With her mouse-brown hair, glasses and braces, her sliding grades, and her penchant for getting into scuffles at school, Meg feels like the odd person out in the Murray family. Her beautiful scientist mother manages a household of four children while carrying out experiments in the old dairy off the kitchen, her physicist father is [...]
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 [...]
Peering into the bathroom mirror, one morning after his shower, fifteen year-old Bobby Phillips is shocked by what he sees. Or, rather, by what he doesn’t see, for Bobby has disappeared, become invisible. His parents, both exceptionally intelligent and well-educated university professors, are initially taken aback by their son’s invisibility, but quickly draw up plans [...]
By day eleven year-old Edgar labours in the fig groves tending the saplings, picking the highly prized ripe figs, and culling the oldest trees before they can become toxic, poisoning the groves where they stand and those who must touch them. By night, he rambles the hidden pathways among the fig trees and explores the [...]
