Girls

A coming-of-age middle grade novel about three best friends born in the wake of Hurricane Katrina who must confront storms of their own 12 years later, from a National Book Award-winning author.★ "Holt takes time developing these characters, allowing readers to see both their individual and collective growth in this appealing and sensitive novel."​—The Horn Book, starred reviewBorn in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Greer, Joya Mia, and Kiki are seventh graders and the best of friends. After an accident leaves Greer's little sister paralyzed, Greer is forever changed by the experience and blames herself. Kiki and Joya Mia will do anything to help Greer let go of this emotional burden, and a plan is hatched to compete in a triathlon. Each girl will participate: Kiki will swim, Joya Mia will cycle, and Greer, if they can persuade her, will run—something she once loved to do. Set on the Westbank of New Orleans, this contemporary coming-of-age novel is a journey of growth, healing, and diff

The ultimate book for Tom Gates fans to read and fill-in all year round! Packed with brand new activities, makes and stories and including pages for recording words that make you laugh, sticking photos of your friends pulling funny faces, making a Christmas decoration, summer reading lists and much, much more! Over 5 million copies of the Tom Gates series sold in the UK! Leave boredom behind with this activity-packed, interactive book: hours of fun for kids. ABOUT THE SERIES: Written in diary form Full of Tom's doodles and pictures & his amazing sense of humour The Brilliant World of Tom Gates, was the winner of the Roald Dahl Funny Prize! Perfect gifts for boys & girls who love to laugh themselves silly The first series of The Brilliant World of Tom Gates won the Scottish BAFTA for Entertainment! Love Tom Gates? Don’t miss Liz Pichon’s spectacular Shoe Wars, a laugh-out-loud, gadget-packed adventure!

A wistful coming-of-age story with a haunting twist about four friends who spend their summer learning to become invisible—but disappearing comes at a cost.Four girls. Four girls skating home, both sides of the road, fearless. Four girls at the mouth of an infinite ocean, sugared and salted with sand and seawater, the tide licking their sunburned feet.This summer, they’re going to disappear.For seventeen-year-old Callie and her best friends Talia and Cleo, every summer in their small North Carolina beach town is as steady as the tides. But this year, Cleo has invited enigmatic new girl Polly to join them, creating waves in their familiar friendship. And Cleo has an idea, gleaned from private YouTube videos and hidden message boards: they’re going to learn how to make themselves invisible.Callie thinks it’s a ridiculous, impossible plan. But the other girls are intoxicated by the thought of disappearing, even temporarily—from bad boyfriends, from overbearing families, from the confusing

★ 尷尬到不行的中學日常，笑點滿滿又超有共鳴！★ 四人友情小隊，陪你一起面對青春的混亂與不安！如果人生可以重來，你會想跳過中學第一天嗎？喬喬原本規劃好完美的開學日，從穿搭到髮型都精心準備，沒想到一個早晨的意外讓一切失控——遲到、隨便穿搭，甚至還因為小貓「禮物」搞出大糗事，在全校面前出現超尷尬場面。羞愧難當的她躲進廢棄更衣室，卻意外發現還有其他女孩也在逃避各自的「人生最糗瞬間」。這些原本互不相識的女孩，因為同樣的尷尬而聚在一起，組成了「Team Awkward」。她們約定不管未來多混亂、多難堪，都要一起面對。本書以幽默筆調描寫中學生活的各種不安與轉變，從友情、家庭到自我認同，透過笑聲與真誠互動，呈現成長最真實的一面。After having hilariously terrible first days of sixth grade, four girls vow to ride out the super highs and cringe-worthy lows of middle school together, no matter how awkward it gets, in this first book in the Team Awkward middle grade series. Jojo has everything planned out for the perfect first day of middle school, down to her outfit and hairstyle. But when Mom, distracted by her new live-in boyfriend, Paul, forgets to wake Jojo up, she oversleeps and has to make do with leggings, a t-shirt, and her brother's hoodie. The day still goes okay until Jojo realizes that she has a hole in her leggings thanks to Purrito, the kitten Paul "gifted" her. Because Paul isn't just Paul; he'

搬進 Katydid 街的那天起，Violet 就感覺到些微的不安。新的家庭成員、新的生活空間，連原本的友誼也悄悄轉變。而最讓她無法忽視的，是那間閣樓房裡的黃牆紙，花紋扭曲，氣味古怪，彷彿藏著某種無聲的訊息。當 Violet 開始生病、無法痊癒，房間裡的陰影似乎也逐漸清晰起來。她不知道，是不是自己想太多，還是，這棟屋子真的有什麼東西在看著她。這是一則關於改變、孤獨與被忽略的故事，也是一場在真實與幻覺間遊走的自我探索。From the award-winning author of The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy comes an unforgettable and deeply personal story of the ghosts that surround us--and the ones we carry inside.The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart--whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street--very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything seemed to be changing at once. But sometimes, Violet tells herself, change is okay.That is, until Violet sees her new room. The attic bedroom in their new

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York TimesAN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLERThere’s power in a book…They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There’s Rose, a hippie who insists she’s going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby’s father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they