The children of the New Forest /
Captain Marryat ; retold by Rowena Akinyemi.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
- 56 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Oxford bookworms library, Stage 2 (700 headwords), Human interest. .
- Graded reader .
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?' Word count 6,605.
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