The
Lady in the Lake by: RAYMOND
CHANDLER
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Private detective
Philip Marlowe is looking for the wife of Derace Kingsley. Is she dead,
or not? Is she the lady in the lake?
A tale of crime and
betrayal from the American master of crime fiction. A classic thriller.
Men
in Black by: J.J.GARDNER
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‘Bugs kill things
- aliens and people’. There is a Bug in New York and everyone is in danger!
Kay and Jay are the Men in Black - they work for an agency which
investigates alien activities on Earth. They must find the Bug quickly
- if they don’t there will be war... Man in Black is a blockbusting
Hollywood action film starring Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith. The special
effects are out-of-this-world!
Money
to Burn by: JOHN
ESCOTT
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Some robbers steal
a lot of money and escape in a stolen car. Because the weather is very
bad they have to stop at the farm. The robbers catch her brother
but not her ... What can she do?
A hair-raising tale
Persuasion
by: JANE
AUSTEN
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A story of love and
marriage. Anne Eliott and Captain Wentworth meet again after many years.
They are in love, are they going to marry? Witty, amusing and
clever - this tale of love in 18th-century England is a classic.
The
Prisoner of Zenda by: ANTHONY
HOPE
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When Rudolf Rassendyll
visits Ruritania looking for adventure he finds more than he thought! Rudolf
looks exactly like the young king whose life is in danger. Can he help
to save the king from the evil Black Michael before it is too late?
The
Railway Children by: E.
NESBIT
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Roberta, Peter and
Phyllis live happily in London with their parents, until one day their
father goes away and they go to live in a small house near a railway line.
Where is their father? Why did he go away? And when is he coming back?
This enchanting story,
written in 1906, has become a classic.
The
Room in the Tower and Other stories by: R.
KIPLING
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Three stories, three
ghosts. There is a dangerous woman in a picture in a room in a tower. A
young woman marries an older man and arrives at his house... but his dead
wife is still there. A dead man walks through a house every night. Sometimes
the dead eturn...
Three scary stories.
The
Secret Garden by: FRANCES
HODGSON
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‘It isn’t my garden.
But nobody wants it. It’s a secret garden’.
When Mary Lennox came
to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire after her parents died, she was a bad-tempered,
spoilt, unhealthy little girl who nobody liked. But soon she made friends
and discovered the wonderful secret behind the old door in the garden wall.
The Secret Garden is now
a beautiful film.
The
Sheep-Pig by: DICK
KING-SMITH
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Who is Babe/ And what
is a sheep-pig?
Babe is a little pig
who doesn’t have real mother. He lives with Farmer Hogget’s sheepdog Fly
who looks after him like one of her own children. Babe must learn to how
to talk to sheep before the British Sheepdog Trials - and before Mrs. Hogget
turns him into Christmas dinner! The Sheep-Pig
by Dick King Smith has been made into a hugely popular and successful film
called Babe.
Simply
Suspense
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‘Her first thought
was: “I must not scream...”
A man must open one
of two doors: one will bring him love, the other will kill him. A woman
goes into her hotel room - but it is not her room and someone is in there...
In London, a man stays the night in a waxworks... and he is afraid...
Three terrifying short
stories.
Slinky
Jane by: CATHERINE
COOKSON
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A pretty girl
arrives in the small village of Battenbun. A lot of men are very happy!
But who is she and where does she come from? At the same time a big eel
appears in the river. soon the woods are full of men who want to
catch the eel - and the girl!
Stealing
the Hills by: JOSEPHINE
FEENEY
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‘Save our hills!’
Five years ago the
mine in the village closed and lots of men lost their jobs, Many young
people left the village to find work in the city. Then a man called Mr.
Beech bought the mine and the hills next to it. He said ‘There will be
new jobs for everyone’
But that didn’t happen
and the beautiful hills are in danger. A
story with an ecological theme.
The
Story of the Treasure Seekers by: E.
NESBIT
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Mr. Bastable has lost
all his money, so his children decide to look for treasure. They have many
adventures and meet a lot of exciting people. But will they find treasure
and make their family rich again? And who is the man from India and can
he help them?
Stranger
than Fiction: Urban Myths
by: HEALEY
& GLANVILLE
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What happened to the
man who fell from the Empire State Building? What about the family who
went to sleep in the wrong house? Can cows fly? These questions and many
more are answered in this book of strange, funny and sometimes unbelievable,
stories. They will make you laugh out loud!
Sweet
Valley High: Secrets
by: FRANCINE
PASCAL
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Jessica Wakefield
wants to be the queen of the Sweet Valley High School Dance and when she
wants something she usually gets it! Only one person could stop her from
being queen - her sister’s best friend, Enid Rollins, who might win the
crown instead. But Jessica knows a secret about Enid - if she tells everyone,
Enid will lose the crown as well as the boy she loves...
Sweet Valley High
is one of the most popular series for teenagers and is now an exciting
TV drama as well.
Treasure
Island by: R. L. STEVENSON
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A young boy,
Jim Hawkins, lives quietly by the sea with his mother and father. One day,
Billy Bones comes to live with them and from that day everything is different.
Jim meets Long John Silver, and they go far across the sea to Treasure
Island.
Published in 1883,
this is one of the most famous adventure books in English ever written.
Under
the Greenwood Tree by: THOMAS
HARDY
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Dick Dewey lives in
the village with his father and grandfather. Then one day a new school
teacher, Fancy Day, comes to the village. Dick is soon in love with her
- but so are Mr. Shiner and Mr. Maybold...
Love and jealousy
disturb the pattern of village life in 19th-century England. A classic.
Washington
Square by: HENRY
JAMES
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Catherine Sloper lives
quietly with her father and aunt in New York. When her father dies she
will be a rich woman. One day Catherine meets a handsome young man called
Morris Townsend. He says he wants to marry her, but does he live her or
her money? Washington Square is now a successful film.
The
Wave by: MORTON
RHUE
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The Wave started in
Mr. Ross’s history lesson. Now it is all over the school. The Wave is now
the name of their football team and Wave members have their own special
salute. Laurie Saunders is one of Mr. Ross’s students. She liked the Wave
when it started, but now she sees thing in it that she does not like. Can
Laurie make the others see what is happening? Can anyone stop the Wave?
The Wave is a true
story. The history teacher who started the Wave, said: ‘ The Wave was the
most frightening thing I ever saw in a school’.
We
Are All Guilty by: KINGSLEY
AMIS
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One evening, Clive
and his friend Terry break into a factory building. Now a man is in hospital
because of Clive. Clive knows it was wrong . He knows he must pay for his
crime, but his friends don’t think so. They say it was an accident and
he is not guilty. Who is right? And who is guilty?
The
Weirdo by: THEODORE
TAYLOR
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Sam lives by the Powhatan
Swamp, in Carolina in the USA. She can’t forget that day when she was nine,
when she found the dead man. Seven years later, she goes back into the
swamp and stays there for a night - afraid. Then she meets ‘ The Weirdo’
- a seventeen -year-old boy, Chip, and nothing is the same again...
This is one of Theodore Taylor’s most popular novel.
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