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Books > Children's & Educational > Fiction > Teenage romance
Rainbow Rowell has won fans all over the world by writing about
love and life in a way that feels true. In her first short story
collection Scattered Showers, she gives us nine beautifully crafted
love stories - wrapped in a beautiful hardback gift package
including two-colour illustrations and sprayed edges. Illustrated
throughout by Jim Tierney. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie
theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. A
prince romances a troll. A girl romances an imaginary boy. And
Simon Snow himself returns for a holiday adventure. It’s a feast
of irresistible characters, hilarious dialogue, and masterful
storytelling, in short, everything you’d expect from a Rainbow
Rowell book.
Tom and Hester's daughter, Wren, longs to escape the peace of
static Anchorage. She craves the dangerous adventures her parents
once had - and a charming submarine pirate is ready to take her to
sea. But the mysterious object that she steals for him ignites a
conflict that will tear the whole world apart...
Halina Rudowski is on the run. When the Polish ghetto where she
lives is evacuated, she narrowly escapes, but her mother is not as
lucky. Along with her friend Batya, Halina makes her way to a
secret encampment in the woods where Jews survive by living
underground. As the group struggles for food, handles infighting,
and attempts to protect themselves from the advancing Germans,
Halina must face the reality of life without her mother.
Based on historical events, this gripping tale sheds light on a
little-known aspect of the Holocaust: the underground forest
encampments that saved several thousand Jews from the Nazis. In
telling the story of one girl's survival, "Escaping into the Night"
marks the arrival of a remarkable new voice in fiction.
The long, hot summers spent on Fire Island have always been the
highlight of the year for sisters Riley and Alice. Not least
because it is there that they always see Paul: their next-door
neighbour, Riley's best friend in all the world, and the only boy
Alice has ever loved. Then Paul goes to university, and he leaves
them both behind him. Three years later, as Alice prepares to start
Law School, Paul returns. The trick, he tells himself, is to have
what he had without destroying it. But their world will change
irresistibly, wonderfully and tragically, with every breath they
take.
She's met her mate . . . and he's met his match. Megan Ross has
been waiting her whole life for her mate to come and sweep her off
her feet. But the wolf she meets on the beach is NOT the sweet
gentle boy she's been dreaming of. Instead, he's a warrior, one
whose suffering has led him to lock his heart away in a prison as
cold and hard as a diamond, who fights to resist the bond and their
deep sexual attraction. Far from home, with a soulmate who is still
a stranger, Megan learns that the path to true love isn't quite as
straight and easy as she thought . . .
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