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America, 1955. For a 16-year-old boy out in the world alone for the first time, every day's an education in the hard work and boredom of migrant labor; every day teaches him something more about friendship, or hunger, or profanity, or lust--always lust. He learns how a...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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'What does he mean? What's going on? Are you two thinking of putting Granny into a Home?''Thinking is finished,' Natasha told him. 'It is decided.'The four children, Ivan, Sophie, Tanya and Nicholas, can't believe it. Their parents are planning to put their grandmother...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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It's war in the Flowers household. Will's sister Estelle has turned overnight into a screaming, screeching banshee whose moods explode throughout the household. Mum and Dad have surrendered. Inspired by an author visit to his school, Will decides to keep a record of his...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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Cass has always been there for Tom, her twin - racing off to laugh with him in the old, abandoned ice house or planning how to foil Jamieson, the farm's creepy pest-killer. But nowCass is a teenager, she is changing - she wants her privacy and feels suffocated by their...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-10-31
ePub
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Double ActRuby and Garnet are ten-year-old twins. They're identical, and they do EVERYTHING together, especially since their mother died three years earlier - but they couldn't be more different. Bossy, bouncy, funny Ruby loves to take charge, and is desperate to be a...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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When Mum finally comes back up for air, I want to be right there next to her, holding her hand.Ella's mum is in a deep coma, having just had a new baby. That means Ella has to live with Jack, her hopeless stepfather, and cope with her tiny newborn brother, as well as...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-09-30
ePub
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Chocolate Box Girls: Cherry Crush is the first of five in this addictive series by Cathy Cassidy.Cherry Costello's life is about to change forever. She and Dad are moving to Somerset where a new mum and a bunch of brand-new sisters await. And on Cherry's first day there...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2010-09-02
ePub
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Sig Andersson has a choice to make - use the gun or die. An unforgettable, razor-sharp psychological thriller set in the snowy wilderness of the Arctic Circle. Recipient of a Michael L. Printz Honor 2011, shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010 and longlisted for...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2010-07-15
ePub
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Toby Malone looks up to his brother Jake. Everyone does. He is the cool one, the one who is good at baseball. Even Mr. Furry, the unfortunately named family cat, seems to prefer him to everyone else.Toby and Jake and their little brother have always had an easy,...
Editeur :
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Parution :
2010-07-10
ePub
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Be careful what you wish for . . . Andi is short. And she has lots of wishes. She wishes she could play on the school basketball team, she wishes for her own bedroom, but most of all she wishes that her long lost half brother, Bernardo, could come and live in London,...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-05-27
ePub
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Meet the Rat: A dancing, football-playing gangster-baiting ten-year-old. When she foresaw her father's death, she picked up her football and decided to head for New York.Meet her older brother Bob: Protector of the Rat, but more often her follower, he is determined to...
Editeur :
Quercus Children's Books
Parution :
2010-04-29
ePub
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'It had happened again. Dad had shouted and yelled, thrown things and smashed things up. And then he had quietly cleaned everything away.'Leo's dad has changed. Since Mum died, his drinking is worse and now he's a different person, someone Leo doesn't recognize. The...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-04-01
ePub
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I say, 'Don't lose your heart, Rube.' And very clearly, without moving, my brother answers me. He says, 'I'm not tryin' to lose it, Cam. I'm tryin' to find it.'The Wolfe brothers know how to fight. They've been fighting all their lives. Now there's something more at...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-01-28
ePub
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What kind of a name is Beauty? Well it’s my name for a start, but that doesn’t mean I love it.Beauty Cookson is no beauty. She's a plain, timid girl who constantly gets teased by the super-confident, snooty girls at school. Worse than the teasing in the playground,...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2010-01-26
ePub
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Baseball runs in David Kroft's family. His father was a good player in his day, his uncles play on professional teams, and David's older brother, Don, is the best short-stop in the history of Penwood High School.
Editeur :
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Parution :
2009-12-19
ePub
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Something terrible has happened. Eleven-year-old Aubrey is on her own.'It was fun at first, playing house. Nothing to think about but T.V and cheese. A perfect world.'She's determined to hide away and take care of herself, because facing the truth is too much to bear.'I...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2009-06-25
ePub
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Dawn Bundy is fifteen. She doesn't fit in and she couldn't care less.Dawn has other things on her mind. Her dad disappeared two years ago and it's all God's fault. When Dawn's dad found God, it was the worst time ever. He thought he'd found the answer to everything. But...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-06-25
ePub
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Meet the one and only Daizy Star!She's quirky and cool and loving life in Year Six with her best friends Willow and Beth. But when Dad hatches a mad plan that will turn life upside-down, Daizy is too horrified to tell anyone at all . . . and pretty soon she finds...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2009-06-04
ePub
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Twelve-year-old Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate - his parents are locked in a custody battle over him and his brother and sister, Mum's always working late and Dad's rarely allowed to visit them. Louis finds release in his dance classes and discovers...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2009-05-07
ePub
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A lethal new drug with devastating side effects, known as Meltdown, is threatening to destabilize society. Dudley knows that the security services have to act fast, and when his 4 x 4 arrives at their remote hideout in the Canadian lakes, eighteen-year-old Danny and his...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2009-03-08
ePub
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