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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal issues > Disability & illness
Meet Jack - an older man with dementia. Jack invites readers to
learn about dementia from his perspective, helping them to
understand the challenges faced by someone with dementia and the
changes it causes to memory, communication and behaviour. He also
gives advice on how to help someone with dementia stay as mentally
and physically active as possible, keep safe and continue to feel
cared for and valued. With illustrations throughout, this useful
book will be an ideal introduction to dementia for anyone from
child to adult. It will also guide family, friends and carers in
understanding and explaining the condition and could serve as an
excellent starting point for family and classroom discussions.
Ben finds an unusual old bottle buried in the school yard, and in a roundabout way it helps Ben and his family find out what is causing some of the persistent problems he has both at home and at school.
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The Road Home
(Paperback)
Brenda O'bannion; Illustrated by Casey Scarborough
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R260
Discovery Miles 2 600
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Meet Maria - a woman with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Maria tells the
story of her holiday with her husband Ben, her children Cara and
Dino, and Teddy the dog, which was interrupted when she began to
feel dizzy, exhausted and weak. She explains how this led to her
diagnosis and describes what MS is, how it affects her daily life
and what others can do to help. This illustrated book will be an
ideal introduction to MS for children from the age of 7, as well as
older readers. It will help family, friends and carers to better
understand and explain MS, and will be an excellent starting point
for group discussions.
8 year-old Obioma is a football star. She uses a special stick to
score goals and never loses a race in her wheelchair! But when she
moves to a new city, she has to go to a new school where she has no
friends, and everyone calls her "the girl with the wheelchair".
Obioma misses playing football most of all, until one day a girl
named Ayana asks her to race. Once they start playing football,
everyone joins in and Obioma finds a new team to play with!
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has
been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and
Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to
support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that
together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to
teaching phonics. Pop is always there for Jazz! This clever hearing
dog helps him everyday, alerting Jazz to things he won't be able to
hear and providing any support he may need. But one day Pop runs
off and Jazz can't find her anywhere, how will he find her again?
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has
been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and
Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to
support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that
together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to
teaching phonics. Some dogs are pets, other dogs work and have very
special and important jobs. Take a look at these incredible dogs
that help their owners in all sorts of clever ways.
In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has
been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and
Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to
support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that
together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to
teaching phonics. Join Dan and his mini dragon Nim as they wake up
and get ready for school! From brushing their teeth to making their
beds, do you do the same things in the morning?
*Silver medal winner in the 'Middle Grades Fiction' category of the
Nautilus Book Awards 2015* Astie has always been different. Her
12th birthday is looming and she still has not decided on her
thesis. All the Learners at the Hub picked theirs years ago. If it
wasn't for her cousin, Jakob, life would be unbearable on Elemental
Island. On the verge of being diagnosed with Social Syndrome, she
stumbles upon Danny who has landed in a forbidden flight machine.
To protect him, Astie persuades Jakob to tamper with the Overseer's
memory. On the run from the Monitors together, Astie calls on her
unique qualities to forge a friendship with the stranger and
discover his reason for coming to the island. What she finds will
shake the foundations of the place she calls home. Set on a
secretive island utopia where science and logic rule, this
intriguing novel explores and celebrates differences in people from
an alternative perspective. It is engaging reading for children
aged 8-13.
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