![]() In Sophie Kineslla’s latest offering, Becky is joined by her daughter Minnie, who, at the age of two, can already hail a cab and ask to be taken to Starbucks for a muffin. Who will end up on the naughty step, who will get a gold star and will Becky’s secret wishes come true?īecky Brandon is back! But this time, she has an accomplice. To cheer everyone up, Becky decides to throw a surprise birthday party on a budget but then things become really complicated. People are having to Cut Back – including all of Becky s personal shopping clients – and she and Luke are still living with Becky’s Mum and Dad. On top of everything else, there’s a big financial crisis. She hires taxis at random, her favourite word is ‘Mine’, and she’s even started bidding for designer bags on ebay. ![]() ![]() She can create havoc everywhere from Harrods to Harvey Nicks to her own christening. Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) thought motherhood would be a breeze and that having a daughter was a dream come true – a shopping friend for life! But it’s trickier than she thought – two-year-old Minnie has a quite different approach to shopping. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The killer is closing in, the threats are becoming more personal, and when the police refuse to listen, the girls have no choice but to confront their anonymous "friend". The girls desperately try to discover the killer's identity as their own lives are falling apart: Donte is pulling away from Kitty and seems to be hiding a secret of his own, Bree is sequestered under the watchful eye of her mom's bodyguard, and Olivia's mother is on an emotional downward spiral. The members of Dont Get Mad arent just mad anymore. Get Dirty (BBC TV Tie-in Edition) Paperback FebruSpanish Edition by McNeil (Author), Gretchen (Author) 222 ratings Book 2 of 2: Dont Get Mad See all formats and editions Kindle 10.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback Audio CD 20.13 1 Used from 19.50 3 New from 7. The killer could be anyone, and this time he-or she-is out for more than just revenge. The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeils sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. But just as the girls are about to go on the offensive, Ed the Head reveals a shocking secret that turns all their theories upside down. And with Margot in a coma and Bree under house arrest, it's up to Olivia and Kitty to try to catch their deadly tormentor. The members of Don't Get Mad aren't just mad anymore. Soon to be streaming on Netflix and BBC iPlayer! The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars in Gretchen McNeil's sharp and thrilling sequel to Get Even. ![]() ![]() ![]() It looks like the children were home alone, (there being no sign of their mother) and their father, who is attending a conference in London isn’t answering his phone. Two children are pulled from the wreckage of the fire - three year old Zachary is already dead and his older brother Matty is in a critical state, and the prognosis isn’t good. It’s the third in the series, and this particular story begins at the scene of a house fire in North Oxford. With all the elements that we’ve come to expect for an excellent police procedural, Cara Hunter’s, ‘No Way Out’ looks like another sure fire winner for this gifted author. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The cub comes across five Native Americans one day, and the she-wolf comes to his rescue. The she-wolf eventually kills the lynx but suffers severe injury the lynx carcass is devoured over a period of seven days as the she-wolf recovers from her injuries. Shortly afterward, the she-wolf kills all the lynx's kittens to feed her cub, prompting the lynx to track her down, and a vicious fight breaks out. The surviving cub and the she-wolf are left to fend for themselves. ![]() One Eye is killed by a lynx while trying to rob her den for food for the she-wolf and her cub his mate later discovers his remains near the lynx's den. The she-wolf gives birth to a litter of five cubs by the Mackenzie River, and all but one die from hunger. He saves Judge Scott's life by killing Jim Hall and eventually has six pups with Collie. He eventually becomes more loving and friendly after he is bought and tamed by Weedon Scott. While he was cared for by his mother, White Fang grows up fierce and unloved after being separated from her he was constantly bullied by other dogs, like Lip-lip, and becomes a fighting dog after Beauty Smith buys him. ![]() White Fang is the titular main protagonist of Jack London's 1906 novel of the same name. He is a wolfdog who was born wild, but becomes more dog-like after Gray Beaver domesticates him. The wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Kinney is right up there with J K Rowling as one of the bestselling children's authors on the planet". Praise for Jeff Kinney: "The world has gone crazy for Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid". But a lot can happen in one night, and in the end, you never know who's going to be lucky in love.Share in the hilarious adventures of everyone's favourite wimpy kid, Greg Heffley, in the highly-anticipated seventh book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Then an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves Rowley the odd man out. His bestfriend, Rowley, doesn't have any prospects either but that's small consolation. As Greg scrambles to find a date, he's worried he'll be left out in the cold on the big night. ![]() Also now a box office-busting major motion franchise with the third Wimpy Kid movie, Dog Days released in the UK in August 2012! Love is in the air, but what does that mean for Greg Heffley? A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's school has turned his world upside down. This book is perfect for readers of 8+ and all the millions of Wimpy Kid fans. ![]() The Third Wheel is the hilarious seventh book in the brilliant, bestselling and award-winning Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pai decided to portray Shivaji as a Hindu nationalist who sought to unite ![]() The spirits of India’s lowest figures in society. Depending on whom you read, according to McLain, ShivajiĬan be interpreted as a Brahmin Marathi hero an early Hindu nationalist anĪnti-British figure who united India or as a non-Brahmin who sought to lift One ACK producer sheepishlyĮven admits that the “gray areas” of Shivaji’s life were left out to createīetter hero imagery. Like many Indian historicalįigures, his life has achieved mythic status – so much so that an accurateīiography of the man seems rather impossible. The life of the Indian folk hero Shivaji Bhonsle. ![]() Pai’s thinking behind one of the most famous ACK issues, Shivaji (#23), about To illustrate the complexities of the former, McClain deftly breaks down India’s Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings and Other Heroes Amar Chitra Katha: Anti-Muslim biasīased on Bucknell professor Karline McLain’s One of the handful of Muslim protagonists in AKC. Topics: | india | history | biography | comic Patel, Toni Anant Pai (ed.) Ram Waeerker (ill) Ĭhand Bibi : The valorous princess who withstood the might of the Mughals ![]() Book unexamined is not worth having Chand Bibi : The valorous princess who withstood the might of the Mughals Toni Patel and Anant Pai (ed.) and Ram Waeerker (ill) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They are almost gods themselves, and under their service she is either going to end up sentenced to death, or else they are going to ruin her so badly that she will wish for it. Under the sudden, watchful eye of the gods, she will be tasked to serve the Abcurse brothers, five sols built of arrogance, perfection and power. ![]() Until one small mistake changes everything, and Willa is awarded a position to serve at Blesswood, the top sol academy in the world-a position that she definitely did not earn. Her life will be one of servitude to the sols, the magic-blessed beings who could one day be chosen to become gods.Īt least her outer village is far removed from the cities of the sols, and she won’t ever be forced to present herself to them. The dwellers are trying to make their own way in the world, and Willa can’t seem to help getting tangled up in their plans. In fact, dirt might actually be more useful than Willa. In Minatsol, being a dweller means that you are literally no better than dirt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Book Review: Ten Little Babies by Gyo Fujikawa (1989).Book Review: Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle.Book Review: Steering Toward Normal by Rebecca Pet.Book Review: Anastasia Has the Answers by Lois Low.Book Review: Betsy-Tacy and Tib by Maud Hart Lovel.Tips for Interacting with Authors In Person and On.10 Things To Know About Middle Grade Literature.Tips for Evaluating Middle Grade and YA Books. ![]() Young readers will delight in the trouble caused by Betsy’s silly ideas, even if they themselves are more like Tib. Some of what the girls do clearly dates the book to the 1900s, when it is set, but many of their ideas could easily pop into the minds of girls living today. ![]() The tone of the books is lively, and it’s clear the author’s tongue is frequently in her cheek as she relates with complete seriousness the wild imaginings of girls with runaway imaginations. Though this series is quite old, there is a freshness to each of the girls’ escapades that easily compares to mischief perpetrated by Ramona Quimby, Ivy & Bean, Clementine and other contemporary girls in chapter books. In this second book of the series, the girls have a variety of adventures, including begging at a neighbor’s door for food, cutting off half of each other’s hair, trying to crash Betsy’s and Tacy’s older sisters’ club, and cooking a pudding containing everything in the kitchen. ![]() Tib is a bit more serious-minded and practical than the other two girls, but despite the naysaying of adults, they all get along just fine. ![]() ![]() ![]() The early novels drew on her own experiences – a boat on the Thames in the 1960s the BBC in war time a failing bookshop in Suffolk an eccentric stage-school. She won the Booker Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. Her novels were short, spare masterpieces, self-concealing, oblique and subtle. Penelope Fitzgerald (1916–2000) was a great English writer, who would never have described herself in such grand terms. PENELOPE FITZGERALD: A LIFE (Chatto, November 2013) For Film & TV enquiries, please contact Charles Walker at United Agents. ![]() Smith Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in the USA.įor more information about the author, please visit her website. It was chosen as a New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year, and short-listed for the W.H. Her biography of Virginia Woolf (winner of the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Award) was published in 1996 and was greeted with great acclaim. ![]() Hermione Lee grew up in London, was educated at Oxford, began her academic career as a lecturer in Williamsburg, Virginia and at Liverpool, and taught at the University of York from 1977, where she was Professor of English until her recent appointment to the Goldsmiths' Chair of English Literature and Fellow of New College at the University of Oxford. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through the stories he shares, MacQuarrie raises such questions as: Where did the people of South America come from? Did they create or import their cultures? What makes South America different from other continents - and what makes the cultures of the Andes different from other cultures in South America? Deeply observed and beautifully written, Life and Death in the Andes shows us this land as no one has before. He meets a man whose grandfather witnessed Butch Cassidy's last days in Bolivia and tracks down the ballet dancer who once hid the leader of the brutal Shining Path in her home. He introduces us to a Patagonian woman who is the last living speaker of her language as he explores the disappearance and sometimes surprising resiliency of indigenous cultures throughout the Andes. In Life and Death in the Andes (Simon & Schuster), award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author Kim MacQuarrie journeys through 2,500 miles of vertical landscape and 10,000 years of history to reveal the heart and soul of a long-troubled and neglected part of the world. ![]() ![]() Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and author Kim MacQuarrie takes us on a historical journey through this unique region, bringing fresh insight and contemporary connections to such fabled characters as Charles Darwin, Pablo Escobar, Che Guevara, and many others. The Andes Mountains are the world's longest mountain chain, linking most of the countries in South America. ![]() |