The daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
Presents a large-print edition of the story in which the arrival of a mysterious stranger threatens to destroy a happy household in nineteenth-century England.
Sixteen-year-old Tessa, dying of leukemia, decides to spend her last days "really living" and devises a checklist of all the things she would like to experience before her death, beginning with sex.
Presents a large-print edition of the story of a spirited young woman in early nineteenth-century England who is trying to cope with the courtship of a snobbish gentleman while attending the romantic entanglements of her four sisters.
Upon suddenly learning that her parents are researchers from another planet and they must leave in seven days or risk discovery, twelve-year-old Nesta decides to stay in their York, England, home whether or not her parents go.
Taken from Africa to a foster home in London after his family is killed by an enemy tribe, Kaninda discovers the meaning of hate and the value of not hating.
