![]() ![]() They fall into an old iron mine, from which they escape. After another asteroid hit, Amelia and Uglesnoo come under suspicion and are briefly imprisoned. ![]() They have problems of their own: They are suffering from asteroid strikes that create a sickening fog of dust, hospitalizing many. But the Merballs are basically friendly and don’t want trouble. ![]() Hostile Venutons of Venus, the twosome’s last stop, try to prevent Amelia and Uglesnoo from trading with the Merballs (“ Do not keep these criminals. Next on the list: five pairs of flying shoes from Mercury, inhabited by Merballs. Some the duo has already collected, like five boxes of dandelions from Earth. A repelling crystal from Neptune will heal her, but that planet’s Queen Neep will barter it only in exchange for a long list of objects from around the solar system. In two previous children’s books, 8-year-old Amelia, a white girl with reddish hair, agreed to help Uglesnoo, a three-armed purple alien from Pluto, cure his ailing sister. A space-traveling girl continues gathering items to help save her alien friend’s sister in this third series outing. ![]()
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![]() Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor with more than twenty years experience in women's health. Topics include how to come off hormonal birth control what your period should be like what can go wrong how to talk to your doctor treatment protocols for all common period problems, including PCOS and endometriosis. Lara's book, previously self-published, has already garnered rave reader reviews because of its willingness to deal with this important aspect of women's health openly and compassionately.Ĭontaining invaluable advice for women of every age and circumstance, and detailing natural treatments from nutritional supplements to a healthy diet, this book promises to help women change their relationship with their menstrual cycle. ![]() Half the population will menstruate in their lifetime, and 1 in 2 women will struggle with their period health. ![]() Naturopathic doctor Lara Briden wants to give women the knowledge and tools to improve their period health. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this way, they are able to stave off their hunger but all their other requests for communication are ignored. There are no windows or doors and the only entrance to the bunker is via an elevator that won’t go up if anyone is in it.Īfter Linus arrives, Jenny, a nine-year-old girl who, after adjusting to her new reality, suggests they request some food by sending a note up in the elevator. Linus, as the first to be kidnapped, establishes that there are cameras watching his every move, cameras and microphones that allow his abductor to keep a constant watch on every room of the bunker, even, as the six victims find, the bathroom. Six lives, six personalities that may or may not get along, may or may not manage to cohabit the restricted space. Six rooms, six people abducted and locked in with no way out and no contact with their abductor (whom the victims assume to be a man). Kevin Brooks’ 2014 Carnegie Medal winning YA novel is a claustrophobic, dark little thing, all teeth and tension and terror. ![]() In fact, they’re trapped with each others’ fears. ![]() None of them know why they are there or who has put them there, but before long each person will realise that they are trapped not just with strangers but with their own fears as well. THE Bunker Diary is 16-year-old Linus’ diary, written in an underground bunker where he has been trapped along with five strangers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which may suggest that Poe is introducing irony into the story. It is as though Roderick is left powerless by his ‘madness.’ Just as he is trying to control Madeline he is unable to control his own mind. It is also interesting that Roderick asks the narrator to help him to overcome his ‘madness’ however it is the same ‘madness’ that kills Roderick. It is noticeable that Madeleine does not have any type of freedom nor does she engage with others like the narrator. Which may or may not be controlled by Roderick. ![]() She finds it difficult to live in her environment. She isolates herself from the world which may leave some readers to suggest that Madeline’s sense of conflict is external. Madeline too is in conflict though not necessarily with herself. If anything things for Roderick and Madeline are as bleak as the setting of the story. While he himself, due to his mental fragility, also realises that on his death the House of Usher will fall. He knows that he is the last remaining male in the House of Usher and that Madeline through her illness may never marry. Which may help to explain the ‘madness’ that the narrator feels Roderick is succumbing to. ![]() ![]() Narrated in the first person by an unnamed male narrator the reader realises after reading the story that Poe may be exploring the theme of conflict. In The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe we have the theme of conflict, isolation, fear, control, powerlessness and friendship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In this royal battle, can there be room for two? ![]() The palace wants Dominic’s classic perfection. When Dominic and Sylvie learn they will be fighting for the once in a lifetime opportunity to bake a cake for the upcoming wedding of Princess Rose, the flour begins to fly as they fight to come out on top. Her fantastical baking is only slightly more troublesome than the fact that he can’t stop thinking about her pink-streaked hair and irrepressible dimple. Learning that Sylvie will be joining him on the Operation Cake judging panel is enough to make the famously dour baker even more grim. The toast of Instagram, Sugar Fair has captured the attention of the Operation Cake producers…and a princess.ĭominic is His Majesty the King’s favorite baker and a veritable British institution. Since then, Sylvie has used her fame to fulfill her dream of opening a bakery. When Sylvie’s unicorn cake went spectacularly sideways, Dominic was quick to vote her off the show. Her ingenious, creations captivated viewers and intrigued all but one of the judges, Dominic De Vere. Four years ago, Sylvie Fairchild charmed the world as a contestant on the hit baking show, Operation Cake. ![]() |