The Abacus Evolve Textbooks for Year 5: * Offer clear differentiation & progression. * Contain problem-solving integrated throughout the book including word problems number puzzles investigations & more. * Include 'owl questions' to extend high achievers & provide opportunities for using & applying for the whole class. ...

This textbook allows independent practice of mathematical skills. It presents the concepts at an appropriate reading level. Activities with an investigative or process-skill focus encourage creative & mathematical thinking. Problem-solving is included. ...

This textbook allows independent practice of mathematical skills. It presents the concepts at an appropriate reading level. Activities with an investigative or process-skill focus encourage creative & mathematical thinking. Problem-solving is included. ...

These textbooks allow independent practice of mathematical skills. They present the concepts at an appropriate reading level. Activities with an investigative or process-skill focus encourage creative & mathematical thinking. Problem-solving is included. ...

These textbooks allow independent practice of mathematical skills. They present the concepts at an appropriate reading level. Activities with an investigative or process-skill focus encourage creative & mathematical thinking. Problem-solving is included. ...

Last year Pierce died
- just for a moment. & when she was in the space between life & death she met John. Tall dark & terrifying
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Last year Pierce died
- just for a moment. & when she was in the space between life & death she met John: tall dark & terrifying
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Death has her in his grasp. & he's gorgeous. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn't dead. Not this time. But she's been taken by John Hayden Lord of the Underworld to the place between heaven & hell where spirits gather before their final journey. John claims it's to protect her from the Furies who are hell-bent on vengeance against him. But could he have other reasons for keeping Pierce close? When she learns that the people she loves back home are in mortal danger can she convince John to release her to save them-- or will the price he asks for her freedom be too high? ...

Eight-year-old Lily is always surrounded by animals. Her mum works at an RSPCA centre as an Animal Care Assistant. Lily thinks it's the best job ever. Sometimes Mum has to care for animals at home & on one rainy evening Mum arrives with three tiny kittens. The poor things have been abandoned & Lily & Mum must stay up through the night to look after them. But there's another member of Lily's family that wants to help
- Poppy their crossbreed dog gently mothers the kittens in their basket. Poppy was brought to the RSPCA as a tiny puppy & was handreared herself. Together Mum Lily & Poppy will be able to nurse the kittens back to health.
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From the mid-eighteenth century Irish country houses flourished. Landowners generated easy income leasing land to tenants. As their wealth increased so did the size of their country mansions. But factors such as the Great Famine land reforms the increasing expense of maintenance & the IRA targeting the houses during the War of Independence took their toll. Gradually abandoned & forgotten the houses sank into decay. In 2008 Tarquin Blake found his first abandoned ' Big House' & so began exploring the lost architecture of Irel&. Here he documents what is left of fifty mansion houses with brief histories & beautiful photographs of the haunting ruins. Included are Mountpelier Lodge (Dublin Hellfire Club) the birthplaces of Daniel O' Connell & the Duke of Wellington & the one-time homes of Grace O' Malley & of brewing family the Smithwicks of Kilkenny. The inclusion of details from the 1911 Census offers a glimpse of the closing days of the aristocracy & their mansions. ...