'Wonderfully intense and honest - a poignant manual of how to grow hope against the odds.' - Chris Packham, TV presenter and author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar. Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren backyard into a beautiful wildlife garden. She documents the unbuttoning of the earth and the rebirth of the garden, the rewilding of a tiny urban space. On her own she unscrews, saws and hammers the decking away, she clears the builders' rubble and rubbish beneath it, and she digs and enriches the soil, gradually planting it up with plants she knows will attract wildlife. She erects bird boxes and bee hotels, hangs feeders and grows nectar- and pollen-rich plants, and slowly brings life back to the garden. But while she's doing this Kate's neighbours continue to pave and deck their gardens locking them away, the wildlife she tries to save is further threatened, and she feels she's fighting an uphill battle. Is there any point in gardening for wildlife when everyone else is drowning the land in poison and cement? Sadly, events take Kate away from her garden, and she finds herself back home in Birmingham where she grew up, travelling the roads she used to race down on her bike in the eighties, thinking of the gardens and wildlife she loved, witnessing more land lost beneath paving stones. If the dead could return, what would they say about the land we have taken, the ancient routes we have carved up, the wildlife we have lost?

They are all going to die. All of the patients at the Complex are terminal, with no hope of reprieve. But they’ve volunteered to come here, to this experimental clinic to allow themselves to be test subjects. Still, they’re all going to die. All except Barney. Barney cannot remember much about his life before the Complex, but he knows that he’s there as a control. To see how the drugs being tested will affect a nonterminal patient. And then they start testing a new drug on him . . . one that will affect his memory. And Barney starts to remember things he doesn’t want to remember.

Series covers individuals ranging from established award winners to authors and illustrators who are just beginning their careers. Entries cover: personal life, career, writings and works in progress, adaptations, additional sources, and photographs.

A multi-volume compilation of more than 200 analytical essays on and study activities for fictional and biographical works written for young adults. Includes a short biography for the author of each analyzed work. Students, teachers and librarians will welcome this excellent set, which surveys and analyzes out-standing books for young adult readers. Among the more than 600 titles (novels, short story collections, nonfiction works, and biographies) the reader will find many that tell of earlier times and places and others that examine the age-old problem of growing up. Some portray a stable and secure world, while others treat issues that challenge today's young people. School reading lists frequently cite titles examined in the set. For each book, the guide provides biographical information about the author and a description of the book's setting, an analysis of its theme and characters, an assessment of its literary quality, its relevance to today's society, suggested topics for assignments and discussions, and a bibliography of critical reviews. A thematic index supports the alphabetical arrangement. Appropriate for upper elementary through high school levels. A multi-volume compilation of more than 200 analytical essays on and study activities for fictional and biographical works written for young adults. Includes a short biography for the author of each analyzed work.

Presents brief booktalks for over 450 books for young adults that won awards before 1992. Relies heavily on three annual lists: Best Books for Young Adults, Recommended Books for Reluctant Readers (Quick Picks), and School Library Journal's Best of the Year. Also includes a few titles which received the Delacorte Press Prize, the Margaret A. Edwards Award, the Golden Kite Award, the Hugo, the Coretta Scott King Award, the Nebula, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, or Voya's Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Award.

Discusses the life and works of wellknown author Robert Cormier.

ActivitIdeas that support readers in their talk about literature as they learn and interact.

The guide encompasses the careers of over 350 directors from the last 20 years. A must for any film studies library, it is a unique reference to the changing dynamics of these cinemas.