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Books > Children's & Educational > Life skills & personal awareness, general studies > Personal, health & social education (PHSE) > Body & health > General
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Anna
(Paperback)
Laura Guthrie
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R207
Discovery Miles 2 070
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Every cloud has a silver lining... doesn't it? Anna is thirteen
years old, lives in London with her father, and has Asperger's
syndrome. When her father dies, she moves to Scotland to live with
her estranged, reclusive mother. With little support to help her
fit in, she must use every coping strategy her father taught her -
especially her 'Happy Game' - as she tries to connect with her
mother, discover her past, and deal with the challenges of being
thrown into a brand new life along the way. Eleanor H. Porter's
'Pollyanna' re-imagined for a new generation.
What happened to Fischer wasn't my fault. In 1944, the year it all
started, a war between nations engulfed the world. That same year
the students of New Canaan High School waged another kind of war.
I, Tucker Landis, became its champion and its casualty. Back then
my high school and my hometown held my entire universe. All my gods
lived there. So did my demons....
Most of us had grown up in New Canaan or on neighboring farms
and ranches. We had known each other all our lives, yet at school
we segregated ourselves into exclusive cliques of our own making.
Everyone held a defined rank and a prescribed place in the
hierarchy. The rules were brutal. One misstep could ruin a
reputation and doom the offender to the most dreaded of all
punishments: ridicule. Ridicule had girls bawling in the restroom
at school, and guys sobbing into their pillows at night...
Fischer recognized all of this, but unlike the rest of us, he
understood something more: the hierarchy held no power over those
who simply ignored it. With that profound insight, Fischer would
wage his own private war.
The Between Season is his story
The Extraordinary Book that Makes You Feel Happy is for every
child, with a host of projects, ideas and activities to help them
to feel positive, confident, focused, calm, relaxed, inclusive and
included. The activities help young children to build resilience to
big, overwhelming feelings and to feel connected to themselves and
to others. A project to cut out and make on every page, and a
special pocket to collect them in. MAKE breathing wands, fidget
spinners, art projects and more! PLAY games with your family and
friends, and go on a nature scavenger hunt. TRY yoga poses and
breathing exercises. Move, dance, wiggle and shake! CONNECT with a
thank you card and keep a feelings journal. SAVE your projects in a
special pocket at the back of the book. Take them out to create,
imagine and smile again and again!
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