Ten-year-old Jennifer Day lives in a small mining town full of secrets. Trying to make sense of the sudden death of her teenage sister Beth, she looks to the adult world around her for answers.
After the suicide of her troubled teenage sister, eleven-year-old Jenny struggles to understand what actually happened.
Danielle was lying on her bed with hair like Leo Sayer's. “Oh my God,” I said when I saw it. “Don”t say that," said Mum. “Dear Lord,” said Nanna. “Don't say a thing,” shouted Danielle. She turned on her side and faced the ...
A neutral kind of inbetween. “I'm s-s-supposed to help my grandmother, but I forgot my k-k-key,” I stammered. I couldn't believe the words, surely they weren't mine. “Mrs. Ackermann?” He raised his eyebrows. “Yes,” I squeaked.
Ophelia, a timid eleven-year-old girl grieving her mother, suspends her disbelief in things non-scientific when a boy locked in the museum where her father is working asks her to help him complete an age-old mission.
Introduces varying parts of the anatomy of a number of different animals.
Thorn. Stitch. ------. When Glass climbs the back steps, she's sitting at her table with a teacup in her hand, as if she's waiting. The whole time he's there, she doesn't raise the cup once to her lips, and it's only late, ...
But being 'proper' isn't always easy - especially when you can sometimes see marvellous (as well as terrifying) things in puddles. But parlour tricks such as these are nothing compared to the world that Annabel is about to enter.
The remainder of the book is a head-to-foot, structure-by-structure, bone-by-bone tour of the skeleton. More than 400 photographs and drawings and more than 80 tables illustrate and analyze features the text describes.
The anatomy of wings A dragon's wing, like that of a bat or a bird, should be shown as an arm that has evolved into a wing: It should have the same joints as an arm. Think of the wings of a dragon as a built-in hang-glider.
The Anatomy of the Aeroplane