Confessions of a Closet Catholic

Confessions of a Closet CatholicBy: Sarah Darer Littman Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award! An "eleven going on twelve year old Jewish girl" searches for her identity in what Publisher's Weekly called a "reassuring debut novel about finding one's personal peace and comfort zone." Justine Silver's best friend, Mary Catherine McAllister, has given up chocolate for Lent, but Justine doesn't think God wants her to make that kind of sacrifice. So she's decided to give up being Jewish

I'm just putting down a positive con these days

he and his best friends have been sleeping like babies

Bloom of the Flower Dragon

Smith   In this hilarious yet touching story from the masterful David Almond

what we hold onto and what we leave behind

Will the bad-luck kitty jinx Roscoe and ruin his chance to win

two-thousand-year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan finds himself the target of two goddesses of the hunt and a trickster god determined to unleash the apocalypse

this book opens up the processes and practices of artists and proves that you

Drawing on her post-apocalyptic survival and action skills--and with the help of some odd new companions--June attempts to make her way back home

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but they are very different

this book includes all the elements of this joyful festival of colours