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Boudica and Her Barmy Army
Автор: Wilding Valerie Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2011 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20132014-04-07
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Everybody knows that Boudica went galloping to battle in a big chariot, and became very angry with her Roman rulers. This book lets readers find out the things, such as how she burned London to the ground and chopped off the Emperor Claudius' head.
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Road to War: A First World War Girl's Diary, 1916-1917
Автор: Wilding Valerie Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2008 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июля 20092011-04-15
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It's 1917 and the Great War rages in Europe. When Daffy Rowntree's brother goes missing in action, she refuses to sit safely in England, and determines to do something to help win the war. Soon she finds herself in the mud and horror of the battlefields of France, driving an ambulance transporting the wounded of the trenches.
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Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist and Other Tales That Will Make You Ask for More
Автор: Wilding Valerie Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2011 Страниц: 240 Дата загрузки: 23 февраля 20132012-12-20
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Take a unique journey through the twists and turns of some of the greatest tales in English literature in this celebration of the work of Charles Dickens. This title lets you: peep into the secret diary of Pip from Great Expectations; spook yourself senseless reading the fright reports of the ghosts from A Christmas Carol; and, join investigative reporter, Pete Prior, on his manhunt for the kidnapper of a young orphan called Oliver Twist. Top stories alongside top facts about the about the great man who wrote them and the troubling times in which they were written Stories included: David Copperfield; Nicholas Nickleby; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; Great Expectations; The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; Dombey & Son; The Pickwick Papers; and, A Christmas Carol.
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The Bloody Tower
Автор: Wilding Valerie Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2009 Страниц: 160 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20112011-05-06
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Tilly lives in turbulent times. It's the 1550s; when Queen Mary ousts Lady Jane Grey to win the throne, her executioners are kept busy. Even Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned in the Tower. As Tilly watches the plots and politics of the Tudor court unfolding, she waits for her chance to deliver a very important letter...
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No Way Back
Автор: Wilding Valerie Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2012 Страниц: 144 Дата загрузки: 22 сентября 20172014-05-12
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Join Mary Wade on a long and perilous journey that begins in the slums of eighteenth century London. Aged thirteen, Mary is imprisoned in Newgate prison awaiting sentence of death for a petty theft. When her sentence is commuted to transportation she sets sail on board a prison ship to the other side of the world. Australi brings the promise of a new life, but does Mary have what it takes to make it in the land of opportunity?
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Wartime Princess
Автор: Wilding Valerie Жанр: Scholastic Издательство: Scholastic Год: 2012 Страниц: 224 Дата загрузки: 12 сентября 20172013-12-30
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In 1939, on a royal tour of Dartmouth Naval College, Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) meets the dashing Prince Philip of Greece. Immediately they begin a correspondence, as war breas out across Europe, where Philip is sent to serve in the Navy. Elizabeth convinces her father the King, despite his reservations, to allow her to sign up to the war effort and joins the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. Serving her country, driving truks and fixing cars, Elizabeth wonders, will she ever see her prince again?
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