Bridget Biagi

The seasons come and go and every spring Omakayas and her family build themselves a new birchbark house, and leave it in the autumn. The year the white men come is one of heartbreak and omakayas is forced to grow up quickly.

When their brief refuge in a gamekeeper's cottage is interrupted, the Borrowers are forced to take flight. But Arrietty is looking forward to the future whatever the danger.

Picking up the threads of the compelling Daisy Chain War, this second volume tracks nine-year-old John, Lizzie Doyle's nephew, who has come to live in Ireland with his grandparents, but is longing for the father he has never met, and who has been missing in action for a decade. But life in the Doyles' lively Dublin house slowly brings John out of himself, especially when he befriends tough urchin Anthony Quinn and his sister Patsy, whose parents rent the downstairs flat...Meanwhile, Lizzie is pursuing a career in nursing - while still holding a flame for her childhood sweetheart, Pete. And Vicky, Lizzie's fiesty English cousin, is in America, studying hard to be a doctor, trying to mend her relationship with her estranged father...

Fun maths poems and rhymes.

Anna Blundy received a telephone call in November 1989 to say that her father, foreign correspondent David Blundy, had been shot whilst reporting the war in El Salvador. In 1997 Anna, also a journalist, went to El Salvador to try to discover the truth of his death. She recalls her experiences in this moving portrait of a country and a man. Contains some offensive language.

After marrying an Italian medical student in the 1930s, Kate Fenton finds herself living in Tuscany during World War II. With her brother and brother-in-law in opposing armies and her husband imprisoned , her loyalties are divided.

Najwa, an educated, upper class, westernised Sudanese woman finds herself in political exile in London, working as a cleaner. Her Muslim faith gives her solace, as well as a common bond with Tamer, as love begins to blossom.

When 16-year-old Nancy's brother plans to marry her off to a wealthy, evil man she runs away to join a pirate ship. Along with the runaway slave Minerva, she faces a series of adventures which portray the life of a pirate in the 18th Century.

Iris Bryce has been connected to Greenwich all her life. Here she describes the borough, especially her childhood years in the 1920's and 1930's.

It's 1840, and in the small village of Clifton the children are dying from an outbreak of diphtheria. Jessie's mother knows how to cure them but it will mean revealing to Jessie the dark and dangerous secret which lies beneath Clifton and all its people.

Archaeologist Verity Grey is invited to join a dig organized by a wealthy eccentric, Peter Quinnell, who is convinced he has found the final camp of the Romans' Ninth Legion. Verity is gradually drawn into events surrounding the camp!

Rolf Carle asks his lover, Eva Luna, to tell him a story, and so she begins to weave for him stories of passion, love and death, all set in the landscapes of South America.

In a mountain kingdom a little princess is unhappy because she wants to know the sea. One day Peter arrives but can he teach Isola about the sea?

With a loving family, good friends and success as a writer, Reta has always enjoyed a life of happiness. Then her daughter abandoned university, family and boyfriend to sit on a street corner with a sign around her neck. At 44, Reta has now discovered the meaning of loss.

Jade is used to living in the shadow of her best friend, Vicky. Vicky's sparkly, hilarious and full of life. And, she's certainly not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full.

But as Jade attempts to move on, Vicky is determined to make her presence felt.

Rhymes to enjoy and to help you make up your own poems.