Darcy Burdock: Oh, Obviously
Ten-year-old Darcy Burdock is one of life's noticers. She sees the extraordinary in the everyday, and the wonder in the world around her. This is Darcy's fourth story, and the Burdock family are facing a series of disasters. Mum and Dad are having serious money worries. Darcy's granny (the one she doesn't like as much as her main most important...
A Witch In The Classroom!
You're a frog, Ryan James, you're a frog. Slimy and jumpy, bug-eyed and lumpy . . . Abigail is thrilled when she discovers that she's a witch - at last she can get her own back on her bullying classmate, Ryan. With help from her pet rat, Gnasher, Abigain turns Ryan into a frog, but that's when disaster strikes -...
Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar
Rafe Khatchadorian is getting the Hollywood treatment in a film version of Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life starring Griffin Gluck, Lauren Graham, Rob Riggle and Thomas Barbusca. Georgia 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...
The Village by the Sea
The Village by the Sea is a survival story by the novelist Anita Desai. Set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay, Lila and Hari, aged 13 and 12, struggle to keep the family, including two young sisters, going when their mother is ill and their father usually the worse for drink. When Hari goes to Bombay to find work,...