A poignant story filled with heart-warming courage as a young girl takes on a harrowing journey to be reunited with her mother.Ami lives on Culion, an island in the Philippines for people who have lep
From the author ofthe bestselling THE GIRL OF INK & STARS comes a moving, enthralling and heartbreaking tale of finding your way home ... WINNER OFTHE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION YOUNG QUILLS AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BLUE PETER BOOK AWARD 'TheIslandattheEndofEverything is such a fiercely kind and generous book, and so finely-wrought and so full of light ... brilliant.' KATHERINE RUNDELL 'Kiran Millwood Hargrave is the new big gun in children’s fiction ...This is an enchanting book by a writer who fully deserves the fuss that’s being made of her.' TELEGRAPH 'Beautiful' FRANCES HARDINGE Amihan lives on Culion Island, where some ofthe inhabitants – including her mother – have leprosy. Ami loves her home – with its blue seas and lush forests, Culion is all she has ever known. But the arrival of malicious government official Mr Zamora changes her world forever: islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave.Banished across the sea, she's de
我們終究沒能重返那個純淨又躁動的夏日青春。 Growing up, it was always the three ofthem: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They needed each other. As teenagers, they drove to LA, lived in a ramshackle place on the beach in Malibu, set up a record label. They were successful, best friends and Olly and Miller fell in love. Before it fell apart, it was beautiful.Then Olly stopped looking at Miller the way he used to. Miller spent a night with Ash, which turned into a marriage. And Miller and Ash came back to Wonderland, the tidal islandof sugary painted houses they'd run away from. Now Miller's forty and she feels like she's disappearing. She wears her tinted sunglasses so often sometimes she forgets the world isn't green. Ash is having an affair with a helmet-haired tv presenter and Olly's career is over. Olly doesn't want to think about what he was going to owe, what any ofthem owed, to each other. But after everything that has happened, Wonderland is the only p
From the bewitching mind behind The Casquette Girls, Alys Arden and with enchanting artwork by Jacquelin de Leon comes the story of a girl stuck in the middle of a magical rivalry and forced to choose between love, family, and magic without hurting anyone...or worse.There's more to the mobsters, mystics, and mermaids atthe last stop on the D/F/Q trains: Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue. Zatanna's not your typical New Yorker. She walks her giant rabbit on a leather leash down the boardwalk, lives in a colossal architectural wonder known as the Golden Elephant, had her first kiss in the Haunted HellGate ride--and wouldn't have it any other way.But the time for having fun in Luna Park comes to an end when a mystic's quest for a powerful jewel unravels everything Zatanna thought she knew about herself and her beloved neighborhood. Mysteries and magic surround her as she reveals the truth about her family's legacy, and confronts the illusion that has been cast over her entire life.
