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The Museum Book: A Guide to Strange and Wonderful Collections

Examines how the concept of a museum evolved through history and provides examples of artifacts from present mueum collections throughout the world.

By Richard Holland (illustrator) and Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780763675004 | Reprint edition (Candlewick Pr, August 5, 2014), cover price $8.99

9781406319729 | Gardners Books, June 7, 2010, cover price $10.80

School and Library:

9780763633707 | Candlewick Pr, September 25, 2007, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: Examines how the concept of a museum evolved through history and provides examples of artifacts from present mueum collections throughout the world.

Formula One

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9781842993927 | Gardners Books, April 22, 2010, cover price $10.00

Rats

Product Description: This fantastic book about rats covers a wide range of topics. Find out about traveling rats and rats that live in trees; or read the story of Alex's pet rat, Ratty. Packed with facts and illustrations (did you know that rats can live anywhere - even in sewers?!) This is a wonderful introduction to the animal world for young readers...read more

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780199119301 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 11, 2009, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: This fantastic book about rats covers a wide range of topics.

Road Closed

Connie's Gran's road has been closed. There's going to be a party and the whole street is invited. At first, Connie is nervous, she doesn't live there, she doesn't really know anyone - but as her Gran says getting to know people and making new friends is what the party is all about. It is a tale of the unexplainable, and the magic in friendship.

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780340861004 | Gardners Books, March 2, 2006, cover price $8.35 | About this edition: Connie's Gran's road has been closed.

Voyager

Having risked everything to escape her oppressive life on High Island, Demetria hopes that she is free. But the world beyond is even more terrifying. Snatched first by the government, then 'rescued' by the resistance, Demetria fears she will never be free. But then she begins to understand that there are other things to fight for than her freedom.

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780333997741 | Pan Macmillan, January 6, 2006, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Having risked everything to escape her oppressive life on High Island, Demetria hopes she is finally free.

Paperback:

9780330415897 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, January 5, 2007), cover price $10.55 | About this edition: Having risked everything to escape her oppressive life on High Island, Demetria hopes that she is free.

Riding Tycho

Demetria has never questioned her harsh life on High Island. Then she meets political prisoner Ianto Morgan, who tells her about a strange stories and freedom. Demetria is captivated by the possibility of a life without limits, but is Ianto telling the truth or is it all dangerous lies?

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780340913208 | Hodder Murray, November 30, 2005, cover price $19.95

Paperback:

9780330400879 | New edition (Pan Macmillan, January 6, 2006), cover price $10.60 | About this edition: Demetria has never questioned her harsh life on High Island.

Turbulence

Clay is a normal teenager who likes watching films with her Dad. But when a new neighbour befriends her Mum, she starts to feel uneasy. Clay knows there is something odd about the new family, yet she can't help being drawn to them. This book presents a tale of how a family become entangled in the turbulent lives of another.

By Jan Mark

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9780340860991 | Gardners Books, November 17, 2005, cover price $10.35 | About this edition: Clay is a normal teenager who likes watching films with her Dad.

A Jetblack Sunrise: Poems About War And Conflict

Collects poems from contemporary and classic poets about war and its aftermath.

By Jan Mark (compiler) and John Yates (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780750242936 | Hodder & Stoughton, March 30, 2005, cover price $16.99

Paperback:

9780340893791 | Hodder & Stoughton, March 30, 2005, cover price $8.99 | About this edition: Collects poems from contemporary and classic poets about war and its aftermath.

Stratford Boys: With Web Teacher Material

Product Description: Will is a glover's son, who spends his days fitting gloves to pretty hands in his father's busy shop, and apart from the odd poem he's never before put pen to paper. But the good people of Stratford require a play, and with his pal Adrian Croft he finds himself responsible for putting one on the stage...read more

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780340883549 | Hodder Murray, January 30, 2005, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Will is a glover's son, who spends his days fitting gloves to pretty hands in his father's busy shop, and apart from the odd poem he's never before put pen to paper.

Stratford Boys

Will spends his days fitting gloves to pretty hands in his father's busy shop. But the good people of Stratford require a play and Will finds himself responsible. With the help of a motley selection of friends and neighbours, will he get to hear the sound of applause when they take to the stage?

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780340860984 | New edition (Hodder Childrens Book, April 15, 2004), cover price $12.70 | About this edition: Will spends his days fitting gloves to pretty hands in his father's busy shop.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781840329735 | Hodder Childrens Book, April 15, 2004, cover price $27.35

Useful Idiots

Set in a realistic dystopic future, where the lowlands of Britain are flooded, this novel explores a world where archaeology is controlled for fear of social unrest. One bleak morning, a storm across the North Sea unveils a human skull, which leads to a series of events that changes the lives of those involved.

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780385750233 | David Fickling Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In 2255, a graduate student named Merrick unwittingly finds himself thrown into an extraordinary adventure in the Reserve where the Aboriginals live after a violent storm across the North Sea reveals a human skull.

9780385604130 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 1, 2004), cover price $22.55 | About this edition: Set in a dystopic future where the lowlands of Britain are flooded, this novel explores a world where archaeology is banned for fear of social unrest.

Paperback:

9780099473008 | New edition (Gardners Books, April 7, 2005), cover price $12.65 | About this edition: Set in a realistic dystopic future, where the lowlands of Britain are flooded, this novel explores a world where archaeology is controlled for fear of social unrest.

Library:

9780385750325 | David Fickling Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In 2255, a graduate student named Merrick unwittingly finds himself thrown into an extraordinary adventure in the Reserve where the Aboriginals live after a violent storm across the North Sea reveals a human skull.

Strat and Chatto

Product Description: This is a brilliantly comic tale by a multi-award-winning author.Chatto's a cat with a mouse problem. Strat's a rat with a house problem. But with friends in places high and low and a devious plan all of his own, Strat has the solution to both these problems...read more

By Jan Mark

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9781406313451 | Gardners Books, August 4, 2008, cover price $10.05 | About this edition: This is a brilliantly comic tale by a multi-award-winning author.

Eyes Wide Open

A collection of six short stories. Find out how: visits from the tooth fairy can make you into a millionaire; a journey on the London Underground becomes a magical mystery tour for two lost boys; and a ghostly sighting in a hall of mirrors reveals a long-held family secret.

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780713667172 | Bloomsbury Pub Ltd, October 31, 2003, cover price $8.40 | About this edition: A collection of six short stories.

9780713676488 | Large print edition (A & C Black, January 30, 2003), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Six memorable short stories, never before published in a collection.

Something in the Air

Product Description: Peggy is a fifteen-year-old rather at odds with the world around her. Her older sister berates her constantly for being messy. Her teachers reprimand her for being unladylike. Her best friend has stopped talking to her, because she was so shocked when Peggy explained the facts of life to her...read more

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780385605397 | Gardners Books, June 24, 2003, cover price $22.25 | About this edition: Peggy is a 15-year-old rather at odds with the world around her.

Paperback:

9781849410151 | Gardners Books, September 10, 2009, cover price $31.30 | About this edition: Peggy is a fifteen-year-old rather at odds with the world around her.

9780099432340 | New edition (Gardners Books, March 4, 2004), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Peggy's older sister berates her constantly for being messy.

The Ennead

Isaac is an orphan who at 15 has not yet found his niche on Erato. Unless he does so, he will face deportation - and certain death. He has a plan to make his future safe. It involves importing Eleanor, a stone carver from a distant planet. But she is not what he or anyone else expects.

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780192752239 | New edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 5, 2002), cover price $9.65 | About this edition: Isaac is an orphan who at 15 has not yet found his niche on Erato.

9780671829483 | Pocket Books, June 1, 1980, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Colonists from a dying Earth find a new solar system similar to the one they left behind and proceed to repeat the same destructive pattern in their new environment until near disaster makes them change their living pattern.

Heathrow Nights

Product Description: What do you do if you get banned from the school trip for disrupting a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and you don't want to tell your parents? The solution for Russell and his mates is to hide out in London. But when their plans go wrong, Russell is left alone with his thoughts...read more

By Jonathan Firth (narrator) and Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780435130626 | New edition (Gardners Books, February 4, 2002), cover price $12.30 | About this edition: Banned from the school trip for disrupting a performance of 'Hamlet', Russell and his friends run away to London.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780754052760 | Unabridged edition (Chivers Audio Books, July 1, 2002), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: What do you do if you get banned from the school trip for disrupting a performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet, and you don't want to tell your parents?

Oxford Book of Children's Stories

Product Description: Covering a vast historical range, this anthology is the only book to document the evolution of the children's story in writing over the last 250 years. Jan Mark, herself an accomplished children's author, has selected an inspired sampling of children's stories--44 in all--that brings us both the best-loved and widely-read stories from our youth as well as those gems of storytelling long lost to our children's sleepy bedtime ears...read more

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780192142283, titled "The Oxford Book of Children's Stories" | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.

Paperback:

9780192823977, titled "The Oxford Book of Children's Stories" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 1, 1995), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of short stories written for children over the past 250 years by such authors as Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Carl Sandburg, Joan Aiken, and Rosa Guy.

Prebinding:

9780785785811, titled "Oxford Book of Children's Stories" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $23.70 | About this edition: Covering a vast historical range, this anthology is the only book to document the evolution of the children's story in writing over the last 250 years.

Mr. Dickens Hits Town

At the end of his 1842 American tour, Charles Dickens visits an amateur theater in Montreal where he selects the plays to be performed, take the best roles and costumes for himself, and generally make life difficult for his star-struck hosts.

By Jan Mark and Regolo Ricci (illustrator)

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Hardcover:

9780887764684 | Tundra Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: At the end of his 1842 American tour, Charles Dickens visits an amateur theater in Montreal where he selects the plays to be performed, take the best roles and costumes for himself, and generally make life difficult for his star-struck hosts.

Paperback:

9780887765780 | Tundra Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $7.95

The Midas Touch

A spirited retelling of an ancient legend, marked by mosaic-patterned illustrations, chronicles the growing horror of King Midas as he realizes the god-given gift of the golden touch has terrible side effects.

By Jan Mark and Juan Wijngaard (illustrator)

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9780763604882 | Candlewick Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: A retelling of the classic story of King Midas, who foolishly wishes that everything he touch be turned to gold, and only then realizes his horrible mistake

God's Story

Drawing on explanatory texts written by rabbis two thousand years ago, a retelling of the Old Testament stories--Adam and Eve, Moses and the Ten Commandments, and Noah's ark, among others--dramatizes the relationship between a caring God and his favorite creations who continually turn their backs on him.

By Jan Mark and David Parkins (illustrator)

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9780763603762 | Candlewick Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: An illustrated retelling of stories from the Old Testament, including 'The First Seven Days, 'The Cities on the Plain,' and 'The Plagues and the Passover'

The Tale of Tobias

The king becomes angry with Tobias's father and makes life for his family very difficult, but when a stranger possessing magic and wisdom enters his life, things begin to take a turn for the better, in a retelling of a story from the biblical Apocrypha.

By Jan Mark and Rachel Merriman (illustrator)

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Paperback:

9780030188282, titled "General Chemistry" | 5th edition (Holt Rinehart & Winston, January 1, 1996), cover price $16.95 | also contains General Chemistry

School and Library:

9781564026927 | Candlewick Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Tobias's dog tells what happened when he accompanied his master and a helpful stranger to a faraway city to get the money owed to Tobit, Tobias's blind father

They Do Things Differently There

Charlotte has always thought there was something not right about living in Compton Rosehay (aka Stalemate). Perhaps it's the plastic families or the identical rows of houses. When she meets Elaine, Charlotte spots the cracks in the town's exterior, discovering the hidden world of Stalemate.

By Jan Mark

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Paperback:

9780099413974 | New edition (Gardners Books, September 6, 2001), cover price $8.65 | About this edition: Charlotte has always thought there was something not right about living in Compton Rosehay (aka Stalemate).

9780099264217 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 4, 1996), cover price $5.95

Fun With Mrs. Thumb

Mrs. Thumb, an elegant wooden doll, lives quietly in her furnished dollhouse until, one day, a boisterous, mischievous cat decides to play with her.

By Nicola Bayley (illustrator) and Jan Mark

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9781564022479 | Candlewick Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A cat taunts the inhabitant of a dollhouse until a human comes to offer him his dinner

Silly Tails

An explanation of why vegetables do not talk describes how, long ago, vegetables lived in a garden opposite a band of rabbits, and they insulted those rabbits until the rabbits fought back.

By Jan Mark and Tony Ross (illustrator)

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9780689318436 | Atheneum, May 1, 1993, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An explanation of why vegetables do not talk describes how, long ago, vegetables lived in a garden opposite a band of rabbits, and they insulted those rabbits until the rabbits fought back

In Black and White: And Other Stories

By Jan Mark

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Hardcover:

9780745115849 | Large print edition (Chivers, July 1, 1992), cover price $13.95

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