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(0)Jenny Valentine
Author
Series
A Girl Called Joy volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Meet ten-year-old Joy Applebloom, a girl with a knack for finding the silver lining in even the darkest of rainclouds. After years of travelling the world with her parents and older sister, Claude (Claude rhymes with bored, which is just about right), Joy and her family move to suburbia - back to school, back to her grumpy, rule-obsessed grandad and back to normality. Joy soon finds her usual irrepressible positivity and zest for life waning, but...
2) Iggy & me
Author
Series
Iggy and Me volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The first in a series of young fiction by Jenny Valentine, winner of the Guardian Children?s Fiction Prize for her debut novel, Finding Violet Park. IGGY AND ME is a series of family stories featuring the mishaps and shenanigans of the irrepressible 5-year-old Iggy as seen through the eyes of her big sister Flo. Funny and endearing, each chapter is a complete and satisfying story in its own right, perfect for newly-confident readers to enjoy alone,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
16-year-old Lucas Swain becomes intrigued by the urn of ashes left in a cab office. Convinced that its occupant - Violet Park - is communicating with him, he contrives to gain possession of the urn, little realising that his quest will take him on a voyage of self-discovery and identity.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
16-year-old Iris has never met her millionaire father and now he's dying. A pawn in her mother's game of greed and revenge, Iris is wrenched away from her only friend and sent to live with the father who abandoned her.