In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that’s not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save thei…
On a normal street, in an ordinary house, lives an extraordinary boy! Megaboy and his trusty sidekick, Megadog, keep their town safe and sound. Just one thing stands in their way… Dastardly Dad! Will they escape from their chores? Will they stop the villain before bedtime?
A new bicycle is a frustrating present for a little boy until he unlocks the magic needed to ride it...
If I turn out to be mentally deranged in adult life, it will be all my mother's fault. Adrian Mole continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
In depression-era California, two migrant workers dream of better days on a spread of their own until an act of unintentional violence leads to tragic consequences
High spirits, sportsmanship, academics and honour as practised by a school boy in an early nineteenth-century English boarding school.
Ever since his dad got rich from an invention and his family moved to a wealthy neighborhood on Long Island, Tony Miglione's life has been turned upside down. For starters, there's his new friend Joel, who shoplifts. Then there's Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, Lisa, who gets undressed every night without pulling down her shades. And there's Grandma, who won't come down from her bedroom. On top…
Presents the adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle.
A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister myste…
Troubled by family problems, Henry finds his life taking a whole new dimension when he and his friend, old Mr. Fogarty, become involved with Prince Pyrgus Malvae who has been sent from the faerie world in order to escape the treacherous Faeries of the Night.
In this involving tale, master storyteller Michael Morpurgo tells of a boyhood in an idyllic Suffolk village fifty years ago. The village is a stone's throw from the sea, with a gull on every chimney stack, and is peopled by quirky characters such as the three Stebbing sisters, the white moustachioed Colonel Burton and Bennie the village thug. But the heroine of this story is the serene Mrs. Pe…
Summary: Back to school, but it's not all bad. Sport's Day, the School Fair and my birthday are coming up so this term's going to be amazing! Mostly because Delia's not invited to any of these. There's only one small problem with my birthday, Grann
Alif has just graduated from Pondok Madani. He's even been able to dream in Arabic and English. His dream? Correct height. Want to learn high tech in London like Habibie, then migrated to the United States. bubbling with zeal and he returned to Maninjau not wait to get to college. But her best friend, Randai, doubt he was able to pass UMPTN. Then he realized, there is one important thing that h…
Ginny had to find out... Ginny had always felt different from the other members of her family. She wasn't as pretty as her sisters, and her brother was too young, and besides, he was a boy. She'd never had a really close friend. When they moved to a new neighborhood, her life changed. She met Mark and Miss Nellie. Mark was quite simply the nicest guy she'd ever known. Miss Nellie was more of a …