Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday-and discovers a world she never could have imagined. NOVEL: Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Kill Me Softly. New York: EgmontUSA, 2012.Ī: Buy the book in ebook or hardcover. The stories come from around the world, and Veronika Martenova Charles provides a note at the end of each book to describe the origins.Ĭross, Sarah. In each book, one is reminded of a well-known story: Little Red Riding Hood in It's Not About the Hunter!, Beauty and the Beast in It's Not About the Rose!, Snow White in It's Not About the Apple!, Cinderella in It's Not About the Pumpkin!, and Hansel and Gretel in It's Not About the Crumbs! As one friend starts, the others are reminded of versions they know so each volume has three stories within one framework. The series follows three friends who love to share stories. Written in short, easy phrases with carefully selected vocabulary and plentiful illustrations, each book helps youngsters achieve success as they have fun.
NOVEL: Here are five first books for fledgling readers that offer the enjoyment of a good story along with the thrill of accomplishment that comes from independent reading. It's Not about the Crumbs!New York: Tundra Books, 2010.Ī: Buy the book in ebook or paperback. From its opening page to its shocking climax, this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story is compulsively readable and hugely entertaining."Ĭatanese writes a series of books featuring the further adventures of well-known fairy tale characters.Ĭharles, Veronika Martenova. His sociopathic tendencies emerge, and soon Josie must decide which is stronger: the love and devotion she feels for her brother or her will to survive. Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, eroticism, and betrayal. The only adult in their lives is their rage-prone father, a physicist, whose erratic behavior finally drives them away. Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. NOVEL: From the publisher: "In Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet gives us a deliciously dark, suspenseful debut novel in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith.
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