When Jack and his family arrive on the remote, blustery Scottish island of Morna, the whole summer holiday seems doomed... until they find the den. The three children who claim it are the only other children their age on the island – and soon Jack, Tressa and Milo are initiated into their secret society, the Binding, which charismatic Duncan presides over with elaborate rules, ceremonies and punishments. Jack wants to belong. He doesn't want trouble. But as the summer goes on, he begins to understand more about the Binding. Jack's going to have to stand up to Duncan - whatever it costs him. A tense, compulsive exploration of the effects of secrets, authority, boredom, and fear.
Everyone in Peony Pinker's family wants something. Her dad, a sports reporter on the local paper, wants to get out of doing the problem page while the agony aunt is missing; her mum wants to stop working at the garden centre where all the plants keep dying; and her big sister Primrose wants to be called Annabel. What Peony wants most in the world - even more than she wants a dog - is to stop Primrose's nasty new best friend Bianca from being horrible to her. When Mr Kaminski next door tells them the secret of how to get what you want, Peony decides it's time to put a stop to Bianca at last. But can she get what she really wants?
Peony Pinker is fed up with her family. Her mum's working long hours setting up her gardening business and her dad isn't pulling his weight around the house, so they're arguing all the time. Her big sister, Primrose, is stressed about her exams and taking it out on everyone else including her lovely boyfriend Matt. Peony's Gran tells her you can choose your friends but not your family; as you can't have the family you want, you have to learn to want the family you've got. 'Not possible!' thinks Peony. But Gran is sure she'll think of something. As most of Gran's ideas go horribly wrong, Peony knows there will be even more trouble ahead...
What if I've got the wrong stuff? What if I don't fit in? What if the older kids are horrible to me? Starting secondary school is a bit like going on a safari – it's a great adventure but sometimes, before you go, you can get a touch of the 'what ifs'. This book is full of information about going up from primary to secondary school and covers all of the most common worries and anxieties. With practical hints and tips, jokes and quizzes for finding your way around, making new friends, social media and staying on top of homework, this fully-revised edition of Going Up! is the essential no-worries guide to secondary school.
Often children who are being bullied will try to disguise their feelings. Parents may feel helpless and want help and guidance, both to protect their child and to encourage their child’s self-esteem to recover and grow. The first ever practical handbook to discuss whole family initiatives for dealing with bullying
Most books about bullying tell children how to act without addressing how they feel. But the usual advice to 'ignore it' or 'say something smart' is doomed to fail, as you can't act brave and confident if you feel stressed and helpless inside. Jenny Alexander's approach is to develop readers' psychological defences. Through an entertaining mix of exercises, quizzes and fictional scenarios, she combines common sense with simple cognitive therapy techniques, to build up children's self esteem. Her tone is humorous and upbeat, but always sensitive to the reader's feelings. This new, updated edition takes account of recent technologies such as texting, MSN and bluejacking, which are increasingly abused by bullies.
In both writing and dream awareness, you have to learn how to relax the conscious, critical faculty in order to let the amazing stories and images that flow like an underground stream in the unconscious mind to emerge. This unique guidebook for writers and dreamers includes many practical exercises to help you master the technique.
The New Reading 360 series is designed to provide a solid literary foundation for infants and build on previous literacy knowledge for juniors. Readers help to develop literacy skills and build up confidence.
Whether you write for yourself or for publication, there will be times when you can't get started, can't keep going or don't know how to take your writing to the next level. This book will help you identify exactly what's holding you back, and develop practical strategies to get your writing flowing again, which is the key to writing happiness.
Peony Pinker is not 'cool'. She likes animals and messing about, notfitness routines and celebrity news. But when Dad becomes a celebrityagony aunt, the coolest girls in school invite Peony to join theirgroup. Now she's watching the right films and doing the rightactivities to fit in... and she hasn't got time for her old friends anymore. But is the 'cool' crowd really where Peony wants to be? A funny,thought-provoking story with a subtle self-help theme.
It's winter and the Pinkers are out of shape - so Dad decides to use the whole family to test out his ideas for a new fit-in-four weeks diet book. But after a few weeks of early morning runs and cardboard flavoured ready meals, (meaning Peony needs chips and double helpings of pudding at lunch every day to make up) Peony's become so unfit can barely walk up the hill home. And she's supposed to be climbing Mount Snowdon in just a few weeks! Can Gran get the family back on track with some wise words and common sense? Hilarious family comedy with a self-help twist.
Real-life drama about finding your real friends, perfect for fans of Jacqueline Wilson. Carly used to be part of the Funny Five until her so-called friends started making fun of her and pretending that she wasn't there. Now Carly isn't her bubbly self and she's 'lost her fizz'. But when she finds a lost dog, life starts looking very different and maybe, just maybe, she'll find her fizz again... This heartwarming story from Jenny Alexander has delightful black-and-white illustrations by Paula Bowles and is perfect for children who are developing as readers. The Bloomsbury Readers series is packed with brilliant books to get children reading independently in Key Stage 2, with book-banded stories by award-winning authors like double Carnegie Medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean and Waterstones Prize winner Patrice Lawrence covering a wide range of genres and topics. With charming illustrations and online guided reading notes written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), this series is ideal for reading both in the classroom and at home. For more information visit www.bloomsburyguidedreading.com. Book Band: Brown Ideal for ages 7+
Streetwise is the follow-on series from Story Street for primary years 5 and 6, providing stand-alone novels and short stories by top children's authors. When Joe and his sister get lumbered with their cousins for the holidays, they find themselves in a dangerous situation on the salt marshes.
Come along on an inner exploration as Alexander Jenny gleefully ponders one of life's great questions. You'll meet a Creature of Habits, tussle with Brain-Sucking Monsters, and search your head for just the right tool to fix an Untied Shoelace. Whether you're a Genius of Feelings or that Myst'rious Iceberg you keep hidden within, there's a wondrously wacky-wise poem lurking inside these pages just for you. Book jacket.
Whether you're a new writer or published author, there will be times when you can't get started, can't keep going or feel like giving up altogether. Every writer and every block is different; there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution. This book, by veteran author and creative tutor Jenny Alexander, is unique in offering a wide variety of different tools to help you identify what's holding you back and find your own way forward. With chapters on getting ideas, starting new projects, drafting, redrafting and choosing your route to publication, this delightful and entertaining 'must read' for writers will help you iron out your problems and love your writing even more, with all its ups and downs.
A Handful of Hobbies is by Jenny Alexander for Year 3/P4 guided and independent reading. It contains non-chronological information text including: indexes, headings, dub-headings, bibliography.
This book examines the different normative approaches politicians, bureaucrats and community actors use to frame the innovation puzzle, arguing that these create specific cultures of innovation. The authors explore the role of formal institutions and informal networks in promoting and impeding governmental innovation.
Finding Fizz is a story about bullying and being 'one of the gang'. Carly hasn't been herself lately - it seems that she's 'lost her fizz'. She is being teased and excluded by the girls who were once her best friends, and feels there is no one she can talk to about her problems. Then Carly finds a stray dog that needs a home and suddenly her so-called friends don't matter so much any more…
Tom, Sid, the Goth and the Ghost is a supernatural themed, novel by Jenny Alexander Year 6/P7 for guided and independant reading. This book is part of Streetwise.
Funny, sexy and clever, Good Thing Bad Thing follows everyman Mark as he decamps to Italy with his new boyfriend and discovers that life is not always as bad - or as good - as it seems... On holiday with new boyfriend Tom, Mark heads off to rural Italy for a spot of camping. When the ruggedly seductive Dante invites them onto his farmland the lovers think they have struck lucky, but there is more to Dante than meets the eye - much more. Thoroughly bewitched, Tom, all innocence, appears blind to Dante's dark side - but Mark is racked with suspicion. As their holiday starts to spin slowly but very surely out of control, it is Mark, alone, who can maybe save the day...
The first comprehensive empirical account of how religion affects the interpretation, prevention, and mitigation of AIDS in Africa, the world's most religious continent.
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