Addison Addley has to come up with a 3-minute speech for his Grade 5 public speaking contest. He’s thought of a really great idea for his speech, Things That Aren’t Really There, and both his mom and his best friend Sam, who’s brilliant, have been busy coming up with lots of good example for him, [...]
Mr. Gum lives in a great old disaster of a house in the village of Lamonic Bibber. A nasty, lazy old man with filthy habits, he hates housework, animals (other than insects) and most of the village people, except Billy William the Third, a butcher whose shop is as smelly and unpleasant as Mr. Gum’s [...]
For twelve year-old Tobin McCaully, seventh grade begins pretty much as every other grade, even though he’s now attending a middle school. He’s still saddled with the reputations of his hell-raising older brothers and sister, he’s still the butt of Cody Peters’ jokes, and he’s still trying to lay low enough to fly under [...]
Twelve year-old Emily Windsnap lives with her mother aboard The King of the Sea, an old sailboat tied up in a marina in the seaside town of Brightport. Because of her mother’s fear of water, Emily has never so much as had a bath, and she has never learned to swim. But swimming lessons [...]
The daughter of a Yorkshire weaver, Meg Lumb has learned to wash and dye and spin wool, and help her mother with her younger brother, but from her father she has also learned to carve wood. She creeps away to the churchyard during quiet moments to play with Dilly-Lal and Drum-a-Drum, two peg dolls [...]
The arrival late one night of a mysterious stranger sets off alarm bells in twelve-year old Meggie’s head. But Mo, her gentle bookbinder father, lets the odd little man into their farmhouse and sends his daughter back to bed. Instead, she listens at the door while Dustfinger, for that is the stranger’s name, [...]
The only son of wealthy noble parents, sixteen year-old Silvano lives for hunting with his falcon, visiting the family farms with his father, enjoying the entertainments of Perugia with his best friend, Gervasio, and worshipping the beautiful Angelica from afar. But when Angelica’s husband is stabbed in the street with Silvano’s dagger, the young [...]
Shortly after the birth of his son, Wolverine, The-man-with-no-eyebrows visits Paaliaq to arrange a marriage between Wolverine and Paaliaq’s infant daughter, Breath. But Paaliaq, irritated by his daughter’s crying and The-man-with-no-eyebrows’ quiet amusement at his discomfort, bad-temperedly turns down the match and curses his baby son. When Wolverine reaches marriageable age, Paliaaq swears, [...]
Aislinn has lived by Grams’ rules since she was very small; don’t react to faeries, don’t do anything to bring yourself to their attention, and never, ever, underestimate their power. As long as her rules are followed, Grams will let Aislinn attend high school and continue her growing friendship with Seth, the gentle free-spirited young [...]
Ms. Vallis’ Grade 8 students are in for a special treat. It just so happens that her cousin is married to Nick Thompson, rock music icon, and that Nick Thompson is going to visit the class, share with them everything that 30 years in the music business has taught him about writing, and then [...]
