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Choose Your Own Adventure: Race ForeverRace Forever...You are a race car driver. You are in Africa for the First Annual African Road Rally. There are actually two races: the speed race and the off road race. Choose your car, plan your route, and try to avoid the many dangers of the African countryside. Is winning the race the most important thing-or can you be satisfied simply to survive?The Choose your Own Adventure series is unique new series consists of 30 titles adapted from the wildly popular Choose Your Own Adventure series, which has sold over 250 million copies worldwide, and spawned an entire genre called 'interactive fiction'. What makes Choose Your Own Adventure different is that you, the reader, are the main character. You make the choices that can lead to a happy conclusion-or perhaps to a terrible fate! Each title is made up of several branching storylines, with up to 30 different endings. As a result, most readers read each book again and again, experiencing a different story each time. Originally targeted at reluctant readers, Choose Your Own Adventure has helped to develop critical thinking, literacy skills, and an interest in reading for a whole generation of English native speakers. Now adapted for English language learners of any age, the Choose Your Own Adventure series is a fun addition to any extensive reading library. Indeed, the stories are so engaging we guarantee that even non-ESL learners will enjoy reading them!

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.Listen along with downloadable MP3 audio.Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there...

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR.Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew want to adopt an orphan, to help on the farm at Green Gables. They ask for a boy, but they get Anne, who has red hair and freckles, and who talks and talks and talks. They didn't want a girl, but how can they send a child back, like an unwanted parcel? So Anne stays, and begins a new life in the sleepy, quiet village of Avonlea in Canada. But it is not so quiet after Anne comes to live there...

A practical guide to identifying gifted underachievers and enabling them to fulfil their potential, raising whole school standards. Extensive new content includes the latest best practice in addressing able underachievementExplains the origins of underachievement, both overt and covert, especially in more able learners - provides a model that identifies a range of factors that conspire to lower achievementThe UK Government's 2005 White Paper 'Higher Standards, Better Schools for All' set specific provision for Gifted and Talented (G&T) - there are similar programmes in all developed countriesThe editor is a leading researcher in G&T education - contributors include Belle Wallace, Barry Hymer and Ian Warwick, the foremost practitioners in the field

Choose Your Own Adventure: Silver WingsSilver Wings...You are a pilot. One day, during a training trip, things turn dangerous when your friends' glider makes an emergency landing in the rocky desert of the Baja Peninsula. Soon, you realize that this was just the beginning of your troubles. Can you and your friends survive until help arrives?The Choose your Own Adventure series is unique new series consists of 30 titles adapted from the wildly popular Choose Your Own Adventure series, which has sold over 250 million copies worldwide, and spawned an entire genre called 'interactive fiction'. What makes Choose Your Own Adventure different is that you, the reader, are the main character. You make the choices that can lead to a happy conclusion-or perhaps to a terrible fate! Each title is made up of several branching storylines, with up to 30 different endings. As a result, most readers read each book again and again, experiencing a different story each time. Originally targeted at reluctant readers, Choose Your Own Adventure has helped to develop critical thinking, literacy skills, and an interest in reading for a whole generation of English native speakers. Now adapted for English language learners of any age, the Choose Your Own Adventure series is a fun addition to any extensive reading library. Indeed, the stories are so engaging we guarantee that even non-ESL learners will enjoy reading them!

Between the covers of this book, you find not only the words of a man who fought in the twentieth century's most decisive battles, but also a brilliant military mind who shaped modern history. British commander Bernard Montgomery-known as "e;First Viscount of Albania"e;-was not just a general on the battlefield, but a strategic thinker and a profound political analyst. This rare work includes two lectures he delivered at Oxford University in 1959, titled "e;The Struggle Between East and West,"e; along with a moving essay he published after his retirement from NATO. The result is a rare intellectual and military document from a man who lived through war and wanted peace to endure. In these texts, Montgomery insightfully discusses the roots of international conflict and analyzes his meetings with major world leaders, most notably Khrushchev, offering a balanced vision of what the post-war world should look like. With its direct, decisive, and profound style, this book gives us a rare opportunity to understand the mind of a man for whom victory was not merely a goal, but a means to forge a more rational and stable future. This book is not only a historical testimony, but a vivid call to reflection, from a man who lived through the battle and wrote to prevent its recurrence.

Powieść należąca do klasyki literatury dziecięcej i młodzieżowej, ponadczasowy utwór, wielokrotnie przenoszony na deski teatru oraz ekrany. Jedenastoletnia sierota, Ania Shirley, przybywa na Zielone Wzgórze, farmę położoną w malowniczym Avonlea na Wyspie Księcia Edwarda. Samotna, wrażliwa dziewczynka wierzy, że po latach tułaczki i cierpienia znajdzie swą przystań w domu rodzeństwa Cuthbertów. Nie wie jednak, że doszło do pomyłki, gdyż chcieli oni zaadoptować chłopca. Surowa Maryla pragnie natychmiast odesłać Anię, jednak łagodny Mateusz zdaje się mieć inne zdanie niż siostra.„Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza” jest pierwszą z serii książką o przygodach rudowłosej Ani Shirley. Seria „Ania z Zielonego Wzgórza” stała się inspiracją dla wielu produkcji filmowych, w tym także także najnowszego serialu Netflixa „Ania, nie Anna”.Saga opowiadająca o losach niezwykłej dziewczynki, a później dziewczyny i kobiety, rudowłosej Ani o niepospolitej urodzie oraz wielkiej wyobraźni. Seria liczy osiem tomów, trzy ostatnie części skupione są na dzieciństwie i dorastaniu dzieci Ani.Lucy Maud Montgomery [1874-1942] urodziła się na Wyspie Księcia Edwarda w Kanadzie. Dla szerszej publiczności znana jako L. M. Montgomery, a dla rodziny i przyjaciół jako "Maud". Uczęszczała do Prince of Wales College w Charlottetown, gdzie uzyskała dyplom nauczycielski. W latach 1895-96 studiowała literaturę na Uniwersytecie Dalhousie w Halifax w Nowej Szkocji. W 1908 r. opublikowała swoją pierwszą książkę, „Anię z Zielonego Wzgórza”, która odniosła natychmiastowy sukces. Wkrótce stworzyła cały cykl o przygodach rudowłosej Ani – składa się on z jedenastu powieści.