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Doors to a Wider Place : Stories from Australia
from the back cover: 'When it came to football, Billy was different. Black hands grab the ball. Black feet kick the ball. Black hopes rise up with the ball to the sickly white sky. No one can stop him now. He forgets about the river, and the people of his blood . . .' But who can forget their own past? Billy finds that the ties which hold him to the people of his blood are strong indeed . .…
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- 9780194791953
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- LIN
Oxford Bookworms 4 : Treasure Island (Retold by John Escott)
from the back cover: 'Suddenly, there was a high voice screaming in the darkness: "Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!" It was Long John Silver's parrot, Captain Flint! I turned to run ...' But young Jim Hawkins does not escape from the pirates this time. Will he and his friends find the treasure before the pirates do? Will they escape from the island, and sail back to England …
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- 9780194791908
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- STE
The Silver Sword
from the back cover: Jan opened his wooden box and took out the silver sword. 'This will bring me luck,' he said to Mr Balicki. 'And it will bring you luck because you gave it to me.' The silver sword is only a paper knife, but it gives Jan and his friends hope. Hungry, cold, and afraid, the four children try to stay alive among the ruins of bombed cities in war-torn Europe. Soon they will be…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791854
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- SER
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea
from the back cover: The four Walker children never meant to go to sea. They had promised their mother to stay safely in the harbour, and to be home on Friday in time for tea. But there they are in someone else's boat, drifting out to sea in a thick fog. When the fog lifts, they can turn round and sail back to the harbour. But then comes the wind and the storm, driving them out even further a…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791939
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- RAN
Land of My Childhood
from the back cover: My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and now a great distance divides sister and brother, children and mother. The stories in this volume of World Stories come from India, Pakistan, and Sri L…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194792356
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- WES
Lorna Doone
from the back cover: One winter's day in 1673 young John Ridd is riding home from school, across the wild lonely hills of Exmoor. He has to pass Doone valley - a dangerous place, as the Doones are famous robbers and murderers. All Exmoor lives in fear of the Doones. At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years t…
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- 9780194791779
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
- Series Title
- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- BLA
Oxford Bookworms level 4: Three Men in Boat
from the back cover: 'I like work. I find it interesting . . . I can sit and look at it for hours.' With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends - and Montmorency the dog - decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a …
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791892
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms level 4
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- JER
A Dubious Legacy
from the back cover: In 1944 Henry Tillotson brings his new wife, Margaret, home to his farmhouse in the English countryside. Margaret is a strange, unpleasant woman, determined, it seems, to make Henry's life miserable. 'Poor Henry!' say his friends, as they visit at weekends and holidays. 'What an awful life he has!' But Henry is not at all the sad and disappointed man we might expect him to…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791717
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- WES
Reflex
from the back cover: People who ride racehorses love the speed, the excitement, the danger - and winning the race. Philip Nore has been riding for many years and he always wants to win - but sometimes he is told to lose. Why? And what is the mystery about the photographer, George Millace, who has just died in a car crash? Philip Nore knows the answer to the first question, and he wants to find…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780194791823
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- 104p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- FRA
The Price of Peace : Stories from Africa
from the back cover: Careful, Connie, please. Your little sister's eyes are looking angry. Look at the sudden lines around her mouth, Connie, a sister is a good thing. Even a younger sister. 'Mercy, who are you going out with?' Connie gets an answer to her question, but it is not the answer she wants to hear. And what is the price of peace between sisters?
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- 9780194791984
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- 88p; ill; bw; pbk
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- Oxford Bookworms 4
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- LIN
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