- : Much Obliged, Jeeves (No:7092)
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- : Much Obliged, Jeeves: (Jeeves and Wooster) is a Jeeves and Wooster novel. Bertram Wooster is the main fictional character in these novels written by author P G Wodehouse. Wooster is a rich Englishman and a member of the Drones Club, which is a gentlemen's club. Jeeves is Wooster's valet and a witty person who always helps Wooster out of the numerous troubles he gets himself into.
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- : Famous Five : Five Runaway Together (No:7091)
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- : In their third adventure, the Famous Five discover that someone has been on George's island. And what is locked in the mysterious trunk hidden on Kirrin Island? The Famous Five think they're on the trail of smugglers - until they hear a child scream...
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- : The Steadfast Tin Soldier (No:15580)
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- : The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier's love for a paper ballerina. The tale was first published in Copenhagen by C.A. Reitzel on 2 October 1838 in the first booklet of Fairy Tales Told for Children.
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- : Tales from Shakespeare (No:7089)
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- : Tales from Shakespeare is a collection of 20 stories. It was adapted for young readers from the original plays by William Shakespeare. The book was written with an intention to modernise the archaic English and complicated story line of Shakespeare to a simple level that children could read and comprehend. However, as noted in the author's Preface, ‘his words are used whenever it seemed possible to bring them in; and in whatever has been added to give them the regular form of a connected story, diligent care has been taken to select such words as might least interrupt the effect of the beautiful English tongue in which he wrote: therefore, words introduced into our language since his time have been as far as possible avoided.’ Mary Lamb retold the comedies, while Charles retold the tragedies.
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- : Daddy-Long-Legs (No:7087)
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- : The book is told from the POV of Jerusha Abbott, a seventeen year old orphan who, up until this point, has lived her entire life at the John Grier Home for orphans. In the opening, a narrator informs us that an unnamed trustee of the orphanage has offered to send Jerusha to college on the conditions that she doesn't know who he is and she writes him a letter every month (but he will never write her back).
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- : i Wonder.. Rediscovering School Science- Issue 5, Oct 2020 (No:7086)
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- : This issue is focused on the Pandemic. Read 'The Basics' section to explore: what strategies do epidemiologists use to control the spread of infection? Are viruses the most complex or the simplest forms of life? What has caused the spike in frequency of new zoonoses since the 20th century? In 'The Infection' section, engage with questions like: why do we believe that SARS-CoV-2 is a product of natural evolution? How exact are measurements of death rates for an ongoing pandemic? Or, how does the nature and context of social interaction affect the spread of COVID-19?...........
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