Laura Wood: 12 books

Drawing on the expertise of leading creative arts therapists from around the world, this book provides a comprehensive examination of the role of the creative arts in the treatment of clients with eating disorders (EDs). The book explores how art, dance and movement, drama, music, and poetry...

Growing up in her sleepy Cornish village dreaming of being a writer, sixteen-year-old Lou has always wondered about the grand Cardew house which has stood empty for years. And when the owners arrive for the summer - a handsome, dashing brother and sister - Lou is quite swept off her feet and into...

Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing Poppy Pym has grown up in the circus...but when her family decides she needs a more traditional education she is sent to boarding school. When dangerous accidents start occurring at St Smithen's, it's up to Poppy to solve the mystery of the Pharaoh's curse!

When a mysterious runaway van crashes into St Smithen's on the first day of the new school year, Poppy knows it's going to be an action-packed term! With the Christmas holidays looming, secrets lurking in every corner and rumours of a dangerous beast on the loose, Poppy must unravel her biggest mystery yet.

Join Effie Kostas as she fights to become Student Council President in her new school. With a campaign team of loveable misfits, she tackles the truly important subjects: gender imbalance, outdated school conventions...and good-looking boys stealing the last slice of chocolate cake at lunchtime. A laugh out-loud rallying call for switched-on kids everywhere.

From the Winner of the Scholastic Montegrappa Prize for New Children's Writing It's Halloween at Saint Smithen's. When the Brimwell town hall burns down, the amateur production of Macbeth is moved to the school and it's all hands on deck. But when the play is struck by a series of mysterious attacks, it's up to Poppy, her friends and her circus family to save the play and unmask the culprit.

In 2012 the hottest book of the year (in more ways than one) was an erotic novel called Fifty Shades of Grey. This book is not about that one. It is about many things Fifty Shades of Grey has women and girls thinking about. What is love? And who are we, as women, and what sort of love...

PRINZ DER WÜSTE von SARA WOOD Hannah erliegt dem Zauber Marrakeschs und dem Charme von Khalil! Doch er hat genaue Vorstellungen davon, wie eine Frau zu sein hat und diese zu erfüllen ist Hannah nicht bereit. Wenn Khalil das nicht lernt, muss sie den stolzen Prinz der Wüste verlassen. Für immer! MEIN...

Ein Zimtsternkuss ist etwas ganz Besonderes: zuckersüß, romantisch und wunderschön. Doch gerade für einen jungen Menschen ist es nicht immer leicht, den richtigen Partner zu finden und diesen Moment voller Glück erleben zu dürfen. Nach dem großen Erfolg des ersten Teils der "Zimtsternküsse"...

Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under...

Analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists have long argued that the mind is a computer-like syntactical engine, and that all human mental capacities can be described as digital computational processes. This book presents an alternative, naturalistic view of human thinking, arguing that computers...