I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.' Tracy is ten years old. She lives in a Children's Home but would like a real home one day with a real family. Meet Tracy follow her story & share her hopes for the future in this beautifully observed touching & often very funny tale all told in Tracy's own words. ...

STRICTLY PRIVATE. KEEP OUT ON PAIN OF DEATH. I'm Tracy Beaker
- have you heard of me? I'm stuck in The Dumping Ground just at the
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Young Reading Series Two" is aimed at children whose reading ability is beginning to grow & helps build confidence & ability. Six popular titles in " Usborne Young Reading Series Two" are re-issued in luxurious hardback editions with ribbon markers. " The Young Reading" series is developed in consultation with Alison Kelly who is a senior lecturer in education & an early reading specialist from Roehampton University." ...

The Story of Wales is a vibrant portrait of 30 000 years of power identity & politics. Revisiting major turning points in Welsh history from its earliest settlements to the present day Jon Gower re-examines the myths & misconceptions about this glorious country revealing a people who have reacted with energy & invention to changing times & opportunities. It's a story of political & industrial power economic & cultural renewal- & a nation of seemingly limitless potential. The Story of Wales is an epic account of Welsh history for a new generation. ...

Shy student Alexandra
- X to her friends
- arrives in Naples desperate for adventure beyond the sheltered life shes led. As

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Beware! Serious spells out of control...this title presents ten fantastic stories about the adventures & mishaps of witches wizards & magicians. Its hard to explain everything that we see around us but just maybe we live in a world full of magic where witches wizards & magicians make extraordinary things happen. You will meet witches who wander wizards who sleep (for years) & a very mixed-up magician. But dont try their spells! Even professional spellfinders can get things horribly wrong... This title is perfect for reading aloud to young children or for confident readers to enjoy by themselves. Do you know why you sometimes remember your dreams
- & sometimes dont? Do you know why one day everything goes right
- & another it doesnt? Do you know why leaves are green but people (almost) never are? Of course there might be perfectly good explanations for all of these odd things & many others that you can think of. There might be. Or maybe Wilma the Witch or Midnight the Wizard or Mr Marvel the Magician has been at work. Who? Well youll just have to read the book to find out... Ten magical stories include Which Witch?" " Wilma the Wandering Witch" " Up" " Up & Away!" " The Forgetful Wizard" " Whats Wrong at Wizard School?" The Tiny" " Tiny Wizard" " The Mixed-up Magician" " Mr Magics Moving Day" "A Hat Without a Rabbit" & " Too Much Magic"."

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Fire your imagination with these delightful handmade fabric dolls & toys. Inspired by vintage patterns from the 1940s these 16 projects include loveable dolls & softies pillows puppets & even a little girls first handbag. You can learn lots of toy-making tips & tricks to give your creation some personal style & a sweet disposition. Have fun making outfits for your dolly with novelty prints scraps from your stash or even up-cycled bits from old clothes. Storybook Toys" also

Includes:: ideas for involving children in the process & teaching them basic sewing skills. Share the love of handmade with your whole family...the young & the young at heart too!"

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Jumpstart! Storymaking" is a collection of games & activities to develop the creative process of storymaking. It focuses upon storytelling for writing as well as creating a whole school culture of storytelling reading & writing. Storymaking is the process of retelling innovating & creating new stories. Like the best-selling " Jumpstart! Literacy" this book contains imaginative quick-fire ideas that could be used as creative warm-ups & starters or developed into lessons. There are over 100 provocative & thought-provoking games & activities intended to jumpstart storytelling reading & writing in any Key Stage 1 2 or 3 classroom. Practical easy-to-do & vastly entertaining the jumpstarts will appeal to busy teachers." ...

This novel shows Antonia Michaelis moving in a bold new direction: a dark haunting contemporary novel that is part mystery part romance part melodrama. Anna & Abel couldnt be more different. They are both 17 in their last year of school but while Anna lives in a nice old town house her father a doctor her mother a literature professor at university. Abel the school drug dealer lives in the big cage-like tower blocks at the edge of town full of people without work without money without future. Anna is afraid of him until she finds a childs doll that he has dropped & in returning it to him realizes that he is caring for his six-year-old sister on his own. Fascinated Anna follows the two & listens as Abel tells little Micha the story of a tiny queen assailed by dark forces. Its a beautiful fairytale that Anna comes to see has basis in reality. Abel is in real danger of losing Micha to their abusive father an insistent social worker & to his own inability to make ends meet. Anna gradually falls in love with Abel but when his enemies begin to turn up dead she fears shes fallen for a murderer. ...

Sage Singer has a past that makes her want to hide from the world. Sleeping by day & working in a bakery by night she kneads her emotion into the beautiful bread she bakes. But when she strikes up an unlikely friendship with Josef Weber a quiet man old enough to be her grandfather & respected pillar of the community she feels that finally she may have found someone she can open up to. Until Josef tells her the evil secret he's kept for sixty years. Caught between Josef's search for redemption & her shattered illusions Sage turns to her family history & her own life for answers. As she uncovers the truth from the darkest horrors of war she must follow a twisting trail between betrayal & forgiveness love & revenge. & ask herself the most difficult question she has ever faced
- can murder ever be justice? Or mercy?
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