Children's 2011 - Hill of Content Bookshop

Young Adult
There Is No Long
Distance Now:
Very Short Stories
Naomi Shihab Nye
HB $24.99
In these 40 life-altering,
life-affirming and extremely
short short stories, the
award-winning poet Naomi
Shihab Nye proposes that
no matter how great the divide between friends,
siblings, life and death, classmates, enemies,
happiness and misery, war and peace, breakfast
and lunch, parent and child, country and city, there
is, in fact, no long distance. Not anymore.
All I Ever Wanted
Vikki Wakefield
PB $19.95
Mim knows what she wants
and where she wants to go
— anywhere but home,
stuck in the suburbs. She’s
set herself rules to live by,
but she’s starting to break
them. Over the nine days
before her 17th birthday,
Mim’s life turns upside down. She has problems
and she’s determined to solve them herself. But in
the end, she works out who her people are and
the same things look entirely different.
Stay With Me
Paul Griffin
PB $19.95
Céce and Mack never
expected to fall in love, but
soon they’re spending all
their time together.
Everything is perfect. Until.
Until Mack loses control
and makes a horrible
mistake and suddenly
everything is impossible. Céce and Mack struggle,
with both humour and compassion for each
other,to answer the question: how do you survive
when the person you love can’t stay?
Miss Peregrine’s
Home For
Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
HB $24.95
Sixteen-year-old Jacob
discovers the crumbling ruins
of Miss Peregrine’s Home for
Peculiar Children. As he
explores its abandoned
bedrooms and hallways, it
becomes clear that the children were more than just
peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may
have been quarantined on a deserted island for
good reason. And somehow they may still be alive.
The Apothecary
Maile Meloy
PB $19.95
The Scott family has
moved unexpectedly from
Los Angeles to London.
Janie feels uncomfortable
in her strange new school,
until the local apothecary
promises her a remedy for
homesickness. But the real
cure is meeting the apothecary’s son Benjamin.
Benjamin’s father is no ordinary apothecary and when
he’s kidnapped, Benjamin and Janie find themselves
entrusted with his sacred book, a book that Russian
spies are intent on getting their hands on.
Dust City
Robert Paul Weston
PB $11.99
Ever since his father’s arrest
for the murder of Little Red
Riding Hood, teen wolf Henry
Whelp has kept a low profile,
until another murder leads
Henry to believe his father
may have been framed. With
the help of his roommate,
Jack and a daring she-wolf named Fiona, Henry
ventures deep into the heart of Dust City: a gritty
metropolis controlled by a dangerous mob and
their crime boss leader, Skinner. Can Henry solve
the mystery of his family’s sinister past?