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Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly. They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot tolearn about life.This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.

'Hornblower fired. There was a small cloud of smoke, but no bang. This is death, he thought. My pistol was the unloaded one.'But Horatio Hornblower does not die. He survives the duel with Simpson, learns to overcome his seasickness, and goes on to risk his life many times over. It is 1793, Britain is at war with France, and life on a sailing ship of war is hard and dangerous. But the hardest battles are fought byHornblower within himself.

London: November. Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Queen's coachman, who loses his leg in the bombing. And for Alan and his daughter Jane there ismore terror to come, in the search for the truth behind the bombing. Will the terrorists be caught and brought to justice?But what kind of justice? What can give Alan Cole his leg back, or give life back to people who have been blown to pieces by a bomb?

Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep.But imagine that you wake up on a hard floor, in a darkness blacker than the blackest night. You listen to the silence, and smell a wet dead smell. Death is all around you, waiting...In these stories by Edgar Allan Poe, death whispers at you from every dark corner, and fear can send you mad...

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that's for sure.So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends.And there's 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim . . .

President's Murderer is one of the ten titles in The Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 1 Best-seller Pack, which is ideal for building up class libraries. Each Pack contains one copy of each listed title.liThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer/libr / liThe Elephant Man/libr /liA Little Princess/libr / liLove or Money?/libr / liThe Monkey's Paw/libr / liThe Phantom of the Opera/libr / liThe President's Murderer/libr / liSherlock Holmes and the Duke's Son/libr / liWhite Death/libr / liThe Wizard ofOz/li