Editor’s Choice
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Oxford Bookworms Library
STAGE 3
1,000 Headwords • CEFR B1 • Average story length: 56 pages
Average word count: 10,000 • Cambridge English: Preliminary (PET)
IELTS 3.5 – 4.5 • TOEIC 550 – 780 • TOEFL 57 – 86
ANIMAL KINGDOM
Rachel Bladon
Word count 7,825
ISBN (CD PACK) 9780194236669
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
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!
FRANKENSTEIN
Mary Shelley
Retold by Patrick Nobes
Word count 9,685
ISBN 9780194610360
You’re fast asleep, and nothing
is happening. Or is it? In fact,
your body is hard at work. Your
lungs are taking oxygen from the
air, and your heart is pumping
blood round your body. Millions
of pieces of information are
travelling backwards and forwards
to your brain all the time.
THE HUMAN BODY
Alex Raynham
Word count 10,489
ISBN 9780194610193
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
‘When we are happy,
we are always good,’ says
Lord Henry, ‘but when we are good,
we are not always happy.’ Lord
Henry’s lazy, clever words lead the
young Dorian Gray into a world
where it is better to be beautiful than
to be good.
THE PICTURE OF
DORIAN GRAY
Oscar Wilde
Retold by Jill Nevile
Word count 10,245
ISBN 9780194610629
There are broken hearts and kisses
and then weddings, so this is a story
about love. There are actors who are
funny because they cannot act, so it is
also a story that makes people laugh.
And there are fairies, spirits of the
night, so it is a story about mischief
and magic too.
A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM
William Shakespeare
Word count 11,167
ISBN 9780194610421
Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered,
disagreeable child. When her parents
die in India, she is sent back to
England to live with her uncle in a big,
lonely, old house.There is nothing to
do all day except walk in the gardens
– and watch the robin flying over the
high walls of the secret garden.
THE SECRET GARDEN
SKYJACK!
Tim Vicary
Word count 8,685
ISBN 9780194610520
TALES OF MYSTERY
AND IMAGINATION
Edgar Allan Poe
Retold by Margaret Naudi
Word count 11,960
ISBN 9780194610537
American English
CHEMICAL SECRET
Tim Vicary
Word count 10,150
ISBN 9780194610254
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.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Charles Dickens
Retold by Clare West
Word count 10,385
ISBN 9780194610261
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.
CLASSICS
FANTASY & HORROR
FANTASY & HORROR
FANTASY & HORROR
HUMAN INTEREST
AS THE INSPECTOR SAID
AND OTHER STORIES
Retold by John Escott
Word count 9,600
ISBN (CD PACK) 9780194792929
AUSTRALIA AND
NEW ZEALAND
Christine Lindop
Word count 10,270
ISBN (CD PACK) 9780194235914
FACTFILES (NON-FICTION)
THE BRONTË STORY
Tim Vicary
Word count 10,600
ISBN 9780194791090
TRUE STORIES
THE CALL OF THE WILD
Jack London
Retold by Nick Bullard
Word count 10,965
ISBN (CD PACK) 9780194792936
CD American English
THE CARD
Arnold Bennett
Retold by Nick Bullard
Word count 11,100
ISBN 9780194791113
HUMAN INTEREST
THE CROWN OF VIOLET
Geoffrey Trease
Retold by John Escott
Word count 10,800
ISBN 9780194791144
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Retold by Clare West
Word count 10,715
ISBN 9780194610643
When a large plane is hijacked,
the Prime Minister looks at the list of
passengers and suddenly becomes
very, very frightened.
There is a name on the list that the Prime
Minister knows very well – too well.
There is someone on that plane who will
soon be dead – if the hijackers can find
out who he is!
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?
From the smallest fly to the biggest
elephant, and from fish living at the bottom
of the ocean to birds that fly several
kilometres above land: this is the animal
kingdom, the biggest group of living things
in the world.
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CLASSICS
CLASSICS
CRIME & MYSTERY
THRILLER & ADVENTURE
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