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Pip the Different Penguin: Independent Reading Gold 9 (Reading Champion #200)
By A. H. Benjamin. 2018
In a heartwarming story celebrating our differences, meet Pip the penguin - whose wings are far too big. The other…
penguins make him leave the colony because of them. But when a seal threatens the other penguins, it's Pip's wings that save the day.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.The Twelfth Tablet: A Short Story (Ebook Original Ser.)
By Tom Harper. 2013
Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and…
each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each has taken its own journey, and each has its own story to tell. This is one of those stories.I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
By Gilly Segal, Kimberly Jones. 2019
Over the course of one night, two girls with two very different backgrounds must rely on each other to get…
through the violent race riot that has enveloped their city. Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school. When both girls attend the Friday-night football game, what neither expects is for everything to descend into sudden mass chaos. Chaos born from violence and hate. Chaos that unexpectedly throws them together. They aren't friends. They hardly understand the other's point of view. But none of that matters when the city is up in flames, and they only have each other to rely on if they're going to survive the night. A New York Times BestsellerThe Sea Unicorn: Book 2 (Sea Keepers #2)
By Coral Ripley. 2020
Narwhal to the rescue! The Sea Keepers set off on an icy adventure in this magical new series about saving…
our oceans.The Arctic mermaids urgently need the Sea Keepers' help! Evil mermaid Effluvia has used her bad magic to melt their ice palace. If Emily, Grace and Layla can't fix it, the poorly animals the mermaids look after will be in danger. The Sea Keepers are determined to save the sea animal sanctuary, but Effluvia has enchanted a pod of orcas to stop them. Can a friendly narwhal help them find the magic pearl and save the ice palace?The Emperor lives in a beautiful golden palace, but he is not happy... he always wants more. So when he…
sees a house with golden windows on the other side of the valley, he decides he must have it!Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ability, encouraging reading for pleasure.Independent Reading Turquoise 7 stories are perfect for children aged 5+ who are reading at book band 7 (Turquoise) in classroom reading lessons.The Orpheus Descent: A Novel
By Tom Harper. 2013
I have never written down the answers to the deepest mysteries, nor will I ever... The philosopher Plato wrote these…
words more than two thousand years ago, following a perilous voyage to Italy -- an experience about which he never spoke again, but from which he emerged the greatest thinker in all of human history.Today, twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Archaeologist Lily Barnes, working on a dig in southern Italy, has just found another. But this tablet names the location to the mouth of hell itself.And then Lily vanishes. Has she walked out on her job, her marriage, and her life -- or has something more sinister happened? Her husband, Jonah, is desperate to find her. But no one can help him: not the police, and not the secretive foundation that sponsored her dig. All Jonah has is belief, and a determination to do whatever it takes to get Lily back.But like Plato before him, Jonah will discover the journey ahead is mysterious and dark and fraught with danger. And not everyone who travels to the hidden place where Lily has gone can return.A Naked Singularity
By Sergio De La Pava. 2012
NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING JOHN BOYEGA, OLIVIA COOKE AND BILL SKARSGÅRD"The Wire written by Voltaire" Sunday Times"Crime and Punishment…
as reimagined by the Coen Brothers" The MillionsCasi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's on the winning side. He's never lost a case. But nothing lasts forever, and pride like his has a long way to fall. Funny, smart and always surprising, A Naked Singularity speaks a language all of its own and reads like nothing else ever written. Casi's beautiful mind and planetary intelligence make him an inimitable and unforgettable narrator. In De La Pava's hands, the labyrinthine miseries of the New York Justice System are as layered and diabolical as Dante's nine circles of Hell. But the Devil doesn't hog the best lines. There are plenty here to go around.Death in Florence: Book Four (Inspector Bordelli #4)
By Marco Vichi. 2009
Florence, October 1966. The rain is never-ending. When a young boy vanishes on his way home from school the police…
fear the worst, and Inspector Bordelli begins an increasingly desperate investigation.Then the flood hits. During the night of 4th November the swollen River Arno, already lapping the arches of the Ponte Vecchio, breaks its banks and overwhelms the city. Streets become rushing torrents, the force of the water sweeping away cars and trees, doors, shutters and anything else in its wake.In the aftermath of this unimaginable tragedy the mystery of the child's disappearance seems destined to go unsolved. But obstinate as ever, Bordelli is not prepared to give up.Melanie and the Modeling Mess (The Twelve Candles Club #5)
By Elaine L. Schulte. 1994
A Modeling Stint + Four Klutzes = One Wild Fashion Show! Abnew face has moved into Santa Rosita Estates, and…
her name is Melanie Lin. Becky, Cara, Tricia, and Jess are very impressed when they discover that their beautiful new Asian friend is also a model--but inside, Melanie is far from confident about herself. With a wacky Chinese aunt and a younger brother who runs around karate-chopping her friends, Melanie wishes her family wouldn't make their heritage so obvious. More than anything, she wants to feel as if she belongs, and she's sure that being part of the Twelve Candles Club will do just that. Determined to fit in, Melanie offers to get modeling jobs for her new friends--but when Tricia, Becky, Jess, and Cara show off their modeling skills, it looks as if the fashion show might be heading for disaster! Watch Out! Melanie's Stuck Her Foot in Her Mouth Again!The Last Story of Mina Lee: A Novel
By Nancy Jooyoun Kim. 2020
A profoundly moving and unconventional mother-daughter saga, The Last Story of Mina Lee illustrates the devastating realities of being an…
immigrant in America. Margot Lee’s mother, Mina, isn’t returning her calls. It’s a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown, LA, and finds that her mother has suspiciously died. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the tenuous invisible strings that held together her single mother’s life as a Korean War orphan and an undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother. Interwoven with Margot’s present-day search is Mina’s story of her first year in Los Angeles as she navigates the promises and perils of the American myth of reinvention. While she’s barely earning a living by stocking shelves at a Korean grocery store, the last thing Mina ever expects is to fall in love. But that love story sets in motion a series of events that have consequences for years to come, leading up to the truth of what happened the night of her death. Told through the intimate lens of a mother and daughter who have struggled all their lives to understand each other, The Last Story of Mina Lee is a powerful and exquisitely woven debut novel that explores identity, family, secrets, and what it truly means to belong.Room Service (The Innkeepers #3)
By Rochelle Alers. 2018
Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry…
heart of New Orleans . . . New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time. Now starting from scratch, the Asian and African-American stunner is tackling a lifetime opportunity: co-managing her friend’s new luxury inn about to open in the Garden District. The last thing Jasmine needs is romance. New Orleans' most eligible bachelor, investment banker Cameron Singleton, begs to differ. Cameron challenges Jasmine’s cautious ways, teases her back into having real fun—and makes one sexy, utterly irresistible Mr. Right Now. But their passionate nights soon result in a surprise bonus. . . . Even though Cameron insists on being there for Jasmine, can she really believe his love is the real thing? Can she shake the past and design a completely new life? And is there really only one way to find out?Everything I Never Told You: Amazon.com's #1 Book of the Year 2014
By Celeste Ng. 2017
'There is much here that might impress Pulitzer and Man Booker judges...Ng brilliantly depicts the destruction that parents can inflict…
on their children and on each other' Mark Lawson, Guardian Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue - in Marilyn's case that her daughter become a doctor rather than a homemaker, in James's case that Lydia be popular at school, a girl with a busy social life and the centre of every party. But Lydia is under pressures that have nothing to do with growing up in 1970s small town Ohio. Her father is an American born of first-generation Chinese immigrants, and his ethnicity, and hers, make them conspicuous in any setting. When Lydia's body is found in the local lake, James is consumed by guilt and sets out on a reckless path that may destroy his marriage. Marilyn, devastated and vengeful, is determined to make someone accountable, no matter what the cost. Lydia's older brother, Nathan, is convinced that local bad boy Jack is somehow involved. But it's the youngest in the family - Hannah - who observes far more than anyone realises and who may be the only one who knows what really happened. And if you loved Everything I Never Told You, don't miss Celeste Ng's second novel Little Fires EveywhereWhat readers are saying:'Devastating...A truly tragic but devastatingly well written book''Ng is a true craftsman. I implore you to read this. Also my favourite ending of a novel so far this year''This is the best book I have read this year''Really enjoyed this book, deeply moving, sad and thought provoking'Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
By Samira Ahmed. 2020
Told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, the latest novel from New York Times bestselling author Samira Ahmed traces the…
lives of two young women fighting to write their own stories and escape the pressure of cultural expectations in worlds too long defined by men. It&’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French, Indian, Muslim—is at a crossroads. This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is probably ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in the City of Light.Two hundred years before Khayyam&’s summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has &“gifted&” her with favored status in his harem. In the present day—and with the company of a descendant of Alexandre Dumas—Khayyam begins to connect allusions to an enigmatic 19th-century Muslim woman whose path may have intersected with Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron. Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyam&’s lives intertwine, and as one woman&’s long-forgotten life is uncovered, another&’s is transformed.Rule Britannia (Virago Modern Classics #120)
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1972
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCAIn this prescient novel, Daphne du Maurier explores the implications of leaving Europe for a…
political, economic and military alliance with the United States.'It is rather awful, Emma thought as she walked across the fields down to the farm, how this business is leading us all into subterfuge and deception, and we can't really tell who is friend and who is enemy . . . 'Emma wakes up one morning to an apocalyptic world. The cosy existence she shares with her grandmother, a famous retired actress, has been shattered: there's no telephone, no radio - and an American warship sits in the harbour. England has withdrawn from the European Common Market and, on the brink of bankruptcy, has decided that salvation lies in a union - political, military and economic - with the United States. Theoretically it is to be an equal partnership, but it soon begins to look like a takeover bid.As the two women piece together clues about the 'friendly' military occupation on their doorstep, family, friends and neighbours come together to resist the interlopers.The spirit of Britannia embodied - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe Flying Man
By Roopa Farooki. 2012
THE FLYING MAN is the story of the ultimate immigrant from the twice Orange Prize long-listed author Roopa Farooki.Meet Maqil…
- also known as Mike, Mehmet, Mikhail and Miguel - a chancer and charlatan. A criminally clever man who tells a good tale, trading on his charm and good looks, reinventing himself with a new identity and nationality in each successive country he makes his home, abandoning wives and children and careers in the process. He's a compulsive gambler - driven to lose at least as much as he gains, in games of chance, and in life. A damaged man in search of himself.Dead Boys' Club
By Geoffrey Malone. 2013
'If they ever come here,' his father had warned, 'drop everything. Just run and hide!' And now they were here.…
God's Freedom Army or whatever their name was. Bringers of blood and suffering. Rebels! Killers! Every one of them. Hundreds of thousands of children are abducted from their homes and used as boy soldiers. This is the story of one them. 12-year-old Sam is ripped from his village in Uganda and forced to march with rebel soldiers to their training camp in southern Sudan. A weapon is thrust into his innocent young hands and his life becomes that of enemies and battles, violence and death, as he's turned into a soldier. With no escape, danger is around every corner, the threat of death is everywhere. But there are ways to survive. Sam becomes friends with a fellow boy soldier and together their dreams of escape become a strength. Together, they are ready to fight.Redemption in Indigo
By Karen Lord. 2010
Bursting with humour and rich in detail, this re-imagining of a Senegalese folk tale is the perfect antidote to the…
woes of the world.'A clever, exuberant mix of Caribbean and Senegalese influences' New York TimesPaama's husband is a fool and a glutton. Bad enough that he followed her to her parents' home in the village of Makendha, but now he's disgraced himself by murdering livestock and stealing corn.When Paama leaves him for good, she attracts the attention of the undying ones - the djombi - who present her with a gift: the Chaos Stick, which allows her to manipulate the subtle forces of the world.Unfortunately, not all the djombi are happy about this gift. The Indigo Lord believes this power should be his and his alone, and he will do anything to get it back. Chaos is about to reign supreme . . .'The perfect antidote to the formula fantasies currently flooding the market' - GuardianA clever, contemporary fairy-tale, a masterful, magical retelling of an African folk taleset in a fresh, surprising and utterly original world.'A fairy tale for the new generation, filled with spirits, magic and touches of African and Caribbean folklore' Voice newspaperThe Twelfth Tablet
By Tom Harper. 2013
Twelve golden tablets sit in museums around the world, each created by unknown hands and buried in ancient times, and…
each providing the dead with the route to the afterlife. Each has taken its own journey, and each has its own story to tell. This is one of those stories.Eleanor & Park
By Rainbow Rowell. 2012
'Reminded me not just what it's like to be young and in love, but what it's like to be young…
and in love with a book' John Green, author of The Fault in our StarsEleanor is the new girl in town, and she's never felt more alone. All mismatched clothes, mad red hair and chaotic home life, she couldn't stick out more if she tried.Then she takes the seat on the bus next to Park. Quiet, careful and - in Eleanor's eyes - impossibly cool, Park's worked out that flying under the radar is the best way to get by. Slowly, steadily, through late-night conversations and an ever-growing stack of mix tapes, Eleanor and Park fall in love. They fall in love the way you do the first time, when you're 16, and you have nothing and everything to lose.Set over the course of one school year in 1986, Eleanor & Park is funny, sad, shocking and true - an exquisite nostalgia trip for anyone who has never forgotten their first love.Inside, Outside
By Herman Wouk. 1985
Herman Wouk's classic novel moves on from the grand themes which have won him international acclaim - war, the fate…
of nations, and the indomitable spirit of man - to the quest for identity, in the clash between the Inside of faith and family and the Outside of the glittery American dream. Inside, Outside sweeps through more than sixty years, from the pre-war, pre-atomic innocence of the twenties and thirties to the turbulent immediate past. Scenes of rollicking family humour and show-business comedy alternate with sudden tragedy, the spectacle of a falling President and the explosion of war. A bittersweet first love, relived after forty years, and a tense secret wartime mission between Washington and Jerusalem call forth the author's renowned storytelling gift. An intense, personal book about intimate things, Inside, Outside is a merry, poignant, sometimes ribald picture of the American Jewish experience, by a master at the peak of his powers.