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The Canterville Ghost
from the back cover : There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the new house and the ghost - because of course don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of th Otis family.…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790536
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
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- WIL
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, …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790628
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
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- HAR
Ear-rings from Frankfurt
from the back cover: Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer - again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive gold ear-rings? Onl…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790598
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
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- WRI
Red Dog
Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal. Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories - some are funny, …
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- 9780194790833
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 2
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- BER
Much Ado About Nothing
from the back cover: There are two love stories in this fast-moving comedy. Brave young Claudio and Leonato's pretty daughter Hero are in love and want to marry, but Don John has a wicked plan to stop their wedding. Will he succeed, or will the truth come out? Will Claudio and Hero marry, after all? Beatrice and Benedick are always arguing with each other, but how do they really feel? Perha…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194235198
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworm stage 2
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- SHA
Love Among the Haystacks
from the back cover: It is hay-making time on the Wookey farm. Two brothers are building the haystack, but thinking about other things - about young women, and love. There are angry words, and then a fight between the brothers. But the work goes on, visitors come and go, and the long hot summer day slowly turns to evening. Then the sun goes down, covering the world with a carpet of darkness…
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- 9780194790802
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms level 2
- Call Number
- LAW
Five Children and It
from the back cover: When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said. But wishes are difficult…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790604
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- NES
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
from the back cover: The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery. Ex…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790789
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- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford
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- 813.3 POE t
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
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworm stage 2
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- POE
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