Monica Hughes

Join the countdown as one boy describes the events in his life in the past month, from moving house a month ago to preparing for school and making friends today.Author: Monica HughesISBN-10: 0007412916ISBN-13: 9780007412914Publisher: HarperCollins UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2011Pages: 16Format: Paperback

Then I hear the whistle of the train, and the sound takes me back to the farm near Cornell, back to the winter of 1930... All his life, Blaine has dreamed of being somewhere else. Growing up on a farm during the lean years...

How do different animals carry their babies? In this book readers will discover, through a series of photographs, that some animals carry their young by the teeth, some on their backs and others in a special pouch.Author: Monica HughesISBN-10: 0007185359ISBN-13: 9780007185351Publisher: HarperCollins UKLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

This book helps children identify different types of car by colour using simple, repetitive text which reinforces common colour words. Cars are shown both in close-up and in action in its surroundings, driving in the city, off the road or tearing around a Grand...

Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child....

In this addition to the Isis series from Phoenix Award-winning author Monica Hughes, settlers from Earth are finally coming to join Olwen on her planet, but will they accept her after discovering what she's become? It was her tenth birthday on Isis. Though Olwen...

'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading series for ages 4-7, featuring both fiction and non-fiction titles which encourage children to develop their reading skills.Author: Monica Hughes, Tomislav ZlaticISBN-10: 0007186800ISBN-13: 9780007186808Publisher: HarperCollins UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.20h x 0.20w x 0.30d

Young readers are always interested in the biggest, longest, and tallest, and they wont be disappointed with the offerings in this book! Theyll meet dinosaurs such as Liopleurodonpossibly the biggest hunter to have ever lived. Some scientists believe this animal grew up to 80...

Imagine a turtle thats 13 feet [4 m] long! Thats just one of many surprises to be found in Swimming Giants, a book about the creatures that inhabited the worlds ocean waters during dino times. In this exciting companion to Flying Giants, young readers...

A wordless retelling of the classic story, in which farmer, his family and friends try to pull up an enormous turnip.Author: Monica HughesISBN-10: 0007186444ISBN-13: 9780007186440Publisher: HarperCollins UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 8.00h x 7.50w x 0.20d

The Game is just the beginning... It's the year 2154. Lisse and her friends have been deemed unemployable in the eyes of society. Now they must scavenge the disintegrating city for food and shelter, just to make ends meet. But their dismal existence starts...

When a young boy hears from his father after his disappearance to another planet, he discovers that his father's plans for the planet Aqua pose a deadly threat to its environment and creatures. The year is 2092, and though it has been a long...

A Workbook enabling children to practise the language points presented in the Reader. These workbooks accompany the popular Collins Big Cat series. They enable children to practice and reinforce the target vocabulary and language structures presented in each corresponding Collins Big Cat reader through...