Meg Rosoff
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
“Every war has turning points and every person too.” Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she’s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy. As power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it’s a kind of...
Author
Series
Wild boars volume 2
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Besides being naughty, greedy, stinky, and rude, wild boars Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are also very hungry and luckily Doris finds the perfect recipe for them to make.
7) Beck
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
From Carnegie Medal–winning author Mal Peet comes a sweeping coming-of-age adventure, both harrowing and life-affirming. Born of a brief encounter between a Liverpool prostitute and an African soldier in 1907, Beck finds himself orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. At age fifteen he is sent to work on a farm, from which he eventually escapes. Finally in charge of his own destiny, Beck starts westward, crossing...
Author
Series
Wild boars volume 1
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
It is very hard to be friends with wild boars because they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered, and rude.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A dog with a plan adopts a chaotic family in a wry comedy extolling the virtues of common sense. When Ma Peachey takes up yoga, the rest of the family finds themselves abandoned to chaos: no one cooks dinner, no one picks up the dirty laundry, the children are always late for school, and there is a good deal of squabbling and squalor. Ma may be off finding inner peace, but irritable Pa Peachey, glum Ava, and wannabe girl-charmer Ollie are falling...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Savvy rescue dog McTavish finds a surprising way to ease young Betty's worries about moving to a new house-and a new school-in this fourth adventure told with warmth and wit. When Pa Peachey comes home in a happy-go-lucky mood-and singing!-the family is concerned. Pa has never not been grumpy after work! But when Ma and siblings Ava and Ollie learn that Pa has gotten a new job-which means moving to an appealing new house-they are all pretty quick...