A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins.
When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, ...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
I wish I could get through into looking-glass house,' Alice said. 'Let's pretend that the glass has gone soft and… Why, I do believe it has! It's turning into a kind of cloud!'
A moment later Alice is inside the looking-glass world. There she finds herself part of a great game of chess, travelling through forests and jumping across brooks. T ...
A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Phillip Burrows and Mark Foster.
'Everything's ready now. We can do the experiment,' says your assistant Joe.
You are the famous scientist Mary Durie working in a laboratory in Alaska. When you discover something very new and valuable, other people want to try to steal your idea – can you stop them before they escape?
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A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard.
'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.'
Soon Richard Hannay is running to his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, an ...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border.
Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.
But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow b ...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phant ...
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett.
The President is dead!
A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him – people with lights, and dogs, and guns.
A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back – dead or alive.
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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi.
Witches are dangerous. They can kill you with a look, or a word. They can send their friend the Devil after you in the shape of a dog or a cat. They can make a clay picture of you, then break it… and a few weeks later you are dead.
Today, of course, most people don't believe in witches. But in 1612 everybody was afraid of them. Young Jennet ...
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jill Nevile.
‘When we are happy, we are always good’, says Lord Henry, ‘but when we are good, we are not always happy.’
Lord Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven – even murder – if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.
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