The Truth Pixie meets Pixar’s Inside Out in this hilarious, heartfelt & highly illustrated new series, perfect for helping children gently work through their worries & anxieties. Everyone feels worried sometimes. But what if your worries came to life & started following you around? Jazmin’s mum is about to have a baby & Jaz is SO excited! She’s been waiting forever to be a big sister & knows she’s going to be brilliant at it. Okay, it might mean some changes to their family, but Jaz is sure everything will be just fine. So imagine her surprise when a host of furry, fretful friends arrive to cause some serious mischief. That’s right, it’s the Worries – gloomy Loner, nervous Change, pushy Jealousy & DJ Disaster, always waiting for something to go wrong. Jaz tries her best to keep her worries to herself, but with her birthday party coming up fast, they seem set on turning her into the Worst Sister EVER! This heartwarming story is ideal for older siblings expecting a new baby brother or sister. Perfect to help them connect with the new arrival & highlight any worries they may have! ...

Hannah Driscoll is part of a gang – the Lip Gloss Girls. The gang spend all their spare time together, baiting their arch-rivals, the Hell Cats. They constantly square up to each other & vie over which gang can fight the best, be it at school, in the park or on the train. Hannah feels safe & comfortable within the gang – until she is accused of betraying the Lip Gloss Girls. All of a sudden Hannah knows what it feels like to be cast out & surrounded by enemies… “ An emotionally charged story about girl gangs, betrayal & the way that friendship can change in an instant. Simply brilliant” Full On! magazine anti-bully-teenfiction-bullying anti-bully-all-teen-fiction anti-bully-all-olderandteen-fiction anti-bully-all-older-&-teen-fiction ...

Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases … a great cheer-up book’ Guardian ‘HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!’ Pamela Butchart A laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for fans of Horrid Henry. Best friends Stanley & Manjit are part of Class 4B, which head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt says is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING & it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it. But they didn’t LITERALLY mean to let the class stick insects loose in the wilds of the playground. & they really didn’t LITERALLY mean to make a massive mess trying to do modern art (which may or may not have involved a mummified cat being stolen). These things just happened, even though they had FOOLPROOF plans to get away with it all. Highly illustrated & featuring two hilarious madcap adventures in one book, these stories are just right for children ready for their first chapter books. ...

‘ Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases… a great cheer-up book’ The Guardian ‘HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!’ Pamela Butchart A laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for fans of Horrid Henry. According to head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt, 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING & it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it. But Stanley & Manjit didn’t LITERALLY mean to flood the toilets when they should have been monitoring the playground. & they definitely didn’t LITERALLY mean to bring a penguin home from the zoo on their school trip. These things just happened even though they had a FOOLPROOF plan to get away with them. ...

‘ Deliciously silly, with hilarious catchphrases… a great cheer-up book’ The Guardian ‘HILARIOUS! Proper laughs!’ Pamela Butchart A laugh-out-loud young fiction series from bestselling author Joanna Nadin, perfect for fans of Horrid Henry. Head teacher Mrs Bottomley-Blunt thinks 4B is the WORST CLASS IN THE WORLD. She says school is not about footling or fiddle-faddling or FUN. It is about LEARNING & it is high time 4B tried harder to EXCEL at it. But best friends Stanley & Manjit didn’t LITERALLY mean to get covered in newt pond water just before the Class Photo. & they really didn’t LITERALLY mean to cause TOTAL MAYHEM by trying to get fake teeth to the very best tooth fairy. These things just happened, even though they had FOOLPROOF plans to get away with it all. Highly illustrated & featuring two hilarious madcap adventures in one book, these stories are just right for children ready for their first chapter books. ...

Forget about all the things you think a princess is SUPPOSED to do – Princess Sue is not that kind of royalty! ...

‘ Riding a broomstick is no easy matter!’ Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred is a trainee at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches, but she’s making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong & crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to scrape by until she turns Ethel, the teacher’s pet, into her deadly enemy & chaos ensues... Jill Murphy’s much-loved classic if full of fun, magic & mayhem! Also in The Worst Witch series: The Worst Witch Strikes Again A Bad Spell for the Worst Witch The Worst Witch All at Sea The Worst Witch Saves the Day The Worst Witch to the Rescue The Worst Witch & the Wishing Star First Prize for the Worst Witch ...

A hilarious new book from the bestselling children’s author – Adrian Mole for the new generation! ‘ Made me cry with laughter & my heart ache’ Lisa Thompson, author of The Goldfish Boy ‘ Funniest. Book. Ever’ Ross Welford, author of Time Travelling with a Hamster Stan is going on holiday to Italy with his (fifth) best friend Felix & a load of strangers. Stan is absolutely terrified. Luckily, his mum’s given him an emergency list that

Includes:: how to survive a shark attack, & what to do if he gets kidnapped. Stan thinks that a better list would include how to cope with odd food, & what to do if he accidentally calls Felix’s mum ‘mum’ in front of everybody. And it soon turns out Italy is full of dangers & things that can go wrong. One thing’s for certain, Stan’s not going to come back the same boy he left. He just hope he comes back at all... Worst. Holiday. Ever is a story about facing fears, dealing with worries, & how it’s OK to be anxious, scared, & sometimes a little bit brave.

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When Peter puts the lake-bound sanctuary of Wranglestone in danger by allowing a stranger to come ashore, he’s forced to leave & help rancher Cooper herd the dead from their shores. But as love blossoms between the pair, a dark discovery reveals the sanctuary’s secret past. ...

Narrow the attainment gap with reciprocal reading. Our groundbreaking Connectors series uses peer-to-peer learning strategies that include every child – with proven results. High-impact methods proven in case studies & recommended by the Education Endowment Foundation Formal classroom trials of Connectors show children’s reading age leaping forward by an average of 9.1 months in just 12 weeks Ideal for small group teaching at different ability levels Case studies show particular benefits for disadvantaged learners A great way to make your Pupil Premium go further Children work in small independent groups of up to six, each taking turns to be the leader as they read & discuss a book together. Clear prompts show the leader how to focus the discussion & engage their team members to predict outcomes, clarify issues, ask questions & evaluate content. This collaborative approach builds teamwork, speaking, listening, comprehension & evaluation skills. It also promotes metacognition & peer-to-peer learning: two strategies identified by the Education Endowment Foundation as being particularly effective for disadvantaged children. A 2013 formal trial of Connectors involving 616 pupils in five UK schools showed dramatic increases in reading ability, with the greatest benefits among children on Free School Meals. These pupils showed a reading age increase of over 10 months on average – all in just 12 weeks. This six-copy pack of a non-fiction title is ideal for readers at Book Band Silver. Find out more & watch our videos. “ The Ofsted inspector that saw the Connectors lesson said she had never seen a book talk where everybody was so engaged & on task. She said the system obviously works really well for children because everybody was focused.” Literacy Coordinator, Ecton Brook Primary School new-connectors summer-18 sum-18 sum-18-ie pm 19-offer ...