Through the Looking-Glass - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Through the Looking-Glass - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194632180

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. 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. The chess pieces talk and argue with her, give orders and repeat poems . . . It is the strangest dream that anyone ever had . . .

A Christmas Carol - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
A Christmas Carol - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Charles Dickens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194631478

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. 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 travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget....

Chemical Secret - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Chemical Secret - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 0194631451

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A level 3 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. The job was too good. There had to be a problem – and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn’t say no; he couldn’t afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn’t see the real poison – until it was too late.

Frankenstein - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Frankenstein - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Mary Shelley

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194631621

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Patrick Nobes. Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new ‘man’. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him – even Frankenstein himself! The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and soon he learns to hate. And, because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill . . .

The Mysterious Death of Charles Bravo - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Mysterious Death of Charles Bravo - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0194631028

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A level 3 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. Charles Bravo died from the poison antimony. He took three days to die, and the doctors could do nothing to help him. There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead - Florence Bravo herself, Charles Bravo's new young wife; Dr James Gully, Florence's former lover; and Mrs Jane Cox, Florence's friend and companion. But the enquiry into the death in 1876 could not decide who the murderer was, and for more than 130 years people have wondered who did kill Charles Bravo . . .

Ethan Frome - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Ethan Frome - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Edith Wharton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-22

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194631591

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Susan Kingsley. 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 . . .

Tales of Mystery and Imagination - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Tales of Mystery and Imagination - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Edgar Allan Poe

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194632148

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Margaret Naudi. The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round? These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind . . .

Future Energy - With Audio Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library
Future Energy - With Audio Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Alex Raynham

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2015-03-05

Total Pages: 85

ISBN-13: 0194632482

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. Right now, all over the world, people are using energy. As we drive our cars, work on our computers, or even cook food on a wood fire, we probably do not stop to think about where the energy comes from. But when the gas is gone and there is no more coal - what then? Scientists are finding new answers all the time. Get ready for the children whose running feet make the energy to bring water to their village; for the power station that uses warm and cold water to make energy; for the car that saves energy by growing like a plant . . .

Kidnapped - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
Kidnapped - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194631737

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. ‘I ran to the side of the ship. “Help, help! Murder!” I screamed, and my uncle slowly turned to look at me. I did not see any more. Already strong hands were pulling me away. Then something hit my head; I saw a great flash of fire, and fell to the ground . . .’ And so begin David Balfour’s adventures. He is kidnapped, taken to sea, and meets many dangers. He also meets a friend, Alan Breck. But Alan is in danger himself, on the run from the English army across the wild Highlands of Scotland . . .

The Railway Children - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library
The Railway Children - With Audio Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Edith Nesbit

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-09-30

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 0194631990

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A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. 'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.' And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line. But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?