Meg Rosoff
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, an irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the dismay of this assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting catastrophes.
Author
Language
English
Description
Meg Rosoff's latest novel is a gorgeous and unforgettable page-turner about the relationship between parents and children, love and loss. Mila has an exceptional talent for reading a room-sensing hidden facts and unspoken emotions from clues that others overlook. So when her father's best friend, Matthew, goes missing from his upstate New York home, Mila and her beloved father travel from London to find him. She collects information about Matthew...
4) It's a moose
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A baby that is different from all the others brings a family great joy until he grows too big for their home.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him--only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life--or possibly to destroy it altogether. It's difficult to be certain as they only speak dog. Poor Jonathan. He doesn't remember life being this confusing back...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
At the house on the beach, everything is always the same. Summer unspools in days of sticky heat and lazy beach walks, the family only reconvening for lantern-lit suppers in the garden with the sea a constant roar in the background. Predictable, familiar - and easy. But everything changes with the arrival of the Godden brothers: Kit, magnetic and lazily seductive, and Hugo, intense and unknowable. By the end of summer, nothing will be the same. --...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set in the near-future U.K. Daisy is an American teenager sent to stay with relatives in the English countryside. Initially withdrawn and alienated, she begins to warm up to her charming surroundings, and strikes up a romance with the handsome Edmund. But on the fringes of their idyllic summer days are tense news reports of an escalating conflict in Europe. As the U.K. falls into a violent, chaotic military state, Daisy finds herself hiding and fighting...