One winter`s day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor...
Oxford Bookworms Library 5: Ghost Stories
After dinner we turned the lights out and played \`hide-and-seek\`. In the dark, I touched a hand, a very cold hand. Now, because of the game, I had to hide in the dark with ...with this cold person - not speaking,...
Oxford Bookworms Library 1: Munity on the Bounty
Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world`s best graded readers - now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition...
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories. Stage 2 (700 headwords) + CD. Conan Doyle A
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Stage 1 (400 headwords)
Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures....
Who, Sir? Me, Sir?. K. M. Peytou
Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team that he has chosen...
