stovell s other parents
Stovell S. Other Parents
Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son Max don't really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she's trying to hide.When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate.But the problem with having your nose in everyone else's business is that you often miss what is happening in your own home.
983 Руб.
Stovell S. Other Parents
Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town. She and her son Max don't really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she's trying to hide.When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate.But the problem with having your nose in everyone else's business is that you often miss what is happening in your own home.
983 Руб.
Johnson Pete How To Train Your Parents
Moving to a new area and a new school, Louis is horrified to discover his parents changing into ultra-competitive parents, wanting him and his younger brother to get straight As at school and join all sorts of after-school clubs and activities like the other kids in the area. Suddenly Louis's life is no longer his own - until he meets Maddy, who claims to have trained her parents to ignore her- But does Louis really want to be ignored? A truly contemporary tale with characters kids will recognize instantly!
1693 Руб.
Mlynowski Sarah Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done
One year + one beach house + zero parents = Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done I was about to live a sixteen-year-old's dream. House on the beach. No parents. Parties whenever we wanted. Boys wherever we wanted. April and her best friend, Vi, are living by themselves. Of course, April's parents don't know that. They think she's living with Vi and Vi's mum. But it's not April's fault that her dad decided to move away in the middle of high school. So who could blame her for a little white lie Or the other nine things that April (probably) shouldn't have done that year...
2133 Руб.
Ahmed Sufiya Secrets of the Henna Girl
Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . . Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love. Except her parents have other plans. In Pakistan for the summer, Zeba's world is shattered. Her future is threatened by an unthinkable - and forced - duty to protect her father's honour. But does she hold the secrets that will help her escape?
2344 Руб.
Fridlund Emily History of Wolves
How far would you go to belong? Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into their orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcome, that she finally has a place to belong. Yet something isn't right. Drawn into secrets she doesn't understand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledge of the world understand what the consequences will be?
1973 Руб.
Robson Kirsteen Look and Find Puzzles. Dinosaurs
This eye-catching book is full of dinosaurs and other things to spot, match, count and talk about. Animals in each scene offer readers specific fun challenges, such as asking them to find a dinosaur in sunglasses, and there is a row of pictures at the bottom of each page showing other things to spot and count, including a little white mouse in each picture. Children will enjoy the challenge whilst parents can be reassured that kids are practising essential skills.
713 Руб.
Слоун Х.Г. Counting by 7s
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.
1585 Руб.
Слоун Х.Г. Counting by 7s
Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius, obsessed with nature and diagnosing medical conditions, who finds it comforting to count by 7s. It has never been easy for her to connect with anyone other than her adoptive parents, but that hasn't kept her from leading a quietly happy life . . . until now.
1585 Руб.
Blake Quentin Zagazoo
Zagazoo is a baby like no other. In this quite exceptional picture book young readers will be delighted by the hilarious and unexpected changes in his behaviour as Zagazoo grows up. Parents may detect some strange echoes of family life. There have been many classic picture books from the incomparable pen of Quentin Blake, but never one more extraordinary.
2083 Руб.
The Kingfisher Treasury of Five-Minute Stories
There's always time for a story...Children love storytime - especially when their parents have time to share it with them. This anthology contains 22 delightful stories, all carefully selected to be both brief and entertaining. It is perfect for parents struggling to make time for reading with their children. Ideal for reading aloud at bedtime or any time, and accessible enough for newly independent readers to tackle alone, every tale from this versatile collection has the power to transport children to other worlds, introduce them to unforgettable characters, and feed their imaginations - in just five minutes!
584 Руб.
Shemilt J. Little Friends
Their children are friends first. They hit it off immediately, as kids do. And so the parents are forced to get to know each other. Three wildly different couples. Three marriages, floundering. There are barbecues, dinner parties, a holiday in Greece. An affair begins, resentments flare, and despite it all the three women become closer. Unnoticed, their children run wild. The couples are so busy watching each other that they forget to watch their children. Until tragedy strikes. Because while they have been looking the other way, evil has crept into their safe little world and every parent's biggest nightmare is about to come true...
862 Руб.
Shemilt J. Little Friends
Their children are friends first. They hit it off immediately, as kids do. And so the parents are forced to get to know each other. Three wildly different couples. Three marriages, floundering. There are barbecues, dinner parties, a holiday in Greece. An affair begins, resentments flare, and despite it all the three women become closer. Unnoticed, their children run wild. The couples are so busy watching each other that they forget to watch their children. Until tragedy strikes. Because while they have been looking the other way, evil has crept into their safe little world and every parent's biggest nightmare is about to come true...
862 Руб.
Curnick Pippa Indigo Wilde and the Unknown Wilderness
On Thursday, the doorbell rings at Indigo Wilde's house on Jellybean Crescent. It's a moon bear - an enormous winged bear covered with stars, the rarest of all rare creatures. The bear tells Indigo that her parents were studying it in its habitat in the Unknown Wilderness ... and now they've vanished. Indigo and her brother Quigley head off to rescue their parents. On their journey they come across many magical and extraordinary new creatures, but their parents are nowhere to be seen. Fortunately, there are other people studying the wildlife in the Unknown Wilderness. But do the people Indigo and Quigley meet really have the best intentions? Or are they capturing the magical creatures for their own gain? Gorgeously illustrated in full colour throughout, this is the second in the series - have you read Indigo Wilde and the Creatures at Jellybean Crescent?
1236 Руб.
Barr Emily The Truth and Lies of Ella Black
Ella Black seems to live the life most other seventeen-year-olds would kill for . . . Until one day, telling her nothing, her parents whisk her off to Rio de Janeiro. Determined to find out why, Ella takes her chance and searches through their things. And realises her life has been a lie. Her mother and father aren't hers at all. Unable to comprehend the truth, Ella runs away, to the one place they'll never think to look - the favelas. But there she learns a terrible secret - the truth about her real parents and their past. And the truth about a mother, desperate for a daughter taken from her seventeen years ago . . .
1111 Руб.