Showing results for "The Matildas" in Teen & Young Adult

Nessuno capisce perché Nike, undici anni, non riesca a tornare a scuola dopo le vacanze di Natale. La mamma cerca di convincerla ma gli sguardi dei compagni, i rumori e la confusione in classe sono troppo per lei, per non parlare dell'odore soffocante di carne e detersivo in mensa, che le fa venire da vomitare. Poi un giorno la piscina comunale prende fuoco, e Nike e la sua migliore amica Mia si ritrovano a indagare sul misterioso incendio. Per fortuna Mia è la persona più coraggiosa che ci sia: non teme né la polizia né Olle il Folle, il losco custode della scuola.

Die Geschichte von Matilda und dem Schmusekater. Oder wie aus dem Bussekater ein Schmusekater wurde. Von einem Bild angesprochen träumt Matilda von dem Schmusekater und hat im Traum sogar eine Idee. Kann man beim träumen Ideen haben? Dies und mehr wird in dieser etwas anderen Weihnachtsgeschichte erzählt.

It's 1972 in Gibber's Creek, and across the nation, the catchcry is, 'It's time'. As political ideals drift from disaster to the dismissal, it's also time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. It's time too for...

In war-torn Malaya, Nancy dreams of Australia - and a young man called Michael. The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Nancy Clancy left school at fourteen to spend a year droving, just like her grandfather Clancy of the Overflow. Now sixteen, Nancys family has sent her to Malaya to bring...

In the tradition of The Man from Snowy River comes a gripping and courageous sequel to A Waltz for Matilda The year is 1919. Thirty years have passed since the man from Snowy River made his famous ride. But World War I still casts its shadow across a valley in the heart of Australia...

A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 1930s. Blue Laurence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join the Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression...

In the third Pandora English mystery, Pandora is still negotiating her double life as a lowly assistant at a New York fashion magazine with the reality that she has great supernatural powers and responsibilities. With the full moon set to rise once again, Pandora has a very special date looming. Her beautiful spirit guide, Civil War soldier Lieutenant Luke, will be a flesh-and-blood man, if only for the night, and she hasn't been able to stop thinking about it.

For as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every twenty-four hours she 'Shifts', living each day twice. She has one life in Wellesley, Massachusetts...and another, completely different life in Roxbury, Boston. In one life she's surrounded by glamorous friends and dresses in designer clothes, in the other her family struggles to make ends meet. In one life she’s a straight-A student with the perfect boyfriend, in the other she’s considered a reckless delinquent.