Captain Buckleboots on the Naughty Step

Mark Sperring

"Captain Buckleboots on the Naughty Step" is all about learning to say sorry. The naughty step is the place where Sam has to go when he has done something he knows he really shouldn't have. There is nothing to do there except think, and normally he has the step all to himself. Then one day someone else ...

My Russian Grandmother And Her American Vacuum Cleaner

Meir Shalev; Evan Fallenberg (Translator)

From the author of the acclaimed novel A Pigeon and a Boycomes a charming tale of family ties, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling in Nahalal, the village of Meir Shalev's birth. Here we meet Shalev's amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine by boat from Russia in 1923 and li...

Witches Abroad (Discworld Novel #12)

Terry Pratchett

'You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise, it's just a cage.' There's power in stories. The Fairy Godmother is good. The servant girl marries the Prince. Everyone lives happily ever after . . . don't they? The witches Granny Weath...