Sally Nicholls

"A poignant story about foster care children with a supernatural twist, from the award-winning author of Ways to Live Forever. Clare knows she's at least partly to blame for her problems at school, but she's learned that it hurts to make friends when you're a foster kid and you'll just be moved on again. It's a relief to meet Maddy, who knows exactly what it's like to be in the system. But then Maddy disappears. Clare has opened her heart at last, and she can't let it go - will she find her friend? Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 12+"--Amazon.com.

A Sam le encantan los hechos. Quiere saber sobre ovnis y películas de miedo y aeronaves y fantasmas y científicos. También quiere saber qué se siente al besar a una chica. Y como tiene leucemia quiere conocer todos los hechos sobre morir. Sam necesita las respuestas de las preguntas que nadie quiere contestar. Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.

Sam ist elf und hat Leukämie. Seine Beobachtungen und Gedanken hält er in einem Tagebuch fest - mit dem wissenschaftlichen Vorsatz, sein Sterben für die Nachwelt zu dokumentieren. Sogar für die schwierige Frage, wie er den Moment seines Todes darstellen soll, hat er eine Lösung parat: einen Fragebogen für seine Eltern. Doch bevor es so weit ist, will er sein Leben in vollen Zügen genießen. Zusammen mit seinem ebenfalls krebskranken Freund Felix erstellt er eine Liste mit Dingen, die er unbedingt noch erleben will: einen Weltrekord aufstellen. Teenager sein. In einem Luftschiff fahren. Und tatsächlich gelingt es den beiden, die Liste auf höchst originelle Weise abzuarbeiten. Quelle: Klappentext.

Eleven-year-old Olivia has been in care since she was five, and is just beginning her sixteenth placement. Her new home is a secluded farmhouse, centuries old, where she slowly bonds with her foster family. But the house holds dark secrets. Olivia discovers that it was once a notorious baby farm, where unwanted children were left to die. She becomes convinced that the place is haunted. She is desperate to save her new family from the ghosts. The danger is real - but does it come from the twisted mind of a very disturbed child?

Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.

Sent by their father to live in the country with their grandparents after the sudden death of their mother, Molly's older sister Hannah expresses her grief in a raging rebellion while imaginative Molly finds herself increasingly distracted by visions, that seemingly only she can see, of a strange hunt in the nearby forest.

Lady Elinor of Hardford has fallen in love for the first time, with Dan, her cousin and knight-in-training. But her father has other plans. She must marry his friend, Sir William of Courtney - and he's nearly 50! Ellie must draw on all her skills to change her father's mind.