Books with author Dean Griffiths

The unique features include such as 'Setting the Scene' pages, 'Character Introduction' pages, poems and fold-out glossaries. The illustration styles maintain pupils' interest and support the text. Non-fiction texts include high-interest fact boxes to provide pupils with more detailed information about key ideas. These sets of 5 are ideal for Guided Reading.

This book contains features such as 'Setting the Scene' pages, 'Character Introduction' pages, poems and fold-out glossaries. The illustration styles maintain pupils' interest and support the text. Non-fiction texts include high-interest fact boxes to provide pupils with more detailed information about key ideas. Sets of 5 are ideal for Guided Reading.

This is a series of 7 bedtime stories gifted to a grandson “Max” as he is named in the stories. Other major characters in the adventures are our pets: Moxie and Mollie –Miniature Dachshunds, Rupert and Cooper – Pembroke Welch Corgis and Monet the cat, who sometimes thinks she is a dog too… These adventures always occur at night and take place near a small rural cottage in the Midwest. The Adventurers all sneak out through the dog door in the laundry room…..but Ssh…it’s a secret….don’t tell anyone, especially grownups... In these adventures, animals will communicate in human language (English to be exact) which has been carefully translated from the standard universal animal language. It is a quiet restful place surrounded by woods. There are trails that wind their way through those woods and provide the setting for these adventures. Each story shares christian family values as learning lessons for grandchildren.

Michael Maxwell McCallum lives in a world just like ours, but peopled by superheroes. When Michael's hero, Perfect Man, quits his job without warning, Michael isn't worried. He knows that Perfect Man will come back. He always does. So that September, when a new teacher shows up in his classroom, a teacher with a number of special powers, Michael figures it out right away. Mr. Clark is Perfect Man. Mr. Clark doesn't say yes and he doesn't say no to Michael's endless questions, but he does encourage Michael to find his own super powers.

REVISED EDITION:Includes more details about Jimmy Lucas and the Patton controversy.Just what makes a hero and do they always disappoint us in the end?Christopher Squires is a confused man. Adopted and raised in Britain after World War II he is surprised to find he has a connection with Fritz, an orphaned German boy, who was found dead in the boot of General Patton's Cadillac at the end of the war. Chris discovers the link through a meeting with Jimmy Lucas, an American GI, who he believes could be his father. But the surprise turns to horror when he learns that Jimmy was involved in the death of both the orphan and the much-lauded General.

Would you like an adventure on another planet? This is just one of the questions Lara and her sister, Eva, must answer one sunny day in their garden. They wonder how will they return to Earth in time for lunch? And how will they get there when the aliens' spaceship is so small? When it's only big enough for ants!But their help is needed on the planet Zeegrazzalo-Jeewoppza so off they go - into the unknown. Their feelings of helplessness only start to fade after a flight across the planet's Outerlands, in Kweezy Capolza's hummingcraft. Maybe, just maybe, the sisters can find some solutions to the aliens' problems. However, they think they might need their mother's help and she is back on Earth!