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Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 4: Black Beauty: 1400 Headwords

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: United Kingdom; Oxford University Press; 15 Nov 2007Description: 96 Pages; PaperbackISBN:
  • 9780194791663
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.64
Summary: When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Book Child Karachi English Language Resources 428.64 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC009567
Book Child Lahore English Language Resources 428.64 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available PKLC004948
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When Black Beauty is trained to carry a rider on his back, or to pull a carriage behind him, he finds it hard at first. But he is lucky - his first home is a good one, where his owners are kind people, who would never be cruel to a horse. But in the nineteenth century many people were cruel to their horses, whipping them and beating them, and using them like machines until they dropped dead. Black Beauty soon finds this out, and as he describes his life, he has many terrible stories to tell.

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