Böcker av Jason Cobley

At Christmas, Kathryn Dark is visiting her father for the first time since her mother died. The reason? She has received a text from her mother's phone...Thus begins a year in which we weave in and out of the lives of people who experience ghosts of one kind or another.But ghosts aren't what we think they are. A time-trapped forest. A haunted Tube station. Houses filled with spirits. Doppelgangers. Loss and longing, hope and hopelessness, cold love and burning anger. These are the stories from the Calendar of Ghosts... The Ghost of Christmas Never; Radio Waves; The Shop that Sold Time; Mother's Day; The Easter House; Spring Rain; Father's Day; Eutierria; Bank Holiday; Summer's Lease; Harvest; Kenilworth Dark

On a painful, freezing Easter Monday in 1917, Private Robert Gooding Henson of the Somerset Light Infantry is launched into the Battle of Arras. Robert is twenty-three years old, a farmer's boy from Somerset, who joins up against his father's wishes. Robert forms fast friendships with Stanley, who lied about his age to go to war, and Ernest, whose own slippery account betrays a life on the streets. Their friendship is forged through gas attacks, trench warfare, freezing in trenches, hunting rats, and chasing down kidnapped regimental dogs. Their life is one of mud and mayhem but also love and laughs.This is the story of Robert's journey to Arras and back, his dreams and memories drawing him home. His story is that of the working-class Tommy, the story of thousands of young men who were caught in the collision between old rural values and the relentlessness of a new kind of war. It is a story that connects the past with the present through land, love and blood.

Helps to engage and involve students in Shakespeare's play. Suitable for teaching ages 10-17, this book provides exercises that cover structure, listening, understanding, motivation and character as well as key words, themes and literary techniques. It includes many cross-curriculum topics, covering areas within history, ICT, drama, and reading.