A coming-of-age tale follows 14-year-old Mirabelle, a talented artist from a broken home, who befriends the free-spirited and confident Catherine whose friendship brings Mira out of her shell and teaches her about boys. Mira soon learns that her newly found confidence can be shattered in an instant.
YA. When Bobby’s mother moves the family into a rented house in the country, a neighbour tells him that a child was once murdered there. Bobby doesn’t care. All he wants is to get back to Dublin and to resume his wild life there, stealing from the crowded shopping streets and racing stolen cars at night. But getting his old life back doesn’t turn out to be so easy, and the longer he spends in the old cottage, the more convinced he becomes that something very strange is going on there. Was there really a murder? And if so, was it the one he has been told about?
This book is compelling, intriguing, revelatory- Jenny Valentine’s new novel will reach out and grab you by the heart.
When it begins to look, feel, and smell like snow, everyone prepares for a winter blizzard.
Big, colorful illustrations and minimal text set the stage for a delightful cast of characters as they go about their day-to-day adventures in one little town throughout the year. Playing, chasing pets, running errands, going to work: following what happens and looking for the many small surprises in the pictures will absorb and amuse children and parents alike.
A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects.
A magical train ride on Christmas Eve takes a boy to the North Pole to receive a special gift from Santa Claus.
A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.
Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family’s barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble.
Picture book based on a popular folk song.