Positively Teenage gives you tools to approach your teenage years with optimism and understanding and to develop real wellbeing for life. The media so often portray adolescence negatively but this book shows you how to approach these years far more positively so that you can really flourish and be in control. You'll find simple strategies to develo...

This book explains everything KS2 students will need to know about Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling for the English SATS. There are plenty of examples to demonstrate each point, with quick recap questions for every topic and exam-style tasks at the end of each section.

'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. To Hooper, Kingshaw is an intruder, a boy to be subtly persecuted, and Kingshaw finds tha...

A cast of actors bring Victorian London to life. A running commentary discusses themes, characterisation and the structure of the novel. The tape also points out the aims of the examiners, sets exercises and recommends quotations to use.

Travel back to Hardy's 19th Century Wessex. This audiobook analyses the society, characters and themes of the novel. It also suggests essay questions and useful quotations to help you through your coursework and exam.

NOXIOUS NOISES AND STINKY SMELLS . . . Amaze your mates with top trivia such as: Why do we puke and sweat? Which tribe uses farting as a greeting? How likely are you to be injured by a toilet seat?

Through drama, commentary and debate this tape unravels the plot and questions the motivation of the characters from 'A Kestrel for a Knave' by Barry Hines. It also tells the listener about the aims of the examiner and gives sample essay questions.

Kate Pankhurst, descendent of Emmeline Pankhurst, has created this wildly wonderful and accessible book about women who really changed the world. Discover fascinating facts about some of the most amazing women who changed the world we live in. Fly through the sky with the incredible explorer Amelia Earhart, and read all about the Wonderful Adventur...

Want some really horrible science? It's about time! Go time-travelling with this icky book and discover all the terrible time facts you've been waiting ages to find out. What happens if you go too close to a black hole? How do flies tell the time? Why do the years zoom past faster as you get older? Find out who was killed for changing the calendar....

This guide takes the listener through the plot of Macbeth and gets to grips with the language, imagery, themes and social and historical settings. The play is presented as a full cast drama with simultaneous guided interpretation and analysis.

An informative guide to political systems, elections, voting and government, and issues including feminism, human rights, freedom of speech and fake news, all explained clearly. Includes tips on how to argue and debate and a full glossary.

Get ready to walk the streets of Shakespeare's England. By recreating his life in vivid audio the listener can imagine the influences that moulded him. The tape covers themes such as love and romance, authority and justice and provides excellent background information for study at KS3 and 4.

Discover how you become an astronaut, the training you must undertake, how you travel into space and what you do when you're up there. With a foreword from ESA astronaut Tim Peake, the first British astronaut to embark on a mission to the International Space Station. Published in association with the UK Space Agency.

Susie Dent is here to take children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing, amusing and sometimes quite revolting backgrounds of English words. Did you know, for instance, that 'fizzle' originally meant to break wind silently? Over time, it came to describe a weak, spluttering, hissing sound. And you might think that 'ain't' isn...

`There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so'. Discover why generations of actors dream of playing Hamlet, the intellectual prince at war with himself, in this powerful tragedy of revenge, remorse, madness and murder.

The real Julius Caesar famously said `experience is the teacher of all things'. Experience Shakespeare's masterful moral drama with teaching notes to consider whether his assassins were freedom fighters or cold-blooded killers - a question as pertinent in today's world as in ancient Rome.

This audio drama leads the listener into the world of classical poetry, to experience and explore the work of poets with guidance from experts. The fully integrated commentary and analysis gives a student everything they need to understand, enjoy and appreciate classical poetry and to maximise their potential in coursework and exams. Poems include:...

Prince charming, dragon slayer, mischievous prankster... More often than not, these are the role-models boys encounter in the books they read at home and at school. As a boy, there is an assumption that you will conform to a stereotypical idea of masculinity. What if you prefer to pick up a book rather than a sword? What if you want to cry when you...

Want to know: Why Druids split humans in half, how the Normans outwitted the Welsh with a lump of ham and how an army of Welsh mums fought off the French once and for all? With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet another generation of Terry Deary fans.

What would happen if there were no bees in this world? It would be a disaster! Without bees, we would, of course, have no honey. But we'd also lose a lot of other foods and useful products like cotton produced by plants that bees pollinate. Around half the fruit and vegetables in our supermarkets would disappear! Not only that, we would also lose t...

Young readers will get a real sense of how towns and cities have developed all over the world from medieval towns to the extreme cities in the jungle and polar regions. What is suburban bliss and why are some of our cities dying? Listen to this audiobook from start to finish for a riveting social history or dip in and out for some fascinating and o...