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Ivy Sue Klutz (Little MisFit - LMF) finds one of her first memories confusing. This is when she is three and a half years old and is at her sister Lynn's birthday party. Their cousin, Janet, asks the partygoers to guess what Lynn's birthday present is as the truck delivering the present is backing up to the front porch of their house. Unbeknown to LMF, Janet told the other kids not to really guess that it's a bike. You guessed - LMF guesses that her...
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Thirteen-year-old John Robert O'Neill, better known as Robbie, is a precocious young man with an old soul. Robbie, the younger of two brothers, delights in his special relationship with his grandfather, for whom he is named. Henry, seven years older than Robbie, is completely opposite in demeanor and manner from his younger brother. The tension between Robbie and Henry is palpable when they first encounter each other in the hospital corridor, where...
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'It's not easy being a lone fish in a big ocean...' Jake Mackay Junior, known to all as J.J., is reeling from a series of events that completely change his life. His mother left home, his father has a new girlfriend named Sonia, and he is being tormented at school by a group of bullies known as the Shark Gang.
J.J. is glad when school starts in September, though he is a loner with no one to talk to. Things begin to look up when he gets involved with...
4) Riddlington
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This story begins with Riddlington Rabbit wanting to see other things happening in a world outside the safe boundaries of his insular existence. As a rabbit, his life is spent, primarily, underground during the day, only coming out at night, under the protection of darkness, to find food.
His favourite Uncle Otto sparks Riddlington's imagination of exploring, by telling stories of his own adventures. We follow Riddlington as he navigates his way...
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Alison doesn't seem to fit into the stereotype of being a girl and is constantly asked the question: "Why can't you just be a normal girl?"
Through inner conflicts and confusion, Alison journeys into the definition of what it means to be 'normal'. Accepting the beliefs of significant people in her life, the journey proves challenging when who Alison really is and what she does are at controversy.
What is it that makes Alison different to every other...
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In The Pompous Emperor and the Wise Old Man, the author explores the transformative power of truth and the fundamental principles that govern all of creation. Through the story of an affluent Emperor who meets a wise and humble man, the novel delves into the corrupt and lustful desires that often plague society and the importance of making positive impacts on the world. With a focus on authority and the influence of individuals on others, the story...
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On the edge of town, at the McKinney farm, there's a pond which rests on the side of the road. For any other town this pond would be forgettable. Aside from the cluster of reeds bordering its edges, this body of water possesses no significance to anyone who passes it by.
However, the status of this pond changed during one conversation between a mother and her daughter. The moment came when Naomi Davis appeared to be most vulnerable. Through an analogy...
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Living in a castle has its ups and downs...
So when Elspeth's old friends, Gemaline and Sharon, come to visit, it ends in chaos.
The town of Conquest will never be the same again, but Clarence, the mayor, has other ideas.
Elspeth, however, is determined to keep her legacy.
10) Always in Season
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Daisie Rhodell is a simple, stubborn, and absolutely single girl. With senior year approaching fast, she realizes that she has never been in love and, at the age of 18, has yet to be kissed. For her whole life, soccer has always been the most important thing to her. Somehow, Daisie finds herself curious and completely annoyed with the new kid, Brayden McMillen, who just so happens to move to Willows Creek, Tennessee, right as school begins. After...
11) Battlefield
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Kai Duncan was only seven years old when her parents passed away in a plane crash, forcing her to be separated from her only sibling and to be sent to foster care in California. After many attempts, she successfully escapes from the foster home to look for her brother. Kai is now a sixteen-year-old basketball player who also loves to read and write. She lives on the streets and provides for herself for a few months before she is taken in by a family....
12) Obscurity
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As Elissa sits in her rocking chair, she informs her three grandchildren-Charles, Nancy, and Reginald-of her wild journey as a young teenager, venturing out to find her place in the world. From high school to the shores of Bali and to the numerous losses she has encountered throughout her lifetime-now a ninety-year-old "Grandma Liss," as she is known, explores the existential crisis of finding one's true tune through all the noise, which surrounds...
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Dear Reader,If you have not read anything about Danilo and the Chocolate Hills, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Danilo is a good boy, however his decision to skip school and go along with his good friend Carlo to the Chocolate Hills on the island of Bohol sets off a dramatic saga when the Evil Giant of the Hills turned them both into tarsiers. "Tarsiers are small insectivorous, tree-dwelling, nocturnal primate with...
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'Love you, love me,' she grinned, 'Jess, remember to have your head in the stars and your feet firmly on the ground.'
'And dance in the rain.'
Jess, Crystal and Sophie had been friends since primary school but becoming a teenager brings its own challenges as the girls soon discover. At an age when life offers more opportunities and with it self-doubt and insecurities, Jess and her friends navigate the school social, an out-of-control party, underage...
15) A Child's Voice
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Minette is a mouse in The Royal Courts of Justice whose forebears remember seeing Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century attending at Court One. Minette watches, sees, hears and relates all that goes on in the family courts, with the awful tragedies of people's lives and issues, especially affecting children. Minette is downcast by the accumulation of people's problems often caused by themselves and indeed with the behaviours of some of Her Majesty's...
16) Chloe's Dragons
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Two young siblings visit an enchanted dinosaur park, where the beasts come alive. The dinosaurs exist to help mankind in times of danger. They act only under the guidance of special child helpers.
The team performs a heroic rescue when a fire occurs at a children's hospital.
Some time later, the park is demolished. The children feel compelled to revisit the site. As they do, an offshore disaster looms following an explosion at a gas rig.
The children...
17) The Family
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The story revolves around the Skylers, a very old and wealthy family in a small town.The family is preparing for a charity fundraiser that they throw each year, but this year is different. A mysterious visitor with potential for harm towards the family and the family's employees has returned.The family sets a trap to find and capture the individual using a new employee as bait, but the outcome of the plan does more damage to the family than any of...
18) Come Again?
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Maria is turning 16 today and is looking forward to having a wonderful day with her family...until she sees him lying in the backyard, not moving and with blood on his shirt. Running downstairs toward him, she asks her parents to call 911, unsure of what to expect. Little does she know just what she is walking into and how it will change her entire life!
19) Former Fat Boy
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Davey has settled into his role of Big Brother to Adam, the kid next door. He is happy with his comfortable, calm, no-drama daily routine. His weight is holding steady, and food is heathy and delicious. Life is good. Then the Benjamin house across the street is sold. The new owners of the house move in and with them – an angry Zulu boy whose only mission seems to be stirring up trouble and messing up Davey's neatly ordered existence. Between Adam...
20) Mee Mei
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The Sinclair twins 'Mee Mei' are the genetically fabulous black and white twins born thirty seconds apart. Their only difference is their complexion.
The fertility clinic claims there was a mix up, others say their parents paid for the best fertility eggs money could buy.
Mee Mei, being part of one of the richest families in London, live a life one could only dream of. No one dares to question that by some act of nature one is black and one is white....
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