When Katy Simmons packed all three of her daughters off to their grandmother's house for a few days during their school summer holidays in order to get some work done in peace & quiet she expected to talk to them on the phone she knew that her eldest would send her a text now & again she was even thinking about getting granny to set up Skype
- but she never expected them each to send her a letter. She realised that Granny was responsible. Letters are such old-fashioned things after all.. .or are they? Talking to her friends she soon realised that writing to Mum wasn't such a rare occurrence for other kids who were away from home. Some were encouraged to do so at school & others even liked to leave notes around the house for their mothers to find. Of course when embarking on the huge task of writing a letter you don't waste too much time on trivia. Letters are for important stuff
- & it's what the children who wrote the letters that are featured in this book found important that make them so fascinating to read.

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Have you ever wondered what your Father was like as a child? Intrigued to know about how your gr&-parents met? Do you wonder what school life was like for your Mum? These are questions that lead to precious answers. Award-winning 'from you to me' Journals of a Lifetime gift range is made up of beautifully designed hard back journals
- the perfect gift for every loved-one for every occasion. Available in Dear Dad Dear Mum Dear Grandma Dear Grandad Dear Son Dear Daughter Dear Sister Dear Brother & Dear Friend. We all have our own story to tell. Each 'from you to me' gift journal contains around 60 fun & inspiring questions carefully designed to inspire your family to enjoy telling their story
- to help you to find out amazing things about them.

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Have you ever wondered what your Father was like as a child? Intrigued to know about how your gr&-parents met? Do you wonder what school life was like for your Mum? These are questions that lead to precious answers. Award-winning 'from you to me' Journals of a Lifetime gift range is made up of beautifully designed hard back journals
- the perfect gift for every loved-one for every occasion. Available in Dear Dad Dear Mum Dear Grandma Dear Grandad Dear Son Dear Daughter Dear Sister Dear Brother & Dear Friend. We all have our own story to tell. Each 'from you to me' gift journal contains around 60 fun & inspiring questions carefully designed to inspire your family to enjoy telling their story
- to help you to find out amazing things about them.

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Adapted from Berlie Dohertys award-winning book the play examines how two teenagers cope with an unplanned pregnancy. Tackling the issues of relationships love & pregnancy Dear Nobody is the story of two teenagers Helen & Chris in their final year of school. Their plans for music college & university are suddenly thrown into disarray when Helen falls pregnant. Chris tries to keep them together but Helen withdraws into herself writing letters to her unborn baby. Sensitively adapted from the best-selling novel this play is perfect for school performance. ...

Exploring the history of the home of Celtic this title

Includes:: details of famous players & managers. It

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A moving story of a brother a sister & a swallow & how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines. Olly's brother Matt wants to go & work with children who have been made orphans through war in Africa. He wants to be a clown & make them laugh. His mother & sister want him to stay in England & go to university. Hero a swallow has a journey to make too. He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows. His journey is difficult & fraught with danger. Three separate stories are woven into one powerful & moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war & of landmines but also the endurance of the human spirit. ...

: A funny moving & absorbing story about a young girl's attempts to learn more about her dead father through the objects she finds in a cardboard box he's left her. Scarlett & her friend Ellie go on a sometimes hilarious sometimes scary journey of discovery following the clues & always remembering to 'keep looking up'. Was Scarlett's dad a thief? Was he a spy? & what does it mean to be his daughter? Fleur Hitchcock is a great new voice in children's literature & Dear Scarlett is a great book. ...

Through his alcoholism & her mental illness his career highs (and lows) & her institutional confinement Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald's devotion to each other endured for more than twenty-two years. Now for the first time the story of the love of these two glamorous & hugely talented writers can be given in their own letters. Introduced by an extensive narrative of the Fitzgeralds' marriage the 333 letters
- three-quarters of them previously unpublished or out of print
- have been edited by the noted Fitzgerald scholars Jackson R. Bryer & Cathy W. Barks. They are illustrated throughout with a generous selection of familiar & unpublished photographs.

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It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister Abba is top of the pops & in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school. Jack & his staff struggle to keep a semblance of normality throughout the turbulence of the school terms as once again the official School Log fails to record what is really going on beneath the seemingly quiet routine. Ruby the caretaker discovers her Prince Charming; Vera the school secretary gets to meet her hero Nicholas Parsons; & Jack to his astonishment finds himself having to stand in as a curiously skinny Father Christmas. Jack also finds himself at last having to choose between the vivacious sisters Beth & Laura Henderson.. . ...

Claire & Ben are the perfect couple. But behind the glossy facade they've been desperately trying
- & failing
- to have a baby

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