Books with author Barbara Caruso

Boost learner confidence ahead of the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint tests with invaluable support and practical, ready-to-use revision activities.This Study Guide supports revision in preparation for the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint test at the end of Stage 6. It contains revision activities for all the strands of the Cambridge Primary Maths curriculum: Number, Geometry, Measure and Handling data, with opportunities for Problem solving embedded throughout. It can be used independently for homework or additional practice, or alongside the Teacher's Guide in the classroom.- Includes helpful revision tips, key facts and engaging questions, and fun challenge activities for those working towards high-end scores- Boosts learners' confidence prior to taking the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint test with review tests to check progress- Works as a useful revision tool for the Cambridge Primary Checkpoint test, including a useful glossaryWe are working with Cambridge International Examinations to gain endorsement for this series.

BALANCING ACT: memoir of a Teenage BreakdownIn the 1970s, outside the town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, Barbara Ann is thirteen, going into grade seven and starting a new school. She wants what most other teenage girls want: the right hair, the right clothes, the right friends, the right boyfriend, and everything else that leads to love and happiness. Innocence allows her to believe it’s all easily within her grasp, with the only obstacle being her over-controlling mother. She fights and pushes against boundaries to gain the freedom she wants.Each step a power struggle between mother and daughter.When Barbara Ann finally meets a boy and believes all her dreams are coming true, her life shatters in ways she never saw coming.In desperation she tries escaping her pain, but instead her anxiety and depression increase and she spirals into a “nervous breakdown”.It is in the midst of all of this that Barbara Ann learns the depths of her mother’s betrayal and the realization of just how much she’s lost, and the need to find inner strength.Readers will be torn between understanding a mother's interference in her daughter’s life and her daughter's emotional stress caused by the mother’s interference.Readers will enter the world of a teenage girl and experience what life’s like from her point of view… experiencing anxiety, loss, grief and depression.

Halloween is frighteningly funny when Minnie and Moo are on the loose! After Minnie has a nightmare (a giant mouse eats the last bit of chocolate!), she and Moo awaken to find their bed rolling down the hill into town. What better "costumes" than two cows in pajamas! So, the daffy duo join in the festivities and manage to snare a few treats of their own in this hilarious holiday romp.

When Minnie and Moo discover that the farmer is in financial trouble, they don disguises and go to the bank to borrow money. Unfortunately, in costume they look just like the Bazooka Sisters - famous bank robbers - and their innocent actions are misunderstood. Cows acting like gangsters and perfect comic timing combine to make this one of the most hilarious Minnie and Moo adventures yet!