Graded Readers

Dominoes Quick Starter Merlin

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Janet Hardy-Gould

Language Level: A1

'Be careful with Morfran,' Princess Adhan tells her young son, Merlin.

Dominoes Quick Starter Zombie Attack!

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Lesley Thompson

'Professor Clark's work usually helps people. But this is something new.'

Clark's helper - Tasha Kiara - is telling Chaz - a local TV reporter about the Professor's new serum.

Then an earthquake hits Clark's California lab, and his serum brings dead bodies in the cemetery alive. Soon the zombies attack!

What happens to Professor Clark? How can Tasha and Chaz stop the zombies? Who lives and who dies? Read this story and see.

Dominoes Quick Starter Troy

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Retold by Bill Bowler

Language Level: A1

'I see Troy in flames years from now - because Paris brings disaster to us,' Queen Hecuba says about her son.

Dominoes Quick Starter The Sorcerer's Apprentice

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Retold by Bill Bowler

'What's your job?' Yukio asks.

'I'm a sorcerer,' the old man smiles, 'and I need a young apprentice.'

One day, Yukio - a young boy from old Japan - leaves his sister in the country and looks for a job in the town. He finds interesting work there, as a sorcerer's apprentice. But why must Yukio wait to learn magic? And what happens after he puts a spell on a broom when the sorcerer is away?

Dominoes Quick Starter The Skateboarder

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Retold by Bill Bowler

Language Level: A1

'What's your job?' Yukio asks. 'I'm a sorcerer,' the old man smiles, 'and I need a young apprentice.'

Dominoes Quick Starter The Little Match Girl

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Retold by Elspeth Rawstrong

Language Level: A1

It's a cold winter's day, and a poor little girl can't sell any of her matches. She remembers her kind grandmother, now sadly dead. Can the New Year make things any better for her?

Oxford Bookworms Library: A Passage to India

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Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary

E. M. Forster

Language Level: B2/C1

A mysterious incident at the Marabar Caves, involving Adela Quested, newly arrived from England, and Dr Aziz, an Indian doctor, leads to a drama that divides the British and Indian communities in anger, distrust, and fear. Forsters great novel brings to life all the dangers and misunderstandings of colonialism but, as Forster himself wrote, the story is about something wider than politics, about the search of the human race for a more lasting home, about the universe as embodied in the Indian earth and the Indian sky, about the horror lurking in the Marabar Caves...

Oxford Bookworms Library: The Joy Luck Club

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Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary

Amy Tan and Clare West

Language Level: B2/C1

There are so many things that a mother wishes to teach her daughter. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to keep hoping, when hope is your only joy. How to laugh for ever. This is the story of four mothers and their daughters - Chinese-American women, the mothers born in China, and the daughters born in America. Through their eyes we see life in pre-Revolutionary China, and life in downtown San Francisco; women struggling to find a cultural identity that can include a past and a future half a world apart.

Oxford Bookworms Library: Barchester Towers

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Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary

Anthony Trollope and Clare West

Language Level: B2/C1

Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop's Palace to help dominate her husband and rule the local clergy. But Slope is a snake in the grass, determined to find a rich wife, to win advancement for himself, even to fight Mrs Proudie if necessary. Their battle becomes a furious dance, involving rich, pretty Widow Bold, angry Archdeacon Grantly, man-eating Signora Neroni, gentle Mr Harding, confused Parson Quiverful and his fourteen noisy children. This classic comic story is Trollope's most famous novel.

Oxford Bookworms Library: Cry Freedom

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Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary

John Briley and Rowena Akinyemi

Language Level: B2/C1

They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry "Freedom", and who are not afraid to die.