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…

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

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ISBN/ISSN

9780194793872

Collation

72p; ill; bw; pbk

Series Title

Oxford Bookworms 3

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VIC

Desert, Mountain, Sea

from the back cover: Three different parts of the world, but all of them dangerous, lonely places. Three different women, but all of them determined to go - and to come back alive! Robyn Davidson walked nearly 3,000 kilometres across the Australian desert - with a dog and four camels. Arlene Blum led a team of ten women to the top of Annapurna - one of the highest mountains in the world.…

True Stories Teaching Notes

True Stories is a special series of Oxford Reading Tree titles which are designed to introduce children to non-fiction through enjoyable narrative biographies. Each book features a glossary of technical vocabulary and a range of high frequency words.'

Henry VIII and His Six Wives

from the back cover: There were six of them - three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King's wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life. After the King's death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters - one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, …

The Coldest Place on Earth

from the back cover: In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. Robert Falcon Scott, an Englishman, left London in his ship, the Terra Nova, and began the long journey south. Five days later, another ship also began to travel south. And on this ship was Roald Amundsen, a Norwegian. But Antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is…

Chicken Soup For The Soul : Teens Talk Getting In To College : 101 True Stori…

These days, colleges are deluged with applications and the college application process has become the most traumatic thing that most students and their parents have ever experienced. Lots of books tell you how to get into college, but this book uniquely provides emotional, instead of tactical, support. The stories in the book are written by kids who have been there and want to pass on …

Menantang Maut di Kutub Utara dan Selatan

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ISBN/ISSN

9789792273298

Collation

48p; ill; col; pbk

Series Title

Graphic Survival Stories

Call Number

SHO

Mutiny on the Bounty

from the back cover: It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutin…