The children of the New Forest
By: Captain Marryat ; retold by Rowena Akinyemi.
Contributors: Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.
Series: Oxford bookworms library ; Stage 2, Human interest
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 56
ISBN-13: 9780194790543
Subjects: 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
Genres: Textbooks for foreign speakers; Problems, exercises, etc; Fiction
Description: '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
Notes: First published in Oxford Bookworms 1996.