Sal is a foreign exchange student staying with Mike's family. When a fire breaks out in Mike's house, Sal takes charge and saves the day. Sal Takes Charge is a level 4 book in the Sound Out Phonics Based Chapter Books series, which feature six levels of phonics progression that gives students multiple opportunities to practice specific phonics skills. Level 4 focuses on one-syllable words with short and long vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, diphthongs, silent letters, and controlled vowels.
'Just *wonderful*. A breath of fresh air in a book. Sal is a story with incredible heart, told so beautifully and with such clarity and grace I can hardly believe it's a debut! I loved it' JOANNA CANNON, author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS AND SHEEP AN OBSERVER 'NEW FACE OF FICTION 2018' This is a story of something like survival. Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. She nicked an Ordnance Survey map from the school library. She bought a compass, a Bear Grylls knife, waterproofs and a first aid kit from Amazon using stolen credit cards. She read the SAS Survival Handbook and watched loads of YouTube videos. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her. Told in Sal's distinctive voice, and filled with the silent, dizzying beauty of rural Scotland, Sal is a disturbing, uplifting story of survival, of the kindness of strangers, and the irrepressible power of sisterly love; a love that can lead us to do extraordinary and unimaginable things.
In the canyons and hills of Los Angeles and San Francisco awaits the unlucky victims of the the Grinder, the chief hitman for the Mafia Saint, a skilled and cunning arch criminal who uses the gruesome killing methods of this manic killer to punish his enemies in a truly horrible way of dying. The Grinder only answers to his Mafia crime family boss, Vinny Bambino for the final decisions on who to kill. This fanciful and bizarre mystery tale will give you a tickle to your funny bone and a chill to make your spine shiver and a sense of awareness of the power and ruthless measures that the American Mafia use to make their illegal profits in the United States today. If you cross up the Mafia Saint in anyway the Grinder may be watching for you to make a fatal mistake.
The true story of a young couple who quit their jobs and set sail for a year on the ocean with no boating experienceAmy and Jimmie were not sailors and their experience on the seas included reading a few books, watching a couple of instructional videos, and boating once a week each year. They were middle-class land-lubbers, audacious and in love, and all they wanted was to be together and do something extraordinary. The Box Wine Sailors tells the true story of a couple's ramshackle trip down the coast with all the exulting highs and terrifying lows of sailing a small boat on the Pacific. From sailing on Thanksgiving morning under spectacular bright blue Californian skies just off the Channel Islands as dolphins raced alongside their boat to the terrifying experience of rounding Punta Gorda and hanging on to the mast for dear life. It also tells the story of two very normal people doing what most people only dream of and settling the argument that if you want something bad enough you can make it happen.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Vemeer an unforgettable story about an island haunted by the past . . . and the ghosts who must help with the present. Ghosts are alive on the island of Nantucket. You can hear them in the wind, and in the creaks of the old homes. They want to be remembered. And, even more, they want to protect what was once theirs. The ghosts seem to have chosen a few local kids to be their messengers -- and to help save the island. But in this mystery, the line between those who haunt and those who are haunted is a thin one -- and the past and the present must come to terms with one another in order to secure the future.
Piratical pirates, derring-do and mayhem on the high seas as Horrified's talented writers take on the theme of piracy and explore all its colourful, deadly facets. Here are everyone's ideas of a pirate and some which aren't... plenty of darkness, gore and double dealing which only pirates are capable of doing... Enjoy!
