Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls (Dean Jan)(Paperback / softback)

Reaching the Stars: Poems about Extraordinary Women and Girls (Dean Jan)(Paperback / softback)

A feisty collection of brand new poems about amazing women and girls who did what they needed to do no matter what society thought. The poems are about role models both real and fictional. Malala, global spokesperson for education for girls; Rosa Parks, who became an international icon of

Extraordinary! (Harrison Penny)(Pevná vazba)

A gentle tale about reaching for the stars and being extraordinary . . . but remembering the ordinary too. Extraordinary celebrates the best moments in life: the ones we share with friends and family. They may be simple, they may be ordinary, but they are moments we will cherish

Funny Poems (Dean Jan)(Paperback / softback)

The anthologies in this series are updated and revised versions of previously published titles, each with several brand new poems in them. A matching Teacher Resource Book is also available and has lessons based on different poetry types, each focusing on a specific poem from one of the

Slapstick (McGough Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Features poems about poems, poems about life, poems about kangaroos and chameleons and caterpillars (though not in the same verse), and

Two Girls and a Beehive - Poems about the art and lives of Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline Spencer (Burchell Graham)(Paperback / softback)

Two Girls and a Beehive offers a minutely observed exploration in poetry of the life and work of Stanley Spencer and his two wives, Hilda Carline and Patricia Preece, engaging readers with the particular unease that must trouble any follower of Spencer's paintings, with their human dramas and

Home Front Girls (Goodwin Rosie)(Paperback / softback)

A gripping and emotional WWII drama about three unforgettable women who kept the country moving during its darkest hours. We learn about the men they loved and the families torn apart by the devastating effects of

March, Women, March (Hawksley Lucinda)(Paperback / softback)

An exploration of the women's movement in Britain, and the extraordinary women behind

Victory Girls (Lavender Road 6) - A touching saga about London's brave women of World War Two (Carey Helen)(Paperback / softback)

London's women are ready to fight to the last for a brighter future... The sixth irresistible and nostalgic novel in the Lavender Road series about the resilient residents of a south London street at the end of the Second World

Extraordinary Sketchbooks (Stobart Jane)(Paperback / softback)

Extraordinary Sketchbooks takes the reader through different themes and functions for sketchbooks, including drawing to collect visual research, course work, developing concepts and suggestions for making simple and quick visuals into exciting

Girls Burn Brighter (Rao Shobha)(Paperback / softback)

An electrifying debut novel - the story of the unbreakable bond between two girls driven apart, and their journeys across continents to find each other again. Poornima and Savitha, born in poverty, have known little kindness in their lives until they meet as teenagers. When an act of devastating

Playing God - Poems About Medicine (Colquhoun Glenn)(Paperback / softback)

'Playing God' presents poems about the experience of being a doctor, for both doctors and

D-Day Girls - The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win the Second World War (Rose Sarah)(Paperback / softback)

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied

Complete Poems (Bronte Emily)(Paperback / softback)

The poems of Emily Jane Bronte are passionate and powerful works that convey the vitality of the human spirit and of the natural world. Only twenty-one of her poems were published during her lifetime - this volume contains those and all others attributed to her. Many poems describe the mythic

People's Favourite Poems - Out and about with Kipling, Larkin and the rest (Dexter Gary)(Paperback / softback)

All the Missing Girls (Miranda Megan)(Paperback / softback)

A nail-biting, breathtaking thriller about the disappearances of two young women - a decade apart - told in reverse. A brilliant debut from an amazing new voice in thriller

Planet X (Friedman Michael Jan)(Paperback)

On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and prejudice divide the transformed from their own kin

Factory Girls of Lark Lane - A heartbreaking World War 2 historical novel of loss and love (Howes Pam)(Paperback / softback)

The Factory Girls of Lark Lane is a heart-wrenching family saga about women in World War II, the strength of friendship and the power of

She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen - British Women in India (Hickman Katie)(Paperback / softback)

An extraordinary and illuminating book that tells the incredible stories of the first British women to set foot in India - 250 years before the

What Day Is It? - Who Gives a F*ck | Poems and Illustrations Inspired by Lockdown (Brierton Jan)(Paperback / softback)

POEMS AND ILLUSTRATIONS INSPIRED BY LOCKDOWNBefore the COVID-19 global pandemic, Dubliner Jan was working as a freelance fashion stylist and creative director. Now, she is an experienced homeschool teacher, playground chaperone, cook, cleaner, fed-up walker and kitchen disco DJ. At the height of

Dearly : Poems - Margaret Atwood

By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in flux, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams

Awake in the World (Gurley Jason)(Paperback / softback)

Vanessa has been reaching for the stars since she was a child, and is determined to get into her dream Ivy League university. Zach is a talented artist, but he needs to support his family, working on the same oil rig where his dad was killed in an accident. Their future looks poles apart, but then

Shipyard Girls - Shipyard Girls 1 (Revell Nancy)(Paperback / softback)

Sunderland, 1940, and the women go to the shipyards to do their bit for the war effort. Polly never dreamed she would be able to work in the shipyards like the men in her family but times are tough and her new job ends up giving her more than she ever expected when she meets enigmatic dock diver

Factory Girls - The Bomb Girls 3 (Archer Rosie)(Paperback / softback)

For fans of Daisy Styles, a heart-warming wartime saga about a group of women who work in an armaments factory. No matter how hard the times, despite bombing, short rations, cruel men, unwanted pregnancy, through thick and thin friendship will pull you through. Autumn, 1944. Doodlebugs are the

Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole - Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain (Ropper Dr Allan)(Paperback / softback)

One of the world's leading neurologists reveals the extraordinary stories behind some of the brain disorders that he and his staff at the Harvard Medical School endeavour to treat. The Sunday Times Top Ten