Meg Rosoff
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the house on the beach, everything is always the same. Summer unspools in days of sticky heat and lazy beach walks, the family only reconvening for lantern-lit suppers in the garden with the sea a constant roar in the background. Predictable, familiar - and easy. But everything changes with the arrival of the Godden brothers: Kit, magnetic and lazily seductive, and Hugo, intense and unknowable. By the end of summer, nothing will be the same. --...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed
Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling...
Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him - only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life - or possibly to destroy it altogether. It's difficult to be certain as they only speak dog. Poor Jonathan. He doesn't remember life being this confusing...
Author
Series
Wild boars volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
It is very hard to be friends with wild boars because they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered, and rude.
9) Beck
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
10) Black Beauty
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
11) Wild boars cook
Author
Series
Wild boars volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
33 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Besides being naughty, greedy, stinky, and rude, wild boars Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are also very hungry and luckily Doris finds the perfect recipe for them to make.
12) Just in case
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ma Peachey resigned from being a mother to take up yoga instead, the rest of the family took up being in crisis: no one cooked dinner, no one picked up the dirty laundry, and the children were always late for school. Ma might be off finding inner peace, but Pa Peachey, Ava, and Ollie are falling apart! Only almost-nine-year-old Betty is wise enough to know that the family needs to be rescued. Enter McTavish - a rescue dog on a mission to rescue...
14) It's a moose!
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
A baby that is different from all the others brings a family great joy until he grows too big for their home.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York City. Summer 1983. A summer internship in New York was meant to be everything Beth wanted. But from the moment she arrives in the city she feels wrong: wrong hair, terrible clothes, defective smile, too obviously a virgin. Sharing a hot, cockroach-filled apartment with a couple falling out of love completes the dream picture. Then she meets her fellow interns: ambitious out-of-towner Dan, preppy rich boy Oliver, and Edie -- a beautiful,...
16) How I live now
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An American teenager is sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, but soon they begin to struggle as war breaks out.