I really enjoyed this book. It's 1939 and Hitler is adored by many of the German people, including Georg. He never questions what he is being taught by the Nazi's at school, until his English father is attacked in a pro-Nazi demonstration. Georg is smuggled out of Germany and sent to live with his Aunt in London. Here he has to think quickly on his feet and try to 'blend' in so that nobody suspects he is German. Then the Blitz hits London and he is on the move again, this time on a war ship taking children to safety in Australia. As Georg encounters people along his journey to safety, his thoughts about Nazi's, Germany and Hitler begin to change. Will he ever find happiness and peace? Well worth reading.
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Harriet Rowland is a New Zealand teenager, who after a snowboarding holiday, discovers she has a tumour on her knee. As she fights her battle against cancer, she writes a blog, which eventually becomes a book. This is her true story. For those of you who loved The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. You will enjoy this. We also have this book in the library as a print version.
"This way I will NEVER have to get a job, learn how to cook more than two-minute noodles or do anything mildly productive. I never have to grow up and I can forever be a kid! Though my 'forever' is shorter than most, I don't mind. What I do mind is that I'm going to have to leave everyone I love behind." Harriet.
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Harriet Manners knows a lot of things.
She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent, Harriet grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the impossibly handsome supermodel Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves.
As Harriet veers from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did.
And as her old life starts to fall apart, the question is: will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything?
She knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a "jiffy" lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. What she isn't quite so sure about is why nobody at school seems to like her very much. So when she's spotted by a top model agent, Harriet grabs the chance to reinvent herself. Even if it means stealing her Best Friend's dream, incurring the wrath of her arch enemy Alexa, and repeatedly humiliating herself in front of the impossibly handsome supermodel Nick. Even if it means lying to the people she loves.
As Harriet veers from one couture disaster to the next with the help of her overly enthusiastic father and her uber-geeky stalker, Toby, she begins to realise that the world of fashion doesn't seem to like her any more than the real world did.
And as her old life starts to fall apart, the question is: will Harriet be able to transform herself before she ruins everything?
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