Have you ever been blamed for something you didn't do? if so, you'll know how Jamie feels when he's accused of breaking other people's toys. But if it's not Jamie who's breaking them, who is it? Is it a child at all?

Jamie is baffled. Throughout the town, toys are being broken
- teddies' eyes are going missing, puppets' strings are tangled, & the finger of blame seems to point at Jamie. Then he meets Mr Pratchett, the toymender, who tells him the tale of the monstrous Toybreaker
- a hideous creature fuelled by jealousy who roamed children's rooms before Christmas in times gone past, breaking anything, & everything which was loved. Could the Toybreaker be back? If he is to clear his name, Jamie has to find out



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I'm Tracy Beaker. Mark the name, I'll be famous one day. Although this journal is all about ME, I've generously allowed you some space to write down your own thoughts, ideas & dreams. There are quizzes, games & loads of extra info about me
- & pages for you to fill in about your family, friends, likes, dislikes & loads more!
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There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. About twelve million Africans loaded onto the notorious slave ships, marshalled & transported in unbearable conditions to work the tropical lands of the Americas was a form of oppression, driven by economics on a global scale, which lasted for the best part of four centuries.

The story of slavery embraces the lives of many millions of people: Africans, Europeans & Americans. Its scope & the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. This book therefore takes a unique course. It focuses on the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement
- a trader, John Newton, an owner, Thomas Thistlewood, & a slave, Olaudah Equiano. Their parallel lives are microcosms of the larger story: together they provide an account of slavery at its peak & how it was finally brought to its knees.

John Newton (1725-1807), best known as the author of




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There has been nothing like Atlantic slavery. Its scope & the ways in which it has shaped the modern world are so far-reaching as to make it ungraspable. By examining the lives of three individuals caught up in the enterprise of human enslavement
- a trader, an owner & a slave
- James Walvin offers a new & an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery & of its historic end in April 1807.

John Newton (1725-1807), best known as the author of



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Charlotte was looking forward to her holiday in the sun. Two months on a remote tropical island with her rich, handsome boyfriend: who could ask for more? She is more than a little surpised, then, when she arrives to find that the island isin fact a vast correction centre
- the Training Grounds
- presided over by a sworthy & handsome figure known only as the Master. But greater shocks are in store, not least Charlotte's discovery that she is there not as a guest, but as a slave.. .

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Charlotte was looking forward to her holiday in the sun. Two months on a remote tropical island with her rich, handsome boyfriend: who could ask for more? She is more than a little surpised, then, when she arrives to find that the island isin fact a vast correction centre
- the Training Grounds
- presided over by a sworthy & handsome figure known only as the Master. But greater shocks are in store, not least Charlotte's discovery that she is there not as a guest, but as a slave.. .

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With her mother dead & her father currently in prison awaiting trial for her murder, a pregnant Frankie is blamed for the tragedy & forced to live with her wideboy fiance, Jed O' Hara, in a trailer on his parents' l&. Frankie struggles to adapt to their gypsy way of life, but when her daughter, Georgie, is born, things go from bad to worse. Jed's mother is a loud, brazen, domineering woman, who has always yearned for a daughter herself, & she begins to take over her baby granddaughter. Meanwhile Frankie's family & friends know that Jed is cheating on her, but blinded by love & a sucker for his charm, Frankie refuses to believe them.

Then one day the unthinkable happens. Sick to the stomach at her discovery, Frankie for once sees Jed for what he really is. She realises that the man she loves is not only heartless, but also violent & dangerous. Petrified for the safety of herself & her family, Frankie plots the ultimate revenge. But can she actually go through with it?

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