Jennifer Bassett Livres

Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy : quatre jeunes Américaines d'autrefois, très différentes, mais qui s'aiment bien. Papa est à la guerre, on n'est pas riche, et la vie est parfois difficile. Qu'importe, chacune travaille, Maman fait des miracles. On rit beaucoup chez les March, on pleure quelquefois, les discussions sont passionnées et les aventures ne manquent pas, surtout avec Jo, ce garçon manqué, qui ne fait rien comme tout le monde.

The Oxford Bookworms Starters Teacher's Handbook Answer Keys and Photocopiable Tests for Bookworms Starters.

Supplementary teaching material for the Oxford Bookworms Factfiles.

The teacher's handbooks offer an introduction to the Oxford Bookworms Library series with guidance on using graded readers, answers to the exercises in the books, photocopiable tests and an answer key.

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Tant qu'il y aura sur la terre ignorance et misère, des livres de la nature de celui-ci pourront ne pas être inutiles ", écrivait Victor Hugo dans la préface des Misérables. Dénoncer la misère, tenter de faire changer la société de son époque, tels sont bien les buts qu'il poursuit dans ce roman monumental dont les héros sont tous entrés dans l'imaginaire collectif. Très influencé par le roman-feuilleton, Victor Hugo ne néglige aucune' des ressources qu'offre le romanesque. Jean val jean, le forçat libéré, Fantine, la malheureuse fille mère, Cosette, l'enfant martyre, Gavroche, le gamin de Paris, ou encore l'impitoyable Javert entraînent ainsi le lecteur dans une intrigue foisonnante qui le mène de Paris à Montreuil-sur-Mer, de l'infâme auberge des Thénardier aux héroïques barricades républicaines du début des années 1830...

Motherless Sara Crewe was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin's. Her father was immensely rich and she became "show pupil" - a little princess. Then her father dies and his wealth disappears, and Sara has to learn to cope with her changed circumstances.Her strong character enables her to fight successfully against her new-found poverty and the scorn of her fellows.

Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love.

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 die. There could be winds of more than 250 kilometres an hour. There could be a huge tidal wavefrom the sea, which will drown the capital city of St Pierre. Mabel will destroy houses, farms, roads, bridges . . . Only one man, David Wyatt, believes that Mabel will hit San Fernandez, but nobody will listen to him...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a novel by Lewis Carroll that tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantastical world filled with peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. In this whimsical realm, Alice encounters a series of bizarre characters and experiences nonsensical events that challenge her understanding of reality. The narrative explores themes of identity, curiosity, and the absurdity of life, as Alice navigates through a landscape where logic is turned upside down. The story is a reflection on the nature of childhood and imagination, inviting readers to embrace the wonder and chaos of a world unbound by the rules of the ordinary. Carroll's inventive language and playful storytelling create a rich tapestry of adventure, making Alice's journey both enchanting and thought-provoking.

Detective Philip Marlowe is looking for Derace Kingsley’s wife, Crystal. Is she dead or not? Marlowe finds more than one dead body and learns about women, drugs, men in love, and a police cover-up. Who killed The Lady in the Lake and why?

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Peter Hawkins. If you find a locked room in a lonely inn, don't try to open it, even on a bright sunny day. If you find a strange whistle hidden among the stones of an old church, don't blow it. If a mysterious man gives you a piece of paper with strange writing on it, give it back to him at once. And if you call a dead man from his grave, don't expect to sleep peacefully ever again. Read these five ghost stories by daylight, and make sure your door is locked.

Word count 10,650 Suitable for younger learners

Un des meilleurs romans de l'auteure. Sujet: la crise d'un couple dont l'enfant a été abattu par un gangster.

En pleine nuit, des cris effrayants réveillent les habitants de la rue Morgue, à Paris. Ils vont bientôt découvrir les cadavres atrocement mutilés d'une jeune fille et de sa mère. Des meurtres qui auraient pu rester inexplicables, sans la présence d'esprit d'Auguste Dupin, un jeune et brillant détective amateur... La plus célèbre nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe, suivie de la non moins énigmatique Lettre volée.

What does the future hold in store for the human race? Aliens from distant galaxies, telepathic horror, interstellar war, time-warps, the shriek of a rose, collision with an asteroid - the unknown lies around every corner, and the universe is a big place. These nine science-fiction stories offer possibilities that are fantastic, humorous, alarming, but always thought-provoking.This collection contains stories by Ray Bradbury, Bill Brown, Philip K. Dick, Arthur C. Clarke, Jerome Bixby, Isaac Asimov, Brian Aldiss, Roald Dahl, and John Wyndham.

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.

Arthur C. Clarke is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the century, and surely the most celebrated science fiction writer alive. He is -- with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein -- one of the writers who define the genre. Now, at the dawn of the year 2001, Sir Arthur C. Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive definitive edition of his collected shorter works, which will be made available on audio in five chronological volumes, followed by a 10 CD volume of favorite selection and a 30 cassette gift set...the most ambitious science fiction audio project in history.In addition to the well-known and ever popular stories "The Other Side of the Sky," "I Remember Babylon," and The Songs of Distant Earth," this volume features comic cosmic narratives originally collected in Tales From the White Hart, including "The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch," "The Next Tenants," and "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea."

The story of William Shakespeare's life is told by an imaginery friend, Toby.

Word count 5,240 Suitable for young learners

While staying with her mother's godmother, Minty finds herself drawn to a mysterious sundial which takes her back in time and links her life to that of two unhappy children she meets in two different centuries.

Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black Aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up and taken to settlements to be institutionally assimilated. In Rabbit-Proof Fence, Doris Pilkington traces the story of her mother, Molly, one of three young girls uprooted from their community in Southwestern Australia and taken to the Moore River Native Settlement. There, Molly and her relatives Gracie and Daisy were forbidden to speak their native language, forced to abandon their heritage, and taught to be culturally white. After regular stays in solitary confinement, the three girls planned and executed a daring escape from the grim camp

Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask.And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

Dans la maison du Miroir, tout est inversé. Alice, fascinée, s'empresse de passer de l'autre côté. S'ouvre alors à elle un monde merveilleux où les fleurs parlent, où un oeuf érudit marche sur un mur, et où, aux côtés de la Reine Blanche et de la Reine Rouge, elle devra prendre part à une partie d'échecs grandeur nature.

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, The gost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom - the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers

Pack of ten best-selling iBookworms/i and– ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title. liThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer/libr / liThe Elephant Man/libr /liA Little Princess/libr / liLove or Money?/libr / liThe Monkey's Paw/libr / liThe Phantom of the Opera/libr / liThe President's Murderer/libr / liSherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son/libr / liWhite Death/libr / liThe Wizard of Oz/li

"Horseracing is the sport of kings, perhaps because racehorses are very expensive animals. But when they win races, they can make a lot of money too - money for the owners, for the trainers, and for the people who put bets on them to win. Silver Blaze is a young horse, but already the winner of many races. One night he disappears from his stables, 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, London, of course - to ask for the help of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes."--Publisher

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Love Among the Haystacks and Other Stories gathers together all of Lawrence's short stories not collected in the Prussian Officer volume. It offers a range of work from Lawrence's earliest surviving published story, 'A Prelude', to 'New Eve and Old Adam' written at the height of his early maturity in 1913. Each story in this edition appears in a new, authoritative text based on the manuscripts, typescripts, corrected proofs and early printings drawn from libraries and private collections in England, Italy and America. All the stories have thus been stripped of the layers of errors introduced by typists, editors and printers in their previous publication. John Worthen's introduction sets out the composition and publication history of each story, and gives a full account of the context in which it was created. A textual apparatus records all variant readings and explanatory notes explain allusions, dialect forms and foreign words.

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose? Long live the President!

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there are some very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, and sometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them. You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers...

Oxford Bookworms offer students at all levels the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English. There are six stages, taking students from elementary to advanced level. At the lower stages, many of the texts have been specially written for the series, to provide elementary and lower-intermediate students with an introduction to real reading in English. At the higher stages, most of the books have been adapted from works originally published for native speakers.

These stories by John Updike, Graham Greene, William Boyd, Susan Hill, D.H. Lawrence, Saki, Penelope Lively, Bernard McLaverty, Frank Tuohy, Morley Callaghan explore life from a child's perspective, and show that the world can be a strange, baffling, and sometimes very frightening place.

This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This elementary level book features three stories of love, death and deception on train journeys.

Carruthers is summoned to the Baltic by his friend, an accomplished yachtsman, who reveals his suspicions concerning German activity in the North Frisian Islands

"He smiled, showing teeth yellow from cigarette smoke. He looked at his desk diary, then at her papers again. 'Mmm ... a hundred pesos a month. Why, that's one thousand two hundred pesos a year. Surely, you can afford to buy me a forty-peso dinner!' How can Marian say no? How can she refuse the Chief's next request? He is an evil man, but she needs her promotion ..."--Page 4 of cover

In EDI (the European Department of Intelligence in Brussels) there aresome very secret files - the Omega Files. There are strange, surprising, andsometimes horrible stories in these files, but not many people know about them.You never read about them in the newspapers. Hawker and Jude know all about theOmega Files, because they work for EDI.They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. Theygo all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but theydon't always find the answers

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.

Based on William Shakespeare's K̀ing Lear'. Retold in narrative form in modern language and reinterpreted for today's world. Suitable for adult literacy and learners of English-as-a-second-language.

Reading a complete story in English gives students a great sense of achievement -- and encourages them to read more. The Oxford Bookworms Library offers a variety of titles. The books are graded at six vocabulary levels ranging from 250 words (Starter) to 2,500 (Advanced).

This award-winning collection of adapted classic literature and original stories develops reading skills for low-beginning through advanced students. Accessible language and carefully controlled vocabulary build students' reading confidence. Introductions at the beginning of each story, illustrations throughout, and glossaries help build comprehension. Before, during, and after reading activities included in the back of each book strengthen student comprehension. Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

Good luck in Malaysia, bad news in New Zealand, a chicken and a jug of cider in Britain, a goat and a pumpkin in India, fun and games in a cyber café in Nigeria...The countries change in these stories, but people's lives are always strange and wonderful in any place.

Rat, Mole, Toad, and Badger roam the English countryside for a memorable series of adventures. Timeless tales of friendship amid the natural world.

From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all. These eight stories were winning entries in the 2004 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The writers are Sefi Atta, Adrienne M. Frater, Lauri Kubuitsile, Erica N. Robinson, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Janet Tay Hui Ching, Anuradha Muralidharan, and Tod Collins.

In Edinburgh a detective listens to a confession; in Orkney an old man lives with the ghosts of his past. In the Outer Hebrides some travellers learn a lesson; in Glasgow a young woman steals a meeting with a famous actor; and in a small town somewhere a pigeon dies. These stories are as richly varied as the land of Scotland itself

Comment vivre la Chine en Amérique ? Deux générations de femmes, quatre mères, quatre filles livrent leur histoire. En 1949, quatre Chinoises, ayant récemment immigrées à San Francisco, se retrouvent pour discuter. Unies dans leurs espoirs et leurs pertes, elles décident de former le Joy Luck Club. Resurgissent alors les senteurs et les saveurs d'autrefois. On croise des bébés mariés à la naissance, des soeurs jumelles perdues sur une route d'exode, la Dame Lune qui exauce les voeux des enfants, des concubines jalouses et humiliées... Nostalgique et amère parfois, la fable se heurte à un autre langage. Celui d'une deuxième génération qui aspire à une vie différente libérée du poids de la tradition. Au carrefour de ces deux mondes : Jing-mei. La jeune femme découvre au Joy Luck Club la force de l'héritage laissé par les mères. Naît alors l'espoir d'une réconciliation car les liens du sang sont indéfectibles... « Poétique, d'une beauté et d'une imagination saisissante, ce livre remarquable parlera à toutes les femmes. » Publishers Weekly

In 2008, Sally Gardiner makes friends with Milo, a young student. When he tells Sally why he is different from other boys of his age, she does not believe him. Many years later, however, she realises that he was right. She sits dow to write a letter of warning to her grandmother, Lola. Storylines are new editions of selected Streamline Graded Readers with a new design and new colour artwork. Aimed at beginner to intermediate levels, each story is graded and has a contemporary feel that should appeal to teenagers and young adults.