Books in Young Kelpies series

St Andrews, Fife - not known for its glorious weather, but even so, Josh hadn't expected the sea to start to freeze and ice to creep up the beaches ...His summer holiday isn't looking too promising, especially as his only companions are a strange local girl, Callie, and her enormous dog Luath. Then they uncover the journal of an eighteenth-century girl who writes about a Kingdom of Summer, and suddenly they find themselves thrown headlong into a storm of witches, ice creatures, magic and the Winter King. A permanent winter threatens unless they can help restore the natural balance of the seasons. Can they stop the Winterbringers once and for all?

Part of the "Kelpie Topic Studies" series, this teachers' handbook takes the storyline from the Kelpie novel "Quest For a Kelpie", and develops investigative activities encompassing a wide range of thinking and practical skills. The topic studies aim to help teachers plan how to approach their work on the novel, to provide new ideas for practical activities, and to enhance the value of oral, written, and other classroom work. The activities can also be good starting points for a range of cross-curricular work in the areas of expressive and language arts and environmental studies. Each pack contains a copy of the novel and a teacher's handbook. The handbook provides selected key extracts from the novel, descriptions of the purpose of the novel, a list of materials needed to undertake each activity, suggestions for classroom organization, and a list of discussion points and outcomes.

It’s first term at the Big School for Mary McPherson, and right from the start it looks as if her new friend, Jamie, is going to lead her astray … literally! Using a forgotten footpath on the way home, they are chased by a ferocious bull and narrowly escape being flattened. Meanwhile Mary has to put up with the humiliation of wearing braces and thick-framed glasses, and they both have to get used to new school subjects such as sex education, self-defense, and basic soldering. But all this is as nothing compared to the dreaded dinner queues and the obnoxious prefects who police them. You really don’t need all this when trying to establish a right of way. But help comes in the unexpected form of parents and teachers ... who may just be human after all.