Author: Lou Kuenzler Publisher: Scholastic UK ISBN: 1407186426 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 234
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Return to the magic of THE RAILWAY CHILDREN in this heartwarming sequel by Lou Kuenzler. In the depths of WWII, 12-year-old Edie is nervous at the prospect of being sent to live with an unknown aunt whilst her mother flies planes for the ATA. Aunt Roberta welcomes Edie with open arms, but does a dark secret lurk at the heart of the village?
Author: E. Nesbit Publisher: ISBN: 9781408278147 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Classic / British EnglishRoberta, Peter and Phyllis live happily in London with their parents. Then, suddenly, their father goes away. The children and their mother move to a smaller house near a railway line. Exciting things happen, and they make new friends. But where is their father? When is he coming home?
Author: Helen Dunmore Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802190413 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 302
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“An unconventional thriller [and] a page turner . . . As much a surprising love story as it is a tale of spies” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1960 London, the Cold War is at its height, and a spy may be a friend or neighbor, colleague or lover. Two colleagues, Giles Holloway and Simon Callington, face a terrible dilemma over a missing top-secret file. At the end of a suburban garden, in the pouring rain, Simon’s wife, Lily, buries a briefcase containing the file deep in the earth. She believes that in doing so she is protecting her family. What she will learn is that no one is immune from betrayal or the devastating consequences of exposure. “Dunmore’s strategy, placing a triangle of past and present loves within a spy novel, yields an unexpected dividend. Even the most ordinary elements of life—the lengths to which a mother will go to protect her children, meeting someone special, what remains unsaid within a marriage—become viscerally exciting.” —The New Yorker “Exposure is many things at once—an espionage thriller, a forbidden-love story, an immigrant’s tale . . . A novel you won’t be able to shake.” —Entertainment Weekly “One of those books that you read with your heart in your mouth, your mind fully engaged, and with a sense of desolation as you note the dwindling number of pages left before it comes to an end.” —Chicago Tribune
Author: Edith Nesbit Publisher: Black Cat-Cideb ISBN: 9788853004970 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 80
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When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
Author: E. Nesbit Publisher: ISBN: 9781613190135 Category : Languages : en Pages : 74
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The Railway Children is a delightful reading of a classic story by Edith Nesbit, first published in 1906. When father is suddenly taken away, mother and the three children must leave their fancy London life to live in a simple country cottage near a train station. The children and their bottomless good nature, together with some new friends, work to rescue father and help others along the way. Narrator Virginia Leishman makes this old-fashioned world come alive for today's children without resorting to melodrama. The recording is flawless and without unnecessary fanfare, making it a wonderful way to introduce a classic to young listeners. The Railway Children are Roberta, Peter and Phyllis, three young children who move to a house near a railway when their father is wrongly accused and falsely imprisoned for selling government secrets to the Russians. The children pass the time by watching the railcars go by and waving to the passengers riding the train. Eventually they meet Perks, the station porter and an old gentleman that may be able to help get their father out of prison.
Author: Anastasia Suen Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing ISBN: 1618104241 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 24
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Packing Up And Moving From A Small Town To A Big City Filled With Tall Buildings And Bustling Sounds Is Exciting And A Bit Scary At The Same Time. Teaching Focus, Words To Know Before You Read, Comprehension And Extension Activities. Inside Front And Back Cover Parent And Teacher Support.
Author: Malcolm Harper Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited ISBN: 9788132111610 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Rescuing Railway Children focuses on runaway children in India who have used trains to take them away from home, and who live on railway station platforms and in trains. It presents the issues and challenges of reaching out to these ‘railway children’, particularly through the experiences of Sathi, an NGO based in Bangalore. This organisation has chosen to work with children on railway platforms across India with the intention of reuniting them with families wherever possible. The book deals with platform outreach and focuses on shelters close to the stations. The reuniting process is examined from a practical as well as a child-rights perspective. It expands the horizons of analysis by presenting the system prevailing in the UK as a counterpoint, thus highlighting the concerns and current thinking on institutional care and fostering at an international level.
Author: Qiliang Feng Publisher: 百萬英語閱讀計劃 ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 111
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This is Book 8, Collection I, of the Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) readers. It is suitable for learners with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words. Million-Word Reading Project (MWRP) is a reading project for ESL/EFL learners at the elementary level (with a basic vocabulary of 1,500 words). In two years, for about fifteen minutes each day, an ESL/EFL learner can read one million words, and reach the upper-intermediate level, gaining a vocabulary of about 3,500 words and a large number of expressions. Text Information Readability | 85.5 Total word count | 18425 Words beyond 1500 | 472 Unknown word percentage (%) | 2.56 Unknown headword occurrence | 2.66 Unknown words that occur 5 times or more | 23 Unknown words that occur 2 times or more | 86 Synopsis This is a story of three children, Roberta, Phyllis, and Peter, who live with a wonderful mother and father and a cook and servants. One night, Father is taken away to prison (but they do not know this at first), and they have to move to a poor cottage in the country near a railway line. Mother writes stories to earn some money to support them. In time they make many new friends, and many wonderful adventures happen near the railway and the tunnel…. This book is rewritten from “The Railway Station” by the famous English writer E. Nesbit (1858~1924). It was first published in book form in 1906 and has been adapted for the screen several times.
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