The seventh gripping adventure in this exciting pony-club series. With gymkhanas to win, rivals to defeat, mysteries to solve and ponies in danger to save – these books are perfect for all girls who love ponies.Issie and friends are surprised when Natasha Tucker`s dad is made pony club president and unveils the Tucker Trophy competition. Issie`s facing her biggest training challenge yet – Fortune, a dozy piebald Blackthorn Pony she must work into winning form. That is if she can keep him awake!Meanwhile, someone is doing their best to wreck relations between the riders and a nearby golf course… Could Pony Club itself be under threat?
ISBN: 9780007270323
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2022
All children growing up in America learn who the Founding Fathers were. Most, however, never learn of the founders connections to the Freemasons, the Rosicrucians, and other esoteric orders. In" Founding Fathers, Secret Societies," Robert Hieronimus investigates these important connections and how their influence can be traced throughout our most significant national documents and symbols.
Mary Lennox was horrid. Selfish and spoilt, she was sent to stay with her hunchback uncle in Yorkshire. She hated it.But when she finds the way into a secret garden and begins to tend to it, a change comes over her and her life. She meets and befriends a local boy, the talented Dickon, and comes across her sickly cousin Colin who had been kept hidden from her. Between them, the three children work astonishing magic in themselves and those around them.The Secret Garden is one of the best-loved stories of all time.
ISBN: 9781840227796
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Covering the centuries between the disintegration of the Carolingian empire and the rise of the French monarchy, this book traces the long period of gestation that ended with the emergence of the kingdom of France as a recognizable political entity capable of inspiring the loyalty of its peoples. The author describes the emergence in the late ninth and tenth centuries of principalities and lesser political units in which the personal qualities or resources of the rulers permitted them to command obedience. In the eleventh century, the threat of political fragmentation led princes to establish sounder theoretical foundations for their authority in legal and administrative procedures. The twelfth-century kings of France,...
ISBN: 9780198208464
Издательство:
Oxford University Press
Дата выхода: март 2000
Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant student of natural sciences. He dreams of discovering the secret of life; but the thing that he has made is a monster, and brings nothing but death and ruin.Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and American English).Retold by Daniele Dickmann.
Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language.With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. Freddie Mercury, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations,...
The book constitutes a basic, concise, yet rigorous course in complex analysis, for students who have studied calculus in one and several variables, but have not previously been exposed to complex analysis. The textbook should be particularly useful and relevant for undergraduate students in joint programmes with mathematics, as well as engineering students. The aim of the book is to cover the bare bones of the subject with minimal prerequisites. The core content of the book is the three main pillars of complex analysis: the Cauchy Riemann equations, the Cauchy Integral Theorem, and Taylor and Laurent series expansions. Each section contains several problems, which are not purely drill exercises, but are rather meant to reinforce the...
Frog lives in a bog. One day, he finds someone lost in the fog... This entertaining story for beginner readers has simple rhyming text and colourful illustrations by Stephen Cartwright – and you can also listen to the story online, too. A delight to share with young children, with parent’s notes on phonics at the back.
An Essential Picture Book Classics this book contains five engaging, warm and very funny stories about Frog and Toad.A collectable classic picture book that every child should read and own. Julia Donaldson says “I hugely admire and envy Arnold Lobel; he is my hero”.Once upon a time there were two good friends, a frog and a toad…From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other – just as best friends should be.The Frog and Toad stories from Arnold Lobel have been loved by generations.Essential Picture Book Classics – timeless stories for every child to treasure.
Written by more than 175 outspoken travelers around the globe, this guide helps visitors to Guatemala experience places the way locals do. It includes a 16-page color section and foldout map along with exact prices and suggested itineraries. Original.
