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The Queen on our Corner
Lucy Christopher; Illustrated by Nia Tudor
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Nobody notices the queen on the corner. Nobody, that is...except
one young girl. Through her eyes, the woman who dwells in the
abandoned plot is a warrior queen, with many battles fought and
won. When, one day, danger comes to the street and the queen on the
corner sounds the alarm, the little girl must find a way to thank
her. Can she bring the community together to turn the queen’s
corner into a home?
Nobody notices the Queen on the corner. Nobody, that is... except
one young girl. Through her eyes, the woman who dwells in the
abandoned plot is a warrior queen, with many battles fought and
won. When, one day, danger comes to the street and the Queen on the
corner sounds the alarm, the little girl must find a way to thank
her. Can she bring the community together to turn the Queen's
corner into a home?
Three Strikes is a collection of three dark novellas from three star YA authors: Undergrowth - Lucy Christopher: Kasha has answered the advert for The Tribe. Now she sits writing alone in the darkness of the jungle. Is she the only one left? Then she spots a red light blinking at her from the darkness. Cat s eyes? A camera? The Twins of Blackfin - Kat Ellis: Every evening Bo visits her best friend Sky s grave. One night she hears a girl s voice. Following it leads her to a journal and a crypt. Matchgirl - Rhian Ivory: A modern YA retelling of Hans Christian Andersen s The Little Match Girl. Busking, runaway Nia is mugged and left badly hurt in a tunnel. All she has is three matches, and she starts seeing pictures in the light... A story of grief, love and music.
I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew,
everything I was used to. Taken to sand and heat, dirt and danger.
And he expected me to love him. This is my story. Sixteen year old
Gemma is kidnapped from Bangkok airport and taken to the Australian
Outback. Ty, her captor, is no stereotype - he's young and
attractive. This new life in the wilderness has been years in the
planning. He loves only her, wants only her. Under the hot glare of
the Australian sun, cut off from the world outside, can the force
of his love make Gemma love him back? The story takes the form of a
letter, written by Gemma to Ty, reflecting on those strange and
disturbing months in the outback. Months when the lines between
love and obsession, and love and dependency, blur until they don't
exist - almost Winner of the Branford Boase Award 'Complicated and
beautiful - this novel left me doubting my emotions and missing a
place I'd never been.' Maggie Stiefvater 'All the tension of
lightning, all the terror of thunder. A stunning, scary, and
beautiful book.' John Marsden 'Disturbing, heartbreaking, and
beautiful all at once.' School Library Journal
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Lucy Christopher
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R359
R297
Discovery Miles 2 970
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Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed
extensive evidence for a multi-phase rural Romano
face=Calibri>-British settlement, perhaps an estate centre, and
five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial
areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The
settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding Iron
Age occupation with unbroken sequences of artefacts and enclosures
through the first century AD, followed by rapid and extensive
remodelling, which included the laying out a Central Enclosure and
an organised water supply with wells, accompanied by the start of
large-scale pottery production. After the mid-second century AD the
Central Enclosure was largely abandoned and settlement shifted its
focus more to the Southern Enclosure system with a gradual decline
though the 3rd and 4th centuries although continued burial, pottery
and artefactual deposition indicate that a form of settlement
continued, possibly with some low-level pottery production. Some of
the latest Roman pottery was strongly associated with the earliest
Anglo-Saxon style pottery suggesting the existence of a terminal
Roman settlement phasethat essentially involved an 'Anglo-Saxon'
community. Given recent revisions of the chronology for the early
Anglo-Saxon period, this casts an intriguing light on the
transition, with radical implications for understandings of this
period. Each of the cemetery areas was in use for a considerable
length of time. Taken as a whole, Mucking was very much a
componented place/complex; it was its respective parts that
fostered its many cemeteries, whose diverse rites reflect the
variability and roles of the settlement's evidently varied
inhabitants.
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Lucy Christopher
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Told in a moving letter to her captor, 16-year-old Gemma relives
her kidnapping from Bangkok airport while on holiday. Taken by Ty,
her troubled young stalker, to the wild and desolate Australian
Outback she reflects on a landscape from which there's no escape.
While visiting her father in hospital, 13-year-old Isla meets
Harry, the first boy to understand her and her love of the
outdoors. But Harry is ill, and as his health fails, Isla is
determined to help him. Together they watch a lone swan struggling
to fly on the lake outside Harry's window. Isla believes that if
she can help the swan, she can help Harry. And in doing so, she
embarks upon a magical journey of her own .
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