Worry-prone Frankie keeps his family secret under control -- until a bold, inquisitive girl enters his life -- in this warm, witty, and captivating YA novel. Twelve-year-old Frankie Parsons is a talented kid with a quirky family, a best friend n...
Who indeed is Perry? And who is Gran? Who are Doris. Beverley. Stephen. Loto. Audrey and the myriad others at Santa Lucia in the loop of the river? There is much about all their lives that is puzzling and chaotic. but Perry has a plan. She is maki...
Barney Kettle knew he would be a very famous film director one day, he just didn't know when that day would arrive. He was already an actual director -- he'd made four fifteen-minute films -- but so far only his schoolmates and the residents of th...
A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love.
'What made March really significant, what seared it on both our brains, was that Westie met his birth mother, Vicky, for the first time, a secret assignation . . . and ...
A moving story of young - and old - love. 'He looks at me now, full face, and I can see how drawn, how much older that face is - dark pits under his eyes, lines of tiredness. He's not the warrior king I fell for eight months ago.'
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A prize-winning novel about friendship, family and an impossible love. 'What made March really significant, what seared it on both our brains, was that Westie met his birth mother, Vicky, for the first time, a secret assignation ... and I met Meredit...
A series of earthquakes exposes the fault lines in a teenager’s unconventional life in a powerful crossover novel that explores raw emotion with wit and warmth. After the deadly 2011 earthquakes in Christ Church, New Zealand, Eddy Smallbone must na...