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Too Old to Rock and Roll
Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course ... or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790741
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- 58p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 2
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- MAR
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories
from the back cover: Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting . . . In th…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790871
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworm stage 2
- Call Number
- POE
Voodoo Island
Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his hous…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790758
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- DUC
Robinson Crusoe
from the back cover: 'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a fr…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790703
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 2
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- DEF
Sherlock Holmes Short Stories
from the back cover: Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens, and watches, and thinks. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening - and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these three of his best stories, Holmes has three visitors to the famous flat in Baker Street - visitors who …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790710
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
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- HOL
Matty Doolin
from the back cover: Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a camping holiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Ne…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790659
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- COO
Factfiles : Leonardo da Vinci
from the back cover: 'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?' All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was also one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are s…
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- 9780194236706
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- 56p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- 920 RAY
Factfiles : Chocolate
from the back cover: You can drink it, and you can cook with it. You can even make buildings, dresses, and hats out of it. You can give it to somebody as a present, or you can buy it for yourself. And of course you can eat it. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate, chocolates with gold on the outside - everybody loves chocolate. Follow its story, from the forests of Central America h…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194787307
- Collation
- 56p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- 637 HAR
Huckleberry Finn
from the back cover: Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure. So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790635
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
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- TWA
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…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790611
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- VIC
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