This fact-filled book shares information about creatures who once lived in the shadows of the dinosaurs, but then grew to rule during the age of the mammoths. Comes complete with saber toothed tiger skeleton model. ...

The bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series hurtles towards a thrilling fifth adventure as Harrison Beck investigates sabotage on a runaway train in the Australian Outback in Sabotage on the Solar Express. ...

Sachin Tendulkar is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsman in the history of cricket, & is a hero to millions in his native India. This easy-read biography tells the fascinating story of his rise from schoolboy prodigy to the dizzy heights of international cricketing superstardom. ...

&8220; It&8217;s war. & right now we&8217;re losing it.” Hal & Roger Hunt fly straight into the jaws of death when they join warden Mark Crosby in Tsavo, an African park where poaching is big business. The poachers slaughter elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos. & now they&8217;re killing human rangers too. With a ruthless gang leaving behind a blood-stained trail of terror & torture, the heat is on for the brothers to solve the string of mysterious murders &8211; before they too become victims. ...

The four children in the Casson family are all named after colours. Hot-tempered, smart Saffy is also named after a colour, Saffron Yellow, but she can&8217;t find hers on the colour chart. Why not? An award-winning tale of family life &8211; & family secrets. ...

Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing ‘ Safiyyah’s War has the soul of a classic & the urgency of a story for our times. A tale of tolerance, unthinkable bravery, & heart-in-mouth true events. I loved this book’ – Kiran Millwood Hargrave ‘ All at once, Safiyyah’s War broke my heart & filled me with immense hope. With its unforgettable characters & exquisite storytelling, this really is an extraordinary book’ – A F Steadman ‘ Safiyyah is a protagonist I was rooting for all throughout; a lovely, kind-hearted girl whose story filled me in turns with despair & joy. This book shines through with kindness & empathy at its very heart’ – Nizrana Farook War comes to the streets of Paris & Safiyyah’s life changes for ever. Her best friend’s family have fled, & the bombing makes her afraid to leave the mosque where she lives. But when her father is arrested by the Nazis for his secret Resistance work, it falls to Safiyyah to run the dangerous errands around the city. It’s not long before hundreds of persecuted Jews seek sanctuary at the mosque. Can Safiyyah find the courage to enter the treacherous catacombs under Paris & lead the Jews to safety? ...

Letters & Sounds (2021): Phase 3 Scholastic Set 5 Sound Focus: ai ee igh oa oo Book Band: Red This title is part of a brand new set of phonically decodable reading books perfect for very early readers. These expertly levelled stories are engaging, & are exactly matched to Little Wandle Letters & Sounds Revised, used in schools across the UK. The series

Includes:: a wide selection of diverse & inclusive stories, accompanied by bright, contemporary & humorous illustrations that will engage & inspire young readers with a ‘find the character’ feature on each spread. The artwork is detailed so as not to provide picture cues & prompting. Each book also contains parent’s notes & a ‘retell the story’ task to support children’s oracy, vocabulary & comprehension skills. Thirteen sets of books covering groups of sounds to allow for progression. The stories in this set focus on the sounds found in Scholastic Set 5 & revise the sounds found in previous sets. There are thirteen sets in total, covering: Phase 2 Set 1: s a t p i n m d Phase 2 Set 2: g oC k ck e u r h b f l Phase 2 Set 3: ff ll ss j v w x y z zz Phase 2 Set 4: qu ch sh th ng nk Phase 3 Set 5: ai ee igh oa oo Phase 3 Set 6: ar or ur ow oi ear air er Phase 4 Set 7: Adjacent consonants with short vowels Phase 4 Set 8: Adjacent consonants with Phase 3 long vowels Phase 5 Set 9: ay (play), ou (cloud), oy (boy), ea (each), ir (bird), ie (pie), ue (blue), u (unicorn) Phase 5 Set 10: o (go), i (tiger), a (paper), e (he), a-e (snake), i-e (time), o-e (home), u-e (cute), e-e (these), ew (new), ie (shield), aw (claw) Phase 5 Set 11: y (funny), ea (head), wh (wheel), oe (toe), ou (shoulder), y (fly), ow (snow), g (giant), ph (phone), le (apple), al (metal), c (ice), ve (give), o-e (some), o (mother), ou (young), se (cheese), se (mouse), ce (fence), ey (donkey), ui (fruit), ou (soup) Phase 5 Set 12: or (word), u (full), oul (could), are (share), ear (bear), ere (there), au (author), aur (dinosaur), oor (floor), al (walk), tch (match), ture (adventure), al (half), a (father), a (water), a (want), ear (learn), wr (wrist), st (whistle), sc (science), ch (school), ch (chef), ze (freeze), schwa at the end of words (actor) Phase 5 Set 13: eigh (eight), aigh (straight), ey (grey), ea (break), gn (gnaw), kn (knee), mb (thumb), ere (here), eer (deer), su (treasure), si (vision), dge (bridge), ge (large), y (crystal), ti (potion), ssi (mission), si (mansion), ci (delicious), augh (daughter), our (pour), oar (oar), ore (more) Have you got them all?

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Blood-&-thunder Victorian (with just a touch of steampunk) bliss by a genius we’d sell our souls to write like. Sally rides like a Cossack & shoots like a demon. Our kind of heroine, then. ...

It’s early 1945 & a group of people trek across Germany, bound together by their desperation to reach the ship that can take them away from the war-ravaged l&. ...

What to do when Morps just can’t turn out the war/animal fiction fast enough? Luckily, Sam Angus is here with a new (and genuinely fresh) take on animal heroes. ...