Aboard the Welfare under the ruthless Captain Swift, fourteen-year-old midshipman William Bentley, country boy Thomas Fox, and smuggler Jesse Broad face a voyage of confusion, hatred, violence, wretched conditions, and ultimately, a mutiny.
It's 1908 and times are hard. All very well for the leisured River Bankers with their hobbies, excursions and private incomes but young Baxter Ferret has to work long and hard to support his widowed mother and hungry siblings. Baxter is a ferret with a passion. He loves engines and when his employer buys the splendid Throgmorton Squeezer lorry Baxter willingly dedicates himself to its maintenance. That's until he meets the lunatic Mr Toad driving out of control on a dark night on the edge of the Wild Wood.
The wicked trade is smuggling--customs men and smugglers battling over piles of booty. Surrounded by corruption and greed, Bentley confronts ever more ruthless companions and crew while the dark shadow of his brutal uncle, Captain Swift, looms over him once more.
Jan Needle's play about bullying - but who is the bully and who is the victim? The book contains a gripping playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities.
A simple retelling and explanation of the parable of how a camel cannot fit through the eye of a needle; yet that is easier than for a greedy man to love God.
Jan Needle's fourth Sea Officer William Bentley naval adventure finds the young lieutenant in the Bahamas, inexorably drawn deeper into the brutal and rapacious world of Jamaican politics.
Bernard didn't understand a lot of what he learned from Shofiq over the next while, but that didn't matter much. What did matter, what made him feel great, better than he had done for ages, was that they became mates, buddyroos, real muckers. It was even more amazing, because it came at just the right time.
An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
An abridgement of the nineteenth-century novel in which a young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod whose fanatical Captain Ahab is in determined pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick. Segments of the original text are supported by commentaries from Jan Needle. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
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