Queen Kat Carmel And St Jude Get A Life

Download or read book Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life written by Maureen McCarthy and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsively readable story which has achieved classic status. Three very different girls from the same country town share an inner-city house during their first year out of school.

Download or read book Queen Kat, Carmel and St. Jude Get a Life written by Maureen McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmel, Jude and Katerina come from the same country town, so when they all move into the same inner-city house in their first university year, sparks are ready to fly. But this year is a time to re-invent themselves, a time to get a life.

Download or read book Chain of Hearts written by Maureen McCarthy and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 1999-11-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At seventeen, Sophie is a mess. Her best friend is dead and her boyfriend has gone. She's dropped out of school, sleeps through the day, eats all night and refuses to see anyone. Her family has had enough. But Sophie is about to embark on the strangest journey of her life. It will take her back into her family's past, back to the origins of the bitter rift between her mother and her Aunt Fran, to her Uncle Jimmy and the Vietnam War, and finally to the girl in the painting and the story haunting all their lives.

Download or read book Rose by Any Other Name written by Maureen McCarthy and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2008-03-18 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don'tcha just hate the way you get caught up in stuff without really wanting to? Then it goes a bit further, and suddenly you're one of those jerks you hate because . . . you can't be trusted. ROSE WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO GET AWAY. Last year she'd had it all: pre-law in the fall, a budding romance, and her best friend, Zoe. Now Zoe will never forgive her, her family is crumbling, and the secret that's been boiling up inside her is bubbling a little too close to the surface. All Rose needs to escape are an old van, her surfboard, the road, the ocean, and . . . mom? When Rose's mother jumps in the passenger seat right as Rose is about to set off, her trip takes an unexpected turn, filled with nagging memories of last year, and the looming scandal that refuses to be ignored. A twisting plot that keeps you guessing, told from the viewpoint of a realistically flawed yet snarky main character, makes this a book that just can't be put down.

Download or read book Cross My Heart written by Maureen McCarthy and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2001-05-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of kilometres without a car, a house or a person in sight. The dome of clear blue above and the occasional group of roos startling off into the scrub. Then emus, bolting off in a mad panic on the other side. I was finding something that had been lost inside me and I wanted to weave in and out on that straight white ribbon of road for the joy of having found it again.Cross my Heart is the story of Mick and Michelle, chasing a dream, crossing their hearts for the future. A vibrant, passionate, sprawling novel set in outback Australia from the highly acclaimed author of Chain of Hearts and Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get a Life.

Download or read book Careful what you wish for written by Maureen McCarthy and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a master storyteller, here is a warm and funny, yet heartfelt, novel for younger readers. 11-year-old Ruth is stuck with a family who just don't understand her. It takes a magical encounter with the sharp-nosed and even-sharper-tongued Rodney the Rat to help her see what's really important.

Download or read book Voracious Children written by Carolyn Daniel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-02-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voracious Children explores food and the way it is used to seduce, to pleasure, and coerce not only the characters within children's literature but also its readers. There are a number of gripping questions concerning the quantity and quality of the food featured in children's fiction that immediately arise: why are feasting fantasies so prevalent, especially in the British classics? What exactly is their appeal to historical and contemporary readers? What do literary food events do to readers? Is food the sex of children's literature? The subject of children eating is compelling but, why is it that stories about children being eaten are not only horrifying but also so incredibly alluring? This book reveals that food in fiction does far, far more that just create verisimilitude or merely address greedy readers' desires. The author argues that the food trope in children's literature actually teaches children how to be human through the imperative to eat good food in a proper controlled manner. Examining timely topics such as childhood obesity and anorexia, the author demonstrates how children's literature routinely attempts to regulate childhood eating practices and only award subjectivity and agency to those characters who demonstrate normal appetites. Examining a wide range of children's literature classics from Little Red Riding Hood to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , this book is an outstanding and unique enquiry into the function of food in children's literature, and it will make a significant contribution to the fields of both children's literature and the growing interdisciplinary domain of food, culture and society.