Bøger af Wendy James

Flying-monkey-cats, spaceships, ice cream, mutant snails, a futuristic school and much more! Join Immi on her journey to find courage and friendship with her imagination leading the way. Watch her daydreams unfold into an amazing world of great adventure! A full color chapter book, with over 200 highly detailed images; for ages 9 and up. Immi the Alien is a great book to read aloud. It features highly detailed artwork throughout the book. There are also lessons in science adding facts about rocks, stars, volcanoes and more. The book also allows the reader to uniquely become part of the story allowing them to write their name directly into the story for a personalized journey with Immi. To learn more visit: www.immithealien.com

Noxon gets a new style! In this prequel to Immi the Alien, Noxon Neven live streams her visit to one of Kivik's well known beauty salons. In this fun, tech-inspired, video formatted book, Nox has a decision to make before her big move to the planet Esse. Will she choose an Afro, a Mohawk, a Mullet, a Bowl-cut or something else? Explore hairstyles throughout the ages and find out what hairstyle she chooses before her big move.

In this 32-page excerpt from the full color chapter book Immi the Alien, Immi has a daydream filled with action and adventure. While she is daydreaming, she snaps out of it to discover she must give a presentation in front of her class the next day. Wondering how she will deal with this recent issue in a pile of problems, Immi rolls up her sleeves and gets to work. She is determined to keep trying to have a better time at school and make some friends. The next morning, she receives a notification from her teacher that her presentation will now be in front of the entire school. Will she break under the pressure or will she soar like her piloting daydreams? Find out now in Immi's Daring Daydream. Read the entire story in Immi the Alien. For ages 9+

"Running from a bad relationship, journalist Jo Sharpe heads home to Arthurville, the drought-stricken town she turned her back on years earlier. While some things have changed--her relationship with her ailing, crotchety father, her new job at the community newspaper--Jo finds that her return has rekindled the grief and uncertainty she experienced during her childhood following the inexplicable disappearance of her mother and baby sister. Returning to Arthurville has its unexpected pleasures, though, as Jo happily reconnects with old friends and makes a few new ones. But she can't let go of her search for answers to that long-ago mystery. And as she keeps investigating, the splash she's making begins to ripple outward--far beyond the disappearance of her mother and sister"--

Australia is the largest and most amazing island in the world - but climate change poses an existential threat

A shocking crime draws accused and accuser into a complex web of secrets and lies in a twisting novel of suspense by the bestselling author of The Golden Child.When eighteen-year-old Ellie Canning is discovered wandering the countryside, dazed and traumatized, she tells a harrowing story of abduction, captivity, and escape. An overnight symbol of survival and empowerment, Ellie enthralls an outraged nation.Then authorities zero in on an unlikely suspect: high school teacher Suzannah Wells, identified by Ellie as the woman who kept her drugged and bound in a basement. The evidence against Suzannah is damning--vilified by the media, Suzannah's only defense is that not a single word Ellie says is true. Suzannah has no reason to lie. But then again, neither does Ellie.The nightmare spins out of control as disturbing details about Suzannah's past emerge, and the court of public opinion wants blood. Even those closest to Suzannah begin to doubt her. But how innocent is she? How innocent is Ellie? And which one has more to hide?Revised edition: This edition of The Accusation includes editorial revisions.

In the final volume of her trilogy, Wendy James presents a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war.

Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', this book discusses the conceptual ordering of space, time, and rhythm; the mutualities of language, consciousness, ritual and religious practice; the dialectics of gender and generation; power, war, and peace; and large-scale modern social formations, such as the city.