Akinyemi, Rowena.

The children of the new forest / Captain Marryat ; retold by Rowena Akinyemi. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 - 56 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm - Oxford bookworms library ; Stage 2, Human interest .

First published in Oxford Bookworms 1996.

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'England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell's men are fighting the King's men. These are dangerous times for everybody. The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell's soldiers have come to burn the house - with the children in it. The four of them escape into the New Forest - but how will they live? What will they eat? And will Cromwell's soldier find them?' --from back

690
Lexile
R
Raz-Plus


9780194790543 0194790541

2009290948


Readers (Adult)
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Reading comprehension--Problems, exercises, etc.
Orphans--Great Britain--Fiction.


Great Britain--History--Civil War, 1642-1649--Fiction.


Fiction.

PE1126.A4 / A425 2008

428.6