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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Land of my Childhood: Stories from South Asia Audio CD Pack
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 4 - World Stories
'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.'
But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother.
The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Long White Cloud: Stories from New Zealand Audio CD Pack
Retold by Christine Lindop
STAGE 3 - World Stories
Nani Tama looked at each of us - Dad, Auntie Hiraina, my cousin Timi, and myself. His eyes were angry. 'You fullas want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four walls? When the whakapapa is not yet finished?'
But Nani Tama gets his own way, and his grandson drives him through the night, to find the missing pieces from the family history.
The stories from this volume of World Stories are by New Zealand writers James Courage, Witi Ihimaera, Philip Mincher, and Joy Cowley.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 Land of my Childhood: Stories from South Asia
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 4 - World Stories
'My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.'
But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother.
The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The writers are Romesh Gunesekera, M. Athar Tahir, Chitra Divakaruni, Anu Kumar, Anne Ranasinghe, Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Vijita Fernando, and Amara Bavani Dev.
Useful and free
Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 The Long White Cloud: Stories from New Zealand
Retold by Christine Lindop
STAGE 3 - World Stories
Nani Tama looked at each of us - Dad, Auntie Hiraina, my cousin Timi, and myself. His eyes were angry. 'You fullas want me to die here in this room? Looking at these four walls? When the whakapapa is not yet finished?'
But Nani Tama gets his own way, and his grandson drives him through the night, to find the missing pieces from the family history.
The stories in this volume of World Stories are by New Zealand writers James Courage, Witi Ihimaera, Philip Mincher , and Joy Cowley.
Useful and free
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.
Useful and free
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.
Useful and free
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.
