Pagan's Crusade
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| Author | Alyssa Brugman |
| ISBN | 0440238323 |
There are those who are popular.
There are those who are outcasts.
And there are those who must choose between the two.
Megan Tuw has always been popular. As a leader of her high school’s most cliquish group, she’s among the anointed girls who think nothing of ridiculing those who...
Few books had as profound an impact on me when I was growing up. This haunting tale of a lonely boy discovering an ancient stone Nargun, a creature straight from Aboriginal mythology, on his uncle's rural property had me spellbound. It still does. Wrightson, who died in 2010, was criticised for using...
| Author | Wendy Orr |
| ISBN | 0440227739 |
The car accident changed everything. Before, Anna knew who she was and what she looked like. But now she's a stranger to her family, her friends, and herself. She is no longer the pretty, popular girl who loves karate. Her body now betrays her, and she knows it will never be the same. All the layers that made...
| Author | Rebecca Barnhouse |
| ISBN | 0375958568 |
Johanna is a servant girl to Dame Margery Kempe, a renowned medieval holy woman. Dame Margery feels the suffering the Virgin Mary felt for her son but cares little for the misery she sees every day. When she announces that Johanna will accompany her on a pilgrimage to Rome, the suffering truly begins....
I don’t usually read a lot of middle grade fiction but whenever I do, I enjoy the whole reading experience so much that I wonder why I don’t read more frequently from this genre. There was this one particular book which kept falling at my feet every time I opened my bookshelf. I took this as a sign and moreover,...
| Author | Kate Gordon |
| ISBN | 1743316631 |
You said we could write anything we wanted. The first thing that came into our minds. Blue fish, red fish, green fish...
Clementine Darcy is floundering. She wants to be the kind of a fish who swims to the swish of her own fins - upstream, not simply carried along by the current.
But she...
| Author | Karleen Bradford |
| ISBN | 0140383719 |
Ursula is different. With her book learning and outspoken manner, she doesn't fit in, and her spirited way's get her into trouble. When a neighbor accuses her of being a witch, her only hope to save herself is to march in the holy People's Crusade to Jerusalem. Along with thousands of other pilgrims, Ursula...
| Author | Eleanor Updale |
| ISBN | 0439856280 |
When a petty thief falls through a glass roof while fleeing from the police, it should have been the death of him. Instead, it marks the beginning of a whole new life. Soon he has become the most successful -- and elusive -- burglar in Victorian London, plotting daring raids and using London's new sewer...
| Author | Sheila Solomon Klass |
In the 1700s, women’s responsibilities were primarily child rearing and household duties. But Deborah Sampson wanted more from life. She wanted to read, to travel—and to fight for her country’s independence. When the colonies went to war with the British in 1775, Deborah was intent on being...
| Author | Gillian Rubinstein |
| ISBN | 0689806027 |
After Tod's father abandoned the family, his mother moved them into their grandmother's crowded house. Overwhelmed at school, Tod finds himself lagging behind his classmates and becoming entangled in a destructive gang. After Tod compassionately buries a dead fox, a fox-spirit offers him the chance...
| Author | Ursula Dubosarsky |
| ISBN | 1596432659 |
Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking...
| Author | Steven Herrick |
| ISBN | 1932425721 |
Through rich, vivid poetry, Harry Hodby brings readers into his remote Australian town. He documents the mundane and unique qualities of daily life and the quirkiness of the townspeople, and gives a lively sense of locale. Three-dimensional characters come alive as Harry offers his insightful take...
| Author | Sherryl Jordan |
| ISBN | 1869435842 |
Rocco has suddenly appeared in a different time and in an unknown location - in the valley Anshur, where he's taken in by a primitive tribe, whose members live closely connected to nature. He is challenged in everything he knows and all his abilities - in everything he brings with him from his usual, modern...
| Author | Malika Ferdjoukh |
| ISBN | 2211069576 |
Enid doit faire dix-sept pas de l’abribus jusqu’à l’impasse de l’Atlantique qui mène à sa maison, la Vill’Hervé. Un de moins que l’automne dernier. La preuve que ses jambes allongent, donc qu’elle a grandi. N’empêche qu’elle est toujours la plus petite des cinq sœurs Verdelaine....
| Author | Tessa Duder |
| ISBN | 0553290207 |
'I have always known that in another life I was-or will be-a dolphin. I am a pink human, caught in a net of ambition and years of hard work. In a few minutes I will dive into artificially turquoise water waiting at my feet. A minute later I'll either be ecstatic or a failure.'Fifteen-year-old swimming champ...
| Author | James Moloney |
| ISBN | 0702224995 |
When Dougy's sister Gracey is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: black...
C'est pô vrai ? Vous connaissez pô Titeuf ? C'est nul, ça. Méganul, même. J'sais pô, moi, faites un effort, quand même. Avec sa bouille toute ronde et sa touffe blonde dressée sur le crâne, c'est un héros moderne des cours de récré. À la fois naïf, plein d'enthousiasme et gentil comme...
| Author | David Hill |
| ISBN | 0140370560 |
See Ya Simon is the kind of book that everyone should read at least once in their lifetime.
While reading See Ya Simon I fell in love with both Simon and Nathan, they are both really great guys and the best friends that could ever exist. All of the characters are that great.
This book is relatively...
| Author | Michael Gerard Bauer |
| ISBN | 0061455091 |
There had always been the Running Man--always that phantom form somewhere in the distance, always shuffling relentlessly closer . . . For a long time, fourteen-year-old Joseph has wondered about old Tom Leyton, his reclusive next-door neighbor. Gossip and rumors suggest that something terrible...
| Author | Geraldine McCaughrean |
| ISBN | 0192752030 |
Ailsa doesn't trust MCC Berkshire, the mysterious man helping out in her mother's antique shop. He tells wonderful stories about all the antiques, and his stories persuade the customers to buy the items he talks about, but everything he says is a pack of lies. Isn't it?
The story of Ailsa and...
| Author | Gary Crew |
| ISBN | 1863301135 |
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On 4 June 1629 the Dutch vessel Batavia struck uncharted rocks off the Western Australian coast. By the time help arrived over 120 men, women and children had met their deaths - not in the sea but murdered by two fellow survivors, Wouter...
From the internationally bestselling author of The Books of Pellinor comes a powerful story about the exploitation of indigenous people by the First World. In Simbala's village they have two treasures: the River, which is their road and their god; and the Book, which is their history, their oracle...
| Author | Libby Hathorn |
| ISBN | 0340739886 |
Lara feels completely alone after the death of her mother. She is an intruder in her father's new family, living far away from all that has been familiar. How can she find acceptance and love in this harsh place? Will the hostile Gladwyn and her kids ever really allow Lara to be part of the family she so longs...
| Author | Patrick Morley |
| ISBN | 1601424620 |
“All through the Bible, we see stories of bold and brash men who followedGod’s call into some incredible adventures. In How God Makes Men,Patrick Morley reminds us that God still makes those kinds of guys.”
—Dave Ramsey, New York Times best-selling authorand nationally syndicated radio...
