Nicola Barber
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'Tomb Explorers' examines the hunt for and discovery of ancient tombs, and the valuable treasures they hold, whether that be gold and jewels, or important artifacts that offer us a window on to the past. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, 'Tomb Explorers' offers a cross curricular mix of science & technology and history & civilizations, with a fun, dramatic approach. Tombs covered in the book include that of Tutankhamun, the Sumerian royal tombs...
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Israel and Palestine have long been embroiled in a battle for territory claimed by the other. The conflict does not show signs of being resolved anytime soon. Readers take a look at the Arab-Israeli conflict from both sides of the issue. With new knowledge, they can better understand why this conflict has gone on for as long as it has, what has been done to resolve it, and what could potentially be next for this controversial part of the world.
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Both genetic engineering and cloning have many applications and are now widely used in medicine, industry, and agriculture. In genetic engineering particular genes are manipulated or transferred from one living thing to another for a specific purpose. This process produces a completely new set of genes. Cloning is a form of genetic engineering that produces exact copies. A clone is an organism that is an exact genetic copy of another. For supporters...
4) Afghanistan
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In Afghanistan, you will learn that Afghanistan is one of the least economically developed countries in the world. The economy is based on agriculture, but much of the land suitable for farming has been damaged by drought, deforestation, and war.
5) Extra Yarn
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This is the story of how a young girl and her box of magical yarn transform a community. This modern fairy tale has the feel of a new classic.
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By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained--by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who runs the family farm. When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea's gift to Kezia is a book on household management--a veiled criticism of the bride's prosaic life to come....
7) The finisher
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Vega Jane volume 1
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Vega Jane lives in the imaginary Wormwood. Everyone who lives there is told there is no way out, but Vega's mentor Quentin Herms disappears and sends her a secret message that he has found a way out.
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Spirit animals. Main series volume 6
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Cabaro, the Great Lion, rules over a kingdom of animals in an oasis deep in a desert. He also guards a golden talisman that Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have been searching for, but this team of humans with their spirit animals have gone separate ways due to betrayal.
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Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan are prisoners. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, the four young Greencloaks have been captured by the ruthless Oathbound. Rather than facing trial with the rest of their order, the friends and their spirit animals find themselves smuggled to a remote palace. There they discover that the plot against them runs deeper -- and is far more sinister -- than anyone realized. Someone has been manipulating both the Greencloaks...
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Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan along with their spirit animals have defeated the unstoppable monster. Some people also blame them for what happened and are put on trial, judged by world's leaders. At the trial, the council is attacked and a leader is killed. The four friends have become fugitives and must find the traitor and uncover the mystery of who is doing it before war breaks out again.
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The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts find refuge at Paris' legendary Ritz hotel.
The heiress . . .
The Resistance fighter . . .
The widow . . .
Three women whose fates are joined by one splendid hotel
France, 1914. As war breaks...
12) Blood ties
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Spirit animals. Main series volume 3
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The adventure continues in this epic fantasy.
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In the title tale, an aspiring Charter mage signs up to work on a nearly century-long bridge construction project plagued by everything from Free Magic sorcerers to nomad raiders. Eighteen additional short stories feature several new twists on the paranormal, science fiction, mystery, adventure, and contemporary genres in a collection featuring an Old Kingdom novella. 416pp.
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All across the world, legends are appearing. Great Beasts, once the most powerful beings in Erdas, are being summoned as spirit animals. Bonded to special kids, they unite the human and animal worlds. A mysterious stranger is hunting these legends, just as they are reborn, and he's crushing anyone who stands in his way. These are the stories of those stolen legends, and of the young heroes who will stop at nothing to get them back.
18) Stormspeaker
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Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan--once heroes of Erdas--are now wanted fugitives. Framed for a crime they didn't commit, they've been hunted across the globe by the ruthless mercenaries, the Oathbound.
19) Pathfinder
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TodHunter Moon volume 1
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"13-year-old Alice TodHunter Moon goes in search of her friend Ferdie, who has been kidnapped by the malevolent Lady, encountering Septimus Heap, ExtraOrdinary Wizard, and awakening her own Magykal potential"--
20) SandRider
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TodHunter Moon volume 2
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"Alice TodHunter Moon, now apprentice to the ExtraOrdinary Wizard Septimus Heap, must locate the Egg of the Orm--a source of great Magyk--before the baby Orm hatches and imprints on the evil sorcerer Oraton-Marr"--