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Death in the Freezer

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. Ellen Shore’s family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al 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...

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Oceans

Barnaby Newbolt

Oceans

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Barnaby Newbolt. Thousands of years ago, people looked out across an ocean and asked themselves, 'What is on the other side?' And the bravest of them began to travel and find the answers – beautiful islands, frozen lands, different peoples …And there are still interesting questions about the oceans. How do they change our weather? Why does the water go up and down twice a day? Why do most animals and plants...

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Barnaby Newbolt

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

Артур Конан Дойл

Sherlock Holmes Short Stories

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening – and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street – visitors who bring their troubles to the...

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Артур Конан Дойл

Henry VIII and his Six Wives

Janet Hardy-Gould

Henry VIII and his Six Wives

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould. There were six of them – three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King’s wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King’s death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters – one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened...

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Janet Hardy-Gould

Grace Darling

Grace Darling

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help – only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the iron ship? Were a...

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Leonardo da Vinci

Alex Raynham

Leonardo da Vinci

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas....

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Alex Raynham

The Year of Sharing

Harry Gilbert

The Year of Sharing

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Harry Gilbert. 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...

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Harry Gilbert

Stories from the Five Towns

Bennett Arnold

Stories from the Five Towns

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Nick Bullard. Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then...

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Bennett Arnold

Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stor...

Эдгар По

Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting…In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe,...

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Эдгар По

Huckleberry Finn

Марк Твен

Huckleberry Finn

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim…

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Марк Твен

The Children of the New Forest

Captain Marryat

The Children of the New Forest

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Rowena Akinyemi. England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house – with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest – but how will they...

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Captain Marryat

Dead Man's Island

Dead Man's Island

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. Mr Ross lives on an island where no visitors come. He stops people from taking photographs of him. He is young and rich, but he looks sad. And there is one room in his house which is always locked. Carol Sanders and her mother come to the island to work for Mr Ross. Carol soon decides that there is something very strange about Mr Ross. Where did he get his money from? How can a young man buy an...

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Ear-rings from Frankfurt

Reg Wright

Ear-rings from Frankfurt

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Reg Wright. Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer – again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive gold ear-rings? Only Richard can answer...

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Reg Wright

The Mystery of Allegra

Peter Foreman

The Mystery of Allegra

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Written for Learners of English by Peter Foreman. 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...

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Peter Foreman

One Thousand Dollars and Other Play...

One Thousand Dollars and Other Plays

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by John Escott. Money or love? Which is more important in life? Can money buy anything? Can it help a young man to marry the girl he loves? Does money really make people happy, or does it just cause problems? These four plays about money, love, and life are adapted from short stories written a hundred years ago by the great American storyteller O. Henry. Henry had his own difficulties with money and loneliness,...

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John F. Kennedy

Anne Collins

John F. Kennedy

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Anne Collins. Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.' More than fifty years ago, the new US President, John F. Kennedy, spoke these words. Millions of Americans listened, and they were filled with hope. With Kennedy as president, surely there was a great future ahead for their country. But Kennedy would not finish his four years as president. In November 1963, the...

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Anne Collins

Love among the Haystacks

D. H. Lawrence

Love among the Haystacks

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things – about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness. From the hedges...

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D. H. Lawrence

The Love of a King

Peter Dainty

The Love of a King

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Peter Dainty. All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him – but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, or to...

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Peter Dainty

New Yorkers

New Yorkers

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Diane Mowat. A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories – sensitive, funny,...

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Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

Agatha Christie, Woman of Mystery

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A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by John Escott. What does the name ‘Agatha Christie’ mean? To many people, it means a book about a murder mystery – a ‘whodunnit’. ‘I’m reading an Agatha Christie,’ people say. ‘I’m not sure who the murderer is – I think it’s…’ But they are usually wrong, because it is not easy to guess the murderer’s name before the end of the book. But who was Agatha Christie? What was she like? Was her life quiet and...

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