Going Up! addresses the most common anxieties children have about moving from primary to secondary school. This lively and humorous book will appeal to both boys and girls, and will also provide talking points for teachers and parents. 11+ yrs[...]
Offers practical advice and is intended for children and their parents. This work helps children to analyse their feelings and develop a positive outlook, and it contains activities, quizzes, jokes and anecdotes.[...]
A story about bullying and being 'one of the gang'. Carly hasn't been herself lately - it seems that she's 'lost her fizz'. She is being teased and excluded by the girls who were once her best friends, and feels there is no one she can talk to about her problems. Then Carly finds a stray dog and sud[...]
Peony Pinker is fed up with her annoying, argumentative family. Her Gran tells her you can choose your friends but not your family; as you can't have the family you want, you have to learn to want the family you've got. Peony isn't sure that's even possible. Can she stop Gran's crazy ideas for imp[...]
Peony wants a lot of things. She wants a dog, she wants her dad to stop being an agony aunt, and she really wants to get rid of her sister's horrible best friend Bianca. Then Mr Kaminski next door tells her the secret of how to get what you want, and Peony decides it's time to put a stop to Bian[...]
Peony Pinker likes animals and messing about, not fitness routines and celebrity news. But when Dad becomes a celebrity, the coolest girls in school want Peony to join their group. But is the 'cool' crowd really where Peony wants to be?[...]
It's winter and the Pinkers are out of shape - so Dad decides to use the whole family to test out his ideas for a new fit-in-four weeks diet book. But things don't go according to plan, with everyone getting fatter not fitter! Can Gran's common sense get the family back on track?[...]
Delight's Muse is a blessedly short, accessible, and thoughtfully illustrated summary of Christopher Alexander's four volume work, The Nature of Order. It rescues readers from the massive effort required to navigate Alexander's 2000-page labyrinth without map or compass. Delight's Muse will interest[...]