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The Jungle Book | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2008 | Anglais | Auteur : Rudyard Kipling | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

In the jungle of Southern India the Seeonee Wolf- Pack has a new cub. He is not a wolf - he is Mowgli, a human child, but he knows nothing of the world of men. He lives and hunts with his brothers the wolves. Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther are his friends and teachers. And Shere Khan, the man eating tiger, is his enemy. Kipling's famous story of Mowgli's adventures in the jungle has been loved by young and old for more than a hundred years

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R RUD | ISBN : 9780194790642

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The Canterville Ghost | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2002 | Anglais | Auteur : Oscar Wilde | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

There has been a ghost in the house for three hundred years, and Lord Canterville's family have had enough of it. So Lord Canterville sells his grand old house to an American family. Mr Hiram B. Otis is happy to buy the house and the ghost - because of course Americans don't believe in ghosts. The Canterville ghost has great plans to frighten the life out of the Otis family. But Americans don't frighten easily - especially not two noisy little boys - and the poor ghost has a few surprises waiting for him.
 

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R OSC | ISBN : 9780194229661

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The President's Murderer | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2000 | Anglais | Auteur : Jennifer Bassett | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with lights, and dogs, and guns. A man is standing in front of a desk. His boss is very angry, and the man is tired and needs to sleep. But first he must find the other man, and bring him back - dead or alive. Two men: the hunter and the hunted. Which will win and which will lose ? Long live the President !
 

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R JEN | ISBN : 9780194229531

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The Omega Files | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2002 | Anglais | Auteur : Jennifer Bassett | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

Hawker and Jude know all about the Omega Files, because they work for EDI. They think fast, they move fast, and they learn some very strange things. They go all over the world, asking difficult questions in dangerous places, but they don't always find the answers...

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R JEN | ISBN : 9780194229609

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The Meaning of Gifts: Stories from Turkey | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2008 | Anglais | Auteur : Jennifer Bassett | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

I'm afraid to look in the storeroom. All our food for the winter - where is it now? Inside those hungry guests! They never stop eating! And they never say thank you! And those children - my God, they eat more than their parents!' Izzet Efendi and his family are afraid that their guests are never going to go home, but what can they do? The stories in this volume of World Stories are by Turkish writers Huseyin Rahmi Gurpinar, Ayse Kilimci, Sait Faik, and Yalvac Ural.

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R JEN | ISBN : 9780194789271

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2008 | Anglais | Auteur : Mark Twain | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

Tom Sawyer does not like school. He does not like work, and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning. But he likes swimming and fishing, and having adventures with his friends. And he has a lot of adventures. One night, he and his friend Huck Finn go to the graveyard to look for ghosts. They don't see any ghosts that night. They see something worse than a ghost - much, much worse...

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R MAR | ISBN : 9780194789004

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Pocahontas | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2008 | Anglais | Auteur : Tim Vicary | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love... But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love for the Englishman John Smith.
 

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Cote : R TIM | ISBN : 9780194789165

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Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp | Livre | Fiction | Roman | 2008 | Anglais | Auteur : Judith Dean | Éditeur : Oxford University Press | Résumé :

In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Princess Badr-al-Budur?

Collation : 56 pages

Cote : R JUD | ISBN : 9780194789011

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