Collins Primary Focus: Spelling
- My Second Word Book is aimed at ages 5-6. This write-in book allows children to build up their
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The second POSTSECRET book MY SECRET focuses on the compelling & personal messages that have been sent in by college students from around the world. Raw & revealing these secrets express the hopes fears & wildest confessions of young people everywhere. This year I overcame my fear of sleeping with the closet open. Im 22 People dont change... They just find new ways to lie to you If I charged the people I babysit for by the scream Id be rich Im a cheerleader but secretly I deal drugs Every time Im on the phone to my parents I have to poop ...

Three funny stories about a young boy & his pocket-sized alien friend. A New Friend for Charlie When Charlie finds a tiny alien in his pocket he's thrilled to make a new friend. But Zak's excitement soon makes a mess of the house. Can the pair tidy up before Mum comes home? Happy Birthday Charlie It's Charlie's birthday but bad weather threatens to ruin his party. Can Zak save the day? Zak at the Seaside Charlie & Zak take a trip to the beach. When Charlie loses his watch his alien pal is on hand to find it again. ...

A wonderfully written & engaging teenage memoir: read all about Jacquelines problems with her family her first love her school life & her friends. Read extracts from her real diaries & the stories she wrote as a teenager; learn all about the music & books she loved her troubled school life & her parents difficult relationship. Written in Jacquelines usual & inimitable style this will be fascinating reading for her fans & for anyone whos interested in what life in the UK was like in the fifties & sixties. ...

After moving from the Barleywood garden where he hosted BBC Gardeners' World" for seven years Alan Titchmarsh set up home in an old farmhouse a few miles down the road & went about planting his own private eden away from the public eye. In this horticultural memoir Alan finally reveals all about this secret garden explaining with his trademark warmth the personal stories behind its design & evolution. Accompanied by beautiful photographs taken by Jonathan Buckley throughout the eight years in which the garden has been made " My Secret Garden" allows us access to all of the successes & failures of this diverse & ambitious project. Comprising many different styles & spaces
- from an acre of formal beds & ponds to wild flower meadows & a stunning winter garden
- Alan's tales of development & cultivation will be applicable to all gardeners. With the plot encompassing fruit trees a handsome greenhouse & wildlife-friendly plantings gardeners of all styles & levels of expertise will find something to enjoy. Driven by Alan's infectious & informative style " My Secret Garden" is a fascinating amusing & inspiring book."

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Helen grew up in a pit village in Tyneside in the post-war years with her gran aunties & uncles living nearby. She felt safe with them but they could not protect her from her neglectful mother & violent father. Behind closed doors she suffered years of abuse. Sometimes she talked to an imaginary sister the only one who understood her pain. Jenny was adopted at six weeks & grew up in Newcastle. An only child she knew she was loved & with the support of her parents she went on to become a golfing champion but still she felt that something was missing... Neither woman knew of the other's existence until in her fifties Jenny went looking for her birth family & found her sister Helen. Together they searched for the truth about Jenny's birth
- & uncovered a legacy of secrets that overturned everything Helen thought she knew about her family. Happily they also discovered that they were not just sisters they were twins. Inspirational & moving this is the story of two women brave enough to confront their past & strong enough to let love not bitterness define them.
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A new adventure starring Lauren & her magical pony Twilight who turns into a beautiful snow-white unicorn when Lauren says the magic words. Theres great excitement at the stables
- a beautiful mare called Apple has just had a foal! The new foal is gorgeous & seems to be watching Lauren with a very wise look in his huge eyes. Laurens excitement is spoiled when snooty Jade Roberts turns up. Jade goes to Laurens school & used to be Twilights owner but she sold him because he was too quiet & dull. Lauren of course knows better... That night Lauren & Twilight visit the foal in secret. Suddenly Twilight hears a noise & they find Jade up to no good. Apple fiercely protective of her foal is frightened & angry at Jades intrusion. Even though she doesnt like Jade Lauren knows she has to do something to help. Lauren & Twilight make a daring rescue to save Jade who has to admit that she may have been wrong about Twilight after all. Later Lauren & Twilight discover the reason for Apples over-protectiveness
- that maybe just maybe Currant is a new unicorn but theyll have to wait at least a year to find out...

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This is a fascinating diary account of the Second World War as seen through the eyes of a young girl. Flossie is just nine years old when in 1939 Britain declares war on Germany & her father leaves the family home to join the army. Flossie is left to bring up her baby brother & to face a whole host of new experiences on her own. Her diary becomes an outlet for relaying all the news from at home & abroad. From the first evacuees arriving to her sweetheart being killed in Normandy in 1944 Flossie has to endure much hardship. But her own special blend of courage humour & fighting spirit see her through to the Armistice when she can welcome her dad home at last. ...

The body
- Its a full-size full-colour illustrated cardboard cut-out with lift-&-learn flaps on one side that reveal the organs
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