After her mother's death, Mattie learns much about her past- She learns that she has grandparents that she has never met and a house in Cornwall that she has never seen, and the surprises don't end there.
Jayce is at a turning point in her life. She wants to stay on at school and take 'A' levels, but her father insists she must leave school and get a job, to earn some money to help the family farm. She is also uncertain about whether she should sleep with her boyfriend of many years as she's not sure whether she's ready or not. But when she discovers the journal of her great-grandmother, she finds she can draw parallels between her own life and that of her great-grandmother and is able to deal with all her insecurities about her future, her sexuality, and her family.
This is a story of true love fraught with danger and secrecy. When you are in love with your worst enemy's girlfriend, what can you do but keep your love secret, in the hope that it will survive the pressure and one day break free.
Jack hadn't wanted to come on holiday at all. He couldn't see how coming to this almost deserted seaside town, with its delapidated beach chalets, was going to change anything. After what happened, it would take more than a holiday to dispel the sadness that engulfed the whole family. And Jack felt so alone, so cut off from the rest of them, desperate to be able to say something that would comfort them. But then he meets Emma, who seems to appear from nowhere, and she helps him realize that with time they can come to terms with the tragedy that has changed their lives forever...especially Jack's...
Kegan is a lonely boy, who finds making friends hard. His family life is complicated and difficult.But Kegan is a gifted artist, and his one pleasure is to watch and draw a family of foxes which lives in the local scrapyard. When developers show an interest in the scrapyard, the foxes' lives are put in danger. Will Kegan be able to save them? Will fighting for them restore his faith in the future?
George and Timmy are watching a storm from an upstairs window at Kirrin Cottage when a flash of lightning reveals a figure running along the cliff path. The next day they discover a boy sheltering nearby, and he begs George not to tell anyone he's there. When a strange couple turn up asking questions, George decides to help him ..
The authors set out to address fundamental design issues facing engineers when developing the software for real-time computer-based control systems in which all programs must be safe, reliable, predictable and able to cope with the occurence of faults. Despite rapid progress in computer technology, the attention of designers is still focused on finding logically correct algorithms to implement the required control. It has, however, become evident that this is insufficient and that attention must be paid to meeting the complex timing interactions which occur between the systems under control and the computers controlling them. This book suggests that the answers lie in the use of understandable, engineering-relevant, mathematically sound tools for expressing and analysing the complex temporal interactions. "Timing Analysis of Real-Time Software" is not a designer's handbook; rather it discusses the nature of the problems involved and how they can be handled. The focus is on the use of modelling techniques based on the so-called Quirk-model, initially developed in the United Kingdom and, over the past decade, extensively developed in institutions in the ex-Soviet Union and Europe. This book shows how the techniques can be used to form the basis of a new generation of CASE (computer assisted software engineering) tools, and examples are given of how these can be used to design embedded systems ranging from digital controllers through to communication protocol handlers.
It is the year 2050. When Kari's mother brings home a weird old woman she found wandering in the road, Kari is appalled. What could have possessed her mother to pick up a scruffy old Misfit-or even a Drifter. But Kari soon realizes there is more to Rachel than she first thought. There issomething about her-her soft voice, her gentle aura, her love of music-which wins Kari over. So when the police arrive, looking for Rachel, and take her away for questioning, Kari decides she must go to the City and look for her, not realizing that this is just the beginning of an adventure thatwill change her life... First published in 1998, this novel is now reissued in a smaller mass-market paperback format.
Jayce is at a turning point in her life. She wants to stay on at school and take 'A' levels, but her father insists she must leave school and get a job, to earn some money to help the family farm. She is also uncertain about whether she should sleep with her boyfriend of many years as she's not sure whether she's ready or not. But when she discovers the journal of her great-grandmother, she finds she can draw parallels between her own life and that of her great-grandmother and is able to deal with all her insecurities about her future, her sexuality, and her family.
Jess hopes that a break in the country will give her the peace that she needs - However, on the farm, the animals are being slaughtered by a mysterious creature, and Jess feels that someone or something, is watching her.
After her mother's death, Mattie learns much about her past- She learns that she has grandparents that she has never met and a house in Cornwall that she has never seen, and the surprises don't end there.
Kegan is a lonely boy, who finds making friends hard. His family life is complicated and difficult.But Kegan is a gifted artist, and his one pleasure is to watch and draw a family of foxes which lives in the local scrapyard. When developers show an interest in the scrapyard, the foxes' lives are put in danger. Will Kegan be able to save them? Will fighting for them restore his faith in the future?
Jack hadn't wanted to come on holiday at all. He couldn't see how coming to this almost deserted seaside town, with its delapidated beach chalets, was going to change anything. After what happened, it would take more than a holiday to dispel the sadness that engulfed the whole family. And Jack felt so alone, so cut off from the rest of them, desperate to be able to say something that would comfort them. But then he meets Emma, who seems to appear from nowhere, and she helps him realize that with time they can come to terms with the tragedy that has changed their lives forever...especially Jack's...
This is a story of true love fraught with danger and secrecy. When you are in love with your worst enemy's girlfriend, what can you do but keep your love secret, in the hope that it will survive the pressure and one day break free.
Just George is a series of books that predate the adventures of the Famous Five, focusing on the character George and her loyal friend, Timmy the dog. In this story, Timmy digs up what seems to be a dinosaur bone and soon George and her dog are in trouble.
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