READERS NB1

1st FOUR-MONTH PERIOD

Choose one:

The Little Match Girl, text adaptation by Bill Bowler. World Literature. Oxford Dominoes. Starter.

A small girl makes her living selling matches on the streets of New York. It's winter, and the hustling crowds at best ignore her, and some are outright rude. She takes shelter and, to try to stave off the cold a bit, lights a match. It gets blown out; this happens again, then on the third try, she falls into a dream. In this dream, cherubs attend her, she gets a new doll, then a new dress. The cherubs put her on a throne. Then a storm comes, and she goes toward a candle. That candle goes out, and we see that back in the real world, so did her match and her life. An angel comes along and takes her soul. Written by Jon Reeves

Changing Places, Alan Hines. Human Interest. Oxford Dominoes. Starter

 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. But when they meet, and agree to change places, interesting things start to happen. And, by changing places, the two men learn what is truly important in their lives.

Mystery in London, Helen Brooke. Crime and Mystery. Oxford Bookworms. Starter 

 

Six women are dead because of the Whitechapel Killer. Now another woman lies in a London street and there is blood everywhere. She is very ill. You ...

The White Stones, Lester Vaughan. Thriller and Adventure. Oxford Bookworms. Starter 

 'The people on this island don't like archaeologists,' the woman on the ferry says. You only want to study the 4,500 year-old Irish megalithic stones but very soon strange things begin to happen to you. Can you solve the mystery in time?