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Susan Cooper
This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. It’s Midwinter’s Eve, the day before Will’s eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar…
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Susan A Cooper
Painful Passage, Joyful Journey is the narrative of my personal experiences as viewed through multiple lens: the six-year-old child so violently wretched from a loving family by the murder/suicide of…
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Reissued in A Puffin Book - the first in award-winning Susan Cooper’s funny and moving adventures of the one-and-only Boggart.
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The children are on holiday in Cornwall, still on the quest for the stolen grail. Jane goes to the ancient ceremony when the Greenwitch is pitched into the sea, and…
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The first of the five books which form The Dark Is Rising sequence, this book features three children, on holiday in Cornwall, who discover an ancient map which leads them…
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Enter the young adult world of Susan Cooper. Then on Midwinter Day, Will wakes up to a different world: silent, covered in snow and ancient forest, a world of another…
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The author traces the journey of boy actor Nat Field, who travels from the States to perform as Puck at the Globe theatre. As the story unfolds Nat comes face…
Following a serious illness, Will is sent to convalesce in Wales. There he meets Bran, a mysterious boy, who helps Will in his quest to find the golden harp and…
The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. The servants of the light: Will Stanton, the last of the Old Ones, the mysterious Professor…
Susan B Cooper
It started with a sneeze and ended with a bang. Now read with happens in between. A Pig named Bacon is an exciting story which motivates children to open up…
Margaret Read MacDonald
An old woman complains about all the housework she has to do, but when some fairies come to help her she finds that they are more trouble than they are…
Susan Cooper,Mitchell
A new adaptation of this exciting time travel thriller, set in Shakespeare’s England
Nina Mikkelsen
Twaynes United States Authors Series presents concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.
Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an authors work, each study takes account of…
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Rosaly Torna Kurth
T hough primarily recognized as a nineteenth-century American nature writer and environmentalist who significantly influenced Henry David Thoreau, Susan Fenimore Cooper (1813-1894) was also an accomplished and productive author in…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Susan Mitchell’s The Dead, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context…
Susan Myrick
A collection of articles Myrick wrote about her friend Peggy Mitchell and Gone With the Wind, both the book and the movie, also contains three feature articles about survivors of…
Susan Cooper,Cooper Susan
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
This immersive and expansive collection of interviews spans Mitchell's entire career
Susan Mitchell
Three powerful and engaging biographies of three former wives of Liberal prime ministers whose lives have been lived in the shadow of their husbands - full of intrigue and revelation…
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An exploration of what happens when people receive due acknowledgement, and what happens when they don’t. The book looks at the effect of praise in childhood, in schools, in the…
In these high-interest biographies for reluctant readers, students can read about the early lives, inspirations, and achievements of their favorite stars. Written at an accessible level–but sacrificing none of the…
This hi/lo series will motivate reluctant readers with its amazing facts about the world’s hugest structures. Each book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the tallest, longest, and…
Jack Black: Many rock stars want to act. Many actors secretly wish they could rock. Jack Black is one of the rare performers who excels at both. With School of…
How do we discover our deepest desires, those that at once elude and define us In Erotikon, award-winning poet Susan Mitchell invites us to make that discovery - and in…
Rapture is the newest collection from a remarkable voice in American poetry. Susan Mitchell’s poems are about self-discovery, and how memory and experience blend to lead us to newer, more…
Few things are as exciting as a fast-paced roller coaster ride. The thrill of a huge, sudden drop or a giant loop can be both exhilarating and terrifying. From the…
Margaret Whitlam has been in the public eye for over forty years. As the controversial wife of a prime minister she is a household name and an Australian identity in…
This is the compelling story of former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, his wife Margaret and their 70-year relationship - personal and political, private and public. It is a story of…
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Sam is a farm boy, kidnapped by the press gang to serve in the Royal Navy. At first terrified and seasick, he is transformed gradually into a sailor. He meets…
A Newbery Medalist ( The Dark Is Rising ) presents a gripping novel in which a 17th-century boy and a 21st-century girl are drawn to a moment in time that…
From a Newbery Medalist comes a story of adventure and friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler. The intertwining stories of Little Hawk and John…
A boy discovers his magical destiny and sets off on a vital mission to defeat the Dark in the Newbery Honor-winning second installment of Susan Cooper's epic The Dark Is…
From mischievous child prodigy to the dynamic Lord of the Dance, an engaging look at the life of Revels founder John Langstaff.
On Christmas Eve in 1920, John Meredith Langstaff…
The mischievous Boggart comes up with some new tricks to stop an American developer from ruining his beloved island in this delightful romp from Newbery Medalist Cooper.
When Emily Volnik and her younger brother Jessup go to live in a Scottish castle, they are delighted to meet the Boggart, a mischievous shape-shifting spirit who has lived in…
This book brings together the theory and practice of evaluation in youth and community work to offer a timely and thorough exploration of how evaluation, professionalism and practice intersect. It…
A friendship between a young Native American and a colonial New England settler endangers them both in this simply unforgettable ( Booklist, starred review) adventure story from Newbery Medalist Cooper…
A nearby city is in flames. For Derek and his friends, night-time air raids are a normal part of everyday life. When a particularly violent raid closes their school for…
Part of Cooper's Dark Is Rising fantasy, "Over Sea, Under Stone" is now available in this digest edition.
