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Tales from Longpuddle
from the back cover: Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he's not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it. These stories are set in an English country village of the …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790796
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms stage 2
- Call Number
- HAR
William Shakespeare
from the back cover: William Shakespeare. Born April 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon. Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time . . . or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . . . or when his on…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194790765
- Collation
- 64p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- 920 BAS
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
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworm stage 2
- Call Number
- POE
Factfiles : William and Kate
from the back cover: Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience. Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills. Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story - very important for fluent reading and extensive reading. There's …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194236683
- Collation
- 56p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 1
- Call Number
- 920 LIN
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
- Collation
- 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
- Collation
- 56p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- DEF
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
- Collation
- 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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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194236706
- Collation
- 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
Factfiles : Climate Change
It's a terrible problem - or it's really not as bad as people say. There will be sudden big changes - or slower changes that we can learn to live with. It means the end for many animals, people, even whole
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194236317
- Collation
- 56p; ill; col; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 2
- Call Number
- 551.69 NEW
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