This is a lovely tale about how kindness is repaid with kindness. A little girl, daughter of a tea picker, befriends a troupe of monkeys, and at a time when she needs it most, they return the favour. The story is handled so gently that the reader finds it easy to suspend disbelief and enter into ...
Now available - the Carnegie Medal winner comes to the U.S. When her grandfather dies, Tamar inherits a box containing a series of clues and coded messages. Out of the past, another Tamar emerges, a man involved in the terrifying world of resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied Holland half a cent...
From the award-winning author of TAMAR, a time-shifting thriller about a vanishing soccer star, occult secrets, and the dark history of slavery. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer’s sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the Little Magician, vanishes without a trace — right...
The smell of chicken boiled with sweet peppers and chili drifted out into the dusk. My sister was weaving her doll’s hair into ridiculous styles; my father was reading the weekly newspaper and drinking beer. I played the afternoon’s game over in my head while I watched a fat full moon rise over t...
The town is an irritating thirty-minute taxi drive from its beach, and the road is not good. You can, of course, get there by boat. A slow boat will leave from Slut’s riverside quay at unpredictable times (and at unpredictable cost) and deposit you, dizzied by diesel fumes, behind the shingle bar...
He’d thought she was at least his age. She seemed it. But she was only just sixteen. She’d been born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1946, on an April night during which an unseasonably late snowfall muffled the city. Hers was a difficult birth. Afterward the senior obstetrician took her father aside and...
The staff and players’ parking lot at the Rialto stadium. A dozen or so vehicles are still there, sweating raindrops. They gleam in the light from the high lamps that illuminate the fenced-in compound.RODERIGO emerges from the unmarked door through which players and officials enter and exit the s...