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When he was a boy, he was poor and hungry. When he was a young man, he was still poor and hungry. He learnt how to steal horses, he learnt how to fight, he learnt how to live - outside the law. Australia in the 1870s was a hard, wild place. Rich people had land, poor people didn''''t. So the rich got ...
England in 1647: King Charles is in prison, and Cromwell''''s men are fighting the King''''s men. These are dangerous times for everybody.( )The four Beverley children have no parents; their mother is dead and their father died while fighting for the King. Now Cromwell''''s soldiers have come to burn ...
In the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. Their work as scientists is more important to them than love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long journey through space. E
As they walk through a park in the distant future, Harl and Ellen talk about their work and their lives. But they will never have a life together because their work as scientists is more important to them than their love. Harl plans to leave Earth, on a long and dangerous journey through space. Ellen ...
Allegra is an unusual name. It means "happy" in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to die soon. How does she know? And who is the other Allegra? The girl in a long white nightdress, who ...
When a large plane is hijacked, the Prime Minister looks at the list of passengers and suddenly becomes very, very frightened. There is a name on the list that the Prime Minister knows very well - too well. There is someone on that plane who will soon be dead - if the hijackers can find out who he is! ...
When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may ...
Cena:6.5€ | Autor:Oxford Bookworms Library 6 | Rok vydania:2002 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780194792615 | Vydavateľ:Oxford University Press
´I can drive a truck,´ says Kim on her first day at work in the office. When Kim´s passenger Andy finds something strange under the truck things get dangerous - very dangerous.
"The Footprint Reading Library" is the first non-fiction reading series for English language learners to present real-world stories in print, audio, and video. This series offers fascinating stories and facts from across the planet, and develops the language and skills needed to understand non-fiction ...
''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 one ...
From out of the sky, from under the earth, from far out at sea - disaster comes. We build and invent new things - and sometimes bring disaster on ourselves. Today television and the Internet mean that we can watch disasters as they happen, and see their terrible results. From Pompeii to the Asian Tsunami, ...
Cathy Wilson is driving to Norfolk, to begin her new job with the Harvey family. She is going to look after the two young children, Tim and Susan. Cathy meets the children´s father, and their grandmother, and their aunt. She meets Nick, the farmer who lives across the fields. But she doesn´t meet Miranda, ...
It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die.In a colony under ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (400 headwords). A woman and a man... words of love whispered on a summer night. Later, there is a child, but no wedding-ring. And then the man leaves the first woman, finds a younger woman, marries her... It´s an old story. Yes, it´s an old, old story. It happens all the time ...
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 ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (1000 headwords). When men find gold in the frozen north of Canada, they need dogs - big, strong dogs to pull the sledges on the long journeys to and from the gold mines. Buck is stolen from his home in the south and sold as a sledge-dog. He has to learn a new way of life - how ...
Every town should have a ''card'' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a ''card'': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. ...
Oxford Bookworms Library (1400 headwords). General Sternwood has four million dollars, and two young daughters, both pretty and both wild. He´s an old, sick man, close to death, but he doesn´t like being blackmailed. So he asks private detective Philip Marlowe to get the blackmailer off his back. Marlowe ...