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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
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
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- NES
The Love of A King
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said 'No!' He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another man. It was a love story that shook the world. The King had to choose: to be King, …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790864
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms level 2
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- DAI
Candyfloss
Floss’s parents split up when she was younger and she now has to split up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum’s new boyfriend and her new baby half-sister. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon café. But then their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss’s mum decides to move to Australia. Floss has to choose whethe…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780385608374
- Collation
- 345 p.; Pbk.; Bw.; 22cm
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- F WIL c
The Death of Karen Silkwood
from the back cover: This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn't she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790574
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- HAN
Sapphire battersea
Hetty Feather was just a baby when her mother left her at the Foundling Hospital. Hetty longed to find her real mum -- and finally her wish was granted. But just as they have found each other, they are separated again, as Hetty leaves the home to become a maid of all work to Mr Buchanan. Set in London in the 1870s, this sequel to Hetty Feather is a wonderfully evocative and original historical …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780385618922
- Collation
- 400 p.; Pbk.; Bw.; 22cm
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- F WIL s
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
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- DEF
Pumpkin soup
What's cooking in the old white cabin? Pumpkin soup. The best you ever tasted!
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780374460310
- Collation
- 32 pages; illustrated; colored, paperback
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- F COO p
Deadly little scandals
Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sa…
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- 9780241684382
- Collation
- 368 p. ; 19, 5 cm
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- Debutantes #2
- Call Number
- 823 BAR d
Little white lies
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father…
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- 9780241684368
- Collation
- 432 p. ; 19,5 cm
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- Debutantes #1
- Call Number
- 823 BAR l
Animal stories
Long, long ago, the leopard lived in the 'sclusively bare, hot, shiny High Veldt, where there was sand and sandy-coloured rock and 'sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra were there and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived there, and they were 'sclusively sandy-yellow-brownish all over.
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781782097020
- Collation
- 17,5 x 22,5; Hc; Fcol; 383p
- Series Title
- Classic Treasury
- Call Number
- F MIL a
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