A new home. A hidden map. A race against the flood. When fifteen-year-old Lena Hart leaves England with her family to begin a new life in Bali, she is anything but excited.Her friends are thousands of miles away. Her parents are hiding more than they admit. Their inherited guesthouse is falling apart. And Lena is not convinced that moving across the world will fix the problems they left behind.Then, on their first night in Bali, a sudden flood tears through...

He was the last person anyone would choose. And that was the point. Eighteen-year-old Jamie Vale has never stood out.His A-level results are disappointing. His friends are moving on without him. A place at a good university seems increasingly unlikely, and Jamie has no clear idea what he is supposed to do with the rest of his life.Then he finds an unusual job advertisement.No degree required. Full training provided. Surprisingly good pay.The position at Meri...

Fourteen days. One million dollars. A formula worth stealing. At eighteen, Amaya Torres has a battered notebook filled with cosmetic formulas and one seemingly impossible dream: to create a prestigious beauty brand of her own.She has talent, determination and years of experience experimenting in the small workroom above her mother's salon. What she does not have is money, industry connections or anyone willing to believe that an eighteen-year-old could build an int...

What if the most important quiz you ever took didn't test what you knew - but who you chose to become? Eleven-year-old Nora Bell is having one of those days when everything seems to go wrong. But while waiting in Hallowmere Library, she discovers a dusty book hidden behind a forgotten shelf.It is called The Last Quiz of Squishara.Inside is a strange quiz filled with questions that have no simple right or wrong answers. When...

Mara Doyle has travelled to France to support her older brother Finn in one of Europe's most demanding junior cycling races. She expects five days of crowded start lines, exhausting climbs and endless conversations about gears.She does not expect a rider's brakes to fail.After reviewing footage taken before the crash, Mara spots a stranger interfering with a race bicycle. Before she can prove what she saw, her camera is stolen—and the memory card becomes th...

The Wandering Willow Clubhouse is the magical second adventure in the Questbound Adventures series, featuring Quesbie, ULA and OMA. What happens when your clubhouse decides it needs an adventure of its own?Quesbie, ULA and OMA thought Old Curlroot would always be waiting for them in Starling Clearing. Their magical willow clubhouse is where they make plans, welcome visitors, solve problems and prepare for their next Questbound adventure.But lately, everyone...

Thirty days. Two completely different lives. One unforgettable adventure. Thirteen-year-old Noah Adebayo lives in Cedar Hill, one of the wealthiest parts of Riverton. His enormous modern house has voice-controlled technology, a swimming pool and more rooms than his family knows what to do with. He attends prestigious Kingsmere College, where every grade, competition and future achievement seems to matter.From the outside, Noah's life looks perfect.Inside, h...

In 1986, one of television's most ambitious adventure programmes ended in the Patagonian wilderness.Its field reporter vanished. Its final episode was destroyed. Its researcher, Inez Bell, was blamed for sending the expedition in the wrong direction.The truth was never broadcast.Forty years later, Inez's fourteen-year-old granddaughter, Mara Bell, receives an invitation to complete the journey her grandmother abandoned. Determined to clear Inez's na...

Paradise was supposed to bring the Carter family closer. Instead, the Pacific gives them a fight for survival. A thrilling family adventure across the islands of PolynesiaThe Carter family is sailing from French Polynesia towards the Cook Islands aboard their catamaran, Sea Wanderer, when ten-year-old Sophie spots something orange rising and disappearing between the waves.It is a plastic fish crate.Clinging to it is fifteen-year-old...

Language is not merely a set of words and grammatical rules; it is a deeply cultural phenomenon we use to navigate our social lives and craft our identities. Linguistic anthropology situates language in this essential context. A distinctively Canadian take on the field of linguistic anthropology, Keep Talking provides an up-to-date and detailed introduction to the discipline.Linguistic anthropologist Eric S. Henry draws on the significant research he has conducted on modern...

They came to Kenya to begin again. Someone was making the wildlife disappear.Fifteen-year-old Tess Mercer never asked to exchange her life in Britain for a wildlife rescue centre in Kenya.Her mother calls it a fresh start. Her adventurous brother Finn thinks it is the greatest thing that has ever happened to them. Ten-year-old Bea is fascinated by the unfamiliar sounds of the wilderness.Tess just wants her old life back.Then, on the family's...

Every signal points towards safety. One of them is leading the hunters.Tom Bennett has spent years dreaming of taking his children on an unforgettable camping adventure in the far north of Norway. For fifteen-year-old Mara and her younger brother Jamie, the journey promises remote lakes, towering mountains, open tundra and a chance to see the northern lights.But their peaceful family expedition changes forever when Mara notices an unmarked helicopter descen...