Reading - The Faber Book of Nursery Stories

The Faber Book of Nursery Stories by Various Authors

A Junior Fiction

 

Featuring The Ugly Duckling, Three Billy Goats Gruff and other childhook favourites, this edition includes over forty beloved stories to be enjoyed at bedtime.

Reading - The Secret of Indigo Moon (The Dopple Ganger Chronicles)

The Secret of Indigo Moon (The Dopple Ganger Chronicles) by G.P. Taylor

 

A Junior Fiction

 

 

 

Erik Morissey Ganger, famed explorer and detective (well, in his dreams), and his mischief-making sidekicks, twins Sadie and Saskia Dopple, didn’t go looking for a secret tunnel beneath the school. They never intended to make the acquaintance of a shifty private eye with a nose for trouble. It wasn’t part of the plan to come face to face with an old enemy, one with an agenda of his own that could destroy them all. And unraveling the “secret of indigo moon” was the farthest thing from their minds.

At Isambard Dunstan’s School for Wayward Children, these things just seem to happen.

Reading - The House of Special Purpose

The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne

 

 

 

Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past—a past of death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him. As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg, to the Winter Palace of the czar, in the early twentieth century—a time of change, threat, and bloody revolution. As Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose.

Reading - Driftwood Summer

Driftwood Summer by Patti Callahan Henry

 

 

 

Three sisters- responsible Riley, vivacious Maisy, and fun-loving Adalee-reunite to save the family's beach-community bookstore. But summer also marks the return of Mack Logan, whose choice of Maisy over Riley years ago destroyed the special closeness between the sisters...

Now Riley, a single mom, is hiding a shattering secret about their mother. Maisy, a California designer, still blames Riley for ruining her one true love. And Adalee resents the family's intrusion into her summer plans. All three will be forced to confront the conflicts that tore them apart and the bounds of love and loyalty that still draw them together...

 

 

Reading - The Honey Queen

The Honey Queen by Cathy Kelly

 

 

Can she find the strength to help the family she never knew she had? Vibrant and warm, Frankie manages people as a career - so her husband's silence on redundancy comes as a shock. Suddenly both their dream house project in pretty Redstone and their marriage are under terrible strain.

Only twenty-seven, Peggy is opening her own knitting shop in town but her past threatens to unravel any prospect of love and a family of her own.

Lillie is the friend they both need. Newly arrived in the small Irish town from Australia, she's no stranger to secrets and heartache. Wrapped in the warmth of the community, Lillie must help herself and her new friends rediscover the joy in life...

Reading - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson

 

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Major will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not ....

Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway.  And do begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police.   As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed.  A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the mementous events of the twentieth century.

Reading - The First Escape

The First Escape (The Dopple Ganger Chronicles) by G.P. Taylor

A Junior Fiction

 

 

Sadie and Saskia are mischievous identical twins living at an orphanage, where Erik is their only friend. They are separated when Saskia is adopted by Muzz Elliott, a wealthy woman searching for her long-lost family treasure. While Saskia stumbles into the center of a crime only she can stop, Sadie and Erik embark on a quest to find her.

Reading - Found: A Mickey Bolitar Novel

Found: A Mickey Bolitar Novel by Harlan Coben

A Junior Fiction

 

It’s been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the shocking, tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets, and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey’s sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in the hospital, Rachel won’t tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there’s Ema’s surprise announcement: She has an online boyfriend, and he’s vanished.

As he’s searching for Ema’s missing boyfriend (who may not even exist!), Mickey also gets roped into helping his nemesis, Troy Taylor, with a big problem. All the while, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives to find the answers—until the shocking climax, where Mickey finally comes face-to-face with the truth about his father.

Reading - Undercover in High Heels

Undercover in High Heels by Gemma Halliday

 

Secret affairs, hunky gardeners, and housewives desperate enough to bare it all... welcome to Magnolia Lane, TV's hottest new prime time show. A place where L.A. shoe designer Maddie Springer should be in fashion heaven. That is until the body of a rising young starlet is found dead on the show's set. Now it's up to Maddie to sift through a leading lady with a secret, an actor on the verge of a nervous breakdown, a sexy cyber scandal, and one tabloid reporter who'll stop at nothing to get the story of the century. Not to mention Maddie's hot-cold relationship with the case's familiar lead detective, Jack Ramirez. In a world where secrets, lies, and deception can earn you an Oscar, Maddie plays the role of a lifetime to catch Hollywood's hottest killer. But if she doesn't watch her step, Maddie's fifteen minutes of fame just may be her last.

Reading - Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar

Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar by James Patterson

A Junior Fiction

 

 

Georgia Khatchadorian--the sister of the star of the first two Middle School books, Rafe Khatchadorian--plans to excel at Hills Village Middle School in all the places her troublemaking brother failed. She's even bet him that she'll quickly become one of the most popular girls in school. But Rafe left a big mark at HVMS, and no one will give Georgia a chance! Even worse, Rafe has sneakily set her up to embarrass herself in front of the snooty "Princesses" who run the school and the boy who's caught her eye. Will she be able to overcome her fears and win her bet with Rafe?

Reading - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by Konigsburg, E. L.

A Junior Fiction

 

when Claudia decided to runaway, she planned very carefully. She would be gone just long enough to teach her parents a lesson in Claudia appreciation. And she would go in comfort - she would live at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She saved her money, and she invited her brother Jamie to go, mostly because he was a miser and would have money.

Claudia was a good organizer and Jamie had some ideas, too; so the two took up residence at the museum right on schedule. But once the fun of settling in was over, Claudia had two unexpected problems : She felt just the same, and she wanted to feel different; and she found a statue at the Museum so beautiful she could not go home until she had discovered its maker, a question that baffled the experts, too.

The former owner of teh statue was Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Without her - well, without her, Claudia might never have found a way to go home.

Reading - The Stars' Tennis Balls

The Stars' Tennis Balls by Stephen Fry

 

 

For Ned, 1980 seems a blissful year. Handsome, charming, popular and talented, hig life is progressing smoothly, effortlessly, happily. And when he meets the lovely Portia Fendeman his personal jigsaw appears complete. But timing is everything in life, and his life is about to change for ever.

Reading The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

 

In a tiny shack in the largest township in South Africa, Nombeko Mayeki is born. Put to work at five years old and orphaned at ten, she quickly learns that the world expects nothing more from her than to die young. But Nombeko has grander plans. She learns to read and write, and at just fifteen, using her cunning and fearlessness, she makes it out of Soweto with millions of smuggled diamonds in her possession. Then things take a turn for the worse....

Nombeko's life ends up hopelessly intertwined with the lives of Swedish twins, and when the twins arrange to kidnap the Swedish king and prime minister, it is up to our unlikely heroine to save the day - and possibly the world.

Reading - Hot Rock Mountain

Hot Rock Mountain by Elizabeth Laird

A Junior Fiction

 

What would the sea be without salt ?
When is a flower stronger than an army ?
How can you trust a crocodile ?

Ask the right questions, and Nature will give you some surprising answers : funny, beautiful and scary ... all at the same time.  You just have to ask.

A wonderful new collection of stories from all found corners of the globe by Elizabeth Laird.

Reading - Sheep with Boots

Sheep with Boots by Maritgen Matter

A Junior Fiction

 

 

It is a cold, dark winter's evening. Wolf goes out,shivering, in search of a meal. He finds Sheep in a lonely barn. Mouth watering, Wolf persuades Sheep to come with him on an adventure. Sheep has found a friend at last. But can he escape Wolf's hungry plan ?