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Bertha and Fiona are twins. In Bertha's Secret Battle Bertha is fed up with everyone booing her in the wrestling ring and cheering Fiona. It's not fair. Why does Fiona always win?TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read.Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book.

Podgy’s cousin comes to visit him, because she has a will of her own. Olga the magic honey bee helps to tame her ways by using special magic. Podgy goes fishing but he treads on a fishhook and Olga magic’s it better. Bertha has a barbecue, in her haste one or two things go wrong but it doesn’t stop them enjoying the afternoon.

Bertha Siegelman grew up in Munich and witnessed the rise of Nazism. Later, she had a role in its downfall. As a young girl, Bertha realized she could sense people s inner thoughts and peer into the future. Despite her talent, she didn t make clairvoyance her vocation at least not initially or by choice. She attended college in Munich, married, and lectured in history. However, as the Third Reich consolidated, Bertha and her husband lost their positions and she turned to her gift to earn a living. As her reputation as a seer spread, her clientele grew in numbers, devotion, and power. Reinhard Beck, a colonel in German counterintelligence, was deeply impressed by her gift and spread word to the upper circles of Berlin, including Hermann Goring and eventually Adolf Hitler himself. Bertha shaped her counsel in a manner that would help bring the Third Reich down, encouraging political and military leaders, including Hitler and Erwin Rommel, to continue the unwinnable war in Russia and delay the response to Allied landings in France. Ultimately, she uses her powers to see that the greatest evil of all vanishes from this world. A fortune teller, then, had as much to do with Hitler s downfall as any general.