Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures #1): The bestselling, heart-stopping adventure!

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Your class will delve deeper into the character’s actions and thoughts, giving their impression, showing their understanding and reflecting on why this character would appeal to the readers. But it's an alternative history, almost steampunk, with clockwork servants, silver airships and mechanical animals. More than 150 years since Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was first published by Macmillan, revisit Carroll's amazing cast of characters in these brand-new stories, that will bring a new generation of readers to Wonderland. Acton, the youngest member of the Belle family, immediately befriends a bright, red robin, leading him to discover a hidden key.

Planning for each session includes pre-discussion/recap, a section to read, discussion questions and an independent response task. Pathetic Fallacy is a form of personification where human emotions or characteristics are given to objects, nature or weather to mirror the mood of the story.Dashes are a form of parenthesis and can be used to add extra information to a sentence (a bit like brackets).

Emily Lonsdale, age 10 - 'Though I found the plot a little slow, I would recommend it if you were looking for something different. Most children don't tend to view their grandparents as heroic figures, but Christopher is about to find out something very interesting about his extremely private grandfather. This hardback collection, packed with short stories, poems and pictures from the very best children's authors and illustrators, aims to provide just that. Words highlighted in bold are looked into in more detail - including the word family, definition, synonyms and example from the book. Now it looks like her father has died too, and silver eyed men are stalking her in league with the Madame Verdigris the housekeeper, who has stepped in as her guardian.Lily is a great character but readers’ hearts are likely to be won by her companion Malkin, a clockwork fox, one of many automatons created by her father. The first in an enchanting new historical-fantasy adventure series from the bestselling author of The Cogheart Adventures.

The award-winning author of the Cogheart series, stirs up magic, myth and history in his truly captivating Barrington Stoke debut. And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. With her friends—Robert, the clockmaker’s son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox—Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Her mum is dead and she’s been sent to the horrible Miss Octavia Scrimshaw’s Finishing Academy for Young Ladies. Freddie Barth von Wehrenalp, age 9 - 'Cogheart is an amazing book that I would recommend for anyone aged 8 and over.With her friends - Robert, the clockmaker's son, and Malkin, her mechanical fox - Lily is plunged into a murky and menacing world. Let your muscles go limp, breathe until you feel your soul pouring out of you, and then shut your eyes. But shadowy figures are closing in and treachery lurks among the smoky spires of London - along with a life-changing secret.