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Border Rosemary

    January 1, 1943
    Tooth and Claw : Short Stories
    The piano
    Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    The Bride Price
    Recycling
    Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
    • 2016

      'It's an interesting job,' says Sally about her work at Happy Hills. And today is a very exciting day because Zapp the famous singer is coming. Everybody is having a wonderful time. But suddenly something goes wrong - very wrong.

      The Fifteenth Character
    • 2009

      How much rubbish do you throw away in a year? It could be more than atonne or less than a hundred kilograms, but it's still too much. The Earth isdisappearing under a mountain of rubbish - often poisonous - yet, as this bookshows, much of this rubbish could be recycled. Recycling can save energy,materials and money - it may also save the Earth.

      Recycling
    • 2000

      The Bride Price

      • 106 pages
      • 4 hours of reading
      3.8(37)Add rating

      A Nigerian girl is allowed to finish her education because a diploma will enhance her bride price, but she then rebels against traditional marriage customs.

      The Bride Price
    • 2000

      Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.3(72)Add rating

      The Oxford Bookworms Library offers new editions of the original Oxford Bookworms Black and Green series, merging the two series into one. The new editions build on the original series and provide enhanced teaching support. Sixteen additional pages inside each book allow extra pages of activities and increased author and series information.

      Go, Lovely Rose and Other Stories
    • 2000

      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 Australia, but aeroplane tickets are very expensive. Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. But he is not a very nice young man. He steals things. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away . . .

      The Lottery Winner
    • 2000
    • 2000
    • 1996

      Factfiles are a sub-series of Bookworms with a non-fiction angle, providing factual information for students on a wide variety of themes. Exercises at the back of each book check student's understanding of the text and provide ideas for activities and project work.

      Under the Ground
    • 1995

      Tooth and Claw : Short Stories

      • 64 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.5(44)Add rating

      A collection of short stories about Conradian, a ten-year-old who hates his aunt, and who keeps a small, wild animal in the garden shed.

      Tooth and Claw : Short Stories