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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Doors to a Wider Place: Stories from Australia Audio CD Pack
Retold by Christing Lindop
STAGE 4 - World Stories
'When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets about the river, and the people of his blood . . .'
But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of his blood are strong indeed . . .
The stories in this volume of World Stories
are by Australian writers Mena
Abdullah & Ray Mathew, Judith Wright, Archie Weller, Dal Stivens, David Malouf, Marion Halligan.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Dancing with Strangers: Stories from Africa Audio CD Pack
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 3 - World Stories
'Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.'
In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years . . .
The stories in this volume of World Stories
are by African writers Jackee
Budesta Batanda, Jack Cope, Mandla Langa, and M. G. Vassanji.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa Audio CD Pack
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 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.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Meaning of Gifts: Stories from Turkey Audio CD Pack
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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