Magpie

Magpie
Author: Eve Ainsworth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2021-01-04
Genre: Abusive men
ISBN: 9781407185453

A story of family, forgiveness and facing your fears, Magpie is another stellar read by Eve Ainsworth.

April Wilson's Magpie Magic

April Wilson's Magpie Magic
Author: April Wilson
Publisher: Dial Books
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1999
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

In this unique approach to teaching colors, the illustrations appear to be drawn by a set of young hands, until the sketched bird takes flight off the page and plays with each subsequently drawn object.

The Messy Magpie

The Messy Magpie
Author: Twinkl Originals
Publisher: Twinkl
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2018
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781999783549

Morris the Magpie feels so lucky when the humans drop some shiny gifts in the forest! "The more of these gifts that his human friends threw, The more his collection expanded and grew." But are they the generous gifts that Morris first thought? Discover the importance of looking after our environment with this uplifting story. Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).

Magpie's Children

Magpie's Children
Author: R. K. McVeigh
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1491890614

The Ficle Hand of Fate; Dwelling on its mysteries can fill our hearts with fear. When it bestows blessings upon us in an unexpected manner. There is always the feeling that they can slip through our fingers. Fate has blessed Karen beyond her deepest dreams and she struggles to feel secure within her new found fortunes. Life direction is no longer forced upon her by the dictates of daily necessity and now she has to choose which of life's pathways to follow for the sake of her unusually gifted children. Her well founded choices bring her twin children's extra sensory gifts to ensure that those that seek to misuse them and inexorably lead her from her life of luxury into a web of intrigue and danger that threatens her and her precious twins. She is thrust into a state of affairs that forces her find new strengths and she draws upon the resilience moulded in her abusive and poverty stricken past. Karen discovers that her twins have inherited their gifts from her and alongside them, she cultivates their abilities so that they have the power to confront those who walk in the corridors of the higgest authority. What lies at the end of this pathway? Will Karen's family and her fortunes survive?

Penguin Bloom

Penguin Bloom
Author: Cameron Bloom
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-06-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9781782119814

They saved a little bird . . . And in return she saved them tooAfter a near-fatal fall left Sam Bloom paralysed, no one - not her husband Cameron, nor their three boys - could reach her in the darkest days of her struggle. But everything changed when a new member of the family unexpectedly landed in their lives: an injured magpie chick abandoned after she fell from her nest, whom they named Penguin Bloom. Powerful and tender, Penguin Bloom is a beautifully written account of how compassion, friendship and family can come from unexpected places.

Magpie Learns a Lesson

Magpie Learns a Lesson
Author: Sally Morgan
Publisher: Omnibus Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015
Genre: Friendship
ISBN: 9781742990590

Magpie is cross that she cant fly like her friend Brown Falcon. She thinks of mean tricks that will make Brown Falcon look silly. But she goes too far ... and finds out just how much friends need each other.

Magpie's Treasure

Magpie's Treasure
Author: Kate Slater
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012-01-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1849399182

Magnus Magpie is a bird with an eye for burglary. He steals only the brightest, shiniest, most dazzling things and stashes them secretly in a hollow at the top of his tree. But do all these riches make him happy? It takes a trip to the moon for Magnus to discover that all that glitters is not gold and that true happiness can often be found at home.

The Magpie's Library

The Magpie's Library
Author: Kate Blair
Publisher: DCB
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2019-05-25
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1770865551

Silva and her family visit her grandfather, only to find his health has taken a bad turn. As they struggle with this news, Silva seeks escape in books – at the local library. But she gets more than she bargained for when a magpie guides her to a secret, magical room containing books that she can not only read, but that she can live. Silva finds herself in the worlds of the characters … who all turn out to be real people. People she knows. There’s a catch, though: she soon discovers that the magpie has lured her to these books for selfish and dark reasons. Going back to the books could mean losing her soul …

The Bush Birds

The Bush Birds
Author: Bridget Farmer
Publisher: Black Cockatoo Books
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2021-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780646843025

A book of Australian birds commonly found in the bush. Each page contains a riddle to engage the reader with the illustration and try and guess the name of the bird. This book aims to both familiarise readers with the twelve birds included within the pages but also teach them what to look for when trying to identify birds in real life.

Too Many Magpies

Too Many Magpies
Author: Elizabeth Baines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781844717217

Can we believe in magic and spells? Can we put our faith in science?A young mother married to a scientist fears for her children's safety as the natural world around her becomes ever more uncertain. Until, that is, she meets a charismatic stranger who seems to offer a different kind of power... But is he a saviour or a frightening danger? And, as her life is overturned, what is happening to her children whom she vowed to keep safe? Why is her son Danny now acting so strangely?In this haunting, urgent and timely novel, Elizabeth Baines brings her customary searing insight to the problems of sorting our rational from our irrational fears and of bringing children into a newly precarious world. In prose that spins its own spell she exposes our hidden desires and the scientific and magical modes of thinking which have got us to where we are now.