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Underground To Canada
by Barbara SmuckerTaken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave traders wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land she and her friend Liza may reach someday. So when workers from the Underground Railroad offer to help the two girls escape, they are ready. But the slave catchers and their dogs will soon be after them
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories
by Roald DahlThese five short stories offer a selection of Dahl's adult writing. Parson's Pleasure is a country tale, A Piece of Cake, a wartime reminiscence, Lamb to the Slaughter a story of vengeful murder, and the remaining two, set in London, are on favourite themes of greed and snobbery.
Developing Non-Fiction Skills: Book 4 (PDF)
by Wendy Wren John JackmanThe Developing Fiction Skills and Developing Non-Fiction Skills pupil books explore a wide range of texts using parallel themes. Each book contains twelve units offering four units per term. The parallel themes common to both the Fiction and Non-Fiction strands allow for comparison, an exploration of the same theme in different text types and effectively integrates the teaching of non-fiction.
Dramascripts - Treasure Island: Textbook (PDF)
by Calcutt, David|Stevenson, Robert LouisNarrated by Jim Hawkins as an old man, this adaptation relays the horrors of his childhood adventures. Retaining all the qualities of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous tale of pirates, ships and buried treasure, this adaptation vividly brings to life characters such as Long John Silver, Ben Gunn and Blind Pew. Genre - Adventure Period - Pre-1900 Speaking parts - 15
Encore Tricolore 2: student book (Nouvelle edition)
by Honnor, Sylvia|Mascie-Taylor, Heather|Atkinson, TerryThis trusted and tested course retains many of the features that have made it so reliable for exam success, but is totally up-to-date and relevant in both content and appearance. Encore Tricolore Nouvelle Edition has been written to help your students achieve excellent results at all stages of their French learning.
Encore Tricolore 2: student book (Nouvelle edition) (PDF)
by Honnor, Sylvia|Mascie-Taylor, Heather|Atkinson, TerryThis trusted and tested course retains many of the features that have made it so reliable for exam success, but is totally up-to-date and relevant in both content and appearance. Encore Tricolore Nouvelle Edition has been written to help your students achieve excellent results at all stages of their French learning.
Encore Tricolore 2: Copymasters and Assessment (Nouvelle edition) (PDF)
by Heather Mascie-Taylor Sylvia HonnorThis trusted and tested course retains many of the features that have made it so reliable for exam success, but is totally up-to-date and relevant in both content and appearance. Encore Tricolore Nouvelle Edition has been written to help your students achieve excellent results at all stages of their French learning.
Encore Tricolore 3: student book (Nouvelle edition)
by Sylvia HonnorThis trusted and tested course retains many of the features that have made it so reliable for exam success, but is totally up-to-date and relevant in both content and appearance. Encore Tricolore nouvelle edition has been written to help your students achieve excellent results at all stages of their French learning.
Encore Tricolore 3: student book (Nouvelle edition) (PDF)
by Sylvia HonnorThis trusted and tested course retains many of the features that have made it so reliable for exam success, but is totally up-to-date and relevant in both content and appearance. Encore Tricolore nouvelle edition has been written to help your students achieve excellent results at all stages of their French learning.
Frozen Fire (PDF)
by Tim BowlerIt starts with the phone call, late at night. The mysterious boy says he is dying. Dusty doesn't want to get involved - but the boy seems to have a link to the one person who's most important to her. Soon she has been drawn in - and now she has to deal with the other people who are looking for the boy - the violent man and his two sons, and the police too ... Yet throughout all this, Dusty senses the presence of a boy who is not dying, a strange elusive boy who can show her what happened to her missing brother and solve the greatest mystery of her life. Where he is, who he is, why he wants to die, she cannot say. Only one thing is certain. Finding him will be dangerous.
Oxford School Dictionary (PDF)
by Andrew Delahunty Fred McdonaldThis authoritative dictionary is a comprehensive school dictionary for primary and secondary students with its 45,000 words and phrases in alphabetical order. Each entry contains clear numbered meanings, word classes, inflections, easy pronunciation guides, supporting example sentences and notes to help with using the words accurately. There are word origins for all root words. Guidewords at the top of each page and the alphabet with a tab make it easy to navigate;the page design is clear and straightforward. There is a friendly and useful guide to using the dictionary dealing with FAQs such as, What do you use a dictionary for? How do I find the words I want? Also useful are the prefixes, suffixes and words and phrases from around the world that are given in full at the back.
River Boy
by Tim BowlerOne of the classic teenage novels of the nineties, River Boy is an emotional, moving book which has had a profound influence on its readers. Following the story of Jess's dying grandfather, and the marathon river swim Jess becomes caught up in, it uses poetic and surreal images of water and swimming to deal with the difficult subjects of death and loss in an accessible and affecting way. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Angus Book Prize.
River Boy
by Tim BowlerOne of the classic teenage novels of the nineties, River Boy is an emotional, moving book which has had a profound influence on its readers. Following the story of Jess's dying grandfather, and the marathon river swim Jess becomes caught up in, it uses poetic and surreal images of water and swimming to deal with the difficult subjects of death and loss in an accessible and affecting way. Winner of the Carnegie Medal and the Angus Book Prize.
Starseeker (PDF)
by Tim BowlerLuke's father is dead and he feels his mother is moving on too quickly. Since his father's death Luke has changed his priorities, and has fallen into bad company. His new friends persuade him to break into a house when its owner, an unfriendly and unlovable old woman, is out. Once inside he is confronted with the sound of a girl crying, and through a locked keyhole sees a young girl standing alone, crying in despair. Luke becomes drawn into finding out who the girl is, why she is in the house, and why she is so unhappy. Finding the answers will change all of their lives.
Storm Catchers (PDF)
by Tim BowlerFin is devastated by guilt when his sister, Ella, is kidnapped. She is snatched away from the house in the middle of a storm. As the kidnappers make their demands, Fin's guilt is replaced by a fierce determination to find his sister by whatever means he can, and bring the criminals to justice. But as the drama unfolds, a complex web of family secrets is revealed. It emerges that Ella's kidnapping is revenge for mistakes Fin's father made, years before. The consequences will change all their lives forever.
Unique (PDF)
by Alison Allen-GrayDominic has always been a disappointment to his ambitious father, but he has never understood why. Then he discovers that he had an older brother who died before he was born. Where his brother was a brilliant academic and scientist, Dominic prefers to 'waste' his time painting. His father cannot forgive him for it.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 3: A Christmas Carol (Abridged edition)
by Clare West Charles DickensEbeneezer Scrooge is a cross, miserable, mean old man. . His clerk, Bob Cratchit, gets only fifteen shillings a week, and has to work in a cold little office, with a fire too small to warm even his toes.But that Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley. And after him come three more ghostly visitors ... It is a long night, and a frightening night, and when Christmas Day finally arrives, Scrooge is a very different man indeed.
Bookworms, Stage 3: A Christmas Carol (PDF)
by Clare West Charles DickensThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. Ebeneezer Scrooge is a cross, miserable, mean old man. When his nephew visits him on Christmas Eve to wish him a merry Christmas, Scrooge is not at all pleased. Bah! Humbug! he says. Christmas is humbug! Everyone who goes around saying 'Merry Christmas' should have his tongue cut out. Yes, he should! Oh yes, Scrooge is a hard, mean man. His clerk, Bob Cratchit, gets only fifteen shillings a week, and has to work in a cold little office, with a fire too small to warm even his toes. But that Christmas Eve Scrooge is visited by the ghost of his long-dead partner, Jacob Marley. And after him come three more ghostly visitors ... It is a long night, and a frightening night, and when Christmas Day finally arrives, Scrooge is a very different man indeed.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Starter: Sally's Phone (2007 edition) (PDF)
by Christine LindopThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. Sally is always running - and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone ... and it changes her life.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Starter: Sally's Phone (2007 edition) (PDF)
by Christine LindopThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. Sally is always running - and she has her phone with her all the time: at home, on the train, at work, at lunchtime, and at the shops. But then one afternoon suddenly she has a different phone ... and it changes her life.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Starter: Starman (2007 edition) (PDF)
by Burrows, Phillip|Foster, MarkThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. The empty centre of Australia. The sun is hot and there are not many people. And when Bill meets a man, alone, standing on an empty road a long way from anywhere, he is surprised and worried. And Bill is right to be worried. Because there is something strange about the man he meets. Very strange...
Oxford Bookworms Library, Starter: Survive! (2007 edition) (PDF)
by Helen BrookeThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. You are in a small plane, going across the Rocky Mountains. Suddenly, the engine starts to make strange noises... Soon you are alone, in the snow, at the top of a mountain, and it is very, very cold. Can you find your way out of the mountain?
Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 1: The Monkey's Paw
by Jacobs, W. W.|Mowat, DianeThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. Outside, the nightnbsp;is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 1: The Monkey's Paw
by Jacobs, W. W.|Mowat, DianeThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. Outside, the nightnbsp;is cold and wet. Inside, the White family sits and waits. Where is their visitor? There is a knock at the door. A man is standing outside in the dark. Their visitor has arrived. The visitor waits. He has been in India for many years. What has he got? He has brought the hand of a small, dead animal - a monkey's paw. Outside, in the dark, the visitor smiles and waits for the door to open.
Oxford Bookworms Library, Stage 1: Mutiny on the Bounty (2007 edition) (PDF)
by Tim VicaryThe Oxford Bookworms Library offers enjoyable reading at seven levels (Starter to Stage 6). To find your required reading level please take the Oxford Bookworks reading level test. It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns. They pull the captain out of bed and take him up on deck. He tries to run, but a sailor holds a knife to his neck. 'Do that again, Captain Bligh, and you're a dead man!' he says. The mutiny on the Bounty happened in April, 1789. This is the true story of Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian, and the ship that never came home to England.