Research Guides: ESL Open Educational Resources: Graded Readers

Graded Readers

Cover	Title	Author
	Pearl Girl	Stephen Rabley
	Daniel Radcliffe	Vicky Shipton
	Michael Jordan	Nancy Taylor
	Muhammad Ali	Bernard Smith
	Speed Queens	Rod Smith

Cover	Title	Author
	Five Children and it	Edith Nesbit; Retold by Diane Mowat
	Agatha Christie, woman of mystery	John Escott
	Alice's adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll ; retold by Jennifer Bassett ; illustrated by Nilesh Mistry
	American life	Vicky Shipton
	Anne of Green Gables	L.M. Montgomery ; retold by Clare West ; illustrated by Kate Simpson.
	Apollo 13	retold by Brent Furnas.
	Audrey Hepburn	Chris Rice.
	Bad company	Richard MacAndrew
	Barack Obama	Coleen Degnan-Veness
	Changing their skies : stories from Africa	retold by Jennifer Bassett.
	The children of the New Forest	Captain Marryat ; retold by Rowena Akinyemi.
	Chocolate	Janet Hardy-Gould.
	Circle games	Frank Brennan.
	Cries from the heart : stories from around the world	retold by Jennifer Bassett ; illustrated by Kwame Nyong'o.
	The dark side of the city	Alan Battersby
	Dead cold	Sue Leather.
	Different worlds	Margaret Johnson.
	The double bass mystery	Jeremy Harmer.
	The fox : volpone	Ben Jonson ; retold by Tonya Trappe.
	Henry VIII and his six wives	Janet Hardy-Gould.
	The adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain ; retold by Diane Mowat ; illustrated by Paul Fisher Johnson.
	Ireland	Tim Vicary.
	Jojo's story	Antoinette Moses.
	The jungle book	Rudyard Kipling ; retold by Ralph Mowat ;
	Jurassic Park III	retold by David Maule.
	The last of the Mohicans	James Fenimore Cooper ; retold by Coleen Degnan-Veness.
	Logan's choice	Richard MacAndrew.
	The love of a king	Peter Dainty.
	The man from nowhere	Bernard Smith.
	Marley & me	John Grogan ; retold by Anne Collins.
	Much ado about nothing	William Shakespeare ; retold by Alistair McCallum.
	The mystery of Allegra	Peter Foreman.
	New Yorkers : short stories	O. Henry ; retold by Diane Mowat ;
	The New Zealand file	Richard MacAndrew.
	One day	Helen Naylor
	A picture to remember	Sarah Scott-Malden.
	Dracula	Bram Stoker ; retold by Diane Mowat.
	Red Dog	Louis De Bernières ; retold by Jennifer Bassett
	The life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe	Daniel Defoe ; retold by Diane Mowat
	Romeo and Juliet	William Shakespeare ; retold by Alistair McCallum.
	Sherlock Holmes short stories	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by Clare West.
	Stories from the Five Towns	Arnold Bennett ; retold by Nick Bullard.
	Superbird	Brian Tomlinson
	Tales from Longpuddle	Thomas Hardy ; retold by Jennifer Bassett ;
	Voodoo island	Michael Duckworth.
	White Fang	Jack London ; retold by Brigit Viney.
	Within high fences	Penny Hancock.
	The year of sharing	Harry Gilbert

Cover	Title	Author
	The beast	Carolyn Walker.
	The Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas ; retold by Karen Holmes.
	Dracula	Bram Stoker ; retold by Chris Rice.
	The Everest story	Tim Vicary.
	Eye of the storm	Mandy Loader.
	Grey owl	Vicky Shipton.
	How I met myself	David A. Hill.
	Just good friends	Penny Hancock.
	The Lahti file	Richard MacAndrew.
	The house by the sea	Patricia Aspinall.
	Martin Luther King	Coleen Degnan-Veness.
	Not above the law	Richard MacAndrew.
	Princess Diana	Cherry Gilchrist.
	A puzzle for Logan	Richard MacAndrew.
	Recycling	Sue Stewart.
	The return of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by Janet McAlpin.
	The secret garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett ; retold by Clare West
	The star zoo	Harry Gilbert
	Stories of survival	Fiona Beddall.
	Tales of the supernatural	Frank Brennan.
	The three strangers and other stories	Thomas Hardy ; retold by Clare West
	Amistad	eetold by D'Arcy and Evadne Adrian-Vallance.
	Australia and New Zealand	Christine Lindop.
	The Beatles	Paul Shipton.
	The Brontë story	Tim Vicary.
	The card	Arnold Bennett ; retold by Nick Bullard
	Chemical secret	Tim Vicary.
	A cup of kindness : stories from Scotland	retold by Jennifer Bassett
	Dancing with strangers : stories from Africa	retold by Clare West.
	Double cross	Philip Prowse.
	Ethan Frome	Edith Wharton ; retold by Susan Kingsley.
	The fall of the house of Usher and other stories	Edgar Allan Poe ; retold by Adrian Kelly.
	Five one-act plays	Donn Byrne.
	Forrest Gump	Winston Groom ; retold by John Escott.
	Frankenstein	Mary Shelley ; retold by Patrick Nobes.
	A history of Britain	Fiona Beddall.
	An ideal husband	Oscar Wilde ; retold by Mary Gladwin.
	Information technology	Paul A. Davies.
	The interpreter	retold by Karen Holmes.
	The ironing man	Colin Campbell.
	The island of Doctor Moreau	H.G. Wells ; retold by Fiona Beddall.
	Jim Smiley and his jumping frog and other stories	Mark Twain ; retold by Nancy Taylor.
	Justice	Tim Vicary.
	King Lear	William Shakespeare : retold by Chris Rice.
	The last king of Scotland	Giles Foden ; retold by Chris Rice.
	The last Sherlock Holmes story	Michael Dibdin ; retold by Rosalie Kerr.
	Leaving Microsoft to change the world	John Wood ; retold by Chris Rice.
	Leaving no footprint : stories from Asia	retold by Clare West
	The man with two shadows and other ghost stories	Mark Lemon [and others] ; retold by Louise Greenwood.
	Martin Luther King	Alan C. McLean.
	Matilda	Roald Dahl ; retold by John Escott.
	Mysteries of the unexplained	Kathy Burke.
	Notting Hill	Richard Curtis ; retold by Andy Hopkins.
	Othello	William Shakespeare ; retold by Rosalie Kerr.
	A pair of ghostly hands and other stories	retold by Diane Mowat
	The picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde ; retold by Jill Nevile
	Pirates of the Caribbean	retold by Karen Holmes.
	Pirates of the Caribbean.	retold by Karen Holmes.
	Playing with fire : stories from the Pacific Rim	retold by Jennifer Bassett.
	The prisoner of Zenda	Anthony Hope ; retold by Diane Mowat
	The railway children	Edith Nesbit ; retold by John Escott
	The Ring	Bernard Smith.
	Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of Boscombe Pool	Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by J.Y.K. Kerr.
	Skyjack!	Tim Vicary.
	Strong medicine	Richard MacAndrew.
	Through the looking-glass : and what Alice found there	Lewis Carroll ; retold by Jennifer Bassett
	Tooth and claw : short stories	Saki ; retold by Rosemary Border
	The turn of the screw	Henry James ; retold by Cherry Gilchrist.
	Two lives	Helen Naylor.
	The USA	Alison Baxter.
	The wind in the willows	Kenneth Grahame ; retold by Jennifer Bassett

Cover	Title	Author
	1984	George Orwell; Retold by Mike Dean
	The Amsterdam connection	Sue Leather.
	Black Beauty	Anna Sewell ; retold by John Escott
	Doors to a wider place : stories from Australia	retold by Christine Lindop ;
	The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	Robert Louis Stevenson ; retold by Rosemary Border
	Eat, pray, love : one woman's search for everything	Elizabeth Gilbert ; retold by Rachel Bladon
	Gladiator	retold by Annette Keen.
	Gulliver's travels	Jonathan Swift ; retold by Clare West
	High life, low life	Alan Battersby.
	The hound of the Baskervilles	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by Patrick Nobes.
	Lord Jim	Joseph Conrad ; retold by Clare West.
	Lorna Doone	R.D. Blackmore ; retold by David Penn
	Man hunt	Richard MacAndrew.
	The mosquito coast	Paul Theroux ; retold by Robin Waterfield ;
	Murder on the Orient Express	Agatha Christie ; retold by Fiona Beddall.
	Nothing but the truth	George Kershaw.
	Persuasion	Jane Austen ; retold by Clare West.
	The price of peace : stories from Africa	retold by Christine Lindop
	Seven	by Anthony Bruno ; retold by Ron Veness.
	Silas Marner : the weaver of Raveloe	George Eliot ; retold by Clare West.
	Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by David Maule.
	A time of waiting : stories from around the world	retold by Claire West.
	The unquiet grave : short stories	M.R. James ; retold by Peter Hawkins.
	Washington Square	Henry James ; retold by Kieran McGovern.
	About a boy	Nick Hornby ; retold by Anne Collins
	Alexander the Great	Fiona Beddall.
	Berlin Express	Michael Austen.
	But was it murder?	Jania Barrell.
	Cranford	Elizabeth Gaskell ; retold by Kate Mattock.
	The diary of a young girl	Anne Frank ; retold by Cherry Gilchrist.
	Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe ; retold by Chris Rice.
	Emma	Jane Austen ; retold by Annette Barnes.
	Falling leaves	Adeline Yen Mah ; retold by Sue Harmes.
	In the house	Margaret Johnson.
	King Solomon's mines	H. Rider Haggard ; retold by David Maule.
	Little women	Louisa May Alcott ; retold by John Escott
	The locked room and other horror stories	M.R. James ; retold by Louise Greenwood and Carolyn Jones.
	Macbeth	William Shakespeare ; retold by Anne Collins.
	A matter of chance	David A. Hill.
	The mirror crack'd from side to side	Agatha Christie ; retold by Anne Collins.
	Staying together	Judith Wilson.
	A tale of two cities	Charles Dickens ; retold by Ralph Mowat.
	Tears of the giraffe	Alexander McCall Smith ; retold by John Potter.
	The thirty-nine steps	John Buchan ; retold by Nick Bullard
	Three men in a boat	Jerome K. Jerome ; retold by Diane Mowat.
	Unbowed	Wangari Maathai ; retold by Jane Rollason.
	The university murders	Richard MacAndrew.
	Women in business	David Evans.

Cover	Title	Author
	The accidental tourist	Anne Tyler ; retold by Jennifer Bassett.
	The Bride price	Buchi Emecheta ; retold by Rosemary Border.
	Death on the Nile	Agatha Christie ; retold by Nancy Taylor
	Dragons' eggs	by J.M. Newsome.
	Emergency murder	Janet McGiffin.
	Far from the madding crowd	Thomas Hardy ; retold by Clare West.
	Heart of darkness	Joseph Conrad ; retold by Nancy Taylor
	In the shadow of the mountain	Helen Naylor.
	The invisible man	H.G.Wells ; retold by T.S. Gregory
	Jungle love	Margaret Johnson.
	Murder by art	Janet McGiffin.
	Outstanding short stories	selected and retold by G.C. Thornley.
	The phantom of the opera	Gaston Leroux ; retold by Coleen Degnan-Veness.
	The riddle of the sands	Erskine Childers ; retold by Peter Hawkins.
	Round the world in eighty days	Jules Verne ; translated and retold by H.E. Palmer.
	Sherlock Holmes short stories	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; selected and retold by Anthony Laude.
	The sugar glider	Rod Neilsen.
	Tales of mystery and imagination	Edgar Allan Poe ; retold by Roland John.
	Windows of the mind	Frank Brennan.
	World folktales	retold by Kathy Burke.
	The age of innocence	Edith Wharton ; retold by Clare West
	The Bourne supremacy	Robert Ludlum ; retold by David Maule.
	The brethren	John Grisham ; retold by Nancy Taylor.
	British and American short stories	retold by G.C. Thornley.
	Death in the dojo	Sue Leather.
	Four weddings and a funeral	Richard Curtis ; retold by Cherry Gilchrist.
	The great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald ; retold by Clare West.
	The hound of the Baskervilles	Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by Alan Ronaldson.
	More tales from Shakespeare	Charles and Mary Lamb ; retold by G. Horsley.
	Pride and prejudice	Jane Austen ; retold by Evelyn Attwood.
	Sense and sensibility	Jane Austen ; retold by Clare West.
	Sons and lovers	D. H. Lawrence ; retold by J. Y. K. Kerr.
	The story of the Internet	Stephen Bryant.
	Tales from Shakespeare	Charles and Mary Lamb ; retold by C. Kingsley Williams.
	A tangled web	Alan Maley.
	The war of the worlds	H. G. Wells ; retold by David Maule.
	Web	John Wyndham ; retold by Jocelyn Potter and Andy Hopkins.
	Wuthering Heights	Emily Brontë ; retold by Clare West.

Cover	Title	Author
	Crime and punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky ; retold by Nancy Taylor.
	Deadly harvest	Carolyn Walker.
	Gazing at stars : stories from Asia	retold by Clare West
	Jane Eyre	Charlotte Bronte ; retold by Clare West.
	The Joy Luck Club	Amy Tan ; retold by Clare West.
	A love for life	Penny Hancock.
	Les Misérables	Victor Hugo ; translated by Norman Denny ; retold by Chris Rice.
	Murder maker	Margaret Johnson.
	Nelson's dream	J.M. Newsome.
	Oliver Twist	Charles Dickens ; retold by Richard Rogers.
	A passage to India	E.M. Forster ; retold by Clare West.
	Pride and prejudice	Jane Austen ; retold by Clare West.
	Solo saxophone	Jeremy Harmer.
	Tess of the d'Urbervilles	Thomas Hardy ; retold by Clare West.
	This time it's personal	Alan Battersby.
	Vanity fair	William Makepeace Thackeray ; retold by Diane Mowat
	The way home	Sue Leather.
	The woman in white	Wilkie Collins ; retold by Richard G. Lewis.
	Anna Karenina	Tolstoy, Leo ; translated by Rosemary Edmonds
	Business @ the speed of thought	Bill Gates ; retold by Stephen Bryan
	The chamber	John Grisham ; retold by Sue Harmes.
	A dangerous sky	Michael Austen.
	East of Eden	John Steinbeck ; retold by Mary Gladwin.
	Frozen pizza and other slices of life	Antoinette Moses.
	Great expectations	Charles Dickens ; retold by Latif Doss.
	He knows too much	Alan Maley.
	Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert ; translated by Geoffrey Wall ; retold by Christopher Tribble.
	Memoirs of a geisha	Arthur Golden ; retold by Michael Dean.
	North and South	Elizabeth Gaskell ; retold by Mary Tomalin.
	Saving Private Ryan	retold by Jacqueline Kehl.
	Schindler's list	Thomas Keneally ; retold by Nancy Taylor.
	Trumpet voluntary	Jeremy Harmer.
	Living and learning English : ELI student voices	by students of the English Language Institute at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Cover	Title	Author
	Charlotte's web	E.B. White
	Written in the sky	Matthew Kaopio.
	The immigrant suite : hey xenophobe! who you calling a foreigner?	Hattie Gossett.
	Unsettling America : an anthology of contemporary multicultural poetry	edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.
	Up among the stars	Matthew Kaopio.
	Zillah's gift	Lois West Duffy.
	Sista tongue	Lisa Linn Kanae.

About this Collection

The collection is found in Hamilton Library and contains approximately 290 graded readers for use by English-language learners. These items have call numbers beginning with ZZ ELI and are found at the end of the Juvenile Collection on the 2nd floor.

Map to the Collection

The Juvenile Literature Collection is located on the second floor of Hamilton Library, along the wall in the southwest corner of the building.