After she helped them successfully retrieve a priceless baseball card from the guy who swindled it from them, best friends Griffin Bing and Ben Slovak feel they have to help Savannah Drysdale track down her missing pet capuchin monkey. However a class trip to a floating zoo docked at a nearby nature preserve solves one [...]
Boney, Itchy and Squeak are neighbours and best friends. All three boys are odd; Boney, whose parents disappeared when he was a baby, lives with his neurotic aunt and her long-suffering husband, Squeak, whose mother ran off to work in a travelling cabaret, views the world from behind World War I goggles fitted with lens [...]
After a year in Balgownie, a small town in the highlands, soon-to-be thirteen-year old Laurel “Lemmie” Ferguson is still haunted by what happened in Edinburgh before she and her parents moved away. Ridiculed for her highly artistic approach to dressing, and her unusual, exuberant and sometimes clumsy behaviour, by the time Laurel left her private [...]
Bradley, who has survived on his own almost longer he can remember, has collected his pack, Florist, a small girl with a hacking cough, Victor, more wild animal than child, and three semi-feral dogs, Hunger, Fearless and Shelter, from the doorways and back alleys of the Zone. Bradley, Floris and Victor are three among the [...]
Once a year all the residents of District 12 must attend the reaping, during which two names are drawn from those of everyone between the ages of 12 and 18. The girl and boy chosen will become District 12’s tributes to the Hunger Games, a televised spectacle in which 24 youths will battle to the [...]
Grace “Sprig” Ewing ought to be having the best year of her life. She is ten, her favourite number, she has terrific parents, a wonderful older sister, and Bliss, her faithful and supportive best friend. But somehow nothing seems to quite right anymore in Sprig’s life.
Her father, an architectural engineer, has left on an extended [...]
Following the death of their mother, fifteen-year old Prosper takes his five-year old brother, Bo, and sneaks onto a train bound for Venice, a place neither boy has ever visited but that looms large in both their imaginations because of their mother’s stories. He is desperate to get them far from Germany and their aunt [...]
When Matt’s parent move again, this time to a new house in a new subdivision, Matt finds himself with no one – and nothing – to play with. Standing on bare ground littered with scraps of construction materials, Matt sees a stick and feels like breaking it, or hitting something with it, but when he [...]
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 [...]
Afraid of getting close to someone who might prove dangerous, Scaredy Squirrel has never had a friend. But, bored and tired of thinking up activities to do by himself, Scaredy leaps at the opportunity to make friends with the goldfish who lives in the fountain near his nut tree. While the goldfish might [...]
