Extreme sportsmen and women go faster, climb higher and compete for longer. No sporting challenge is too great. Find out the great dangers people face when pushing themselves to the limit in extreme sports. Written by Adrian Bradbury and filled with action photos from around the world, this book will appeal to adventurous young readers everywhere. * Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction. * Text type: An information book * This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Jack and Sam think their school trip to the Ancient Greece Museum is boring, until they see a glowing statue ...Finding themselves whisked away to fight a deadly monster, suddenly Ancient Greece doesn't seem so dull after all. This exciting graphic novel by Linda Chapman is brought to life with illustrations from Dylan Coburn. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading. * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level. * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap. * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers. * Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs. * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation. * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion. * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension. * Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child.

Follow the true story of Winkie, a carrier pigeon in WWII whose crew crash landed in the sea. All hopes rested with Winkie as she battled to reach help — but would she be able to lead them back to her crew? The story is told in the style of a graphic novel and illustrated by award-winning author-illustrator team Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading. * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level. * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap . * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers. * Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs. * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation. * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion. * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to ffers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension. * Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child. * This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

When Zara wishes for a new dress for the school party she doesn’t expect to see a fairy godbrother land in her room, especially when he tries to “text-a-spell” with unpredictable results! Will Zara ever get her dream dress? • Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading. • Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level. • Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap. • The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers. • Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs. • Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation. • Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion. • Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension. • Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child. • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Where does the food in your lunch-box come from? How far has it travelled? Find out where bananas are grown, where tuna is found and how chocolate is made in this highly photographic information book. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading. * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level. * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap. * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers. * Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs. * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation. * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion. * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension. * Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child. * This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Find out about the natural disasters people face around the world, what effect they have on towns and cities and how we can help to protect people from them. Packed with fact files and maps showing disaster spots as well as high impact photographs, this book will tell you all you need to know about hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading. * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level. * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap. * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers. * Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs. * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation. * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to. respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension. * Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child.

He doesn't fit in at school; they don't understand him there. But in Angel House he feels stronger — he feels free. This beautiful book by Anne Curtis is thoughtfully illustrated by Chris Corner. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading. * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level. * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap. * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers. * Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs. * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation. * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion. * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension. * Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child. * This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Find out what life was like for the children growing up during World War II. With photographs straight from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, Jillian Powell looks at rationing, schooling and evacuation and how the daily lives of children were affected by the war. • Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading • Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level • Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap • The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers • Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs • Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation • Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion • Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension • Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader

When Pedro the fisherman catches a big swordfish, he decides to share his meal with a man in the local prison — a captured pirate. But when Pedro himself is later captured by a pirate gang, he finds his generosity hasn't been forgotten. This traditional tale is written by Saviour Pirotta and wonderfully illustrated by Shahab Shamshirsaz. * Collins Big Cat Progress builds confidence, helping struggling pupils not only to read, but to love reading * Dual-banded books provide age-appropriate interest level material matched with a lower reading ability level * Every book is levelled by reading expert Cliff Moon to ensure precise, systematic, measurable progression to help close the ability gap * The books use a range of reading strategies: phonic, graphic, syntactic and contextual to build confident, accurate, fluent readers * Designed to build speaking and listening skills, as well as reading skills, the books are highly visual and include incredible illustrations and photographs * Every book has a Key Stage 2 look-and-feel to engage older pupils and avoid stigmatisation * Topics are relevant for children in years 3-6 and connected to the curriculum and framework objectives for these years to support inclusion * Progress titles contain a Reader Response page to encourage the pupil to respond to and recall what they have read. This offers an ideal opportunity to check comprehension * Ideas for Reading, written by primary literacy expert Gill Howell are included in the back of every book to help you support the reading needs of each child * This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

From the bestselling author of Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls and Cat and Mouse, a breathtaking novel of terror and suspense. Already a bestseller around the world — now reissued in striking new cover style. Maggie Bradford is on trial for murder — in the celebrity trial of the decade. As one of the world's best-loved singer-songwriters, she seems to have it all. So how could she have murdered not just one, but two of her husbands? Will Shepherd was Maggie's second husband. A magnificent athlete and film star, he was just as famous. But Will had dark, dangerous secrets that none of his fans could have imagined...that his own wife could never have dreamed of.

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R. R. Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A FEAST FOR CROWS is the fourth volume in the series. The Lannisters are in power on the Iron Throne. The war in the Seven Kingdoms has burned itself out, but in its bitter aftermath new conflicts spark to life. The Martells of Dorne and the Starks of Winterfell seek vengeance for their dead. Euron Crow’s Eye, as black a pirate as ever raised a sail, returns from the smoking ruins of Valyria to claim the Iron Isles. From the icy north, where Others threaten the Wall, apprentice Maester Samwell Tarly brings a mysterious babe in arms to the Citadel. As plots, intrigue and battle threaten to engulf Westeros, victory will go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel and the coldest hearts.

The Hobbit is the unforgettable story of Bilbo, a peace-loving hobbit, who embarks on a strange and magical adventure. A timeless classic. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet and contented life, with no desire to travel far from the comforts of home; then one day the wizard Gandalf and a band of dwarves arrive unexpectedly and enlist his services — as a burglar — on a dangerous expedition to raid the treasure-hoard of Smaug the dragon. Bilbo's life is never to be the same again. Seldom has any book been so widely read and loved as J. R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, 'The Hobbit'. Since its first publication in 1937 it has remained in print to delight each new generation of readers all over the world, and its hero, Bilbo Baggins, has taken his place among the ranks of the immortals of fiction.

The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century – and inspiration for ‹Moby-Dick› – reissued to accompany a major motion picture due for release in December 2015, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker and Cillian Murphy. When the whaleship Essex set sail from Nantucket in 1819, the unthinkable happened. A mere speck in the vast Pacific ocean – and powerless against the forces of nature – Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale, and her twenty crewmen were forced to take to the open sea in three small boats. Ninety days later only a handful of survivors were rescued – and a terrifying story of desperation, cannibalism and courage was revealed… One of the greatest sea yarns ever spun, ‹In the Heart of the Sea› is the true story of the extraordinary events that inspired Herman Melville›s masterpiece ‹Moby-Dick›.

Hannis Arc, working on the tapestry of lines linking constellations of elements that constituted the language of Creation recorded on the ancient Cerulean scroll spread out among the clutter on his desk, was not surprised to see the seven etherial forms billow into the room like acrid smoke driven on a breath of bitter breeze. Like an otherworldly collection of spectral shapes seemingly carried on random eddies of air, they wandered in a loose clutch among the still and silent mounted bears and beasts rising up on their stands, the small forest of stone pedestals holding massive books of recorded prophecy, and the evenly spaced display cases of oddities, their glass reflecting the firelight from the massive hearth at the side of the room. Since the seven rarely used doors, the shutters on the windows down on the ground level several stories below stood open as a fearless show of invitation. Though they frequently chose to use windows, they didn't actually need the windows any more than they needed the doors. They could seep through any opening, any crack, like vapor rising in the early morning from the stretches of stagnant water that lay in dark swaths through the peat barrens. The open shutters were meant to be a declaration for all to see, including the seven, that Hannis Arc feared nothing. #1 New York Times-bestselling author Terry Goodkind returns to the lives of Richard Rahl and Kahlan Amnell-in a compelling tale of a new and sinister threat to their world.

Pub Date: 2002-10-01 Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher:. HarperTorch Famous novelist Elliot Traynor is temporarily living in Molena Point with his wife Vivi Their appearance has coincided with some peculiar happenings in the town. culminating in a botched burglary in the home of Susan Brittian. a friend of Joe Grey and his feline sidekick Dulcie. Smelling a mystery. Joe and Dulcie refuse to let this crime go unpunished. With whiskers twitching. they begin to investigate and soon find themselves on the scent of a killer.

This range of Maths and English activity books really helps to boost your child’s progress at every stage of their learning. The series aims to build up important skills through activity-packed fun. Each activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. • Help boost confidence and develop good learning habits for life. • Motivate children to learn at home using colourful activities that make learning fun. • Include helpful tips and answers so that you easily support your child’s learning at home.

Araminta Spookie lives in a wonderful old haunted house, but her crabby aunt Tabby wants to move. Aunt Tabby is determined to sell their house—Araminta has to stop her! With the help of a haunted suit of armor named Sir Horace, a ghost named Edmund, and a lot of imagination, Araminta hatches a plot for an Awful Ambush that is so ghoulish, it just might work!

A Desperate Young Mother Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car's that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a scandalous past has learned how to be a fighter. And she'll do anything to keep her child safe—even take on. . . A man With No Heart Gabe Bonner wants to be left alone, especially by the beautiful outcast who's invaded his property. She has a ton of attitude, a talent for trouble, and a child who brings back bad memories. Yet Rachel's feisty spirit might just be heaven-sent to save a tough, stubborn man. Dare To Dream Welcome to Salvation, North Carolina—where a man who's forgotten what tenderness means meets a woman with nothing to lose. here two endearing lovers will set off on a funny, touching journey of the heart. . .to a place where dreams just might come true.