Death in the Freezer

from the back cover: Ellen Shore's family is an ordinary American family, and Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous - very rich, but he gives nothing to his siste…

Grace Darling

from the back cover: All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind. How could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger th…

Factfiles : The Everest Story

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194236430

Collation

72p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

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Call Number

796.522 VIC

Factfiles : Dinosaurs

Imagine an animal with teeth as big as bananas - and a brain as big as an orange. Or a flying animal with wings as wide as a small plane. Think about a tail that could knock a man's head off, or a mouth with hundreds of teeth. Is it any surprise that people are interested in dinosaurus? Nobody has ever seen a living dinosaur, but millions of us go to museums every year to stare at the bones of…

Chemical Secret

from the back cover: The job was too good. There had to be a problem - and there was. John Duncan was an honest man, but he needed money. He had children to look after. He was ready to do anything, and his bosses knew it. They gave him the job because he couldn't say no; he couldn't afford to be honest. And the job was like a poison inside him. It changed him and blinded him, so that h…

The Brontë Story

from the back cover: On a September day in 1821, in the church of a Yorkshire village, a man and six children stood around a grave. They were burying a woman: the man's wife, the children's mother. The children were all very young, and within a few years the two oldest were dead, too. Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of t…

The Mysterious Death of Charles Bravo

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194793872

Collation

72p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 3

Call Number

VIC

Justice

from the back cover: Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Queen's coachman, who loses his leg in the bombing. And for Alan and his daughter Jane there is more terror to come, in the search for the truth behind the bombing. Will the terrorists be caug…

Titanic

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194236195

Collation

56 p. ; ill.

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 1

Call Number

910 VIC t

City of Lights

Cathy and Helen, two astronauts, and Mary, a reporter, are making the first flight on Space Bird One, NASA's new spaceplane. They are going to the moon. The flight goes very well until Mary sees a UFO, then everything begins to go wrong.'