The Fourteenth Goldfish

Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He's bossy. He's cranky. And weirdly enough ... he looks a lot like Ellie's grandfather, a scientist who's always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this gawky teenager really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the …

And the mountains Echoed

It begins in 1952. Ten-year-old Abdullah and his younger sister, Pari, are everything to each other. What happens to them, at the despairing hands of their father, will test the unshakeable bonds of family and irrevocably change not just their own lives, but those of multiple generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and care t…

The Breadwinner

This beautiful graphic-novel of the Breadwinner animated film, inspired by Deborah Ellis's beloved novel, tells the story of eleven-year-old Parvana, who must disguise herself as a boy to support her family during the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father - a history t…

Prilla's Talent

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

978-1-59707-186-4

Collation

79 hal.; ilus. : 19 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

823 Enn p

The Horse Whisperer

His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own wounded heart. She comes for hope. She comes for her child. And beneath the Montana sky, she comes to him for what no one else can give her: a reaso…

The summer of may

May can't wait for school to be over. It's the end of eight grade, and she 'll finally be done with Movado the Avocado's English class. But when May pulls a prank on her teacher, the consequences are greater than she expected. In the end, it's up to May to choose her punishment: one-on-one summer school with the teacher she hates or expulsion

Narnia : Edmund's Struggle Under The Spell of The White Witch

Edmund isn't happy when he and his brother and sisters are sent to teh Professor's house in the countryside. But when he follows Lucy into an old wardrobe and to the land of Narnia, things get much worse. There he meets the evil White Witch, who convinces him to betray his family. Before Edmund knows it, he's in over his head! How can he escape from the White Witch's clutches and find the stre…

Flour Babies

When the annual school science fair comes round, Mr Cartright's class don't get to work on the Soap Factory, the Maggot Farm or the Exploding Custard Tins. To their intense disgust they get the Flour Babies - sweet little six-pound bags of flour that must be cared for at all times.

The Song of the Quarkbeast

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-547-73848-2

Collation

289 hal.; 21.5 cm.

Series Title

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Call Number

823 Ffo s

The book lost things

David doesn't know much about life beyond the walls of his room, except what he reads in his books. Mourning the death of his mother and angry at his father for moving on so quickly, David is pulled into a world next to our own and discovers all the stories he's read have come to life. However, these stories are different. Angrier. Darker. A David makes his way through he world to find the kin…