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Meet Stevie Louise Mason. She’s a vibrant twelve-year-old aspiring actor, entrepreneur, and introvert. Stevie lives on Brooke Street with her best friends, the Brooke Street gang! Today, Stevie is going to ask them the most important question of their lives! Drum Roll Please, It’s Stevie Louise is a fun, contemporary novel for middle-grade readers. It is …
A sparkling queer YA romance set in Brisbane, Henry Hamlet’s Heart follows one guy and his sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking journey to love.
The Tale of the Whale is magnificent. A child and a whale begin upon a magical journey, sailing across oceans, diving into the deep. They see a polar bear, dance with dolphins and splash high into the spray. Theirs is a journey that conjures pure joy.
Girl of the Southern Sea is a fast-paced, emotionally charged novel that tells harrowing tales inspired by the realities of girls in Indonesian slums.
Mina and the Whole Wide World by Sherryl Clark is a powerful verse novel about loss, bullying and the power of friendship. It explores topics that younger children may not yet have been introduced to, but in a gentle, easy to understand way.
Daily bathing was not the fashion during Marie Antoinette's reign over France. French courtiers of the 18th century were all about sponging down the worst where necessary and saving baths for warm weather and emergencies. In fact, bathing was such a luxury that only wealthy nobles had bathing facilities in their own homes. Everyone else …
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This review was originally written for Pen and Fable It's a dark and dangerous journey for the Cobb & Co night mail coach. But, young Jem Donovan isn't afraid. He's helped his father deliver the coach and its passengers safely dozens of times before. With six mysterious characters packed into the coach, this is sure …
Nelson is having a tough time at school. The girls don't like him, not in that way, and the guys think he's a bit of a loser. But, at least before his best friend moved away and forgot about him, school was bearable. Life, at the moment, sucks. When Nelson's parents undertake to run a ski lodge …
Wednesday Weeks never wanted to be a sorcerer's apprentice. She loves science, not magic. But when a power-hungry goblin king captures her master, the Protector of the Realms - also her grandfather - Wednesday must embrace her magical potential to save him. Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows is the first in a new series …
10 stories. 10 mysterious situations. 10 brave kids. 20 minutes to solve. Kane's parachute fails during a skydive. Is someone trying to kill him? Fang is investigated by secret police. Can she prove she isn't a traitor? Omar is buried alive in a coffin. How will he escape? Jack Heath's ten nail-biting and mysterious short …
