Roaring Brook

Max

By Penny Hueston (trans.) - By Sarah Cohen-Scali - Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

April 20, 1936, on the Führer’s birthday, our preternaturally cognizant hero is born to a blond-haired, blue-eyed mother who has given her fertility ...Read Review

Max

By Penny Hueston (trans.) - By Sarah Cohen-Scali - Published 2016Published 2017

Genres:

Children/Young AdultLiterary

Originally written in French, this is a startling YA read. It opens as Max addresses us directly from his mother’s womb, ‘I ...Read Review

Revolver

By Marcus Sedgwick - Published 2009Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

1910: the Scandinavian Arctic. Sixteen-year-old Sig Andersson’s stepmother and sister, Anna, are out. He is alone in the log cabin, save for the ...Read Review

White Crow

By Marcus Sedgwick - Published 2010Published 2011

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

White Crow is about man’s obsession with death and the afterlife, and follows the parallel obsessions of two groups of people, one ...Read Review

Cat Among the Pigeons

By Julia Golding - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

(1) London, 1790. In this, the second of Cat Royal of Drury Lane Theatre’s adventures, Cat’s friend, the black actor Pedro, is in ...Read Review