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Dylan's questions
Dylan is going on a nature walk with his mother and sister. What will his curiosity help him discover on the adventure?
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781478804826
- Collation
- 16 p. ; ill. ; 16,5 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177 DAN d
Small things like these
It is 1985, in an Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal and timber merchant, faces into his busiest season. As he does the rounds, he feels the past rising up to meet him ― and encounters the complicit silences of a people controlled by the Church.
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- Ed. 1
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- 9780571368709
- Collation
- 116 p. ; 20 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 823 KEE s
Bleak house (easy classics)
After surviving fourteen long years with her horrible aunt, and nothing but a doll and an old handkerchief for company, Esther Summerson's life is finally looking a little brighter. She's going to school and making friends, real friends! The only thing Esther's missing now is a mother. But long-lost parents don't just turn up out of the blue. Do they?
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264989
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC b
David Copperfield (easy classics)
David's life isn't easy. His father is dead and his mother is getting married to the meanest man in the country. To top things off, when he is sent to school, David discovers punishments more terrible than he can imagine. Surely life can't get any worse! The only happy ever afters David knows are in the pages of his favourite books. Can he rewrite his own ending?
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264880
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC d
Little Dorrit (easy classics)
Amy Dorrit's father has been in prison for as long as she can remember. That s totally normal, right? Just like doing chores for horrid Mrs Clennam, fixing her sister's dresses (without getting any thanks) and saving her own dinner to feed her father. But when Mrs Clennam's son returns from abroad, he brings with him a host of family secrets and turns Amy's normal life on its head.
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264996
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC l
Hard times (easy classics)
Coketown is no place for imagination. There are facts and figures and absolutely nothing else, or so Thomas Gradgrind thinks. When the circus appears in town, it brings Sissy Jupe with it. A young girl who has been abandoned by her father and is taken in by Thomas Gradgrind. Full of fun and energy, will Sissy save the Gradgrind children from a miserable life of facts and figures before it's too…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264866
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC h
Great expectations (easy classics)
Pip's just your average boy. He has no parents, lives with his scary sister and once met an escaped criminal on Christmas Eve. Totally normal. And things get even stranger when a mysterious stranger starts paying him loads of money. Sure, Pip's loving his new life of luxury, but will he ever find out who's paying the bills, and what they want from him in return?
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264842
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC g
The old curiosity shop (easy classics)
Filled with rusting relics and tattered treasure maps, The Old Curiosity Shop is Nell Trent's favourite place in the whole world—which is lucky, because it's also her home. Nell and her grandfather have always been happy with their simple lives. But when money gets tight, the pair are thrown out of their beloved shop and into the unknown. Poor and hungry, with no one to turn to, how will they…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264835
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC t
Oliver Twist (easy classics)
Oliver Twist is poor. Always has been, always will be. Being born in a workhouse means that you'll probably always be treated like rubbish. Oliver does not want a life of hard work and measly meals, but he soon learns that it's never safe to ask for more. What Oliver really needs is a family. But is a family of thieves, kidnappers and killers really a family at all?
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264828
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC o
A tale of two cities (easy classics)
With daily beheadings and famous buildings being burnt to the ground, Paris during the Revolution is not the safest place to be. When Dr Manette is released from prison and reunited with his daughter, everything seems to finally be getting better. But his daughter's fiancé is keeping some dangerous secrets that lead the family on a deadly adventure. How long can 'happy ever after' really l…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782264873
- Collation
- 96 p. ; ill. ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- The Charles Dickens Children's Collection
- Call Number
- F DIC a
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