When the bones of a young girl are found on the mountain, buried under the tree where she used to play, and four years after many believed that she had run away with her lover, shock and grief soon turn to suspicion.
For fourteen-year Dee Vale, an illegitimate child living her with her stern and unemotional [...]
It’s hard to be the overweight and socially awkward daughter of a media superstar. Living in the shadow of her mother, Mimi, whose talk show, You, You and Mimi, is watched by hundreds of millions of people all over the world, seventeen-year old Robin Schwartz struggles with apathy and depression. Burned by classmates who became [...]
ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES? The ad, which appears in the local newspaper, catches Reynard Muldoon’s eye. The eleven-year old, who is constantly taunted and ridiculed by the other children because of his exceptional intelligence, has completed every class and read every book in the Stonetown Orphanage. Even his kind tutor, [...]
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 [...]
Capital of England and the 19th century world, the proud and beautiful city of London of the late 1860s is also a city full of bigotry, hatred and despair, something young Sherlock Holmes knows only too well. The product of a runaway marriage between the daughter of a well-to-do country squire and a brilliant but [...]
Worried and hurt when her boyfriend Nick takes off without a word to anyone, Robyn Hunter decides, after some fruitless searching, that she needs to find a new preoccupation in life. Her friend Billy, a dedicated do-gooder, suggests that she volunteer at a local drop-in centre for homeless people and so Robyn finds herself helping [...]
Twelve year-old Christine Bellamy has been invited by her best friend, Pepper McKenzie, to join her and her parents on a trip to England. That’s the good part. The bad part is that Pepper’s parents have invited her younger brother, Hal, to come as well, and Hal is loud, obnoxious and nosy.
The trip gets off [...]
