Books with author Jessie-Marie Wilson

Number Bond Friends: Rhymes and puzzles to help build number sense is an engaging rhyme and activity book designed to help children master number bonds. Combining colourful and engaging illustrations with fun poems and simple exercises, the book is the perfect way to support children's maths learning at home. Number bonds are an essential part of the KS1 and KS2 primary school mathematics education. When introduced early, number bonds foster the number sense needed for young learners to master addition and subtraction. As students progress, number bonds are used to develop mental problem-solving strategies, helping to build mathematical fluency. This book makes learning number bonds fun. By presenting number bonds as pairs of friends, children will quickly learn to recognise which pairs of numbers go together. Each fun activity is designed to give your child a real sense of achievement. With activities including Spot the Number Bond Differences, and Colour by Number Bonds, as well as simple exercises encouraging children to think about the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction, this book will boost your child’s confidence with maths and help them develop the number sense needed to succeed in mathematics.

For the daughter of a fisherman-turned-smuggler, keeping secrets equals survival. When she is sent away from their boat-home for one year to a nearby boarding school, it’s with her father's threat hanging over her head: You talk about things that shouldn’t be talked about, I’ll kill you.But a boarding school with a student body of eight is a perilous place to be when you have a headful of secrets, particularly with a headmaster who seems to be able to read minds. When the headmaster discovers the aquaphobia born out of her fearful childhood, he compels her to join the school swim team, headed by a tough coach who has his own dark history with the water.As she sheds her fear and discovers a hidden talent for distance swimming, she crafts a plan to escape the boat she’s doomed to return to at the end of the school year. But when her plans begin to unravel, she finds something sinister that has stood between her and escape all along: the secrets she’s kept from herself.

For the daughter of a fisherman-turned-smuggler, keeping secrets equals survival. When she is sent away from their boat-home for one year to a nearby boarding school, it’s with her father's threat hanging over her head: You talk about things that shouldn’t be talked about, I’ll kill you.But a boarding school with a student body of eight is a perilous place to be when you have a headful of secrets, particularly with a headmaster who seems to be able to read minds. When the headmaster discovers the aquaphobia born out of her fearful childhood, he compels her to join the school swim team, headed by a tough coach who has his own dark history with the water.As she sheds her fear and discovers a hidden talent for distance swimming, she crafts a plan to escape the boat she’s doomed to return to at the end of the school year. But when her plans begin to unravel, she finds something sinister that has stood between her and escape all along: the secrets she’s kept from herself.