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.