Books by Sue Purkiss

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level Find out about the fascinating life of William Shakespeare - the world's most famous playwright. How did the politics of the time, and the queens, kings and rulers, affect his writing? Who was this man who had such a way with words?

An orphan child full of mischief, Jack lives with his widow aunt in eighteenth-century England. One day, Aunt Constance decides that his bachelor uncle can take care of him. What follows is an adventure that will see Jack and his uncle sail to India, cross the jungle and reach their mountainous destination, before returning to London.

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level

What could be worse for a ghost than not being frightening enough? That's Spooker's problem as he faces his Practical Haunting exams at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School. Spooker must find a way to spook the most unspookable people imaginable - or maybe ghosts don't have to be scary, after all?