- Product Information
- Teaching Resources
- Learning Resources
Inside All Graded Readers (25)
Site Information
- Newest first
Sort by :
Pagination
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 The Riddle of the Sands
Erskine Childers
Retold by Peter Hawkins
STAGE 5 - Thriller & Adventure
When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret - a secret that could mean great danger for England.
Erskine Childers' novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 Treading on Dreams: Stories from Ireland Audio CD Pack
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 5 - World Stories
'At home we started with an innocent life. Walking home from village dances across pale wet fields, looking at birds on the moonlit lake, playing a tune across the water in the early morning with no other sound in the clear cold air.'
Innocence and experience, loss and longing, humour and sadness run hand in hand through these stories.
The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Irish writers Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien,
William Trevor, Lorcan Byrne,
Frank O'Connor, Claire Keegan, Eamonn Sweeney, and Somerville & Ross.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6 Bestseller Pack
Pack contains one copy of each of the following eight titles:
American Crime Stories
Cry Freedom
The Enemy
Jane Eyre
Night Without End
Oliver Twist
Pride and Prejudice
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
Arthur Ransome
Retold by Ralph Mowat
STAGE 4 - Thriller & Adventure
The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea.
But there they are in someone else's boat, drifting out to sea in a thick fog. When the fog lifts, they can turn round and sail back to the harbour. But then comes the wind and the storm, driving them out even further across the cold North Sea . . .
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 5 This Rough Magic
Mary Stewart
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 5 - Thriller & Adventure
The Greek island of Corfu lies like a jewel, green and gold, in the Ionian sea, where dolphins swim in the sparkling blue water. What better place for an out-of-work actress to relax for a few weeks?
But the island is full of danger and mysteries, and Lucy Waring's holiday is far from peaceful. She meets a rude young man, who seems to have something to hide. Then there is a death by drowning, and then another . . .
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 6 The Enemy Audio CD Pack
Desmond Bagley
Retold by Ralph Mowat
STAGE 6 - Thriller & Adventure
On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throws acid into her face.
Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcolm told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway?
And who is the enemy?
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Mr Midshipman Hornblower
C.S. Forester
Retold by Rosemary Border
STAGE 4 - Thriller & Adventure
'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.'
But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought by Hornblower within himself.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Reflex
Dick Francis
Retold by Rowena Akinyemi
STAGE 4 - Thriller & Adventure
People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to lose. Why?
And what is the mystery about the photographer, George Millace, who has just died in a car crash?
Philip Nore knows the answer to the first question, and he wants to find out the answer to the second. But as he begins to learn George
Millace's secrets, he
realizes that his own life is in danger.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 The Silver Sword
Ian Serraillier
Retold by John Escott
STAGE 4 - Thriller & Adventure
Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. 'This will bring me luck,' he said to Mr Balicki. 'And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me.'
The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold, and afraid, the four children try to stay alive among the ruins of bombed cities in war-torn Europe. Soon they will begin the long and dangerous journey south, from Poland to Switzerland, where they hope to find their parents again.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 The Eagle of the Ninth
Rosemary Sutcliff
Retold by John Escott
STAGE 4 - Thriller & Adventure
In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost.
Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how his father died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, and they hate the Romans . . .
Useful and free
