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In early twentieth-century London, before their encounter with Peter Pan, nine-year-old Wendy and her younger brothers lead far from perfect lives with their emotionally distant parents and abusive Nanny, a situation that only worsens for Wendy when she see her father kiss another woman and finds herself pulled into an adult world of mysteries and lies.
The Yangtze in this story is not a river in China. It's a name Nancy gives to a special place near the edge of her town in the back- woods of Quebec, Canada. It's here, where the wild raspberries grow, that Nancy and her friends, the strange and wonderful sisters Clare and Amy, explore and let their imaginations soar. The girls wonder about their neighbor, Sandra the troublemaker, and her older teenage sister, Tracy. Sandra's mother thinks Nancy is a bad influence. But Nancy has seen and heard strange things happening at Sandra's house. She's sure there are more secrets hidden behind their closed doors. During this summer of change, as Nancy struggles to make sense of the world around her, she learns that things are seldom what they seem. Once something is revealed, Nancy can't go back to the way she was before. .
Join one young eel as it makes a long journey in this fun and informative picture book and CD, part of the 'Nature Storybooks' series. The audio CD is read by Stephen Tompkinson. 'Think of an Eel' supports the National Curriculum Key Stage One and Two.
Longing to give up the nineteenth-century English circus life she was born into, sixteen-year-old Ellen Spangle secretly prepares to be a governess and is courted by a wealthy young man until two tragedies lead her to reevaluate her plans.
Part of a series of fiction books divided by chapters and covering a range of genres from adventure, humour and fairy tale to fantasy, mystery and science fiction.
Trauma affects the lives of many children who we teach in school. It effects the students, teachers who teach them, the administration, and the school community as it is part of the school environment and culture. Teachers and administrators have great potential to set up an environment and adopt an attitude that can help heal the trauma in the lives of their students. Schools need to become trauma-informed to be able to provide for the growing number of refugee children who have experienced terrorism, crime, war, and abuse, to better help some Indigenous children who due to systemic racism and discriminatory policies have been traumatised and live daily with trauma, and the growing number o...
When family members give five-year-old Scarlette a garden, she succeeds in growing gigantic vegetables and creating something wonderful.
Retelling the ever-popular King Arthur legends for a younger audience, the titles in this series feature text of no more than 400 words which interacts with the images in order to develop visual literacy.
On Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, 1878-1972, governor-general of India, 1948-1950.
A narrative explanation of the daily life of the large carnivorous Tyrannosaurus rex.