About the Series

Help your students read their way to better English with this new edition of the world's best graded readers - now with a new range of World Stories, fully revised Factfiles, more audio, and new tests. The new edition includes the original Bookworms stories, plus the Starters, Playscripts and Factfiles, making it easy for you to see the full choice of books at each Stage. The highly acclaimed seven-stage system of grading, from Starter to Stage 6, remains the same, helping you to find the right level for all your students. The Oxford Bookworms Library provides superb reading and student / teacher support for the classroom, and is also highly recommended for schools running Extensive Reading Programmes, offering the right range of books that encourage students to read for pleasure.

Key Series Features

• Stunning NEW covers, to get students interested from the start.
• NEW World Stories - collections of short stories written in English from around the world - Africa, Australia, South Asia and more...
• UPDATED Factfiles, with NEW text and colour photos, and a new look.
• UPDATED Tests, including a NEW Multiple-choice Test for every book.
• NEW Teacher's Handbook for each Stage, with answers to the activities in all the books.
• UPDATED Activity Worksheets with a story summary & worksheets at Stages 1-4.
• MORE books available with Audio for students to listen to the complete text.
• Illustrations (including new ones in selected stories) to support the book and help introduce new vocabulary.
• About the Author information, Glossary and Activities section at the back of every book.
• FREE answer keys, tests, story summaries, and photocopiable activities from www.oup.com/elt/bookworms

Description

• True Stories
• 400 headwords
• Word count: 5,775
• Also available on audio CD

When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and still hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn't. So the rich got richer, and the poor stayed poor. Some say Ned Kelly was a bad man. Some say he was a good man but the law was bad. This is the true story of Australia's most famous outlaw.

Christine Lindop

Christine Lindop was born in New Zealand where she began her teaching career. She later taught EFL in France and Spain before settling in Great Britain, and has worked as an editor, proofreader, and writer since 1993.

With Oxford University Press, Christine has worked extensively on the Oxford Bookworms Library and is the Series Editor for Oxford Bookworms Factfiles. Her original titles include Sally's Phone and Red Roses (Starters), Ned Kelly: A True Story (Stage 1), and Australia and New Zealand (Stage 3). She has also adapted Goldfish (Stage 3) and two volumes of World Stories, The Long White Cloud: Stories from New Zealand (Stage 3) and Doors to a Wider Place: Stories from Australia (Stage 4), and edited A Tangled Web for the Oxford Bookworms Collection.

She has worked on many other Oxford readers series as both an editor and a writer.