Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Dick King-smith
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 1999-07-15
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780786813513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the unknowing help of his pet geese, eight-year-old Jack Daw decides to raise an ostrich on his father's farm.
Author: Suzanne Freeman
Publisher:
Published: 1997-10-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780807278826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen her parents disappear while on a sailing vacation, Mia must move from Beirut back to America. She and her sisters are sent to live with their eccentric aunt in Tennessee, and Mia begins to long for Beirut while awaiting the return of her parents whose absence she cannot accept. An eclectic group of friends and family helps Mia to accept the inevitable about her parents and to accept herself as well. October 1997 publication date.
Author: Mathias Malzieu
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-03-02
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 0307593169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wildly original, fantastical adventure—and now an animated move, Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart—this international bestseller will charm readers of all ages. Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine—witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans—who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. And it is in her orphanage that Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine. As Jack gets older, Dr. Madeleine warns him that his heart is too fragile for strong emotions: he must never, ever fall in love. And, of course, this is exactly what he does: on his tenth birthday and with head-over-heels abandon. The object of his ardor is Miss Acacia—a bespectacled young street performer with a soul-stirring voice. But now Jack’s life is doubly at risk—his heart is in danger and so is his safety after he injures the school bully in a fight for the affections of the beautiful singer. Now begins a journey of escape and pursuit, from Edinburgh to Paris to Miss Acacia’s home in Andalusia. Mathias Malzieu’s The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a fantastical, wildly inventive tale of love and heartbreak—by turns poignant and funny—in which Jack finally learns the great joys, and ultimately the greater costs, of owning a fully formed heart.
Author: Margaret Thompson
Publisher: Brindle and Glass
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1927366291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a donor match test for her brother with leukemia reveals she is not her parents' biological child, Livvy embarks on a search for her birth family that leads her to clues about her son, who disappeared eleven years earlier.
Author: Fiona Roberton
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 0698149750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHilarious and heartwarming read-aloud from IRA Children’s Book Award winner Cuckoo hatches. And all is well. But when his brothers and sisters sing out Too-too-weet! Too-too-weet! Cuckoo instead chirps Cuckoo! and no one can understand him. When he leaves his nest, Cuckoo still can’t find anyone who speaks his language. He tries to communicate with the other animals—coomooing and buckooing and cabooing along the way—but he doesn’t sound like anyone else out there! Just when he thinks all is lost, Cuckoo finds an unlikely friend who understands him perfectly. IRA Children’s Book Award winner Fiona Roberton has created an utterly charming read-aloud about a little bird that will win fans over with his hilarious attempts at communication and determination to go to any length to find a friend.
Author: Katie Flynn
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-23
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 1446411192
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt takes courage to overcome the odds... Liverpool 1928: abandoned by her mother at a very young age, Dot McCann lives a lonely life with her distant aunt and uncle. A cuckoo in the nest, she spends her days trying to keep out of trouble. When Dot overhears a conversation whilst playing in the street, her life changes for ever. What she discovers could send one man to prison and another to the gallows. In a desperate attempt to right a wrong, Dot teams up with runaway orphan Corky, Emma, a local jeweller whose shop has been burgled, and Nick, a handsome young reporter investigating the crime. But Dot and Emma have been recognised and they soon find themselves in very real danger. Will they uncover the truth before it’s too late?
Author: Mrs. Molesworth
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alastair Chisholm
Publisher: Nosy Crow
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1788006119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith incredible twists and turns and an action-packed story, this is a thrilling, unputdownable adventure. The robot Adam-2 has been locked in the basement of a lost building for over two hundred years - until one day he is discovered by two children, and emerges into a world ruined by a civil war between humans and advanced intelligence. Hunted by both sides, Adam discovers that he holds the key to the war, and the power to end it - to destroy one side and save the other. But which side is right? Surrounded by enemies who want to use him, and allies who mistrust him, Adam must decide who - and what - he really is. From the author of the highly-acclaimed Orion Lost, Adam-2 is an exciting and hugely gripping science fiction thriller - perfect for fans of Eoin Colfer, Anthony Horowitz, and Philip Reeve. "Brilliant - one of the best middle grade books I've read this year ... Action, tension, a marvellous mix of characters, and incredibly thought-provoking while being huge fun to read. What more could you want?" - Jennifer Killick, author of Crater Lake
Author: Grant Gillespie
Publisher: To Hell with
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780955460944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith heartbreaking simplicity, 'The Cuckoo Boy' charts the quiet destruction a middle class childhood might sometimes, unexpectedly, wreak.
Author: Marjorie Eccles
Publisher: Severn House/ORIM
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1780100620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA young woman comes of age and discovers her hidden past in this gripping historical mystery set in the north of England. England, 1909. When twenty-one-year-old Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthorpe, a small Yorkshire town, to catalog books in an old manor house owned by wealthy local Ainsley Beaumont, she does not dream that it will change her life forever. But she arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Ainsley’s son in a disastrous fire twenty years past. Worse still, the damaged wing of the house remains untouched. When a dead body surfaces in the water at Beaumont’s mill, long-buried secrets soon follow—including Laura’s unexpected connection to the Beaumont family. Rendered in exquisite period detail, Cuckoo’s Child is a moving, suspenseful mystery of love, lies, and murder. “Eccles’ latest enjoyably blends historical romance and suspenseful murder mystery in a keep-’em-guessing plot with revealing insights into English society at the time and authentic period ambience. Entertaining reading for fans of British historicals.” —Booklist
