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Fans of Kate DiCamillo and Linda Urban will love The Thing About Georgie, a warm and humorous story starring an unforgettable young boy with dwarfism, from acclaimed author Lisa Graff.

As far as Georgie is concerned, everyone has a -thing.-

The thing about poodles is that Georgie Bishop hates to walk them.

The thing about Jeanie the Meanie is that she would rather write on her shoe than help Georgie with their Abraham Lincoln project.

The thing about Andy's nonna is that she kisses Georgie's cheeks and doesn't speak one word of English.

The thing...

Albie has never been the smartest kid in his class. He has never been the tallest. Or the best at gym. Or the greatest artist. Or the most musical. In fact, Albie has a long list of the things he's not very good at. But then Albie gets a new babysitter, Calista, who helps him figure out all of the things he is good at and how he can take pride in himself.

A perfect companion to Lisa Graff's National Book Award-nominated...

Cee and her family live under a terrible curse. It may not be a spell out of the fairy tales, but it still dooms Cee and her sisters, Deana and Rose. Her father's alcoholism hangs over their house like a black cloud. It is getting worse, and young Cee doesn't know what to do.

Cee tries to block it out and spend more time with her best friends, Mo and Jimmy, but Mo is drifting away for some unknown reason. At the same time, Cee makes friends with someone who understands exactly what she's going through. Will it be enough support for the hard road ahead?

This poignant story...

In jedem Leben gibt es Momente, in denen etwas Unerwartetes geschieht. Momente wie Wunder. Oder Lebensphasen, in denen sich eine überraschende Abzweigung von eingetretenen Pfaden auftut und man sich selbst staunend zuschaut. Von diesen Momenten und Zuständen erzählt Friederike Gräff empathisch, lakonisch und mit nüchterner Komik. 

Jede Erzählung ist ein eigener Kosmos, und in jedem herrschen eigene Regeln: Die stellvertretende Abteilungsleiterin Frau Zilius legt zu ihrem Befremden ein faustgroßes Ei, während sie eigentlich mit einer unschönen Personalangelegenheit...

The magic of Savvy meets the complexity of When You Reach Me in this "blithe magical puzzle," --The Wall Street Journal

Told in multiple viewpoints, A Tangle of Knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a Talent, eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal Talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family...