ESL Graded Readers

Graded Readers are abridged and simplified titles including classics, short stories, popular fiction and biographies.

Graded Readers are shelved by Level and Title. The levels are color coded, and correspond to the GCC ESL Department course levels.

Credit Level 1

Call Number Title

L1 A

Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor.

L1 A

Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain ; retold by Jacqueline Kehl.

L1 A

Alice in Wonderland.

L1 A

Amazon rally / Eduardo Amos and Elisabeth Prescher.

L1 B

Brown eyes.

L1 C

Christmas in Prague / Joyce Hannam.

L1 C

Coldest place on Earth.

L1 D

Dream catcher / Rubi Borgia Pinger.

L1 E

Elephant man.

L1 F

Five famous fairy tales.

L1 G

Gift of the Magi and other stories / O. Henry ; retold by Nancy Taylor.

L1 G

Girl meets boy.

L1 G

Goodbye, Mr Hollywood / John Escott.

L1 H

House of the seven gables / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; retold by Michael Mendenhall.

L1 J

Jennifer Lopez / Rod Smith.

L1 K

King Arthur and the knights of the round table.

L1 L

Leaving home / Rubi Borgia Pinger.

L1 L

Leonardo DiCaprio.

L1 L

Little women / Louisa M. Alcott ; retold by M. Albers.

L1 M

Mary Queen of Scots.

L1 M

Michael Jordan / Nancy Taylor.

L1 M

Mutiny on the Bounty.

L1 O

One-way ticket : three short stories.

L1 P

Pele / Rod Smith.

L1 P

President’s murderer.

L1 P

Prince William / John Escott.

L1 R

Ransom of Red Chief : and other stories / O. Henry ; retold by Gina D. B. Clemen ; activities by Matt Renzi.

L1 R

Remember Miranda.

L1 R

Ricky Martin / Rod Smith.

L1 R

Rip Van Winkle : and The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving ; retold by Margaret Murphy.

L1 S

Shattered lives / Rubi Borgia Pinger.

L1 S

Stranger in a strange land / Rubi Borgia Pinger.

L1 S

Surfer! / Paul Harvey.

L1 T

Three musketeers.

L1 U

Under the moon.

L1 W

White death.

L1 W

Witches of Pendle.

 

Credit Level 2

Call Number Title

L2 A

Alice in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll ; retold by Mary Tomalin.

L2 A

Alice’s adventures in Wonderland / Lewis Carroll ; retold by Jennifer Bassett.

L2 A

Alone together / Nina Weinstein.

L2 A

Audrey Hepburn / Chris Rice.

L2 B

Baywatch : the inside story / Deborah Schwartz ; retold by Robin Waterfield.

L2 B

Brad Pitt / Nancy Taylor.

L2 C

Canterbury tales.

L2 C

Cay / Theodore Taylor ; retold by Derek Strange.

L2 C

Christmas carol / Charles Dickens.

L2 C

Christmas carol.

L2 D

Dead man’s island.

L2 D

Dracula / Bram Stoker ; retold by Diane Mowat.

L2 E

E.T., the extra-terrestrial / by William Kotzwinkle ; based on a screenplay by Melissa Mathison ; retold by Michael Nation.

L2 E

Ear-rings from Frankfurt.

L2 F

Family secret / Nina Weinstein.

L2 F

Fire in the forest.

L2 S

First wave : subject 117 / written by Chris Brancato ; retold by Karen Holmes.

L2 F

Friends / Cheryl Pavlik.

L2 G

Grace Darling.

L2 G

Gulliver’s travels / Jonathan Swift ; retold by Pauline Francis ; [illustrations by Victor Ambrus].

L2 G

Gulliver’s travels : a voyage to Lilliput / Jonathan Swift.

L2 G

Gulliver’s travels.

L2 H

Hercules : serpent’s shadow / a novel by Timothy Boggs based on the Universal television series entitled: Hercules: the legendary journeys created by Christian Williams ; retold by John Escott.

L2 H

Hercules : serpent’s shadow / a novel by Timothy Boggs based on the Universal television series entitled: Hercules: the legendary journeys created by Christian Williams ; retold by John Escott.

L2 J

Jungle book / Rudyard Kipling.

L2 J

Jurassic Park III / based on a motion picture screenplay written by Peter Buchman and Alexander Payne & Jim Taylor ; based on characters created by Michael Crichton ; adapted by Scott Ciencin ; retold by David Maule.

L2 K

Kidnapped.

L2 L

Lord Jim / Joseph Conrad.

L2 L

Love triangle / Cheryl Pavlik.

L2 M

Mendozas of Mexico / Cheryl Pavlik.

L2 M

Midsummer night’s dream and other stories from Shakespeare’s plays / [William Shakespeare].

L2 M

Missing scientist / S.F. Stevens.

L2 M

Mysterious island / Jules Verne ; retold by Jane Rollason.

L2 M

Mysterious island.

L2 N

Nelson Mandela / Coleen Degnan-Veness.

L2 N

New Yorkers : short stories / O. Henry ; retold by Diane Mowat.

L2 O

Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens.

L2 O

On the farm / Nina Weinstein.

L2 O

Oprah Winfrey / Cindy Leaney.

L2 P

Prince and the pauper.

L2 R

Railway children / E. Nesbit ; retold by Karen Holmes.

L2 R

Room and board / Nina Weinstein.

L2 S

Scarlet letter / Nathaniel Hawthorne ; retold by Chris Rice.

L2 S

Secret garden / Frances Hodgson Burnett ; retold by Anne Collins.

L2 S

Sherlock Holmes short stories / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by Clare West.

L2 S

Single dad / Cheryl Pavlik.

L2 S

Stealing the hills / Josephine Feeney.

L2 S

Stories from Shakespeare’s comedies / [William Shakespeare] ; retold by Katherine Mattock.

L2 S

Stranger than fiction : urban myths / Phil Healey and Rick Glanvill ; retold by Patty Key and Stephen Kirby.

L2 T

Tales from the Arabian nights / retold by Anne Collins ; [illustrations by Per Dahlberg].

L2 T

Tales of crime and detection / G.F. Wear.

L2 T

Three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas ; retold by Diane Mowat.

L2 T

Through the looking glass / Lewis Carroll.

L2 T

Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson ; retold by Ann Ward.

L2 V

Voodoo Island.

L2 V

Voyages of Sindbad the sailor / retold by Pauline Francis.

L2 W

Washington Square / Henry James ; retold by Jane Rollason.

L2 W

White Fang / Jack London ; retold by Brigit Viney.

L2 W

White heron and other American short stories / Sarah Orne Jewett and others ; retold by Mary Gladwin.

L2 Y

Year of sharing.

 

Credit Level 3

Call Number Title

L3 A

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain ; retold by John Votaw.

L3 A

Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Mark Twain.

L3 A

Amistad / adapted from the junior novelization by Joyce Annette Barnes ; based on the screenplay by David Franzoni and Steven Zaillian ; retold by D’Arcy and Evadne Adrian-Vallance.

L3 B

Beatles / Paul Shipton.

L3 B

Billy Budd, sailor / Herman Melville ; retold by Mary Gladwin.

L3 B

Brontë story.

L3 C

Call of the wild / Jack London ; retold by Nick Bullard.

L3 C

Chemical secret.

L3 C

Christmas carol / Charles Dickens ; retold by Clare West.

L3 C

Collected classics.

L3 C

Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas ; retold by Karen Holmss.

L3 D

Diamond as big as the Ritz : and other stories / F. Scott Fitzgerald.

L3 D

Down the river.

L3 D

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / R.L. Stevenson ; retold by Rosemary Border.

L3 F

Fall of the House of Usher and other stories / Edgar Allan Poe ; retold by Adrian Kelly.

L3 F

Frankenstein / Mary Shelley ; retold by Deborah Tempest.

L3 F

Frankenstein.

L3 G

Gifts and other stories / O. Henry and others.

L3 G

Gulliver’s travels / Jonathan Swift ; retold by Clare West.

L3 H

Horse whisperer / Nicholas Evans ; retold by Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter.

L3 I

Ideal husband / Oscar Wilde ; retold by Mary Gladwin.

L3 J

Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë ; retold by Ann Ward.

L3 J

Journey to the centre of the earth / Jules Verne.

L3 J

Justice.

L3 K

King Solomon’s mines / H. Rider Haggard.

L3 N

Night of terror : and other strange tales / Guy de Maupassant.

L3 N

NYPD blue : blue beginning.

L3 O

Operation Mastermind.

L3 P

Pickwick papers / Charles Dickens.

L3 P

Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde ; retold by Jill Nevile.

L3 R

Rain man : a novel / by Leonore Fleischer ; based on a screenplay by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow and a story by Barry Morrow.

L3 R

Red badge of courage / Stephen Crane ; retold by Mary Gladwin.

L3 R

Red badge of courage / Stephen Crane.

L3 R

Return of Sherlock Holmes.

L3 R

Ring : a story of madness, mystery and murder.

L3 R

Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe ; text adaptation by Maud Jackson ; notes and activities by Guglielmo Corrado ; introduction and dossiers by Gina D. B. Clemen.

L3 R

Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe.

L3 R

Robinson Crusoe.

L3 R

Rogue trader / Nick Leeson ; retold by Susan Fearn.

L3 R

Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare ; retold by Anne Collins.

L3 R

Rosa Raye, crime reporter / Sue Kerman ; illustrations by Mark Thomas.

L3 R

Royal family / Cherry Gilchrist.

L3 S

Scandal in Bohemia / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by Ronald Holt.

L3 S

Secret agent / Joseph Conrad ; retold by Robin Waterfield.

L3 S

Sense and sensibility / Jane Austen ; retold by Cherry Gilchrist.

L3 S

Sherlock Holmes and the mystery of Boscombe Pool / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by J.Y.K. Kerr.

L3 S

Silas Marner / George Eliot ; retold by Clare West.

L3 S

Snow goose.

L3 S

Star zoo.

L3 S

StarGate : from the screenplay and novelization / by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich ; adapted by Sheila Black.

L3 S

Stories from Shakespeare.

L3 D

Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson ; retold by Rosemary Border.

L3 S

Swiss Family Robinson.

L3 T

Tale of two cities / Charles Dickens.

L3 T

Tales of mystery and imagination / Edgar Allan Poe ; retold by Margaret Naudi.

L3 T

Tales of mystery and imagination / Edgar Allan Poe.

L3 T

Thirty nine steps / John Buchan ; retold by Nick Bullard.

L3 T

Three men in a boat / Jerome K. Jerome ; retold by Diane Mowat.

L3 T

Tooth and claw : short stories / by Saki ; retold by Rosemary Border.

L3 T

Turn of the screw / Henry James ; retold by Cherry Gilchrist.

L3 T

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea / Jules Verne.

L3 W

War of the worlds / H.G. Wells.

L3 Y

Yearling / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings ; retold by Coleen Degnan-Veness.

L3 Y

Young king and other stories / Oscar Wilde ; retold by Sue Harmes.

L3 Y

Young king and other stories.

 

Credit Level 4-5

Call Number Title

L4-5 A

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy ; translated by Rosemary Edmonds ; retold by Anne Collins.

L4-5 B

Benetton / Jonathan Mantle ; retold by Susan Fearn ; edited by Karen Holmes ; consultant editor, David Evans.

L4-5 B

Brethren / John Grisham ; retold by Nancy Taylor ; series editors Andy Hopkins and Jocelyne Potter.

L4-5 C

Chamber / John Grisham ; retold by Sue Harmes.

L4-5 C

Client / John Grisham ; retold by Janet McAlpin.

L4-5 C

Collected classics.

L4-5 C

Crime story collection / Sara Paretsky ... [et al.] ; retold by John and Celia Turvey.

L4-5 D

David Copperfield / Charles Dickens ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 D

David Copperfield / Charles Dickens ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 D

Doll's house, and other stories / Katherine Mansfield ; retold by Ann Ward.

L4-5 D

Dracula / Bram Stoker ; retold by David Wharry.

L4-5 E

Emma / Jane Austen ; retold by Annette Barnes.

L4-5 F

Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 F

Far from the madding crowd / Thomas Hardy ; retold by Jennifer Bassett.

L4-5 F

Firm / John Grisham ; retold by Robin Waterfield.

L4-5 F

Firm / John Grisham.

L4-5 F

Frankenstein / Mary Shelley.

L4-5 G

Goldman Sachs : the culture of success / Lisa Endlich ; retold by Doug Campbell ; edited by Coleen Degnan-Veness ; consultant editor, David Evans.

L4-5 G

Goodbye summer blues.

L4-5 G

Grass is singing / Doris Lessing ; retold by Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter.

L4-5 G

Great discovery.

L4-5 G

Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 G

Great expectations / Charles Dickens ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 G

Great Gatsby / by F. Scott Fitzgerald ; simplified by Celia Turvey.

L4-5 J

Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 L

L.A. confidential / James Ellroy ; retold by Nancy Taylor.

L4-5 L

Lorna Doone / R.D. Blackmore ; retold by Mary Tomalin.

L4-5 M

Mill on the floss / George Eliot ; retold by Andy Hopkins and Jocelyn Potter.

L4-5 M

Miserables / Victor Hugo ; translated by Norman Denny ; retold by Chris Rice.

L4-5 M

Moonstone / Wilkie Collins ; retold by David Wharry.

L4-5 M

Mosquito Coast / Paul Theroux ; retold by Robin Waterfield.

L4-5 O

Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens ; retold by Richard Rogers.

L4-5 O

Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens.

L4-5 P

Partner / John Grisham ; retold by Jacqueline Kehl.

L4-5 P

Pelican brief / John Grisham ; retold by Robin Waterfield.

L4-5 P

Picture of Dorian Gray / Oscar Wilde ; retold by Kieran McGovern.

L4-5 P

Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; retold by Evelyn Attwood.

L4-5 R

Rainmaker / John Grisham ; retold by Cindy Leaney.

L4-5 R

Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier ; retold by A.S.M. Ronaldson.

L4-5 R

Round the world in eighty days / by Jules Verne ; translated and simplified by H.E. Palmer.

L4-5 S

Scarlet and black / Stendhal ; retold by Duncan Campbell-Smith.

L4-5 S

Snow falling on cedars / David Guterson ; retold by Christopher Tribble.

L4-5 S

Street lawyer / John Grisham ; retold by Michael Dean.

L4-5 T

Tale of two cities / Charles Dickens.

L4-5 T

Tales of mystery and imagination / by Edgar Allan Poe ; simplified by R. John.

L4-5 T

Tales of mystery and imagination.

L4-5 T

Testament / John Grisham ; retold by Karen Holmes.

L4-5 T

Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; retold by David Maule.

L4-5 T

Three adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

L4-5 T

Time to kill / John Grisham ; retold by Christopher Tribble.

L4-5 T

Tom Jones / Henry Fielding ; retold by Janet McAlpin.

L4-5 T

Treasure Island.

L4-5 T

Twist in the tale : five short stories / Arthur Hoey Davis ... [et al.] ; retold by Penny Cameron.

L4-5 W

Web / John Wyndham ; retold by Jocelyn Potter and Andy Hopkins.

L4-5 W

Woman in white / Wilkie Collins ; retold by Anne Collins.

L4-5 W

Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 W

Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 W

Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë ; retold by Clare West.

L4-5 W

Wuthering Heights / Emily Brontë ; retold by Evelyn Attwood.

L4-5 W

Wuthering Heights / Emily Bronte.

 

Non-Credit Level 1

Call Number Title

N1 C

California, here I come! / Marilyn S. Rosenthal, Daniel B. Freeman.

N1 R

Rebecca's dream / Marilyn S. Rosenthal, Daniel B. Freeman.

N1 S

Saying goodbye / Marilyn S. Rosenthal, Daniel B. Freeman.

N1 V

Very good year / Marilyn S. Rosenthal, Daniel B. Freeman.

 

Last Updated 11/14/06 jw

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