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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Leonardo Da Vinci Pack

New

Alex Raynham

'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?'

All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Japan Pack

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Rachel Bladon

What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 William & Kate Pack

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Christine Lindop

Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England.

But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Japan

New

Rachel Bladon

What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Leonardo Da Vinci

New

Alex Raynham

'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?'

All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river . . .

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Cinderella Activity Book & Play

New Edition

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Beauty and the Beast Activity Book & Play

New Edition

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 A Time of Waiting: Stories from Around the World

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When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her.

Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 A Time of Waiting: Stories from Around the World Audio CD Pack

New

When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her.

Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 The Magic Brocade Activity Book & Play

New Edition

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Goose Girl Activity Book & Play

New Edition

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Cinderella e-Book & Audio Pack

New Edition

Enjoy the famous tale of Cinderella, who wanted to go to the prince's party.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Beauty and the Beast e-Book & Audio Pack

New Edition

Find out what happened when kind, clever Beauty had to live with a beast ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Cinderella

New Edition

Enjoy the famous tale of Cinderella, who wanted to go to the prince's party.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Twelve Dancing Princesses Activity Book & Play

New Edition

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Beauty and the Beast

New Edition

Find out what happened when kind, clever Beauty had to live with a beast ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Activity Book & Play

New Edition

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Goose Girl e-Book & Audio Pack

Enjoy the tale of the princess who had to work as a goose girl.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 The Magic Brocade e-Book & Audio Pack

Enjoy the tale of the old woman's magic brocade. What did her sons do when it blew away?

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Goose Girl

Enjoy the tale of the princess who had to work as a goose girl.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 The Magic Brocade

Enjoy the tale of the old woman's magic brocade. What did her sons do when it blew away?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 1

Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary – supports CLIL

Series Editor: Hazel Geatches
CLIL Adviser: John Clegg

Pre-intermediate to Intermediate

Read and Discover more about the world...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 2

Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary – supports CLIL

Series Editor: Hazel Geatches
CLIL Adviser: John Clegg

Pre-intermediate to Intermediate

Read and Discover more about the world...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs e-Book & Audio Pack

Enjoy the famous tale of Snow White and the bad queen who wanted to kill her.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Enjoy the famous tale of Snow White and the bad queen who wanted to kill her.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Twelve Dancing Princesses e-Book & Audio Pack

Enjoy the tale of the princesses who had holes in their shoes every morning. What did they do every night?

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Dominoes One Jake's Parrot Pack

Paul Hearn and Yetis Ozkan Retold by John Escott

When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves travelling, and talking about his job - making computer games for BananaTech in America.

'Your new game's going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Games Show!' people at BananaTech Ireland tell him.

But living with a noisy parrot isn't easy, and when Jake asks the most beautiful girl at work out to dinner, she says 'no'.

Then someone steals Jake's game the night before the show. Who - or what - can help him to get it back?

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Dominoes One Jake's Parrot

Paul Hearn and Yetis Ozkan
Retold by John Escott

When Jake Stevens goes to work for some months in Ireland, he feels happy. He loves travelling, and talking about his job - making computer games for BananaTech in America.

'Your new game's going to be the best thing at the Irish Computer Games Show!' people at BananaTech Ireland tell him.

But living with a noisy parrot isn't easy, and when Jake asks the most beautiful girl at work out to dinner, she says 'no'.

Then someone steals Jake's game the night before the show. Who - or what - can help him to get it back?

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 The Twelve Dancing Princesses

Enjoy the tale of the princesses who had holes in their shoes every morning. What did they do every night?

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Dominoes Two The Curse of Capistrano Pack

Johnston McCulley Retold by Bill Bowler

'Señor Zorro is on the road again, they say,' the landlord began.

'Why do I always hear his name?' cried Sergeant Gonzales angrily.

Zorro fights to help the poor and weak in California under the Spanish Governor's rule. Sergeant Gonzales has promised to catch and kill him, so how does Zorro always escape? And how will Señorita Lolita - the only daughter of a fine but poor old family - choose between Zorro, the exciting outlaw, and Don Diego, the rich but boring young man who wants to marry her?

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Dominoes Two The Curse of Capistrano

Johnston McCulley Retold by Bill Bowler

'Señor Zorro is on the road again, they say,' the landlord began.

'Why do I always hear his name?' cried Sergeant Gonzales angrily.

Zorro fights to help the poor and weak in California under the Spanish Governor's rule. Sergeant Gonzales has promised to catch and kill him, so how does Zorro always escape? And how will Señorita Lolita - the only daughter of a fine but poor old family - choose between Zorro, the exciting outlaw, and Don Diego, the rich but boring young man who wants to marry her?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Pinocchio Activity Book & Play

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Dominoes Two The Bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales Pack

Tim Herdon

What is the secret of happiness, or the best thing for a wife to take with her when she leaves home?

How does a man pay for the smell of bread, or decide if he is lucky?

What happens when a friend steals a gift meant for you, or is careless when he tries to make his dreams of a better life come true?

How can you change dirt into gold, or get what you want?

The eight wise tales in this collection can teach us some important lessons about life.

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Sleeping Beauty Activity Book & Play

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Dominoes Two The Bird of Happiness and Other Wise Tales

Tim Herdon

What is the secret of happiness, or the best thing for a wife to take with her when she leaves home?

How does a man pay for the smell of bread, or decide if he is lucky?

What happens when a friend steals a gift meant for you, or is careless when he tries to make his dreams of a better life come true?

How can you change dirt into gold, or get what you want?

The eight wise tales in this collection can teach us some important lessons about life.

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Our World in Art Activity Book

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our world in art ... What are still lifes? Why do artists use perspective?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Weddings

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - Factfiles (non-fiction)

'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change.

But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or 'Elvis' can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride's shoe, and lots of noise - they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Weddings Audio CD Pack

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - Factfiles (non-fiction)

'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change.

But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or 'Elvis' can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride's shoe, and lots of noise - they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Sleeping Beauty e-Book & Audio Pack

Enjoy the tale of the princess who slept for a hundred years ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Pinocchio e-Book & Audio Pack

Follow the adventures of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition

Full-colour English graded readers offering classic tales retold for primary language learners accompanied by e-Books, audio, and Activity Books.

Retold by Sue Arengo

Beginner to Intermediate (A1–B1)

New edition of Classic Tales with Storybook, e-Book, Activity Book and Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4: 300 headwords

Full-colour English graded readers offering classic tales retold for primary language learners accompanied by e-Books, audio, and Activity Books.

Retold by Sue Arengo

Beginner to Intermediate (A1–B1)

New edition of Classic Tales with Storybook, e-Book, Activity Book and Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5: 400 headwords

Full-colour English graded readers offering classic tales retold for primary language learners accompanied by e-Books, audio, and Activity Books.

Retold by Sue Arengo

Beginner to Intermediate (A1–B1)

New edition of Classic Tales with Storybook, e-Book, Activity Book and Play

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 4 Sleeping Beauty

Enjoy the tale of the princess who slept for a hundred years ...

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Classic Tales Second Edition Level 5 Pinocchio

Follow the adventures of the wooden puppet who wants to be a real boy ...

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Dominoes One Mystery in Muscat Pack

Julie Till

'How long is she in Oman for?'

'Ten days. And then they want to take her back home.'

'Ah, yes. But she's not going back to London. They're never going to see her again!'

Jamie and Taymour overhear this strange conversation near their homes in Muscat. Two men want to kill an important visitor, it seems. But who is the woman in danger? And what can the boys do to save her?

Can they, their sisters Sarah and Nadine, and their Australian friend Ruth find the answer to the mystery?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now Audio CD Pack

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Dominoes One Mystery in Muscat

Julie Till

'How long is she in Oman for?'

'Ten days. And then they want to take her back home.'

'Ah, yes. But she's not going back to London. They're never going to see her again!'

Jamie and Taymour overhear this strange conversation near their homes in Muscat. Two men want to kill an important visitor, it seems. But who is the woman in danger? And what can the boys do to save her?

Can they, their sisters Sarah and Nadine, and their Australian friend Ruth find the answer to the mystery?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 All About Islands Activity Book

Author: James Styring
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about islands around the world ... How do islands form? Which island has dragons?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Materials to Products Activity Book

Author: Alex Raynham
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products ... How is glass made? What are microchips?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Our World in Art Audio CD Pack

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our world in art ... What are still lifes? Why do artists use perspective?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals at Night Activity Book

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animals at night ... Why do some animals come out at night? What special senses do nocturnal animals have?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 How to Stay Healthy Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about how to stay healthy... How much water should you drink every day? Why is exercise good for you?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Why We Recycle Activity Book

Author: Fiona Undrill
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about why we recycle waste ... What waste materials can we recycle? How long does plastic take to decompose?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Our World in Art

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our world in art ... What are still lifes? Why do artists use perspective?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 World Wonders Audio CD Pack

Barnaby Newbolt

What are the most beautiful, the most interesting, the most wonderful things in the world? The Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal - everyone has their favourites. And there are natural wonders too - Mount Everest, Niagara Falls, and the Northern Lights, for example.

Here is one person's choice of eleven wonders. Some of them are made by people, and others are natural. Everyone knows the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef - but what about the Iguazú Falls, or the old city of Petra? Come and discover new wonders ...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 All About Islands Audio CD Pack

Author: James Styring
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about islands around the world ... How do islands form? Which island has dragons?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Materials To Products Audio CD Pack

Author: Alex Raynham
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products ... How is glass made? What are microchips?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals in Art Activity Book

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about animals in art, all around the world... Where can you see animals in art? What are the oldest animal pictures?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Animal Life Cycles Activity Book

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animal life cycles ... Which animals hatch from eggs? What is metamorphosis?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 All About Islands

James Styring

Read and discover all about islands around the world ... How do islands form? Which island has dragons?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Materials To Products

Author: Alex Raynham
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about the materials that people use to make products ... How is glass made? What are microchips?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals at Night Audio CD Pack

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animals at night ... Why do some animals come out at night? What special senses do nocturnal animals have?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals at Night

Rachel Bladon

Read and discover all about amazing animals at night ... Why do some animals come out at night? What special senses do nocturnal animals have?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Desert Life Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about desert life around the world ... How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 How to Stay Healthy Audio CD Pack

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about how to stay healthy... How much water should you drink every day? Why is exercise good for you?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Why We Recycle Audio CD Pack

Author: Fiona Undrill
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about why we recycle waste ... What waste materials can we recycle? How long does plastic take to decompose?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Why We Recycle

Author: Fiona Undrill
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about why we recycle waste ... What waste materials can we recycle? How long does plastic take to decompose?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 How to Stay Healthy

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about how to stay healthy... How much water should you drink every day? Why is exercise good for you?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals in Art Audio CD Pack

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about animals in art, all around the world... Where can you see animals in art? What are the oldest animal pictures?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Animal Life Cycles Audio CD Pack

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animal life cycles ... Which animals hatch from eggs? What is metamorphosis?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Exploring Our World Activity Book

Author: Alistair McCallum
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Animals in Art

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about animals in art, all around the world... Where can you see animals in art? What are the oldest animal pictures?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Animal Life Cycles

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing animal life cycles ... Which animals hatch from eggs? What is metamorphosis?

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Dominoes One The Travels of Ibn Battuta

Janet Hardy-Gould

'My first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said "Goodbye" to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.'

In this way Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travellers in the world, begins telling his story to his nephew, Ahmed.

His many journeys take him to new and interesting places far from home. He sees many strange and wonderful things, has many funny and frightening experiences, and meets many different people along the way.

This is his story...

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Dominoes One The Travels of Ibn Battuta Pack

Janet Hardy-Gould

'My first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said "Goodbye" to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.'

In this way Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travellers in the world, begins telling his story to his nephew, Ahmed.

His many journeys take him to new and interesting places far from home. He sees many strange and wonderful things, has many funny and frightening experiences, and meets many different people along the way.

This is his story...

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Dominoes Two Saladin Pack

Nina Prentice

'Well, Yusuf, are you sure that you want to be a soldier?'

'I'll do my best, Uncle.'

When Yusuf went to Aleppo to learn to fight under General Shirkuh, no one knew what this young man would do with his life.

But years later, Yusuf became the great and chivalrous general, Saladin - the man who helped to bring Muslims together to win back the holy city of Jerusalem from the Franks. This is his story...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Desert Life Audio CD Pack

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about desert life around the world ... How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Great Migrations Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Wild Weather Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Desert Life

Julie Penn

Read and discover all about desert life around the world ... How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Plants Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Dominoes Two Saladin

Nina Prentice

'Well, Yusuf, are you sure that you want to be a soldier?'

'I'll do my best, Uncle.'

When Yusuf went to Aleppo to learn to fight under General Shirkuh, no one knew what this young man would do with his life.

But years later, Yusuf became the great and chivalrous general, Saladin - the man who helped to bring Muslims together to win back the holy city of Jerusalem from the Franks. This is his story...

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Wonders of the Past Activity Book

Author: Alistair McCallum
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Transportation Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Alistair McCallum
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Exploring Our World Audio CD Pack

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about explorers and exploring... Why is exploring important? Where did the first explorers go?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Incredible Earth Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Exploring Our World

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about explorers and exploring... Why is exploring important? Where did the first explorers go?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Ocean Life Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

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Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown Pack

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould

A man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at Holder and Stevenson's - one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers.

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Dominoes One True Heroes of Sport Pack

Donatella Fitzgerald

Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!

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Dominoes One Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Pack

Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson

When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships?

Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.

After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the surface.

But how can they escape?

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Dominoes Two Green Planet Pack

Christine Lindop

Once 'green' was just a colour. Now we use it to talk about a way of looking at our world and thinking about the environment. But how green is our planet today?

From nuclear power plants to Nemo the clownfish, from polar bears to pesticides, from Greenpeace to global warming, this book brings together many different stories that have made environmental history.

Read it, and perhaps you too can help to make our planet greener!

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Red Dog

Louis de Bernières
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal.

Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories - some are funny, some are sad, but all are unforgettable. Everybody should have a friend like Red Dog.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Red Dog Audio CD Pack

Louis de Bernières
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal.

Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories - some are funny, some are sad, but all are unforgettable. Everybody should have a friend like Red Dog.

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Great Migrations

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about great animal migrations... Why do animals migrate? How do they find their way?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Great Migrations Audio CD Pack

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about great animal migrations... Why do animals migrate? How do they find their way?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Wild Weather Audio CD Pack

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about different types of weather... What is a hurricane? Where is the coldest place on Earth?

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Dominoes Two Typhoon Pack

Joseph Conrad
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon

'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea.

The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others.

Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely?

And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the ship's hold?

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Dominoes Two Nicholas Nickleby Pack

Charles Dickens
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon

When his father dies a poor man, Nicholas Nickleby goes to London with his mother and sister, Kate. He hopes for help from his rich Uncle Ralph. But Ralph Nickleby is only interested in making money.

So Nicholas takes a teaching job at Dotheboys Hall - a terrible school belonging to Mr Wackford Squeers. There he helps a poor boy called Smike who has no one to look after him.

Leaving Dotheboys, Nicholas makes both friends and enemies on his journey towards better things. But will Smike, who travels with him, ever find the happy family life that he so dearly wants?

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Dominoes Two The Drive to Dubai Pack

Julie Till

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussain, and she could never marry someone from a bad family.

So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly - with a little help from Samira.

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Dominoes Two The Lost World Pack

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Susan Kingsley

'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger.

Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for them.

Will they return alive?

• Where to order

Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Plants

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about amazing plants... How many types of plant are there? Why are plants important?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Plants Audio CD Pack

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about amazing plants... How many types of plant are there? Why are plants important?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Wild Weather

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about different types of weather... What is a hurricane? Where is the coldest place on Earth?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Scotland Audio CD Pack

Steve Flinders

Stage 1 - Factfiles

More than 20 million visitors come to Scotland each year. Some love it for its long white beaches and quiet green hills. Some like the busy cities, with their shops and museums, castles and parks. Others come to see the home of their parents and grandparents, to hear Scottish music, to find their family tartan. And some come to visit the whiskey distilleries, eat wonderful food, and go to one of the world's biggest street parties. Scotland has something for everybody. Come and find what Scotland has for you.

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Wonders of the Past

Author: Kathryn Harper
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about wonders of the past, all around the world... Where is Chichen Itza? What is the Taj Mahal?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Wonders of the Past Audio CD Pack

Author: Kathryn Harper
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about wonders of the past, all around the world... Where is Chichen Itza? What is the Taj Mahal?

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Dominoes One True Heroes of Sport

Donatella Fitzgerald

Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book - Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit - are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!

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Dominoes Two Ariadne's Story Pack

Joyce Hannam

'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.'

Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape - both from danger and from a life that she wanted to leave far behind her - many years ago in Ancient Greece...

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Dominoes Two The Three Musketeers Pack

Alexandre Dumas
Text adaptation by Clare West

It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends.

After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful Milady and the cruel Cardinal Richelieu?

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Dominoes Two White Fang Pack

Jack London
Text adaptation by John Escott

Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die.

When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any easier now?

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Scotland

Steve Flinders

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

More than 20 million visitors come to Scotland each year. Some love it for its long white beaches and quiet green hills. Some like the busy cities, with their shops and museums, castles and parks. Others come to see the home of their parents and grandparents, to hear Scottish music, to find their family tartan. And some come to visit the whiskey distilleries, eat wonderful food, and go to one of the world's biggest street parties. Scotland has something for everybody. Come and find what Scotland has for you.

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Dominoes Two Emma Pack

Jane Austen
Text adaptation by Barbara Mackay

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She lives alone with her father, and spends a lot of her time thinking about future husbands - for her friends. When she meets Harriet Smith, a poor girl with no family, Emma decides that she must find a husband for her. Harriet is pleased to be Emma's friend - but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Transportation Then and Now Audio CD Pack

Author: James Styring
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about transportation in the past and today... What were the first planes made of? How fast can solar cars travel?

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Dominoes One Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson

When ship after ship goes down in the Atlantic, Dr Pierre Aronnax and his servant, Conseil, journey from Paris to learn more. What - or who - is attacking these ships?

Aronnax, Conseil, and the Canadian, Ned Land, find the answer to this question when they meet the strange Captain Nemo.

After a long journey under the sea in Nemo's submarine, the Nautilus, the doctor and his friends plan to leave for the surface.

But how can they escape?

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Dominoes Two Green Planet

Christine Lindop

Once 'green' was just a colour. Now we use it to talk about a way of looking at our world and thinking about the environment. But how green is our planet today?

From nuclear power plants to Nemo the clownfish, from polar bears to pesticides, from Greenpeace to global warming, this book brings together many different stories that have made environmental history.

Read it, and perhaps you too can help to make our planet greener!

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Dominoes Two The Drive to Dubai

Julie Till

When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussain, and she could never marry someone from a bad family.

So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly - with a little help from Samira.

• Where to order

Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Ocean Life

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about life in and near the oceans... Which tree can live in salt water? How do whales breathe?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 All About Ocean Life Audio CD Pack

Author: Rachel Bladon
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about life in and near the oceans... Which tree can live in salt water? How do whales breathe?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Incredible Earth

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our incredible Earth... What is a volcano? Where is the deepest lake on Earth?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Incredible Earth Audio CD Pack

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about our incredible Earth... What is a volcano? Where is the deepest lake on Earth?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Machines Then and Now

Author: Robert Quinn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about machines in the past and today... When did people invent the wheel? What is a nanobot?

• Where to order

Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Machines Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Julie Penn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

• Where to order

Oxford Read and Discover Level 4 Machines Then and Now Audio CD Pack

Author: Robert Quinn
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about machines in the past and today... When did people invent the wheel? What is a nanobot?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Homes Around the World

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about homes around the world... What materials are homes made of? Why do people build homes on stilts?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Homes Around the World Activity Book

Author: Sarah Medina
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

• Where to order

Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Homes Around the World Audio CD Pack

Author: Jacqueline Martin
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.

Listen and read to discover all about homes around the world... What materials are homes made of? Why do people build homes on stilts?

• Where to order

Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Transportation Then and Now

Author: James Styring
Series Editior: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about transportation in the past and today... What were the first planes made of? How fast can solar cars travel?

• Where to order

Dominoes

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 Read and Discover

Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary – supports CLIL

Series Editor: Hazel Geatches
CLIL Adviser: John Clegg

Pre-intermediate to Intermediate

Read and Discover more about the world...

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Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould

A man from the British royal family leaves an expensive gold and emerald crown at Holder and Stevenson's - one of the best banks in London. When someone tries to take the crown from Mr Holder's desk, he asks Sherlock Holmes for help. Who wants the crown and why? Only Sherlock can find the answers.

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Dominoes Two Ariadne's Story

Joyce Hannam

'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.'

Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape - both from danger and from a life that she wanted to leave far behind her - many years ago in Ancient Greece...

• Where to order

Dominoes Two Emma

Jane Austen
Text adaptation by Barbara Mackay

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She lives alone with her father, and spends a lot of her time thinking about future husbands - for her friends. When she meets Harriet Smith, a poor girl with no family, Emma decides that she must find a husband for her. Harriet is pleased to be Emma's friend - but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy?

• Where to order

Dominoes Two Nicholas Nickleby

Charles Dickens
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon

When his father dies a poor man, Nicholas Nickleby goes to London with his mother and sister, Kate. He hopes for help from his rich Uncle Ralph. But Ralph Nickleby is only interested in making money.

So Nicholas takes a teaching job at Dotheboys Hall - a terrible school belonging to Mr Wackford Squeers. There he helps a poor boy called Smike who has no one to look after him.

Leaving Dotheboys, Nicholas makes both friends and enemies on his journey towards better things. But will Smike, who travels with him, ever find the happy family life that he so dearly wants?

• Where to order

Dominoes Two The Lost World

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Susan Kingsley

'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger.

Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for them.

Will they return alive?

• Where to order

Dominoes Two The Three Musketeers

Alexandre Dumas
Text adaptation by Clare West

It is the year 1627, and young d'Artagnan comes to Paris with a dream - to become a King's Musketeer. Three of these brave soldiers - Porthos, Athos and Aramis - soon become his friends.

After a short time d'Artagnan has fallen in love and into great danger. Can the three musketeers and d'Artagnan fight against the evil plans of the beautiful Milady and the cruel Cardinal Richelieu?

• Where to order

Dominoes Two White Fang

Jack London
Text adaptation by John Escott

Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food - a fight in which many animals die.

When White Fang meets the people of the North - first Indians and then White Men - he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any easier now?

• Where to order

Dominoes One Five Canterbury Tales Pack

Geoffrey Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way.

Who should be the stronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers to these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin.

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Dominoes One Housemates

Alison Watts

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live.

But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In fact, some of them are very difficult people!

Can Chris find the house that he needs with housemates that he can live with?

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Dominoes One Housemates Pack

Alison Watts

Chris leaves his home in a small town in Australia to go and study at the University of Sydney. He needs to find somewhere to live.

But it's not easy to find a house to share in a big city. Every house has its problems, and not all of Chris's housemates are easy to live with. In fact, some of them are very difficult people!

Can Chris find the house that he needs with housemates that he can live with?

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Dominoes One Macbeth

William Shakespeare
Text adaptation by Alistair McCallum

A dark, rainy day in Scotland, long ago. Returning from battle, Macbeth and his friend Banquo meet three witches. 'Macbeth, the king!' they say, but Macbeth is not a king, he is just a simple soldier.

Macbeth and Banquo cannot forget the witches' words. Soon Macbeth is king, but his wife walks in her sleep at night, and dreams of blood. What lies in the future for Banquo? And how many people must die before Scotland finds peace once more?

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Dominoes One Macbeth Pack

William Shakespeare
Text adaptation by Alistair McCallum

A dark, rainy day in Scotland, long ago. Returning from battle, Macbeth and his friend Banquo meet three witches. 'Macbeth, the king!' they say, but Macbeth is not a king, he is just a simple soldier.

Macbeth and Banquo cannot forget the witches' words. Soon Macbeth is king, but his wife walks in her sleep at night, and dreams of blood. What lies in the future for Banquo? And how many people must die before Scotland finds peace once more?

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Dominoes One Pollyanna

Eleanor H. Porter
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

When Pollyanna's farther dies, she goes to live with her Aunt, Miss Polly Harrington. Miss Harrington likes doing good, but she doesn't like children very much!

Pollyanna always tries to find the good in everything. She soon makes many different people in her new home feel happier. But is Miss Polly's life going to change for better or worse after her niece arrives? And what happens to Pollyanna when she has a very bad accident?

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Dominoes One Pollyanna Pack

Eleanor H. Porter
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

When Pollyanna's farther dies, she goes to live with her Aunt, Miss Polly Harrington. Miss Harrington likes doing good, but she doesn't like children very much!

Pollyanna always tries to find the good in everything. She soon makes many different people in her new home feel happier. But is Miss Polly's life going to change for better or worse after her niece arrives? And what happens to Pollyanna when she has a very bad accident?

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Dominoes One Studio Five

Anthony Manning

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend - Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

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Dominoes One Studio Five Pack

Anthony Manning

Fay loves making The Friends' Hour for Studio Five, but her boss - Jason - is always angry with her. One day, a young man - Simon Jones - phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend - Wing - stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?

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Dominoes One The Wild West

John Escott

How much do you know about the Wild West? What do you know about cowboys and Indians, about wagon trails and gunfights?

Inside this book you will find the true story of the Wild West, and of some of the famous people who lived and worked there. People like Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Billy the Kid - and Annie Oakley, the best shot in the West.

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Dominoes One The Wild West Pack

John Escott

How much do you know about the Wild West? What do you know about cowboys and Indians, about wagon trails and gunfights?

Inside this book you will find the true story of the Wild West, and of some of the famous people who lived and worked there. People like Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Billy the Kid - and Annie Oakley, the best shot in the West.

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Dominoes Two A Close Shave Pack™

Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit?

Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong.

Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?

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Dominoes Two A Close Shave™

Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit?

Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong.

Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a 'close shave'?

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Dominoes Two Eight Great American Tales

O. Henry
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think.

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Dominoes Two Eight Great American Tales Pack

O. Henry
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories - about both good times and bad - are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think.

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Dominoes Two Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Pack

Oscar Wilde
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations.

Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar - but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman - but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street?

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Dominoes Two Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Jeremy Page

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes.
'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'

Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.

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Dominoes Two Sherlock Holmes: The Norwood Mystery Pack

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Jeremy Page

'For me, Watson, life is not so interesting,' says Holmes.
'I loved to read the newspaper, hoping to find some news of an interesting crime for me to investigate or a dangerous criminal for me to catch. Where are all those clever criminals these days?'

Then, suddenly, a wild, excited young man runs up the stairs to Holmes' room. He has a story to tell about a strange crime that took place in Norwood. But who is the criminal? And is he dangerous? Life, for Holmes, suddenly starts to get interesting.

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Dominoes Two The Turn of the Screw Pack

Henry James
Text adaptation by Christine Lindop

A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

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Dominoes Two Typhoon

Joseph Conrad
Text adaptation by Tim Herdon

'There's some bad weather out there,' Captain MacWhirr said to himself just before he sailed his ship, the Nan-Shan, into the middle of the most terrible storm in the South China Sea.

The typhoon brings out the best in some men on the ship, and the worst in others.

Can MacWhirr bring the ship through the storm safely?

And what will happen to all the poor Chinese workers travelling home down in the ship's hold?

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Dominoes One Deep Trouble

Lesley Thompson

Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams. They want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes.

But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.

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Dominoes One Deep Trouble Pack

Lesley Thompson

Amy and Matt are bored. They don't want to study for their exams. They want to have a good time. So they drive to the marina at West Palm Beach, and Matt jumps onto one of the boats. 'We can go anywhere!' he jokes.

But when the owners of the boat come back and find them, Amy and Matt are in deep trouble. Matt is a good swimmer and enjoys scuba-diving, but now he must dive for their lives.

• Where to order

Dominoes One Five Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The year is 1386 and the first flowers of spring are here. A number of pilgrims are going to Canterbury to visit the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket, and they all tell stories on the way.

Who should be the stronger in a marriage - the husband or the wife? And what happens when two men fall in love with the same woman? In these five stories from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales we find different answers to these questions from the Knight, the Wife of Bath, the Clerk of Oxford, the Merchant, and the Franklin.

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Dominoes One From the Heart

Alan C. McLean

Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that her father isn't going to like it.

Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And can they find true happiness together?

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Dominoes One From the Heart Pack

Alan C. McLean

Anna is a new student at Oxford University. When she arrives in Oxford, she meets Selim, and they become good friends. But Selim is not English, and living in a different country is not easy for him. Anna tries to help but she knows that her father isn't going to like it.

Selim and Anna have each other. But is that enough? And can they find true happiness together?

• Where to order

Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond Pack

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'

One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

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Dominoes One The Curse of the Mummy

Joyce Hannam

For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.

But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?

• Where to order

Dominoes One The Curse of the Mummy Pack

Joyce Hannam

For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter's young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.

But soon people begin to die. Who or what is the killer? Is Tutankhamun angry with them for opening his tomb? And who is the beautiful French girl with the face of Tutankhamun's long-dead wife?

• Where to order

Dominoes One The Real McCoy & Other Ghost Stories Pack

Lesley Thompson

'Are you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather.

Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy?

These six stories tell of ghosts - friendly, sad, and bad - from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America - and Egypt!

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Dominoes One The Teacher's Secret and Other Folk Tales

Retold by Joyce Hannam

Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students?

The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid?

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Dominoes One The Teacher's Secret and Other Folk Tales Pack

Retold by Joyce Hannam

Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students?

The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid?

• Where to order

Dominoes One The Wrong Trousers™ Pack

Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-trousers.

At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different - very different.

This strange story won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.

• Where to order

Dominoes Two Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Oscar Wilde
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations.

Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar - but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman - but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street?

• Where to order

Dominoes Two The Turn of the Screw

Henry James
Text adaptation by Christine Lindop

A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

• Where to order

Dominoes One Sherlock Holmes: The Blue Diamond

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'

One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

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Dominoes One The Real McCoy & Other Ghost Stories

Lesley Thompson

'Are you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather.

Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy?

These six stories tell of ghosts - friendly, sad, and bad - from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America - and Egypt!

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Dominoes One The Wrong Trousers™

Aardman
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler

It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present - a pair of Techno-trousers.

At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different - very different.

This strange story won the Oscar® for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Climate Change

Barnaby Newbolt

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with. It means the end for many animals, people, even whole islands - but will this happen soon, or hundreds of years from now?

What is the true story about climate change? Why is it happening, and what can we do about it? If we learn about the past, then perhaps there will be time to make changes for the future...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Climate Change Audio CD Pack

Barnaby Newbolt

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with. It means the end for many animals, people, even whole islands - but will this happen soon, or hundreds of years from now?

What is the true story about climate change? Why is it happening, and what can we do about it? If we learn about the past, then perhaps there will be time to make changes for the future...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Deserts Audio CD Pack

Janet Hardy-Gould

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

Look at a desert, and what do you see? Nothing much - just a hot, flat, dry place, with lots of sand, and no animals or people.

But look again. There are deserts with mountains, and deserts with snow. There are millions of people - some live in towns, and some move across the desert all the time. There are plants that live for hundreds of years, and animals that can sleep for months under the ground, When you look closely, the desert is a wonderful place, full of exciting things...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Little Lord Fauntleroy Audio CD Pack

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world.

But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Beautiful Game

Steve Flinders

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Some call it football, some call it soccer, and to others it's 'the beautiful game'. By any name, it's a sport with some fascinating stories. There is murder in Colombia, and a game that lasts for two days where many players never see the ball. There's the French writer who learnt lessons about life from playing football, and the women players who had to leave the club grounds because 'Women's football isn't nice'.

The cups, the leagues, the World Cup finals, the stars, the rules - they're all part of the world's favourite sport, the beautiful game.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Little Lord Fauntleroy

Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Jennifer Bassett

STAGE 1 - Human Interest

Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world.

But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Beautiful Game Audio CD Pack

Steve Flinders

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Some call it football, some call it soccer, and to others it's 'the beautiful game'. By any name, it's a sport with some fascinating stories. There is murder in Colombia, and a game that lasts for two days where many players never see the ball. There's the French writer who learnt lessons about life from playing football, and the women players who had to leave the club grounds because 'Women's football isn't nice'.

The cups, the leagues, the World Cup finals, the stars, the rules - they're all part of the world's favourite sport, the beautiful game.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa

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 2 Seasons and Celebrations Audio CD Pack

Jackie Maguire

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

In English-speaking countries around the world people celebrate Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and other special days. Some celebrations are new, like Remembrance Day and Mother's Day; others, like the summer solstice, go back thousands of years.

What happens on these special days? What do people eat, where do they go, what do they do? Why is there a special day for eating pancakes? Who is the 'guy' that children take onto the streets in November? And where do many people like to spend the shortest night of the year in England?

Come on a journey through a year of celebrations, from New Year's Eve to Christmas.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Animals in Danger Audio CD Pack

Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals.

But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for medicine. Now there are about 7,000 species of animals in danger. What can we do to protect the animals of the world - from us?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Rainforests Audio CD Pack

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell.

Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 England Audio CD Pack

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London.

But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day.

You can have an English afternoon tea, walk on long white beaches, watch a great game of football, or visit a country house. Yes, England has something for everybody - what has it got for you?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 London Audio CD Pack

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

Come with us to London - a city as old as the Romans, and as new as the twenty-first century. There are places to go - from Oxford Street to Westminster Abbey, from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre to Wimbledon Tennis Club. And things to do - ride on the London Eye, visit the markets, go to the theatre, run in the London Marathon.

Big, beautiful, noisy, exciting - that's London.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 New York Audio CD Pack

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

What can you do in New York? Everything! You can go to some of the world's most famous shops, watch a baseball game, go to the top of a skyscraper, see a concert in Central Park, eat a sandwich in a New York deli, see a show in a Broadway theatre.

New York is big, noisy, and exciting, and it's waiting for you. Open the book and come with us to this wonderful city.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Children of the New Forest Audio CD Pack

Captain Marryat
Retold by Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody.

The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it.

The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Children of the New Forest

Captain Marryat
Retold by Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody.

The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it.

The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldiers find them?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Too Old to Rock and Roll and Other Stories

Jan Mark
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he?

These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 A Stranger at Green Knowe

Lucy M. Boston
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

When Ping sees Hanno in the zoo, he is excited, but also unhappy. Hanno is a magnificent African gorilla, big and black and much stronger than a man. But how can this wonderful wild animal live in a cage, behind bars and locked doors?

Then Hanno escapes from the zoo. And a few days later his footprints are seen near Green Knowe, the old house deep in the English countryside where Ping is spending his holiday . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

John Escott

STAGE 2 - True Stories

What does the name 'Agatha Christie' mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery - a 'whodunnit'. 'I'm reading an Agatha Christie,' people say. 'I'm not sure who the murderer is - I think it's . . .' But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer's name before the end of the book.

But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll
Retold by Jennifer 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 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 Cries from the Heart: Stories from Around the World Audio CD Pack

Retold by Jenifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - World Stories

From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all.

These eight stories were winning entries in the 2004 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The writers are Sefi Atta, Adrienne M. Frater, Lauri Kubuitsile, Erica N. Robinson, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Janet Tay Hui Ching, Anuradha Muralidharan, and Tod Collins.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Five Children and It

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 Animals in Danger

Andy Hopkins and Joc Potter

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

People love and need animals. They keep them in their homes and on their farms. They enjoy going to zoos, and watching animals on films and on TV. Little children love to play with toy animals.

But people are a great danger to animals too. They take their land, and cut down the trees where animals have their homes. They pollute the rivers and seas, and kill big animals for their skins or for medicine. Now there are about 7,000 species of animals in danger. What can we do to protect the animals of the world - from us?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Ned Kelly: A True Story Audio CD Pack

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - True Stories

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor.

Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 New York

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

What can you do in New York? Everything! You can go to some of the world's most famous shops, watch a baseball game, go to the top of a skyscraper, see a concert in Central Park, eat a sandwich in a New York deli, see a show in a Broadway theatre.

New York is big, noisy, and exciting, and it's waiting for you. Open the book and come with us to this wonderful city.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Pocahontas Audio CD Pack

Retold by Tim Vicary

STAGE 1 - True Stories

A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love . . . But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country.

This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love for the Englishman John Smith.

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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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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Cries from the Heart: Stories from Around the World

Retold by Jenifer Bassett

STAGE 2 - World Stories

From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all.

These eight stories were winning entries in the 2004 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The writers are Sefi Atta, Adrienne M. Frater, Lauri Kubuitsile, Erica N. Robinson, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Janet Tay Hui Ching, Anuradha Muralidharan, and Tod Collins.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Rainforests

Rowena Akinyemi

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell.

Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Robinson Crusoe Audio CD Pack

Daniel Defoe
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'

In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Seasons and Celebrations

Jackie Maguire

STAGE 2 - Factfiles

In English-speaking countries around the world people celebrate Easter, Valentine's Day, Christmas, and other special days. Some celebrations are new, like Remembrance Day and Mother's Day; others, like the summer solstice, go back thousands of years.

What happens on these special days? What do people eat, where do they go, what do they do? Why is there a special day for eating pancakes? Who is the 'guy' that children take onto the streets in November? And where do many people like to spend the shortest night of the year in England?

Come on a journey through a year of celebrations, from New Year's Eve to Christmas.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 A Little Princess Audio CD Pack

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 Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

Retold by Judith Dean

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee.

With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp Audio CD Pack

Retold by Judith Dean

STAGE 1 - Fantasy & Horror

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee.

With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 England

John Escott

STAGE 1 - Factfiles

Twenty-five million people come to England every year, and some never go out of London.

But England is full of interesting places to visit and things to do. There are big noisy cities with great shops and theatres, and quiet little villages. You can visit old castles and beautiful churches - or go to festivals with music twenty-four hours a day.

You can have an English afternoon tea, walk on long white beaches, watch a great game of football, or visit a country house. Yes, England has something for everybody - what has it got for you?

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Ned Kelly: A True Story

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - True Stories

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor.

Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Audio CD Pack

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 Meaning of Gifts: Stories from Turkey

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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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Anne of Green Gables Audio CD Pack

L.M. Montgomery
Retold by Clare West

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.

They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.

But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Huckleberry Finn Audio CD Pack

Mark Twain
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure.

So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends.

And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Canterville Ghost Audio CD Pack

Oscar Wilde
Retold by John Escott

STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts.

The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Jungle Book

Rudyard Kipling
Retold by Ralph Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy.

Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Piano Audio CD Pack

Rosemary Border

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says.

In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers.

When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life has changed forever...

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Bestseller Pack

Pack contains one copy of each of the following ten titles:

Anne of Green Gables
The Canterville Ghost
The Death of Karen Silkwood
Dracula
Henry VIII and his Six Wives
Huckleberry Finn
New Yorkers
The Piano
Robinson Crusoe
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Anne of Green Gables

L.M. Montgomery
Retold by Clare West

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.

They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.

But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there . . .

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure.

So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends.

And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim . . .

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
Retold by Diane Mowat

STAGE 2 - Classics

'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'

In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Piano

Rosemary Border

STAGE 2 - Human Interest

One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says.

In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers.

When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever...

• Where to order

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 . . .

• Where to order

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 The Canterville Ghost

Oscar Wilde
Retold by John Escott

STAGE 2 - Fantasy & Horror

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts.

The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.

• Where to order

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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Dolphin Readers Level 4 City Girl, Country Boy Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Go, Gorillas, Go Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 In the Ocean Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 The Tough Task Activity Book

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Up and Down Activity Book

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 We Won the Cup Activity Book

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Where People Live Activity Book

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Activity Book

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Dolphin Readers Pack (40 titles)

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 City Girl, Country Boy

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Go, Gorillas, Go

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 The Tough Task

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Up and Down

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 We Won the Cup

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 In the Ocean

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 In the Ocean & Go, Gorillas, Go Audio CD

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 The Tough Task & Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Audio CD

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 We Won the Cup & Up and Down Audio CD

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Where People Live & City Girl, Country Boy Audio CD

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4 Where People Live

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dominoes Two

Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

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Oxford Bookworms Library Bestseller Packs

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Dolphin Readers Pack

Rebecca Brooke, Fiona Kenshole, Christine Lindop, Jacqueline Martin, Richard Northcott, Mary Rose, Norma Shapiro, Di Taylor, and Craig Wright
Series Editor: Craig Wright

Starter to Level 4

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers

Five levels of cross-curricular, interactive English graded readers, offering both fiction and non-fiction, for primary

Series editor: Craig Wright

Starter to Level 4

Learn more about the world in English with 'read and do' Dolphins

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Dolphin Readers Audio CDs

Rebecca Brooke, Fiona Kenshole, Christine Lindop, Jacqueline Martin, Richard Northcott, Mary Rose, Norma Shapiro, Di Taylor, and Craig Wright
Series Editor: Craig Wright

Starter to Level 4

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dolphin Readers Level 4

Rebecca Brooke, Fiona Kenshole, Christine Lindop, Jacqueline Martin, Richard Northcott, Mary Rose, Norma Shapiro, Di Taylor, and Craig Wright
Series Editor: Craig Wright

Starter to Level 4

Graded 'read and do' fiction and non-fiction readers that teach children about the world around them.

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Dominoes One

Bill Bowler and Sue Parminter

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2

CEF level A2/B1

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 4

Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary – supports CLIL

Series Editor: Hazel Geatches
CLIL Adviser: John Clegg

New non-fiction graded readers for primary – 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English through other subjects exciting. Two new levels for younger or lower-level students.

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5

Non-fiction graded reader series with cross-curricular content for primary – supports CLIL

Series Editor: Hazel Geatches
CLIL Adviser: John Clegg

New non-fiction graded readers for primary – 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English through other subjects exciting. Two new levels for younger or lower-level students.

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