Czy byliście kiedyś na kogoś naprawdę źli? Nawet jeśli tak, to chyba nie zamieniliście tej osoby w coś innego, prawda? Tymczasem kiedy nasza bohaterka się pogniewa, pokazuje swój czarodziejski palec, a skutki są nieoczekiwane!
"I will buy your castle," declared Hiram C. Hopgood. "But only if there are no ghosts!" Alex MacBuff can't afford to keep his beloved Castle Carra, and an American millionaire has made him an offer he can't refuse. The castle is shipped all the way to Texas, but its ghostly inhabitants, including Krok the Viking warrior and a hell-hound called Cyril, follow their home across the Atlantic. How can Alex stop the haunting Hiram and also save the millionaire's daughter from an evil ransom plot?
When eleven-year-old Eddie Dickens's sickly parents become "a bit crinkly round the edges," he is taken in by his great-uncle and great-aunt, Mad Uncle Jack and Mad Aunt Maude, and embarks on adventures that involve strolling actors, St. Horrid's Home for Grateful Orphans, and a carnival float shaped like a giant cow.
Ellie is starting ninth grade and she's dead set on finding herself a boyfriend. Her two best friends seem to have all the luck in the love department, but our heroine will stop at nothing to join the ranks. Even if it means pretending her 12-year-old pen pal is her gorgeous, head-over-heels-in-love beau. Naturally, chaos ensues, as it always does when one tries to live a lie, but with Ellie's dry, self-deprecating wit and the antics of her boy-crazy buddies, this is sure to be a year to remember. Jacqueline Wilson, prolific author of more than 50 books, several of which have been short-listed or runners-up for the Carnegie Medal, pens a hilarious and authentic story about girls in love (or something like it). Readers will eat up the clever wordplay and painfully funny subplots, and will eagerly anticipate the other titles in the sequence, Girls Under Pressure and Girls Out Late . (Ages 12 to 16) --Emilie Coulter
La seconda guerra mondiale infuria per l'Europa e in Polonia la vita, già difficile per tutti, è per gli ebrei pressoché insopportabile. E Alex è, appunto, ebreo. Sua madre è scomparsa nel nulla e suo padre è stato prelevato dalle SS e fatto partire per una destinazione ignota. Rimasto solo Alex si è rifugiato in un edificio abbandonato, al numero 78 di Via degli Uccelli, e dalla sua isola segreta esce solo di notte, per procurarsi il cibo.
The Dial-a-Ghost Agency finds good homes for ghosts. And Fulton and Frieda Snodde-Brittle are looking for a few frightening ghosts to "accidentally" scare their young cousin and heir, Oliver, to death. The ladies at the Dial-a-Ghost Agency have the perfect match: the Shriekers, two bloodstained and bickering horrors. But thanks to a mix-up at the agency, the Wilkinsons, a kind family of ghosts, arrive instead. Can they put a stop to the Snodde-Brittles' schemes before it's too late?
The Borrowers are homeless again. The gamekeeper's cottage, their latest refuge, is being closed up. Luckily their friend Spiller comes to the rescue and introduces them to a new home by the river, in a kettle
