Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily hes got an ace plan for the best year ever if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points Rafe tries to break every rule in his schools oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class
- 5 000 points! Running in the hallway
- 10 000 points! Pulling the fire alarm
- 50 000 points! But when Rafes game starts to catch up with him hell have to decide if winning is all that matters or if hes finally ready to face the rules bullies & truths hes been avoiding.


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After sixth grade the very worst year of his life Rafe Khatchadorian thinks he has it made in seventh grade. He's been accepted to art school in the big city & imagines a math-&-history-free fun zone. Wrong! It's more competitive than Rafe ever expected & to score big in class he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. His method? Operation: Get a Life! Anything he's never done before he's going to do it from learning to play poker to going to a modern art museum. But when his newest mission uncovers secrets about the family Rafe's never known he has to decide if he's ready to have his world turned upside down. James Patterson's winning follow-up to Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life" is another riotous & heart-warming story about living large." ...

Rafe Khatchadorian the hero of the bestselling Middle School series is ready for a fun summer at camp
- until he finds out it's
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Georgia Khatchadorian plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking brother failed. She's even bet him that she'll quickly become one of the most popular girls in school. But Rafe left a big mark at HVMS & no one will give Georgia a chance! Even worse Rafe has sneakily signed up her band to play at the school dance & she's terrified to embarrass herself in front of the snooty ' Princesses' who run the school & the boy who's caught her eye. Will she be able to overcome her fears & win her bet with Rafe? Find out THE TRUTH about Rafe Khatchadorian's sister in the first Middle School story from the point of view of the hilarious Georgia
- a girl who's ready to speak her mind!
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Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily he's got an ace plan for the best year ever if he can pull it off. With his best friend Leonardo the Silent awarding him points Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. Chewing gum in class
- 5 000 points! Running in the hallway
- 10 000 points! Pulling the fire alarm
- 50 000 points! But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters or if he's finally ready to face the rules bullies & truths he's been avoiding.


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George Eliots masterpiece groundbreaking in its psychological insight into powerful clashes of obligation & desire Middlemarch" is edited with notes & an introduction by Rosemary Ashton in " Penguin Classics". George Eliots most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial English community prior to the Reform Bill of 1832. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; passionate idealistic & penniless artist Will Ladislaw; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama. This edition uses the text of the second edition of 1874. In her introduction Rosemary Ashton biographer of George Eliot discusses the themes of change in " Middlemarch" & examines the novels as an imaginative embodiment of Eliots humanist beliefs. Mary Ann Evans (1819-80) began her literary career as a translator & later editor of the " Westminster Review". In 1857 she published " Scenes of Clerical Life" the first of eight novels she would publish under the name of George Eliot including " The Mill on the Floss" " Middlemarch" & " Daniel Deronda". If you enjoyed " Middlemarch" you might like Charles Dickens " Bleak House" also available in " Penguin Classics". " No Victorian novel approaches " Middlemarch" in its width of reference its intellectual power or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative". (V. S. Pritchett). " One of the few English novels written for adult people". (Virginia Woolf)." ...

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism disillusion profligacy loyalty & frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke & Dr Tertius Lydgate &

Includes:: a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century. Henry James described Middlemarch as a 'treasurehouse of detail' while Virginia Woolf famously endorsed George Eliot's masterpiece as 'one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.

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Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged & undermined George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel a concept of life & society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832 Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art religion science politics self society human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke the heroine idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy beautiful & egoistic: Edward Casaubon the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: & Fred Vincey & Mary Garth childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986) the first critical edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more. ...

Part of Penguins beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith these delectable & collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. George Eliots most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the few English novels written for adult people. ...

George Eliots most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives & changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the charming but tactless Dr Lydgate whose marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; & the religious hypocrite Bulstrode hiding scandalous crimes from his past. As their stories interweave George Eliot creates a richly nuanced & moving drama hailed by Virginia Woolf as one of the few English novels written for adult people. ...