Mandy has been picked on in school for as long as she can remember so she is delighted when cheeky, daring Tanys wants to be her friend, but Tanya has a secret that scares Mandy as much as the girls who bully her.
Charlie thinks history is boring, until her class begins a project on the Victorians and she discovers Lottie. Charlie and Lottie lead a double life but then Charlie does something truly wicked and things start to go terribly wrong.
Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it?
Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, Shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives. Sequel to "Shabanu, Daughter of the Wind."
During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.
Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
Venice, Italy 1592 - Donata Mocenigo daughter of the city's noble families, leads a life of wealthy privilege constrained by the strict rules of etiquette a young noblewoman must observe - So Donata comes up with a daring plan to escape the palazzo and explore Venice.
Eliza Naumann, an unremarkable nine-yaer-old, feels out of place in her gifted family until she discovers a talent for competitive spelling that changes everything. Once-distant teachers regard her with a new fondness and studious classmates begin saving her a place at lunch; her father, meanwhile, begins to lavish attention upon her that he had formerly reserved for her celebral elder brother…
Was written in 1922 by the golden boy of early twentieth-century American fiction, F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of such era-defining masterworks as The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. The tale follows the travails and triumphs of the title character, who is born in the body of an elderly man and becomes progressively younger over the course of his life.
Lauren's tired of being pushed around so she takes a Law class at school. She's determined to find out her rights, and stand up for them. What she isn't expecting to find is a boyfriend - especially one who's a whole year younger than her.