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The second book in this sparkling, magical new series about Jessica, the ten-year-old witch-in-training. Writing that fizzes...that will enchant every 7 - 9 year old, especially girls.

In Witch-in-Training: Flying Lessons ten-year-old Jessica learns the art of flying on a broomstick, using all the twigs to max effect, especially the Eject twig for getting rid of unwanted goblins. In this second title, Jessica learns Spelling and Charming under the watchful eye of Miss Strega. Jess soon learns to interpret the spellings; Grate Polish for Gnats' Spittle, Bath Plugs spell Bats' Legs...

Join Jessica, everyone's favourite witch-in-training, for four sparkling stories in one magical book.

On Jessica's tenth birthday, she discovers that she is a witch With Miss Strega as her teacher, and a broomstick to fly, Jessica is ready to begin her training.

In 'Flying Lessons', she must learn how to use a broomstick - with calamitous results. In 'Spelling Trouble', Jessica performs a Transformation spell on Miss Strega, but can she change her teacher back? In 'Charming or What?', Jessica is at summer school with an exciting new teacher, Pelagia, who used to be a pirate ...

This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco s most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness, drugs, prostitution, untreated mental illness, and death of young people by murders and suicides, exist and persist there. The work delves into who lives in the Tenderloin and why, the role of dedicated service providers in meeting people s needs and encouraging social change, and what lessons university students, many coming...

The action takes place in late August 1833 at a hedge-school in the townland of Baile Beag, an Irish-speaking community in County Donegal. In a nearby field camps a recently arrived detachment of the Royal Engineers, making the first Ordnance Survey. For the purposes of cartography, the local Gaelic place names have to be recorded and rendered into English. In examining the effects of this operation on the lives of a small group, Brian Friel skillfully reveals the far-reaching personal and cultural effects of an action which is at first sight purely administrative.