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Dominoes
STARTER
Keawe buys a magic bottle that
can give him anything he wants.
He builds a beautiful house, falls in
love with and marries Kokua, and
is very happy. But if you have the
bottle and die, you go to hell...
THE BOTTLE IMP
Robert Louis Stevenson
Text adaptation by Rachel Bladon
Word count 3,496
ISBN 9780194245500
American English
TRUE TALES
MYSTERY & HORROR
300 Headwords • CEFR A1
Average word count: 2,250 • Story length: 27 pages • Cambridge English: Starters
Cambridge English: Movers • IELTS 1.0 – 2.0 • TOEIC 120 – 215 • TOEFL 8 – 23
Can Lidenbrock and Axel – and their
Icelandic guide, Hans – find the
centre of the Earth? And can they
all get home alive after their many
underground adventures?
JOURNEY TO THE
CENTRE OF THE EARTH
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Merinda Wilson
Word count 2,674
ISBN 9780194610032
British English
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
One cold winter morning, a famous
movie star and her teenage daughter
are driving along a country road .
. . A blue van is waiting for them.
Tom is in the van, but he’s not a
kidnapper – he’s an artist.
KIDNAP!
John Escott
Word count 1,933
ISBN 9780194610056
American English
MYSTERY & HORROR
When the Emperor calls every man
to join the army and fight the enemy,
Mulan’s father is old and ill, and
cannot go. Wearing men’s clothes
and riding a horse, Mulan leaves
her family and fights bravely for the
Emperor in her father’s place.
MULAN
Retold by Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 1,917
ISBN 9780194610094
American English
TRUE TALES
‘My friend Queequeg and I are
looking for whaling work,’ Ishmael
says. Ishmael is a sailor from New
York. With Queequeg the harpooner,
he takes work on Captain Ahab’s
whaling-ship, the Pequod. The ship’s
first mate, Starbuck, wants to hunt
whales for their oil.
MOBY-DICK
Herman Melville
Text adaptation by Lesley Thompson
Word count 3,650
ISBN 9780194610087
American English
WORLD LITERATURE
In the first story, Rip Van Winkle
sleeps for over twenty years, and
then wakes up to a world that he
no longer understands. In the other
story, Ichabod Crane, the school
teacher, meets a headless rider in
the middle of a dark night.
RIP VAN WINKLE & THE
LEGENDOF SLEEPYHOLLOW
Washington Irving
Text adaptation by Alan Hines
Word count 2,000
ISBN 9780194610117
American English
STORY COLLECTIONS
THE BIG STORY
John Escott
Word count 2,176
ISBN 9780194246743
British English *
MYSTERY & HORROR
BLACKBEARD
Retold by John Escott
Word count 2,210
ISBN 9780194246781
British English
THE GREAT FIRE
OF LONDON
Janet Hardy-Gould
Word count 1,901
ISBN 9780194610223
British English
TRUE TALES
THE HAPPY PRINCE
Oscar Wilde adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 3,137
ISBN 9780194246767
British English
WORLD LITERATURE
HEIDI
Johanna Spyri
Text adaptation by Paul Davenport
Word count 3,716
ISBN 9780194249119
British English
WORLD LITERATURE
AROUND THE WORLD
IN EIGHTY DAYS
Jules Verne
Text adaptation by Bill Bowler
Word count 1,918
ISBN 9780194610001
British English
Phileas Fogg must get back to
London by December 21st or lose
all his money. With the help of his
servant, Passepartout, Fogg travels
in many ways – from train to
elephant – and he has some
surprising adventures on the way.
TV & FILM ADVENTURE
CHANGING PLACES
Alan Hines
Word count 1,590
ISBN 9780194610025
American English
Hal works at the zoo every day and
his life isn’t exciting – until he meets
Tim. Tim is a movie star. He has a
difficult life, and he is unhappy – until
he meets Hal.
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