Author : Mike Royston
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780435130589
These stories are written to help students focus on the use of language and structure where key aspects such as mood, characterization and setting are evoked in a short space of time. There are activities for exploring the stories at word, sentence and text level, with speaking and listening tasks.
Author : Mike Hamlin
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 26,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Short stories, English
ISBN : 9780435124953
This collection of stories is for key stage 4. Each genre includes a pre-twentieth century story and tales by twentieth century writers. Genres include: Horror, Crime and Detection, Ghosts and Mystery, Love, Science Fiction. Each section includes activities for comparison work as well as suggestions for student's own creative writing.
Author : Rob Bignell
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 29,46 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780985873929
For fifteen years, Carl Steinar and his sons, Peter and Lyle, have maintained a tenuous balance, keeping together their family and farm on the western plains of Nebraska. Like blades in a well-oiled windmill, each works in harmony with the other. But when Abbie Blaire, the new reporter in town comes to write a story about them, a monkey wrench is thrown into their perfect machine: She is the spitting image of the wife and mother the Steinar men lost years ago. They soon find themselves on new trajectories in which their needs and goals can only collide.
Author : Mike Hamlin
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 1994-01
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 9780435124236
This series offers classic and contemporary fiction for schools to suit a range of ages and tastes. From the editors of The New Windmill Book of Nineteenth Century Short Stories, this collection of short stories by 19th- and 20th-century authors should appeal to Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Legends
ISBN : 9780435124649
This selection of 16 Greek myths provides tales of adventure, courage and mystery. Geraldine McCaughrean's re-telling makes them accessible for Key Stage 3 pupils.
Author : William Kamkwamba
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1101637420
Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.
Author : Stephanie Gertler
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : College teachers
ISBN : 9780709078753
Olivia and Carl appear to have the perfect life: a son and a daughter, weekends on Cape Cod and satisfying jobs as professors at Belvedere College in a picturesque Massachusetts town. Until, one day, the seemingly stable and dependable Carl disappears without a trace, leaving behind only a cryptic note. Alone and terrified, Olivia cannot help but relive the long-buried pain she felt when she lost her first husband. While Carl travels back to his childhood hometown to confront the demons he has always hidden from his wife, Olivia must take a journey of her own to make peace with the memories that haunt her. Told with unflinching honesty, The Windmill is a story of the secrets we are entitled to keep and those that must be shared.
Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : Pearson Education Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2008-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780435131944
Based on the recommended authors list in the revised Key Stage 3 curriculum, this collection brings together great authors from the literary heritage and the best contemporary writers. It book is divided into four sections each of which introduces readers to a different genre.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : William Kamkwamba
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 006193769X
Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a Slave William Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Malawians could enjoy: electricity and running water. His neighbors called him misala—crazy—but William refused to let go of his dreams. With a small pile of once-forgotten science textbooks; some scrap metal, tractor parts, and bicycle halves; and an armory of curiosity and determination, he embarked on a daring plan to forge an unlikely contraption and small miracle that would change the lives around him. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind is a remarkable true story about human inventiveness and its power to overcome crippling adversity. It will inspire anyone who doubts the power of one individual's ability to change his community and better the lives of those around him.
