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First, make no mistake, adults love horror stories too. It’s just that teenagers are more likely to go to movies to watch them together, which in turn leads to more horror films being made with teenagers as protagonists as studios cash in on this. Money drives the world, right? But still … the violence in horror – the death, torture, all that. Why do we like it at all? A million theories. But one thing is for sure: many of us do, not just teenagers. As Christopher Booker says

Thanks to Bloomsbury Education I am sharing this short video of A.F Harrold, creator of A Pocket Book of Pocket Poems, a few examples from the book and a set of activity sheets you are welcome to download...

Can anyone wind you up like your brother or sister? They are the first people you compete with, the first person who figures out what really makes you mad. Even now, as an adult with my own children and responsibilities up to my eyeballs, if I have a row with my sister that all goes out of the window. I’m five years old all over again. In my new teen horror, Uncle Zeedie , older sister Lacey and younger brother George have to stay at their family friend’s house in the middle