The Hound of the Baskervilles - With Audio Level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194631699
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Patrick Nobes. Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

Leonardo da Vinci - With Audio Level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Alex Raynham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194632431
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 69

Book Description
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. 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. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river . . .

Future Energy - With Audio Level 3 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Alex Raynham
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194632482
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Alex Raynham. Right now, all over the world, people are using energy. As we drive our cars, work on our computers, or even cook food on a wood fire, we probably do not stop to think about where the energy comes from. But when the gas is gone and there is no more coal - what then? Scientists are finding new answers all the time. Get ready for the children whose running feet make the energy to bring water to their village; for the power station that uses warm and cold water to make energy; for the car that saves energy by growing like a plant . . .

Five Short Plays - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Martyn Ford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194630862
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Martyn Ford. What do you do if you have a boring job in a restaurant, serving fast food to people who have no time to eat? Smile, and do your best? Perhaps it's better to find a place where time doesn't matter so much. What if you dream of travelling to other countries, but your friends just laugh? Do you stay at home with them? Or do you decide to be more adventurous? Perhaps you hear that someone has bought the last bag of salt in town. Do you buy a bag from him at a high price? Or try to make him give you a bag? Our world is full of these kinds of problems. They make life interesting, and sometimes very funny. These five short plays show people trying to decide what to do in unexpected or difficult situations.

John F. Kennedy - With Audio Level 2 Factfiles Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Anne Collins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194632423
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 69

Book Description
A level 2 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. 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 world stopped as terrible news came from Dallas, Texas. . .

Little Lord Fauntleroy - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194630897
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather . . .

Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194787087
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. 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. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears, and someone kills his trainer. The police want the killer, and the owner wants his horse, but they can't find them. So what do they do? They write to 221B Baker Street, of course - to ask for the help of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes.

Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Judith Dean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194631370
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Judith Dean. 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. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

The Kiss: Love Stories from North America Level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Jennifer Bassett
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194630277
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 85

Book Description
A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Love stories with a difference . . . There's a kiss by a fireside that was a mistake, there's a man-hating aunt by the seaside, and a gunman in Texas wanting a fight. There's a white heron flying over a forest, and a messenger running between two benches in a park. And of course, there's a girl who meets a boy . . .These love stories are by US writers Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, and Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (author of the famous Anne of Green Gables).

The Coldest Place on Earth - With Audio Level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library

Author: Tim Vicary
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0194631494
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. This version includes an audio book: listen to the story as you read. Written for Learners of English by Tim Vicary. In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. Some of the travellers never returned home. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of their famous and dangerous race.