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Название: THE REAL MCCOY AND OTHER GHOST STORIES
Автор: Thompson Lesley
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'Are you scared, Gordon?' asks Heather. Four friends talk of ghosts in a hotel in Scotland. That night Gordon sees and hears something strange in his room. But is it really the ghost of Lord McCoy? These six stories tell of ghosts — friendly, sad, and bad — from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, America — and Egypt!
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Название: STUDIO FIVE
Автор: Manning Anthony
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Fay loves making The Friends Hour for Studio Five, but her boss — Jason — is always angry with her. One day, a young man — Simon Jones — phones her show. Soon Fay must find Simon, and work hard to keep her job. Then her best friend — Wing — stops helping her. What can Fay do now? Can she and Wing stay friends?
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Название: THE TEACHER'S SECRET AND OTHER FOLK TALES
Автор: Hannam Joyce
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Are men cleverer than women? Is a poor man cleverer than a rich man? And what about teachers? Are they always cleverer than their students? The people in these six well-known folk tales from around the world all want to be clever. But are some of them just stupid?
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Название: THE TRAVELS OF IBN BATTUTA
Автор: Janet Hardy-Gould
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'My first journey was a pilgrimage to Mecca. I got on a donkey and said Goodbye to my parents in Tangier when I was 21. My mother cried.' In this way Ibn Battuta, one of the greatest travellers in the world, begins telling his story to his nephew, Ahmed. His many journeys take him to new and interesting places far from home. He sees many strange and wonderful things, has many funny and frightening experiences, and meets many different people along the way. This is his story...
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Название: TRUE HEROES OF SPORT
Автор: Fitzgerald Donatella
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Some people in the world of sport are heroes only because they are the best at their sport. But the sportsmen and sportswomen in this book — Oscar Pistorius, Michael Phelps, Wilma Rudolph and Natalie du Toit — are all that and much more. All of them went through bad times and learned to be stronger people through sport. Because it isn't living through good times, but living through bad times that makes you into a true hero!
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Название: THE WILD WEST
Автор: Escott John
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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How much do you know about the Wild West? What do you know about cowboys and Indians, about wagon trails and gunfights? Inside this book you will find the true story of the Wild West, and of some of the famous people who lived and worked there. People like Wyatt Earp, Jesse James, Billy the Kid — and Annie Oakley, the best shot in the West.
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Название: THE WRONG TROUSERS
Автор: Bowler Bill
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 56
Формат: PDF (текст изображением)
Размер: 1.96 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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It's Gromit the dog's birthday, and his friend Wallace gives him an unusual present — a pair of Techno-trousers. At first Wallace uses the trousers to take Gromit for walks, but when the penguin comes to stay, he uses them one night for something different — very different. This strange story won the Oscar(R) for Best Animated Short Film in 1993.
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Название: EIGHT GREAT AMERICAN TALES
Автор: Henry O.
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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What does a poor young woman do when she loses her boyfriend or wants to find one? What little lies do we tell to make ourselves look better in the eyes of those that we love? How can a friend save someone who is sure that they are going to die? What happens when someone's clever plans all go wrong? These sweetly surprising short stories — about both good times and bad — are sometimes sad, and sometimes funny. But all of them are sure to make you think.
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Название: ARIADNE'S STORY
Автор: Hannam Joyce
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'When he went home to Athens, the great prince Theseus left me on the island of Naxos. But why did he leave me? Everyone says that he was tired of me. But when we met, I was the princess of Crete and the most beautiful woman in the Aegean Sea.' Ariadne's story is one woman's tale of secret love, adventure and of escape — both from danger and from a life that she wanted to leave far behind her — many years ago in Ancient Greece...
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Название: A CLOSE SHAVE
Автор: Bowler Bill
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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When Wallace the inventor meets Wendolene in her wool shop, he falls in love with her at once. But why does her dog, Preston, hate Wallace's dog, Gromit? Then, after Wallace's new sheep-shaving and pullover-making machine falls into the wrong hands, things start to go very wrong. Can Gromit save Wallace from the danger of a close shave?
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Название: THE DRIVE TO DUBAI
Автор: Till Julie
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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When his father is arrested in Dubai, Kareem has to move fast. He must show that his father is not a thief and prove that his family is honest. For Kareem is going to marry the beautiful and intelligent Samira Al-Hussain, and she could never marry someone from a bad family. So Kareem and his brother get to work quickly with a little help from Samira.
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Название: EMMA
Автор: Austen Jane
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She lives alone with her father, and spends a lot of her time thinking about future husbands — for her friends. When she meets Harriet Smith, a poor girl with no family, Emma decides that she must find a husband for her. Harriet is pleased to be Emma's friend — but will Emma's matchmaking make Harriet happy?
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Название: GREEN PLANET
Автор: Lindop Christine
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Once 'green' was just a colour. Now we use it to talk about a way of looking at our world and thinking about the environment. But how green is our planet today? From nuclear power plants to Nemo the clownfish, from polar bears to pesticides, from Greenpeace to global warming, this book brings together many different stories that have made environmental history. Read it, and perhaps you too can help to make our planet greener!
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Название: LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES
Автор: Wilde Oscar
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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The three stories in this book are about ordinary people, people like you and me; but they find themselves in surprising situations. Lord Arthur Savile, a rich man with no enemies, finds out that he must do something terrible before he can marry. Poor young Hughie Erskine gives money to an old beggar but the beggar is not what he seems. And Lord Murchison falls in love with a mystery woman but what is the strange secret behind the door in Cumnor Street?
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Название: THE LOST WORLD
Автор: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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'You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of the Daily Gazette. And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for them. Will they return alive?
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Название: WHITE FANG
Автор: London Jack
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 72
Формат: PDF
Размер: 2.52 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Life is hard and dangerous for both people and animals in the frozen Canadian North. For a wolf like White Fang it is a continuous fight to find food — a fight in which many animals die. When White Fang meets the people of the North — first Indians and then White Men — he learns to live with them like a dog. But some men are cruel to their dogs and others are kind. Will White Fang's life be any easier now?
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Название: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO
Автор: Dumas Alexandre
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.08 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Marseille, France, 1815. It is Edmond Dantes' wedding day. But his enemies have other plans, and Edmond is arrested and sent to the terrible island prison of Chateau d'If. For fourteen long years he waits for the right moment to escape. And now Edmond is a rich man, with many disguises, and a new name. The Count of Monte Cristo begins his revenge...
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Название: DIAN AND THE GORILLAS
Автор: Shapiro Norma
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.08 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Over the years hunters, poachers, and war have killed many of the gorillas of central Africa. But there are still a few hundred living high in the mists of the Virunga Mountains. When Dian Fossey first saw a family of wild mountain gorillas in the Virungas she knew that she must help these wonderful animals. This true story tells of the twenty years she lived with them, watched them, wrote about them, and protected them. In the end, she gave her life for them.
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Название: THE FAITHFUL GHOST AND OTHER TALL TALES
Автор: Bowler Bill
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.08 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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A 'Tall Tale' is a story that's hard to believe, and the five tall tales in this book all tell of ghosts. Some have dark secrets buried in the past, others bring messages for the living. Some are laughable, some are sad, and some are just evil. Sometimes there's a logical explanation for the strangest happenings, but often things cannot be explained by logic alone. Either way, you're sure to find some frightening reading between the covers of this book.
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Название: HARD TIMES
Автор: Dickens Charles
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2010
Страниц: 88
Формат: PDF
Размер: 3.08 mb
Жанр: Oxford University Press
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Thomas Gradgrind believes that facts and money are more important than feelings and imagination. After Cissy Jupe a circus child is left alone in the world, Gradgrind takes her into his house, looking after her and teaching her facts with his own children Tom and Louisa. Some years later the Gradgrind family meets hard times. Louisa becomes a prisoner in a loveless marriage, and Tom has problems at work. In the end, Thomas Gradgrind learns the importance of feelings and imagination.
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