from the back cover: Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is a Toby Hall. Why does he find there? And there are the Hessian brothers …
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 …
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Answers more than 70 questions to help you understand key subject areas. Dicover who the greatest composers are, which sports are the most popular, who are the most famous artists, plus many more exciting facts. Accurate illustrations and photographs create a visual factfinder packed with essential information on the people, places and events that shape our world.