young-adult Quotes

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

“But that is not the only danger. Thowra needs all his speed and cunning to save his herd from capture by man. ”

″.. the island of Evertaller, where legend has it children turn into grown-ups overnight and never have to go to school again…”

“Bert and Nan and younger brother and sister Freddie and Flossie and their parents are travelling home on the train, discussing the next school term, when a circus train in front of them hits trouble.”

On his ninth birthday, Gwyn is given a brooch and told to cast it into the wind. Later he discovers the wind has sent something back: the snow spider.

Everything changes for Chris one August evening when red-haired, freckle-faced Johnny turns up on a bicycle, but who is Johnny and why do the police have his bicycle and other belongings?

Danny survives the bombing and rejoins what is left of his family to face the struggles of life after the bombing. The book is full of awful scenes---the dead who died from the bombing, the dead who slowly die after the bombing, shooting those who have food, and much more.

“That’s what seventeen-year-old Sky realizes after she meets Dean Holder. A guy with a reputation that rivals her own and an uncanny ability to invoke feelings in her she’s never had before.”

“The final solution, however, surprises the Five Find-Outers almost as much as it surprises Mr Goon the village policeman.”

“And the sisters realize that perhaps the queen cast them from their homes not out of anger or spite- but because they were the only ones who could do what must be done.”

“At first she’s repelled think they are made out of smashed elves, but then when it’s explained they are made of sugar chocolate, eggs, flour and a ” magical” ingredient ends up eating several with an effect she was not expecting!”