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The Sterkarm Handshake
A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this "brilliantly imagined" time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain's mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company's representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mi...
Ghost Drum
In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman. The Czar of this cold realm fears his newborn son, Safa, will out do him, and so imprisons the baby at the top of a tall tower, to live and die there without ever glimpsing the real world. Loneliness and confinement drive him to rage and despair until Chingis hears the crying of his trapped spirit and frees him. But now their enemies unite against them, with steel and deadly magic. Chingis and Safa's fight for freedom will take them even through the Ghost World into the Land of the Dead. A timeless and atmospheric tale of fierce magic.
Silver Skin
Skara Brae, Orkney, during the Neolithic period. The sun is dying, crops are failing and the local inhabitants fear that the end of the world is near. When a strange boy appears from nowhere, dressed in an odd silver suit - his 'silver skin' - the community is thrown into confusion. Who is he, where is he from, and why has he come? Is he a selkie or seal person, a mythical being believed to have magical powers? For Cait, herself an outsider in the community, the boy, Rab, arouses a strange fascination as she finds herself strangely drawn towards him. For Voy, the Old Woman, Rab represents the only hope for the sun's regeneration, but only if his silver skin is burnt in a huge sacrificial blaze. As the pyre is built, Rab must fight for his life if he is ever to be able to return to his own time. And if he succeeds, what will be the fate of the islanders he will leave behind?
Ghost Song
It's midsummer and midnight: the endless white night of the far north. Malyuta, a slave and hunter, feels richer than the Czar because he holds his first new-born, a son. He names the baby 'Ambrosi' which means immortal. Then comes Kuzma, the shape-shifting bear-shaman, who demands the baby from him. The child was born to Kuzma's apprentice in witchcraft. "Give him to me," says Kuzma. In return for the baby, he will make Malyuta rich or even return his youth. Malyuta refuses. All through the long summer night, he refuses. The hour of midnight passes and the shaman leaves but as he goes, he tells Malyuta that the baby he holds is a world-walker, a child of the Iron Ash, born to be a shaman. "...
The Wolf's Footprint
An enthralling story for younger readers, from double award winning author, Susan Price. A bad summer, and the crops didn't grow. Now winter is coming. Everyone is hungry. People search desperately for the last of the nettles and acorns. Elka and her little brother Daw huddle under their blankets, trying to keep warm. Elka is too hungry to sleep. Awake in the dark, she overhears her parents whispering. "I don't want to watch them starve. Take them into the wood and leave them. Take them far in, so they won't find their way back, and leave them." The next day their father takes them into the wood, to look for mushrooms. Daw goes along innocently, holding his father's hand. Elka follows becaus...
The Ghost Wife
"You love me, don't you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You'd better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She's in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I'll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jonathan. But he's already married. To a vengeful ghost. "I love you to death."
Ghost Spell
All life is sorrowful, but very, very sweet. Ice apples and firelight. Wolves, darkness and the road to the Ghost World. Ghost Spell, the fourth haunting book in the Ghost World Sequence. Under a freezing arctic sky, a wolf carries a dying baby to a village door. The villagers adopt him, naming him Vulchanok, 'Little Wolf.' He grows to be a happy child but, by night, the wolf enters his dreams. She leads him to the Ghost World and makes him a shaman. The villagers begin to fear him. Vulchanok becomes a lonely man. By night he looks for visions in a spinning ice-apple. He sees a beautiful, red-headed girl who is also alone. Taking up his goshawk skin, he flies to her window. Hundreds of miles...
Hairy Bill
Spooky or funny, surprising or frightening, Shock Shop is a collection of seven brand-new novels by some of the greatest names in children's writing. One morning, the Matheson family come downstairs to find that their living room is unnaturally, indeed frighteningly tidy. At first they assume it's a break-in (obsessively tidy thieves?) - but soon the truth becomes clear. It's Hairy Bill - a brownie or bogle, the Matheson family's very own house spirit. He used to do chores on the family farm. In the city, he decorates and cleans. Soon the whole house is redecorated in Scottish Baronial style - deer's heads, tartan aplenty, Scottish landscapes on the wall... But the Mathesons don't want to live with a demonic antidote to Carole Smillie. How can they get rid of the sinister spirit of cleaning?
Nightcomers
Praise for Nightcomers from Philip Pullman. "'Every tale shows the quality of the imagination, and the accuracy of the telling. What most impresses is the authority of Susan Price's voice: exact, rich or spare when necessary, able to evoke the Past without falsity, and the present without effort.'" (The Guardian.) "Nightcomers..." The beautiful and the uncanny... A beautiful Englishman drives his Italian mistress to suicide - but she pursues him even after death... A young blacksmith spends Midsummer's Night near an ancient mound, to 'shoe with silver the horses of those who come by'... In an echoing, eerie, out-of-hours mall, a lonely cleaner falls in love with a beautiful, hungry stranger... A family gather at a dying girl's bedside and, out of the night, something comes knocking at the window... A man walks home, on a freezing night, along lanes haunted by the Death-Dog... A young actor is offered a lift in a car silver sports car with the number, '130.' A holiday cottage holds memories of despair... And a ghost features in a gentle Christmas story. Eight eerie, haunting stories of the supernatural from an expert story-teller and award-winning writer.
The Runaway Chapati Big Book
A major reading scheme for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years. A popular traditional tale, The Runaway Chapati Big Book is ideal for shared reading activities with children in the Foundation stage/Primary 1 (ages3-4). The Big Book is designed to be used with the associated children's books (pack of 4): A Chapati; My Face; Run, Run!; Stop!, Come Back!. The Runaway Chapati Big Book spans the Key Skills (High Frequency Words) strand and the Language Patterns (Patterned and Natural Language) strand of Cambridge Reading. The Big Book can be used to develop children's Text and Sentence level skills through systematic coverage and repetition of four key, high frequency words a, and, my and the, and through the use of patterned and natural language of the speech refrains. The other two traditional tales (also comprising a Big Book and 4 associated children's books) are The Elves and the Shoemaker and Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
