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Matty Doolin
from the back cover: Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a camping holiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Ne…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790659
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- COO
The Children of the New Forest
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…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790543
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- MAR
Dracula
In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula - a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls.( )In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790581
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- STO
Love Among the Haystacks
from the back cover: It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790802
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms level 2
- Call Number
- LAW
New Yorkers : Short Stories
from the back cover: A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensiti…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790673
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- HEN
Changing their Skies
'Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place . . . a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again.' Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. He will need money to live on, money for his plane ticket . . . And then there is Mother . . . Bookworms World Stories collect stories w…
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 2 (6,987 words, 700 headwor
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790826
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- BAS
Alice's Adventures in the Wonderland
from the back cover: There, on top of the mushroom, was a large caterpillar, smoking a pipe. After a while the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow, sleepy voice, 'Who are you?' What strange things happen when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole and into Wonderland! She has conversations with the Caterpillar and the Cheshire Cat, goes to the Mad Hatter's tea par…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790512
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- CAR
The Canterville Ghost
from the back cover : There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the new house and the ghost - because of course don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of th Otis family.…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790536
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- WIL
The Mortal Instrumens : City of Glass
Grade 8 Up–In the two previous books, Clary learns that she is a member of a race of demon-hunters and that she has the special ability to create new versions of the runes that give these Shadowhunters their power. Her mother has been hiding the truth from her for years to protect her from her father, Valentine, a cult-leader-turned-villain who is seeking to gain control over the Shadowhunter…
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- Book Three
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781416972259
- Collation
- 541p; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 823 CLA C
Cry Freedom
from the back cover: They said Steve Biko was a man of violence; then why did he talk of peace? They said he wanted revolution; so why did he talk of friendship? They said he died of hunger; why was his body broken and bruised? This is the story of a man's fight with the government of South Africa. It is the story of all people who prefer truth to lies. It is the story of all people who cry…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792561
- Collation
- 120p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 6
- Call Number
- BRI
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