Author: Eleanor Coombe
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
ISBN: 0734412525
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Fafnir the dragon is in love - with himself. He can't stop singing love songs, and his singing is so bad that nobody can hear themselves think! Puck must find another dragon for Fafnir to love - and quickly. Will the Sea Fairy have the answer?
Author: Annika Thor
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375844953
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Two Jewish sister leave Austria during WWII/Holocaust and find refuge in Sweden. It's the summer of 1939. Two Jewish sisters from Vienna—12-year-old Stephie Steiner and seven-year-old Nellie—are sent to Sweden to escape the Nazis. They expect to stay there six months, until their parents can flee to Amsterdam; then all four will go to America. But as the world war intensifies, the girls remain, each with her own host family, on a rugged island off the western coast of Sweden. Nellie quickly settles in to her new surroundings. Not so for Stephie, who finds it hard to adapt; she feels stranded at the end of the world, with a foster mother who's as unforgiving as the island itself. It's no wonder Stephie doesn't let on that the most popular girl at school becomes her bitter enemy, or that she endures the wounding slights of certain villagers. Her main worry, though, is her parents—and whether she will ever see them again.
Author: Dianne Hofmeyr
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781845076443
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When a sailor can't bear life on ship any more, he jumps overboard and swims to a big barren rock. There he cares for a half-drowned cockerel and plants rice, hiding away when a boat arrives. The sailors are amazed to see rice growing and keep coming back, leaving plants and game-birds, until the island bursts with tropical fruit and wildlife. But soon the Queen of Portugal hears about it and demands to meet the person responsible.
Author: Annika Thor
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0385740409
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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A Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book and an ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book, The Lily Pond continues the story of two Jewish sisters who left Austria during WWII/Holocaust and found refuge in Sweden. A year after Stephie Steiner and her younger sister, Nellie, left Nazi-occupied Vienna, Stephie has finally adapted to life on the rugged Swedish island where her she now lives. But more change awaits Stephie: her foster parents have allowed her to enroll in school on the mainland, in Goteberg. Stephie is eager to go. Not only will she be pursuing her studies, she'll be living in a cultured city again--under the same roof as Sven, the son of the lodgers who rented her foster parents' cottage for the summer. Five years her senior, Sven dazzles Stephie with his charm, his talk of equality, and his anti-Hitler sentiments. Stephie can't help herself--she's falling in love. As she navigates a sea of new emotions, she also grapples with what it means to be beholden to others, with her constant worry about what her parents are enduring back in Vienna, and with the menacing spread of Nazi idealogy, even in Sweden. In these troubled times, her true friends, Stephie discovers, are the ones she least expected.
Author: Eleanor Coombe
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
ISBN: 0734412533
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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Cedar, the fairy wand-maker and keeper of spells, is in a panic: the fairy penguins' golden chick eggs are missing and something tells her the nasty bugaboos are to blame. Can the fairies find the eggs in time, before they hatch?
Author: Eleanor Coombe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520663685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Fafnir, the grumpy jewel hoarding dragon, is in love with himself. He can't stop singing. He is sending everyone on Faraway Island mad! Puck, the love fairy, is to blame. Astara, the Fairy Queen, orders Puck to find another dragon for Fafnir to love. He has to visit the Sea Fairy. He hopes she has the answer to Fafnir's problem.
Author: Eleanor Coombe
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
ISBN: 0734412606
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 55
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Things are going missing on Faraway Island - the jewels on the Scented Hills and, worst of all, the fairies' voices! Astara and her friends must get their voices back so they can work out why things are disappearing. They need the help of the flower fairies and some magical purple roses...
Author: Eleanor Coombe
Publisher: Lothian Children's Books
ISBN: 0734412517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 53
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Astara, the Fairy queen, is worried: hobyahs are destroing the wildlife on Faraway Island and she must find the Emerald of Life to fight them. If only her friend the Moon Fairy had not been kidnapped by the wicked willowykes? Can Astara save the day?
Author: Barbara Corcoran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Nicholas Yong
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
ISBN: 9814771635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
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In Track Faults and Other Glitches, journalist and author Nicholas Yong takes us on a journey into an alternate Singapore, where the impossible becomes real. Deep in the heart of the Zombie Civil Service, a secret meeting is held to pre-empt an impending disaster. In the heartlands, a devoted Shiba Inu — a dog breed from Japan — seeks the divine in her quest for answers. And what happens when an MRT train goes underground, and never comes back out? Haunting and dreamlike, this collection of 10 short stories transports you from the deeply familiar to the supernatural, exploring things that cannot and should not be.
