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Dominoes
Editor’s Choice
LEVEL 1
400 Headwords • CEFR A1 – A2 • Story length: 27 pages
Average word count: 5,000 • Cambridge English: Movers • Cambridge English: Flyers
Cambridge English: Key (KET) • IELTS 1.0 – 3.0 •TOEIC 120 – 545 • TOELF 8 – 56
FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Shelley
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 5,915
ISBN 9780194249614
British English
MYSTERY & HORROR
‘Are you scared, Gordon?’ asks
Heather.
Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel
in Scotland. That night Gordon
sees and hears something strange
in his room. But is it really the ghost
of Lord McCoy?
THE REAL MCCOY
& OTHER GHOST STORIES
Lesley Thompson
Word count 5,803
ISBN 9780194610100
British English
‘He’s an intelligent man. He was
once rich and is now poor. His
wife loved him once, but she
doesn’t love him now. And he’s
thirty or forty years old.’
One look at an old hat, and
Sherlock Holmes can tell you
a lot about its owner.
SHERLOCK HOLMES:
THE BLUE DIAMOND
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 5,389
ISBN 9780194610124
British English
MYSTERY & HORROR
When a young man dies on
a London Underground line,
top-secret plans for a new British
submarine go missing. But who
is Cadogan’s killer?.
SHERLOCK HOLMES:
THE TOP-SECRET PLANS
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Jeremy Page
Word count 5,670
ISBN 9780194610155
British English
A man from the British royal family
leaves an expensive gold and
emerald crown at Holder and
Stevenson’s – one of the best banks in
London. When someone tries to take
the crown from Mr Holder’s desk, he
asks Sherlock Holmes for help.
Who wants the crown and why?
Only Sherlock can find the answers.
SHERLOCK HOLMES:
THE EMERALD CROWN
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 6,064
ISBN 9780194610131
British English
‘There’s going to be a storm,’ Father
told Fritz. ‘Find your brothers and
bring them to our room.’
A Swiss family are going to
Australia when their ship sinks in
a storm. After that, Mother, Father,
Fritz, Hans, Ernst, and little Franz
must make their home on
a Pacific Island.
THE SWISS FAMILY
ROBINSON
Johann David Wyss
Text adaptation by Alex Raynham
Word count 2,847
ISBN 9780194610162
British English
DEEP TROUBLE
Lesley Thompson
Word count 5,236
ISBN 9780194247252
American English
FIVE CANTERBURY TALES
Geoffrey Chaucer
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 5,203
ISBN 9780194247221
British English
THE CURSE OF
THE MUMMY
Joyce Hannam
Word count 6,339
ISBN 9780194610179
British English
For thousands of years the dead
body of the young king Tutankhamun
sleeps under the sands of Egypt.
Then, in the autumn of 1922,
Howard Carter and his friends find
and open his tomb door. These are
exciting times, and Carter’s young
helper Tariq tells the story in his diary.
But soon people begin to die.
MYSTERY & HORROR
JOURNEY TO THE WEST
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 6,254
ISBN 9780194610049
British English
‘Tripitaka, can you go to the west
for me – and for Buddha?’
When the holy woman Guanyin
asks the young Chinese monk
Tripitaka to bring some holy
writings back from India, he says
‘yes’. But how can he travel across
rivers, and fight terrible monsters
and demons, on his long journey?
FROM THE HEART
Alan C. McLean
Word count 5,202
ISBN 9780194247276
British English
FROM THE EARTH
TO THE MOON
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 5,894
ISBN 9780194245548
British English
It is 1865. Impey Barbicane and
J.T. Maston are very good with guns
and explosives, and want to do
something important – so they decide
to build a big gun and use it to go
to the Moon. But no-one has gone to
the Moon before, and many people,
like the great Captain Nicholl,
believe that it cannot be done.
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