New Releases by Rachel Anderson

Albert is an epileptic who lives a cloistered life with his mother in nineteenth-century England, and while she deludes herself searching for a miracle cure, Albert eventually begins to accept his condition and to become self-reliant.

Each book in this series tells what it was like to live at a different time in history. Julie wants to see the Coronation of 1952. Joyce her friend has one of the new television sets to watch it on. Still, Julie manages to go to the Coronation - and its better than she ever hoped.

Three very different people - Patrick who is ill, Becks who won''t go to school, and Miss Winters who lives in the past - are brought together by a doll''s house. The growing relationship between Patrick and Becks as they learn to cope with their lives, is at the heart of this book.

A collection of stories especially selected for four-year-olds which features classic, mythological and humorous stories. The stories are written by authors such as Margaret Ryan, Rachel Anderson, Robin Kingsland and Kate Petty.

A sequel to Jessy Runs Away. Jessy feels left out when her sister brings a friend home to tea. Worse still, the friend isn''t used to people who, like Jessy, have Down''s Syndrome. A friend of her own is what Jessy wants, and one turns up in an unlikely place.

When Joe''s grandma come to stay, Joe is delighted because she is as untidy as he is. But grandma is a bit scatty and Joe finds that keeping track of her can be a full-time job. This book is part of the Superchamps series - the sequel to Banana Books and designed for more fluent readers.

[Jessy''s family don''t really want to take her shopping. They have lots to do and Jessy needs looking after because she has Downs syndrome. But Jessy starts playing hide and seek in the shop, and before she knows it she is lost.].

Disaster strikes when Gabrielle arrives in France for her summer vacation. Instead of being delivered to the luxury, four-star hotel she''d been promised, she suddenly finds herself thrown at the mercies of the awful Potter family -- that''s Matt, Don (an inter-galactic triple speaker), Mrs. Potter, the baby, Benjy, and the twins... Gabrielle is a spoiled rich kid, who at first can''t stand the scruffy Potters. But after a series of hilarious adventures and misadventures -- involving her father''s new sportscar, a fancy French restaurant, and the nearby camping ground -- she grudgingly admits that she has had fun amidst the good-natured, chaotic Potter family. This fast-paced, humorous story should find many fans among younger readers.

This is the story of Renard the Fox. He''ll eat anything or anyone. To get food, he''ll trick, lie, and cheat. He''s chased by the hounds, declared an outlaw, dyed bright yellow, left for dead. But he always has another trick up his sleeve. There''s not a creature on earth as smart as Renard the Fox. At least that''s what he says.

A teenage boy struggles to support his family by illegal methods after the tragic death of his father. A moving story of social conditions in England in the years before World War I.

When Simon''s family decides to adopt Ha, a Vietnamese war orphan, they do not realize he is mentally handicapped.