' If Finn Maison shouts jump you jump or you are dead' Twelve-year-old Willem has Aspergers Syndrome & two main aims in life to fly & to make at least two friends of his own age But all the other boys from the Beckham Estate do is make him jump off things First his desk
- & now the wall As his toes teeter on the edge Sasha Bradley gives him a tiny little wink Might she become his friend? Bullied by Finn & his gang the Beckham Estate Boyz Willem has no choice but to jump As he flies through the air he flaps his arms wishing he could fly & escape into the clouds Instead he comes crashing down & breaks his ankle Sasha angry with herself for not stopping Finn & his Boyz is determined to put things right & soon while the gangs riot on their estate Willem & Sasha form an unlikely friendship Because they share a secret Sasha longs to fly too And when Magic Man Archie arrives with stories of war-flying spitfires he will change the lives of the kids on the Beckham Estate for ever & perhaps find a way for Willem & Sasha to fly Touching on themes such as friendship & bullying this is a charming tale about overcoming obstacles & finding friendship in unlikely places'heart-rending heartbreaking & heartening' The Best New Children's Books Guardian Supplement
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Half-American & half-Singaporean Max West grew up in Singapore without having ever heard of the Naval Diving Unit Upon graduating from high school however he was conscripted for two years of mandatory military service He found himself thrust into NDU Singapore's elite naval special forces formation as one of just two Eurasians in his enlistment class In this candid firsthand account West recounts the grueling training he endured & the deep camaraderie he & his teammates forged throughout their journey West offers an accurate unrestrained depiction of life as a trainee revealing what it takes to succeed as a combat diver in the Singapore Armed Forces National Service is a shared crucible borne by every Singaporean son Unrestrained in its frankness & compellingly told How to Forge a Frogman is a true coming-of-age tale set in a uniquely Singaporean setting Named a nonfiction bestseller by Books Kinokuniya in July 2017 ...

How to Get a Grip on Grammar is packed full of amazing activities to get your grammar skills up to speed! Have fun with terrific tenses awesome adverbs & super sentence structure! For useful tips & inspiring ideas How to Get a Grip on Grammar is jam packed full of outrageous activities that will have you mastering the world of grammar in no time! ...

Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is a bold new novel for the modern world This book is a self-help book Its objective as it says on the cover is to show you how to get filthy rich in rising Asia & to do that it has to find you huddled shivering on the packed earth under your mother's cot one cold dewy morning Your anguish is the anguish of a boy whose chocolate has been thrown away whose remote controls are out of batteries whose scooter is busted whose new sneakers have been stolen This is all the more remarkable since you've never in your life seen any of these things ' Even more intriguing compelling & moving than The Reluctant Fundamentalist A marvellous book' Philip Pullman ' This brilliantly structured deeply felt book is written with the confidence & bravura of a man born to write Hamid is at the peak of his considerable powers here & delivers a tightly paced preternaturally wise book about a thoroughly likable thoroughly troubled striver in the messiest most chaotic ring of global economy Completely unforgettable' Dave Eggers ' Mohsin Hamid is one of the best writers in the world period Only a master could have written this propulsive tale of a striver living on the knife's edge a noir Horatio Alger story for our frenetic violent times' Ben Fountain Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist & Moth Smoke His fiction has been adapted for the cinema translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta & the New Yorker Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York ...

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Max Gunther's lost classic brought back into print Most people imagine that you're born lucky or you get lucky Max Gunther shows you how you get lucky The fact is that some people really are luckier than others & not by accident Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest & where they can find their lucky break Lucky people take risks but not silly ones They stick with a cause a job or a partner but not when all hope is lost In short they move with life not against it This book gives you thirteen different techniques by which you can discover & take advantage of life's good breaks while minimising the effects of its bad ones ...

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' Making money is a knack a knack that can be acquired & if someone like me can become rich then so can you
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Zazie has just received a beautiful new notebook & decides to keep a diary Brimming with imagination she writes down herimpressions of her cat Roudoudou her awful cousin Lucas & her new teacher Mr Labat
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