In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of their daily life, Charlie decides that she does not want hers and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to replace her fairy with a better one.
I could remember some things from when I was in Sydney five years ago: the smell (musk incense and chamomile tea) of the foster home they'd put me in until the case was heard, the endless questions about Sarafina and our life together, ...
Mel is horrified when Francis Duvarney, arrogant, gorgeous, and undead, starts at her high school.
“Sojourner Ida Davis!” Sojourner shakes her head but she doesn't say anything else. Sally's staring at her. “I understand you feel passionately,” David says. “But we have to protect our child.” “I apologise for my daughter,” Diandra ...
Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.
I'm losing track. But surely it's not so big a lie, really? I don't think I'll include it in the official tally. It was just to Sarah and Tayshawn. And you. Now I'm telling the truth: me and Zach, we went there, more than once.
Half of the stories portray the strengths—for good and evil—of unicorns, and half show the good (and really, really badass) side of zombies.
Kelpie said yes to Dymphna Campbell because she didn't want to go to school, because Mrs. Darcy had said she'd tell the authorities, which meant Welfare, and because she'd mentioned Sister Josephine and Father O'Brian, who were almost ...
... Foner, Howard Zinn. A bunch of white men, but when I called him on it, he said, reprovingly, that no white man was more anti-racist than he was. Didn't he love black women? That afternoon, before the older man picked me up from in ...
The Dutch House is the story of a paradise lost, a tour de force that digs deeply into questions of inheritance, love and forgiveness, of how we want to see ourselves and of who we really are.
When her mother dies, fifteen-year-old Keelie Heartwood must leave California to live with her nomadic father at a renaissance festival.