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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The Middle-Class ABC is the book loos the length & breadth of the land have been waiting for
- a humorous celebration of the facts
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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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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. ...

Perfect for day trips & short breaks the OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps. Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Middlesbrough & Teesside are renowned for their association with the iron & steel industry. Iron has been produced there on an industrial scale since the 1850s when Cleveland ironstone was discovered in the Eston Hills. By 1866 there were fifty-eight blast furnaces in Middlesbrough Cargo Fleet Eston (South Bank) & Port Clarence & the growth & subsequent decline of the iron & steel industry is in many ways the history of Middlesbrough itself. Any uninformed visitor could be forgiven for overlooking this heritage however as there are so few remaining architectural reminders of that historical association; the furnaces & mills have been demolished the corporate buildings are now night clubs or pubs the river is less polluted the air is cleaner & quieter. These images trace the changing landscape from the latter half of the nineteenth century through time to the late 1960s when the industry was nationalised. ...