Junior Reading Group Book Sets

This is a moving story of a young boy who rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African bush. Inseparable until Bertie has to go to boarding school and the lion is sold to a circus, the boy swears that one day they will see one another again.

Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made.

When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children's home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for an exciting life just like the characters in her favourite detective novels. A real life adventure is on hand as she is deposited at her uncle's spooky house. Why does her uncle, Calvin Redfern, forbid her to go to Dead Man's Cove?

All Hal had ever wanted was a dog. But a dog would damage the expensive carpets in Hal's glamorous home, and his rich, neglectful parents refuse to consider one. Then they discover Easy Pets, a convenient dog-rental agency. Terrier Fleck arrives on Hal's birthday, but when Hal discovers that his dog must be returned, he runs away.

It's a dangerous life being the brother of the world's worst private detective: but Nick Diamond has survived, so far. However his survival instincts are about to be tested to the full: a school reunion on a remote island, a holiday to Paris, an investigation into the whereabouts of a man and the visit of a world famous singer.

Charity Delafield has grown up with her fiercely strict father, in a vast, isolated house that she is forbidden to explore. She knows very little of the outside world - or of her own family's shadowy past. One day Charity stumbles upon the dark corridor that haunts her dreams, and suddenly she realises things aren't what they seem.

It's six months after the tumultuous events on Brighton, and Wren Natsworthy and her father Tom have taken to the skies in their airship, the Jenny Haniver. Wren is enjoying life as an aviatrix but Tom is troubled by matters of the heart.

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.

A story for adults about small boys, marooned on a coral island. At first it seems as though it is all going to be great fun; but the fun before long becomes furious and life on the island turns into a nightmare of panic and death. Staff Picks: Even studying this at school hasn’t put me off re-reading it. Great plot, scary and plausible. Picked by Clare