The perfect guide for new workers entering residential childcare. Adopting a case study approach, this book contains a collection of stories of good practice told from the point of view of the residential care worker that help to demonstrate how they deal with dilemmas and make effective decisions in the moment.Workers in residential childcare have to quickly understand the complexity of how young people's early neglect, abuse and relational trauma impact their liv...

'Second Chance Cafe' is a Christmas collection of four tales of romance and second chances by Susanne Bellamy, Elizabeth Ellen Carter, Noelle Clark and Abbie Jackson. Susanne Bellamy's The Wish List continues the author's track record of rural romance set in Australia as well as contemporary and suspense romances set in exotic global locations. In the south-east Queensland city of Toowoomba, handsome accountant Jack Schulz sweeps into Julie Aster's life. He is the answer to her dilemma and...

Dory likes to stay home with her friends.But when school starts, her sister and brother tell her it’s time to make a real friend.They don’t know there is a girl in Dory’s class who lives in a castle and has a dragon.Could she be REAL?Dory the irresistible rascal is headed to school. And she is taking her imagination with her!

Dory wants to be a pirate.So she can find a treasure. And help her big sister, Violet.But being a pirate is harder than Dory imagined.Sail away with Dory on a mighty ocean adventure.

Dory got lost.Then she got found!She never wants to be separated from her family again.Good thing Dory knows just what to do to keep them close.Get goofy—and ghostly—with Dory, that irresistible rascal!

Dilemmas and Decision Making in Social Work is a collection of stories to help social workers work with dilemmas, weigh up options and make good decisions.Told in the first person from the point of view of a social worker, each case study begins with the service user’s story and then applies relevant theory. It demonstrates where workers have to think outside their own frames of reference and seek other’s expertise, how they work with barriers to c...

In this powerful picture book about a girl experiencing loss, The Good for Nothing Puddle helps children explore the nature of grief and loss and leads them to find hope and redemption from pain.When a girl loses the thing she loves the most, her tears gather into a puddle around her feet that follows her everywhere she goes. At first, she tries her best to make it go away, but it is inescapable. She even cries out to God to take it away. Eventually, a pup...

Dory’s older brother and sister think she’s a baby.They won’t play with her. But that’s okay. Because Dory has other things to do …… and LOTS of other friends …… who think she is FANTASTIC.This hilarious charmer about an irresistible rascal is perfect for the youngest and the oldest—and everyone in between.

I'm NOT Batman. I'm Captain Puff!I have super strength, super speed, and super imagination!But the superpower Dory really needs is to learn how to read.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES WITH OVER 80 MILLION COPIES SOLD • Junie B. Jones learns that there are rules around finders keepers in the hit chapter book series that keeps kids laughing and “makes reading fun” (Dav Pilkey, author of Dog Man).“Junie B. is the darling of the young-reader set.”—USA TodayMeet the World’s Funniest Kindergartner—Junie B. Jones! A terrible thing happened to Junie B.! And it’s...

Part One in the brilliant new series from the bestselling author of the Star and Sixpence series. Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley.The picture house by the sea is the Palace at Polwhipple – a lovely art deco cinema, nestled in front of azure Cornish seas. But it is long past its heyday now, and its only saving grace is Ferrelli's, the family run ice-cream concession in the foyer, which is famed for selling the best ice cream for miles.When...

The debut thriller from the bestselling author of The Last.He's paid to kill. Not paid to think.Nic Caruana never wanted to be a killer. But life took a few wrong turns, and now he works as a hitman for a violent arms dealer. His boss's teenage daughter has been kidnapped, and it's Nic's job to find her – using any weapon he needs to get to the truth.Nic's hunt for the girl will take him to the darkest corners of London's criminal underworld...