Jennifer Johnston Bücher

What starts as a class trip to the aquarium ends in the depths of the ocean, where the class has to escape from the jaws of a great white shark. Ms. Frizzle teaches the class about different shark species, including the goblin shark, angel shark, and the enormous whale shark. Illustrations.

In 1920, 18-year old Nancy Gulliver befriends a mysterious stranger and unwittingly becomes involved in the bloody conflict between the English and the Irish. (Nancy Pearl)

Avery isn't everyone's idea of a model Presbyterian minister. A Velvet Underground fan and student of stand-up comedy, the former bank-worker can't quite get used to being ?Reverend?. Then there's his difficulty remembering biblical quotations . . .Despite all this, Avery has absolute faith in his ability always to know the right thing to do. Until, that is, a man appears in his east Belfast church and confesses to murder. The only problem is ? this man can't remember where, when or why he killed. Avery commits himself to finding out the truth of what happened, but if this stranger seems hampered by the limitations of his own memory, then the minister's hands are tied by his professional and personal responsibilities ? and, as Avery soon realizes, neglecting his own concerns could have disastrous consequences .

"Annie's father is dead. She isn't sorry. A rich and domineering man, his chief passion was money and, long ago, when his lovely, fragile wife died suddenly, he set Annie to school in England and insisted that her mother was never mentioned again. But now his tyranny is over. And so Annie returns to Dublin, to the family house she hates, and discovers that, just when she thought she was free of her father, he has left her the house and intends her to live as he would have wished. Does she dare to defy him one more time? And whom can she trust to tell her the truth about her mother's life, and death".

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Johnny, an outstanding young swimmer, went missing nearly thirty years ago: drowned, or so everyone except his sister Imogen believes. How could this have happened? Encouraged, pushed even, from a child by his father, Johnny could have made the Olympic team, couldn't he? As Imogen gradually pieces together bits of her family history, we hear the tragic echoes that connect her with the Great War and Ireland in the nineteen-twenties.