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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 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 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...
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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 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 3 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?'
K. M. Peyton
Retold by Diane Mowat
STAGE 3 - Human Interest
Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School.
The team that he has chosen for the competition think Sam has gone crazy. 'Who, Sir? Me, Sir?' says little Hoomey, his eyes round with horror. 'We'll never beat Greycoats,' the others cry. 'Never in a million years!'
But you don't know what you can do
- until you try . . .
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Dancing with Strangers: Stories from Africa
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 3 - World Stories
'Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.'
In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years . . .
The stories in this volume of World Stories
are by African writers Jackee
Budesta Batanda, Jack Cope, Mandla Langa, and M. G. Vassanji.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Dancing with Strangers: Stories from Africa Audio CD Pack
Retold by Clare West
STAGE 3 - World Stories
'Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.'
In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years . . .
The stories in this volume of World Stories
are by African writers Jackee
Budesta Batanda, Jack Cope, Mandla Langa, and M. G. Vassanji.
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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 3 Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
Retold by Susan Kingsley
STAGE 3 - Classics
Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health.
Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes' house - and into Ethan's lonely life.
But poverty is a prison from which few people escape . . .
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