The Three Musketeers: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)

The Three Musketeers: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)
Author: Collins Uk
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-01-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780008147310

Follow the exciting adventure of D'Artagnan as he desperately tries to fight for a place as one of the King's Musketeers, in this gripping retelling of Alexandre Dumas' classic story. Will D'Artagnan have the courage, bravery, and skill to join the finest swordsmen in all of France? Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.

Links in the Chain of Life

Links in the Chain of Life
Author: Baroness Orczy
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book tells how Baroness Orczy creates the fictitious character of the Scarlet Pimpernel. In this book, Baroness Orczy explores how she creates the character of Scarlet Pimpernel, the other characters, and the story world. The author, in this book, links the creation of the character of the Pimpernel to her love for Britain.

Creatures from the Past: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)

Creatures from the Past: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)
Author: Collins Uk
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-09
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780008164027

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Find out about the animals that ruled the sea, land and skies from before the time of the dinosaurs until humans appeared. Evolution - the story of changing life on Earth - is uncovered through examining fossils and remains, from dinosaur poo to shells to deep-frozen mammoths. Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view. Text type: An information book Curriculum links: Science

Midst the Wild Carpathians

Midst the Wild Carpathians
Author: Mór Jókai
Publisher: Publio Kiadó Kft
Total Pages: 697
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9633810965

Before us lies the valley of the Drave, one of those endless wildernesses where even the wild beast loses its way. Forests everywhere, maples and aspens a thousand years old, with their roots under water; magnificent morasses the surface of which is covered, not with reeds and water-lilies, but with gigantic trees, from the dependent branches of which the vivifying waters force fresh roots. Here the swan builds her nest; here too dwell the royal heron, the blind crow, the golden plover, and other man-shunning animals which are rarely if ever seen in more habitable regions.

Muster the Power

Muster the Power
Author: Karthick Hemabushanam
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2016-06-06
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1945400471

Everyone in this world wrestles with unhappy, anxious, worrisome and fearful situations in life. You cannot axe out all such miseries permanently at one instance. You have to have the right principles as artilleries at your head to battle with them and to focus into the goals at your hand. By knowing and committing with the truths that had been revealed in this book, you can achieve whatever you want in your life. You can find your true calling and can aspire to achieve what you desire. The results are truly visible to your eyes once you follow them. Whatever your background may be, whether you are poor, unhappy, losing, stressed and struggling, you gain wealth, happiness and an exhilarating and spectacular life once you start living the truths. The words have remarkable power in it. The wisdom in this book will uplift your spirit and guide you in the right path as a compass. Moreover it will help you tap your truest potential and soar into victory.

Count Your Blessings

Count Your Blessings
Author: Kimberly Redway
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9780008440725

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available. Kirsten wishes she could be like new girl Jennings, especially now she's lost her best friend Ruby to her. But when Kirsten finds herself in Jennings' body after making a wish, will her new life be all she expected? Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.

Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System

Hollywood Genres: Formulas, Filmmaking, and The Studio System
Author: Thomas Schatz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1981-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The central thesis of this book is that a genre approach provides the most effective means for understanding, analyzing and appreciating the Hollywood cinema. Taking into account not only the formal and aesthetic aspects of feature filmmaking, but various other cultural aspects as well, the genre approach treats movie production as a dynamic process of exchange between the film industry and its audience. This process, embodied by the Hollywood studio system, has been sustained primarily through genres, those popular narrative formulas like the Western, musical and gangster film, which have dominated the screen arts throughout this century.

Black Beauty: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

Black Beauty: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)
Author: Sue Purkiss
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 59
Release: 2020-11-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0008429944

A retelling of Anna Sewell’s classic adventure story of Black Beauty as he starts life carefree in the field with his mother, and is then sold from owner to owner. Will he survive as his treatment gets worse and worse, and will he ever find an owner worthy of his unending loyalty?

The Almost Moon

The Almost Moon
Author: Alice Sebold
Publisher: Picador
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2007-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1743032900

Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime's buried desire. Over the next twenty-four hours, her life rushes in at her as she confronts the choices that have brought her to this crossroads. 'Exhilarating, unforgettable ... This is a remarkable novel in which every word is vital, each nuance felt ... Candid, gut-wrenching, at times horribly funny and often beautifully touching ... The genius which guides The Almost Moon is its absolute, horrible, multiple truths; its staggering clarity' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'As moving as it is unquestionably gripping' Observer 'As gripping as it is strange and wild ... My God, it grips ... I lay awake half the night, feverishly hoping both that it would never end, and that it would all be over soon' Rachel Cooke, Evening Standard