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Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. This pack contains one of each of the following original stories: The Story of the Train Stop, Pirate Percy's Parrot, The Wish Fisher, Doug Lugg, Boy Slug, Charlie and the Aztecs, Superhero Bunny League Saves the World!.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child.This pack contains six of each of the following original stories: The Story of the Train Stop, Pirate Percy's Parrot, The Wish Fisher, Doug Lugg, Boy Slug, Charlie and the Aztecs, Superhero Bunny League Saves the World!.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

Sakura is a Wish Fisher. She catches wish fish and delivers each fish to its rightful owner so their wish can come true. One day, she notices that there don't seem to be many wish fish in the river, and discovers that the Emperor has stolen them! The Wish Fisher is an enchanting and gorgeously-illustrated story about wishes and friendship. Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's imaginations. These 36 original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children's reading experience, with something to appeal to every child. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it's easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children's reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.

The Buzzing Bee is a fully decodable phonics reader aligned to Reception Autumn 2 Week 4 of Essential Letters and Sounds. This engaging book helps children apply their phonics learning in context through fun and accessible reading. Perfect for early readers, it supports systematic phonics progression and complements existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press.Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) is a Department for Education validated synthetic phonics programme, developed by the Knowledge Schools Trust English Hub to help children learn to read quickly and confidently.Structured around daily lessons and matched to the progression of the original Letters and Sounds framework, ELS provides a clear, systematic approach to phonics. Each stage is supported by engaging decodable books, interactive resources, and practical guidance for parents and teachers.Used in classrooms across the UK, ELS is designed to build fluent readers, confident speakers, and willing writers. Affordable, flexible, and easy to implement, it works seamlessly with existing resources while offering everything needed to support children's literacy journey both at school and at home.

A Good Spot allows children to apply their phonics learning from Reception, Summer 1, Week 5 of Essential Letters and Sounds. These readers complement existing Oxford University Press decodable books and can be used alongside them to strengthen phonics teaching and reading confidence.Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education.Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) is a Department for Education validated synthetic phonics programme, developed by the Knowledge Schools Trust English Hub to help children learn to read quickly and confidently.Structured around daily lessons and matched to the progression of the original Letters and Sounds framework, ELS provides a clear, systematic approach to phonics. Each stage is supported by engaging decodable books, interactive resources, and practical guidance for parents and teachers.Used in classrooms across the UK, ELS is designed to build fluent readers, confident speakers, and willing writers. Affordable, flexible, and easy to implement, it works seamlessly with existing resources while offering everything needed to support children's literacy journey both at school and at home.

A New Home allows children to apply their phonics learning from Year 1, Autumn 2, Week 2 of Essential Letters and Sounds. These readers complement existing Oxford University Press decodable books and can be used alongside them to strengthen phonics teaching and reading confidence.Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education.Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) is a Department for Education validated synthetic phonics programme, developed by the Knowledge Schools Trust English Hub to help children learn to read quickly and confidently.Structured around daily lessons and matched to the progression of the original Letters and Sounds framework, ELS provides a clear, systematic approach to phonics. Each stage is supported by engaging decodable books, interactive resources, and practical guidance for parents and teachers.Used in classrooms across the UK, ELS is designed to build fluent readers, confident speakers, and willing writers. Affordable, flexible, and easy to implement, it works seamlessly with existing resources while offering everything needed to support children's literacy journey both at school and at home.

All Kinds of Castles allows children to apply their phonics learning from Year 1, Spring 2, Week 2 of Essential Letters and Sounds.Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds.Essential Letters and Sounds (ELS) is a Department for Education validated synthetic phonics programme, developed by the Knowledge Schools Trust English Hub to help children learn to read quickly and confidently.Structured around daily lessons and matched to the progression of the original Letters and Sounds framework, ELS provides a clear, systematic approach to phonics. Each stage is supported by engaging decodable books, interactive resources, and practical guidance for parents and teachers.Used in classrooms across the UK, ELS is designed to build fluent readers, confident speakers, and willing writers. Affordable, flexible, and easy to implement, it works seamlessly with existing resources while offering everything needed to support children's literacy journey both at school and at home.

Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. Best Friends allows children to apply their phonics learning from Year 1 , Summer 2, Week 6 of Essential Letters and Sounds.

The Eighth Cross is a gripping crime thriller set in the small Texas Panhandle town of Dalhart, following Police Chief Jacob Croft and Medical Examiner Dr. Rachel Bishop as they investigate a series of coordinated bombings that begin with the destruction of the town's hospital.When a massive explosion tears through Dalhart Memorial Hospital, Jacob Croft—the town's newly appointed police chief still haunted by his failed marriage—discovers a cryptic note in the hand of a dying security guard: eight crosses marked on a map, with one circled in red. As Jacob and Rachel race to prevent the remaining seven attacks, they uncover a conspiracy far larger than a single bomber's revenge.

A Cage Built of Silence is a haunting, atmospheric psychological drama that follows a young girl whose world fractures beneath the weight of the truths the adults around her refuse to see. Set within the polished, curated perfection of an upper‑middle‑class home, the novel explores the devastating consequences of denial, complicity, and the quiet ways a child learns to survive when the people meant to protect her choose comfort over truth.

A Novel of Institutional Complicity and the Cost of Being RightWhen Elara speaks at a charity gala, naming her abuser in a room full of people who would rather not hear it, she expects relief. Instead, she gets silence—and the slow, grinding machinery of a system designed to absorb pressure rather than act.Three weeks later, she arrives at Harwick University on a scholarship she earned, carrying a USB drive, a borrowed apartment's worth of sleepless nights, and a green notebook she doesn't yet know she'll fill. Her cross-disciplinary seminar on trauma and narrative is taught by Professor Desmond Hale—brilliant, magnetic, and flawless in company. He is also, Elara recognizes with bone-deep pattern recognition, the same architecture she escaped.She begins documenting. Not from certainty, but from discipline: accurate uncertainty, held at the precise edge of what the evidence supports.As the pattern accumulates—private feedback, calculated withdrawal, an invitation to his home—Elara builds a case while pretending to be a normal first-year student. Alongside her: a roommate who tells the truth as a default setting, a law student who files FOIA requests without being asked, a philosophy major whose presence asks nothing and offers everything, and a woman across state lines who once said *I won't pretend anymore* and meant it.*The Silence After* is a novel about what it costs to be right, what it means to be believed, and how people survive the systems designed to fail them—by refusing to be alone.

Elara arrives at Harwick University carrying the weight of a past she's still learning to name. When a mysterious email arrives—Re: Professor Hale—I think you know someone at my institution—she decides not to read it standing up in a library entrance hall. She'll wait until morning, with a plan.The message launches an investigation that reaches far beyond her own experience. Desmond Hale's administrative leave was only the surface. Beneath it lies a network spanning sixteen years: a small college in Maine, an archivist's hidden notebook, a foundation called the Ashford Institute, and a third man whose face appears only at the edge of photographs, deliberately angled away from cameras.What she finds is not one predator, but a system—a family enterprise with institutional cover that has moved through educational spaces since 1998. With Ben, the librarian who pays the right kind of attention, and Miriam, who understands that the law's value is in its reach, Elara builds a record precise enough to survive institutional absorption. Witnesses emerge: Margaret Chip, who kept silent for sixteen years; Ava Shaffer, who describes the mechanism of coordinated abuse in a single dinner; her own friend Eleanor, who has been waiting over a year to speak.The investigation fractures the network. Keller is indicted. Hale loses his certification. Samuel Scragge disappears. The work isn't finished—it never is—but the record exists now, independent of anyone's preference that it hadn't.By June, Elara knows what comes next: crisis intervention training, the specific work of showing up correctly in someone's worst moment. The hypervigilance she spent years managing becomes a tool. What she survived becomes a training. Both things are true.She sits on the east quad with the people she built this with—Eleanor steadier than before, Miriam accepted to law school, Ben beside her, all of them going forward into the work they've discovered they were meant for. The future is visible now, not because it's certain, but because she knows she can meet it.Here is what I know. Here is what I can prove. Here is where I start.She writes it in the green notebook one last time, closes it, and begins again.