Oxford Bookworms 2 : Stories from the Five Towns

from the back cover: Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is a Toby Hall. Why does he find there? And there are the Hessian brothers …

The Card

from the back cover: Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventu…

Fly guy presents: garbage & recycling

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9781338217193

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Unpaged. ; ill. ; 23 cm

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628 ARN f

Horrible science: disgusting digestion

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9780439944458

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500 ARN h

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