Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846470240
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Jess is leaving for college--and she'd like to leave her family behind. But when the family gathers to bid Jess farewell, they begin to tell stories. And each story binds them closer to Jess's heart. A novel which celebrates the continuity of life and the importance of family, sure to appeal to a wide audience.
Granny Was a Buffer Girl
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846470240
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Jess is leaving for college--and she'd like to leave her family behind. But when the family gathers to bid Jess farewell, they begin to tell stories. And each story binds them closer to Jess's heart. A novel which celebrates the continuity of life and the importance of family, sure to appeal to a wide audience.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781846470240
Category : Domestic fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Jess is leaving for college--and she'd like to leave her family behind. But when the family gathers to bid Jess farewell, they begin to tell stories. And each story binds them closer to Jess's heart. A novel which celebrates the continuity of life and the importance of family, sure to appeal to a wide audience.
Dear Nobody
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688127649
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0688127649
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old Chris struggles to deal with two shocks that have changed his life, his meeting the mother who left him and his father when he was ten and his discovery that he has gotten his girlfriend pregnant.
Holly Starcross
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Andersen Press
ISBN: 9781842709306
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Holly Starcross knows two lives: six years with Dad and Mum; then eight years with a divorced family. Maybe happiness is in the stars, but first Holly must make some wrenching choices. This is thoughtful and introspective coming-of-age fiction that hits home and heart.
Publisher: Andersen Press
ISBN: 9781842709306
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Holly Starcross knows two lives: six years with Dad and Mum; then eight years with a divorced family. Maybe happiness is in the stars, but first Holly must make some wrenching choices. This is thoughtful and introspective coming-of-age fiction that hits home and heart.
Street Child
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007311257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007311257
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Unforgettable tale of an orphan in Victorian London, based on the boy whose plight inspired Dr Barnardo to found his famous children's homes.
Daughter of the Sea
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1849397996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1849397996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The only life Gioga has ever known is that of a fisherman's daughter on remote Hamna Voe. But as a baby she was a gift of the sea to childless Munroe and Jannet, and now the Lord of the Oceans wants her back. Torn between her love for her adopted parents and her strange attraction to the seal people, which will she choose - the sea or the land? From the traditional folk-tale of the selkie, award-winning author Berlie Doherty has created her own lyrical and timeless story of a young girl's search for her true identity.
Granny Was a Buffer Girl (Pack of 16)
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780435129651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780435129651
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Tilly Mint Tales
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446405788
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
When Tilly's mum goes out to work, Mrs Hardcastle from up the street pops in to look after her. There are two special things about Mrs Hardcastle. The first thing is that she's always dropping off to sleep (she snores too, sometimes). The second special thing is that whenever she goes to sleep, something magic always seems to happen to Tilly Mint! Carnegie Medal winner Berlie Doherty's enchanting Tilly Mint tales are at last available in one complete collection with brand-new illustrations from Tony Ross.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446405788
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
When Tilly's mum goes out to work, Mrs Hardcastle from up the street pops in to look after her. There are two special things about Mrs Hardcastle. The first thing is that she's always dropping off to sleep (she snores too, sometimes). The second special thing is that whenever she goes to sleep, something magic always seems to happen to Tilly Mint! Carnegie Medal winner Berlie Doherty's enchanting Tilly Mint tales are at last available in one complete collection with brand-new illustrations from Tony Ross.
Tough Luck
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780003300574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Joe Beads gets on well with his class 3B. However, he is having a problem getting through to Twagger, a sullen absentee. He's also worried about Nasim, just arrived from Pakistan feeling very friendless and very foreign. It's going to be a tricky year.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780003300574
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 121
Book Description
Joe Beads gets on well with his class 3B. However, he is having a problem getting through to Twagger, a sullen absentee. He's also worried about Nasim, just arrived from Pakistan feeling very friendless and very foreign. It's going to be a tricky year.
Children of Winter
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915235787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new edition of the much loved classic.Catherine and her family set out for her grandmother's house deep in the Derbyshire hills. Sheltering from a storm in an old cruck barn with her younger sister and brother, it becomes strangely familiar to her, and she is drawn back to a time when three children sheltered all winter away from a terrible plague that was devastating their village.Written by a master storyteller Children of Winter recreates the time when the tiny village of Eyam in Derbyshire cut itself off from the rest of England in 1666.Cover Art by Tamsin Rosewell.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781915235787
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A new edition of the much loved classic.Catherine and her family set out for her grandmother's house deep in the Derbyshire hills. Sheltering from a storm in an old cruck barn with her younger sister and brother, it becomes strangely familiar to her, and she is drawn back to a time when three children sheltered all winter away from a terrible plague that was devastating their village.Written by a master storyteller Children of Winter recreates the time when the tiny village of Eyam in Derbyshire cut itself off from the rest of England in 1666.Cover Art by Tamsin Rosewell.
White Peak Farm
Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780531084670
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Teenage Jeannie unfolds the triumphs and tragedies of her close-knit family as they face violent changes on their isolated Derbyshire farm.
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
ISBN: 9780531084670
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Teenage Jeannie unfolds the triumphs and tragedies of her close-knit family as they face violent changes on their isolated Derbyshire farm.