The Witches of Pendle - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Witches of Pendle - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Rowena Akinyemi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194632288

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. 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 Device in Lancashire knew a lot about them because she lived with the Witches of Pendle. They were her family . . .

The Bridge and Other Love Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Bridge and Other Love Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Christine Lindop

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194630846

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. Luke is a good-looking young man, but he's not very clever with words. Gemma is clever with words, but what does she want? Lucy and Becky are good friends, but what about Sam? He makes wonderful cakes, but does he make mistakes too? Nina and Dragan are in love, so deeply in love, but they live in the wrong place, at the wrong time . . . All love stories have moments of happiness, pain, misunderstanding, laughter, and sometimes great sadness. But love will nearly always find a way . . .

William and Kate - With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library
William and Kate - With Audio Level 1 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Christine Lindop

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13: 0194632407

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Christine Lindop. Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England. But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?

Christmas in Prague - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Christmas in Prague - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Joyce Hannam

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631486

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Joyce Hannam. In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast – Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he was a young man. He is an old man now, and he would like to see Prague again before he dies. But he is afraid. He still remembers another Christmas in Prague, many long years ago – a Christmas that changed his life for ever . . .

The Elephant Man - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Elephant Man - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631583

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life. This is a true and tragic story. It is also a famous film.

Mary Queen of Scots Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Mary Queen of Scots Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-10

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194787176

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. England and Scotland in the 1500s. Two famous queens – Mary, the Catholic Queen of Scots, and Elizabeth I, the Protestant Queen of England. It was an exciting and a dangerous time to be alive, and to be a queen. Mary was Queen of Scotland when she was one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful, with red-gold hair. Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies – men who said: ‘The death of Mary is the life of Elizabeth.’

Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly

Author: Christine Lindop

Publisher: OXFORD University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780194233071

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When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

Lottery Winner - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
Lottery Winner - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Rosemary Border

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631796

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Rosemary Border. Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away . . .

The Omega Files Short Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Omega Files Short Stories - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 0194631893

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files – the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don’t always find the answers . . .