New Releases by Cynthia Voigt

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.

One moment can change a life forever. Fifteen-year-old Izzy has it all -- a loving family, terrific friends, a place on the cheerleading squad. But her comfortable world crumbles when a date with a senior ends in a car crash and she loses her right leg. Suddenly nothing is the same. The simplest tasks become enormous challenges. Her friends don''t seem to know how to act around her. Her family is supportive, but they don''t really want to deal with how much she''s hurting. Then Rosamunde extends a prickly offer of friendship. Rosamunde definitely isn''t the kind of girl Izzy would have been friends with in her old life. But Rosamunde may be the only person who can help Izzy face her new one.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

YA. Powerful tale of sexual abuse.

There was something different about him. He had no name. He showed no emotion, never yielded. And Griff had always stood by him. Even in this place where cruelty and betrayals were the way of life. So when he decides to escape, he takes Griff with him. Their journey has no known destination, and no purpose except to make their way through life''s chances.

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.

When hard times among the People revive the old stories of the hero Jackaroo, an innkeeper''s daughter follows her own quest to unlock the secret reality behind the legend.