GARNET ORACLE READERS SERIES

Garnet Oracle Readers series is carefully graded, lexically and structurally, to encourage young adults to read for pleasure and at speed. The stories are all, first and foremost, just that – stories, from ELT authors well known for their ability to craft original and engaging narratives to entertain and educate.

 

Each reader contains striking and contemporary full-colour illustrations and photos, resource pages of well-scaffolded exercises, and an easy-to-use glossary. Titles in Levels 1 and 2 are 32 pages each, while titles in Levels 3 and 4 are 40 pages each.

 

A series of graded readers for young adults learning English from beginner to intermediate level.

 

 

Garnet Oracle Readers Level 1

400 headwords

Intermediate

CEF Level: A1  IELTS Level: 2.0

 

ISBN 9781907575310

The Collector - Level 1 - Garnet Oracle Readers

But why is she here at the same time, on the same day and in the same place? Does she want the same cornflakes packet, too?

Clinton lives in the year 2561. In 2561 people can travel through time. Clinton’s job is collecting expensive antiques. He travels back to Britain in 2014. He wants to buy something – a cornflakes packet. He can sell it for a lot of money in the future. But life is not easy hundreds of years in the past. He sees another collector in the supermarket.

 

ISBN 9781907575303

The Locked Room - Level 1 - Garnet Oracle Readers

Man      ‘We’re going to start again. Who are you?’

Me         ‘I can’t remember. Please don’t hit me…’

But he does. Then he opens the door, and he goes. There’s a bump on the back of my head. It doesn’t hurt now, but my face hurts. A bump… I can remember something…

A man wakes up in a room in a strange house. The door is locked. Who is he and why is he there? Why can’t he leave? Slowly the man remembers…

 

ISBN 9781907575174

The Watchers - Level 1 - Garnet Oracle Readers

Sometimes people come to these halls. They are not the god’s people. They look for gold, only gold … Nobody can take the god’s gold, or look at the gold face of the god … and live. We are his Watchers.

Jim and Stella are on holiday on the island of Crete. They go into the caves with their Greek friend, Nikos. The Watchers are waiting there …

 

ISBN 9781907575204

Zoo Diary - Level 1 - Garnet Oracle Readers

OK, this is not a dream. It is not a dream … I’m here, and I can’t leave. Is it a prison? I don’t know. Maybe. But it’s a very strange prison, millions of kilometres from the planet Earth, and I’m the only prisoner. American teenager Wayne Armstrong wakes up on a spaceship. He is taken to a ‘zoo’ on the planet Zok, where aliens come to study him. Wayne is safe here and everyone is nice to him. But maybe it’s too safe … will he ever go home?

 

 

Garnet Oracle Readers Level 2

750 headwords

Pre-intermediate

CEF Level: A2  IELTS Level: 3.0

 

ISBN 9781907575297

Casualty! - Level 2 - Garnet Oracle Readers

There was Alex! Well, his hair was the same, and his clothes were the same, but it was a new face. Plastic surgery? Yes, he had cut his face badly, but what about the broken back? What about the coma? Gail listened carefully to the song. Then she stood up.

‘That’s not Alex,’ she said. ‘It’s not!’

Gail is a nurse at Midhurst Central Hospital. One evening there is an emergency. Alex Hayle, the singer, was in a car crash. He is in a coma and has a broken back. His manager moves Alex to a private hospital.

 

ISBN 9781907575280

Strawberry and The Sensations - Level 2 - Garnet Oracle Readers

‘But I’m only a singer. Nobody wants to kill me.’

‘Somebody does.’

‘Oh, come on, be serious!’ said Cyndi. ‘It’s just a piece of paper.’

‘I am being serious,’ said the police chief. ‘I think we have to stop the show.’

Strawberry and The Sensations are a rock group. It’s the last day of their tour. A police officer arrives with a warning for Cyndi. Is there a crazy killer in the audience? Will she stop the show?

 

ISBN 9781907575198

The Visit - Level 2 - Garnet Oracle Readers

Harry watched the ‘thing’ carefully. ‘That,’ he thought, ‘is something very, very strange … something from another world, perhaps. It’s a spaceship … or something like it. I’m going to get out and look at it.’

Harry Evans is a police officer. He is driving along a country road when he sees something. He stops. He hears strange music. Is it a UFO? No one believes Harry’s story, but after that his life is different … why?

 

ISBN 9781907575273

Underground - Level 2 - Garnet Oracle Readers

“It was after midnight and the escalator went down into an empty Underground station. There were no people and there was no noise … Craig stopped … Someone … or something … was behind him in the tunnel.”

Craig has a summer job. He’s a night cleaner in the London Underground, but there are strange stories about voices and music in the tunnels. Are Craig and the other cleaners alone? Or are there ghosts in the London Underground?

 

 

Garnet Oracle Readers Level 3

1,000 headwords

Pre-intermediate to intermediate

CEF Level: A2 to B1  IELTS Level: 3.0 to 4.0

 

ISBN 9781907575266

African Adventure - Level 3 - Garnet Oracle Readers

You must talk to this medicine woman for me.’

‘But why me? Why don’t you use a Kenyan?’ asked Karen.

‘Because I want it to be a secret. And you don’t know anyone here.’

Karen Dunn is on her way to Africa to help a famous doctor. The doctor needs Karen’s help to find a cure for river blindness. However, Dr McCall starts to behave strangely. Does he want to help the African people? What’s really going on?

 

ISBN 9781907575259

Life Lines - Level 3 - Garnet Oracle Readers

Can I show you what we found?’ said Rachel. She showed the laptop to Mervyn. He got angrier and angrier.

‘Rachel,’ he said, ‘this is all nonsense. Nobody can tell you about the future. You don’t believe this rubbish, do you?’

Rachel works for Astra Astrology. Her idea for using the computer to read people’s hands is very successful. Rachel begins to wonder if it is possible to tell the future. She uses the computer to compare thousands of hands. The results are life-changing.

 

ISBN 9781907575167

Milo - Level 3 - Garnet Oracle Readers

I liked Milo and wanted to know more about him. I wanted to visit his school, but when I asked him he became very frightened.

‘You mustn’t,’ he said quickly. ‘Please. Don’t come to the school or tell anyone about this valley. Promise me.’

Sally is a teacher. She’s on holiday and meets a mysterious young student. He tells Sally why he is so different from other boys of his age. She does not believe him. But years later she discovers that his story was true. She decides to write a letter of warning to her granddaughter, Lola …

 

ISBN 9781907575242

Sunnyvista City - Level 3 - Garnet Oracle Readers

‘We can lie beside the swimming pool before tennis. Then there’s dinner. Then we can play card games or dominoes and come to bed. It’s going to be another perfect day.’

Life is wonderful in Sunnyvista City. The sun shines every day. Nobody has to work. Everybody is happy. Everybody except Dan. Why can’t anyone in the city remember the world outside the city? Why aren’t there any children? Dan decides to find out more …

 

 

Garnet Oracle Readers Level 4

1,250 headwords

Intermediate

CEF Level: B1  IELTS Level: 4.0

 

ISBN 9781907575235

A Tidy Ghost - Level 4 - Garnet Oracle Readers

Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and the noise of thunder and it started raining heavily. Marilyn looked out of the window and frowned.

‘Rick,’ she said. ‘There isn’t a ghost, is there?’

They both laughed then.

You don’t find ghosts in modern houses, do you? When Marilyn and Rick move into their new house, strange things begin to happen. Have they got a ghost – a very clean and tidy ghost? Marilyn decides to find out more about their new home.

 

ISBN 9781907575228

Space Romance - Level 4 - Garnet Oracle Readers

He knew nothing about Alpha 3461. They had used the same cabin for three years already, and they were going to use it for seven or eight years more. He didn’t know what she looked like, how old she was or what she did.

Gareth is travelling on the starship New Adventurer. Half the passengers on the starship sleep for two weeks, then the other half sleep for the next two weeks. He is forbidden to meet Alpha 3461, but he can’t stop thinking about her. How can they meet?

 

ISBN 9781907575211

The Case of the Dead Batsman - Level 4 - Garnet Oracle Readers

‘I have been investigating cricket matches, Watson,’ said Holmes. ‘In the last twenty-five years, three people have been killed during cricket matches. Two of them were Pendryth and Dodds during the last two weeks, in the same village cricket team.’

Two tragic accidents in two weeks. Two players from the same village team are dead, both struck on the forehead by the cricket ball. Is this a case for the famous detective Sherlock Holmes?

 

ISBN 9781907575181

The Hitchhiker - Level 4 - Garnet Oracle Readers

It’s my job to look at people and to think carefully about them. I was sure there was something strange about this man. His hair – nobody has their hair cut quite like that now. And that suit – it was quite clean, quite new, but the trousers and the jacket were different somehow … Where had I seen a suit like that before?

There has been a car crash on an empty road, and a driver who thinks he has killed a man. Sue Fraser is a police officer. She has to investigate the accident. First she must find the strange hitchhiker – the man she gave a lift to on the day the accident happened.