Modern accurate and stageable translations of five of Gorky's plays

WINNER of the 2010 Cilip Carnegie Medal, the Newbery Medal and the Booktrust Teenage Book Prize 2009, and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Award Stunningly illustrated by Chris Riddell, who brings the ghouls, ghosts and hero wonderfully to life in this fantastic ghost adventure story, laced with menace and humour

"The best of the UK in 55 bike routes"--Cover.

Exposes the government's city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain's schools.

Considers what children's writing reveals about their reading experience, and how teachers can help children to become more careful and critical readers. The work also addresses issues including the relationship between oracy and literacy, and offers guidance for developing a literacy curriculum.