Modern boarding schools are relaxed and pleasant places for children to learn and develop. However, this new freedom does mean that boarders have to make more of their own decisions and puts a new burden of responsibility on their shoulders. This excellent book offers advice from a mother on how to prepare girls for their first experience of boarding school. It is ideal for parents who have decided that boarding is the best option for their girls and is a guide to preparing your daughter so that she is confident from the start and can get the most out of the opportunity she's been given. The book is based on extensive research and a sizeable archive of advice and anecdotes from a huge number of staff, girls and parents. The advice ranges from the very obvious to the rather more surprising, with anecdotes and verbatim comments from those who have been there. It will leave you and your daughter feeling better armed for what is ahead.

What do you get when dragons combine their hoards? What do you get when you take a little slice of dragon lore? "The Dragons' Beads" features the work of Elizabeth Buckley, Niels Van Eekelen, Athena Garcia, Ollie Lambert, Douglas J. Moore, Meghan Proctor, Jo Anne Spiese, Kristina Stumpf & Michael Camp, and Rachel Wookey. This is the first volume of what is hoped to be a multi volume project highlighting essays, art, poetry, and short stories featuring and/or about dragons. Originally it was supposed to be a contest to highlight the best dragon stories and poems from young authors. The project had to be adjusted due to an initial lack of submissions. Perhaps future volumes will be able to have more competition, and it is hoped that in the future THG StarDragon Publishing will be able to afford having cash prizes to fuel writer's interest in exchange for featuring the "beads" of their stories. Submissions for the next volume are open, and instructions can be found at www.thgstardragon.com for those interested in participating.

Albert Jenkins has dedicated his life to opposing the oppression and tyranny of the High Chancellor and her Moralist. Desperately fighting against the flood that has engulfed the world and washed over friends and family till he is left standing alone against the tide. Now with Agents searching for him and age pressing down upon him time seems to be running out for the old man. Yet in this darkest hour God has delivered a child of wonders to him. But can he hold on long enough to teach the boy what he needs to know or will the flood finally sweep him away first?