Teens and Tweens

In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family’s wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

Clair-de-Lune has lived all her life with her grandmother at the top of a very tall, very narrow, very old building.
Ever since her mother, a famous ballerina, died, she has not uttered a word.
The Clair-de-Lune meets a tiny, brave Bonaventure, who takes her to a mysterious secret place in the building. To learn to talk again, she realises she must learn to listen to her heart…

They’ve all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another…but they’re only just beginning to find out the truth.
Kate finds love with Jake-the guy she’s wanted for so long. At last they’re together, and Kate intends to make sure nothing ever seperates them again. But Jake’s got a problem. Somehow he’s got to persuade Kate to stay away from him-or pay a high price for love.

Dawn Bosco can’t wait! Her camp counselor, Miss Perry, has just handed out clues for a treasure hunt. Dawn’s itching to put on her Polka Dot Private Eye hat and find the hidden treasure. But her friend Lizzie Lee’s hot on the trail. too!

Eleven-year-old Ringo finds himself in possession of a painting worth a million pounds. He cannot read but his nature, wit and enterprise see him through a thrilling race across London.

Lucas can hardly remember a time when he felt any other way about Zoey. She means everything to him, and yet it’s as if they’re being pulled apart, slowly but surely. Is he about to loose the best thing that ever happened to him – or can Lucas hold on to love?Lucas can hardly remember a time when he felt any other way about Zoey. She means everything to him, and yet it’s as if they’re being pulled apart, slowly but surely. Is he about to lose the best thing that ever happened to him–or can Lucas hold on to love?

The evil rail baron Drache has disappeared northwards to the snowy wastes – with Fivehawk’s sister as his prisoner. Fivehawk is willing to risk everything to spring Eyes-Like-Amber from Drache’s claws, but it may already be too late. Drache is holed up in his sinister Black Train, and with the help of Yu Lim, a Chineses adventuress, Fivehawk and Tyler are about to find out exactly what is lurking inside the gleaming metal machine.

Shaiala scrambled down the canyon floor… The sight beyond brought her to a halt. Nearly a hundred exhausted, frightened Centaur foals… hobbled and taunted by Two Hoofs. The second book in the Echorium Sequence and a stunning sequel to SONGQUEST, winner of the Branford Boase Award. A wild girl, a horselord prince, half-creatures, the rumoured return of the dreaded Khiz priest, and an awesome challenge to the power of the Singers make the Crystal Mask a breathtaking new adventure which started so brilliantly with the award-winning SONGQUEST. In a world where the slightest whisper can bring down an avalanche, black crystal is destroying the Second Singer’s power. It’s a race against time, and their own fears, if Renn, the novice Singer and Shaiala with her raw physical strength are to conquer the evil power that has enslaved Half Creatures and Two-Hoof children – a power that can bend minds and steal memory.

When Creel is abandoned outside a dragon’s cave by her uncaring aunt no one expects her to survive. But not only does she make friends with the dragon, she finds herself the owner of a very special pair of shoes, and then Creel’s extraordinary adventures really take off.
Soon she is pitted against an evil adversary in the form of a very tricksy princess, and the lives not just of the people of the kingdom, but also a lot of dragons depend on her.

Ramon cannot believe what he has just found in an oyster he’s brought up from an underwater cave where the Manta Diablo, the monster devilfish, lurks.
Ramon is holding a pearl. Not just any pearl, but the most fabulous gem he of anyone else has ever seen.
But neither sixteen-year-old Ramon nor his father can foresee the trouble that such a pearl can bring. It will be young Ramon who must stop the monster he has unleashed.