"What's Happening to Me?" A Guide to Puberty
9 best books like "What's Happening to Me?" A Guide to Puberty (Peter Mayle): The Girl with No Shadow, Five Quarters of the Orange, Paris by the Book, Gentlemen and Players, Heather Has Two Mommies, Gutless, Coastliners, A Little Bit of Winter, Caged Warrior
Author | Joanne Harris |
ISBN | 0061431621 |
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind...
Five Quarters of the Orange
Author | Joanne Harris |
ISBN | 0060958022 |
The novels of Joanne Harris are a literary feast for the senses. Five Quarters of the Orange represents Harris's most complex and sophisticated work yet - a novel in which darkness and fierce joy come together to create an unforgettable story.
When Framboise Simon returns to a small village...
Author | Liam Callanan |
ISBN | 1101986271 |
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.
Once a week, I chase men who are not...
Author | Joanne Harris |
ISBN | 0060559144 |
Audere, agere, auferre. To dare, to strive, to conquer. For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. But this year...
Author | Lesléa Newman |
ISBN | 1555835430 |
Originally self-published in 1989, Heather Has Two Mommies became the first title in Alyson's newly formed Alyson Wonderland imprint in 1990. The simple and straightforward story of a little girl named Heather and her two lesbian mothers was created by Newman and illustrator Diana Souza because...
Author | Carl Deuker |
ISBN | 0544649613 |
Nobody on the varsity knew me, but I know what they thought: I was the guy who had good hands and could run like lightning, but who also had a yellow streak down his back.
The wide receiver best able to hang on to his quarterback’s passes, Brock Ripley would be a star for the varsity team—if he...
Author | Joanne Harris |
ISBN | 0060958014 |
Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left. Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssiniere, lies at her feet....
Author | Paul Stewart |
ISBN | 0862648149 |
Hedgehog and Rabbit are great pals. But every winter, Hedgehog has to burrow info a cozy spot and sleep while Rabbit plays in the snow. Rabbit is sad because he knows he will miss Hedgehog. Hedgehog is more interested in what winter is like. So he asks Rabbit to save him a little bit of winter. He even writes...
Author | Alan Sitomer |
ISBN | 1423171241 |
McCutcheon Daniels' life is full of bone-cracking violence. As a star fighter in the gritty underground Mixed Martial Arts circuit in the poorest section of Detroit, McCutcheon fights under the tutelage of his volatile and violent father, not so much for himself but to survive as protector of his beloved...