Rose wants to be alone on her surfboard, but instead she's on a road trip of discovery with her mother, in this novel for young adults.
Bridie gave a low moan of despair. ‘Sorry, sister!’ she said, eyes lowered. ‘I just … forgot.’ Ruth looked over to see Bridie quickly change her pen from her left hand to her right. ‘Forgot?’ ‘Yes, sister.’ ‘Well, then, we must help you remember! Out the front at once.’ ‘Oh please, sister, I won’...
‘My friends, that is a question some of us have to ask ourselves every day.’ Unlike the other speakers during the week-long Church Conference, he didn’t use the lectern but strode up and down in front of them, cracking jokes and gesticulating with his hands and occasionally laughing at himself. I...
Howard Pope, the oddball who’d arrived at school the year before, whom nobody much liked, was standing there looking dirty and slightly off-the-planet, as usual. “Hi, Howard,” she said. How did he even know where she lived? “Craze,” he replied with a sharp nod, no smile. “Can I come in?” Howard t...