Адаптированные аудиокниги - Oxford Bookworm Library, Уровни 1-6 [PDF+MP3]

Название: Ghost in Love
Автор: Michael Dean
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-423513-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a nineteen-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling round the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in the small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears . . .

Название:A Song for Ben
Автор: Slater Sandra
Год выпуска: 1988
ISBN: 9780194219020
Формат: PDF
Описание: Katie Brown, an American rock singer, visits London, where she makes friends with eight-year-old Ben. One day, while Katie is teaching him her latest song, Ben is snatched from under her eyes by kednappers. Katie sees the didnappers again on her way to the TV studios, and her song for Ben becomes the means to save his life.

Название: Drive into Danger
Автор: Rosemary Border
Год выпуска: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-423420-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'I can drive a truck,' says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim's passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous.

Название: Eyes
Автор: Rob Sved
Год выпуска: 2012
ISBN: 9780194646291
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about eyes. Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities...

Название: Goodbye, MR Hollywood
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0194789059
Формат: PDF
Описание: Nick Lortz is sitting outside a cafe in Whistler when a stranger comes and sits next to him. She's young, pretty, and has a beautiful smile. Nick is happy to sit and talk with her. But why does she call Nick 'Mr Hollywood' and give him a big kiss when she leaves? Nick learns the answers three days later, in a police station on Vancouver Island.

Название: London
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 1996
ISBN: 0194228010
Формат: PDF
Описание: Factfiles are a sub-series of Bookworms with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students who are less interested in fiction. Each book focuses on a particular topic such as famous cities, sport, science, the environment and the media.

Название:Love or Money
Автор: Jennifer Bassett
Год выпуска: 2013
Формат: PDF
Описание: It is Molly Clarkson’s fiftieth birthday. She is having a party. She is rich, but she is having a small party – only four people. Four people, however, who all need the same thing: they need her money. She will not give them the money, so they are waiting for her to die. And there are other people who are also waiting for her to die.
But one person can’t wait. And so, on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

Название: One-Way Ticket - Short Stories
Автор: Jennifer Bassett
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0194789141
Формат: PDF
Описание: Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life. This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here

Название: Schools
Автор: Richard Northcott
Год выпуска: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-464627-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about schools. Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project

Название: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Автор: Mark Twain
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-478900-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts.

Название: The Coldest Place on Earth
Автор: Tim Vicary
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0194789035
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 to their homes again. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.

Название: The Elephant Man
Автор: Tim Vicary
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-478904-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. People laugh at him, and call him 'The Elephant Man'.
Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27, Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.

Название: The Locked Room
Автор: Peter Viney
Год выпуска: 19996
ISBN: 9780194219303
Формат: PDF
Описание: This reader is one in a series of redesigned new editions of the most popular titles in the "Streamline Graded Readers" series, which contain a new design and new colour artwork. These original stories, designed for beginner to intermediate levels, have a contemporary feel that should appeal to teenagers and young adults. Readers can choose from mystery and intrigue, humour, science fiction and ghost stories. Each story is graded, supported by colour illustrations, and short enough to be read easily and fluently. Accompanying worksheets can be used for checking understanding and testing, as well as for a range of class activities to develop language and reading skills. All titles are available on cassette.

Название: The Phantom of the Opera
Автор: Tricia Hedge
Год выпуска: 2000
ISBN: 9780194229517
Формат: PDF
Описание: The Oxford Bookworms Library extends the range of activities and teaching support of Oxford Bookworms and includes in each book an Activities section of Before Reading, While Reading and After Reading exercises. The six stages offer stories at different levels of ability.

Название: The Watchers
Автор:
Год выпуска: 1996
ISBN: 9780194219327
Формат: PDF
Описание: This reader is one in a series of redesigned new editions of the most popular titles in the "Streamline Graded Readers" series, which contain a new design and new colour artwork. These original stories, designed for beginner to intermediate levels, have a contemporary feel that should appeal to teenagers and young adults. Readers can choose from mystery and intrigue, humour, science fiction and ghost stories. Each story is graded, supported by colour illustrations, and short enough to be read easily and fluently. Accompanying worksheets can be used for checking understanding and testing, as well as for a range of class activities to develop language and reading skills. All titles are available on cassette.

Название: The Wizard of Oz
Автор: L. F. Baum
Год выпуска: 2000
ISBN: 9780194229586
Формат: PDF
Описание: Dorothy lives in Kansas, USA, but one day a cyclone blows her and her house to a strange country called Oz. There, Dorothy makes friends with the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But she wants to go home to Kansas. Only one person can help her, and that is the country's famous Wizard. So Dorothy and her friends take the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, to find the Wizard of Oz...

Название: Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp
Автор: Judith Dean
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-478869-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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?

Название: Sherlock Holmes and the Sport of Kings
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-478920-2
Формат: DJVU
Описание: The Bookworms series offers six graded stages provide more than 130 stories at different levels of ability. The lower levels feature a wide choice of original stories, while the higher levels feature adaptations of well-known works originally published for native speakers. There are titles to suit all tastes: fantasy and horror; thriller and adventure; classics; true stories; crime and mystery; human interest.

Название:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Автор: Lewis Carroll
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479013-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?'
What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea party, plays croquet with the King and Queen of Hearts . . .

Название:Anne of Green Gables
Автор: L.M. Montgomery
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479011-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks.
They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada.

Название:Dead Man's Island
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479055-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 island? So she watches, and she listens - and one night she learns what is behind the locked door.

Название:Death in the Freezer
Автор: Tim Vicary
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479018-5
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 difficult life, with three young kids and very little money. And she learns to hate her rich, famous, unkind brother...

Название:Ear-Rings from Frankfurt
Автор: Reg Wright
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479059-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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?

Название:Earth
Автор: Richard Northcott
Год выпуска: 2012
ISBN: 9780194646796
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about Earth How old are Earth's mountains? What is under the land? Read and discover more about the world! This series of non-fiction readers provides interesting and educational content, with activities and project work.

Название:Five Children and It
Автор: Edith Nesbit
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479060-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old.
It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said.
But wishes are difficult things. They can get you into trouble . . .

Название:New Yorkers Short Stories
Автор: O. Henry
Год выпуска: 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-479067-3
Формат: PDF
Описание: A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this 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, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.

Название:Robinson Crusoe
Автор: Daniel Defoe
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479070-3
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!'
In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a friend - or an enemy?

Название:Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-479071-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 only man in the world who can help them.

Название:Sherlock Holmes The Case of the Blue Diamond
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-424759-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'He's an intelligent man. He was once rich and is now poor. His wife loved him once, but she doesn't love him now. And he's thirty or forty years old.'
One look at an old hat, and Sherlock Holmes can tell you a lot about its owner. He sees - and thinks - a lot more than the people around him, and when a beautiful blue diamond disappears, Sherlock is the only man in London who can find it.

Название:The Death of Karen Silkwood
Автор: Joyce Hannam
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479057-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death.
Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn't she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but there are no answers.
This is a true story. It happened in Oklahoma, USA, where Karen Silkwood lived and worked . . . and died.

Название:The Eyes of Montezuma
Автор: Stephen Rabley
Год выпуска: 1996
ISBN: 9780194219358
Формат: PDF
Описание: This reader is one in a series of redesigned new editions of the most popular titles in the "Streamline Graded Readers" series, which contain a new design and new colour artwork. These original stories, designed for beginner to intermediate levels, have a contemporary feel that should appeal to teenagers and young adults. Readers can choose from mystery and intrigue, humour, science fiction and ghost stories. Each story is graded, supported by colour illustrations, and short enough to be read easily and fluently. Accompanying worksheets can be used for checking understanding and testing, as well as for a range of class activities to develop language and reading skills. All titles are available on cassette.

Название:The Jungle Book
Автор: Rudyard Kipling
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479064-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf-Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man-eating tiger, is his enemy.
Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years.

Название:The Piano
Автор: Rosemary Border
Год выпуска: 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-479068-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish,' he says.
In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play. He closes his eyes and the music comes to him - and the music moves his fingers.
When he opens his eyes again, he knows that his life is changed for ever...

Название:Voodoo Island
Автор: Michael Duckworth
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479075-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 . . .

Название:Agata Christie Woman of Mystery
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479050-5
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 unexciting, or was it full of interest and adventure? Was there a mystery in her life, too?

Название:Forty Years of Pop
Автор: Steve Flinders
Год выпуска: 2002
ISBN: 978-0194226639
Формат: PDF
Описание: Popular music - from Elvis to the present day.
In 1956, a young man called Elvis Presley made a record that changed the history of music. Where he started, others followed: Bob Dylan and The Beatles, Madonna and Nirvana. This book looks at the way pop music has changed and grown over the last forty years.

Название:Sunny and Rainy
Автор: Hazel Geatches
Год выпуска: 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-464680-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: New non-fiction graded readers for primary – 8-year-olds and up. Cross-curricular topics and colour photos make learning English through other subjects exciting. Two new levels for younger or lower-level students.

Название:A Christmas Carol
Автор: Charles Dickens
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-479113-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money.
But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson that he will never forget.

Название:Frankenstein
Автор: Mary Shelley
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0199537150
Формат: PDF
Описание: Shelley's enduringly popular and rich gothic tale, Frankenstein, confronts some of the most feared innovations of evolutionism and science--topics such as degeneracy, hereditary disease, and humankind's ability to act as creator of the modern world. This new edition, based on the harder and wittier 1818 version of the text, draws on new research and examines the novel in the context of the controversial radical sciences developing in the years following the Napoleonic Wars. In addition it shows the relationship of Frankenstein's experiment to the contemporary debate between champions of materialistic science and proponents of received religion.

Название:Free Time around the World
Автор: Julie Penn
Год выпуска: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-464378-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about favorite free-time activities around the world... Where is dog sledding popular? What is beach cricket?

Название:How We Make Products
Автор: Alex Raynham
Год выпуска: 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-464383-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about how we make different products ... How many parts are there in a car? How do we make chocolate bars?

Название:Love Story
Автор: Erich Segal
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479122-9
Формат: PDF
Описание: This is a love story you won't forget. Oliver Barrett meets Jenny Cavilleri. He plays sports, she plays music. He's rich, and she's poor. They argue, and they fight, and they fall in love.
So they get married, and make a home together. They work hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they learn that they don't have much time left.

Название:Skyjack
Автор: Tim Vicary
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479130-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened.
There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is!
And there isn't much time. One man lies dead on the runway. In a few minutes the hijackers will use their guns again. And the Prime Minister knows who they are going to kill.

Название:Super Structures
Автор: Fiona Undrill
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464381-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about super structures around the world... What are dams made of? How tall can a skyscraper be?

Название:Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Автор: Edgar Allan Poe
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479132-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and sometimes it works in strange and frightening ways. That sound in the night . . . is it a door banging in the wind, or a murdered man knocking inside his coffin? The face in the mirror . . . is it yours, or the face of someone standing behind you, who is never there when you turn round?
These famous short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind . . .

Название:The Call of the Wild
Автор: Jack London
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479110-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines.
Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how to work in harness, how to stay alive in the ice and the snow . . . and how to fight. Because when a dog falls down in a fight, he never gets up again.

Название:The Picture of Dorian Gray
Автор: Oscar Wilde
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479126-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'When we are happy, we are always good,' says Lord Henry, 'but when we are good, we are not always happy.'
Lord Henry's lazy, clever words lead the young Dorian Gray into a world where it is better to be beautiful than to be good; a world where anything can be forgiven - even murder - if it can make people laugh at a dinner party.

Название:The Railway Children
Автор: Edith Nesbit
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479128-1
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'We have to leave our house in London,' Mother said to the children. 'We're going to live in the country, in a little house near a railway line.'
And so begins a new life for Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis. They become the railway children - they know all the trains, Perks the station porter is their best friend, and they have many adventures on the railway line.
But why has their father had to go away? Where is he, and will he ever come back?

Название:The Secret Garden
Автор: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479129-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.
There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.

Название:The Star Zoo
Автор: Harry Gilbert
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479131-1
Формат: PDF
Описание: 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 called 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 . . .

Название:Wonderful Water
Автор: Cheryl Palin
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464376-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about wonderful water... Why is water important? What is the biggest ocean animal?

Название:Chemical Secret
Автор: Tim Vicary
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479112-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was.
John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it.
They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that he couldn't see the real poison - until it was too late.

Название:Ethan Frome
Автор: Edith Wharton
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479115-1
Формат: DJVU
Описание: Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health.
Then Mattie Silver, a young cousin, comes to live with the Fromes, to help Zeena and do the housework. Her bright smile and laughing voice bring light and hope into the Fromes' house - and into Ethan's lonely life.

Название:The Secret Garden
Автор: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479129-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: Little Mary Lennox is a bad-tempered, disagreeable child. When her parents die in India, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle in a big, lonely, old house.
There is nothing to do all day except walk in the gardens - and watch the robin flying over the high walls of the secret garden . . . which has been locked for ten years. And no one has the key.

Название:The USA
Автор: Alison Baxter
Год выпуска:
ISBN: 978-0-19-423391-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: Everybody knows about the United States of America. You can see its films, hear its music, and eat its food just about everywhere in the world. Cowboys, jazz, hamburgers, the Stars and Stripes - that's the United States.
But it's a country with many stories to tell. Stories of busy cities, and quiet, beautiful forests and parks. Stories of a country that fought against Britain, and then against itself, to make the United States of today. Stories of rich and poor, black and white, Native American and immigrant. And the story of what it is really like to be an American today . . .

Название:Your Five Senses
Автор: Robert Quinn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464377-1
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about your five wonderful senses... How do your eyes work? What's under your skin?

Название:A Tale of Two Cities
Автор: Charles Dickens
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-479187-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'The Marquis lay there, like stone, with a knife pushed into his heart. On his chest lay a piece of paper, with the words: Drive him fast to the grave. This is from JACQUES.'
The French Revolution brings terror and death to many people. But even in these troubled times people can still love and be kind. They can be generous and true-hearted . . . and brave.

Название:All about Ocean Life
Автор: Rachel Bladon
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464479-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.
Listen and read to discover all about life in and near the oceans... Which tree can live in salt water? How do whales breathe?

Название:Animals at Night
Автор: Rachel Bladon
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464446-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about amazing animals at night ... Why do some animals come out at night? What special senses do nocturnal animals have?

Название:Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Автор: Robert Louis Stevenson
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479170-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: ou are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him.
Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll?

Название:Great Crimes
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-423394-1
Формат: PDF
Описание: It is more than forty years since the Great Train Robbery. But what happened to the rest of the money that was taken? Two million pounds has never been found. Perhaps some of the robbers would like to know the answer to this question too...
Many great crimes end in a question. Who really killed President Kennedy? What happened to Shergar? Who knows the truth about Azaria Chamberlain? Not all the answers are known. Join the world's detectives and discover the love, death, hate, money, and mystery held in the stories of these great crimes.

Название:Incredible Earth
Автор: Richard Northcott
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464438-9
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about our incredible Earth... What is a volcano? Where is the deepest lake on Earth?

Название:Little Women
Автор: Louisa May Alcott
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479175-5
Формат: PDF
Описание: When Christmas comes for the four March girls, there is no money for expensive presents and they give away their Christmas breakfast to a poor family. But there are no happier girls in America than Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. They miss their father, of course, who is away at the Civil War, but they try hard to be good so that he will be proud of his 'little women' when he comes home.
This heart-warming story of family life has been popular for more than a hundred years.

Название:The Thirty Nine Steps
Автор: John Buchan
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479188-5
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'I turned on the light, but there was nobody there. Then I saw something in the corner that made my blood turn cold. Scudder was lying on his back. There was a long knife through his heart, pinning him to the floor.'
Soon Richard Hannay is running for his life across the hills of Scotland. The police are chasing him for a murder he did not do, and another, more dangerous enemy is chasing him as well - the mysterious 'Black Stone'. Who are these people? And why do they want Hannay dead?

Название:Three Men in a Boat
Автор: Jerome K. Jerome
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479189-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.'
With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning.
This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years . . . and they are still laughing.

Название:Why We Recycle
Автор: Fiona Undrill
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464484-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about why we recycle waste ... What waste materials can we recycle? How long does plastic take to decompose?

Название:A Morbid Taste For Bones
Автор: Ellis Peters
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479179-3
Формат: DJVU
Описание: Murder in the twelfth century is no different from murder today. There is still a dead body, though this time with an arrow through the heart instead of a bullet. There is still a need to bury the dead, to comfort the living - and to catch the murderer.
When Brother Cadfael comes to a village in the Welsh hills, he finds himself doing all three of those things. And there is nothing simple about this death. The murdered man's daughter needs Cadfael's help in more ways than one. There are questions about the arrow. And the burial is the strangest thing of all . . .

Название:All about Desert Life
Автор: Julie Penn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464452-5
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about desert life around the world ... How do animals stay cool in the desert? Why are deserts getting bigger?

Название:How to Stay Healthy
Автор: Julie Penn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464445-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about how to stay healthy... How much water should you drink every day? Why is exercise good for you?

Название:Lord Jim
Автор: Joseph Conrad
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479176-2
Формат: DJVU
Описание: A hundred years ago a seaman's life was full of danger, but Jim, the first mate on board the Patna, is not afraid of danger. He is young, strong, confident of his bravery. He dreams of great adventures - and the chance to show the world what a hero he is.
But the sea is no place for dreamers. When the chance comes, on a calm moonlit night in the Indian Ocean, Jim fails the test, and his world falls to pieces around him. He disappears into the jungles of south-east Asia, searching for a way to prove himself, once and for all . . .

Название:Machines Then and Now
Автор: Robert Quinn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464477-8
Формат: PDF
Описание: The Audio CD Pack contains a copy of the book along with an audio CD with a recording of the complete text in both British and American English.
Listen and read to discover all about machines in the past and today... When did people invent the wheel? What is a nanobot?

Название:The Eagle of The Ninth
Автор: Rosemary Sutcliff
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479172-4
Формат:DJVU
Описание: In the second century AD, when the Ninth Roman Legion marched into the mists of northern Britain, not one man came back. Four thousand men disappeared, and the Eagle, the symbol of the Legion's honour, was lost.
Years later there is a story that the Eagle has been seen again. So Marcus Aquila, whose father disappeared with the Ninth, travels north, to find the Eagle and bring it back, and to learn how his father died. But the tribes of the north are wild and dangerous, and they hate the Romans . . .

Название:The Man with Three Names
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 1992
ISBN: 9780194224789
Формат: PDF
Описание: This book is intended for young teenage students of English as a foreign language.

Название:The Scarlet Letter
Автор: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479183-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: Scarlet is the colour of sin, and the letter 'A' stands for 'Adultery'. In the 1600s, in Boston, Massachusetts, love was allowed only between a husband and a wife. A child born outside marriage was a child of sin.
Hester Prynne must wear the scarlet letter on her dress for the rest of her life. How can she ever escape from this public shame? What will happen to her child, growing up in the shadow of the scarlet letter? The future holds no joy for Hester Prynne.
And what will happen to her sinful lover - the father of her child?

Название:Animal Life Cycles
Автор: Rachel Bladon
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464542-3
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about amazing animal life cycles ... Which animals hatch from eggs? What is metamorphosis?

Название:Exploring Our World Activity Book
Автор: Alistair McCallum
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464510-2
Формат: PDF
Описание: Many of our primary and secondary coursebooks support Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We also publish teacher training resources and dictionaries for CLIL.

Название:King's Ransom
Автор: Ed McBain
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-479230-1
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here's the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.'
The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur's son instead of the son of the rich tycoon, Douglas King. And they want a ransom of $500,000.
A lot of money. But it's not too much to pay for a little boy's life . . . is it?

Название:Wuthering Heights
Автор: Emily Bronte and Clare West
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 9780194792349
Формат: DJVU
Описание: The wind is strong on the Yorkshire moors. There are few trees, and fewer houses, to block its path. There is one house, however, that does not hide from the wind. It stands out from the hill and challenges the wind to do its worst. The house is called Wuthering Heights.
When Mr Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble. He has invited in something that, like the wind, is safer kept out of the house.

Название:Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Автор: hilip K. Dick
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479222-6
Формат: DJVU
Описание: San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. People live in half-deserted apartment buildings, and keep electric animals as pets because so many real animals have died. Most people emigrate to Mars - unless they have a job to do on Earth.
Like Rick Deckard - android killer for the police and owner of an electric sheep. This week he has to find, identify, and kill six androids which have escaped from Mars. They're machines, but they look and sound and think like humans - clever, dangerous humans. They will be hard to kill.

Название:Great Migrations
Автор: Rachel Bladon
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464501-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about great animal migrations... Why do animals migrate? How do they find their way?

Название:Homes around the World
Автор: Jacqueline Martin
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464497-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about homes around the world... What materials are homes made of? Why do people build homes on stilts?

Название:The Accidental Tourist
Автор: Anne Tyler
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-479215-8
Формат: DJVU
Описание: Everyday life in Baltimore, USA, is full of problems - getting the washing done, buying groceries and dog food, avoiding the neighbors . . . After the death of his son and the departure of his wife, Macon's attempts to run his own life become increasingly desperate - and more and more odd.
Meanwhile, he has to get on with his work, writing tourist guides for business people. Then his dog Edward starts to bite people, and he has to send for Muriel, the dog trainer. And day by day, Macon's life gets more and more complicated.

Название:The Riddle of the Sands
Автор: Erskine Childers
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479231-8
Формат: DJVU
Описание: When Carruthers joins his friend Arthur Davies on his yacht Dulcibella, he is expecting a pleasant sailing holiday in the Baltic Sea. But the holiday turns into an adventure of a different kind. He and Davies soon find themselves sailing in the stormy waters of the North Sea, exploring the channels and sandbanks around the German Frisian Islands, and looking for a secret - a secret that could mean great danger for England.
Erskine Childers' novel, published in 1903, was the first great modern spy story, and is still as exciting to read today as it was a hundred years ago.

Название:Transportation Then and Now
Автор: Alistair McCallum
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464509-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: Many of our primary and secondary coursebooks support Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We also publish teacher training resources and dictionaries for CLIL.

Название:Wild Weather
Автор: Julie Penn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464508-9
Формат: PDF
Описание: Many of our primary and secondary coursebooks support Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). We also publish teacher training resources and dictionaries for CLIL.

Название:American Crime Stories
Автор: John Escott
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479253-0
Формат: PDF
Описание: 'Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis's girlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will?

Название:Caring for Our Planet
Автор: Joyce Hannam
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464559-1
Формат: PDF
Описание: ead and discover all about caring for our beautiful planet Earth... What is global warming? How can we keep our planet clean?

Название:Food around the World
Автор: Robert Quinn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464557-7
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about food around the world... Where are cacao trees grown? What drink can you make from cherries?

Название:Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Автор: Thomas Hardy
Год выпуска: 2005
ISBN: 019284069X
Формат: PDF
Описание: She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: "Tess- say it is not true! No, it is not true!"'

Название:All about Space
Автор: Alistair McCallum
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464570-6
Формат: PDF
Описание: The All About Space Activity Book provides: Additional reading, writing, and grammar practice for each chapter of the reader Consolidation activities A book review Answers to the activities can be found on the teacher's website

Название:Clothes Then and Now
Автор: Alistair McCallum
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464571-3
Формат: PDF
Описание: The Clothes Then and Now Activity Book provides: Additional reading, writing, and grammar practice for each chapter of the reader Consolidation activities A book review Answers to the activities can be found on the teacher's website

Название:Cry Freedom
Автор: John Briley
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-479256-1
Формат:DJVU
Описание: Based on the screenplay from Attenborough's movie Cry Freedom, this is John Briley's portraitnues to make headlines today. Steve Biko, leader of the Black Consciousness Movement, was killed for his beliefs; Donald Woods risked everything including his life to make them known. The friendship they formed was torn apart by the terrible reality of apartheid.

Название:Meteor and Other Stories
Автор: John Wyndham
Год выпуска: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-19-479264-6
Формат: DJVU
Описание: It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionally fall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . .

Название:The Enemy
Автор: Desmond Bagley
Год выпуска: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-479260-8
Формат: DJVU
Описание: On a beautiful summer evening in the quiet town of Marlow, a young woman is walking home from church. She passes a man who is looking at the engine of his car. He turns round, smiles at her . . . and throws acid into her face.
Then her father, the scientist George Ashton, disappears. And her sister, Penny, discovers that her husband-to-be, Malcolm, is a government agent. Why has Ashton disappeared, and why is Malcolm told to hunt for him? Who is George Ashton, anyway?

Название:The Woman in White
Автор: Wilkie Collins
Год выпуска: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-479270-7
Формат: DJVU
Описание: The woman in white first appears at night on a lonely heath near London and is next seen at a grave-side in Cumberland. Who is she? Where has she come from, and what is her history? She seems alone and friendless, frightened and confused. And it seems she knows a secret - a secret that could bring ruin and shame to a man who will do anything to keep her silent.

Название:Your Amazing Body
Автор: Robert Quinn
Год выпуска: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-464558-4
Формат: PDF
Описание: Read and discover all about your amazing body... How many bones are there in your skeleton? What do your white blood cells do?