Books with author Bev Bennett

Peter Wilson is nobody’s definition of a Hero. He has an imaginary friend called Gensing. He likes to sit on the beach at night reciting poetry and he’d rather read about fighting than engage in it.While his twin sister Josalynde is outgoing, athletic and although she goes through best friends almost as quickly as she goes through boyfriends, she’d at least have a chance of slaying a dragon, while Peter – well, he’d likely just sing about it.And how unfair is it that while Peter is being seduced by sirens, Josalynde is being pursued by their Grandmother, who since she’s been turned into a vampire, has never felt so good. Surely Josalynde has no choice but to stake her? Isn’t that what anyone would do in her situation? But as Josalynde discovers, there are many ways of being heroic and conquering someone doesn’t necessarily mean destroying them. .

Dead Cat Bounce is a thriller.Sixteen-year-old Jonah Lightbody is the youngest ever trader at 'Hellcat', a money making machine in the City of London. It's an adrenaline fueled world of wealth and power and Jonah is at its epicenter, wheeling and dealing alongside the most feared trader of them all: The Baron. But when the world erupts into the greatest financial crisis it has ever seen, Jonah is catapulted into the crossfire of a global conspiracy where money reigns, human lives are collateral, and anyone will sell you out if the payday is large enough. Now, Jonah will have to race to uncover the truth, a journey that will take him from the human zoo of Hellcat to the wilds of Africa. And he'll have to decide whose path he should follow: his father's or his hero's. Dead Cat Bounce has all the action of Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series combined with the edge-of-your-seat pacing of The Bourne Identity, and the elaborate intrigue of a spy novel. It's the story of Jonah Lightbody and he's on a mission to save the world no matter the price.

Ray accepts his uncle's generosity, never suspecting he'll become trapped in a web of terror....Ray Bond's Uncle Ed had always been a shadowy figure, with little interest in his nephew. On Ray's eighteenth birthday, Ed gives him thirty thousand dollars in cash. He makes Ray swear he'll never tell where he got it.The next day Uncle Ed leaps from the twelfth floor of his midtown hotel.Stunned, Ray keeps his promise and withholds his secret from his grieving mother and Laurie, his girlfriend. Keeping his word is harder when he hears from Uncle Ed's girlfriend, Alice Cobb. She tells him about Ed's gambling debts and her conviction that his uncle didn't jump, but was pushed from the window.Ray also hears from Albert Dawson, the sadistic thug who may be responsible for Ed's death. He tells Ray that Ed owed him money. Furthermore, he knows where that money is. Ray senses Dawson is not the kind of guy to cross, not if you value your life....

Elsa is finally free of the Darkzone and its cruel inhabitants. Alone on the surface, she is determined to begin a new life where fear does not control her every move. Only one obstacle stands in her way: Elsa's uncle is missing and the key to his whereabouts lies with the mysterious group of valley dwellers known as the Blood Wolves.Elsa sets out across the brittle, baked landscape to find their lair and save the man who has raised, loved and protected her. During this quest, she reunites with her childhood friend, Noak, and is thrown into the ruthless and dangerous life he leads on the surface. Taken to the Blood Wolves' camp as a prisoner, Elsa becomes a pawn in an unspoken war between Noak and his master, Cohen, and in her fight to keep the people she loves safe, old fears resurface to send her down a dark path of her own making.Elsa will need all her courage and resolve to survive. Because, while she may have left the underground behind, its darkness tainted the Valley long before she arrived.

Fortissimo! is a key stage 4 music course to fit the initiatives of the national curriculum with performing, composing, listening and appraising being an integral part. The material in the Fortissimo! Teacher's Resource Book provides notes for teachers to support the Student Books and CD's that cover a wide variety of music from the 13th century to the 1990s and offers the chance to study musical styles and instruments from a variety of cultures. At regular intervals throughout the book, there are double-page colour spreads displaying fascinating visual stimulus material to spark off original ideas for composing and improvising.

Take a Christmas Journey with Benjamin, Gus, Buster, Bailey and Bo to a time after the Civil War and to a place of Christmas' Past with those who come home to be with family and unconditional love.Legendary Stories takes the reader out of the commercialization of Christmas and back to the “way Christmas used to be.” Ms. Bennett provides a heartwarming story of war veterans, a boy and his dog and a Christmas he will always remember. Celebrate Christmas in this short story that honors the things in life that matter.This is in its original version without too much editing on my part and is my 13 year old perspective on Christmas and the worldRead this to your kids and grandkids. It has subtleties of the life we miss the most when we slow ourselves down and listen to our heartbeat.

Twelve-year-old Harriet lives on top of a hill with her parents in a small colony of sorcerers who conjure and manipulate Light; a form of sorcery called Lightcraft. Harriet’s Lightcraft powers are far more advanced than anyone else her age which, unfortunately, causes Harriet to be excluded by the other children, all because she is a little different. But their lack of respect for her is soon going to change.When an ancient malevolent force escapes from its prison, intent on bringing about a new age of Darkness, the Sorcerers of Light must do everything in their power to banish this evil, forever. The impending war between Light and Darkness is about to erupt and Harriet is caught in the middle of a battle which she has a bigger part to play in than she realises.Follow Harriet on her adventure as she learns new Lightcraft spells, comes face to face with the Spirit of Darkness and discovers that she has a destiny far beyond her wildest dreams.

In fact, her money didn't matter to him. He liked Alicia for herself and felt comfortable being with her. But maybe Kerry didn't know her as well as he thought. After a shocking wave of teenage suicides, he got a call from Alicia's stepmother. "Alicia has killed herself. Like the others...just like the others."In a world where everything was suddenly cloudy and confused, one thing was certain: Alicia was nothing like the others. She would never kill herself, not the Alicia Kerry knew. But if it wasn't suicide, then what killed her -- and why...?