Books with author Joan Jackman

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 2 is aimed at ages 8+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills.• Features significant authors from a range of eras including contemporary household names that children love to read• Includes every genre required by current literacy frameworks• Supports all ability levels with a progression through literal, deductive, evaluative and inferential questions• Engages all children with an updated design and new artwork to complement different texts

In another dimension there is a world analogous to our own. In this parallel land, elves, dwarves, goblins, and halflings live just like you do, in mind-numbing tedium, desperate to make it though the working week and blow their wages on drugs, fags, and booze. Once upon a time, magic, in harmony with Mother Nature, powered the land until technology arrived with WiFi, flat-screen TVs, and instantly downloadable hardcore German megaporn in ultra-high definition. But technology comes at a price. The icecaps melt, the forests disappear, and reality TV dominates. The end of the world is near and a hero is needed….Dan Smith, a nerd of the highest order, isn’t convinced he’s the Chosen One, nor is anyone else except one man—the mighty Gambledolf. The ancient wizard assembles a merry bunch of adventurers to accompany Dan on a mighty quest: an elf from the trees, a dwarf from the hills, and a centaur from a field. They adventure to the North to retrieve the Lost Sword of the Fairy King, a catalyst of magic that can reverse global warming and save the world. All that stands in their way are the forces of evil, for there’s likely a dark lord involved.There usually is. It’s…Kind…of Magic starts a new series from Amazon bestselling author M. J. Jackman, author of The Sid Tillsley Chronicles!

Even otherwise slim people can have a flabby tummy, but with theaid of James Duigan you can get rid of that bulge once and for all! Ashe explains, the toxins in many low-fat and so-called "diet" foods canactually make your stomach fatter, plus allergies, stress and lack ofsleep can also lead to an unattractive jiggle. In Clean & Lean FlatTummy Fast! James shows you how to "eat your way" to a flatstomach, with flexible meal plans, recipes and tips on avoiding thecravings that can lead you off track, then how to work off thewobble, with a step-by-step illustrated guide to the best exercises fora totally toned tummy. And for those special occasions when youneed results fast, there s James s 6-day Tummy Transformer, the triedand tested technique he uses when his model clients, such as ElleMacpherson and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, have last-minute photoshoots."

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 1 is aimed at ages 7+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills.• Features significant authors from a range of eras including contemporary household names that children love to read• Includes every genre required by current literacy frameworks• Supports all ability levels with a progression through literal, deductive, evaluative and inferential questions• Engages all children with an updated design and new artwork to complement different texts

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 3 is aimed at ages 9+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills.• Features significant authors from a range of eras including contemporary household names that children love to read• Includes every genre required by current literacy frameworks• Supports all ability levels with a progression through literal, deductive, evaluative and inferential questions• Engages all children with an updated design and new artwork to complement different texts