Join the cadets Mira, Jay, Kai and Luna in Mythic Park as they learn to look after the mythical creatures that live there. In this story, the cadets are in the Stone Valley for a rockfall drill. But the siren is much too loud and wakes up the enormous rumble beasts who start smashing everything! They must work together to calm the rumble beasts and help the shy pebble troll ...Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the...

Join the cadets Mira, Jay, Kai and Luna in Mythic Park as they learn to look after the mythical creatures that live there. In this story, the cadets are in the Mind Meadow, where a dream bird is acting strangely and making odd illusions appear. Could she be trying to send the cadets a message, and will they understand?Reading Champion Graphic readers is a new strand in the Reading Champion programme. Each story follows the adventures of the same set of characters in exciting comic ...

My King, Christ! You are the most beautiful; the beauty of the earth reveres Your handsomeness.Your face speaks of your glory, your head speaks of your power; your skin of your splendor, and your hair of your honor. Your eyes speak of your discernment, your forehead speaks of your wisdom; your sense of smell of your sensitivity; your mouth of your word, your tongue of your truth, your teeth of your purity; your ears of your mercy, and your cheeks of your beauty.Your chin te...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Alan Gratz comes a gripping, timely, 96-page bonus story about one girl's treacherous immigration journey that can be read alongside the novel Two Degrees, or on its own.Daniela López is on a life-or-death journey.Forced to flee their beloved home in Honduras, Dani and her family were headed north in search of safety--until a treacherous mistake ripped Dani's parents away. Now, Dani and her younger...

Why fixing America’s housing crisis requires repairing older homes—and not just building new onesThe United States is in the throes of a housing crisis, framed by the media as a crisis of affordability. People pay too much for housing—and the solution, it seems, is to increase the supply to drive down the cost. But the national conversation on housing affordability ignores the issue of housing quality. Most people find affordable housing not through public subsidie...

Evangelicalism is a favorite scapegoat of American public life. Christianity Today deputy editor Bonnie Kristian argues that the most common attacks fall apart under scrutiny, issuing a bold call for evangelicals not to be ashamed of their tradition and, instead, to preserve and deepen it.Evangelicals are subjected to a steady stream of criticism about what they believe and how they live out their faith in public. This isn’t new: Evangelicals have felt sli...

Evangelicalism is a favorite scapegoat of American public life. Christianity Today deputy editor Bonnie Kristian argues that the most common attacks fall apart under scrutiny, issuing a bold call for evangelicals not to be ashamed of their tradition and, instead, to preserve and deepen it.Evangelicals are subjected to a steady stream of criticism about what they believe and how they live out their faith in public. This isn’t new: Evangelicals have felt sli...

'A superior historical thriller, which is both a murder mystery and espionage novel...for fans of Alan Furst and Philip Kerr.' - Thomas WaughManchester, 1919.To Detective Chief Inspector Frank Tinsley, it initially appears to be a straightforward crime. A drunkard has been stabbed to death and robbed.But what was the drunk doing behind the university physics building at three in the morning?As Tinsley seeks answers, he becomes convinced that the key to solvi...

Memories from a Time Machine!Within these pages you will read about one man's life from over seven decades, a life that has been lived to the full. It will touch one's very soul, for what we are and what makes us human.Adventure, Love, Happiness, Pain, Grief, Fear, and Humour even Para-normal events will capture our innermost thoughts. There is no escape.Read the book. It's all in here. Memories from a Time Machine!Within these pages you will read about one ...

Mental illness is sinister, it isn't fair, and its unforgiving nature can wreak havoc on both those living with it as well as their family and friends. Sometimes the signs are obvious, and sometimes it sneaks up as silent destroyer of life. Follow the story of David King—young, smart, ambitious, a lawyer and Captain in the Army National Guard—as mental illness destroys the life he'd mapped out. Told from the personal experience of his older brother, David's story is accompanied by more tha...

Dublin, 1937A gang of movie-mad kids meet at the Grand Central Cinema on O'Connell Street and form a club to make their OWN films!Jem, Juno, Sylvie and friends are thrilled to meet world-famous child actress Dottie Bright. But they soon learn it's not always good to meet your heroes. Dottie is a spoiled brat. There's no way she is going to help them with their own film.But then danger strikes, and Dottie needs the gang to be her rea...

With such classic novels as Orphan Star and The Tar-Aiym-Krang, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers with his brilliantly imagined Humanx Commonwealth, the interstellar empire where intelligent aliens and humans live side by side. Now Foster takes us back to the unplanned beginnings of this extraordinary alliance …In the years after first contact, humans and the insect-like Thranx agreed to a tentative sharing of ideas...