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Legendary catgirl and head of the Runes, Matilda Peppercorn, is called to some SWAGGey action when a swarm of strange visitors arrive at the School of I.C.E. with a message. Someone, somewhere, is waking up. But who? Scotland's mysterious fairy folk and famous monsters? The race known only as 'the Others' who terrify all of witchkind? Or something much, much worse? Yes, yes and ... yes! Terrible trials are testing the world. It's going to take a team effort to fight off what's awoken, if Tilly's old friends and her her team of SWAGG can stop fighting with each other! But Tilly's been woken up too. She's always been a legend. Now, with SWAGG, she's about to discovere her ultimate destiny ...

The darkness is spreading. Gideon Flynn, SWAGG's beloved leader, is rapidly becoming more shadow than light. And it's not just Flynn. Destructive forces are stealing across the planet, causing rifts in families, in continents, in the Earth itself ... As super-scientist Stein races to create a way to bring Gideon back from the Shadows, with the help of his old friend Frank and his new SWAGG team, they realise that Flynn is always secretive for a reason. He knows something. He knows what's coming. And he knows how to stop it. So if SWAGG can't bring him back before he disappears forever into the blackness, it's going to spell disaster - and not just for Gideon and SWAGG, but for everyone on Earth.

Evil Inspector-General Hopkins has a list. He's checking it twice. And he's definitely not Santa ... Ever since Hallowe'en, Matilda Peppercorn has felt like she's being watched. Weirdy women keep popping up in all sorts of strange places. On the special mosaic in her garden. Up a tree at the tumbledown building where she and BFF Mattan hang out. Even at the competition for her beloved kickboxing. And they're not just watching. They're testing her, for a job she's even never heard of and that involves furballs and feline fighting. Crazy, yes? Surely that's impossible. It's time for the Flying Matildas, Tilly and Mattan, to do some police detectiving of their own. And if anyone's up to the task, it's Matilda Peppercorn: magical mayhem, loyalest bestie ever and kick-boxing power-packer .... all in one legendary teen. From Jill Marshall, author of the best-selling series about Jane Blonde, Sensational Spylet. Follow Tilly and gang to uncover the mystery of what it takes to be a living legend!

With the evolving nature of the social studies curriculum within elementary schools, the time devoted to teaching core social studies subjects in the elementary grades has been severely reduced. In this critical time of education, teacher education programs need to put more effort into understanding the ideas and attitudes toward social studies education that pre-service teachers develop during their preparation courses. In "Voices from the Field," Jill Marshall¿s research focuses on the impact that past social studies experiences had on pre-service teachers¿ attitudes toward teaching social studies. The purpose of the study was to investigate elementary pre-service teachers¿ initial and developing ideas of teaching elementary social studies over time. The findings suggest that prior experiences with social studies do affect a pre- service teacher¿s ideas on the subject, but that those ideas are subject to change, and the uncertainty that comes with learning how to teach does not necessarily translate into how pre-service teachers actually perform in the classroom.

Analyzes and critiques 'second wave' feminists who discuss how philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, Descartes, Hobbes and Kant regard human beings and their capacities. The author suggests adopting an inclusive universal concept of the human being, Hegelian ideas of the formation of the free human being in society, and care ethics.