 - Classics

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.

They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Elephant Man

Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - True Stories

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'.

Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.

This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Monkey's Paw

W. W. Jacobs
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor?

There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived.

The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw.

Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Phantom of the Opera

Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers . . .

But who has actually seen him?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Wizard of Oz

L. Frank Baum
Retold by Rosemary Border

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.

But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 White Death

Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure

Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die.

She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde
Retold by John Escott

STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts.

The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Dracula

Bram Stoker
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror

In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls.

In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the blood of living people . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school.

But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world . . .

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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles Bronze (Stages 1 and 2)

Short stories from Oxford Bookworms with a unique set of resources and information for running successful Reading Circles.

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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles Silver (Stages 2 and 3)

Short stories from Oxford Bookworms with a unique set of resources and information for running successful Reading Circles.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 The Tough Task Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 We Won the Cup Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Where People Live Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Go, Gorillas, Go Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Up and Down Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 In the Ocean Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 City Girl, Country Boy Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Pack (40 titles)

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 The Tough Task

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Up and Down

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 We Won the Cup

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 City Girl, Country Boy

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Go, Gorillas, Go

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 In the Ocean

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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