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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Railway Children Audio CD Pack
Edith Nesbit
Retold by John Escott
STAGE 3 - Human Interest
'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.'
And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line.
But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Return to Earth Audio CD Pack
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 Audio CD Pack
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 Audio CD Pack
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 4 The Songs of Distant Earth and Other Stories
Arthur C. Clarke
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 4 - Fantasy & Horror
'High above them, Lora and Clyde heard a sound their world had not heard for centuries - the thin scream of a starship coming in from outer space, leaving a long white tail like smoke across the clear blue sky. They looked at each other in wonder. After three hundred years of silence, Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa . . .'
And with the starship comes knowledge, and love, and pain.
In these five science-fiction stories Arthur C. Clarke takes us travelling through the universe into the unknown, but always possible future.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Starter Starman Audio CD Pack
Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster
STARTER - Fantasy & Horror
The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried.
And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Omega Files Audio CD Pack
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Audio CD Pack
Lewis Carroll
Retold by Jenifer 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 Audio CD Pack
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 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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