Deep in the murkiest back streets of old London town three children are escaping from an orphanage. But lurking in the fog watching Rose Lily & Ned is a king among villains
- Mack the Knife! A dreadful fate looks certain until from out of nowhere a figure with glowing red eyes appears. He leaps through the air like a firework
- its Spring-Heeled Jack scourge of evil-doers!

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Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 1 helps students to practise: Nouns & verbs Words with similar sound/spelling patterns Position words & Opposites & comparisons. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 2 helps students to practise: Alphabetical order (first & second letters in a word) Classification of words Homophones & Abbreviations. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 3 helps students to practise: sequencing stories & recounts rhymes & limericks riddles & adjectives. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 4 helps students to practise: converting nouns to adjectives by adding 'y' or 'ful' plurals alphabetical order (third letter in a word) & capital letters. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 6 helps students to practise: adverbs past-tense verbs meanings & definitions & masculine & feminine words. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 7 helps students to practise: synonyms & antonyms pronouns using an apostrophe & making analogies. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 8 helps students to practise: conjunctions connectives compound nouns prefixes using speech marks thesaurus words idioms & writing a balanced argument. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. The Springboard Introductory Book helps students to practise: Alphabetical order Initial & final word sounds vowels Rhyming words Consonant blends. ...

The Springboks & the Holy Grail" is the epic story of South Africas amazing quests for the Rugby World Cup written by a man who not only experienced all four campaigns but had a ringside seat at the incredible events & off-the-field dramas that unfolded at each tournament. From the triumphs of Ellis Park in 1995 & Paris in 2007 to the heartbreak of 1999 & the shame of 2003 renowned journalist Dan Retief faithfully recorded the stories of human heroism & frailty of great dignity & patent jealousy that transcended the realm of sport. Writing for the " Sunday Times" & " Super Sport" he was one of an elite few who were privy to the secrets & machinations of South African rugbys inner sanctum. " The Springboks & the Holy Grail" provides fascinating insight into an event that is now one of the biggest in the world of sport & contains numerous interviews with key players & administrators as well as well-known figures who were touched by these campaigns. A candid glimpse behind the scenes this compelling saga often reads like pure fiction. This is the first book to focus on the Rugby World Cup tournaments from a Springbok perspective & it is perfectly timed to come out ahead of the seventh RWC tournament to be held in New Zealand in September & October 2011. The Springboks will travel to New Zealand as the defending champions with a chance to become not only the first team to successfully defend the Webb Ellis Cup but the first to win it three times. It lifts the lid on the intrigues around the Springboks the rugby community & the media in a forthright & honest way. The final chapter provides an interesting discussion on the many similarities & qualities common to the teams who have won the cup. Will be a key work of reference as it contains a record of all the Springboks RWC matches & their opponents statistics & records. It is written by arguably South Africas most senior & respected rugby writer. It

Includes:: 16 pages of photographs."

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