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A political satire and propagandist warning, disguised as an animal fable. The events in the tale mirror those in Russian history between 1917 and 1945, including the chasing out of the Tsar and the gradual creation of Stalin's power.

Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a 12-year-old girl talks over with her own private God.

Filled with heartwarming stories this inspirational guide helps teens find validation, comfort, and answers to life's problems, including peer pressure, death, depression, self-esteem, and many other issues teens may encounter.

The four children have perfect lives in a happy, golden family. Suddenly their father dies and the children now live alone, hidden in an airless attic. Their mother promised they would stay only long enough for her to inherit the fortune but gradually she forgets how much she adored them.

Katherine and Michael meet at a New Year party. They're attracted to each other, and they grow to love each other. Once they've decided that their love is forever, they make love. It's the beginning of an intense and exclusive relationship, with a future all planned. Until their love is tested.

A ten-year-old orphan comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors where she discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

New ed.

Complete & unabridged.

Young Willie Beech is evacuated to the country as Britain stands on the brink of the Second World War. A sad, deprived child, he slowly begins to flourish under the care of old Tom Oakley, but his new found happiness is shattered by a summons from his mother back in London.

Makeeda is a fourteen year old Ghanian whose love of all things western causes her family to despair. She is always being compared to the dutiful and obedient Afua, her Aunt Grace's daughter. But it seems that whatever Makeeda does, it ends up in trouble. She just wants to hang out with the fit Nelson and her mates, and forget about the Ghanaian stuff. But when she has to do a school project, she begins to understand the depth of her cultural heritage and wonders if she can honour her culture and enjoy life as a London teenager.

Motion picture music arr. for piano; third work (Double trouble) for voices and piano.

To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.

In the near future, a boy with the ability to speak the language of cats sets out from London to seek his kidnapped parents and finds himself on a Paris-bound circus ship learning to train lions.

Lunacy is Nate Burke's last chance. As a Baltimore cop, he watched his partner die, and the guilt still haunts him. With nowhere else to go, he accepts a job as a chief of police in this tiny, remote Alaskan town where darkness falls by mid-afternoon and the temperature plunges below zero. Aside from sorting out a run-in between a couple of vehicles and a moose, Nates's first week on the job are relatively quiet. But as he wonders whether this is all a big mistake, an unexpected kiss on New Year's Eve under the brilliant northern lights of the Alaska sky lifts Nate's spirit - and convinces him to stay just a little longer. And now, things in Lunacy are heating up.

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, this is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched and Randle Patrick McMurphy, the brawling, fun-loving new inmate who resolves to oppose her. We see the struggle through the eyes of Chief Bromden, the seemingly mute half-Indian patient who witnesses and understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the awesome power of the Combine.

Includes index.;Facsims on lining papers.

Includes indexes.

"In 1915 Vera Brittain abandoned her studies at Oxford to enlist as a nurse in the armed services. Before the war was over she had served in London, Malta, and close to the Western Front in France - and she had lost all the men she loved. Out of that experience came this ... book, at once a memoir and an elegy for the bright, passionate generation who came of age on the eve of the war and vanished in its trenches. Moving, sweeping, and one of the greatest accounts of war ever written, Testament of Youth captures the politics, hopes, and despair of Brittain and her peers."--Book jacket.

Narrated by Death, this is the story of Liesel Meminger, a young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meagre existence for herself by stealing when she discovers something she can't resist - books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever they are to be found. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, Liesel learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbours during bombing raids, as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

I think Marigold's the most bright, beautiful Mum in the world. She's totally covered in tattoos, she had a new one done for her birthday. Most people think she's a dreadful mother. Even my big sister gets cross when she forgets to buy food or pay the bills. But I know Marigold loves us and she never means to stay out all night and leave us on our own.

A bind-up edition of two vampire stories. In "The Last Vampire", vampire Alisa Perne, is being hunted by someone. Alisa must kill him before he kills her. In "Black Blood", Alisa's vampire blood has been used to create a brutal monster. Has she the power to stop him?

In his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who is prepared to face the benign indifference of the universe courageously and alone.

No child is every ordinary - certainly not Salvatore d'Amato, or Sally Tomato, as he's sometimes called. He's out to get a girl and he has a plan; he's going to write a Disgusting Ditty for each letter of the alphabet, and take up secret body building without his sister noticing.

During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.

Ten years old and living in a Children's Home, Tracy Beaker desperately wants to be fostered. She also wants to be a writer and begins to write the story of her life.

Includes index of first lines.

"The first half of this play was published in an earlier form as Llareggub in Botteghe oscure, IX"--T.p. verso.;"Music for the songs" (p. 100-107).

The passionate love of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff mirrors the powerful moods of the Yorkshire Moors.