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Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano. Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend. (Lawrence does, too.).
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In all the years that Elinora Gassbeek has been matron of the Little Tulip Orphanage, not once have the Rules for Baby Abandonment been broken. Until the autumn of 1880, when five babies are left in outrageous circumstances; one in a tin toolbox, one in a coal bucket, one in a picnic hamper, one in a wheat sack, and finally, one in a coffin-shaped basket. Those babies were Lotta, Egg, Fenna, Sem, and Milou. And although their cruel matron might think...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1880 Stockholm, as the city awaits the arrival of the first ship to have sailed the Northeast Passage, 12-year-old Mika is approached by Constable Hoff about thefts around the city and vows to uncover who's really behind the crimes to keep her fellow orphans safe.
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