Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important than feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe - a circus child - is left alone in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, loo...

Over the years hunters, poachers, and war have killed many of the gorillas of central Africa. But there are still a few hundred living high in the mists of the Virunga Mountains. When Dian Fossey fir...

If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what do you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are al...

The Leander pearls were stolen nineteen years ago. The thief was caught, but the pearls were never found, and there is still a $25,000 reward for anyone who finds them. Then somebody comes to private ...

"Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she nee...

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 ...

On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd´s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his bu...

The weather in England that summer had been so awful that Gerald´s mother sold the family house and took her children to live on the Mediterranean island of Corfu. Between lessons, the ten-year-old Ge...

A complete range of reading materials for students of all abilities. *The Oxford Bookworms Library is a carefully and intelligently graded series, providing a six-stage library of readers, including o...

From 1942 until 1944, Anne Frank and her family lived secretly in a few small rooms at the back of her father´s office in Amsterdam, never leaving the building. Like many other Jewish families at that...

The Moonstone is a beautiful yellow diamond that was stolen from the statue of a Moon god in India. When Franklin Blake brings it to Rachel Verinder´s house in Yorkshire for her birthday, it brings ba...

"Moondial!" As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears - and the voices and the w...

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....

A warm summer night. The moon shines down on the quiet houses and gardens. Everyone is asleep. Everyone except the man in pyjamas and slippers, standing on the wet grass at the end of his garden, watc...

Conradin is ten years old. He lives alone with his aunt. He has two big secrets. The first is that he hates his aunt. The second is that he keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed. The animal...

On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man´s wife, the children´s mother. The children were al...

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 ge...

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 six...

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...

Hurricane Mabel is far out in the Atlantic Ocean and moving slowly northwards. Perhaps it will never come near land at all. But if it hits the island of San Fernandez, many thousands of people will di...

When Tug wakes up, he is not in his own bedroom at home. The door is locked and there are bars across the window. Loud music hammers through the house and through his head. Then a woman comes in and s...

High up on a stone seat in the great open-air theatre of Athens, Alexis, son of Leon, watches the Festival of Plays - and dreams of seeing his own play on that famous stage. So, as the summer pa...

Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Wat...

Sam Sylvester is a teacher who wants his class to have ambition, and to do great things in life. So he enters them for a sporting competition against the rich students of Greycoats School. The team t...

The murder plan seems so neat, so clever. How can it possibly fail? And when Sonia´s stupid, boring little husband is dead, she will be free to marry her handsome lover. But perhaps the boring little ...

London: November. Terrorists blow up the Queen´s coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Q...

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 ...

Victor Frankenstein thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new "man". But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him - even F...

'Let's go see the West,' said Pa. 'The land is flat and the grass grows thick and high. Animals run freely and there are no settlers. Only Indians live there.' So, more than a hundred years ago, th...

Adolf Verloc is a double agent, working for both the British police and a foreign country. He pretends to live a normal life, with his wife, Winnie, and has a shop in London, which, at night, becomes ...

Since her father disappeared, she has received a large pearl through the post on the same day, every year, for six years. Who is sending them? And what about her father´s paper with the words ´The Sig...

'Let's go see the West,' said Pa. 'The land is flat and the grass grows thick and high. Animals run freely and there are no settlers. Only Indians live there.' So, more than a hundred years ago, th...