In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
During the early 1900s, a teenaged inmate's dreary life at Massachusetts's Sherborn Prison for Women changes for the better after she becomes a member of the prison choir and participates in the production of the operetta "The Pirates of Penzance."
Disney Minnie Take-Along Tunes (Take-Along Tunes)
Excellent Excuses (and Other Good Stuff) (Tom Gates, #2)
by Liz Pichon
Following on from the first Tom Gates book from Liz Pichon, this book takes the form of Tom's battered homework diary - crammed with his scribbles and stories.
What a Wonderful World Book and CD
by Bob Thiele and George David Weiss
Based on the lyrics of the world-famous song, this gorgeously illustrated picture book follows a young boy on a wondrous journey through our beautiful world. The book comes with an accompanying CD which includes the much-loved recording of the song by Louis Armstrong and an exclusive reading by Sophie Aldred.
A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpugo. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear...
If you're happy and you know it, you clap your hands ...right? Not if you're an animal! Join in with them by wagging your tail like a dog, flapping your elephant ears, snapping your teeth like a crocodile, beating your chest the way gorillas do, jumping for joy with the kangaroos, and much more. Based on the popular children's rhyme, this energetic picture book is available for the first time with a feel-good audio CD that cannot fail to encourage reader participation. 'Perfect for the book-buyi...
This book is suitable for ages 3 to 6. From Margaret Wise Brown, author of the beloved Goodnight Moon, comes a previously unpublished collection of charming lullabies, gorgeously illustrated by 12 award-winning artists. The roster of celebrated names includes Carin Berger, whose The Little Yellow Leaf was a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book; Eric Puybaret, who brought the bestselling Puff, the Magic Dragon to life on the page; Coretta Scott King Honour Award winner Sean Qualls; and...
The Spy in the Alley (Dinah Galloway) (Dinah Galloway Mysteries (PB))
by Melanie Jackson
In Vancouver, British Colombia, eleven-year-old Dinah resolves to find the link between the buck-toothed prowler who seems to be stalking her older sister and the strange series of burglaries in the house next door.
