Trapped and alone on the salt marshes, Jodie is troubled by a haunting presence in thiseerily atmospheric ghost story from multi-award-winning author Hilary McKay. Jodie never wanted to come on the residential trip to the field centre. A loner at school, she's forced into adormitory with other girls from her class who don't understand her and talk about her behind her back. Even though they…
The first sleep book by a leading scientific expert, the director of UC Berkeley's Center for Human Sleep Science. Why we sleep is a groundbreaking exploration of sleep, explaining how we can harness its transformative power to change our lives for the better.
Despite her fear of boats, Grace Darling loves her life as the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and spends fun-filled childhood days with her three sisters, four brothers, numerous goats, chickens, cats and her beloved dog, Happy. The only shadows come from the many shipwrecks caused by the poor location of their lighthouse, a problem that seems to be fixed when a new one is built further out…
The Happy and Heinous Halloween of Classroom 13 is the fifth title in a series about the students of a very unlucky classroom. The easy-to-read chapters are full of humor, action, secret codes, and fun-and will prompt hours of conversation among friends, families, and classmates. The final chapter encourages young readers to write their own chapter and send it in to the author, Honest Lee. I…
Very beginning readers, even pre-readers, can share in the reading of this informative and exciting nonfiction title. Through beautiful photography and engaging text children will learn about tigers, lions, cheetahs, and leopards - all of which are related to the same cats children know as house pets.
Tilly never has time to tidy her messy bedroom because she is always too busy helping other people. So when she leaves home to visit her far-flung relatives, how will her family cope without her?