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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Prisoner of Zenda Audio CD Pack
Anthony Hope
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 3 - Thriller & Adventure
'We must leave for Zenda at once, to find the King!' cried Sapt. 'If we're caught, we'll all be killed!'
So Rudolf Rassendyll and Sapt gallop through the night to find the King of Ruritania. But the King is now a prisoner in the Castle of Zenda. Who will rescue him from his enemies, the dangerous Duke Michael and Rupert of Hentzau?
And who will win the heart of the beautiful Princess Flavia?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Secret Garden Audio CD Pack
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 3 - Human Interest
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.
There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 A Tale of Two Cities Audio CD Pack
Charles Dickens
Retold by Ralph Mowat
STAGE 4 - Classics
'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.'
The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Black Beauty Audio CD Pack
Anna Sewell
Retold by John Escott
STAGE 4 - Human Interest
When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse.
But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Audio CD Pack
Robert Louis Stevenson
Retold by Rosemary Border
STAGE 4 - Fantasy & Horror
You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him.
Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Gulliver's Travels Audio CD Pack
Jonathan Swift
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 4 - Classics
'Soon I felt something alive moving along my leg and up my body to my face, and when I looked down, I saw a very small human being, only fifteen centimetres tall . . . I was so surprised that I gave a great shout.'
But that is only the first of many surprises which Gulliver has on his travels. He visits a land of giants and a flying island, meets ghosts from the past and horses which talk.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Little Women Audio CD Pack
Louisa May Alcott
Retold by John Escott
STAGE 4 - Human Interest
When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes home.
This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Silas Marner Audio CD Pack
George Eliot
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 4 - Classics
In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living.
But what if a thief should come in the night and take his gold away? What will Silas do then? What could possibly comfort him for the loss of his only friend?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 The Hound of the Baskervilles Audio CD Pack
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Patrick Nobes
STAGE 4 - Crime & Mystery
Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death.
A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Three Men in a Boat Audio CD Pack
Jerome K. Jerome
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 4 - Human Interest
'I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.'
With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning.
This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years . . . and they are still laughing.
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