Jan Mark Livres

Colonists from a dying Earth find a new solar system similar to the one they left behind and proceed to repeat the same destructive pattern in their new environment until near disaster makes them change their living pattern.

Jane has a cat called Furlong, who walks to school with her every day. When William, the new boy, causes a division in the class and threatens Jane with violence, it seems the only way she can escape is to take Furlong's secret path home, along the wall and into the unknown.

Starved, sun-scorched, and dangerously dehydrated Demetria is barely recognizable as human when she is rescued from the ocean. Having risked everything to escape her oppressive life on High Island she desperately hopes she is finally free. But the world beyond the island is even more terrifying; here people are condemned for their beliefs and castaways like Demetria are accused of being enemy spies. Snatched first by the government who want to interrogate her, then `rescued` by the resistance, Demetria fears she will never be free. But as she learns about the political situation, about those who go `missing` and those forced into exile, Demetria begins to understand that there are more important things to fight for than her own freedom...

This is the story of friendship between children of different races. Jan Mark has twice won the Carnegie Medal and has also won "The Guardian" Award, the "Observer" Teenage Fiction Prize and the Angel Award for Fiction. Her books include "Thunder and Lightenings" and "The Dead Letter Box".

Here are some of the very best short stories written for children over the last 250 years. Compiled by the well-known children's writer and Carnegie Medalist, Jan Mark, this is the first anthology to trace how children's short stories evolved, ranging from the publication of Sarah Fielding's "The Governess" in 1749, to Nadia Wheatley's "Convict Box" in 1992. Anyone who enjoys children's fiction, whether young or old, will find something to savor in The Oxford Book of Children's Stories. Fairy tales, ghost stories, adventures and escapades in and out of school, every genre is included here, peopled by good children and bad, strict parents and kindly aunts, kings and queens, giants and enchanters. Mark includes work by 44 different authors, including well-known figures such as Louisa May Alcott, Christina Rossetti, Rudyard Kipling, Max Beerbohm, and Carl Sandburg, leading modern writers such as Philippa Pearce, Richard Kennedy, Nadia Wheatley, and Jan Mark herself--plus many long-forgotten tales that are still highly entertaining today. Chronologically arranged, the anthology also serves as an introduction to the historical development of the children's short story, providing insights into the way perceptions of childhood and contemporary attitudes have influenced writers of different periods. But as Jan Mark's discriminating selection demonstrates, the ingredients of a good children's story--as well as the fictional tastes of children themselves--have remained remarkably constant, despite changes in style and outlook. This is a collection to divert and surprise: an ideal survey of the children's short story for parents, professionals--and especially for the children themselves.

Read and Wonder is a series of picture books that tell children about the real world. Written from a personal viewpoint, they mix facts with feelings, encouraging children to think, feel and imagine as they learn.

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When thin Kitty grows fat and starts making nests in odd places all over the house, there is little doubt as to what is going to happen.

Dies ist eine Sammlung von sieben Kurzgeschichten. Die Titelgeschichte handelt von einem Tennismatch an einer Schule, bei dem der Schiedsrichter heimlich in den Starspieler verliebt ist. Natürlich hat unsere unglücklich verliebte Heldin die Oberhand über den eingebildeten Star. Andere Geschichten befassen sich mit einem Schultheaterstück und einer Kunstschule.