Author: William Corlett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743410025
Category : Good and evil
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays where a sister is drawn to an ancient yew tree and discovers a door.
Author: Rozanne Lanczak Williams
Publisher: Creative Teaching Press
ISBN: 9780916119669
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Repetitive, predictable story lines and illustrations that match the text provide maximum support to the emergent reader. Engaging stories promote reading comprehension, and easy and fun activities on the inside back covers extend learning. Great for Reading First, Fluency, Vocabulary, Text Comprehension, and ESL/ELL!
Author: Una Mannion
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571357989
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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My mother made a snap decision.How could we know it would change us forever?THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Brimming with curiosity and wonder.' Irish Times'Lushly atmospheric.' Daily Mail'Thoroughly gripping.' Lucy Caldwell'Brilliant.' Sara BaumeRage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades.What would you do as you watch your little sister getting smaller in the rear view window? How far would you be willing to go to help her? The Gallagher children are going to find out. This moment is the beginning of a summer that will change everything.**Una Mannion's latest novel, TELL ME WHAT I AM, is available to pre-order now**
Author: William Corlett
Publisher: Random House (UK)
ISBN: 9780370316079
Category : Children and death
Languages : en
Pages : 261
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The second novel in The Magician's House quartet, this novel explores a variety of themes including the battle between good and evil and the relationship between past and present. The author's previous books include Return to the Gate and The Dark Side of the Moon.
Author: Kaaron Warren
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 0857660446
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Botanica is an island, but almost all of the island is taken up by the Tree. Little knowing how they came to be here, small communities live around the coast line. The Tree provides them shelter, kindling, medicine – and a place of legends, for there are ghosts within the trees who snatch children and the dying. Lillah has come of age and is now ready to leave her community and walk the tree for five years, learning all Botanica has to teach her. Before setting off, Lillah is asked by the dying mother of a young boy to take him with her. In a country where a plague killed half the population, Morace will otherwise be killed in case he has the same disease. But can Lillah keep the boy’s secret, or will she have to resort to breaking the oldest taboo on Botanica? Another astonishingly imaginative novel from the acclaimed author of Slights. FILE UNDER: Fantasy [A Stunning World / An Epic Journey / A Terrifying Secret / Ghosts in the Tree]
Author: Charlotte Jolie Bowen
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1999978803
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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The door at the foot of the tree is a fictional story about a young girl who runs away into the forest and meets some unlikely inhabitants. The book contains interweaving storylines and is told through three different voices: the narrator, the characters and the author herself. Throughout the book, the recommended Year 5 and Year 6 SATs spelling words are used and highlighted in bold. This will give the children a chance to experience reading these words in context, allowing them to commit these to their permanent vocabulary more easily. The book demonstrates the wide range of vocabulary, punctuation and grammatical techniques that are expected to be known by Year 6 children. The vocabulary used is challenging in places, such as the use of idioms, with the aim of introducing the reader to many new words and phrases that they may not have come into contact with otherwise. Purchase the accompanying Key Stage 2 SATs Reading Question Book for The Door At The Foot of The Tree By Charlotte Jolie Bowen
Author: Linda Smith
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006028241X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Mr. Potter lives all alone in his little house. And outside is a little yard with just enough room for one little tree. In fact, it’s such a fine tree that good-hearted Mr. Potter feels bad that it stands there all alone in the yard while he stays warm by the fire inside the house. It doesn’t seem right that the tree is never invited in. And so he decides to do just that. But what will happen when the tree grows and grows and grows—and his little house stays exactly the same size?
Author: Elizabeth Bram
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780688800291
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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In her mind Lisa sets forth on a walk filled with magic encounters.
Author: Candace Christiansen
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN: 155591800X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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One snowy day an elderly woman, Sarah, watches children gathering at the bus stop. While they never seem to notice her, she notices them, especially one little boy who has no mittens. That night, Sarah knits the boy a pair of cozy mittens and places them on the blue spruce tree for him to discover. It soon becomes a game, with the children looking for new mittens on the mysterious tree every morning, and Sarah joyfully knitting new ones each night. With its touching message and delightful illustrations, adults and children will enjoy this intergenerational tale for years to come.
Author: Donna Grant
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429982950
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant life. But secretly, she is terrified: her marriage is falling apart and her need to control the people around her threatens to alienate her entire family. And Celeste allows no one to see how vulnerable she really is. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. Her life, however, is a lie: she has no money, has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit," though she wants everyone to think that her life is one of high glamour and budding fame. When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina. Their mother, Della, is adamant that they forget about going there and dredging up the past. Because Della has secrets she'd rather not see come to light-secrets and heartbreak she's kept from everyone for years. Neither Ronnie, Celeste, nor Della realize just what their trip to Prosper will uncover and they must discover for themselves who they really are, who they really love, and what the future holds for them. Far From The Tree is a novel that asks the questions: can the past ever truly remain hidden? Can mothers and daughters put aside their usual roles long enough to get to really know each other? Long enough to see they each have felt the love, loss, heartache and joy that they share as women. And can two strangers realize that they are, and always will be, sisters?
