This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.In a world where children face increasing demands on their attention and self-control, helping them develop executive function skills is more important than ever. These skills, which include planning, organizing, and regulating behavior, are crucial for success in school and life. This book provides a treasure trove of activities designed to make the development of these skills enjoyable and effective for kids. Through play and interact...

Big changes come in summer—from the weather to the activities we do. Pairing very simple text and vibrant pictures of summertime, readers will learn what they can expect in this season and all the fun things they can do. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

The definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order. The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany, torching and plundering the monasteries, convents, a...

Set in the midst of WW2, Soldier Girl follows a woman on her journey of courage, determination, loss, and resilience – the sequel to A Hopscotch Summer from Annie Murray.Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfather and her drunken mother. Haunted by terrible family secrets, she decides to take her life into her own hands and bravely joins the British Army as an ATS girl.The army, seemingly a disaste...

'A masterful love story' Nicola Dinan'Very special ' Laura Kay'Wildly entertaining, lovingly written' Jess Kidd'Rib-achingly funny' Curtis Garner'Delicious' Lily Lindon'A firecracker of a book' Emma Morgan'Achingly funny and utterly heartrending' Sara Nisha AdamsIt's 2067 at Palm Meridian R...

The only travel writing book on Gascony, A Summer in Gascony is a charming and humorous tale of an extraordinary summer spent in this relatively unknown part of south-western France, the home of D Artagnan, Cyrano de Bergerac, gutsy red wine, fine sweet wine Armagnac and sunflowers. It is a tale of two love affairs: an idyllic summer romance and a lifelong love affair with Gascony with its village festivals, dusty roads and sun-baked wine country. Stretching from Toulouse in the east to th...

25 Summers by Stephan Schäfer is a life-affirming self-help fable - a word-of-mouth sensation in Germany, with over 130,000 copies sold.Blending storytelling with real-world insight, this book invites you to look differently at your time, your choices, and the life you're building.At its heart is a simple encounter: a high-achieving man meets Karl, a potato farmer, whose quiet way of living begins to challenge everything he thought he knew about success, relationsh...

As a construction foreman, Ethan Davis is used to being in control.So when his parents buy a rundown beach house in a faraway town and hire someone else to renovate it, he insists on doing the work himself.If he stays focused, he should finish the job early and under budget.But there are some things Ethan can't control. Like an unreliable ferry, inclement weather, and his new neighbor, Chloe.Chloe's cheery attitude and constant smiles really get under his sk...

It is 1946 in Birmingham: the Second World War is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . .Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets that she barely understands. Innocent, yet hungry for love, she is easily taken in by male charm and is left outcast and alone with her young son.Emma Brown has spent the war at home in Birmingham, longing for her h...

WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2025A FINANCIAL TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe definitive history of the sixteenth-century uprising that revolutionized Europe.The German Peasants' War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution. In 1524 and 1525, it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people...

THE INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON AND NEW YORK TIMES MULTIMILLION COPY BESTSELLERALSO AN AWARD-WINNING FILM STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND ROBERT PATTINSON'Great story, loads of fun; hard to put down.' STEPHEN KING'Satisfyingly rich, outlandish and inspiring' Daily Telegraph'Exotic and erotic, filled with colour and passion' FTThe Great Depr...

'As page-turning as a novel' Joanna TrollopeOne summer of nearly a hundred years ago saw one of the high sunlit meadows of English history. A new king was crowned; audiences swarmed to Covent Garden to see the Ballet Russes and Nijinskys gravity-defying leaps. The aristocracy was at play, bounding from house party to the next; the socialite Lady Michelham travelled with her nineteen yards of pearls. Rupert Brooke (a 23-year-old poet in love with love, Keats, marron...