Books with author G O'Brien

This practical resource is an invaluable guide for teachers, RE advisers and co-ordinators. It provides a wealth of ideas and information to help facilitate motivating and meaningful RE experiences for children and young people with autism and/or severe and complex learning disabilities.Drawing on Liz O´Brien's extensive experience, it is brimming with ideas, activities and songs which have been used successfully with children who have a range of special needs and also with children in mainstream schools. These activities are compatible with current curriculum guidance, and there are sections on linking the material to local syllabuses.

Sam is left alone with nothing and no one, or so she thinks. Shunted from one family to the next she withdraws into a magical, make believe world, where strange things start to happen. Lonely and confused she desperately needs someone to love and to be loved. After several failed adoption attempts, she is finally taken in by the Bags family, a group of loveable witches and wizards living in a beautiful manor house in the remote heart of an enchanted forest.Sam has to undergo transformation if she wants to become a witch, but things are not that simple. The black Light, a powerful dark wizard of immense strength, wants her for his own and so the battle begins. After making friends with a grubby goblin, adopting a baby dragon and running around with tree elves, not to mention her encounters with expanding frogs, gnomes and fairies she finally has the chance to become a witch. But all is not what it seems and gradually Sam pieces together her considerable past only to realise that fate has something terrible in store. Amongst all of these events a curious water squirting creature takes up residence in the school grounds and what starts out as an extra playtime jaunt soon turns into Sam's worst nightmare.

During school holidays, twelve year old Frida is asked by a boy to play rugby league on his team. She can’t believe it. Didn’t everyone know that she was a type 1 diabetic? No one ever picked her for sports, much less rugby league - only boys played that. Encouraged by her father, she accepts the boy’s offer and has a try. To her surprise, she ends up having fun.Frida wants to play more, but that’s tough. She gasps for breath after running for a few seconds. Exercising makes her blood glucose levels erratic. What’s worse is hardly anyone seems to care. Her mother thinks rugby league is too rough for a girl. Her best friend is annoyed, because it’s only stupid sports. The big girls on the team say Frida is too small. Oddly, Frida seems to be the only one worried about her diabetic condition.Nah, none of that matters. Frida only wants to have fun. She’s ready to try something different. What’s wrong with that?Yet everything isn’t about Frida. Rugby league is a team sport. She must understand how to fit in and play with her teammates - especially the surly girl she dislikes so much. The only way Frida will win is to learn how to respect her and earn respect in return.That goes for the other boys and girls on the team, too. Somehow, they each have to put aside what they want and don’t want. The only way the team will win is to learn how to become better, together.Win-Win for the Win!

"To call Going After Cacciato a novel about war is like calling Moby Dick a novel about whales." So wrote The New York Times of Tim O'Brein's now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979 National Book Award, Going After Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest of wars. Reality and fantasy merge in this fictional account of one private's sudden discussion to lay down his rifle and begin a quixotic journey from the of Indochina to the streets of Paris. Will Cacciato make it all the way? Or will he be yet another casualty of a conflict that seems to have no end? In its memorable evocation of men both fleeing and meeting the demands of the battle, Going After Cacciato stands as much more than just a great war novel. Ultimately it's about the forces of fear and heroism that do battle in the hearts of us all.

Scooter, the dog sees the front door is open and decides to go on an adventure. Heading up the street, he checks out a park and an ice cream truck. As the sun goes down, he looks around and realizes that he doesn’t know where he lives. He tries to remember his address, but can’t. So, he takes to the street to try and find his way home. Along the way he meets an interesting group of friends who teach him a few things along the way.

A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE THINGS THEY CARRIEDBefore writing his award-winning Going After Cacciato, Tim O'Brien gave us this intensely personal account of his year as a foot soldier in Vietnam. The author takes us with him to experience combat from behind an infantryman's rifle, to walk the minefields of My Lai, to crawl into the ghostly tunnels, and to explore the ambiguities of manhood and morality in a war gone terribly wrong. Beautifully written and searingly heartfelt, If I Die in a Combat Zone is a masterwork of its genre.Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content

Santa Claus tells one of his elves about Jesus Christ. He tells her that Christmas is not about Santa or presents; it is about the day that God gave us the savior of the world. This book takes many of the symbols of Christmas and shows how they are related to Jesus.This is exactly the way it should be.For we need more of Him, and we need less of me.Earthly gifts break, and they cannot long please us.For true lasting joy, we all need Jesus.