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Mar 02, Israel Drazin rated it it was amazing. This is a truly terrific nice way to learn how to think and act in a positive manner and overcome fears and past failures, which is written by a government expert. The solution is learning how to think positive thoughts. She tells us how to do this, and describes several ways how to focus and control our thinking. Ik rated it it was amazing Dec 03, Noah Zittle rated it it was amazing Jan 03, Jean Tillett rated it it was amazing Apr 29, Rebekah rated it it was amazing Oct 09, James Lynam rated it really liked it Dec 15, Sue Pratt rated it really liked it Jun 10, Sheenan Cole rated it it was ok Oct 31, Nicole Zatlyn rated it it was amazing May 07, Ik rated it it was amazing Dec 04, Kathy marked it as to-read Apr 26, Stephen Robertson marked it as to-read Dec 19, Cherida marked it as to-read Aug 29, Kim Ignatius Borri added it Mar 27, Julia marked it as to-read Apr 04, Nicole is currently reading it Feb 16, Frederick Rotzien marked it as to-read Dec 02, Melissa marked it as to-read Dec 03, Barbara Zitsch marked it as to-read Dec 03, Linda marked it as to-read Dec 03, Sarabjit marked it as to-read Dec 03, Amy marked it as to-read Dec 03, Bridgette Ralph marked it as to-read Dec 03, Haven Gordon marked it as to-read Dec 03, The history of rock is chronicled through forty world-famous artists and groups in this stylishly designed and illustrated book.
And where are the queens of soul and disco? Fun, stylish and informative. Economically told, this is a powerful story that raises issues of courage and responsibility. Packed with fabulous photos and page after page of facts, stories and behind-the-scenes information on the making of the films, this is a treat for any Harry Potter devotee. Life at Hogwarts is its theme and it gives us close ups of school life, from the sorting ceremony to the teachers and lessons, and the school ghosts. Little extras including a page of stickers and packs of pull out postcards make it even more fun.
November Book of the Month The weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit the Harry Potter universe are a huge part of its appeal, fascinating fans or sending shivers down their spines. This book features some of the most amazing, including those that live in the Forbidden Forest and the Dark Lake, the dark creatures, and — of course — the dragons. Interspersed between pages of illustration and photographs, alongside information on how the creatures were created for the films, are beautiful, three dimensional dioramas, delicate layered paper cut-outs creating scenes of excitement and adventure, that themselves feel genuinely magical.
A very handsome book. Best known for his action-packed Alex Rider series, Anthony Horowitz is also a master of the macabre, as evidenced by these ten terrifying tales. This is a tense, twisted, treat for fans of frightsome fiction, with the bite-sized narrative bursts making it ideal for reluctant readers.
Louisiana has always believed that her parents were high wire stars, killed in an accident when she was very young, but driven by terrible toothache and an urge to come to terms with her own past, her granny suddenly reveals that everything Louisiana knows about her life is a lie. Abandoned in a motel miles from her old home in Florida, Louisiana is left to decide who she wants to be. She is befriended by a boy called Burke Allen and his family including his seventeen cake baking mother, and the kindness of strangers helps her to new happiness and security.
A story of grief and confusion becomes one of love, hope and resilience. Lively and cannily told, this rollicking adventure mixes sci-fi, fantasy and ancient mythology. Aidan and his mum have a secret, a very unusual one: With the help of his new friend Charlotte, Aidan sets out to rescue her. It turns out Mum is in real danger, along with some other unusual prisoners… The mix of ordinary life and fantasy is very well handled, and the narrative — mostly handled by Aidan but with interjections from Charlotte, and a mysterious third voice — will keep everyone on tenterhooks.
The only way to find out is to read it… No-one knows more about the creation of unputdownable fiction than James Patterson, and this is another sure-fire hit combining sharply observed school life with computer game action and surprisingly touching family dynamics. STEM skills science, technology, engineering and mathematics are important to all aspects of our lives, from construction to space exploration, from the digital world to caring for the natural one.
Practical, fun and instructive. How can the girls help him? Going back in time to the s, Molly and Beth try to find out something from the past that can help them to cheer Dad up. Barbara Henderson takes readers to just such a remote island and stages a tense and exciting confrontation between humanity - represented by the narrator, Em, her family and others involved in the creation of a new luxury hotel - and nature, represented by the island's furred and feathered inhabitants.
There's a very good sense of the wild and scary power of the natural world, and it puts human behaviour in the spotlight too. Em is a strong central character, a good companion for readers throughout her intriguing, often scary adventure. What an interesting and original way to think about important people! Most get very specific awards just for them — Einstein for example gets the Curiosity Award — but there are categories too: Rowling and Ana Nzinga. Most are represented with full page portraits opposite smaller pictures showing scenes from their lives.
A useful timeline at the back puts everyone in their place chronologically. Here are stories to entertain as well as inform, and maybe to inspire too. Stylish and artfully designed, this book is jam-packed with enough information on the Greek gods and heroes to satisfy even the most inquisitive reader. Forty different characters, from Gaia, Cronus and Zeus to Electra, Achilles and Odysseus, are featured on double page spreads; boxes of text tell their stories with impressive brevity, while extra gobbets of information are conveyed via shorter text boxes or in captions that accompany the stylised, colour illustrations.
This is the latest in an eye-catching and effect series. Rachel Renee Russell Format: Nikki's birthday party is going to be beyond awesome! Organizing a big party for one hundred people is easy, right? When Mom says it's too expensive, soon it's looking like Nikki's dream party will be a total dorky disaster - cringe! Can Nikki and her BFFs come up with a plan to save the day, or will there be major birthday drama?!
October Book of the Month This is a reinvention of the most radiant, vital kind; an inspirational re-working of The Twelve Dancing Princesses to devour over and over, and to share aloud. But brave, clever Frida stands up to her father. And then, with the grace and strength of a lioness and the potency of her imagination, Frida leads her sisters in a fight to re-find life. What a sumptuous, stirring celebration of sisterhood this is. Sam longs to go on the school trip to the Highlands but he is sure his parents will say no as he has a long term sickness - sickle cell disease — which means he needs to be looked after carefully.
When they surprisingly say yes, Sam is thrilled. But his delight soon turn to fear as he realises that the class bullies are planning something that is designed to humiliate him but which will end up putting them all at risk. Despite being a story of homelessness and poverty, it will leave readers cheered and thoroughly reassured about the strength and resilience of the human spirit. Twelve-year old Felix lives with his mother Astrid, only rarely seeing his dad. Astrid has a flexible attitude to truth and Felix has developed a chart to measure the lies she tells as they navigate their lives.
Nielsen gives him good friends, and a talent for memorising facts, both of which help to set up a better future for him. The text marches up hill and down dale, in between, over and under the illustrations, shouting, bursting, capering across the page so the story and illustrations become a glorious Christmas pudding mix of a read, give it a stir and get ready to duck as the tales take flight. Yes this is a kids book, and yes I fully expect that adults will get just as much enjoyment from the stories as the children.
A Terry Pratchett book was always on my Christmas list, I treat each and every one of them with love… set a new fan in motion, or delight a well established one - this is a proper little gem. October Book of the Month One of our Books of the Year The Timmy Failure books are works of absolute comic genius and Stephan Pastis succeeds with each new story in making the adventures of Timmy and his sidekick Total the polar bear funnier, even more satisfying, and still more poignant; never more so than this the last in the series.
Timmy has decided to retire from detective work but has a new project: Meanwhile he is also negotiating a new relationship with his dad, now permanently on the scene, and helping reunite Total with his long lost polar bear family.
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The story will have readers crying with laughter, while the ending may well bring tears of a different kind. November Book of the Month A powerful, poignant, darkly comic and deeply moving story about friendship at its most extraordinary. December Book of the Month Shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards , Best Story category Beautifully written in prose that sparkles like the snow that provides its backdrop, this fantasy novel is practically perfect in every way. Waiting for her next train on a freezing platform she meets a stranger. When she finally arrives at her destination, to find that her godfather, his wife and young son Tomos are absent, and that there's only a skeleton staff of servants to meet her, she assembles the contents of the parcel to stave off boredom and loneliness.
Psammead-grumpy the crow becomes her ally and together they embark on a dangerous adventure to find out what has happened to Tomos, who disappeared mysteriously one frosty night a year ago. The story is rich with the sense of old magic and fairytale, yet is a totally original and particular bit of storytelling. At a time when books often sprawl over pages or more, it is wonderfully concise too, and even better for that. A delight, and thankfully there should be more adventures for Seren to come. This review originally appeared in Books for Keeps. But can she keep it secret from her Dad?
This is a wonderfully touching and beautifully crafted story about growing up and learning about real life from one of our best-loved authors. December Book of the Month This special adventure for Hetty Feather plunges young readers into a Victorian Christmas celebration, and introduces them to or reunites them with some other favourite Wilson characters too, including Clover Moon and Rose Rivers.
I If you want to guarantee smiles and laughter on Christmas morning, stick a copy of Hamish and the Terrible Terrible Christmas under the tree. Scott knows that playing Virtual Kombat will put his life in danger, but the only way to destroy the game is from the inside, and he really wants to avenge the death of his friend. Chris Bradford is an expert at keeping the tension high and this is page-turning, super-readable adventure. Masklin, Grimma and their rapidly diminishing band of four inch high Nomes they aren't shrinking in height, but numbers leave their home in order to survive.
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They find themselves in a department store, among Nomes who no longer recognise that there are outsiders, or even an outside. When they discover that the department store is closing down and being knocked down, can they persuade the rest of the Nomes that they need to leave? Terry Pratchett has the ability to make words sing together, in such a way, that they make you stop and think.
Idabelle Bat has invited them to join The Points, here super-cool and exclusive gang — but why? The one thing they know about Idabelle is that she is NOT to be trusted … As ever the story zips along as though on fairy wings, sprinkled with fashion and fun, and these gorgeous little books are hard to beat for style and substance.
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This classic quest story is perfect for animal-loving adventure-seekers, replete with a kaleidoscope of characters and a high-stake journey driven by the colossal courage of one small creature. The writing is pacey and infused with much courage, compassion and hope, and a sparkling sense of legend.
November Book of the Month Wonder was a sensation when it was first published in , and the story of Auggie and his fight to be accepted as a normal boy has now hit the big screen in a movie starring Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Daveed Diggs, and Mandy Patinkin. This is a special film tie-in edition. Frank, powerful, warm and often heart-breaking, Wonder is a book you'll read in one sitting, pass on to others, and remember long after the final page.
This is a wonderful debut from a storyteller with a great future if this book is anything to go by and her characters are intensely likeable. When the Whales Walked tackles a big, complex subject — the evolution of life on Earth — and succeeds in explaining it clearly, vividly and in way that will catch the imagination of young readers. It examines thirteen case studies, each describing the evolution of a different group of animals, from the earliest fish right up to modern Homo Sapiens. It explains the history of each group with the help of illustrations and diagrams, challenging children to spot the patterns in the ways that different animals have evolved.
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A book that thoroughly respects the intelligence and inquisitiveness of its readers and rewards their attention. Funny, touching, true, the story will appeal to Tracy Beaker fans old and new. In a sleepy Old Vicarage in deepest Kent, Frank Hinks is preparing his three young sons, Julius, Alexander and Benjamin for bed, but as the sun goes down in Shoreham the adventures are just beginning in the riotous world called Ramion that Frank creates for the boys in his nail-biting bedtime stories In which the boys and their warrior Dream-Lord cat Snuggle have wild escapades and meet all sorts of strange creatures from Racing Racoons and the half demented rabbit Scrooey-Looey to Eric the Dragon and his son Drago.
A visit to her grandparents reveals a surprise: His experiences are recounted vividly in his diary, both his runs in his beloved Cumbria and his experiences as a soldier, recruited to run between positions on the front line, carrying crucial information to the allies. Their shared experiences form a powerful connection, and help Lily to understand herself better, and also to help her grandma when she needs it most. Today and yesterday are seamlessly woven together in a story that will move readers in lots of different ways.
Max uses her imagination and compassion together to dream up ways to improve the world. This fascinating book tells the true stories of more than inventive, positive young people who dreamed big and somehow changed the world for the better. STEM, film and music, the environment, sports, business, art and literature, and politics. Best of all it includes practical suggestions on how children can be heroes in their everyday lives. Full colour illustrations make it even more appealing and attractive. Amy Wilson continues to make her mark as an author of sparklingly original fantasy adventures for the young, and Snowglobe makes magical reading.
Wandering alone through the small town where she and her father live, she discovers a strange old house, and in it an even stranger woman. In rooms filled with enchanted snowglobes Clem makes a friend, and is offered the chance to bring back her mother too, if she is brave enough.
A story of spells and sibling rivalries, of embracing who you are no matter what others think, and as much about loyalty, steadfastness and love as The Snow Queen or Tam Lin, this story will envelop readers in its beautiful icy world. Kiran Millwood Hargrave Format: Three sisters and their brother are parentless in a wintry wilderness when a mysterious man appears. A stranger who jokes that Oskar must be cursed to have three sisters. Elaborately embroidered with lyrical conjurations of landscape, and a sense of grief and sorrow, above all else this exudes sisterly strength and comes recommended for fans of traditional tales, and those who enjoyed The Wolf Wilder.
The history of rock is chronicled through forty world-famous artists and groups in this stylishly designed and illustrated book. And where are the queens of soul and disco? Fun, stylish and informative. Economically told, this is a powerful story that raises issues of courage and responsibility.
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The touching story tells of how Christmas is made happy for Jake by his friendship with a lost dog. For Jake, Christmas is not a time of fun but a time of huge anxiety as he copes with bright lights, loud noises and the unexpected behaviour of others and the changes in routines. But, when he finds a lost dog on the street, the two forge a very special bond.
In the little dog Susan, Jake finds a companion who enables him to stay calm and to cope with the things he finds difficult.
A beautiful story which is especially suitable for children finding reading stamina. Packed with fabulous photos and page after page of facts, stories and behind-the-scenes information on the making of the films, this is a treat for any Harry Potter devotee. Life at Hogwarts is its theme and it gives us close ups of school life, from the sorting ceremony to the teachers and lessons, and the school ghosts. Little extras including a page of stickers and packs of pull out postcards make it even more fun. November Book of the Month The weird and wonderful creatures that inhabit the Harry Potter universe are a huge part of its appeal, fascinating fans or sending shivers down their spines.
This book features some of the most amazing, including those that live in the Forbidden Forest and the Dark Lake, the dark creatures, and — of course — the dragons. Interspersed between pages of illustration and photographs, alongside information on how the creatures were created for the films, are beautiful, three dimensional dioramas, delicate layered paper cut-outs creating scenes of excitement and adventure, that themselves feel genuinely magical.
A very handsome book. This fascinating and highly pore-overable book maps the United Kingdom not via contours or motorway networks, but through its people, habits and history.