This book is intended for young teenage students of English as a foreign language. 500 Headwords
Louise and her friends are looking for rare and valuable fossils. Two sinister strangers are trying to stop them. A story of courage and adventure set in the Australian outback.
They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of fifteen who scrawled "V" for victory on the walls of her lycEe; the eldest, a farmer's wife in her sixties who harbored escaped Allied airmen. Strangers to each other, hailing from villages and cities from across France, these brave women were united in hatred and defiance of their Nazi occupiers. added Thanks to saimoh76
Readership: 11-14 year olds with a reading age of 6-9 It is always a challenge to find reading material for struggling readers which will still be of interest to teenagers. The Headwork Reading series continues to meet this challenge and has become well-known in Special Needs circles. Written by special needs experts, the stories are carefully graded in four levels, making it easy for you to choose the right level for your students' reading ability.
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The Night Strangers (2011)
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts.
Winner of the Nobel Prize, Naipaul has traveled throughout the world, looking at its varied cultures and seeking out others' stories, recording and transforming them. His engagement with postcolonial cultures informs his novels, such as Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. However, it is his documentaries (such as Among the Believers and Beyond Belief) and his works that combine actual and fictional histories and memories (Finding the Center, The Enigma of Arrival, and A Way in the World) that best exhibit a growing awareness of the complexities of cultural difference
