It was more than a century ago that Mark Twain left the notoriously violent Finn, Huckleberry Finn's father, dead, surrounded by such oddities as a wooden leg and women's undergarments. But just exactly how did Finn end up in that room...
Runaway children
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Author:Clinch, JonSummary: - Author:Ferraris, ZoëSummary:
Ferraris' novel, set in Saudi Arabia, features desert guide Nayir al-Sharqi, who is hired by wealthy friends to find their missing daughter. When the girl turns up dead, apparently drowned in a flash flood in the desert, Nayir suspects...
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Author:Fagan, CarySummary:Finalist for the 2014 Silver Birch Express Award. Danny finds himself stranded at the bottom of a giant construction hole, armed with nothing but his school backpack, his wits — and the company of a poetry-spouting mole… Danny’s parents...
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Author:Withrow, SarahSummary:Terence isn't cool like his best friend, Tom, but at least he's not a weirdo like Lucy, who sees life upside-down and thinks she's a bat. Yet Lucy knows things that other people don't -- about the gaps in life, and seeing things more...
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Author:Garvie, MaureenSummary:Thirteen-year-old Jewel has been holding her life together ever since her older sister, Charmaine, suddenly left home with no forwarding address. She tried to find Charmaine once, but that only brought her family to the attention of the...
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Author:Twain, MarkSummary:Recounts the adventures of a young boy and an escaped slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft.
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Author:Twain, Mark, Clemens, SamualSummary:The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about a young boy, Huck, in search of freedom and adventure. The shores of the Mississippi River.
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Author:Atwood, Margaret, Petričić, DušanSummary:Wordplay and outrageous adventures rule the day in these three humorous stories from Margaret Atwood, with illustrations by Dušan Petričić. Now published together in a chapter book for the first time! In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring...
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