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OBWL2 Changing their Skies: Stories from Africa

  • : Retold by Jenifer Bassett
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
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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 ticket... And then there is Mother...
The stories in this volume of World Stories come from Malawi, South Africa, and Tanzania by African writers Steve Chimombo, Farida Karodia, and M. G. Vassanji.
English Type: British English.
Genre: World Stories.

OBWL2 Cries from the Heart: Stories from Around the World

  • : Retold by Jenifer Bassett
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
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From Botswana to New Zealand, from Jamaica to Nigeria, from Uganda to Malaysia, from India to South Africa, these moving stories show us that the human heart is the same in every place. Fear and pain, happiness and sadness belong to us all.
These eight stories were winning entries in the 2004 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. The writers are Sefi Atta, Adrienne M. Frater, Lauri Kubuitsile, Erica N. Robinson, Jackee Budesta Batanda, Janet Tay Hui Ching, Anuradha Muralidharan, and Tod Collins.
English Type: British English.
Genre: World Stories.

OBWL2 Dracula

  • : Bram Stoker
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2007
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In the mountains of Transylvania there stands a castle. It is the home of Count Dracula – a dark, lonely place, and at night the wolves howl around the walls.
In the year 1875 Jonathan Harker comes from England to do business with the Count. But Jonathan does not feel comfortable at Castle Dracula. Strange things happen at night, and very soon, he begins to feel afraid. And he is right to be afraid, because Count Dracula is one of the Un-Dead – a vampire that drinks the blood of living people...
English Type: British English.
Genre: Fantasy & Horror.

OBWL2 Ear-rings from Frankfurt

  • : Reg Wright
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
  • : книга с диском

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Richard Walton is in trouble again. He has lost his job, and he has borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer – again. And now he has disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have some questions that they want to ask him.
How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive gold ear-rings?
Only Richard can answer these questions. But nobody can find Richard.
English Type: British English.
Genre: Thriller & Adventure.

OBWL2 Grace Darling

  • : Tim Vicary
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
  • : книга с диском

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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 could they save the people on the rock? Was their wooden boat stronger than the iron ship? Were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the ship in two?
The Forfarshire was wrecked off the north-east coast of England in 1838. This is the true story of Grace Darling – a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night.
English Type: British English.
Genre: True Stories.

OBWL2 Henry VIII and his Six Wives

  • : Janet Hardy-Gould
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
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  • : 2008
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There were six of them – three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One of them was the King`s wife for twenty-four years, another for only a year and a half. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. It was a dangerous, uncertain life.
After the King`s death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters – one from each of the first five wives. They are sad, angry, frightened letters. They tell the story of what it was like to be the wife of Henry VIII of England.
English Type: British English.
Genre: True Stories.

OBWL2 New Yorkers – Short Stories

  • : O. Henry
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2007
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A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love.
O. Henry`s famous short stories – sensitive, funny, sympathetic – give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives of these New Yorkers.
English Type: British English.
Genre: Human Interest.

OBWL2 Red Dog

  • : Louis de Bernières
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
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Red Dog was a Red Cloud kelpie, an Australian sheepdog. His life was full of excitement and adventure. He travelled all over Western Australia, and never really had an owner. But he had many, many friends, and he always knew where to go for a good meal.
Louis de Bernières collected these stories about the life of a real dog in Western Australia. They are all true stories – some are funny, some are sad, but all are unforgettable. Everybody should have a friend like Red Dog.
English Type: British English.
Genre: True Stories.
Suetable for young readers.

OBWL2 Stories from the Five Towns

  • : Arnold Bennett
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
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Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There`s Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery – and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds.
English Type: British English.
Genre: Human Interest.

OBWL2 Tales from Longpuddle

  • : Thomas Hardy
  • : Oxford
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  • : Elementary (A2 - B1)
  • : Oxford Bookworms Library
  • : 198 x 129 мм
  • : 64
  • : 2008
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Tony Kytes is a favourite with the girls but he`s not terribly clever. If you meet an old girlfriend and she asks for a ride home in your wagon, do you say yes? And then if you meet the girl you are planning to marry, what do you do? Very soon, Tony is in a great muddle, and does not know how to escape from it.
These stories are set in an English country village of the nineteenth century, but Hardy`s tales of mistakes and muddles and marriages belong in any place, at any time.
English Type: British English.
Genre: Classics.

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