Floss’s parents split up when she was younger and she now has to split up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum’s new boyfriend and her new baby half-sister. The other two days Floss spends with her dad, helping him to run his greasy spoon café. But then their simple arrangement is thrown into disarray when Floss’s mum decides to move to Australia. Floss has to choose whethe…
from the back cover: This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Why does her story begin where it should end? Certain people wanted her death to be an ending. Why? What were they afraid of? Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn't she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened? The questions go on and on, but …
Hetty Feather was just a baby when her mother left her at the Foundling Hospital. Hetty longed to find her real mum -- and finally her wish was granted. But just as they have found each other, they are separated again, as Hetty leaves the home to become a maid of all work to Mr Buchanan. Set in London in the 1870s, this sequel to Hetty Feather is a wonderfully evocative and original historical …
from the back cover: 'I often walked along the shore, and one day I saw something in the sand. I went over to look at it more carefully . . . It was a footprint - the footprint of a man!' In 1659 Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked on a small island off the coast of South America. After fifteen years alone, he suddenly learns that there is another person on the island. But will this man be a fr…
What's cooking in the old white cabin? Pumpkin soup. The best you ever tasted!
Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sa…
Anak-anak selalu senang mendengarkan cerita tentang penyihir, pangeran, putri, dan kawanan binatang gaib. Dalam buku ini ada banyak kisah dari seluruh dunia, yang mencakup dongeng-dongeng klasik serta cerita-cerita yang menarik.
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father…
Meet favourite characters from Heidi to Pollyanna as they flit through this enchanting collection of extracts from literary classics.
Classic Treasury Christmas Stories is one of our bestselling Christmas books for children aged 7-10 years. This heart-warming collection is charmingly illustrated to create a winter wonderland that will get the whole family in the festive spirit! # Young readers can become familiar with Christmas songs and legendary tales by much-loved narrators such as Hans Christian Andersen and Charles Dic…