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Bookworms Club Stories for Reading Circles Bronze (Stages 1 and 2)
Short stories from Oxford Bookworms with a unique set of resources and information for running successful Reading Circles.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Human Interest
Sara Crewe is a very rich little girl. She first comes to England when she is seven, and her father takes her to Miss Minchin's school in London. Then he goes back to his work in India. Sara is very sad at first, but she soon makes friends at school.
But on her eleventh birthday, something terrible happens, and now Sara has no family, no home, and not a penny in the world . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Love or Money?
Rowena Akinyemi
STAGE 1 - Crime & Mystery
It is Molly Clarkson's fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party - only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die.
But one person can't wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Sherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Crime & Mystery
Dr Huxtable has a school for boys in the north of England. When the Duke of Holdernesse decides to send his young son there, that is good news for the school. The Duke is a very important person, and Dr Huxtable is happy to have his son in the school.
But two weeks later Dr Huxtable is the unhappiest man in England. Why? And why does he take the train down to London and go to Baker Street? Why does he need the help of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes?
Because someone has kidnapped the Duke's son . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Elephant Man
Tim Vicary
STAGE 1 - True Stories
He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'.
Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.
This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Monkey's Paw
W. W. Jacobs
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
Outside, the night is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor?
There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived.
The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw.
Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Phantom of the Opera
Jennifer Bassett
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers . . .
But who has actually seen him?
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Retold by Rosemary Border
STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror
Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.
But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz . . .
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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 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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