Oxford Bookworms Library

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Reg Wright – Ear-rings from Frankfurt

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Reg Wright. Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer – again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask [...]

Tim Vicary – Police T.V.

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. ‘Every day someone steals money from people near the shops. We must stop this,’ says Dan, a police officer. The police use TV cameras but it is not easy because there are so many suspects – who is the [...]

Saki – Tooth and Claw – Short Stories

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal has sharp, white teeth, and it loves fresh blood. [...]

Lester Vaughan – The White Stones

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Lester Vaughan. ‘The people on this island don’t like archaeologists,’ the woman on the ferry says. You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic stones but very soon strange things begin to happen to you. Can you solve the [...]

Peter Hawkins, M. James – The Unquiet Grave – Short Stories

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don’t try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don’t blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with [...]

О. Генри – One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted [...]

Harry Gilbert – The Star Zoo

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert. In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests. In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet [...]

Harry Gilbert – The Year of Sharing

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert. Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it… very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve [...]

Peter Foreman – The Mystery of Allegra

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Peter Foreman. Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the [...]

Michael Dean – New York Cafe

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Michael Dean. It is the year 2030, and an e-mail message arrives at New York Cafe: ‘I want to help people and make them happy!’ But not everybody is happy about the e-mail, and soon the police and the President are very interested in the New York [...]

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