Books with author David MacDonald

Imagine living in a world without pain.This series takes readers (Ages 8-12) on a historical journey, examining how people coped in the past and how they developed ingenious ways to make life safer and less unpleasant. Each book features full-color cartoon-style illustrations and hilarious speech bubbles to heighten interest, making the series attractive even to reluctant readers.You wouldn't get headaches or stomach aches, and it wouldn't hurt when you cut yourself or touched something hot. A pain-free world may sound wonderful, but if pain did not exist, our lives would be very dangerous. We probably wouldn't survive for long. We would certainly be less healthy. And, just perhaps, we'd feel less good about ourselves. Learn about the science behind how our bodies are able to experience pain, the ways pain helps us to stay safe, and the ghastly reality of life before modern painkillers.

Calling all Dirty Bertie fans! Dirty Bertie - the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits - is back for another helping of comic chaos! More disgusting than ever, with crazier plans and increasingly madcap schemes, Bertie continues to delight his legions of fans who revel in his revolting ways. Join Bertie in Zombie! his 21st adventure, as he finds himself on the run from a zombified Eugene, discovers a new dance craze, and gets caught up in some monkey business on a trip to the zoo. Dirty Bertie is a hugely popular series created by David Roberts. With each hilarious story approximately thirty pages long and split into chapters, Dirty Bertie is ideal for reluctant boy readers or readers in search of hilarity but with a short attention span.

Kings, presidents, generals and prime ministers, motivated by political and personal ambition, make decisions effecting the lives of innocent citizens. Children, the elderly, people of meager resources evacuated from their homes, without legal defense, unarmed and unprotected. Refugees, herded like cattle, forced to live in tents and boxcars, eating whatever they can scrounge. Their destination: pawns assigned to inhospitable lands and alien language and culture. This is the true story of two sisters aged 10 and 7 , along with their parents, a grandmother and younger brother. Evacuated from their modest home by German soldiers, dispatched to Berlin. It took five years to make it. The war was over. Hitler was dead. Where would the sisters end up? What future could they anticipate having limited education and meager resources.?