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This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked
to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed
with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education
(IOE) Reading Champion offers independent reading books for
children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.
Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading
activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be
matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for
pleasure. This retelling of the original fairytale is suitable for
children aged 5-7, or those reading at book band Orange.
Heartache is par for the course. Fifteen years after her troubled
daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a
newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only
shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky
Sawyer couldn't possibly be her granddaughter—or could she? With
her sort-of-functional life sinking into a full on mulligan—and
let's not get started on her soon-to-be-married ex-husband—Beth
meets Barry, a fellow golfer who she accidentally hits with her
golf ball and who might just be Mr. Right. When Sky Sawyer joins
her high school golf team, she hopes that the mother she thought
dead may still be alive and seek her out at the championship
tournament. But when she discovers that the man who raised her is
not her father and a woman claiming to be her long-lost grandmother
appears, her world falls apart. With Beth and Sky fighting to gain
what they both had lost, can they finally get a second chance at a
happily ever after?
This book describes how a group of young people make decisions
about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of
recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from
adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their
perceptions of different drugs, it situates their decision making
within the context of their everyday lives. Changing lives,
changing drug journeys presents qualitative longitudinal data
collected from interviewees at age 17, 22 and 28 and tracks the
onset of drug journeys, their persistence, change and desistance.
The drug journeys and the decision making process which underpins
them are analysed by drawing upon contemporary discourses of risk
and life course criminology. In doing so, a new theoretical
framework is developed to help us understand drug taking decision
making in contemporary society. This framework highlights the
pleasures and risks that interviewees perceive when making
decisions whether or not to take drugs. The ways in which their
drug journeys and life journeys intersect and how social
relationships and transitions to adulthood facilitate or constrain
the decision making process are also explored. Qualitative
longitudinal research of this kind is uncommon yet it provides an
invaluable insight into the decision making process of individuals
during the life course. The book will, therefore, be of interest to
researchers and students from a variety of disciplines including
qualitative research methods as well as sociology, criminology,
cultural and health studies. It will also be an important resource
for professionals working in health promotion, drugs education,
harm reduction and treatment.
Heartache is par for the course. Fifteen years after her troubled
daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a
newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only
shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky
Sawyer couldn't possibly be her granddaughter—or could she? With
her sort-of-functional life sinking into a full on mulligan—and
let's not get started on her soon-to-be-married ex-husband—Beth
meets Barry, a fellow golfer who she accidentally hits with her
golf ball and who might just be Mr. Right. When Sky Sawyer joins
her high school golf team, she hopes that the mother she thought
dead may still be alive and seek her out at the championship
tournament. But when she discovers that the man who raised her is
not her father and a woman claiming to be her long-lost grandmother
appears, her world falls apart. With Beth and Sky fighting to gain
what they both had lost, can they finally get a second chance at a
happily ever after?
The highly anticipated memoir from the star of the hit series
"Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead"
When Lisa Williams was four years old, she told her parents about
the spirits in her bedroom. Since those first sightings, Lisa has
seen and communicated with thousands of people who have passed
over, listening to their stories and delivering messages of comfort
to the loved ones they left behind.
In "Life Among the Dead," Lisa invites readers into her
extraordinary life, from her childhood in Birmingham, England,
where her grandmother -- also a renowned psychic -- encouraged her
to respect and nurture her talent, to her decision to move to Los
Angeles, where her smash-hit Lifetime television show quickly made
her one of the world's most beloved mediums. Lisa shares memories
of her earliest psychic experiences and her gradual acceptance of
her gift, and recalls many of the amazingly accurate communications
she has shared with believers and skeptics alike. In her
compassionate, down-to-earth style, she reveals exactly what it's
like to live surrounded by spirits every day, and she recounts the
joy she feels in bringing solace to those who have lost someone
dear and the insights she has gleaned about spiritual phenomena,
hauntings, psychic healing, and the afterlife.
Warm, witty, and surprising, "Life Among the Dead" is a
wonderfully intimate account of Lisa's life as a medium, healer,
wife, mom, and TV star who has already won the hearts of millions,
a woman with an astonishing gift for seeing beyond the ordinary and
into a mysterious and fascinating realm.
In this story, Josh and Grandpa happily exchange letters and are
looking forward to Grandpa visiting. Then Grandpa has to go to
hospital, and Josh visits him instead... and brings him home.
Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to
practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic,
original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading
activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be
matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for
pleasure. Independent Reading Green stories are perfect for
children aged 4+ who are reading at book band 5 (Green) in
classroom reading lessons.
Evan really wants to buy the rocket he sees in the shop window, but
he needs to save up for it first! This story is part of Reading
Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage
independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen
Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Reading Champion
offers independent reading books for children to practise and
reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic, original
stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity.
Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a
child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked
to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed
with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education
(IOE) Reading Champion offers independent reading books for
children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.
Fantastic stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading
activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be
matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for
pleasure. This retelling of the original fairytale is suitable for
children aged 5-7, or those reading at book band Orange.
This book describes how a group of young people make decisions
about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of
recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from
adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their
perceptions of different drugs, it situates their decision making
within the context of their everyday lives. Changing lives,
changing drug journeys presents qualitative longitudinal data
collected from interviewees at age 17, 22 and 28 and tracks the
onset of drug journeys, their persistence, change and desistance.
The drug journeys and the decision making process which underpins
them are analysed by drawing upon contemporary discourses of risk
and life course criminology. In doing so, a new theoretical
framework is developed to help us understand drug taking decision
making in contemporary society. This framework highlights the
pleasures and risks that interviewees perceive when making
decisions whether or not to take drugs. The ways in which their
drug journeys and life journeys intersect and how social
relationships and transitions to adulthood facilitate or constrain
the decision making process are also explored. Qualitative
longitudinal research of this kind is uncommon yet it provides an
invaluable insight into the decision making process of individuals
during the life course. The book will, therefore, be of interest to
researchers and students from a variety of disciplines including
qualitative research methods as well as sociology, criminology,
cultural and health studies. It will also be an important resource
for professionals working in health promotion, drugs education,
harm reduction and treatment.
Mole sets out to see the wind. He asks every animal he meets if
they see the wind and they all say no. The illustrations tell a
different story: windswept trees, blowing leaves and litter show
that the wind is actually blowing, though invisible to them. Red B
level/ Band 2B texts offer emergent readers simple but varied text
with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story
development and a satisfying conclusion. Text type - A story with
predictable structure and patterned language. A story map on pages
14 and 15 show Mole’s journey and safe return home, providing
opportunities for speaking and listening activities. This book has
been levelled for Reading Recovery.
An old man tugs on a giant turnip, but cannot move it at all. With
help from the old lady, the boy and girl, and a whole host of other
characters, will he able to pull it out of the ground? The
structure of this wordless text shows how a story is built up
through a series of events. Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that tells
a story through pictures and is designed to develop understanding
about how stories work. Text type - Fiction, a wordless traditional
story. A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 shows the sequence of events
in six numbered stages. This book has been levelled for Reading
Recovery.
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of
fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were
eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their
adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular
drinking and extensive 'recreational' drug use. This new edition
revisits these original chapters, providing commentaries around
them to discuss current implications of the original publication,
plus documenting and discussing the group at twenty-two and
twenty-seven years of age. Illegal Leisure Revisited positions the
journeys of these twenty-somethings against the ever-changing
backdrop of a consumption-oriented leisure society, the rapid
expansion of the British night-time economy and the place of
substance use in contemporary social worlds. It presents to the
reader the ways in which these young people have moved into the
world of work, long-term relationships and parenthood, and the
resulting changes in the function and frequency of their drinking
and drug-use patterns. Amid dire public health warnings about their
favourite intoxicants, and with the growing criminalisation of a
widening array of recreational drugs, the book revisits these young
people as they continue as archetypal citizens in a risk society.
The book is ideal reading for researchers and undergraduate
students from a variety of fields, such as developmental and social
psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural and health studies.
Professionals working in criminal justice, health promotion, drugs
education, harm reduction and treatment will also find this book an
invaluable resource.
This book updates the progress into adulthood of the cohort of
fourteen-year-olds who were recruited and tracked until they were
eighteen years old. Illegal Leisure (1998) described their
adolescent journeys and lifestyles, focusing on their early regular
drinking and extensive 'recreational' drug use. This new edition
revisits these original chapters, providing commentaries around
them to discuss current implications of the original publication,
plus documenting and discussing the group at twenty-two and
twenty-seven years of age. Illegal Leisure Revisited positions the
journeys of these twenty-somethings against the ever-changing
backdrop of a consumption-oriented leisure society, the rapid
expansion of the British night-time economy and the place of
substance use in contemporary social worlds. It presents to the
reader the ways in which these young people have moved into the
world of work, long-term relationships and parenthood, and the
resulting changes in the function and frequency of their drinking
and drug-use patterns. Amid dire public health warnings about their
favourite intoxicants, and with the growing criminalisation of a
widening array of recreational drugs, the book revisits these young
people as they continue as archetypal citizens in a risk society.
The book is ideal reading for researchers and undergraduate
students from a variety of fields, such as developmental and social
psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural and health studies.
Professionals working in criminal justice, health promotion, drugs
education, harm reduction and treatment will also find this book an
invaluable resource.
Winter is coming and Mole is looking for a new hole to stay in, but
he doesn't want to be on his own. Will any of the other animals let
him share their home? Blue / Band 4 - A story with a familiar
setting Text type - Fiction The focus phoneme in this book is -are
(share). Children can use the cross-section of the hill on the
final spread to discuss the characters and the story setting. Jane
Clarke also wrote Red 2A Muck it Up! This book has been quizzed for
Accelerated Reader.
Charlie wants to help his friends to send the monkeys packing, but
his words get stuck. What can he do? Maybe Longneck Flamingo has a
magic answer? This is a heart-warming special story for young
children. They will have fun following Charlie as he discovers how
to talk more easily and help his friends. It might also lead to
lots of chat about similar problems, whether they be about talking
or naughty monkeys, and how they might be tackled. Charlie is fed
up with his problem, and often scared as well. But he is not a
victim and learns about being brave and resilient. One day the
monkeys might learn to share... Meanwhile Charlie gains in
confidence and has fun with his friends. Come and join the party!
Evan really wants to buy the rocket he sees in the shop window, but
he needs to save up for it first! This story is part of Reading
Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage
independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen
Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Reading Champion
offers independent reading books for children to practise and
reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic, original
stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity.
Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a
child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.
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