Oxford Bookworms 3. Moondial

by Various

'Moondial!' As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears - and the voices and the wind went away. Minty opened her eyes . . . and knew that she was in a different morning, not the one she had woken up to. And so Minty's strange adventure begins - a journey through time into the past, where she finds Tom, and Sarah . . . and the evil Miss Vole.

74 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 1996

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Reviews

[saw · Rating 4 out of 5]

You can see, hear, taste, smell, touch........ and perhaps something more.

[Nhi Nguyễn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not the type of ghost/horror story that I expected to read, because there were so many things going on in this story that I couldn't find a reasonable explanation for them, and sometimes things to me seemed a little bit boring and ridiculous. I waited for the plot twist/big revelation/truth revealed about the ghost, and all the complication surrounding Minty's traveling back in two different points of time in the past, but the ending just quite didn't satisfy me. And who was actually the Devil's child? Was it Minty? I read to the part of Minty holding the mirror in front of Miss Vole and then I couldn't grab my hand on what that scene meant. I don't know if because the story was retold in short form, which made it hard to fully expressing everything about the story like the original, or because it was retold in English - not my native language - that I couldn't understand things at some points. And why must Minty's mother have an accident and be in a coma? That's just so redundant and served nothing to the story!

[Misaki Arafuka · Rating 4 out of 5]

-Level
Oxford 3

-Time
120min

-7words
girl/ghost/different/century/sundial/devil/back

-Question
1) The main character can see ghost. Do you have inspiration?
- No, not at all! I have never seen ghost, so I can't believe ghost exist.

2) The main character recorded her voice for her mother who lost consciousness. What do you think is the good way to make these people wake up?
- I agree with her idea. I think talking to these people is good even If there is no response.


I like horror story, so I chose this book. This story was fantastic. The main character met two children who lived hundred years ago. She made a journey through time into the past.

[Miyu Kojima · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Oxford, level 3
2. 10/19=50 mins. 10/21=40 mins.
3. Minty, house, garden, graves, sundial, moondial, different
4. a:Minty opened her eyes...and knew she was in a different morning, not the one that she had woken up to.
b: It was very shocked and hard to understand where I was and what happened. If I were her, I want to go back to real world, but Minty did not. She was really bravery.
5. Beginning of the story, I was very scared because Minty , the main character, had six sense and she can feel ghosts. But, this story was written shorten, so it was difficult to understand what happened between each actions. Anyway, I do not want to see, feel and meet any ghosts through whole my life.

[Keiko Kawashima · Rating 3 out of 5]

1. Moondail: Oxford

2. 5/25 = 30 minutes, 5/26 = 35 minutes

3. Minty, traffic accident, Belton House, Tom, Sarah, moondail, record

4. a. She stopped. Her mother's eyes were opening. She was looking straight into Minty's own eyes.
b. I like it. Because Minty's mother wake up and then everything will turn out fine

5. This story is a little mystery because Minty can move a different era when she said "moondail."

[Mana · Rating 4 out of 5]

1. Helen Cresswell / level 3

2. May 5 / about 100minutes

3. midnight.sundial.the past.devil.minty.garden.moondial

4. Minty opened her eyes...and knew she was in a different morning, not that had woken up to. / I was excited to read this sentence because this sentence is the moment that back to the past.

5. I like this book. Because I'm interested in supernatural things. So I was excited very much.

[Rie Matsuda · Rating 5 out of 5]

1. OXFORD
2. about 120minutes
3. Grave, Icy, Yard, Adventure, Time, Ghosts, Moon
4. Do you want to travel around the time with time machine?
No, I don't. Because if I know the future, I will not enjoy my everyday life.

I thought this story was difficult. Sometimes I couldn't understand this story. I want to read this book again.

[Hideyuki Takahashi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oxford university press level 3
girl - ghost - hospital - past - children - boy - devil
9/31=71min
Do you believe in ghost?
I do not believe in it. If I hear of horror story , I am not afraid of it.
I like this novel because it is easy to understand. Also, I have not read horror novel before long time.

[Lily · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was the first book I ever read in English and I felt so proud when I finished it. I won it as a prize for an English school competition and I knew so little about English I had to stop at each word to look for it in a dictionnary. The story was not that amazing but still I felt so good about being able to understand the whole thing it remains an incredible experience for me.