New Releases by Hilary Mckay

"Another fine, funny book in this exceptional series."--"Booklist." The Exiles are back and this time the four sisters experience love when a French boy comes to stay with their family.

Pudding Bag School is an ordinary kind of school but extraordinary things seem to happen there. When Miss Gilhoolie, 4b''s mysterious teacher is ill, she sets her pupils a special competition which has more than a touch of magic about it!

One night, Danny is woken by a strange shrieking noise from behind his bedroom wall. Could it be a ghost? His mother doesn''t think so, but then again, what else could it be? Soon, everyone in Paradise House is involved. But what emerges is beyond Danny''s wildest dreams.

Snowtop is Simon''s favorite bear in the world, so he is frantic when he disappears and replaced by a strange bear. How Simon is magically reunited with Snowtop, with the help of the strange bear, makes for a funny and delightful story. Full color.

Prequel to The Amber Cat.

Danny, Anna and Nathan live in the flats of Paradise House, but they are far from angelic and get up to all sorts of mischief. Danny and Anna try to set up a zoo in the attic and nearly blow off the roof. Hilary McKay won the 1994 Smarties Award for The Exiles at Home.

The four Conroy sisters'' efforts to raise money in order to sponsor a ten-year-old boy in Africa get them into one difficult situation after another.