New Releases by Susan Price

The adventure of two people who moved over a thousand miles from New York City to save a forgotten and misunderstood historic building in the heart of Dubuque, Iowa, a small Midwestern Mississippi River city. Alone, yet open to new friends and experiences, they created community and a place welcoming of all people and ideas. Written for children of all ages, this picture book is about the joys of trying new things and taking chances.

In the darkest hour of a freezing Midwinter, a night-walking witch adopts a newborn baby and carries her off in her house on chicken legs. She names her Chingis and teaches her the Three Magics. She grows into such a powerful witch that she rouses the jealousy of Kuzma, the bear-shaman. The Czar of this cold realm fears his newborn son, Safa, will out do him, and so imprisons the baby at the top of a tall tower, to live and die there without ever glimpsing the real world. Loneliness and confinement drive him to rage and despair until Chingis hears the crying of his trapped spirit and frees him. But now their enemies unite against them, with steel and deadly magic. Chingis and Safa''s fight for freedom will take them even through the Ghost World into the Land of the Dead. A timeless and atmospheric tale of fierce magic.

"You love me, don''t you, Jonnie?" The Industrial Revolution blackens the countryside. Women and children hack at coal underground and drag loaded tubs like animals. "You''d better love me." Rattle is a dirty, pipe-smoking, swearing collier-wench who dresses and swaggers like a boy. She''s in love with Jonathan Turner, a young farmer and a prim, God-fearing Methodist. "I love you, Jonnie. I''ll never let you go." Rattle is determined to have Jonathan. But he''s already married. To a vengeful ghost. "I love you to death."

The young witch, Shingebiss, believes she can ''spell'' the Czar and make him save her beloved Northlands from destruction. In her innocence, she little understands that the Imperial Palace is a place of treachery and murder, ruled by a madman with a mind like ''a broken mirror, reflecting all things crookedly.'' At first the Czar takes Shingebiss for an angel, sent to him by God, and welcomes her. But none of her spells seem able to blunt his greed and cruelty. And Shingebiss has a rival at court who hates her -- the English wizard, Master Jenkins, who pretends to the Czar that he can summon demons. Fearing that Shingebiss will unmask him, Master Jenkins plans to be rid of her. He tells the Czar that he can make him an Elixir of Immortality. The most potent ingredient is the blood of an angel. The Czar orders the elixir made immediately. Can Shingebiss save the Northlands? Can she save her own life? An intense, Gothic fantasy. Susan Price is an acclaimed writer for young people. The first book in the Ghost World sequence, The Ghost Drum, won the prestigious Carnegie medal.

Midsummer midnight: the endless white night of the far north. Malyuta, slave and hunter, names his first born son ''Ambrosi'' because it means ''Immortal.'' Then comes Kuzma, the bear-shaman, who claims the baby as his apprentice. He promises Malyuta riches or even the return of his youth, if he will give up his new-born son. Malyuta refuses, throughout the long night. The bear-shaman leaves, at last, declaring that keeping the baby will bring Malyuta nothing but misery. It is never wise to anger a shaman. Kuzma watches as Ambrosi grows... Can Ambrosi escape the bear-shaman? Can he protect his father from the Kuzma''s revenge? Book Two of the Ghost World sequence, which began with Ghost Drum and continues with Ghost Dance.

A red squirrel... A stone squirrel... a stone squirrel of red carnelion runs up and down a tree, cracking nuts. For every nut the squirrel cracks, she must tell a story. Gold nuts, glass nuts, nuts of paper, nuts of copper... When the poison nut is cracked, what story is let loose? Tales of love... Tales of adventure... Tales of danger and magic... Which nut will you crack? Which story will you hear? A beautiful collection of retold folk-tales featuring bold, brave heroines. Susan Price is an acclaimed writer for young people. She has won many awards, including the prestigious Carnegie medal and the Guardian prize.

Game Changers have the skills, courage and power to change the world! Read about eight game-changing scientists who all shared the same motto in life: ''nullius in verba'' - ''take no one''s word for it''. They asked the questions and gathered the evidence that shaped our understanding of modern science. From Isaac Newton who established the laws of motion still used by engineers and scientists today, to Marie Curie, who won two Nobel prizes in recognition of her work on radiation and radioactivity, and Tu YouYou, the Chinese scientist who discovered a cure for malaria that has saved millions of lives. Game Changers: Super Scientists is part of the Reading Planet range of books for Stars (Lime) to Supernova (Red+) band. Children aged 7-11 will be inspired to love reading through the gripping stories and fascinating information books created by top authors. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 10-11 years

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.During a bad winter in Viking-age Scotland, Fari finds a polar bear cub that drifted to shore on an ice floe. He raises the cub and teaches her tricks. They soon become inseparable - but as the bear grows and grows, she is no longer welcome in Fari''s home. Follow Fari as he embarks on a journey to save his friend in this beautiful historic tale by Susan Price.Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to pratise inference, prediction and reading stamina.Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

"Chris, you''re guilty! You''re an atheist!"In the 16th Century your faith, or lack of it, could get you killed... Christopher Uptake, too outspoken for his own good, is easy prey. When his talent attracts the patronage of wealthy Edmund Brentwood, he thinks himself lucky but it proves to be his undoing. Brentwood, a secret Catholic, is involved in dangerous Tudor politics.Enter a ruthless spy-master, who hunts down and destroys Catholics, and who threatens Chris with arrest, torture and execution as a heretic, unless he spies on his friend.Chris tries to warn Brentwood, but learns that his patron is also a dangerous man.Caught up in these plots, can Chris escape with his life?Susan Price is an acclaimed author of over 60 books, which have been translated into many languages, including Japanese, Chinese and Russian. She has written for almost every age-group, and has won several awards, including the Carnegie and the Guardian, and has been short-listed for the Whitbread.She is a founder member of the Authors Electric Collective (Find them on-line.)Visit her Amazon Author Page to find out more about her books, and links to her website and blogs.

Kveldulf Witch is a promise-breaking killer. He is not a good man to deal with. When Kveldulf''s raven tells him that the Queen of Ultima-Thule is searching for a husband, Kveldulf decides that he will be the man the queen marries. He is certain the Queen will fall in love with him when she hears of the many battles he has fought in. He orders the best story-teller in Iceland to make his story and tell it before the Queen. But the story-teller, Thord Cat, refuses. Kveldulf is furious. In revenge, he makes and unleashes a terrifying monster... Set in the Iceland of the Viking Age and originally published by A&C Black, this is an exciting story for ages 8-10, written by award-winning author Susan Price, who also wrote the best-selling ''The Wolf''s Footprint.''

Time traveling corporate raiders target 16th-century Scotland--and face the legendary Sterkarm warriors--in this "enthralling . . . brilliantly imagined" series (Philip Pullman on The Sterkarm Handshake). James Windsor--leader of FUP, the twenty-first-century megacorporation that created a tunnel back to the past called the Time Tube--has no intention of giving up his plan to pillage resources from pristine sixteenth-century Scotland. Unfortunately for Windsor, the Sterkarm clan, who will do anything to protect their lands from invaders, continues to stand in his way. But if Windsor''s modern-day mercenaries, with their technology, rifles, and rocket launchers, can''t beat the primitive Sterkarm warriors, who can? And who could possibly understand the wild Scottish moors and the clan''s brutal ways better than the Sterkarms themselves? When FUP opens up a new portal, two universes of Sterkarms are pitted against each other, but anthropologist Andrea Mitchell--originally sent back in time by FUP to study the clan--will risk her life to save Per, the warrior she loves, and the community she has grown to call home. And when both sets of Sterkarms become wary of the twenty-first-century "Elves," who shake on promises of friendship with one hand and commit murder with the other, they know there is only one way to protect their futures: join with the Grannams, and with each other, to destroy the tunnel, preventing the Elves from returning ever again. Perfect for fans of Outlander and Vikings, A Sterkarm Tryst is the epic conclusion to Susan Price''s award-winning Sterkarm Trilogy.

This study, first published in 1990, presents a comprehensive description of the comparative constructions of Spanish and French, and shows that the apparently numerous differences in their syntactic realisations can be accounted for by general constraints on the expression of comparison. There is also a discussion of parallel constructions in other Romance languages, showing that these languages display a range of constructions equally compatible with the suggested pattern of possibilities resulting from the general constraints proposed. This title will be of interest to students of language and linguistics.

A twenty-first-century corporation invades the domain of a warlike sixteenth-century Scottish clan in this “brilliantly imagined” time-travel adventure (Philip Pullman). The miraculous invention of a Time Tube has given Great Britain’s mighty FUP corporation unprecedented power, granting it unlimited access to the rich natural resources of the past. Opening a portal into sixteenth-century Scotland, the company has sent representatives back five hundred years to deal with the Sterkarms, a lawless barbarian clan that has plundered both sides of the English-Scottish border for generations. Among the first of the company’s representatives to arrive from the future, young anthropologist Andrea Mitchell finds herself strangely drawn to this primitive tribe of raiders and pillagers who, not surprisingly, view her as magical. As translator and liaison, she becomes enmeshed in the personal lives of these proud, savage folk, developing an especially strong emotional bond with Per, the handsome son of the ruthless Sterkarm chieftain, Toorkild. But the Sterkarms’ welcome does not extend to the FUP corporate despoilers from the future—and soon a fragile agreement between the untamable Scots and the interloping “Elves” begins to crumble. Suddenly war looms on the horizon, and when treachery on both sides ignites a firestorm of violence, Andrea will have to choose where her loyalties truly lie: with her coldhearted employers or with the barbarous kinfolk of the man she has come to love. A winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Carnegie Medal, called “enthralling” by Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials novels, Susan Price’s Sterkarm Handshake is a masterful blend of historical and science fiction critics have called “dazzling,” “exciting,” “memorable,” “thought provoking,” and “a thumping good page-turner.”

Originally written for the Cambridge Reading series, this is Carnegie Medal winning author Susan Price''s retelling of the traditional story ''The Gingerbread Man.'' "Once a girl made a chapatti for her tea. But the chapatti didn''t want to be eaten. Up from the table it jumped, and out of the door it ran, singing, ''Run, run, as fast as you can, You can''t put me in your frying pan!''" The chapatti leads the girl on a merry chase that involves a friendly dog, a cheeky monkey and a long crocodile before finding a big suprise in the deep jungle! This simple tale, humorously told, is ideal for instilling a love of reading, with its repeated refrain, and phrases picked out in speech bubbles, helping children to quickly recognise the key words: ''stop, '' ''come, '' ''back, '' ''and, '' ''my, '' ''the.'' Suitable for ages 3-4. The lively illustrations, full of movement and gorgeous colour, will have children asking for the story again and again.

Paul loves beautiful girls and he loves poetry. He''s a pub poet - courageous enough to recite sonnets to the Hell''s Angels in the Hailstone Inn. So when Zione, a beautiful black girl - and a real head-turner - appears in his audience at the Old Crown, Paul is well pleased. When she asks him to go outside with her, he doesn''t hesitate. When they''re alone, in the darkness of the pub''s yard, Zione calls up green fire and, for Paul, everything goes away... He wakes up in a strange bed, not knowing where he is - which, for him, is nothing new. Then the luke-warm hot-water bottle nips him. It''s a dragon. A small dragon, but still a dragon. It turns out, Zione is a sorceress. The sorceress of Dragonsheim. Where Paul now is. Paul cheers up when he finds that poets are far more respected in Dragonsheim than in his own world. Everyone is glad to see him - and keen for him to meet the biggest poetry lover of all. A very big poetry lover who has devoured most of the Oxford Book of Poets. In the most literal possible sense. When Paul performs for this poetry-lover, he finds his work examined and criticised as never before. When this critic rips you apart, you stay ripped. It''s extreme lit-crit. Can Paul''s ego survive it? Can he survive it? And get back to his beloved lost world of pubs, pints and crisps? A light-hearted fantasy of poets, sorceresses, dragons - and wrapping paper.

Here are nine powerful stories written by acclaimed, award winning author, Susan Price. Voices whisper in a graveyard... ''Who weeps on my grave, who keeps me from sleep? - Is it you who unearths me to this cold rain, this dark, this wind and all its grief?'' A lost sister speaks in a dream... ''She said,"I''m on Mow Top. But you won''t find me now. Don''t look. Forget me." A supermarket is haunted by a murdered baby... Footsteps climb the stairs of a darknened cottage... A voice whispers in a museum... Nine short, haunting stories of the supernatural, of loss and longing, of those who walk between this world and the next... Review ''...The opening tale is...creepy, to the extent that the words crawl like cold fingers down your back. ''Mow Top'' is heartbreakingly sad... This is how it works in real life. Children see ghosts and tell us. We reassure them, and ourselves, that there are no such things... ''The Familiar'' is all about the cost of power, and cuts deep. The final story, ''Overheard in a Museum'', is a thing of beauty, like the ship itself. You can feel the swell of the sea beneath you as you read. It speaks of a distant era and reminds us that objects so often outlast people by a long, long time. Except that the ship is not an object - it''s the spirit of an age. - Rosalie Warren on " Awfully Big Blog Adventure Reviews"

A story based on a North American tale about a fox who tricks a bear out of his tail.

This is the English edition of the classic Russian textbook designed for parents to teach their children "all the fundamental points of the Orthodox Christian faith and way of life." Because children are growing up quickly in a society that raises serious and agonizing questions the author does not teach in naive stories that remain stories only. It offers an overview of the whole of the Old and New Testaments as well as instruction on prayer, worship and what it means to live by the teaching of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes. Lavishly bound and made to last. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and icons.

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2

These exciting new TreeTops Myths and Legends are guaranteed to appeal to all your junior readers - whatever their cultural background, gender or enthusiasms. These are the oldest and most enduring stories in the world, retold by leading contemporary children''s authors to bring out all of theaction, drama, humour and depth of the original stories in a way that makes them as exciting and meaningful today as ever.The strand is comprised of 24 books, telling a total of around 65 traditional stories from around the world. All of the stories are fully illustrated with stunning, vibrant images. The stories are carefully levelled, making them accessible to the average 7-11 year old reader. A thought-provokingletter from the author explains something about the background of the stories and the process of writing or retelling them. The letter also encourages the reader to make links between stories in a collection - prompting a fascinating investigation of the similarities and differences between storiesthat have evolved from different cultures around the world.Free teaching notes with each pack offer suggestions on how to develop higher order comprehension and writing skills. They also provide short introductions to many of the stories and discussion points to promote meaningful speaking and listening, and reflective reading. The stories are ideal formaking strong links to other areas of curriculum.

Since his mother, Odinstoy''s, death, Gift has become obsessed with the idea of tracking down his real father. In secret, he employs a private detective to make investigations on Earth so that he can uncover his past. But when a Newsblog reveals evidence to suggest that Odinstoy wasn''t his real mother, Gift doesn''t know where to turn. He flees to the poisonous surface of Mars in the hope that the great god Odin can give him some answers... Meanwhile the mysterious Sherri, whose resemblance to Gift is undeniable, is making her way to Mars with some important news. Will she find him before it''s too late?

This wide-ranging collection of twenty-four spine-tingling stories draws on the best traditions of classic horror, from powerful myths and folktales to contemporary stories of man-made terrors. With contributions by writers of the caliber of Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, and Edgar Allan Poe, this is a truly chilling anthology.

When Ketil and Ottar sail away with a Viking band to join the Great Army, they dream of famous victories. But the boys are ill-prepared to survive a bloody and brutal battle with the Saxons. Courage and friendship alone must win the day in this sweeping, dramatic adventure.

The stunning sequel to the acclaimed ODIN''S VOICE.

Soggy spectres, groaning ghosts, and a smudge who just stays there ... Olly needs Alex''s help.

Science fiction roman.

Wandering the grim battlefield, Brother Dominic is overjoyed to hear a voice, calling him. Perhaps there is one more poor soul left alive in all this devastation. He hurries to aid the injured warrior, prepared to do all he can to keep this last survivor in the land of the living. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds... From warrior-bard to disembodied head in one sweep of a sword-just what is keeping Egil the storyteller alive? And what exactly is he planning?

Eine ganz normale Familie wird von einem Putzkobold heimgesucht. Doch als der nicht nur putzt, sondern auch die Wohnung neu einrichtet, will die Familie ihn gern loswerden ... Ab 10.

Spooky or funny, surprising or frightening, Shock Shop is a collection of brand-new novels by some of the greatest names in children`s writing. Hairy Bill; One morning, the Matheson family come downstairs to find that their living room is unnaturally, indeed frighteningly tidy. At first they assume it`s a break-in (obsessively tidy thieves? ) - But soon the truth becomes clear. It`s Hairy Bill - a brownie or bogle, the Matheson family`s very own house spirit. He used to do chores on the family farm. In the city, he decorates and cleans. Soon the whole house is redecorated in Scottish Baronial style - deer`s heads, tartan aplenty, Scottish landscapes on the wall...But the Mathesons don`t want to live with a demonic antidote to Carole Smillie. How can they get rid of the sinister spirit of cleaning?

Designed to be used by children in their first six months of school PM Starters One and Two