When some school strawberry plants are vandalised, a lost shoe buckle at the scene of the crime leads straight to the Naughtiest Girl. It is hers, but how did it get there - and why would anyone want to pin the blame on Elizabeth? The next night, as she`s dropping off to sleep, someone shouts `Fire!` - so Elizabeth jumps up and rings the fire bell. But there is no fire and now Elizabeth is being blamed for a catalogue of silly tricks. If she can`t prove her innocence, she`s in line to lose her hard-won part in the school play. So when the same happens the next night, Elizabeth is reluctant to report a fire - except this time, there really is
ISBN: 978-0-340-91775-6
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.
ISBN: 978-0-340-93760-0
Издательство:
Hodder & Stoughton
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
A cat`s nine lives are full of adventure and excitement and none more so than Montezuma, the farmyard cat. From a young kitten to a grand old cat he is cunning and proud while establishing his kingdom, but to Matthew he`s always loving and adorable.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-3338-5
Издательство:
Egmont Books Ltd
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
`Ah, you English girls! There is nobody like you when you are nice!` said Mam`zelle. Pat and Isabel are determined to work hard this term. But it`s just so tempting to play a few tricks on Mam`zelle.
ISBN: 978-1-4052-1978-5
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Preston, University of Nottingham.Illustrations by Hablot K. Browne (Phis) and George Cattermole.The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-41), with its combination of the sentimental, the grotesque and the socially concerned, and its story of pursuit and courage, which sets the downtrodden and the plucky against the malevolent and the villainous, was an immediate popular success. Little Nell quickly became one of Dickens` most celebrated characters, who so captured the imagination of his readers that while the novel was being serialised, many of them wrote to him about her fate.Dickens was conscious of the `many friends` the novel had won for him, and `the many hearts it turned to me when they were full of...
ISBN: 9781853262449
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2017
