Editor’s Choice
STAGE 1
400 Headwords • CEFR A1 – A2 • Average story length: 40 pages
Average word count: 5,200 • Cambridge English: Movers • Cambridge English: Flyers
Cambridge English: Key (KET) • IELTS 1.0 – 3.0 •TOEIC 120 – 545 • TOEFL 8 – 56
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND
THE SPORT OF KINGS
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
Word count 5,925
ISBN 9780194610490
CRIME & MYSTERY
Twenty-five million people come to
England every year, and some never
go out of London. But England is
full of interesting places to visit and
things to do. There are big noisy
cities with great shops and theatres,
and quiet little villages.
ENGLAND
John Escott
Word count 4,640
ISBN 9780194610209
Hollywood – nine big white letters
against the Hollywood Hills. Every
year millions of people come from
all over the world and look up at this
famous sign. Why do they come?
HOLLYWOOD
Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 5,686
ISBN 9780194610216
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
Come with us to London – a city
as old as the Romans, and as new
as the twenty-first century. There are
many places to go – from Oxford
Street to Westminster Abbey, from
Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to
Wimbledon Tennis Club. Big,
beautiful, noisy, exciting – thats
London.
LONDON
John Escott
Word count 4,800
ISBN 9780194610681
France, 1815. Jean Valjean leaves
prison after nineteen years. These are
dangerous and troubled times, and
life is hard. Valjean must begin a new
life, but how can he escape his past,
and his enemy, Inspector Javert?
LES MISÉRABLES
Retold by
Jennifer Bassett
Word count 7,302
ISBN 9780194610414
It is 1880, in the Opera House in
Paris. Everybody is talking about
the Phantom of the Opera, the
ghost that lives somewhere under
the Opera House. The Phantom
is a man in black clothes. He is a
body without a head, he is a head
without a body.
THE PHANTOM
OF THE OPERA
47 RONIN: A SAMURAI
STORY FROM JAPAN
Jennifer Bassett
Word count 6,079
ISBN 9780194610247
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND
THE DUKE’S SON
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by Jennifer Bassett
Word count 5,800
ISBN 9780194610483
THE ADVENTURES OF
TOM SAWYER
Mark Twain
Retold by Nick Bullard
Word count 5,825
ISBN 9780194610544
Audio American English
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. One night, he
and his friend Huck Finn go to the
graveyard to look for ghosts.
CLASSICS
THE ELEPHANT MAN
Tim Vicary
Word count 5,400
ISBN 9780194610575
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.
ALADDIN AND THE
ENCHANTED LAMP
Retold by Judith Dean
Word count 5,240
ISBN (CD PACK) 9780194788694
SHERLOCK HOLMES:
TWO PLAYS
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Retold by John Escott
Word count 5,795
ISBN 9780194610513
Sherlock Holmes is the greatest
detective the world has ever seen,
and he knows it. As the famous
bank-robber, John Clay, says to him,
‘You think of everything, Mr Holmes.
You’re very clever.’ People come to
him with problems that no one, not
even the police, can solve.
TRUE STORIES
CRIME & MYSTERY
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
STORY COLLECTIONS
HUMAN INTEREST
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
FANTASY & HORROR
TRUE STORIES
FANTASY & HORROR
Oxford Bookworms Library
2013
Jennifer Bassett
Word count 6,230
ISBN 9780194610612
2004
Dr Huxtable has a school for boys
in the north of England. When the
Duke of Holdernesse decides to
send his young son there, that is
good news for the school. The Duke
is a very important person, and Dr
Huxtable is happy to have his son
in the school.
When Lord Asano drew his sword on
Lord Kira one spring day in 1701, it
began a story that is now a national
legend in Japan. Lord Kira lived, but
Lord Asano died, and after his death,
his samurai became ronin, samurai
without a master. And so began their
long plan for revenge on Kira.
Horseracing is the sport of kings,
perhaps because racehorses are
very expensive animals. But when
they win, they can make a lot
of money for the owners, for the
trainers, and for the people who
put bets on them.
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FACTFILES
In a city in Arabia there lives a boy
called Aladdin. He is poor and often
hungry, but one day he finds an
old lamp. When he rubs the lamp,
smoke comes out of it, and then
out of the smoke comes a magical
jinnee.
With the jinnee’s help, Aladdin is
soon rich, with gold and jewels and
many fine things.
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