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Author: Irena Kobald
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 0544432282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a little girl nicknamed "Cartwheel" moves to a different country with her family to be safe she has a hard time adjusting to her new home.
Author: Jen Hogan
Publisher: Orpen Press
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1786050331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKParenthood – the greatest adventure of all. While everyone else on social media is dressed neatly and smiling happily at the camera – the picture-postcard family – you’re chasing a half-naked toddler around and simultaneously trying to remove baby vomit from your shirt. Welcome to reality! In The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood, mum-of-seven Jen Hogan is your expert guide, sharing her candid perspective on the rollercoaster of parenthood – with all its ups and downs, challenges and rewards – from pregnancy to the teenage years. Humorous and sensitive, realistic and always ready with an anecdote, Jen is full of practical advice while also appreciating the emotional involvement in rearing children. She understands that what works for some children doesn’t for others, and includes realistic tools for overcoming certain hurdles. The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood covers all aspects of parenthood, including: Pregnancy, childbirth and miscarriageThe newborn stagePostnatal depressionAdjusting to the new ‘mum’ you and the importance of mum friendsToddler terrors and ‘threenagers’Adding to your brood and adjusting to the new family dynamicThe primary school yearsThe secondary school transition The Real Mum’s Guide to (Surviving) Parenthood is for all parents, from expectant mothers to parents of teenagers.
Author: Fiona Longmuir
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2022-06-02
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1839942762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA hugely gripping, fast-paced mystery adventure, with brilliant twists and turns, from a fresh and exciting new voice in children's books. When twelve-year-old Lily moves to the sleepy seaside town of Edge, she's sure that nothing exciting is ever going to happen to her again. But when she stumbles upon a secret museum hidden in the middle of town, she realises that there might be more to her new home than meets the eye. The Museum of Emily is filled with the belongings of one seemingly ordinary girl - a girl who, many years ago, disappeared from the town without a trace. With the help of her new friends Sam and Jay, Lily is determined to solve the mystery and find out who Emily was, why she disappeared and who has created the strange, hidden museum. With a one-of-a-kind mystery, a brilliant trio of protagonists, and an action-filled story, Looking for Emily is the unmissable middle grade debut of 2022.
Author: Zee 'C'
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Published: 2017-02-09
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 178719311X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScruffy hopes every day that someone will come along and choose to take him away from the rescue centre to his forever home. One day his dream comes true when Sam chooses him. He goes home with Sam and his Mum to a life full of adventures and new experiences but mainly love and acceptance of the way he is. Sam learns to become more responsible as Scruffy's master and Scruffy learns what it means to be Sam's constant companion as they explore and play in the countryside.
Author: Chido Muchemwa
Publisher: House of Anansi
Published: 2024-10-08
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1487012470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntimate stories about Zimbabweans in moments of transition that force them to decide who they really are and choose the people they call their own. Set in Toronto and Zimbabwe, the twelve elegant stories in Who Will Bury You? touch on themes of loss, identity, and inequality as they follow the lives of Zimbabweans who often feel like they are on the outside looking in. A mother and daughter navigate new relationship dynamics when the daughter comes out as a lesbian. Two sisters wonder what will hold them together after their grandmother’s death. A daughter tries to tell her father she loves him as she prepares to leave home for the first time. A journalist takes her grieving mother on a trip to report on girls who are allegedly being abducted by mermaids. A girl born to be the river god’s wife becomes a hero when chaos breaks out in the mighty Zambezi. A group of mothers discover just how far they are willing to go to protect their children during wartime. Ephemeral yet beautifully satisfying, the stories in Chido Muchemwa's debut collection ask what makes people leave home, what makes them come back, and what keeps them there.
Author: Donn McClean
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
Published: 2020-08-03
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1788492048
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Who are we?' 'Ballymarra! Ballymarra!' everyone shouted loudly. Thirteen-year-old Anna loves Gaelic football, and she's good: focused, skilled and strong. But then everything changes; after a terrible loss, Anna and her family move to a new town. How will she cope with a new home, new school and new GAA club? It seems like even football can't give her comfort, maybe some help from an unexpected place is just what she needs...... Football, friendship & family forever
Author: Hetty E. Verolme
Publisher: WERMA Pty. Ltd. atf. "The Children of Belsen Trust"
Published: 2013-12-19
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 099229732X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Holocaust the young Hetty was rounded up by the Nazis and sent for 14 long months to Belsen Concentration Camp. Hetty and her two little brothers were forcefully separated from their parents. This is her story; how she as one of the eldest children had to become the ‘Little Mother’ not only taking care of her two brothers but also forty young children living in Barrack 211 known as ‘The Children’s House of Belsen’. At fourteen-years-old, an unimaginable task amidst the inhumane conditions of hunger, cold, sickness death and despair, she kept up her spirits. A truly remarkable story of a young girl’s determination.
Author: Elaine Beale
Publisher: Bond Street Books
Published: 2010-02-23
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0307374408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA profoundly moving, heartrending story of a girl's struggle to love her mother in spite of her frightening mental illness After years of living in the shadow of her mother's mental illness, thirteen-year-old Jesse Bennett is given a fresh chance at happiness when her family moves to a village near the coast of Northern England. But just when it seems Jesse might be able to build a new life, her mother's worsening mental state and the secret Jesse fiercely guards about herself threaten to destroy the fragile stability she has found. Caught in the tempest of her mother's moods, her father's desperation, and the cruel social hierarchies ruling her school life, Jesse is forced to choose between doing what's right and preserving the normal life she's always hoped for.
Author: JJ Heller
Publisher: WaterBrook
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 41
ISBN-13: 0593193253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis heartwarming picture book reassures children that a parent’s love never lets go—based on the poignant lyrics of JJ Heller’s beloved lullaby “Hand to Hold.” “May the living light inside you be the compass as you go / May you always know you have my hand to hold.” With delightful illustrations and an engaging rhyme scheme, this book offers the promise of security and love every child’s heart longs to know. From skipping stones and counting stars to climbing trees and telling stories, every moment is wrapped snugly in the certain warmth of a parent’s presence and God’s blessing. With poignancy and joy, this bedtime read captures the unconditional love parents want their children to know but so often fail to express amid the chaos of daily life.
Author: Hetty E. Verolme
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Published: 2010-10-22
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1458718808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is one of the remarkable, largely untold, stories of the Holocaust, a story of hope. It is a heartwarming tale that traces the extraordinary struggle and survival of a family through those terrible years. Hetty was just twelve years old in 1943 when her family was torn apart following the German invasion of the Netherlands. Rounded up by the Nazis and then separated from their parents, Hetty and her brothers were sent to the Childrens House, within Belsen concentration camp. Hetty became the Little Mother of the camp, helping to care for the other children.
