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Grown-ups never
understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children
to be always and forever explaining things to them.
Antoine
de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Bella's Brazilian Football
Milet Publishing Limited
Bella Balistica is wild about football. The trouble is, her team isn't playing well. "We need a decent ball to practice with", she groans to her friend Charlie, "and some dazzling Brazilian football skills". With the help of her friend the Quetzal bird, Bella harnesses the powers of her mystical pendant and flies to Brazil to meet a street-child called Ronaldo who reveals the real secret of Brazil's spectacular footballing success.
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Bella Ballistica and the African Safari
Milet Publishing Limited
Sometimes, being an individual is hard. With her mother’s mystical pendant and the powers of a Mayan goddess behind her, Bella sets off on a quest to find her long-lost father. But what do the corrupted symbols on a faded tapestry in Ethiopia have to do with the American tycoon Askar Karpov and an elite band of medieval knights? What’s more, what does any of this have to do with an ancient Mayan prophesy and the contemporary world of a twelve year-old Guatemalan girl living in southeast London?
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Bella
Balistica and the Temple of Tikal
Milet Publishing Limited
What happens when you're 11, being bullied and discover that you
have mystical powers - powers that allow you to pursue your passion
for justice and to learn more about your real parents and cultural
heritage? Bella Balistica is transported from her adoptive home
in London to her birth country, Guatemala, in an exciting and moving
adventure fantasy.
This is the first book in a series featuring this feisty and smart
young heroine.
Praise for Bella Balistica and the Temple of Tikal:
"An exciting adventure fantasy about an 11-year-old girl
in Guatemala . . . it'well worth Year 6 children
reading"
Junior Education
Paperback - September 1, 2004
ISBN: 1840593946
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Bella
Balistica and the Indian Summer
While on holiday in India, Bella discovers sinister forces are
conspiring to steal her precious pendant and mystical powers. Lurking
behind the scenes of the touring Bombay Circus, the Quetzal reveals
a formidable enemy – Diva Devaki, the acclaimed impresario,
acrobat and illusionist. But all is not what it seems. Can Bella
outwit the spellbinding Diva, heal the rift with her adoptive mum,
and finally meet her elusive birth father face to face?
Milet Publishing Limited
Paperback - February 10, 2005
ISBN: 1840594071
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Zanzibar Treasures
Short story in anthology with teacher materials
targeted at YR4 Literacy Hour.
OUP - March 2005
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Our
Neighbour's
A Vampire
Horror story – age-range 6-7.
Harcourt - March 2005
ISBN: 0602242096
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Ghoul
School
Horror story – age-range 7-8
Harcourt - March 2005
ISBN: 0602242142)
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The
Last Mission (Fiction): CD-ROM and Teacher's Book (Longman Digitexts)
Set in the year 2525 against the fallout of the Great War and
world-wide flooding, Hanisha Gill and Finn McKinney mobilise the
Resistance - a band of renegade humans and Amphibeings to take on
Colonel Fitzpatrick and his army of droids. Using the Orb, a powerful
time-machine guided by a mysterious voice from the future, the two
Resistance fighters set out on their mission to destroy the Colonel's
mighty Cell computer.
Longman Higher Education
Unknown Binding - November 30, 2005
ISBN: 0582851408
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This months extracts come from Bella Balistica and the Temple of
Tikal and a work in progress called Juma’s
Safari
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Balistica and the Temple of Tikal
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Safari
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