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The Comet and the Thief
The Comet and the Thief is a fresh, fantasy time-slip between two periods in British history: Georgian and Medieval. Kit, a born actor, hates being a thief in eighteenth century London. When wicked Lord Colwich hires him to steal a missing page from a mysterious medieval book in his library, it results in Kit having to flee the city...
Running Out?
Annotation. Ruth A. Morgan completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia in 2012 and took up a lecturing position at Monash University in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2013 Margaret Medcalf Prize by the State Records Office of Western Australia for excellence in reference and research, and shortlisted for the Australian Historical Association's Serle Award for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian History. In 2013, Morgan was a visiting scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. She has presented at international conferences at Renmin University in Beijing (co-sponsored...
The Gardening Pirates
A pirate tale with a twist. 'Arrrgh, me hearties!' On the bad ship Ych a fi, times are hard and rations are grim. But when cabin girl Gwen finds a mysterious seed, life starts to look up for the pirate crew ... though not for cruel Captain Cranc!
Cities in a Sunburnt Country
As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabilities and alternatives. This volume sheds light on the challenges of water management in Australian cities drawing on environmental, urban and economy history.
Ogi and the Rugby Match
It's the day of the big match between Abernog and Bobipandy and Ogi has baked a cake that looks just like a rugby ball. When one of the players kicks the ball out of the stadium, Fireman Prout throws Ogi's cake to the players, thinking it to be the spare ball. Will Ogi be able to save his cake or will it end up a gooey mess on the rugby pitch?
Ruth, Roger and Me
‘Your words of “discomfort, loss, and disconnection” don’t resonate with me at all.’ Ruth Richardson to Andrew Dean, 16 December 2014. A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In Ruth, Roger and Me, Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ‘disconnection’ in modern Aotearoa New Zealand.
How Stories Really Work
This book is a powerful tool for understanding fiction and for transforming creative writing and taking it to new levels of clarity, energy and effectiveness. Learn what a story really is and what it is actually doing to and for readers, how all successful fiction follows universal patterns to attract and grip readers, the magnetic power that draws readers into a work of fiction even before the introduction of any character, what the thing called a 'character' actually is, and the secrets of how to rapidly build a convincing one that attracts readers, the things called 'plots', what they are and how they are actually made (rather than how you might suppose they are made). Find out about the writing model which, if followed, will create a machine generating unimaginable numbers of readers and heightened reader satisfaction for you, based on some of the most successful pieces of literature in the English-speaking world.
Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 6: Snapdragons: Batter, Splatter!
Written by top children's authors such as award-winning Gillian Cross, Malachy Doyle and Pippa Goodhart Snapdragons are fabulously illustrated with various writing styles and fonts to make reading enjoyable for all your infant readers. They provides a wide range of picture books for children aged 3-9. Easy-to-use reading notes for parents/carers are included on the inside cover of each book. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.
Sizzlepuff the Dragon
One morning, Bobin discovers a very remarkable egg on the doorstep. Before long, a cracking noise begins and out pops a baby dragon. 'We can't keep him as a pet' says Nib. 'It's too dangerous'. 'The egg must have rolled down from dragon mountain' says Bobin. The Bobinogs decide that they must take little Sizzlepuff back to his mother.
The Descendants of John Hinson (1844-1931) and Wife Sarah Jane Rummage (1850-1915)
Traces the descendants of John Hinson and Sarah Jane Rummage of Stanly County, North Carolina. (Second edition)
