Bøger af Jill Marshall

PINEAPPLE. A warm, engaging and unique story for the WW1 commemoration, told with sensitivity, bitter-sweet humour and authenticity by Jill Marshall, best-selling author of the Jane Blonde series for girls. When the lives and stories of three people interconnect one summer at Hadleigh Hall in Cornwall's majestic landscape, history ripples as if a stone has been dropped in Hadleigh's famous lily pond. Poppy Moss doesn't want to be there at all, but it's the summer holidays, the folks are out, and with her recent past biting at her ankles, she's not going to be left on her own - even if she'd prefer it that way. Tariq is quite happy to be at Hadleigh. For one, he actually enjoys the art, and the tennis, and meeting some of the people around him. Well, one, anyway. Moreover, he's got a puzzle to solve and a long-held promise to keep. Then there's Robbie, perfectly content with his work in the green and gorgeous gardens, tending to his precious plants and watching the goings on up at the big house from a safe distance. All three lives are about to change forever, in ways that nobody could have foreseen. With paths winding across past and present, through love and war, something simple and bitter-sweet shows just how complex life can be. From Jill Marshall's YA collection.

Engaging, entertaining and intelligent fiction for contemporary women. Bunty McKenna's husband is having an affair. Even though she'd known they were growing apart, this realization throws her into a panic. She has no skills. She has no money. The only thing she's ever done with any degree of success is 1)be a wife and 2) bone up a whole lot of daytime TV. So Bunty decides she needs a new husband. A rich one. Thanks to her TV habit, she knows just where to go, and she enrols with a high-class dating agency. There, she meets several prospective partners, including one who ticks all the right boxes. When he disappears back to his native NZ, it makes absolute sense that she should follow him. Daughter and friend in tow, she boards that plane. But life is not like it is on TV, as Bunty soon discovers - along with a whole load of new information about men, about herself, and about the husband she's come to think of as Shrek. Entertainment and insight from Jill Marshall, the best-selling author of the Jane Blonde series for girls. Go to www.jillmarshallwriting.com for more on Jill's books for all ages.

Art imitates life as the lead singer in the world's biggest boyband goes AWOL ... Dear Mr Scowl I'm writing you a letter because ... well, actually because I have a ban on trying to get too close to Jazzy D or Jason Devaney as I would call him as we sort of went to school together in Jersey. So while I know it would probably be better to come and find you, I think your security men would probably not let me in. (It's all a very big mix-up, which I'll tell you about when you come to collect your goods). So, I'm writing you a letter as there seems to be no other way to get through to you in spite of Facespace and Tweeting and all of that stuff (because I'm sure you have secretaries going through all those things and answering for you) to give you some very important information. If you're missing a certain pop-star ... I mean, if the lead singer of a certain very popular band has gone missing ... No, I mean, I know you'll have kept it out of the papers so as not to upset the legions of Jazzy D fans and Divvies the world over, but I happen to know where he is. The thing is, Mr Scowl, I'm not quite sure how it came about, and especially how he managed to turn up at my mum's boyfriend's partner's companion's associate's fiancé's house, but he did, and I've had to deal with the fall-out. So right now, Stephen, your teen idol is living in my shed. Cat Andrews' life is falling apart. The chemical reactions of the brain are all going wrong - between her friend, Gorgeous Dolores, the new boy with the divinely attractive upper lip, and the girl with hair wings (ie her). Her mum's got a New Man and the New Man has a daughter she's expected to get on with. And on top of all that, for some reason a pop star she can't abide seems to have adopted her. It's going to take more than a couple of letters to sort it all out, but luckily Cat Andrews is not your average girl, and she's more than up to the task of working out some Fanmail ...

Legendary catgirl and head of the Runes, Matilda Peppercorn, is called to some SWAGGey action when a swarm of strange visitors arrive at the School of I.C.E. with a message. Someone, somewhere, is waking up. But who? Scotland's mysterious fairy folk and famous monsters? The race known only as 'the Others' who terrify all of witchkind? Or something much, much worse? Yes, yes and ... yes! Terrible trials are testing the world. It's going to take a team effort to fight off what's awoken, if Tilly's old friends and her her team of SWAGG can stop fighting with each other! But Tilly's been woken up too. She's always been a legend. Now, with SWAGG, she's about to discovere her ultimate destiny ...

The darkness is spreading. Gideon Flynn, SWAGG's beloved leader, is rapidly becoming more shadow than light. And it's not just Flynn. Destructive forces are stealing across the planet, causing rifts in families, in continents, in the Earth itself ... As super-scientist Stein races to create a way to bring Gideon back from the Shadows, with the help of his old friend Frank and his new SWAGG team, they realise that Flynn is always secretive for a reason. He knows something. He knows what's coming. And he knows how to stop it. So if SWAGG can't bring him back before he disappears forever into the blackness, it's going to spell disaster - and not just for Gideon and SWAGG, but for everyone on Earth.

Evil Inspector-General Hopkins has a list. He's checking it twice. And he's definitely not Santa ... Ever since Hallowe'en, Matilda Peppercorn has felt like she's being watched. Weirdy women keep popping up in all sorts of strange places. On the special mosaic in her garden. Up a tree at the tumbledown building where she and BFF Mattan hang out. Even at the competition for her beloved kickboxing. And they're not just watching. They're testing her, for a job she's even never heard of and that involves furballs and feline fighting. Crazy, yes? Surely that's impossible. It's time for the Flying Matildas, Tilly and Mattan, to do some police detectiving of their own. And if anyone's up to the task, it's Matilda Peppercorn: magical mayhem, loyalest bestie ever and kick-boxing power-packer .... all in one legendary teen. From Jill Marshall, author of the best-selling series about Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet. Follow Tilly and gang to uncover the mystery of what it takes to be a living legend!

With the evolving nature of the social studies curriculum within elementary schools, the time devoted to teaching core social studies subjects in the elementary grades has been severely reduced. In this critical time of education, teacher education programs need to put more effort into understanding the ideas and attitudes toward social studies education that pre-service teachers develop during their preparation courses. In "Voices from the Field," Jill Marshall¿s research focuses on the impact that past social studies experiences had on pre-service teachers¿ attitudes toward teaching social studies. The purpose of the study was to investigate elementary pre-service teachers¿ initial and developing ideas of teaching elementary social studies over time. The findings suggest that prior experiences with social studies do affect a pre- service teacher¿s ideas on the subject, but that those ideas are subject to change, and the uncertainty that comes with learning how to teach does not necessarily translate into how pre-service teachers actually perform in the classroom.

Analyzes and critiques 'second wave' feminists who discuss how philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes and Kant regard human beings and their capacities. The author suggests adopting an inclusive universal concept of the human being, Hegelian ideas of the formation of the free human being in society, and care ethics.