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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 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 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 1 Under the Moon Audio CD Pack
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 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 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 Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Audio CD Pack
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 The Monkey's Paw Audio CD Pack
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 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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