Bøger af Rebecca Harris

BILLIE FOSTER is a seventeen-year-old with a bit of an attitude problem. It wasn't long ago that she had it all: booming social life, loving boyfriend, anything and everything a beautiful, popular teenage girl could want. That is until her life is taken by a violent and mysterious school fire, leaving her forever trapped in limbo, alone and jaded in the afterlife. Upon reaching the afterlife, Billie is put to work, assigned to the organization known only as THE GUARDIANS, a group of spirits charged with the task of keeping the living alive. But Billie is no "employee of the month." Why should she protect the living when no one did the same for her? Fed up with her cynicism and total disregard for authority, her boss, THE CAPTAIN, gives her an ultimatum: work with a partner or face the consequences of her carelessness. TUCKER REID is a charming and hardworking member of the Self-Sacrifice organization, and much to Billie's dismay, exactly what The Captain orders. Right off the bat, Tucker proves he isn't afraid to keep her in line, refusing to back down from what he knows is right. Little does Billie suspect, however, that Tucker carries with him secrets of his own. BENEDICT FORD is a teenager who is still alive, but someone is trying to kill him. He becomes Billie and Tucker's first assignment, but all three of them soon learn that that things are neither as they seem nor as they should be. Something in the afterlife is askew, threatening to destroy them all. Can Billie, Tucker and Benedict work together? Or will their differences be their ultimate downfall?

We know education is not a level playing field. Those living with early adversity are starting school significantly less likely to complete their education than their peers who have things easier. When educators and schools understand childhood trauma, they are well placed to embed wellbeing practices into every interaction, and when those interactions are trauma-informed and trauma-responsive, students' lives are positively impacted in a deep and enduring way. Safe to Learn offers readers an understanding of behaviour through the lens of trauma and adversity and provides practical strategies for primary schools and educators to become trauma-informed and responsive in a way that best supports all students, regardless of their life experiences. Safe to Learn offers guidance for schools to introduce, or expand, a whole-school model of integrated wellbeing practice and support for individual teachers to learn how they can make a significant difference to their students. This book also provides the tools to identify which interventions may benefit a student or class and ideas for tracking and showing wellbeing growth.

Billie and Tuck are ready to put the past behind them and get back to work after the chaos of their previous assignment. With Billie transferred to a new division, however, getting back to normal might not be as easy as they hoped. In her new position as a Reaper, Billie is tasked with taking souls rather than saving them. And when she discovers that her first assignment is none other than Benedict Ford, a boy she once sacrificed everything for to keep alive, her world only spirals further out of her control. Little does Ford know that his soul has triggered a fight between life and death, one like the afterlife has never seen. Friendships will be tested, true love will be shaken to its core, and secrets long forgotten will come back to haunt the dead. Working toward two very different outcomes, Tuck and Billie must decide once and for all where their loyalties lie, even if their choices may threaten to tear them apart for good. Will they cross over the line in the sand, or will their choices lead them to a fate they never saw coming?

Billie and Tucker are back in The Dead of Winter, the third installment of The Guardian Chronicles. The two of them are once again working together, saving lives under the new head of the Guardian department, Malcolm. With their partnership running like a well-oiled machine, Billie and Tucker seem to have finally found a place in the afterlife. Not everything is as seems with their new leader, and it's only a matter of time before long buried secrets come to light. From the roaring twenties to the chaotic world of the hereafter, Tucker and Billie slowly begin unraveling the many mysteries surrounding their former ally. They soon uncover more than they bargained for, and learn that some secrets are best carried to the grave.

This book collects the oral histories of the villages surrounding Escuela de la Montaña, a Spanish language immersion school in the mountains outside Colomba, Guatemala.