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Diane Mowat

    The Moonspinners
    The Children of Green Knowe Collection
    Five Children and it
    A Stranger at Green Knowe
    Dracula
    Robinson Crusoe
    • Now The Children of Green Knowe and River at Green Knowe are available in one edition. Children of Green KnoweTolly's great grandmother isn't a witch, but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, are full of a very special kind of magic.

      The Children of Green Knowe Collection2013
      4.0
    • Vanity Fair

      • 144 pages
      • 6 hours of reading

      Reading a complete story in English gives students a great sense of achievement - and encourages them to read more. The books are graded at six vocabulary levels, ranging from 250 words (Starter) to 2,500 (Advanced). The activities pages at the back of each Bookworm are designed to helplearners derive maximum benefit and enjoyment from the story.

      Vanity Fair2011
      3.9
    • The Prisoner of Zenda

      • 128 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      Een Engelsman neemt de plaats in van zijn neef, de koning van Ruritanië.

      The Prisoner of Zenda2008
      3.8
    • The Three Musketeers

      • 592 pages
      • 21 hours of reading

      CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). A historical romance, this novel tells of the adventures of the hot-headed young Gascon, d'Artagnan and his three companions Athos, Porthos and Aramis as they gallantly defend the Queen of France, using their wit and their swords.

      The Three Musketeers2008
      4.0
    • Three Men in a Boat

      • 136 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      'I did not intend to write a funny book, at first' wrote Jerome J. Jerome of Three Men in a Boat, which has since become a comic classic. When J. the narrator, George, Harris and Montmorency the dog set off on their hilarious misadventures, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts, imaginary illnesses, butter pats and tins of pineapple chunks. Denounced as vulgar by the literary establishment, Three Men in a Boat nevertheless caught the spirit of the times. The expansion of education and the increase in office workers created a new mass readership, and Jerome's book was especially popular among the 'clerking classes' who longed to be 'free from that fretful haste, that vehement striving, that is every day becoming more and more the bane of nineteenth-century life.' So popular did it prove that Jerome reunited his heroes for a bicycle tour of Germany. Despite some sharp, and with hindsight, prophetic observations of the country, Three Men on the Bummel describes an equally picaresque journey constrained only 'by the necessity of getting back within a given time to the point from which one started'.

      Three Men in a Boat2008
      3.8
    • Robinson Crusoe

      • 290 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      On a desolate tropical island, a shipwrecked British seaman tries to master his hostile environment and remain civilized.

      Robinson Crusoe2008
      4.2
    • Dracula

      • 52 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Count Dracula is a vampire. He drinks people's blood. When he leaves his lonely castle in the mountains of Transylvania to come to England, Professor Helsing is the only one who understands the danger. But can he stop Dracula's deadly intentions? Bram Stoker's Dracula is the world's most famous horror story and has inspired many films.

      Dracula2003
      4.1
    • "If you wake up in the night and hear a tap running somewhere in the house, what to you do? You get up, of course, and go and turn the tap off. A little later you hear the tap running again. You are alone in the house, and you know you turned the tap off. What do you think? The ghosts in these stories all have unfinished business with the living world. They come back from the grave to continue their work, to keep a promise, to look for something they have lost. Sometimes they want to help people, sometimes they want to punish them - or kill them."--Back cover

      A Pair of Ghostly Hands and Other Stories2002
      3.7
    • Who, Sir? Me, Sir?

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      When a group of English schoolchildren are told that they are to be in a tetrathlon (swimming, running, shooting and riding) against the perfect Greycoats school, they are totally unenthusiastic but rally when a teacher encourages them.

      Who, Sir? Me, Sir?2000
      3.5
    • Matty is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks' time. He wants to work with animals, and would like to get a job on a farm. But his parents say he's too young to leave home - he must stay in the town and get a job in ship-building, like his father. They also say he can't go on a campingholiday with his friends. And they say he can't keep his dog, Nelson, because Nelson barks all day and eats his father's shoes. But it is because of Nelson that Matty finds a new life . . .

      Matty Doolin2000
      3.7
    • New Yorkers: short stories

      • 56 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the 20th 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

      New Yorkers: short stories2000
      3.5
    • Greg is a teenager with a problem - his father. After the death of Greg's mother in an accident, his father takes no interest in life at all. Greg tries hard to help him. His father is too old to rock and roll, of course . . . or is he? These short stories by Jan Mark look at life, love, and friendship through teenagers' eyes.

      Too old to rock and roll and other stories2000
    • Death of an Englishman

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      This series of readers is aimed at students at 6 levels from elementary to advanced. All stages have exercises for classroom or private use, plus a glossary to help with vocabulary. This is an advanced level work of fiction.

      Death of an Englishman1995
      3.1
    • Five Children and it

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy or 'psammead' in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunset, often with disastrous consequences.

      Five Children and it1995
      4.0
    • The Moonspinners

      • 76 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Part of a series designed to provide English language students at all levels of comprehension with the opportunity to extend their reading and appreciation of English, this adventure novel at Level 4 is set in Greece.

      The Moonspinners1994
      3.9
    • A Stranger at Green Knowe

      • 48 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      This series of "Bookworms" offers younger readers the chance to enjoy lively and accessible adaptations of the best classic and modern fiction. Each title is highly illustrated to engage the reader in the world of the book and help with specific vocabulary.

      A Stranger at Green Knowe1994
      3.8
    • The monkey's paw

      • 56 pages
      • 2 hours of reading

      Outside, the night 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.

      The monkey's paw1994
      3.7
    • This Rough Magic

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      After the bleak depression of London in winter, Corfu seems like paradise to Lucy Waring. But this peace is soon to be shattered. Two incidents, seemingly unconnected, but both surrounded in mystery, throw her life into a dangerous spin

      This Rough Magic1991
      2.9