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Alenna Shawcross is a sixteen-year-old orphan growing up in a police state formed from the ashes of Canada, the US and Mexico after a global economic meltdown. But when she unexpectedly fails 'the test' - a government initiative which supposedly identifies teens...
Editeur :
Orchard Books
Parution :
2012-08-02
Collection :
The Forsaken
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Rediscover the favourite childhood classic.***With a heartwarming introduction by Sophie Dahl***What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor? The wonderfully contrary, strong-willed, angry, misunderstood...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2012-08-02
ePub
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Saving Daisy is the second critically novel by Phil Earle***HEROIC, Phil Earle's hugely anticipated third novel is out on 24 April 2013***Daisy's mum is gone. Her dad refuses to talk about it. As far as Daisy's concerned, it's all her fault. As her life starts to spiral...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2012-01-05
ePub
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When the story opens, Megan who is a foster mother, has two children in her charge: Anna a 12 year old who is, 'rather given to magical thinking' and Raymond who is 10 and never speaks to anyone. Both children have sad broken backgrounds; Anna (in her fourth foster...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2011-11-30
ePub
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"Faces flashed before my eyes.And for every face there was a time that they had let me down.Each punch that landed was revenge, my chance to tell them I hadn't forgotten what they did."Eight years in a care home makes Billy Finn a professional lifer. And Billy's angry -...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2011-01-06
ePub
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Puffin Classics: the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child.Rediscover thePuffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this new resized edition of Heidi complete with a bold new cover.'Let's enjoy the...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2009-03-05
ePub
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April knows she was abandoned in a rubbish bin as a newborn baby, fourteen years ago. Now she's happily settled with her foster mother, Marion - but there's a part ofApril that's desperate to know where she really came from, and who she really is. If only she could...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2008-10-14
ePub
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The original classic and much-loved tale featuring Jacqueline Wilson's most popular character, the one-and-only Tracy Beaker. 'I'm Tracy Beaker. This is a book all about me. I'd read it if I were you. It's the most incredible dynamic heart-rending story. Honest.'Tracy...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2008-09-04
ePub
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Before she had arrived at Green Gables, Anne Shirley had a difficult early life. Orphaned as a baby, she was sent from one foster-home to the next, caring for other people's children even though she was but a child herself, and escaping from her dark reality through the...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2008-03-06
ePub
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As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybody's life. The 'glad game' she plays, of finding a silver lining in every cloud, transforms the sick, the lonely and the plain miserable -...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2003-10-30
ePub
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This is the fictionalized story of "Yula", a character inspired by a real girl Sharon Jennings met in her visits to the Hope Development Centre in Kenya. When four-year-old Yula is discovered by the orphanage director "Mum" and introduced to a caring...
Editeur :
Red Deer Press
Parution :
2022-04-01
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Abandoned on the steps of a Belgian convent as a baby, thirteen-year-old Grace has grown up among the nuns. But her days as a caretaker and companion for her older sister, Dotty, have come to a sad end with Dotty’s death, and now Grace is living among the girls who...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2018-10-09
epub sans DRM
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When we meet Sebastian (Seb) he is already taking risks and putting himself in harm’s way as he and a couple of his friends carry out a failed break and enter and are arrested. As we get to know Seb we discover his life has been a series of bad foster experiences that...
Editeur :
Thistledown Press
Parution :
2016-04-15
epub sans DRM
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Coping with the recent death of his father, twelve-year-old Jacob Mosher is sent to spend the summer with his aging, estranged (and strange!) grandparents in rural Newport Landing, Nova Scotia. Reluctantly, he trades the security of his foster mum in “Upper Canada” for...
Editeur :
Nimbus
Parution :
2015-04-24
epub sans DRM
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