Author: Hilary McKay
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 1444903446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family! After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it. Realising that her childhood in Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy. The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . . 'This book truly is a masterpiece' Guardian Saffy's Angel won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay's talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.
Saffy's Angel
Author: Hilary McKay
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 1444903446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family! After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it. Realising that her childhood in Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy. The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . . 'This book truly is a masterpiece' Guardian Saffy's Angel won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay's talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.
Publisher: Hachette Children's
ISBN: 1444903446
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
From the winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2018. Meet Saffy, Indigo, Rose and Caddy Casson. This colourful and hilarious series will make you wish you were part of the family! After Saffron discovers that she's adopted, life is never quite the same. Her artistic parents and doting siblings adore her, but Saffy wants a piece of her past. So when her grandfather bequests a stone angel to her, Saffy knows she has to find it. Realising that her childhood in Siena holds the key, she stows away on a car trip to Italy. The rest of the family are engaged in their own wacky projects: Caddy, a hopeless student, is revising for her A levels and desperately trying to pass her driving test. Indigo, the only boy in the Casson family, is determined to rid himself of his fear of heights. And the youngest, Rose, a budding artist, has a knack for baiting her pompous dad, with entertaining results . . . 'This book truly is a masterpiece' Guardian Saffy's Angel won the Whitbread Children's Book Award, and book 3, Permanent Rose, was shortlisted for the same award, celebrating McKay's talent for conveying the anarchic bedlam of family life.
Quill & Quire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Saffy Looks for Rain
Author: Paola Opal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897476031
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A lively and distinctly designed series written and illustrated by award-winning artist Paola Opal. Now available as a series of board books, Paola Opal's Simply Small series features cute baby animals with distinct personalities who find clever ways of solving their problems. In this instalment, Saffy, the baby giraffe, goes looking for rain - and finds a friend instead!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897476031
Category : Board books
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A lively and distinctly designed series written and illustrated by award-winning artist Paola Opal. Now available as a series of board books, Paola Opal's Simply Small series features cute baby animals with distinct personalities who find clever ways of solving their problems. In this instalment, Saffy, the baby giraffe, goes looking for rain - and finds a friend instead!
Greyfriars Reformatory
Author: Frazer Lee
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1787584771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"Greyfriars Reformatory delivers on suspense and a classic asylum setting that brings to mind novels like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." — Chicago Review of Books Nineteen year-old Emily's acute dissociative disorder causes her to be institutionalised - again - at Greyfriars Reformatory For Girls. Caught in the crossfire between brutal Principal Quick and cruel bully Saffron Chassay, Emily befriends fellow outcast Victoria. When the terrifying apparition of the mysterious ‘Grey Girl' begins scaring the inmates to death, Emily’s disorder may be the one thing that can save her. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1787584771
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
"Greyfriars Reformatory delivers on suspense and a classic asylum setting that brings to mind novels like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest." — Chicago Review of Books Nineteen year-old Emily's acute dissociative disorder causes her to be institutionalised - again - at Greyfriars Reformatory For Girls. Caught in the crossfire between brutal Principal Quick and cruel bully Saffron Chassay, Emily befriends fellow outcast Victoria. When the terrifying apparition of the mysterious ‘Grey Girl' begins scaring the inmates to death, Emily’s disorder may be the one thing that can save her. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.
Redemption Song
Author: Laura Wilkinson
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1783758686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
'Engaging and lively, empathetic and addictive... I was hooked from the off' Sarah Rayner, international bestselling author of One Moment, One Morning 'Redemption Song is a very evocative novel, which explores the idea of forgiving not just others, but yourself. Through the intertwined lives of a group of damaged people, a real sense of hope jumps off these pages. Clever and thought-provoking.' Araminta Hall, Richard & Judy Book Club author. If you lost everything in one night, what would you do? Saffron is studying for a promising career in medicine until a horrific accident changes her life for ever. Needing to escape London, she moves to a small coastal town to live with her mother. Saffron hates the small town existence and feels trapped until she meets Joe, another outsider. Despite initial misgivings, they grow closer to each other as they realise they have a lot in common. Like Saffron, Joe has a complicated past ... one that's creeping up on his present. Can Joe escape his demons for long enough to live a normal life - and can Saffron reveal the truth about what really happened on that fateful night? Love is the one thing they need most, but will they - can they - risk it? Redemption Song is a captivating, insightful look at what happens when everything goes wrong - and the process of putting the pieces back together again.
Publisher: Headline Accent
ISBN: 1783758686
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
'Engaging and lively, empathetic and addictive... I was hooked from the off' Sarah Rayner, international bestselling author of One Moment, One Morning 'Redemption Song is a very evocative novel, which explores the idea of forgiving not just others, but yourself. Through the intertwined lives of a group of damaged people, a real sense of hope jumps off these pages. Clever and thought-provoking.' Araminta Hall, Richard & Judy Book Club author. If you lost everything in one night, what would you do? Saffron is studying for a promising career in medicine until a horrific accident changes her life for ever. Needing to escape London, she moves to a small coastal town to live with her mother. Saffron hates the small town existence and feels trapped until she meets Joe, another outsider. Despite initial misgivings, they grow closer to each other as they realise they have a lot in common. Like Saffron, Joe has a complicated past ... one that's creeping up on his present. Can Joe escape his demons for long enough to live a normal life - and can Saffron reveal the truth about what really happened on that fateful night? Love is the one thing they need most, but will they - can they - risk it? Redemption Song is a captivating, insightful look at what happens when everything goes wrong - and the process of putting the pieces back together again.
The Distant Hours
Author: Kate Morton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439152799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439152799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A long-lost letter arriving at its destination fifty years after it was sent lures Edie Burchill to crumbling Milderhurst Castle, home of the three elderly Blythe sisters, where Edie's mother was sent to stay as a teenager during World War II.
Saffy
Author: Paola Opal
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897476024
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Saffy the giraffe wants to pick a leaf all by herself, but she is too small to reach them on the branch. On board pages.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781897476024
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Saffy the giraffe wants to pick a leaf all by herself, but she is too small to reach them on the branch. On board pages.
The Art of Standing Still
Author: Penny Culliford
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310861020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Even so, reporter Jemma Durham dreams of the story that will take her from the small Monksford Gazetteto a national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays that were performed across England hundreds of years ago—and life in Monksford turns decidedly more interesting.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310861020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
Nothing much ever happens in Monksford. Even so, reporter Jemma Durham dreams of the story that will take her from the small Monksford Gazetteto a national newspaper. Then the town revives the tradition of the medieval mystery plays that were performed across England hundreds of years ago—and life in Monksford turns decidedly more interesting.
The Lighthouse Witches
Author: C. J. Cooke
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593334248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more! "Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers--except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593334248
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
A Most Anticipated Novel by Pop Sugar * Book Riot * Betches * Bustle * and more! "Utterly spellbinding....Witchcraft meets thriller."--Pop Sugar Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting. When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed. Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers--except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress
Author: Eric Silverman
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847882862
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of Jewish clothing, both profane and sacred, from its origins through to the present day. Fascinating and accessibly written, it will appeal to anybody with an interest in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847882862
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of Jewish clothing, both profane and sacred, from its origins through to the present day. Fascinating and accessibly written, it will appeal to anybody with an interest in the central role of clothing in defining Jewish identity.