The Great Godden
Title | The Great Godden PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Rosoff |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0735268320 |
We Were Liars meets Call Me By Your Name in this lyrical and quintessential coming-of-age tale about a summer when everything changes, from Meg Rosoff, bestselling author of the iconic novel How I Live Now. This is the story of one family, one dreamy summer. . . . In a holiday house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things they shouldn't, as their brother and sisters, parents and older cousins fill hot days with wine and games and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers: irresistible, charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there's a serpent in this paradise -- and the consequences will be devastating.
Mrs Death Misses Death
Title | Mrs Death Misses Death PDF eBook |
Author | Salena Godden |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2021-01-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1838851208 |
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted by her job and now seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. She meets Wolf, a troubled young writer, who – enthralled by her stories – begins to write Mrs Death’s memoirs. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced (or facilitated), their friendship flourishes. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .
Beck
Title | Beck PDF eBook |
Author | Mal Peet |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2017-04-11 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0763687170 |
From Carnegie Medal–winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming. Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fifteen he is sent to work on a farm, from which he eventually escapes. Finally in charge of his own destiny, Beck starts westward, crossing the border into America and back, all while the Great Depression rages on. What will it take for Beck to understand the agonies of his childhood and realize that love is possible?
An Episode of Sparrows
Title | An Episode of Sparrows PDF eBook |
Author | Rumer Godden |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9781590171240 |
In post-World War II London, two street-tough children attempt to build a hidden garden--an act that awakens hidden courage in the children and profoundly disrupts the neighborhood.
All the Things We Do in the Dark
Title | All the Things We Do in the Dark PDF eBook |
Author | Saundra Mitchell |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2019-10-29 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0062852612 |
Sadie meets Girl in Pieces in this dark, emotional thriller by acclaimed author Saundra Mitchell. Something happened to Ava. The curving scar on her face is proof. Ava would rather keep that something hidden—buried deep in her heart and her soul. But in the woods on the outskirts of town, the traces of someone else’s secrets lie frozen, awaiting Ava’s discovery—and what Ava finds threatens to topple the carefully constructed wall of normalcy that she’s spent years building around her. Secrets leave scars. But when the secret in question is not your own—do you ignore the truth and walk away? Or do you uncover it from its shallow grave and let it reopen old wounds—wounds that have finally begun to heal?
The Great Godden
Title | The Great Godden PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Rosoff |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2021-04-13 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1536218235 |
From National Book Award Finalist Meg Rosoff comes a lyrical, compulsively readable coming-of-age tale that is heady, irresistible, and timeless. Everyone talks about falling in love like it's the most miraculous, life-changing thing in the world. Something happens, they say, and you know . . . I looked into his eyes and I knew. Only, everyone else knew too. Everyone else felt exactly the same way. This is the story of one family during one dreamy summer—the summer when everything changes. In an eccentric, turreted vacation house by the sea, our watchful narrator sees everything, including many things that shouldn’t be seen, while brothers and sisters, parents and theatrical older cousins fill the hot days with wine and tennis and sailing and planning a wedding. Enter two brothers, the sons of a fading film actress—irresistibly charming, languidly sexy Kit and surly, silent Hugo. Suddenly there’s a serpent in this paradise, and the consequences will be devastating. In a propulsive narrative carrying intrigue and a growing sense of unease, Meg Rosoff, best-selling author of the iconic How I Live Now, offers a summer tale of innocence lost that will find its place among the classics of young adult literature.
The Diddakoi
Title | The Diddakoi PDF eBook |
Author | Rumer Godden |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 123 |
Release | 2011-08-11 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1447206339 |
Rumer Godden's The Diddakoi won the 1972 Whitbread Children's Book Award. Everyone in Kizzy's town hates her because she's half-gypsy – a diddakoi. But Kizzy doesn't care. All she needs is Gran and her horse, Joe. But when Gran dies and their wagon burns down, Kizzy is all alone. No one wants to look after her and her beloved Joe might get sent to the knacker's yard. Can Kizzy survive in a hostile world – and save Joe?