Author : Natalie Honeycutt
Publisher : Avon Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 27,89 MB
Release : 1986-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780380701209
Lissa badly wants to get into Debra's exclusive fifth-grade lunch club, until she finds out what it is really like.
Author : Sanna Lehtonen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 13,87 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1476601933
This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children's fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and age-shifting as narrative devices representing gendered experiences. The transformations offer various perspectives on a girl's changing body and identity and provide links between real-life and fantastic discourses of gender, power, invisibility and aging. The main focus is on English-language fantasy published since the 1970s but the motifs of invisibility and age-shifting in earlier tales and children's books is reviewed; this is the first study of children's fantasy literature that considers these tropes at length. Novels discussed are from both critically acclaimed authors and the less well known. Most of the novels depicting invisible or age-shifting girls are neither thoroughly conventional nor radically subversive but present a range of styles. In terms of gender, children's fantasy novels can be more complex than they are often interpreted to be.
Author : Hamdy, Sherine
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,35 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1487593473
As Anna and Layla reckon with illness, risk, and loss in different ways, they learn the power of friendship and the importance of hope.
Author : Lissa Price
Publisher : Random House
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 0552565598
To support herself and her younger brother in a future Beverly Hills, sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
Author : David Goldwasser
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 16,23 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1475932782
Ever since she was small, Lissa has secretly been able to tell when she is in others' thoughts before they even speak to her. But now, eighteen-year-old Lissa is in the fight of her life. As she battles a deadly cancer, Lissa lies in her hospital bed-unaware that very far away in the city of Light's Keep, a group of wizards have chosen her as their champion. Trebb, a master wizard who leads the light, believes that Lissa is the long-awaited child of the scroll who, with her powerful magic, will change the balance of light and dark forever. He is opposed by Lord Verdex, seven feet of pure malice, who will stop at nothing to capture Lissa and use her magic for his own ends. As a twist of magical fate thrusts Lissa into a portal where she enters a world filled with warring wizards, she soon discovers that she is helplessly caught in an ancient struggle between prophecy and reality. In this thrilling fantasy tale, a battle between good and evil ensues as a young girl struggles to control her magic and make the kind of choices that will help two vastly different worlds find peace at last.
Author : Lissa Evans
Publisher : Random House
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1409031632
When Noel Bostock - aged ten, no family - is evacuated from London to escape the Blitz, he winds up in St Albans with Vera Sedge - thiry-six, drowning in debts. Always desperate for money, she's unscrupulous about how she gets it. The war's thrown up all manner of new opportunities but what Vee needs is a cool head and the ability to make a plan. On her own, she's a disaster. With Noel, she's a team. Together they cook up an idea. But there are plenty of other people making money out of the war and some of them are dangerous. Noel may have been moved to safety, but he isn't actually safe at all . . . Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, 2015
Author : Lissa Price
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 030797524X
The riveting conclusion to the international bestselling sci-fi thriller STARTERS! Would you rent out your body to the elderly so they could be young again? Someone is after Starters like Callie and Michael—teens with chips in their brains. They want to experiment on anyone left over from Prime Destinations—Starters who can be controlled and manipulated. With the body bank destroyed, Callie no longer has to rent herself out to creepy Enders. But Enders can still get inside her mind and make her do things she doesn't want to do. Like hurt someone she loves. Having the chip removed could save her life—but it could also silence the voice in her head that might belong to her father. Callie has flashes of her ex-renter Helena's memories, too . . . and the Old Man is back, filling her with fear. Who is real and who is masquerading in a teen body? No one is ever who they appear to be, not even the Old Man. Determined to find out who he really is and grasping at the hope of a normal life for herself and her younger brother, Callie is ready to fight for the truth. Even if it kills her. Praise for ENDERS: “Adrenaline-fueled . . . Fans of Starters will gobble this up.”—Booklist “Delightfully disturbing.”—Kirkus Reviews "A thrilling post-apocalyptic story that will keep readers on the edge of their seats from start to finish." --Children's Literature
Author : Katya Balen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1526640422
From the author of October, October, winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal, comes a heartbreaking and heart-warming story about sisterhood, found family and accepting love in the most unusual and unknown places. Fen and Rey were found curled up small and tight in the fiery fur of the foxes at the very edge of the wildlands. Fen is loud and fierce and free. She feels a connection to foxes and a calling from the wild that she's desperate to return to. Rey is quiet and shy and an expert on nature. She reads about the birds, feeds the lands and nurtures the world around her. They are twin sisters. Different and the same. Separate and connected. They will always have each other, even if they don't have a mother and don't know their beginning. But they do want answers. Answers to who their mother is and where she might be. What their story is and how it began. So when a fox appears late one night at the house, Fen and Rey see it as a sign - it's here to lead them to their truth, find their real family and fill the missing piece they have felt since they were born. But the wildlands are exactly that: wild. They are wicked and cruel and brutal and this journey will be harder and more life changing than either Fen or Rey ever imagined ...
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Page : 552 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Reading
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Author : Lissa Bolts
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 26,5 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
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Mother can't kill me. Not that she hasn't tried. I'm the heir to a modern-day magical dynasty, daughter of the most powerful mage in existence. From day one, Mother made it apparent that she never wanted me--never wanted an heir at all. That's why she's forced me into the shadows, where I remain invisible. Nobody even knows what I truly look like. Locked away, I dream of ordinary things. You know. Friends. A boyfriend. A purpose for my existence... But I've got secrets too. Things she can't find out. For years, I've watched her scheme to expand her grip on the mage world. Like a snake, she waits for the right moment to strike. If she succeeds, there will be deadly consequences. As my powers grow, I think Mother and I have both come to the same conclusion. I might be the only thing that stands in her way. The Counterbalance is the first book in the completed Ruling Magic Series. Set in a modern world ruled by mages and filled with betrayal, intrigue, danger, and a little bit of romance, this compelling urban fantasy will grip you from the get-go.
