Fifteen more tests to assess verbal reasoning skills & provide invaluable practice for the 11+ selection tests. * 15 more papers to provide verbal reasoning practice * Test questions that assess a child's problem solving skills & their ability to use understand & analyse language * Guidance from experienced teachers of getting the best out of test practice * A helpful chart to track progress ...

The first book in this series Weird Cases was published in 2009 & contained cases which had been dealt with by the courts in the previous two years. The parade of extraordinary human disputes & irregularities that are heard in law courts has however run on unabated since then. More Weird Cases provides a further instalment of extraordinary cases from around the world that have featured in the authors popular column in The Times Online. The cases featured in More Weird Cases are those that truly stand out as odd even among all the unusual dramas that challenge the courts: the case of the man caught with a substantial quantity of marijuana who said in his defence that he only possessed the drug for the purposes of de-worming his ducks; a case where the court authorities didnt accept that being a cat was a proper excuse not to serve on a jury; & one where a man was granted a divorce because his wife thought about having sex with another man. This book is a highly entertaining read for anyone who enjoys reading about the more bizarre aspects of human life that fetch up in the law courts at the beginning of the 21st Century. ...

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" was a " Sunday Times" bestseller & could be found displayed on bookshop counters up & down the country. The response to the book from booksellers all over the world has been one of heartfelt agreement: it would appear that customers are saying bizarre things all over the place
- from asking for books with photographs of Jesus in them to hunting for the best horse owner's manual that has a detailed chapter on unicorns. Customer: I had such a crush on Captain Hook when I was younger. Do you think this means I have unresolved issues? " More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" has yet more tales from the antiquarian bookshop where Jen Campbell works &

Includes:: a selection of ' Weird Things...' sent in from other booksellers across the world. The book is illustrated by the Bafta winning Brothers Mc Leod."


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Where would you find your fibula? What is the name of the first dog in space? Who wrote Charlie & the Chocolate Factory? Test your knowledge with even more whiz quiz questions. Laid out in game format each quiz consists of ten rounds of eight questions each taken from a wide range of subjects
- sport tv film music & history. Play each round as a quiz on its own or play a whole game for a greater challenge. More Whiz Quiz continues the project that began with the successful The Whiz Quiz Book. Teachers children & parents worked together with the needs of Irish children in mind to produce a quiz book that offers great scope & variety to use free time gainfully & enjoyably. Compiled by the National Parents Council (NPC)
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Wicked Words
- a collection of saucy & compelling short stories. This is the best in contemporary sexy fiction
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When Aunt Lucy tells William that a busy day is a happy day William does his best to keep himself very busy indeed. Unfortunately not everyone appreciates his efforts to cheer up Christmas Day
- & when a conjuring trick with an egg goes very badly wrong William finds himself in more trouble than ever! These fourteen fantastic Just William stories are as funny as ever.
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The Adventures of the Wishing Chair When Mollie & Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present they discover the most extraordinary thing: a chair that can fly & grant wishes! The Wishing-Chair takes them on some marvellous adventures
- to a castle where they narrowly escape from a giant & rescue Chinky the pixie to the Land of Dreams & to a disappearing island! Be whisked away by Enid Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair stories. The Wishing-Chair Again Mollie & Peter are home for the holidays & they long to see their pixie friend Chinky & their magic Wishing-Chair. Together they have wonderful adventures but what happens when the Wishing-Chair is stolen & then gets its wings cut off by the naughty Slipperies? Be whisked away by Enid Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair stories. More Wishing-Chair Stories Mollie & Peter & Chinky the pixie have more amazing adventures on their Wishing-Chair. They find gold at the end of the rainbow they meet brownies & they visit the Land of Wishes. Best of all they get to help Santa Claus deliver presents for Christmas! Be whisked away by Enid Blyton's magical Wishing-Chair stories.
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In a masterpiece of storytelling Margery Allingham sends her elegant & engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household where there have been two suspicious deaths. & if poisoning were not enough there are also anonymous letters sudden violence & a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business & Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth. ...

A genuinely funny & original novel about mental illness growing up & parental breakdown from much-loved comedienne Jo Br&. Alice is five & convinced she needs five personalities to cope. Her family tucked in a cottage in deepest Herefordshire are a bit weird. Her mother Gina is obsessed with the weatherman on the local news & when she climbs naked onto the roof with Alices pet guinea pig in her arms she is whisked off to the local psychiatric hospital. Keith Alices father tries to keep calm but his patience is severely tested by his in-laws. The only thing that gives Alices hope is her love for Morrissey of The Smiths... ...

Mr. Morello is a slightly confused pear-shaped 45 year-old Italian immigrant living with his larger plump wife & three children. As a family they share a curious fondness for all things British & yet by dint of their Italian heritage struggle to come to terms with some of our more esoteric characteristics. Mr. Morello a fastidious & prodigious letter writer takes it upon himself to correspond with some of the great institutions & individuals--from Tony Blair George W. Bush The Lord Chancellor Richard Branson & the Archbishop of Canterbury to Gordon Ramsay & The Bank of Engl&. All in an attempt to have his seemingly endless list of quandaries answered by the experts & at times in vain attempts to secure employment for his idling children. These hilarious letters composed in Mr. Morellos bizarre English-Italian hybrid vernacular & plethora of responses from the great & not so good follow a long & successful tradition of prankish correspondence as pioneered by Lazlo Toth & Henry Root. This good-natured exploration of British customs & idiosyncrasies is written with gentle & generous humor. ...