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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Japan

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Rachel Bladon

What is Japan? It is everything new and modern: the Tokyo Sky Tree, 634 metres high; amazing cameras and phones; karaoke and manga; trains going past at 300 kilometres an hour. And it is everything ancient too: beautiful palaces; high mountains and hot springs; cherry blossom in the spring; quiet gardens with water and trees. Here the past meets the future all the time. From sumo wrestlers to robots, Japan has something amazing for everybody.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 William & Kate

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Christine Lindop

Everybody took photos of Prince William when he first arrived at the University of St Andrews. Crowds of photographers came to the little Scottish town next to the sea and took pictures of this new student - the nineteen-year-old grandson of the Queen of England.

But nobody photographed Kate Middleton on her first day at the university. She moved in quietly, ready to begin her studies in art history. She was just an ordinary student with an ordinary future in front of her. Or was she?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 Leonardo Da Vinci

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Alex Raynham

'What does the world look like from the moon?' 'How do our bodies work?' 'Is it possible for people to fly?' 'Can I make a horse of bronze that is 8 metres tall?' 'How can we have cleaner cities?'

All his life, Leonardo da Vinci asked questions. We know him as a great artist, but he was one of the great thinkers of all time, and even today, doctors and scientists are still learning from his ideas. Meet the man who made a robot lion, wrote backwards, and tried to win a war by moving a river . . .

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 4 A Time of Waiting: Stories from Around the World

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When did you last meet a polar bear, or go to a magician for help? These stories offer many different experiences. Some are strange, some are scary, some are sad, some are blackly funny. A few are shocking - when Lin Lin returns home for a funeral, she learns a dark and terrible family secret which may destroy her.

Bookworms World Stories collect stories written in English from around the world. These stories are from Australia, Canada, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, South Africa, and Trinidad.

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Shirley Homes and the Lithuanian Case

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Jennifer Bassett

Shirley Homes is a private investigator. She is clever with computers, and knows London like the back of her hand. She laughs when people say, 'Was Sherlock Holmes your grandfather?' Sherlock Holmes, of course, was not a real person, but, like Sherlock, Shirley has good eyes, and good ears. And she knows the right questions to ask.

And in the Lithuanian Case, the right questions are important. Because Shirley must find a missing person - Carrie Williams, aged fifteen. Where is she? Who is she with?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now Activity Book

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Our World in Art Activity Book

Author: Richard Northcott
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about our world in art ... What are still lifes? Why do artists use perspective?

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Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Weddings

Christine Lindop

STAGE 1 - Factfiles (non-fiction)

'The bride wore a long white dress, with flowers in her hair. After the wedding, there was a party, and people gave presents to the bride and groom.' This wedding was nearly two thousand years ago, in Rome. Some things don't change.

But some things do. Today you can have a wedding on a mountain, or under the sea, or 'Elvis' can sing for you. And different things happen in different places. Little birds made of paper, small trees, money in the bride's shoe, and lots of noise - they are all important for weddings somewhere. Welcome to the wonderful world of weddings!

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 Medicine Then and Now

Author: Louise & Richard Spilsbury
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about medicine in the past and medicine today ... What was the world's first antibiotic? What medicine can cure malaria?

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Oxford Read and Discover Level 5 All About Islands Activity Book

Author: James Styring
Series Editor: Hazel Geatches

Read and discover all about islands around the world ... How do islands form? Which island has dragons?

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