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A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...

Caged. Traded. Hunted. Claimed. And still, she burns.In a land of people blessed by the gods, the king expects an offering from everyone. When the value of a gift expires, so does the gifted. And Princess Cerridwyn has but one idle gift. Her beauty. Raised by the most ruthless king under the Seven Stars, she's been prey to a monster whose hunger is never satisfied, caged in a castle she fears she'll never escape.But Cerridwyn has a secret. She's not...

When feisty Edie is sent to a remote school to spy on fragile Anastasia, she never imagines that they'll become best friends instead--and discover an ominous plot that puts both their lives in danger! Through a series of strange coincidences, orphan Edie finds herself at Knight's Haddon, a stately boarding school for girls. But Edie is not just another student--under normal circumstances, she could never afford to go to boarding school. She's been...

Meet Princess Scallywag – a feisty new heroine with more than a few tricks up her royal sleeve! From brand-new picture book pairing Mark Sperring and Claire Powell comes this hilarious, subversive fairy tale for girls and boys alike. What's a queen to do when she wakes up to find a huge bothersome dragon ransacking her kingdom and terrorising the villagers? By a stroke of luck, the bravest knight in the land happens to be skipping by at just the...

Jamaica doesn't want a younger child to play with her, until she remembers how she felt when her older brother excluded her from his games.