from the back cover: A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensiti…
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page tes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Julius Caesar is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary tes, reading lists (including websites) and …
from the back cover: Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories from China, Malaysia, Singapore, and India, are by writers Liu Hong, Attia Hosain, Preeta Samarasan, Hwee Hwee Tan, Ridjal Noor, Shashi Deshpande, Ovidia Yu, Nora Adam, Nirupama Subramanian, and Catherine Lim. [word count 28,539]
Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in 1955, is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was...? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his now-world-famous software company, Microsoft, Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest philanth…
Pinky and Rex's neighbor isn't really a mean old witch, but Mrs. Morgan yells and waves her broom around every time the kids step onto her lawn. And now she's taken their ball because it rolled into her yard. The kids think of a trick to play on her. But seeing Mrs. Morgan sitting alone in her living room makes Pinky think getting even isn't such a good idea, so he tries a different plan--one …
"Lets sit with Dad", smiled Flora's mum. "We have something to share with you, see. When you were a small, tiny baby, you became par of our own family." Explore with your child the issue of adoption as Flora's mum and dad explain to her how she became part of their family.