Daisy Chain War

Daisy Chain War

Author: Joan O'Neill

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 9780340854662

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It is 1941. Britain is in the grip of the Second World War, and in Ireland, ten year old Lizzie Doyle is getting on with her life and trying to adjust to the arrival of her wild cousin Vicky from England. Vicky is trouble, she's a flirt, she's devious and she's headstrong. Can she and good natured Lizzie ever be real friends? Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.


Daisy Chain Days

Daisy Chain Days

Author: Joan O'Neill

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9780340881781

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Lizzie's world has been turned upside down by two new arrivals. The first is Alexandru, a handsome but troubled young Bosnian refugee to whom Beth finds herself extremely attracted, and Tori, Beth's cousin, who's trouble with a capital 'T'. Is Doyle family history about to re-enact itself?


Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain

Author: Maggie Ritchie

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2021-06-10

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1529366402

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'A wholly delightful novel' Allan Massie, Scotsman Lily Crawford and Jeanie Taylor, from very different backgrounds, are firm friends from their childhoods in Kirkcudbright. They share their ambitions for their futures, Lily to be an artist, Jeanie to be a dancer. The two women's eventful lives are intertwined. In the years before the First World War, the girls lose touch when Jeanie runs away from home and joins a dance company, while Lily attends The Mack, Glasgow's famous school of art designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. A chance meeting reunites them and together they discover a Glasgow at the height of its wealth and power as the Second City of the Empire - and a city of poverty and overcrowding. Separated once again after the war, Lily and Jeanie find themselves on opposite sides of the world. Lily follows her husband to Shanghai while Jeanie's dance career brings her international fame. But the glamour and dissolution of 1920s Shanghai finally lead Lily into peril. Her only hope of survival lies with her old friend Jeanie, as the two women turn to desperate measures to free Lily from danger. Inspired by the eventful and colourful lives of the pioneering women artists The Glasgow Girls, particularly that of Eleanor Allen Moore, Daisy Chain is a story of independence, women's art, resilience and female friendship, set against the turbulent background of the early years of the 20th century.


Daisy Chain Dream

Daisy Chain Dream

Author: Joan O'Neill

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780340854686

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Love blossoms for Lizzie Doyle as she prepares to marry her childhood sweetheart. For the younger generation, the past is never far behind; Biddy's chance encounter with an old flame changes her life forever. And though John Doyle's father is home, there's a new threat to the family's happiness .


Daisy Chain

Daisy Chain

Author: Al Campbell

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1915194121

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Set in an incredibly exciting period of history, a pacy debut, brimming with adventure and romance.England, 1771: Recently orphaned Daisy Salter moves from quiet Suffolk society to the hustle and bustle of London. A talented botanical illustrator and amateur scientist, frustrated Daisy finds herself governess to the daughter of her sister and brutish noble brother-in-law.However, a chance encounter with pre-eminent scientist Joseph Banks changes everything and, when the extent of her talent is revealed, Daisy not only becomes Artist in Residence at the magnificent Kew Gardens, but confidante of Queen Charlotte, King George III's wife.But whilst science and plant hunting expeditions are flourishing, at sea the &‘triangular trade' is in full swing and Daisy is unwittingly inveigled into espionage, tea smuggling and the slave trade. Who is friend and who is foe? Can Daisy work out who to trust before disaster strikes?


The Daisy Chain

The Daisy Chain

Author: Muril Hart

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1449036813

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The Daisy Chain is a three-part book.Part one is the story of Daisy Petty McIntyre, a courageous mother of four children. Widowed in 1912 in her early 30s, she was forced by circumstances to leave her cozy home in the Ozark Hills of Northwestern Arkansas, where she was surrounded by family and friends to wrest out a living in a large city where she knew few people.She soon learned that the many skills that served her well in the Ozarks had little financial value in earning a living for herself and her children in Kansas City. Daisy faced hardships and destitution, but she did it with great heart and fortitude, never letting her children see the fears and desolation she felt on an almost daily basis. Part two is the author's experiences growing up in the Great Depression years. Part three is a family genealogy.


House to House

House to House

Author: David Bellavia

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-25

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1471105873

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On 8 November 2004, the largest battle of the War on Terror began, with the US Army's assault on Fallujah and its network of tens of thousands of insurgents hiding in fortified bunkers, on rooftops, and inside booby-trapped houses. For Sgt. David Bellavia of 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, it quickly turned into a battle on foot, from street to street and house to house. On the second day, he and his men laid siege to a mosque, only to be driven to a rooftop and surrounded, before heavy artillery could smash through to rescue them. By the third day, Bellavia charges an insurgent-filled house and finds himself trapped with six enemy fighters. One by one, he shoots, wrestles, stabs, and kills five of them, until his men arrive to take care of the final target. It is one of the most hair-raising battle stories of any age -- yet it does not spell the end of Bellavia's service. It would take serveral more weeks before the Battle of Fallujah finally came to a close, with Bellavia, miraculously, alive. In the words of the author: "HOUSE TO HOUSE holds nothing back. It is a raw, gritty look at killing and combat and how men react to it. It is gut-wrenching, shocking and brutal. It is honest. It is not a glorification of war. Yet it will not shy from acknowledging this: sometimes it takes something as terrible as war for the full beauty of the human spirit to emerge."


Boy Proof

Boy Proof

Author: Cecil Castellucci

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0763654280

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A Time Magazine 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time Selection "This novel's funny first-person narrative will grab teens (and not just sci-fi fans) with its romance and the screwball special effects."– Booklist Meet Egg. Her real name is Victoria Jurgen, but she's renamed herself after the kick-ass heroine of her favorite sci-fi movie, Terminal Earth. Like her namesake, Egg dresses all in white, colors her eyebrows, and shaves her head. She always knows the right answers, she's always in control, and she's far too busy — taking photos for the school paper, meeting with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club, and hanging out at the "creature shop" with her dad, the special-effects makeup wizard — to be bothered with friends, much less members of the opposite sex. As far as Egg is concerned, she's boy proof, and she likes it that way. But then Egg meets a boy named Max, a boy who's smart and funny and creative and cool . . . and happens to like Egg. Could this be the end of the world — at least as Egg knows it?