![]() ![]() Sara Shepard’s Pretty Little Liars, the first in a popular young adult series, is full of all the treachery, cattiness and boyfriend-stealing you’d expect of a gaggle of high school girls in an affluent Pennsylvanian suburb, but with an added twist: a mysterious disappearance and, quite possibly, a murder. But if their secret-keeper hasn’t been seen or heard from in years, who could possibly know about Hanna’s sudden weight loss, Aria’s secret relationship, Spencer’s affection for the wrong boy - or Emily’s own complicated feelings for a new neighbor? Who’s behind the emails, text messages and notes they begin receiving, threatening to ruin the careful facades they’ve built? As the group is reunited when Aria returns with her family from overseas, the question over what happened to Ali seems to grow stronger.Įspecially when each girl begins receiving mysterious messages exposing their dirty little secrets - tidbits only one person in the world ever knew: Alison. ![]() ![]() Now harboring secrets of their own, the girls have reached high school - and grown apart. ![]() Once close friends, life for Hanna, Aria, Spencer and Emily has changed dramatically since the disappearance of their friend Alison when the girls were in middle school. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Martine the white giraffe![]() With the help of Ben a unique class mate, she gets aboard the freighter the giraffe is on and rescues the giraffe and the poachers are caught. 11 year old Martine's African adventures begin in THE WHITE GIRAFFE and DOLPHIN SONG, as she meets a magical white giraffe, rescues beached dolphins, and learns of an ancient prophecy that says the child who rides the white giraffe will have power over all the animals. ![]() Eventually the poachers succeed because she accidentally spills the beans in class about how to summon the giraffe (one of her class mates is the son of one of the poachers.) Martine also discovers that she can heal animals with her hands although she does occasionally need help from outside sources. There are poachers all over the game reserve trying to catch the giraffe and some of the other animals. Martine hears rumours about a white giraffe and eventually she actually finds it and makes friends with it. Her grandmother refuses to tell Martine why her mother never told her about the reserve or her grandparents. Almost as soon as she arrives, Martine hears stories about a white giraffe living in the preserve. When she gets to the reserve Martine and her grandmother have a hard time getting along. When Martine’s home in England burns down, killing her parents, she must go to South Africa to live on a wildlife game preserve, called Sawubona, with the grandmother she didn’t know she had. Martine has no idea what she is talking about. ![]() ![]() Show More arrives she is picked up by Tendai, one of the game reserve's employees, he takes her to visit his aunt Rose who tells her that she has a gift she must use wisely. ![]() ![]() He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.Īll he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. ![]() Nine year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution or the Holocaust. Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal and the International IMPAC Literary Award Shortlisted for British Book Award, the Border’s New Voices Award the Ottaker’s Children’s Book Prize, the Paolo Ungari Literary Award (Italy), Irish Book Award Irish Novel of the Year Award the Leeds Book Award the North-East Book Award the Berkshire Book Award the Sheffield Book Award the Lancashire Book Award Prix Farniente (Belgium) Flemish Young Readers Award Independent Booksellers Book of the Year Deutschen Jugend Literatur Preis (Germany) ![]() ![]() Winner: Irish Book Award Children’s Book of the Year, Irish Book Award People’s Choice Book of the Year, Bisto Book of the Year, Que Leer Award Best International Novel of the Year (Spain), Orange Prize Readers Group Book of the Year ![]() ![]() ![]() The moral panic of the grease devil revealed popular-and ongoing-anxieties in post-war Sri Lanka. ![]() Eventually, the government felt compelled to respond: “The Grease Devil is not real,” they admonished, in a statement broadcast over a striking image purported to capture one such figure, who bared blood-reddened teeth set in a face painted white. Government officials dismissed complaints, while the Secretary of Defence joked that the grease devil might be the ghost of the Tamil Tigers’ dead leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran. ![]() Police spokesmen denied the existence of grease devils at community meetings and in media appearances. The suspects were met with vigilante violence, and were occasionally seen running into army camps or police stations for shelter. Stories of the assaults circulated through local rumor and newspaper articles but when no officials intervened, many accused the devils of being government soldiers, or at least protected by security forces. In August 2011, two years after the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka, villages throughout the country were haunted by “grease devils”-men who were once known as petty thieves, but now assaulted women and killed indiscriminately, their bodies smeared with oil to escape capture. Sri Lanka is a country haunted by demons and specters. ![]() |