Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with their friend Laurie next door, and now it's time for them to go out and find their places in the big wide world, to do the great and marvellous things they've dreamed of and discover their 'castles in the air'. They each find themselves tested, and fall in love, but when tragedy strikes they find their best comfort is in each other, and home.

(Oxford Bookworms Library is a new edition of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one with new covers. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information. Some of the titles have new illustrations.)

The essays on teenage bullying in Vicious address every form of bullying: physical, verbal, relational, and cyber. Unmistakably real, these stories are at times painful, yet admirable and compelling for the resilience they reveal....