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´Then a letter came for Aloo from a famous college in America. They offered him a place.a place with a scholarship. Aloo could not believe it at first. He read the letter again and again.´( )Aloo is very happy, but soon he finds that it is not so easy. He will need money to live on, money for his plane ...
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 ...
Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; and two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas.
The disappearing rainforests - can they be saved? In the last forty years, half of the world´s rainforests have disappeared. But these wild and exciting places are important to all life on Earth. This book looks at the peoples, animals and plants of the rainforests and at the dangers they face. Is it ...
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 today, tomorrow, a hundred years ago. People ...
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 ...
Cena:10.2€ | Autor:Oxford Bookworms Library 5 | Rok vydania:2006 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:na sklade | ISBN:9780194793384 | Vydavateľ:Oxford University Press
Everybody wants to win the lottery. A million pounds, perhaps five million, even ten million. How wonderful! Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in ...
Some sisters are good friends, some are not. Sometimes there is more hate in a family than there is love. Karin is beautiful and has lots of men friends, but she can be very unkind to her sister Marcia. Perhaps when they were small, there was love between them, but that was a long time ago. They say ...
This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn''t she live to tell us? ...
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 ...
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 ...
Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He would like to have a motor-car and drive it.very fast. But Richard lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. And now he is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year ...
Life is always hard for the poor, in any place and at any time. Ethan Frome is a farmer in Massachusetts. He works long hours every day, but his farm makes very little money. His wife, Zeena, is a thin, grey woman, always complaining, and only interested in her own ill health. Then Mattie Silver, a young ...
Suitable for younger learners Word count 9,871 CD: American English
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 ...
All they could hear was the wind, and the waves crashing on to the rocks. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two. They could not see the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind.( )How ...
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ´No!´ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. And he loved the wrong woman. She was beautiful and she loved him - but she was already married to another ...
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 ...
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, ...