What's the good in keeping secrets? Secret Friends is a heartbreaking story about friendship and bullying from the multi-award-winning Elizabeth Laird. Rafaella doesn't find it easy to make friends. She looks and feels different from the others at school. And Lucy is the first to tease, the first to call her 'Earwig', until they get to know one another and Lucy sees that Rafaella is full of hopes and ideas, just like she is. Lucy loves keeping her own secret friend, until tragedy strikes and secrets can't be kept any longer. Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the Children's Book Award and reissued with gorgeous illustrations, more than twenty years after first publication, Elizabeth Laird's moving and unflinching novella brings home the crucial importance of cultivating empathy in young people. '[A] humane and honest story. It conveys so much, so simply and so well' Scotsman '[A] fine weepy with a moral, about the dangers of playground cliquishness and cruelty' The Sunday Times

How do you feel when you are outside in nature? Listening to the sounds of bird song or the rustling leaves in the breeze... a babbling brook, or the sea rushing onto the shore? Can you taste the salty sea spray or smell the scents of a woodland glen? In Secret Friends join Ankara on her amazing adventures exploring nature; a fascinating conversation with the Rose Flower faerie, a night time visit from an elf, a magical encounter with a dolphin, and discover how Ben becomes a true friend. You will be amazed what can happen when you make friends with nature. In Secret Friends you will enter the wonder of the living world and be immersed in magic!

This book has been written in an effort to help young people to understand that the differences in human beings lies not in the color of their skin but the moral state of their hearts and mind. Life will never be perfect but if we take the time to go beyond outward appearances maybe many injustices in life can be avoided.

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When Corey’s mom starts dating, Corey feels like her world is falling apart—can her best friends help? Corey’s parents are divorced, and her mom, Doc Tock, has started seeing a man with a daughter named Alice, who is Corey’s age. But the two girls don’t have a thing in common. Alice doesn’t even like animals! She’s nothing like Corey’s Pony Tails pals. Everything seems to be going wrong for Corey until she realizes that someone is helping her with small tasks around the house—latching the gate to make sure the puppies don’t get out, feeding the ponies, putting her bike in the garage. When Corey learns that it isn’t Jasmine or May, she can’t help but wonder about the identity of her secret friend.

This book comes complete with a Touch-or-Click Table of Contents, divided by each section. The collection contains John of Ruysbroeck’s most influential works. The Blessed John of Ruysbroeck was one of the Flemish mystics. Literally, Ruysbroeck wrote as the spirit moved him. He loved to wander and meditate in the solitude of the forest adjoining the cloister; he was accustomed to carry a tablet with him, and on this to jot down his thoughts as he felt inspired so to do. Late in life he was able to declare that he had never committed aught to writing save by the motion of the Holy Ghost.