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Sisters Emme, Holly and Jess – are off to Paris with their parents, exchanging homes with a French family for a month. The girls are having a brilliant time exploring the city, until disaster strikes and they have to track down their host family's precious pet octopus, who someone seems to have let out accidentally...

During the civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002, an estimated 20,000 children were forced to join the fighting. As villages were raided and youths rounded up, it was not uncommon for a child to be ordered to kill a friend, relative, or neighbor. The goal was to make it impossible for the captives to return home and be accepted back into their communities. Betancourt's study provides insight into the long-term psychological and developmental effects of family separation, war, and exposure to violence.

Little Jamey, 2½ years old, is placed with experienced foster carer, Cathy Glass, as an emergency. The police and social services have no choice but to remove two-year-old Jamey from home after his mother leaves him alone all night to go out partying. When he first arrives with foster carer...

In her new book, Cathy Glass, the no.1 bestselling author of Damaged, tells the story of the Alice, a young and vulnerable girl who is desperate to return home to her mother. Alice, aged four, is snatched by her mother the day she is due to arrive at Cathy's house. Drug-dependent and mentally...

Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes...

인터넷을 떠들썩하게 만든 바람 귀신 이야기! 알고 보니, 여진이가 이미 바람 귀신을 만났다고? 여진이는 같은 반 이대팔에게서 인터넷에서 한창 떠들어 댄다는 '바람 귀신' 이야기를 듣습니다. 바람이 스산하게 부는...

Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines - the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today. This is the third installment in the brand new series. Little Candace is growing up in a trap house. Her...

READ BY THE AUTHOR A word of mouth bestseller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. In this expanded and updated edition, Steve Biddulph shares and gives practical and honest advice to parents so they can recognise the different stages of...

Juvenile crime doesn’t just happen—there is always a story behind it. Before Their Crimes: What We’re Misunderstanding about Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Path to Healing is a ground-breaking audiobook that sheds new light on the relationship of childhood trauma and juvenile crime...

How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionized childhood education amid the splendor of Renaissance art. The story begins with the abandonment of the newborn Agata Smeralda on February 5, 1445, in Florence’s Hospital of the Innocents, the first—but certainly not...

Slave Girls, a new series by bestselling author Louise Allen, reveals a shocking modern-day scandal of County Lines – the single most dangerous form of systematic child abuse prevalent today. Charlotte - The Cutting Girl - comes from a family of high achievers. Her father is a politician, and...

This memoir that "will take your breath away" chronicles a harrowing journey through homelessness and poverty in New York City, followed by a turbulent experience in foster care (Jeanette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle). This powerful memoir exposes the harsh...

지긋지긋하게 쫓아다니는 헛소문을 따돌리고 진실을 밝혀라! 『잘 혼나는 기술』, 『잘 훔치는 기술』에 이은 박현숙 작가의 〈잘~ 기술〉 시리즈 세 번째 동화! 가짜 뉴스가 어떤 피해를 주며 가짜 뉴스에 현혹되지...

어느 날 여진이는 학교 근처 허름한 건물에서 귀신 소리가 들려온다는 소문을 듣게 됩니다. 과연 소문처럼 지하실에 귀신이 사는지 궁금해하는 아이들이 점점 늘어났지요. 그런데 여진이와 친구들이 우연히 그 건물 근처를...

너무나도 간절하게 훔치고 싶다! 친구의 마음을 훔치는 좋은 방법! 〈잘 혼나는 기술〉로 첫발을 내딛은 '기술' 시리즈의 두 번째 이야기입니다. 어린이들도 친해지고 싶은 아이가 있지만 어떤 이유로 쉽게 다가가지...

En este audiolibro disfrutaremos de una novela breve y divertida. En en la isla de San Giulio, del lago de Orta, situado en el norte de Italia, vive el barón Lamberto, un enfermo anciano que convive con su fiel mayordomo Anselmo. Pero un antiguo remedio mejorará su salud, entre otros...

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A revised and expanded edition of the bestselling guide to late-talking children for parents, clinicians, and educators, from a leading authority on development and disabilities.

London, 1923. Cyril Black is finally out of prison. Rather than going home to his wife and son, he visits his mistress only to find that she's given birth to his daughter - and wants nothing to do with her. His wife, Florrie, reluctantly agrees to take them in. But there's no love in her heart...

Er ist so vieles: attraktiv, arrogant, geheimnisvoll, reich, sexy, ... Und laut den Klatschspalten der ganzen Stadt vor allem eines: Mein Fake-Verlobter! Hochzeitsplanerin Melody Rimes ist normalerweise um kein Wort verlegen. Bis sie auf ihrem Klassentreffen wieder ihrer Erzfeindin Ginny ins Gesicht sieht, die sich lautstark darüber lustig macht, dass ausgerechnet die Hochzeitsplanerin Melody noch keinen Mann abbekommen hat. Ginny wird immer gemeiner und Melody will im Boden versinken, als sich plötzlich von hinten ein Arm um sie legt und ihr eine heiße Stimme süße Worte ins Ohr flüstert.