Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girls favourite subject is riding. Someone at Chestnut Hill has been accused of cheating! Who would possibly do such a thing? But while all her friends are busy gossiping no one seems to realize that Lani has problems
- & secrets
- of her own. More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (9781407130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) TEAM SPIRIT (9781407130798) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) & CHASING DREAMS (9781407130811).

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Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses & inspired young & old with her incredible voice her glamorous looks & above all her love for music her country & her fans. Born in Neath South Wales Katherine won national acclaim as the BBC Welsh Choirgirl of the year & soon after a place at the Royal Academy of Music. Auditioning for a terrifying panel of industry experts at Universal Music she came away with the largest recording deal in classical music history. & so began Katherines meteoric rise to stardom. TIME TO SAY HELLO is Katherines incredible story. Packed with laughter adventure heartbreak & music it is the tale of a dream coming true & one that will keep you gripped to the last note ...

Get ready for more girly games giggles & gossip in this bestselling series featuring a group of girls brought together by the boys & bunk warfare fun & sun of one cool summer camp. Natalies film-star dad has been nominated for an Oscar & shes going to the awards show in LA with him
- which also means she can catch up with Tori! Tori plans to spend some quality time with Nat but when a new boy arrives on the scene the two friends fall out in a big way. Meanwhile wannabe actress Brynn is preparing for the most important role shes ever had but boyfriend Jordan is taking up so much of her time she cant even learn her lines properly! How can she decide whats most important especially when breaking up with Jordan could mean upsetting her gal-pal Priya Jordans closest childhood friend. Girls will be lining up to share all the latest secrets in the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract new fans everywhere!
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School can be a frustrating & confusing experience for children who have not developed their communication skills. not only will access to the curriculum be difficult so will developing co-operative skills & friendships. This book has been developed to teach & develop oral language & social interaction skills to children aged 4-6. Containing 40 sessions designed to take place two to three times a week the book aims to help teachers to develop the rules" of interaction with the help of the character Ginger the Bear who features in all the activities. Skills taught include: eye contact; taking turns; sharing; greetings; awareness of feelings; giving; following instructions; listening; paying attention; & play skills. The book should provide a useful resource for Literacy Hour & curriculum Key Stage 1." ...

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book Kline describes how we can achieve this & presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings solve business problems or build stronger relationships this book offers you a new world of possibilities. ...

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare & Henry who met when Clare was six & Henry was thirty-six & were married when Clare was twenty-two & Henry thirty. Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets & he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry & Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving & entirely unforgettable. ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see & hear & smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? & how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Travellers Guide... Ian Mortimers radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived whether thats the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative as entertaining as it is startling. ...

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ' Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Richard Grenville & Sir Francis Drake & of great writers such as Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson & William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past & walk the streets of London in the 1590s where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? & if so how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants diseases violence sexism & famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England the Elizabethan" world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries & winning military victories & yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties people still starve to death & Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language & some of the most magnificent architecture & sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America & circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world." ...

The past is a foreign country
- this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what
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Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology
- a world where dark & dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare
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