When Katie, who is new in town, meets Zillah, it's obvious that the two aren't going to become friends. Zillah is gloomy and bad-tempered, and makes it clear she wants nothing to do with Katie. But Katie is curious. Why is Zillah so angry? What secrets is she keeping about her family? The two give each other one more chance, and what develops is a friendship that surprises them both.
After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.
Two years after the disappearance of their father, Sapphire and Conor, having moved with their mother to the town of St. Pirans, try to make a new life for themselves. Sequel to Ingo.
Set against the turbulent backdrop of Leningrad in 1941, a novel of love and war follows the Levin family--twenty-two year-old Anna, her young brother Kilya, and their father, Mikhail--as they struggle to survive during the German siege.
When Katie, who is new in town, meets Zillah, it's obvious that the two aren't going to become friends. Zillah is gloomy and bad-tempered, and makes it clear she wants nothing to do with Katie. But Katie is curious. Why is Zillah so angry? What secrets is she keeping about her family? The two give each other one more chance, and what develops is a friendship that surprises them both.
After helping to knit and sew together the squares of a blanket to be sent to a country at war, Josie dreams of what life is like for the girl who will receive the blanket as a gift from Josie's class.
An adolescent girl named Tanya struggles with the changes that take place in her life when her parents have quadruplets, her father loses his job, and her best friend makes herself scarce, and she writes of her troubles in her diary.
Katie, a new girl in town, decides she does not need to be friends with the difficult and bad-tempered Zillah, but the two decide to give each other a second chance and find they really like each other.
