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Dominoes Three

Second Edition

Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Rabbit-Proof Fence

Doris Pilkington Garimara
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 3 - True Stories

Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home.

But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence north as part of their guide across the desert.

This is the true stoy of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Brontë Story

Tim Vicary

STAGE 3 - True Stories

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too.

Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontës of Haworth then? Branwell died young, but his sisters became famous writers.

But they did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame. Only their father was left, alone with his memories.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Wyatt's Hurricane

Desmond Bagley
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 3 - Thriller & Adventure

Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wave from the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, bridges . . .

Only one man, David Wyatt, believes that Mabel will hit San Fernandez, but nobody will listen to him . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Desert, Mountain, Sea

Sue Leather

STAGE 4 - True Stories

Three different parts of the world, but all of them dangerous, lonely places. Three different women, but all of them determined to go - and to come back alive!

Robyn Davidson walked nearly 3,000 kilometres across the Australian desert - with a dog and four camels.

Arlene Blum led a team of ten women to the top of Annapurna - one of the highest mountains in the world. Only eight came down again.

Naomi James sailed around the world alone, on a journey lasting more than 250 days.

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Dominoes

Second Edition

English graded readers series for upper-primary / lower-secondary

Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

Dominoes are carefully graded from Starter Level to Level Three according to the Bookworms syllabus.

Build your language skills through reading Dominoes, the interactive readers series.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Everest Story

Tim Vicary

Stage 3 - Factfiles

It is beautiful to look at, hard to reach, and terribly difficult to climb. Winds of 200 kilometres per hour or more scream across it day and night, while the temperature falls to -20 °C or lower. Every year, some who try to climb the highest mountain in the world do not return.

But for a century people have been coming to climb Everest - some alone, some in groups, but all with a dream of going to the highest place in the world. This is their story.

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