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VOODOO ISLAND Stage 2 Haiti is an island where people do not always die - they only sleep. Voodoo can bring dead people back to life. Voodoo can speak to the spirits of all things, alive or dead. Voodoo is the magic of Haiti. There are still people, today, who use voodoo magic to speak to the dead. Or perhaps you don't believe in magic ... ? This is a story about the fight between the old world and the new world. James Conway wants to bring the new world to Haiti. He wants to build new houses, shops, and hotels. Most of all, he wants to make money. Kee is an old man who understands and loves the old world. Kee has very little money; he is not an 'important' person in the new world. But Kee understands people. Kee understands James Conway better than James Conway understands himself. And Kee understands voodoo.

Michael Duckworth, the author of this story, is an experienced teacher and writer. He lives and works near Oxford.

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Stage 1 (400 words) Love or Money? Rowena Akinyemi The Elephant Man Tim Vicary The Monkey's Paw W.W. Jacobs White Death Tim Vicary Stage 2 (700 words) Michael Jackson Jen Denniston Sherlock Holmes Short Stories Sir A. Conan Doyle The Love of a King Peter Dainty The Piano Rosemary Border Voodoo Island Michael Duckworth Stage 3 (1000 words) Frankenstein Mary Shelley Go, Lovely Rose H.E. Bates (short stories) Skyjack! Tim Vicary The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde Stage 4 (1400 words) Desert, Mountain, Sea Sue Leather The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir A. Conan Doyle Stage 5 (1800 words) Ghost Stories retold by Rosemary Border The Bride Price Buchi Emecheta Stage 6 (2500 words) Cry Freedom John Briley Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

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Voodoo Island Michael Duckworth

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1989

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