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Stage 1 (400
headwords)
Stage 4 (1400
headwords)
Stage 2 (700
headwords)
Stage 5 (1800
headwords)
Stage 3 (1000
headwords)
Stage 6 (2500
headwords)
M ore than fifty titles are also available on cassette, and there are many
titles at Stages 1 to 4 which are specially recommended for younger
learners. In addition to the introductions and activities in each
Bookworm, resource material includes photocopiable test worksheets
and Teacher’s Handbooks, which contain advice on running a class
library and using cassettes, and the answers for the activities in the books.
Several other series are linked to the
o x f o r d
b o o k w o r m s
l i b r a r y
.
They
range from highly illustrated readers for young learners, to playscripts,
non-fiction readers, and unsimplified texts for advanced learners.
O xford Bookworms Starters
O xford Bookworms Factfiles
O xford Bookworms Playscripts
Oxford Bookworms Collection
Details of these series and a full list of all titles in the
o x f o r d
b o o k w o r m s
l i b r a r y
can be found in the Oxford English catalogues. A selection of titles
from the
o x f o r d
b o o k w o r m s
l i b r a r y
can be found on the next pages.
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The Year of Sharing
H A R R Y G I L B E R T
Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to
have a motor-car and drive it . . . very fast. But Richard lives in a
future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small
villages and green forests.
And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he
must do his Year of Sharing. He must live alone in the forest with
the wild animals. He must learn to share his world; he must learn
how animals live and eat and fight . . . and die.
B O O K W O R M S • F A N T A S Y & H O R R O R • S T A G E 2
B O O K W O R M S • C R IM E & M Y S T E R Y • S T A G E 2
Death in the Freezer
T IM V I C A R Y
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Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is
six years old when her brother A1 is born. Her parents are very
pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby
A1 comes first.
And when they are adults, A1 still comes first. He begins a rock
band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous - very rich,
but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen. She has a difficult life, with
three young kids and very little money. And she learns to hate her
rich, famous, unkind brother . . .
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Voodoo Island
M I C H A E L D U C K W O R T H
Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new
houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old
graveyard, on the island of Haiti.
There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and
Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man.
But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends
who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to
build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the
sleep of the dead . . .
B O O K W O R M S • F A N T A S Y & H O R R O R • S T A G E 2
B O O K W O R M S • F A N T A S Y & H O R R O R • S T A G E 2
Dracula
B R A M S T O K E R
Retold by Diane Mowat
In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the
home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the
wolves howl around the walls.
In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do
business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable
at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon,
he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because
Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead - a vampire that drinks the
blood of living people . . .
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The Mystery of Allegra
P E T E R F O R E M A N
Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the
little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years
old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die
soon. How does she know?
And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white
nightdress, who has golden hair and big blue eyes. The girl who
comes only at night, and whose hands and face are cold, so
cold . . .
B O O K W O R M S • F A N T A S Y & H O R R O R • S T A G E 2
B O O K W O R M S • F A N T A S Y & H O R R O R • S T A G E 3
The Star Zoo
H A R R Y G I L B E R T
In our world today a hummingbird is a small, brilliantly coloured
bird that lives in the tall trees of tropical forests.
In the far distant future, Hummingbird (Hummy for short) is a
girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet
calk'd Just Like Home. She has the name ‘Hummingbird’ in big
letters on all her clothes, but she has never seen a real
hummingbird. She has never seen any living animal or bird at all.
The Book of Remembering says that there were once many
animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning,
a long, long time ago . . .
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