When Alton's ageing blind uncle asks him to attend bridge games with him he agrees After all it's better than a crappy summer job in the local shopping mall & Alton's mother thinks it might secure their way to a good inheritance sometime in the future But like all apparently casual choices in any of Louis Sachar's wonderful books this choice soon turns out to be a lot more complex than Alton could ever have imagined As his relationship with his uncle develops & he meets the very attractive Toni deeply buried secrets are uncovered & a romance that spans decades is finally brought to conclusion Alton's mother is in for a surprise! ...

So wait said Cosmo If we go in that door we might exit on the other side of the galaxy?'I don't know I said But we currently live in a tub in a black hole so what do we have to lose? When eleven-year-old space mad Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record something unexpected happens A black hole follows her home & sets out to live in her house as a pet The black hole swallows everything he touches which is challenging to say the least
- but also turns out to be a convenient way to get rid of those items that Stella doesn't want around Soon theugly sweaters her aunt has made for her all disappear within the black hole as does the smelly class hamster she's taking care of & most important all the reminders of her dead father that are just too painful to have around It's not until Stella her younger brother Cosmo the family puppy & even the bathroom tub all get swallowed up by the black hole that Stella realizes she has been letting her own grief consume her & that's not the only thing she realizes as she attempts to get back home From the author of Confessions of an Imaginary Friendcomes an astonishingly original & funny adventure with a great big heart Praise for Confessions of an Imaginary Friend Cuevas's novel brimming with metaphors gorgeous imagery & beautiful turns of phrase considers the fate of devoted but invisible companions Have tissues on hand for the bittersweet ending' Publishers Weekly starred review Alternately amusing & philosophical this quirky read will get kids thinking about love loss & life' Booklist
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Animated children&s feature about the bears with the mission to care for others Tenderheart Bear (voiced by David Lodge) Wonderheart Bear (Michaela Dean) Harmony Bear (Nayo Wallace) & Funshine Bear (Michael Sinterniklaas) along with the rest of the gang set out to ride the colourful rainbow to the town of Care-a-lot where they go on magical adventures to help bears in need Language English Number of discs 1 ...

This practical careers handbook helps you get to grips with the job market
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' An invaluable resource for all carers' Johnnie Walker MBE joint patron Carers UK 240 pages Matthews Jane ...

It was with this play that Harold Pinter had his first major success & its production history since it was first performed in 1960 has established the work as a landmark in twentieth-century drama The obsessive caretaker Davies whose papers are in Sidcup is a classic comic creation & his uneasy relationship with the enigmatic Aston & Mick established the author's individuality with an international audience ...

Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize England is in a state of environmental & economic crisis Under the repressive regime of The Authority citizens have been herded into urban centres & all women of child-bearing age fitted with contraceptive devices A woman known as ' Sister' leaves her oppressive marriage to join an isolated group of women in a remote northern farm at Carhullan where she intends to become a rebel fighter But can she follow their notion of freedom & what it means to fight for it? ...

'A cracker Utterly convincing' Philip Pullman The Disappearance of Tom Pile When bright lights are spotted above a tiny village in Dorset the locals suspect German bombers Jack Carmody believes otherwise He is part of a secret government department set up to explore the supernatural & the unexplained Then a boy
- Tom Pile
- is discovered alone & scared Tom went missing forty years ago The Miraculous Return of Annick Garel One year later two French fishermen see strange lights over the channel
- & discover the body of a girl still alive Annick Garel drowned in a storm thirty years ago Both children have powers that could change the course of the Second World War Both sides in that war want their secrets These are two extraordinary stories These are the Casebooks of Jack Carmody


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There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery & despair You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming & clever Baudelaire children read on The Carnivorous Carnival contains such a distressing story that consuming any of its contents would be far more stomach-turning than even the most imbalanced meal To avoid causing discomfort it would be best if I didn't mention any of the ingredients of this story particularly a confusing map an ambidextrous person an unruly crowd a wooden plank & Chabo the Wolf Baby Your time might be better filled with something more palatable such as eating your vegetables or feeding them to someone else In the tradition of great storytellers from Dickens to Dahl comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary & irreverent hilarious & deftly crafted Despite their wretched contents 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide & been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey & in the future things are poised to get much worse thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris You have been warned Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? The Bad Beginning The Reptile Room The Wide Window The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy The Ersatz Elevator The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital The Carnivorous Carnival The Slippery Slope The Grim Grotto The Penultimate Peril The End And what about All The Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous & puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about Who Could That Be at This Hour?' When Did you Last See Her?' Shouldn't You Be in School?' Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?' Lemony Snicket was born before you were & is likely to die before you as well He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious & prone to riot He grew up near the sea & currently lives beneath it Until recently he was living somewhere else Brett Helquist was born in Ganado Arizona grew up in Orem Utah & now lives in New York City He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University & has been illustrating ever since His art has appeared in many publications including Cricket magazine & The New York Times ...

The jungle animals find that an extremely carnivorous crocodile has claimed their water hole for himself! Not even the elephant wants to tangle with those terrible teeth until the five flamingos show that by being cunning & brave the crocodile can be made to share his waterhole The first in the Five Flamingos series ...