Aprendizaje

THE SECRET GARDEN
Stage 3
' We're alike, you and me,' old Ben Weatherstaff said to
M ary. 'We're not pretty to look at and we're both very
d isagreeable.'
P oor Mary! Nobody wants her, nobody likes her. Her
p arents have died, and she is sent home from India to live
in her uncle's house in Yorkshire. It is a big old house, with
nearly a hundred rooms, but most of them are shut and
locked. Mary is cross and bored, and lonely. There is
n othing to do all day, and no one to talk to, except old Ben
Weatherstaff, the gardener.
But then Mary learns about the secret garden. The door is
locked and hidden, and the key is lost. No one has been
i nside the secret garden for ten years - except the robin,
w ho flies over the wall. Mary watches the robin, and
w onders where the key is . . .
And then there is that strange crying in the night,
s omewhere in the house. It sounds like a child c r y i n g . . .
F rances Hodgson Burnett was born in 1849 and died in
1 924, From the age of sixteen she lived mostly in the USA,
b ut often returned to England. She was a writer all her life
a nd wrote many books, but The Secret Garden is her most
f amous story.

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OXFORD BOOKWORMS
For a full list of titles in all the Oxford Bookworms series,
please refer to t he Oxford English c atalogue. Titles available include:

Green Series
Stage 2 ( 700 headwords)
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll
* Anne of Green Gables L. M. Montgomery
T he Children of the New Forest Captain Marryat
Five Children and ItEdith Nesbit
* Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain

T he Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
M arty Doolin Catherine Cookson
* Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
A Stranger at Green Knowe Lucy M. Boston
T oo Old to Rock and Roll Jan Mark ( short stories)

The
Secret Garden
F rances Hodgson Burnett

S tage3(1000 headwords)
" The Prisoner of Zenda Anthony Hope
*The Railway Children Edith Nesbit
*The SecretGarden Frances Hodgson Burnett
T hrough the Looking-Glass Lewis Carroll
' Who Sir, Me Sir?' K.M.Veyton
T he Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame

* The Call of the Wild Jack London
A C hristmas Carol Charles Dickens
T he Crown of Violet Geoffrey Trease
K idnapped Robert Louis Stevenson
M oondial Helen Cresswell
On the Edge Gillian Cross

retold by Clare West

Stage 4 (1400 headwords•Black Beauty Anna Sewell
T he Eagle of the Ninth Rosemary Sutcliff
* Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift
* Little Women Louisa May Alcott
L orna Doone R. D. Blackmore

T he Silver Sword Ian Serraillier
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
* Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
W e Didn't Mean to Go to Sea Arthur Ransome
T he Whispering Knights Penelope Lively

Illustrated by
JennyBrackley

Black Series
Suggested lilies for younger readers from the main Bookworms list:

Stage 1 (400 headwords)
T he Elephant Man Tim Vicary
T he Monkey's Paw W. W. Jacobs

*The Phantom of the Opera Jennifer Bassett
Under the Moon Rowena Akinyemi
Stage 2 (700 headwords)

* Dead Man's Island John Escott
*Dracula Bram Stoker

E ar-rings from Frankfurt Reg Wright
* Voodoo IslandMichael Duckworth
Stage 3 (1000 headwords)

Chemical Secret Tim Vicary
• Skyjack! Tim Vicary

T he Star Zoo Harry Gilbert
W yatt's Hurricane Desmond Bagley

*Cassettes available for these titles.

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