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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 White Death
Tim Vicary
STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure
Sarah Harland is nineteen, and she is in prison. At the airport, they find heroin in her bag. So, now she is waiting to go to court. If the court decides that it was her heroin, then she must die.
She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help Sarah: her mother, and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they work together? Can they find the real criminal before it is too late?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Skyjack!
Tim Vicary
STAGE 3 - Thriller & Adventure
When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened.
There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is!
And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Call of the Wild
Jack London
Retold by Nick Bullard
STAGE 3 - Classics
When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines.
Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Retold by Jill Nevile
STAGE 3 - Fantasy & Horror
'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.'
Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Prisoner of Zenda
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 1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Retold by Nick Bullard
STAGE 1 - Classics
Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.
They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The President's Murderer
Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Thriller & Adventure
The President is dead!
A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns.
A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive.
Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose?
Long live the President!
