Douggie

Little Douggie is curious about everything, and he has an endless amount of questions that he must find the answers to. Douggie’s Super Science Adventures is a collection of 15 short stories that describe Douggie’s attempt to explore and understand how this world works. Each short story introduces the reader to a new scientific standard by using real-life problems that Douggie has to solve, creating one adventure after another. Each story draws the reader into the mind of a young boy as he problem solves his way through some intriguing scientific questions. His energy and enthusiasm is sure to motivate readers of all ages to start their own adventures in science. The stories are fun to read and make science easy to understand. Since these stories are directly alligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, teachers can use each story to introduce a new standard, motivate their students, and help explain difficult scientific concepts. Everyone loves a good story, and teachers especially love stories with a point. These stories offer something for everyone.

Have you ever marveled at the wisdom you see in the eyes of a dog? Or at the compassion and patience an old dog will show a puppy? Ordinary Dogs, Extraordinary Friendships shares the positive canine character traits explorer Pam Flowers has observed in her thirty-two years of working with dogs. Eleven spellbinding and valuable stories of wisdom, joy, friendship, concern, loyalty, courage, sadness, and even good judgment fill the pages of this book for middle readers.

Your father has been charged with the murder of Ashleigh Richardson, back in 1995. Summer 1995, the Great Barrier Reef. Police divers hover over the reef, looking for traces of Ashleigh by torchlight. Meera is eleven. It's her first sleepover with Lily and Shaun. Cassette recordings from the radio, Sega Mega Drive, and the 'coral club' descends into theories about Ashleigh. Outside over the reef, the Frogman hovers, looking for traces of a missing child. As police search lights refract through the ocean, the annual coral bloom is due, creating an underwater snowstorm. Time is running out. Weaving dreamlike memories of that hot summer with a present day murder investigation, Meera is forced to excavate her past. Frogman is a coming-of-age thriller exploring the fragility of the childhood imagination. A ground-breaking Virtual Reality and live theatre hybrid from the ever-questioning, boundary-pushing, curious directive.

Mystery fiction.

There are some things too important to think about; you just have to do them. Living is a little like that. Generally, thinking is a by-product. So what goes into a life? A collection of experiences the sum total of which filter through memory and in time amounts to what? If you take a chance and turn the pages maybe, just maybe, you’ll come closer to answering that question. Then again, maybe not, but you’ll be no worse off in the process. Cheers, Danny Kragg

New Writing Scotland is a forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland. Every year it publishes some of the best from both emerging and established writers, and lists many of the leading literary lights of Scotland among its past (and present) contributors. This book is a collection of contemporary Scottish literature.