Henry Atherton lives in present-day England and he has very present-day problems. He does odd jobs for a crazy old man who believes in fairies and UFOs, in order to save money for an MP3 player. His sister is horse-crazy. His parents are splitting up. Henry hardly knows how to help himself, or his family. So he certainly isn't prepared to find out that old Mr. Fogarty is right about fairies and alien abductions.
Central to this book and to the trilogy named for her is a young lady named Gemma Doyle, who could be described as exactly what Harry Potter would be if he were a girl attending not Hogwarts but a Victorian girls' finishing school called Spence. Instead of both her parents being murdered by a dark lord, Gemma lost her mother only, to a dark lady who later turned up in disguise as one of Gemma's teachers at Spence. So she still h…
This 1956 story tells the adventures of a little boy named Roger, his younger sister Ann, and their cousins Jack and Eliza, all of whom are descended from the children in "Half-Magic". When Roger's father takes ill and needs treatment at a Baltimore hospital, the children go to spend the summer with their cousins. Aided by a magic model soldier that has been in the family for generations, Roger begins a quest to earn a magical c…
Connie Ives is a gentle, sweet little girl who loves her mom and dad and her spicy, Southern grandmother, and the alley where they live. Nestled on a college campus in Brooklyn, the T-shaped alley is surrounded by brick houses where professors and their families live. The alley provides a sheltered place for children to play, from bossy Katy to rotten brat Anthony, from the two little boys who like to pretend to be Zorro to the …
Our older readers, and some younger ones who stay up past their bedtime watching cable TV, may remember a long series of movies from the 1960s or so, beginning with "Planet of the Apes" starring Roddy McDowell and Charlton Heston. In and amongst those movies were two or three TV series spinoffs. Only a couple of years ago, Tim Burton resurrected and refurbished the concept in a big-budget picture starring Mark Wahlberg.
I discovered this sixth and final book in the "Green Knowe" series several years after reading the first five. Yet in no time, I felt comfortably at home in Lucy Maria Boston's fantasy world based on the centuries-old manor house she owned and loved. Her writing is as lean and sinewy as ever, gripping the senses with taut description and creating a timeless mood.
Like the characters in "The Alley" a few years earlier, best friends Nicky Copin Carroll and Timmy Tornid Fabian live in a gated group of faculty houses on the campus of Grandby College in Brooklyn, N.Y. When not at school, they spend most of their time in the T-shaped alley that runs behind the three rows of brick houses, and they play games (such as avoiding the contamination girls) and invent folklore (such as drawing…
From the author of "The Moffats" and "Ginger Pye", here is a very cute little story about two little girls, Amy and Clarissa, best friends, who sit and color stories Amy's mother tells them about the wicked Old Witch who lives on the Glass Hill
The sequel to the award-winning "Ginger Pye" follows the Pye family to their summer retreat on Fire Island, off the coast of Long Island.
Here is the first part of a popular series of four books about the Moffat family of Cranbury, CT--a widowed mother and her four children, Sylvie, Joe, Jane, and Rufus. In this first book they are aged 15, 12, 9, and 5, and the main point of view is Jane, though a chapter here and there is told from Joe or Rufus' point of view.