Twelve-year-old Marie and her mother care for two wounded soldiers, one English and one German, at their home in 1940s Nazi-occupied France.

In search of work, food, and shelter during the Great Depression of the 1930s, fourteen-year-old Molly takes to riding freight trains across the country, and learns about human nature in tough times.

Written by a number of expert scholars from around the world, including China itself, with the aim of extending knowledge and taking the cross-cultural study of PE and sport beyond the descriptive level, this book provides unique and up to date material.Subjects covered include:*ancient and modern history*structure, administration and finance*PE in schools and colleges*elite sport*sport science and medicine*gender issues.Anyone wishing to gain an insight into the PE and sporting experience of Chinese citizens both in historical and contemporary society will find this book essential reading. It is an indispensable resource for students taking comparative sport studies courses, sports historians, and academics with a general interest in the cross-cultural field.

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Becka and Scott travel to Louisiana to try to help a girl caught up in voodoo, and find their own lives in danger.

Product Description: This is the life story of Nelson Mandela, and how he struggled against oppression to become a symbol of the human rights movement. It tells what life was like for him and how he helped to change people's lives. There are watercolour paintings to illustrate the stories.

Collects ten traditional Russian folk tales featuring Ivan the fool, Baba Yagâa, and Misha the bear. (view table of contents)

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Recounts the adventures of Gulliver among the tiny Lilliputians and the giant Brobdingnagians

Introduces, in text and illustrations, the various characters that inhabit the world of Narnia and sets them in the context of the Narnia stories; also includes an outline of Narnian history.

Recounts tales of King Arthur and his knights, based on Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur' and other medieval sources

Collects nine stories from differenct cultures, including the Incas, Aztecs, and Chinese, about the sun, moon, and stars.

When the daughter of the river goddess Yemoya goes to the Land of Shining Day to marry a handsome earth chief, her longing for the cool darkness of her former home causes Night to be brought to the world

Looks at the political and social aspects of sports during the last one hundred years

Product Description: This unique book tells the story of the fate of those branded as kulak, and rounded yp in 1929 and 1930in the Kurgan region of Russia. What is more, the works are those of the children and grandchildren of the yeoman farmers who suffered dispossession...read more

Little Bunny Bobkin wants to learn how to count, but all the animals shoo him away when he tries, until he wanders into the foxes' den and he must use his counting skills to avoid becoming rabbit stew.

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Hercules, son of the god Zeus and a mortal woman, renowned for his great strength, performs twelve dangerous tasks to atone for an attack on his wife and children

A collection of twenty legends from different North American tribes

Introduces, in text and illustrations, the various characters that inhabit the world of Narnia and sets them in the context of the Narnia stories; also includes an outline of Narnian history.