Butter Me Fly: My Way Home tells the poignant and tragic story of a once-perfect family that became victims of their own success. It highlights the dangers of neglecting the family in pursuit of material goals and social validation. Told with powerful prose and filled complex but relatable characters with a plot that will keep you at the edge of your seat and hooked until the last page. Butter Me Fly is a powerful novel that narrates the story of...

Nominated for a National Book Award in 1971, His Own Where is the story of Buddy, a fifteen-year-old boy whose world is spinning out of control. He meets Angela, whose angry parents accuse her of being "wild." When life falls apart for Buddy and his father, and when Angela is attacked at home, they take action to create their own way of staying alive in Brooklyn. In the process, the two find refuge in one another and learn that love is real and necessary....

Ethan vit dans une famille d'accueil et s'efforce de rester dans le droit chemin. Enrlé dans un programme de photographie pour jeunes, il se trouve menacé à plusieurs reprises par quelqu'un qui veut s'emparer de son appareil photo. Que sait Ethan? Pour quelles images quelqu'un serait-il prêt à tuer? Ethan tente de résoudre le mystère tout en évitant les ennuis. Il découvre qu'il a toutes les réponses. Il ne lui reste plus qu'à découvrir...

La douleur de la perte d'un être cher exprimée avec les mots d'une enfant. « Personne ne peut revenir en arrière et créer un nouveau départ, mais tout le monde peut commencer aujourd'hui et créer une nouvelle fin. » À la mort de sa mère, alors qu'elle n'est encore qu'une enfant, la vie de Mélissa s'écroule. Sans amis, délaissée par un père toujours absent, elle doit affronter la vie, seule. Avec courage et obstination, au fil...

The sisters of STREET CHILD tell their story... A companion novel to bestselling story of Victorian orphan Jim Jarvis based on the founding of Dr. Barnardo's homes for children. When Jim Jarvis is separated from his sisters, Lizzie and Emily, he thinks he will never see them again. Now for the first time, the bestselling author of STREET CHILD reveals what happened to his orphaned sisters. In Victorian London, Lizzie and Emily are left in the care...

The Gray Clan has scattered. The shadows thirst for blood. The end has come. Trapped in the Academy where the beauty of magic is only a myth, Jacob and Emilia struggle to recover from terrible losses after their battle with the Pendragon. The horror stories of life in the Academy did not prepare the Grays for what the students truly face. With the Headmistress refusing to tell her students of the murder and chaos the Dragons have wrought, escape...

Young Christopher Chant, in training to become the next Chrestomanci or head controller of magic in the world, becomes a key figure in a battle with renegade sorcerers because he has nine lives.

In early-nineteenth century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Josie, an orphan, is sent to live with an aunt and uncle on the rocky, stormy northwest coast. Everything and everyone in her new surroundings, including her relatives, is sinister, threatening, and mysterious. She's told that Eli, the young man she's attracted to, is forbidden to her, but not why. Spirited, curious, and determined, Josie sets out to learn the village's secrets and discovers evil,...