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With 35 practice pages and 7 progress tests, each book includes over 300 questions accompanied by useful tips and extra advice from Olly the wise old owl. Further challenges, requiring children to apply problem-solving skills, are featured in Brodie’s Brain Boosters

With 35 practice pages and 7 progress tests, each book includes over 300 questions accompanied by useful tips and extra advice from Olly the wise old owl. Further challenges, requiring children to apply problem-solving skills, are featured in Brodie’s Brain Boosters.

From one of the most trusted education authors, and matched to the National Curriculum, this book offers all the practice and tips your child needs to boost their times tables! With 35 practice pages and 7 progress tests, each book includes over 300 questions accompanied by useful tips and extra advice from Olly the wise old owl. Further challenges, requiring children to apply problem-solving skills, are featured in Brodie's Brain Boosters. And because motivation and encouragement are key to a…

A delightful touchy-feely book with simple; repetitive text.

"It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon..." This is how Abby Whitshank always describes the day she fell in love with Red in July 1959. The Whitshanks are one of those families that radiate an indefinable kind of specialness, but like all families, their stories reveal only part of the picture: Abby and Red and their four grown children have accumulated not only tender moments, laughter and

From the bestselling author of The End of the Free Market, the story of three provocative choices facing the world’s sole superpower. Global policy expert Ian Bremmer calls for a complete rethink of America’s role in tomorrow’s world. In an increasingly volatile international environment, the question has never been more important. Bremmer explores three choices, each with its own benefits and drawbacks: “Independent America” argues that it’s time for Washington to declare independence from…

My name is Magnus Chase. These days, I'm one of Odin's immortal warriors, but that doesn't stop people trying to kill me all the time.Loki the trickster god is free from his chains. He's put together a crew of giants and zombies to sail Naglfar , the Ship of the Dead, in a battle against the Norse gods. If he succeeds, the final battle of Ragnarok will extinguish all the worlds.With help from Percy Jackson and my cousin Annabeth, and with friends by my side, I have to sail across the oceans to…

The Bridges of Constantine is a poignant fresco of Algeria over the last fifty years, a searing love story and a hymn to a lost city. Khaled, a former revolutionary in the Algerian war of liberation has been in self-exile in Paris for two decades, disgusted by the corruption that now riddles the country he once fought for. Now a celebrated painter, he is surprised at the opening of one of his exhibitions to see Hayat, the daughter of his old revolutionary commander. A child when he last saw…

A young boy, a musical prodigy, discovering life's wonders--and mortal dangers. His best friend, also a gifted musician, who will share his journey into destiny. His remarkable family, tested by the extremes of evil and bound by the depths of love . . . on a collision course with a band of killers about to unleash anarchy. And two unlikely allies, an everyday hero tempered by the past and a woman of mystery who holds the key to the future. These are the people of The City, a place where…