New Releases by Cynthia Voigt

It''s not fair that Clothilde''s father has returned from World War I so disfigured that he retreats to the boathouse as a recluse. It''s not fair that her brother has abandoned the family to live with his rich grandfather in Boston. It''s not fair that her mother has reverted to the role of a lady, leaving Clothilde to do all the housework. And it''s certainly not fair that the Maine peninsula that Clothilde inherited from a great-aunt may have to be sold to support the family. Then a mysterious Voice speaks to Clothilde, giving her the chance to change the life fate has dealt her and the people she loves. But Clothilde''s wishes come true in unexpected, frightening ways -- and at a price she isn''t sure she has the courage to pay.

In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphaned Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.

Rosie, a dog who loves to eat, waits for breakfast, gets into the garbage can for lunch, and joins the family in following along with an exercise video.

Letting GoThe four Tillerman children finally have a home at their grandmother''s rundown farm on the Maryland shore. It''s what Dicey has dreamed of for her three younger siblings, but after watching over the others for so long, it''s hard to let go. Who is Dicey, if she''s no longer the caretaker for her family?Dicey finds herself in new friends, in a growing relationship with her grandmother, and in the satisfaction of refinishing the old boat she found in the barn. Then, as Dicey experiences the trials and pleasures of making a new life, the past comes back with devastating force, and Dicey learns just how necessary -- and painful -- letting go can be.

Mikey and Margalo: Bad girls. Best friends. Big trouble... Mikey Elsinger isn''t the romantic type. She thinks that most boys are just brainless meatheads. Girls who like brainless meatheads are too weird for words. Margalo Epps likes to admire boys from afar. Maybe a movie star, or even (don''t tell anyone ) a teacher. But most of the boys at school stink (some of them literally). Enter Shawn Macavity. Technically, he''s a brainless meathead. But he''s gorgeous. Really, really gorgeous. Thwack. Cupid''s arrow strikes its target. The world has changed for ever. Mikey is in LURRRVE. And Margalo is NOT impressed... The fourth funny, touching book about bad girls Mikey and Margalo

A Newbery Honor–winning installment of the Cynthia Voigt’s classic Tillerman series. Jeff Greene was only seven when he came home from school to find a note from his mother. She felt that the world needed her more than her “grown up” son did. For someone who believed she could see the world’s problems so clearly, she was blind to the heartache and difficulties she pushed upon her son, leaving him with his reserved, undemonstrative father. So when, years later, she invites Jeff to spend summers with her in Charleston, Jeff is captivated by her free spirit and warmth, and a happiness he’s been missing fills him. But Jeff''s second visit ends with a devastating betrayal and an aching feeling of loneliness. In life, there can be emotional pits so deep that seemingly nothing will grow—but if he digs a little deeper, Jeff might just come out on the other side.

Some kids just aren''t very good at being... good. Sometimes they just don''t want to be. It''s much more fun to be really, really bad... Margalo and Mikey meet on the first day of fifth grade. They are not best friends from the start - in fact sometimes it looks as if neither of them will every have any friends. Mikey is loud, aggressive - and she packs a punch that her classmate Louis Casselli is unlikely to forget in a hurry. Margalo is smart - and she knows it. Both of them know one dead certain thing about themselves: they are not nice, like girls are supposed to be - and they hope they never will be A funny, fast-moving trilogy about friendship from Newbery winner, Cynthia Voigt.

Een jonge herbergiersdochter zet zich in de middeleeuwen in om honger, kou en armoede te bestrijden; jaren later wordt haar kleindochter verliefd op de zoon van een graaf.

There are some who say that the Lady Fortune has a wheel, and all men are fixed upon it. The wheel turns, and the men rise, or fall, with the turning of the wheel. Birle has agreed to be wed to the huntsman Muir as an escape from the drudgery of life at her father''s inn -- but the moment she looks into the bellflower blue eyes of the man she comes upon stealing one of her father''s boats, Birle knows she cannot marry Muir. Even after she discovers the mysterious stranger is Orien, a Lord and as unreachable to an innkeeper''s daughter as a star, Birle is determined to travel with him as far as he will allow. Their travels take Birle to a world far from home, a world where Lords may become slaves, where Princes rule by fear, and where Fortune''s Wheel turns more swiftly and dangerously than Birle could have imagined. Newberry Medalist Cynthia Voigt''s second novel of the Kingdom, set two generations later than Jackaroo, is a memorable combination of thrilling adventure and heart-stopping romance.

Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

When fifth graders Mikey and Margalo devise a plan to prevent Mikey''s parents from getting a divorce, the two friends find their scheme foiled by a new girl at school.

Na het plotselinge verdwijnen van hun moeder gaan vier Amerikaanse kinderen op zoek naar hun enig overgebleven familielid. Vanaf ca. 13 jaar.

En lørdag bliver13-årige Dicey og hendes 3 mindre søskende efterladt af ders nedbrudte mor ved et indkøbscenter. Trods få penge begiver de sig til fods den lange vej for at opsøge en fjern tante

Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

Een tiener wordt door haar stiefvader seksueel misbruikt en vindt bij haar moeder geen steun. Samen met haar vrienden probeert ze hulp buitenshuis te zoeken. Bevat adressen van hulpverlenende instanties in Nederland en Belgie. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.

Analyse : Roman familial. Roman de voyage.

Bullet Tillerman is a track team star who answers to no one. He''d rather be cut from the team than work with the promising new runner, Tamer Shipp. But Bullet finds his own rules are becoming too painful to live by. "A powerful, intensely moving novel . . . unforgettable".--Horn Book, starred review.

YA. Powerful tale of sexual abuse.

Een joodse en een niet-joodse middelbare scholier worstelen in het Amerika van de jaren vijftig en zestig met de naweeën van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Phineas and Althea''s father receives an unexpected appointment as curatorof a collection of Egyptian antiquities, including one mummy. When the mummy is stolen, Phineas and Althea find themselves involved in a mystery that quickly escalates to kidnapping and attempted murder.