Following the traumatic break-up of her parents' marriage, Lexi feels excluded and unloved. Unable to cope with her emotions, she self-harms, cutting herself with a scalpel. When her boyfriend splits up with her the self-harm intensifies until Lexi's sister persuades her to see Steph, the school counsellor.
Sixteen year-olds Ava and Jade are obsessed with food, calories, and staying thin. Pleased with the many compliments they receive they push themselves into anorexia. Only when Jade is admitted to hospital does Ava return to therapy, where she begins to understand the causes of her anorexic tendencies.
Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Date with Danger has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.
An incredibly moving story of hope and redemption.
Sixteen year-olds Ava and Jade are obsessed with food, calories, and staying thin. Pleased with the many compliments they receive they push themselves into anorexia. Only when Jade is admitted to hospital does Ava return to therapy, where she begins to understand the causes of her anorexic tendencies.
A lively new series that puts a collection of stimulating and entertaining reading comprehension exercises at your fingertips. Multiple-choice questions are followed by open-ended activities requiring either an imaginative or reflective response or independent research. The passages are illustrated and encompass a wide range of genres including: - fiction - poetry - dialogue - letters - charts & tables - recipes - news reports - Book One (1-85503-362-3) features a press report of a UFO sighting and a letter of complaint: exercises designed for children in Year 3. Book Two (1-85503-363-1) features fascinating and varied topics designed for children in year 4. * Supporting the National Literacy Strategy at Key Stage 2, the photocopiable exercises in each book are grouped and graded within four main skill areas: Getting the main idea - Making inferences - Noting and recalling details - Using context clues - * With teacher's notes and separate answer pages for easy checking, this series shows the way to develop and hone crucial comprehension skills.
Engage your seriously struggling and reluctant teen readers with Barrington Stoke's SEN short fiction. Bench has been specially designed for teen readers with a very low reading age of 6 and is fully illustrated throughout.
Based upon a scenario in which Ben is called to the 'Forest of Feelings' by Rusalka, its guardian, this volume explores Ben's responses to situations that help him to explore the whole range of feelings. Teacher's notes are included to help professionals understand how children really feel.
Suitable for young people who may need counselling and psychotherapy, this title aims: to demystify counselling and psychotherapy so that it is more appealing to young people; to destigmatise emotional and mental health problems so that young people are better able to accept help; and, to encourage them to embark upon their own healing journeys.
Roman | Coming-of-Age-Geschichte über die Kraft der Musik und der Freundschaft
Birmingham, 1966: William feiert gerade seinen Abschluss als Einbalsamierer, als ihn die Nachricht erreicht, dass im walisischen Aberfan ein Haldenrutsch unzählige Menschen unter sich begraben hat und freiwillige Helfer gesucht werden. Er macht sich umgehend auf den Weg, und während er gemeinsam mit den Bestattern vor Ort arbeitet, ruft ein Musikstück im Radio schmerzhafte Erinnerungen in ihm wach: Erinnerungen an seine Zeit als Chorknabe in Cambridge, die er versucht hatte, zu vergessen. Damals hatte er nur einen Wunsch gehabt: in der King’s College Chapel das berühmte Solo in Allegris Miserere zu singen, das in ihm schon als kleines Kind die Liebe zur Musik entfacht hatte. Doch an dem großen Tag kommt es zu einem tiefen Zerwürfnis mit seiner Mutter und einer Entscheidung, die seinen weiteren Weg bestimmen wird. Als er nun aus Aberfan nach Birmingham zurückkehrt, mit Bildern im Kopf, die ihn sein Leben lang nicht loslassen werden, ist er bereit, sich seiner Vergangenheit zu stellen und sich mit seiner Mutter, mit der ihn einst eine liebevolle Beziehung verband, zu versöhnen. Ein bewegender Coming-of-Age-Roman über die fragilen Bande, die uns mit geliebten Menschen verbinden – darüber, dass es möglich ist, die Vergangenheit und die eigene Schuld zu überwinden und Vergebung und Trost zu finden.
