The Peppermint Pig

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	Leon Garfield
ISBN	0374467625

This brilliant, picaresque novel follows the adventures of an illiterate young ragamuffin known only as Smith. Smith picks the pocket of a stranger, only to witness immediately the strangers murder. Smiths booty from the theft is an Important Document, no doubt worth quite a lot to somebody, which...

Author	Peter Dickinson
ISBN	0552528129

An attack in the dark, screams, burning huts...Thirteen-year-old Theodore crouches under the trees. His father's Mission has been destroyed. His father is dead. Theodore is on his own, fleeing the Chinese rebels of the Boxer uprising.Then Mrs Jones appears. A botanist, Mrs Jones is a feisty, aging,...

Author	Helen Cresswell
ISBN	0192753991

Everybody in Jack's family seems to be brilliant - apart from Jack and his downtrodden dog Zero. Even his little sister can beat him at swimming. But Jack's uncle Parker has come up with a plan to make him and Zero shine: they'll pretend that Jack can tell the future! If only they could foresee what chaos...

Author	Colin Dann
ISBN	0091494001

The book begins with the birth of Vixen's four cubs: Bold, Friendly, Charmer and Dreamer and follows their early lives as they are supported and protected by all the remaining Animals of Farthing Wood. They grow gradually more independent as the story progresses.

Several meetings of the Farthing...

Author	B.B.
ISBN	0192719467

The last four gnomes in Britain live by a Warwickshire brook. But when one of them decides to go and explore and doesn't return, it's up to the remaining three to build a boat and set out to find him. This is the story of the gnomes' epic journey in search of Cloudberry and is set against the background of the...

Author	Dick King-Smith
ISBN	0140311750

Flightless, helpless and often, frankly, more than a little silly, chickens are no match for the cunning, merciless foxes stalking their coop. Or are they? Thanks to a careless farmer and generations of determined foxes, the chickens on Foxearth Farm have evolved into quick-witted, long-legged,...

Author	Michael Bond
ISBN	0140305009

The Tales of Olga da Polga is an utterly charming children's book from 1971 by Michael Bond, an award-winning author more famous for his stories about Paddington Bear, who first made his appearance in 1958. These stories, however, all feature Olga da Polga, a self-important, mischievous and imaginative...

Author	C. Day-Lewis
ISBN	0435120018

“This is a really super story—I shold know, I wrote it. My name is George, and I’m Ted’s second-in-command: Ted is is centre-forward of the Junior XI at King’s School in Otterbury and a first class chap. He’s the leader of our company, and the story began with our battle against Toppy’s...

Author	Susan Price
ISBN	0571153402

“In a place far distant from where you are now grows an oak-tree by a lake.
Round the oak’s trunk is a chain of golden links.
Tethered to the chain is a learned cat, and this most learned of all cats walks round and round the tree continually.
As it walks one way, it sings songs.
As it walks...

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

Ana María Matute

Jujú pasa las tardes en el desván de la casa, que se ha convertido en su barco, el Ulises, la señorita Florentina (una paloma) y su fiel Contramaestre (un perrito) le acompañan en todas sus aventuras. Los días de Jujú son más bien aburridos. Le han criado tres tías solteronas, que le encontraron...

Author	Cynthia Harnett
ISBN	0140301534

Considering how important the wool trade was to the development of early-modern Britain, it is surprising how few novels deal with the business of wool. Those written for young readers are even scarcer. The Wool-Pack helps fill the gap.

This is historical fiction rather than history, written...

Author	Philippa Pearce
ISBN	0140302069

Philippa Pearce’s poignant story of a young boy who longs for a pet dog.

Young Ben Blewitt is desperate for a dog. He’s picked out the biggest and best dogs from the books in the library—and he just knows he’s going to get one for his birthday. Ben is excited when the big day arrives, but...

Author	Michelle Magorian
ISBN	0749717564

This review was originally posted on [Between My Lines]A Cuckoo in the Nest by Michelle Magorian tells the story of a family in post war 1940s England. Ralph's family is full of tension, of family members who no longer know or understand each other and the generation gap has never seemed greater.

 



 
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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...

Author	Zep
ISBN	2723415937

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

Jacob Grimm

The season brings my mind to thoughts of porridge, and porridge leads me back to this children's book.

A book I read when I was small, the heart warming tale of how a magic porridge pot was misused, causing a village to be drowned by a slow flowing, still growing, flood of porridge.

As I...

Author	Vera Southgate
ISBN	0721402224

This is a tale of three Billy Goats Gruff who want to cross a bridge, but are threatened by a horrible and scary troll who lives beneath it. In the end they out smart the troll and get rid of him for good, which enables them to cross the bridge freely without fear of bumping into the nasty troll. This book is suitable...

Author	Henry Treece
ISBN	0875991173

Harald and his father Sigurd were vikings. Their king died, so they planned to go 'a viking' (on a voyage) to seek riches and treasure. They joined a crew by the coast and helped prepare the ship - Nameless. Unfortunately, whilst pushing the boat into the sea, Sigurd slipped and his leg was brocken under...

Author	Enid Blyton
ISBN	0006923046

What a treat to read this book again for the first time in about 45 years! I was obsessed with this book as a small child, I read it over and over. I drove my parents nuts wanting a collie! And now, at the same time as reading this book I finally do have my own border collie (unlike the breed used throughout the...

Author

Anne Fine

This book is one of the literature component for secondary school in Malaysia. Although I'm not using it in my school, at least as a teacher I should know the story. Therefore, I read it. In my opinion, this novel aren't not the best among those novels assingn for form 5 but it wasn't the worst. Its quite interesting...