Daniel knows that his mum was very ill once – mentally ill. Shes fine now, and shes even landed a big new job as a head teacher. The problem is, shes head of his new school! Its so embarrassing – everyone is going to tease him. But then things get even tougher for Daniel. With […]
Darrell and her friends grow together as they share their school days. There are new students to induct, sporting matches to be won, tempers to control and tricks to play on teachers. This work presents stories about life at boarding school as readers follow the girls lives through 6 years at Malory Towers.
When Marilla Cuthberts brother, Matthew, returns home to Green Gables with a chatty redheaded orphan girl, Marilla exclaims, “But we asked for a boy. We have no use for a girl.” Its not long, though, before the Cuthberts cant imagine how they could ever do without young Anne of Green Gables–but not for the original […]
The students of East High are preparing for the SATs, and Gabriella has the unfortunate honor of tutoring Sharpay, who shines much more brightly on stage than she does on her practice tests. Luckily, everyone has the schools upcoming Halloween party to take their minds off the SAT crunch. This years theme is “Future Fantasy” […]
How is Abby Hayes supposed to stand out, considering that one sisters a genius, the other ones a superathlete, and her younger brothers a child prodigy? Abby takes comfort in her journal-and that is exactly where her own special talents shine.
This Bible for children contains 22 stories from the Old Testament and 22 stories from the New, related in such a way as to encourage youngsters to read Scripture every day.
A Perfect Romance? Stephanie has finally found love — in Italy! Corey Griffin is cute, smart, and funny — and best of all, hes in love with her, too! At least she thinks he is — until he receives a mysterious e-mail. And now he wants to break up!
After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep that night.
Brandon loves to scare other kids. This Halloween he buttons his shirt up over his head and parades around as a headless freak! But even Brandon gets queasy at the creepiest Halloween party of all time, where guests bob for rats and eat doughnuts filled with worms!
When the Professor first creates Bubbles, Blossom, and Buttercup, they dont realize the extent of their powers. The Girls accidentally end up destroying everything in sight. Now all of Townsville hates them. Their only “friend” is a mysterious figure named Jojo. And hes got a plan to make everything hunky dory again.
What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices […]
After twelve-year-old Annika, a foundling living in late nineteenth-century Vienna, inherits a trunk of costume jewelry, a woman claiming to be her aristocratic mother arrives and takes her to live in a strangely decrepit mansion in Germany.
When a widow tries to collect on her inheritance, her late husbands family is unpleasantly surprised. Theyre even more horrified by the news that this lovely stranger may be a bigamist. Now murder shakes the family tree, and its time for Hercule Poirot to investigate.