Books with author Susan Price

Hauntings: nine spooky stories written by an award-winning, expert story-teller. Stories written to haunt, ‘to be poignant and evocative, persistently and disturbingly present.’ Praise for HAUNTINGS 'Susan Price understands well that the ghost story form may be used to move readers and question their prejudices about the nature of appearance, as well as to frighten delightfully. She never settles for cheap effects and writes beautifully of relationships between young and old.' The Daily Telegraph. 'This collection… has a depth of emotion that is at times disturbing.' Magpie, 1998 A ghostly boy stands in a dark farm-yard, staring at the lit windows of the farmhouse kitchen. An old man, living alone in a farmhouse surrounded by modern estates, sees spirits dancing on an ancient hillside. A bullied schoolgirl finds a protector — at a price. A writer listens to the telling of a dream — and can't sleep easily after. A poltergeist joins a couple in their home… An elderly couple are woken nightly by the return of their young neighbour — who was murdered. Yet still she comes home late… An ancient wood emerges from the lamposts and walls of a city… And a spiritual medium is exposed as a trickster. Hauntings...

A childless old couple love their kitten so much, they decide to have him educated.They pay their vicar to teach Thomas his letters.But the vicar is a cruel man. He takes their money but he kills their kitten.Year after year he makes them work to pay Thomas' 'school-fees.'When he leaves for London, the vicar plays one last, cruel trick. He tells the old pair that their Thomas has run away to sea -- but that they will find him in London, at the Miching Mouse Inn. The vicar laughs to think of the old couple travelling to London to search for a man and an inn that don't exist.But when the old pair reach London, they have strange good luck...Based on an old folk-tale, this is a heart-warming tale by Susan Price, the award winning writer of 'The Wolf's Footprint' and 'The Ghost Drum.'(Originally published by A&C Black.)

Cambridge Reading is a major scheme providing stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading and the development of literacy throughout the elementary years. I Broke my Arm is one of 20 texts in the Sight Vocabulary: Non-Fiction strand of the Beginning to Read phase. This strand features a range of text types and provides a comprehensive resource for teaching key sight vocabulary.