New Releases by Brock Cole

One of Horn Book''s Best Picture Books of 2011 A turkey poult causes turmoil for a family in this exuberant romp through the Christmas season, The Money We''ll Save, by award-winning author/illustrator Brock Cole. When Pa brings a turkey poult home to fatten for Christmas dinner, he assures Ma that it will be no trouble since it can live in a box by the stove and eat table scraps--and just think of the money we''ll save! But it''s not quite so simple to raise a turkey in a tiny flat in a nineteenth-century New York City tenement. Can Pa and the children manage the willful and growing Alfred and keep the neighbors happy until Christmas? Pa finds a solution for every difficulty--until he encounters one that threatens to ruin Christmas completely. How the family joins together to solve this last difficulty makes for a very funny and satisfying holiday story.

At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.

Harmless camp pranks can quickly spiral out of control, but they also provide a perfect opportunity for two social outcasts to overcome and triumph. A boy and a girl are stripped and marooned on a small island for the night. They are the "goats." The kids at camp think it''s a great joke, just a harmless old tradition. But the goats don''t see it that way. Instead of trying to get back to camp, they decide to call home. But no one can come and get them. So they''re on their own, wandering through a small town trying to find clothing, food, and shelter, all while avoiding suspicious adults—especially the police. The boy and the girl find they rather like life on their own. If their parents ever do show up to rescue them, the boy and the girl might be long gone. . . . The Goats is a 1987 New York Times Book Review Notable Children''s Book of the Year.

Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

Maggie, Katie, and Nora try to help their always-worried and fearful grandmother by entering her dreams and replacing her fears of burglars, trains, and bills with images of sails, sun, and the sea.

At the request of her social worker, 13-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed. This "School Library Journal''s" Best Book of the Year, "pushes the envelope of children''s literature" ("Booklist").

Stripped and marooned on a small island by their fellow campers, a boy and a girl form an uneasy bond that grows into a deep friendship when they decide to run away and disappear without a trace.

When a devil''s imp and his wife impersonate her parents, Alpha uses soap and water to deal with them and their baby.

Two misfits at summer camp find inner strength and self-knowledge when they are cruelly marooned on an island by fellow campers. They are the "goats." They escape and learn--in addition to survival-on-the-run skills such as petty thievery and grand theft/auto--cooperation, intimacy, and loyalty. Quietly witty, this remarkable book yields new depths with each reading.

Céline Morienval a seize ans. Elle est peintre. En l''absence de son père parti pour une tournée de conférences dans des universités européennes, elle vit avec Catherine, sa belle-mère, âgée de vingt-deux ans. On l''imagine, tout ne va pas pour le mieux.ŒŒFaire preuve de maturité, c''est tout ce que Monsieur Moreinval exige de sa fille pour la laisser partir en Italie cet été -voyage dont Céline projette secrètement de ne pas revenir. Mais tout conspire contre elle. D''abord, une dissertation sur Holden Caulfield qui la met mal à l''aise parce que les complications existentielles de ce personnage de Salinger lui semblent trop bien convenir à la propre vie de son professeur de littérature. Il y a aussi, Jake, le petit garçon qui habite à côté de chez elle et qui atterrit dans sa vie sans qu''elle ait rien demandé. Sans compter le portrait qu''elle doit faire pour l''école, le père de Jacob, artiste lui aussi, la soirée de Lucile, et enfin Dermot, un garçon assommant qui prétend être son fiancé ... (4e de couverture)

Before Celine, a sixteen-year-old artist, can take a promised trip to Europe, she must show a little maturity, finish an overdue term paper and support her seven-year-old neighbor during his parent''s separation. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

A little girl with a particular aversion to taking baths decides to run away the next time her mother tells her to take one.

Laura en Howie zijn noodgedwongen op elkaar aangewezen als ze door de kinderen van het zomerkamp uit pesterij op een onbewoond eiland worden achtergelaten.

Victimes d''une plaisanterie idiote, Howie et Laura quittent la colonie. Tout au long de leur fugue, ils s''enhardissent et se découvrent. L''audace des personnages cadre mal avec leur portrait initial.

A beggar arrives at the inn declaring he is a king but only manages to convince Little Baggit, the servant.