New Releases by Susan Price

Zoe has heard all about Mrs Beckerdyke, all about how she has special powers, how she can contact the spirit world, how she is a witch. A dark and disturbing novel by the award-winning author of The Sterkarm Handshake.

A child remembers a trip to the hospital in this new non-fiction text for developing sight vocabulary. Suits ages 4-5.

Cambridge Reading is a major reading scheme which provides stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the primary years.

Discusses literacy programs for young adults in Connecticut and in other states.

Elfgift is King. But the throne is not yet secure. Elfgift''s hated brother, Unwin, is raising an army against the devil-spawn. A truce is struck to celebrate Christmas and Jul''s feast but Unwin''s power-hunger convinces him to dishonour the holy night with treachery and bloodshed.

There is one door you must not open. If you do, you may find treasure. Or you may find something much, much worse. Here are six haunting tales about those who dared to open the door...

The material in this edition was previously published in 1990 by Kingfisher Books in The Kingfisher Treasury of Nursery Stories.

Why is Ivar always sent away from home at Christmas time? Why is the family so poor? And what is the secret of the Black Cat?.

Lucy receives a lively kitten for a pet only to discover that this is a cat that likes adventure.

In a country where winter is one long night, the Czar''s son Safa is imprisoned in a tower and surrounded by danger. At last the witch-girl Chingis hears his cry for help...

Sarah has the perfect pet. She doesn''t need to feed it or exercise it. The bone dog does everything she asks. Even bad things. And Sarah enjoys her new-found power, but even she is beginning to get scared.

A boy, feeling neglected at home, becomes friendly with the elderly lady he assists through his school''s "Help the Aged" scheme. Soon he is spending more and more time with her, wagging school to enjoy her companionship and her interest in his dreams.

Four children in an English village meet a leprechaun who has been sleeping for two hundred years, and has just awakened to settle old scores with his pipe which has the power to raise the dead.