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John Escott — Goodbye Mr Hollywood

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Nick Lortz is sitting outside a café in Whistler, a village in the Canadian mountains, when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She’s young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick [...]

Чарльз Диккенс — A Christmas Carol

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says – just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him [...]

Anne Collins — John F. Kennedy

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Anne Collins. Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.’ More than fifty years ago, the new US President, John F. Kennedy, spoke these words. Millions of Americans listened, and they were filled with hope. With [...]

Фрэнсис Элиза Ходжсон Бёрнетт — Little Lord Fauntleroy

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. 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, [...]

Helen Brooke — Mystery in London

A Starter level Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Helen Brooke. Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You are the famous detective Mycroft Pound; can you catch the killer before he [...]

Джейн Остин — Pride and Prejudice

A level 6 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. ‘The moment I first met you, I noticed your pride, your sense of superiority, and your selfish disdain for the feelings of others. You are the last man in the world whom I could ever be persuaded to marry,’ said Elizabeth Bennett. And so [...]

Джейн Остин — Sense and Sensibility

A level 5 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sometimes the Dashwood girls do not seem like sisters. Elinor is all calmness and reason, and can be relied upon for practical, common sense opinions. Marianne, on the other hand, is all sensibility, full of passionate and romantic feeling. She has no [...]

Rowena Akinyemi — Love or Money

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. It is Molly Clarkson’s fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party – only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so [...]

Rowena Akinyemi — Under the Moon

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees [...]

Tim Vicary — Death in the Freezer

A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still [...]

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