For all aspiring ballerinas. Aisling loves chocolate, ladybirds, and hopscotch, but her favourite thing of all is ballet. When Miss Karissa invites Aisling to perform a duet with Amelia, Aisling is unsure. Can two very different girls become friends?
Winners of the Commonwealth?Short Story Prize 2024
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, now in its thirteenth year, has been awarded for the best short fiction from the Commonwealth regions of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
A herd of bison standing in the snow. Layered bluffs of multicolored sandstone. A silver Airstream trailer on a mountain highway. These are familiar sights for Neil Mathison and his wife, Susan. Newly retired, their son in college, they set off on their own great American road trip "uncoupled from the tyranny of calendars or a specific journey." ......
What happens when a storm is about to destroy an airship? Join Dew as she tries to save the day in this high-level phonics book. Part of Reading Stars Phonics - our structured programme of fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phonics using the UK Government's Letters and Sounds programme - Airship Rescue is a Phase 5 book. ......
Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Every year, air-sea rescue teams rescue hundreds of people who have been in danger at sea - from capsized boats and illness to oil-rig explosions. Discover the equipment and skills needed to do their jobs in this fascinating non-fiction book by Chris Oxlade.
Providence--a city named in the hope that a direct compliment to God might place Him under some sort of obligation to its inhabitants--provides Jean McGarry with the fertile ground of her comic and gritty, harsh and touching cycle of stories. Weaving in and out of Airs of Providence is a novella telling the story of April and Margery Flanaghan, ......
The airplane has redefined the way in which people travel, conduct commerce, spend their leisure time, and wage war. From the Wright brothers' wood-and-fabric Flyer to the modern jet aircraft, the airplane has evolved in countless ways as its many uses have unfolded. The development of safe and efficient air travel required solving multiple ......
A new series of books about girl aviators and their marvelous accomplishments in the air. Roberta Langwell is a heroine of modern times. She wins a plane by means of her remarkable air feats, and keeps the reader tense with excitement from cover to cover. The series concentrates on the efforts of the girls and women who, like their male ......
A new series of books about girl aviators and their marvelous accomplishments in the air. Roberta Langwell is a heroine of modern times. She wins a plane by means of her remarkable air feats, and keeps the reader tense with excitement from cover to cover. The series concentrates on the efforts of the girls and women who, like their male ......
