FICTION & LITERATURE 49
Boyds Mills Press PB 229 x 153 mm 256 pages
ISBN: 9781684373727 HI-30692
£7.99 AVAILABLE OCTOBER 2019
Rewind A Novel Carolyn O’Doherty
In this unique twist on the time-travel genre, 16-year-old Alex is a spinner – one of a rare few who can rewind time to review past events. Alex’s society uses spinners to help solve crimes, but their powers come with a price: no spinner ever lives past the age of 20. When sickness strikes early, Alex is offered an experimental treatment and sees a future for herself for the first time. But the promising medication also brings alarming consequences.
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Wordsong HB 229 x 153 mm 336 pages
ISBN: 9781629798813 HI-30690
£16.99 AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2019
This book has good character growth with a strong female antagonist… A great quick pick for reluctant readers.
School Library Journal
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Ordinary Hazards A Memoir Nikki Grimes
Growing up with a mother suffering from paranoid schizophrenia and a mostly absent father, Nikki Grimes found herself terrorized by babysitters, shunted from foster family to foster family and preyed upon by her mother’s second husband. In this remarkable memoir told in both poetry and prose, Grimes explores her harrowing past, showing how the power of words helped her conquer the hazards – ordinary and extraordinary – of life.
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This powerful story, told with the music of poetry and the blade of truth, will help your heart grow.
Laurie Halse Anderson Author
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Ghosts of Ordinary Objects Angie Smibert • Boyds Mills Press • 210 x 140 mm • AVAILABLE MAY 2019
In these supernatural historical mysteries, 12-year-old Bone possesses a Gift that allows her to see the stories in everyday objects. In each book, Bone uses her Gift to help solve a mystery and in the course of the tale learns more about her Gift, more about the schisms in her family and more about herself. Angie Smibert weaves together history, folklore and the theme of the importance of stories to capture the heart of this coal-mining town and of it’s richly developed characters.
Bone’s Gift
Bone seeks to learn if the Gift killed her mother, as an anonymous note suggests, or if she really died of influenza, as Bone has always been told.
Lingering Echoes
Her best friend Will begins working in the mines, Bone tries to figure out why he lost his voice suddenly at age five, when his father died in a mining accident – was it just shock and grief that silenced him or is more involved?
Bone’s Gift PB
256 pages
ISBN: 9781684373734 HI-30266
£8.99
Lingering Echoes HB
176 pages
ISBN: 9781629798516 HI-30267
£16.99
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