Exciting new magical adventure series for girls
- will you answer the call of Silver Dolphins? Antonia is a secret Silver Dolphin
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In June 1631 pirates from Algiers & armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers & bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates
- some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultans palace. The old city of Algiers with its narrow streets intense heat & lively trade was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves & freemen of many nationalities. Only two of them ever saw Ireland again. The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or Engl&. Des Ekins exhaustive research illuminates the political intrigues that ensured the captives were left to their fate & provides a vivid insight into the kind of life that would have awaited the slaves amid the souks & seraglios of old Algiers. The Stolen Village" is a fascinating tale of international piracy & culture clash nearly 400 years ago & is the first book to cover this relatively unknown & under-researched incident in Irish history. It was shortlisted for the Argosy Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award."
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This is the way we stomp our feet Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! This is the way we like to eat Chomp! Chomp! Chomp! Stomp! Chomp! Big Roars Here come the dinosaurs! This is a brilliant third action rhymes book from the perfect duo of Kaye Umansky & Nick Sharratt. Following on from Tickle my Nose" & " Wiggle My Toes" this book focusses on the perennial favourites dinosaurs & boasts a whole host of brand new interactive fun rhymes about all sorts of things. Illustrated with Nick Sharratt's superbly vibrant & fantastic dinosaur characters this will soon become a most popular book." ...

Stone Cold is an exciting & disturbing thriller by Robert Swindells. A tense exciting thriller combined with a perceptive & harrowing portrait of life on the streets as a serial killer preys on the young & vulnerable homeless. 17-year-old Link is distrustful of people until he pairs up with Deb homeless like him. But what Deb doesn't tell him is that she's an ambitious young journalist on a self-imposed assignment to track down the killer & that she's prepared to use herself as bait... Winner of the Carnegie Medal Robert Swindells lives on the Yorkshire moors & is a full-time writer. He has won the Children's Book Award twice for Brother In The Land & for Room 13. In 1994 he won the Carnegie Medal for Stone Cold & also the Sheffield Book Award. Also by Robert Swindells: Brother in the Land; Room 13; Stone Cold; Nightmare Stairs; Unbeliever; Blitzed; Ruby Tanya; The Thousand Eyes of Night; The Tunnel; The Shade of Hettie Daynes; Burnout; In the Nick of Time; Daz 4 Zoe; Snakebite; Snapshot; Branded; Roger's War; No Angels; Wrecked; Jacqueline Hyde; Stayling Up; A Serpent's Tooth; Follow a Shadow; Timesnatch; Unbeliever; & The Last Bus. ...

Investigating a serial killer in an affluent suburban town is difficult & dangerous & with the added pressures from the town selectmen & the media the heat is turned up on Jesse. Hes spengin too much time with the bottle & with his ex-wife neither of which helps him or the case. & the harder these outside forces push against him the more Jesse retreats into himslef convinced despite the odds that its up to him alone to stop the killing. ...

A poor stone cutter who wished he was a rich man has his wish granted. He then keeps changing his wish & each wish is granted. Finally he wishes himself back as he was at the start of the story. * Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language & extended descriptions with longer sentences & a wide range of unfamiliar terms. * Text type
- A story from another culture (Japan). * The flowcharts on pages 22 & 23 illustrate the story in sequence providing opportunities for speaking & listening & scaffolding writing. * Curriculum links
- Citizenship: Choices; Music: Exploring sounds.

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When the newly-released demons set the Order of the Crow an impossible ultimatum
- deliver the Philosopher's Stone or suffer fatal
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize the National Book Critics Circle Award & the Governor-Generals Award & short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one womans life a truly sensuous novel which relects & illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisys life Shields reflects & illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich & poignant novel. ...

The land of the goblins is hidden but not so far away. If you look carefully you might just find it Saggypant & Seepage are Stone Goblins
- but theyre not much good at collecting stones! So imagine how they cope with a dragons tail Check out www.hiddengoblins.co.uk for more Goblins information & activities.
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The Stone Gods" is one of Jeanette Wintersons most imaginative novels
- an interplanetary love story; a travellers tale; a
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