Frontline offers an insight into the life of just one soldier out of the many thousands in the British Infantry deployed to Afghanistan. These modern day heroes risk their lives on a daily basis to help bring peace to a troubled country. Some of these soldiers are fresh out of school or college, and within a few months find themselves in a war zone fighting for their lives. Frontline gives a candid account of life on the front line. The highs and the lows of fighting a war thousands of miles from home, whilst at the same time battling homesickness and coming to terms with death and injury on...

We have always enjoyed being scared. Tall tales of horror that pass down through the ages. We take comfort in the knowledge they are only stories. Except the urban legend has a history. No one knows where they come from or why they persist. Maybe it's because they are true? 13 Urban Legends old & new will be told in "Urban Legends." They're only stories...aren't they?

Mammals gives you the full story of these fantastic creatures, journeying through an amazing array of habitats from the top to the bottom of the globe. Join a pack of wolves on their chase for prey across a wintry landscape, glide through an underwater kelp forest with otters and sealions, and shrink down into the miniature underground world of burrowing rodents.

'Cantankerous King Colin' is about a king who thinks he can get away with being mean because he is king. King Colin is feeling rather cantankerous and doesn't take into account other people's feelings. He is generally bad mannered and it is not until his mother gets involved that he realises he is not the only one who is able to order people about

Follow the trickery and antics of Hyena and Rabbit as they try to outwit each other in this collection of hilarious traditional tales from West Africa. Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

The .50 Cal spat out rounds at a rapid rate of fire. The bullets ripped up the ground, the foliage and anything else they made contact with. They smacked into the compound walls and peppered the area, spitting up dirt and clumps of dried mud into the air on impact. The whole area to our front and the compound buildings within it were a sight to see; smoke and debris being thrown up from the ground by the impacts and detonations of various munitions finding their mark. The odd little random fire started to spring up in the foliage out to our front where the red tracer had impacted and still...

Portland's theatre history is marked by early enthusiasm and exceptionally vigorous growth. With the Pacific Northwest's often rainy weather, people sought refuge in movie entertainment, and the city eventually grew to have more theatre seats per capita than similar-sized cities in the United States. Beginning with short cinema segments at vaudeville houses downtown, Portland movie theatres came into their own swiftly and ambitiously. By 1915, there were over 70 individual theatres showing films both downtown and in neighborhoods throughout the city. By the 1920s, larger theatres were being...

Read Write Inc. Phonics Book Bag Books are engaging texts to support children with additional reading practice outside the classroom. They have been specifically designed for children to take home after school, in order to share their reading journey and celebrate their achievements with parents and carers. The books are closely matched to the existing Read Write Inc. Phonics Storybooks to reinforce children's classroom learning of phonics at the appropriate level, helping them to make even faster progress in reading.