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Fin is devastated by guilt when his sister, Ella, is kidnapped. As the kidnappers make their demands, Fin's guilt is replaced by a fierce determination to find his sister, and bring the criminals to justice. But as the drama unfolds, it emerges that Ella's kidnapping is revenge for mistakes Fin's father made, years before.

Studies the experiences of sympathy that literary characters share with each other and argues that between 1750 and 1850, key works of British and French fiction generated a specific version of sympathy by manipulating traditional narrative forms and new publication practices in response to the Enlightenment.

In Agnes Grey Anne Bronte drew on her own experiences as a governess, trying to cope with unmanageable children with little respect from her employer. It combines a wonderful study of Victorian responses to children with a story of romantic love, and this new edition does full justice to its fictional as well as its autobiographical qualities.

Eye-popping colours and fun characters, celebrating everyone's different body types!

Jon Burgerman introduces over twenty feelings, providing young children with the vocabulary they need to talk about how they are feeling.

Considers three centuries of writers and creatives of mostly Scots-Irish and post-Famine Irish descent whose work examines moments of entwined racial, social, and political transformation for those of that identity in America.

David Burnie looks at extinction from the mass wipe-out of the dinosaurs, to the probable extinction of the tiger. He covers many species from the cuddly and much-loved panda to the less attractive thylacine, classed as vermin but no less valuable to the ecological balance of the planet.

This collection brings together leading environmental policy scholars to analyse whether the economic crisis has affected EU environmental policy ambition in Europe.

A little girl, a big dog, and a very badly-behaved book! Bella is taking her dog for a stroll across the page when something odd happens. Her dog disappears and it becomes apparent to Bella, her friend Ben, and the rescue services that peril lurks in the pages of this book. But where the police and fire brigade fail, you - the reader - can help!

The Irish Establishment examines who the most powerful men and women were in Ireland between the Land War and the beginning of the Great War, and considers how the composition of elite society changed during this period.

The story of the 'long Renaissance' for a new generation from Giotto and Dante in thirteenth-century Italy to the English literary Renaissance in the first half of the seventeenth century.