A Time of Waiting : Stories from Around the World

from the back cover: When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her. Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in Engl…

Silas Marner

from the back cover: In a hole under the floorboards Silas Marner the linen-weaver keeps his gold. Every day he works hard at his weaving, and every night he takes the gold out and holds the bright coins lovingly, feeling them and counting them again and again. The villagers are afraid of him and he has no family, no friends. Only the gold is his friend, his delight, his reason for living. …

Kidnapped

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194791205

Collation

72p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 3

Call Number

STE

Leaving No Footprint : Stories from Asia

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194791410

Collation

72p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 3

Call Number

WES

Dancing with Strangers

from the back covers: 'Sometimes I think this search is hopeless. So much has happened since I last saw my friends. Perhaps they have died or the rebels have taken them away. But I know I have to find Laker. I know she needs me.' In a country torn by war, it is easy to stop hoping. All Atita has is an old photograph. She does not even know if she will recognize Laker after all these years .…

The Three Strangers and other stories

from the back cover: On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd's cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night . . . In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us …

A Christmas Carol

from the back cover: Christmas is humbug, Scrooge says - just a time when you find yourself a year older and not a penny richer. The only thing that matters to Scrooge is business, and making money. But on Christmas Eve three spirits come to visit him. They take him travelling on the wings of the night to see the shadows of Christmas past, present, and future - and Scrooge learns a lesson t…

City Of Bones

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9781416955078

Collation

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Series Title

The Mortal Instruments

Call Number

823 CLA C

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…

AQA History AS Unit 2 : Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945

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ISBN/ISSN

141392BM

Collation

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Series Title

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Call Number

943.08 WHI A