Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist she was interested in fashion movies & friends. Her father was in the import/export business & her mother was a doctor. Then in September 1996 Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment Latifa just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her school was closed. Her mother was banned from working. The simplest & most basic freedoms
- walking down the street looking out a window
- were no longer hers. She was now forced to wear a chadri. My Forbidden Face provides a poignant & highly personal account of life under the Taliban regime. With painful honesty & clarity Latifa describes the way she watched her world falling apart in the name of a fanatical interpretation of a faith that she could not comprehend. Her voice captures a lost innocence but also echoes her determination to live in freedom & hope. Earlier this year Latifa & her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group.

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Collins Primary Focus: Spelling
- My Fourth Word Book is aimed at ages 7-9. This write-in book allows children to build up their
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This is a classic tale of the American plains & one boys belief in a horse. Ken was entranced to watch Flicka
- the speed of her
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Roses big sister tells her that Fred is the family dog. But Rose knows better
- Fred is HER friend. Her friend Fred. But when Roe
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Like many small children James has a special soft-toy friend. Hes an elephant called Harry. He & James go everywhere together
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While in rehab James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas he promises James his support on the outside. Tragedy strikes the day James is released & his world seems set to implode. Unsure where to turn he calls Leonard. Paradoxically it is in Leonards lawless underworld that James discovers the courage & humanity needed to rebuild his life. ...

Summer 1941. For Peter the war is a long way away being fought by a faceless enemy marching across places he's never seen. Unil the night it comes to him. A German plane is shot down over the woods that his Dad looked after before he went off to fight. Peter rushes to the crash site to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is some- one: a young & injured German airman. The enemy. Here. & in trouble. Suddenly helping him seems like the right thing to do. ...

Living with a ghost can have its difficulties I discovered even if he is your friend. Remember Sir Walter Raleigh who laid his cloak in a puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I could walk across? Well Bess meets his ghost & finds out he's an ancestor! How will Bess explain Sir Walter to her family? Especially when he breaks her brother's fishing rod steals a horse & smokes cigars in her room! A charming & hilarious story of friendship between different eras. ...

Someone
- or something
- is inviting ordinary kids to Horror Land & trapping them there. But theyre not the only guests of the

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Mattie is nine years old & she worries about everything. Which isn't surprising. Because when you have a family as big & crazy as hers there's always something to worry about. Will the seeds she's planted in the garden with her brothers & sisters grow into fruit & veg like everyone promised? Why does it seem as if Grandma doesn't like them sometimes? & what's wrong with Mum? Fortunately reassurance is always close to hand in this first winning story about the lovable Butterfield clan. ...