New Releases by Sally Gardner

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. Forced into a life of drudgery and housework by her wicked stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella is devastated when they are invited to the prince''s ball and she has to stay at home. But when her fairy godmother turns up, everything changes...

Too many girls these days pretend to be princesses. REAL princesses are very hard to find. Unless, that is, you have a pea ...

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books. A blue Early Reader is perfect for sharing and reading together. A red Early Reader is the next step on your reading journey. When she loses her beautiful golden ball at the bottom of the fountain, the princess is very upset. Then an ugly frog offers to help - for a kiss. Yuck! What will the princess decide?

When Timmy Twinkle kicks a ball - it''s magic! A funny and charming story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series. Timmy Twinkle gets bullied at school and hasn''t any friends. He longs to play football, but he''s hopeless at games. He''s miserable. And it doesn''t help when Gramps tells him about Great-Uncle Vernon, who grew up to be a famous footballer. Then his gran''s friend May comes to stay. May is a fitness fanatic who knocks Timmy and Gramps into shape in no time, and Timmy discovers there''s magic in his toes - he can kick a ball just like Great-Uncle Vernon. And when Timmy performs on the football field, everyone wants to be friends with him. A brilliant story about how determination and love - with a little sprinkling of magic - overturn one boy''s loneliness.

As the little alien explains to Sam, being invisible can be a big help. A very funny adventure story by award-winning author Sally Gardner, in her MAGICAL CHILDREN series. When his parents are lost in space, Sam is left in the care of the horrible neighbour Hilda Hardbottom. There he finds a tiny spaceship in the cabbage patch and meets a little alien called Splodge. Splodge loves ketchup, enjoys learning languages and can make himself - and Sam - invisible. How Sam uses this helpful new skill is a very funny and satisfying story for young readers.

Headmaster Farley''s back and he''s ready for revenge, but an unexpected visit from his estranged sister brings monstrous results as she takes over Splurch Academy. Forced to retreat to his laboratory, he hatches a plan to reclaim the school. Meanwhile, Cody Mack and the other boys are pitted against their new classmates-the girls of Priscilla Prim Academy for Precious and Proper Young Ladies.

Ten tijde van de Franse Revolutie helpt Yann, een zigeunerzoon met magische gaven, edellieden vluchten naar Engeland. Als zijn geliefde Sido wordt ontvoerd, doet hij er alles aan om haar te redden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

When Cody Mack is called to the principalÕs office yet again, he finds something far worse than detention awaiting him: Splurch Academy, a frightfully sinister boarding school for disobedient children run by a group of monstrous teachers.

With CodyÕs archnemesis, Headmaster Farley, banished from the school, Cody should be celebrating . . . but something is bothering him, eating at him . . . literally gnawing on him. Dark forces are on the rise at Splurch Academy and Cody Mack isnÕt sure which side of the battle heÕs on.

Faced with ever growing patron demands, tight budgets, and limited personnel, libraries are relying more and more on volunteers to assist the paid staff. But for every professional who "manages" volunteers there is a horror story--a "problem volunteer" who lacked the talent, commitment, team spirit, personality or available time to do the job. How does the busy librarian develop and manage a successful volunteer program? This is the guide to implementing and managing a volunteer program tailored to the needs of the individual library. Issues such as recruitment and placement, training, development, and evaluation, and the "challenging" volunteer are discussed. Sample applications, advertisements, press releases, job descriptions, and skills and aptitude tests are also included.

Tijdens de Franse Revolutie probeert de 14-jarige Yann te achterhalen wie graaf Kalliovski is en wat de rol is van een rood halssnoer waarmee diverse slachtoffers worden gevonden. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

Na de dood van haar moeder en het vertrek van haar vader wordt Coriander in het Londen van midden 17e eeuw zo slecht behandeld door haar stiefmoeder dat ze vlucht in de elfenwereld. Vanaf ca. 12 jaar.

With his beloved Sido safely in England and the Reign of Terror at its height, mysterious Yann returns to revolutionary France to smuggle out aristocratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. But while the two are apart, YannÕs Gypsy origins prejudice SidoÕs guardian against their marriage, spoiling their reunion. When Sido is kidnapped under strange circumstances, Yann must use all his strength and courage to outwit the evil count, rescue Sido, and save all of France.

Mysterious Yann returns to revolutionary France in 1794 to smuggle out aristorcratic refugees who will otherwise face the guillotine. His darling Sido is in England, safe from the Reign of Terror. But while the two are apart, Yann''s Gypsy origins Prejudice Sido''s guardian agains their marriage, spoiling their longed for reunion. When Sido is kidnapped under strange circumstances, however, Yann must use all his strength and courage to outwit the fearful count, rescue Sido, and help save all of France.

''There were three things that marked out Lucy Willow as different. The first was that she lived on a train. The second was that she had a snail called Ernest as a pet. And the third, the most important of all, was that she had green fingers.'' It''s Lucy''s green fingers that save the day when Silverboots McCoy the famous footballer and his girlfriend Blossom B order flowers for their wedding - for Ricky Sparks, who runs the rival garden centre, will stop at nothing to get the contract for himself. Longer and fuller than the Magical Children books, LUCY WILLOW has all Sally Gardner''s soaring imagination, enchanting humour and great heart, and is rich in scenes and characters that readers will adore and always remember.

Sally Gardner expands her Magical Kids series with two more delightfully quirky chapter books, packaged together in this fun “flip” format for twice the magic! Fans of Judy Moody and My Weird School are sure to snatch this one up!

A mysterious gypsy boy, Yann Margoza, and his guardian, a dwarf, work for the magician Topolain in 1789. On the night of Topolain''s death, Yann''s life truly begins. That''s when he meets Sido, an heiress with a horrible father. An attachment is born that will determine both their paths. Revolution is afoot in France, and Sido is being used as a pawn. Only Yann will dare to rescue her from a fearful villain named Count Kalliovski. It will take all of Yann''s newly discovered talent to unravel the mysteries of Sido''s past and his own and to fight the devilish count.

The story is told by Coriander, daughter of a silk merchant in 1650s London. Her idyllic childhood ends when her mother dies and her father goes away, leaving Coriander with her stepmother, a widow who is in cahoots with a fundamentalist Puritan preacher. She is shut away in a chest and left to die, but emerges into the fairy world from which her mother came, and where time has no meaning. When she returns, charged with a task that will transform her life, she is seventeen. This is a book filled with enchantments -- a pair of silver shoes, a fairy shadow, a prince transformed into a fox - that contrast with the heartbreaking loss and cruelty of Coriander''s life in the real world. With its brilliantly realized setting of old London Bridge, and underpinned by the conflict between Royalists and Puritans, it is a terrific page turner, involving kidnapping, murder and romance, and an abundance of vivid characters. Coriander is a heroine to love. Her story will establish Sally Gardner as a children''s writer of boundless imagination and originality.

Timmy Twinkle is chubby. That means he gets bullied at school and hasn''t any friends. He longs to play football, but he''s hopeless at games. He''s miserable. And it doesn''t help when Gramps tells him about Great Uncle Vernon, a chubby boy who grew up to be a famous footballer.

Before Billy Pickles'' dad leaves home to live in New York, he gives Billy a moneybox. Billy, unsure why his dad has left, and where to put money in the box, discovers the secret of his magic moneybox when he visits his father and Italian grandmother.

Thomas Top pidió un deseo a una hada un poco rara, y ella se lo concedió: ahora Thomas puede volar. Pero los adultos no aceptan que él vuele.

When a box of toys is left, abandoned in the park, the toys really don''t know what to make of it! Should they wait to be rescued and taken back to the ''land of lounge'' or should they all scramble out and try to save themselves. Fortunately for them they are saved from making a decision with the intervention of two very nice mice. But the night is young, and their adventures are only about to begin. A touching book featuring the adventures and exploits of a mismatched group of friends who learn to live in harmony.

A little girl''s concerns about her mother leaving her for the evening disappear once she finds out how much fun the babysitter can be.

This fully revised and updated edition provides current information on automation and technology and on advocacy to help small public libraries strive to make available the same basic services as larger libraries. This book is written for the directors of these honest-to-goodness small libraries, providing both a philosophical as well as a common sense basis for decision making. Appendices provide sample documents for a library''s Statement of Purpose, worksheets for job descriptions and personnel policies, a volunteer application form, ALA documents (Library Bill of Rights and Code of Ethics), a list of discount book dealers, and a sample meeting room policy.

El Catálogo para Hadas te acerca lo mejor del País de las Hadas y todo lo que puedas desear en un cuento de Hadas. Elige los tuyos en nuestro gran surtido de hadas, gigantes y madrastras malvadas. ¡Imagínate tu traje perfecto, hecho por hadas! ¡Solicita una alfombra mágica, una rueca, o un juego de camas exactamente igual que el de los tres ositos! Hay un cuestionario para que lo contestes y tenemos el orgullo de ofrecerte invitaciones para cinco bodas de hadas, incluidas las de la Cenicienta y la Bella Durmiente. Todo lo que tienes que hacer es pedir tus deseos.

Mum is going out for the evening and she will be sorely missed. But the babysitter provides lots of fun things to do.

The fairy catalogue brings you the very best from Fairyland and everything you could wish for in a fairy tale.