Elizabeth Hawkins

The Maze

Sent to live in the country with their elderly cousin, Andrew, Joanna and Bella experience some sinister and evil goings on that are somehow connected with an ancient maze and a local legend. Suggested level: primary.

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Betsy Duffey

The Big Book of Pet Stories

When Anna-Louise brings the class pet home from school for the holidays, her mother banishes it to the garden. However, the hamster disappears so Anna-Louise makes a fake one, but it accidently gets buried. When the real hamster eventually turns up, Anna-Louise has to explain its resurrection!

A Monster of a Hamster

It has been five days since her father’s death, and Liz still feels frozen in time. Left with twenty-one years of memories, Liz knows that John Frederick Smith was not a perfect man or father. She loved her father, but his drinking had always been a source of resentment. As she attempts to grapple with her grief and anger, Liz returns to her memories with the hope of finding the answers she so desperately needs. Sixty-nine years earlier, little Fred Smith is born out-of-wedlock in the small town of Southport, North Carolina. As his life’s journey leads him from Southport to Virginia and then into the military, he eventually marries and starts a family. Still, he cannot escape the cloud of shame and rejection that secretly haunts him, sending his life in a downward trajectory that ultimately affects the lives of his children and grandchildren and leaves him wondering if he will ever find the inner-peace he craves. In this poignant novel, the past intertwines with the present as an illegitimate child born during the early 1900s embarks on a dark journey fueled by a secret that creates generational challenges.

Elizabeth Hawkins

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