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Lilah May's Manic Days by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Children's Fiction
Lilah's not angry any more. Or is she? Lilah May used to be angry. VERY angry. But not any more. She's got her temper - and her life - back under control. Or has she? Things with her best friend, Bindi, are going from bad to worse. Not only is she pregnant, but she's showing no sign of breaking up with ...Show more
Magnetic West - The Enduring Allure of the American West by Andrew Kensett; Toyo Miyatake (Text by); Vanessa Sage (Text by); Vero Rose Smith (Text by); Andrew Wallace (Text by); Wil Wilson (Text by); Edward Curtis (Text by); Arnold Genthe (Text by); Laura Gilpin (Text by); Blake Little (Text by)
Category: Photography
Organized by the Figge Art Museum, Magnetic West features over 160 photographs by some of the most renowned photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries.Picturing the west as a metaphor for promise and peril, the exhibition and accompanying essays explore issues of identity, implications of living in a ...Show more
The Baking Life of Amelie Day by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Children's
My name is Amelie Day and I live to bake. Cupcakes, biscuits, bread, tarts and muffins - flour power! Now I've got a once-in-a-lifetime chance to win the Teen Baker of the Year award. But it looks like my stupid cystic fibrosis might get in the way. Will my mum let me go to London to compete?
The Earth Is Singing by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Young Adult Fiction
My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I'm training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are concerned, that ...Show more
The Earth Is Singing by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Young Adult Fiction
My name is Hanna. I am 15. I am Latvian. I live with my mother and grandmother. My father is missing, taken by the Russians. I have a boyfriend and I'm training to be a dancer. But none of that is important any more. Because the Nazis have arrived, and I am a Jew. And as far as they are concerned, that ...Show more
The Stolen Ones by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Young Adult Fiction
My name is Inge. I am sixteen. I live in Munich. Food is rationed, though the war ended years ago. My boyfriend is Jewish. My parents would not approve, so I hide this from them. I think they are hiding something from me, too. Letters arrive on my birthday, but they are not addressed to me. They are for ...Show more
The Taming of Lilah May by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Children's
Lilah's Anger Diary, March 26th Anger levels: 11/10 I'm Lilah May and I'm ANGRY. So angry that I'm about to be excluded from school, my parents can't control me, and only one person in the world understands me. And that's my best friend, Bindi. I haven't always been this way. It all started with my brot ...Show more
Zelah Green: One More Little Problem: Bk. 2 by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Zelah Green
Warm, winning and real, Zelah Green is back! My name is Zelah Green and I'm a Cleanaholic. It's the summer hols and I'm on major Flirt Alert. I've joined mysortaspace.com and ever since I've been getting emails from loads of boys. Boys are Dirt Alert AND Germ Alert. Don't even talk to me about kissing.. ...Show more
Zelah Green Queen of Clean by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Fiction
My name is Zelah Green and I am a Cleanaholic. I spend most of my life on Germ Alert. Or Dirt Alert. It's a miracle I ever get to school.My life was going OK despite that - you know, school, best friend, bad hair days - until four weeks ago. That's when Dad vanished.Now my stepmother has packed me off t ...Show more
Zelah Green: Who says I'm a freak : Bk.1 by Vanessa Curtis
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Zelah Green
My Name is Zelah Green and I'm a cleanaholic. I spend most of my life running away from germs, dirt, and people. And I'm just about doing ok and then my stepmother packs me off to some kind of hospital to live with a load of strangers. It's stuck in the middle of nowhere. Great. There's Alice who's anor ...Show more
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