School for Skylarks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook School for Skylarks write by Sam Angus. This book was released on 2017-07-27. School for Skylarks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is 1939. When Lyla is evacuated from her home in London to her great-aunt’s enormous house in the West Country, she expects to be lonely. She has never been to school nor had any friends, and her parents have been at the centre of a scandal. But with the house being used to accommodate an entire school of evacuated schoolgirls, there's no time to think about her old life. Soon there is a horse in a first-floor bedroom and a ferret in Lyla’s sock drawer, hordes of schoolgirls have overrun the house, and Lyla finds out that friends come in all shapes and sizes.
The Skylarks' War
The Skylarks' War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Skylarks' War write by Hilary McKay. This book was released on 2018-09-20. The Skylarks' War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Costa Children’s Book Award. The Skylarks' War is a beautiful story following the loves and losses of a family growing up against the harsh backdrop of World War One, from the award-winning Hilary McKay. Clarry and her older brother Peter live for their summers in Cornwall, staying with their grandparents and running free with their charismatic cousin, Rupert. But normal life resumes each September – boarding school for Peter and Rupert, and a boring life for Clarry at home with her absent father, as the shadow of a terrible war looms ever closer. When Rupert goes off to fight at the front, Clarry feels their skylark summers are finally slipping away from them. Can their family survive this fearful war? 'This belongs among the classic of children’s literature . . . Funny, sad, warm, it is about growing up and finding what you love.' – The Sunday Times, Children’s Book of the Week
Shadowlark
Shadowlark - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadowlark write by Meagan Spooner. This book was released on 2013-10-01. Shadowlark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the sequel to Skylark, Lark finally manages to find her brother. Against all odds, hes alivebut the reality and implications of his survival are too horrible for Lark to comprehend, if she lives long enough to think about it.
Soldier Dog
Soldier Dog - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Soldier Dog write by Sam Angus. This book was released on 2013-04-16. Soldier Dog available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With his older brother gone to fight in the Great War, and his father prone to sudden rages, 14-year-old Stanley devotes himself to taking care of the family's greyhound and puppies. Until the morning Stanley wakes to find the puppies gone. Determined to find his brother, Stanley runs away to join an increasingly desperate army. Assigned to the experimental War Dog School, Stanley is given a problematic Great Dane named Bones to train. Against all odds, the pair excels, and Stanley is sent to France. But in Soldier Dog by Sam Angus, the war in France is larger and more brutal than Stanley ever imagined. How can one young boy survive World War I and find his brother with only a dog to help?
The House on Hummingbird Island
The House on Hummingbird Island - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The House on Hummingbird Island write by Sam Angus. This book was released on 2016-06-02. The House on Hummingbird Island available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'We're going to a fine place,' Idie told Homer to console him, 'with gullies and monkeys and hummingbirds.' Idie Grace is twelve when she inherits a grand old house on a Caribbean island, and is sent away from grey old England to a place where hummingbirds hover and monkeys clamber from tree to tree. As a lady of property Idie can do as she pleases, so she fills the house with exotic animals, keeps her beloved horse in the hallway, and carries a grumpy, talking cockatoo called Homer on her shoulder. But the island house holds as many secrets as it does animals, and the truth behind Idie's inheritance is the biggest secret of all . . . Perfect for fans of Eva Ibbotson and Katherine Rundell
