Carmen, Tibby, Lena and Bridget have been best friends all their lives. They live in the same small American town and usually spend every moment of their long summer holidays together. Tibby buys a pair of jeans in a second-hand shop and the girls discover that the trousers fit each of them perfectly, despite their different figures and heights.

The Penderwicks are four sisters, as different as chalk from cheese, yet as close as can be. The four girls and their absent-minded father head off for their summer holidays, but instead of the cosy tumbledown cottage they expect, they find themselves on a huge estate called Arundel, with magnificent gardens ripe for exploring.

It's a summer that will forever change the lives of Lena, Carmen, Bee and Tibby, here and now, past and future, together and apart.

Summer is always a special time for the four teenage best friends: Bee, Tibby, Carmen and Lena. This year there's an added poignancy as the girls know this is their last summer together. Can the strength of their friendship overpower the feuds in their families and leave the girls with happy memories of the third summer of the sisterhood?

On the outside, Macy Queen is cool and calm. On the inside, she's breaking. Silently struggling with her Dad's death, Macy is smiling her way through - she's 'fine'. It's only when she meets a group of new friends that she realizes she can wear her heart on her sleeve sometimes. Because life doesn't stop when someone disappears.

The highly-anticipated first adult novel from the bestselling author of The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants

This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another, and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.

This winner of the 2006 Newbery Medal is a poignant coming-of-age story about a young girl and her friends whose paths cross--and stories criss cross--over one summer. Illustrated throughout with photos and illustrations by the author.

The clash of ancient rules and modern expectations swirl together in this cool, urban 21st century faery tale.

Going to Israel with her father is the last thing Amy wants to do this summer. A spoiled American teenager with an attitude that matches her killer Jimmy Choo slides, she's got a serious grudge against her dad, aka Sperm Donor, for showing up so rarely in her life. Now he's dragging her to a war zone to meet a family she's never known.

The bestselling author of A WEDDING IN DECEMBER returns with a scintillating new novel about a young widow torn between two brothers during one long New England summer

The story of the Hamptons, where beach cottages are the size of aeroplane hangers and cute surf guys drive around in their Porsches. For three girls, this is going to be a summer spent playing mummy all day and going wild all night.

An unforgettable novel from one of America's greatest living storytellers, 'Summerland' is about redemption and the true nature of heroism.

Colby Cavendish has finally been invited to join the popular clique. Even though it meant ditching her old best friend for Amanda, the coolest girl in school, she'll get to spend her senior year as a member of the in-crowd she's always envied.

When James and Eamon go to a week of Nature Camp and stay at Eamon's grandparents' house, it turns out that their free time spent staying inside, eating waffles, and playing video games is way more interesting than nature. But sometimes things work out best when they don't go exactly as planned.

An utterly absorbing and brilliantly observed story of friendship, sisterhood, motherhood and fate.

The first in a two-book saga following the 1930s childhood of Joey and Mary Alice as they spend their summers with a formidable grandma in small-town Illinois. If Grandma isn't holding their nasty neighbours at gunpoint, she is doing a spot of poaching or catching the sheriff in his underwear.

Sheila hates swimming. And dogs. And ghosts. And thunderstorms. She'll do anything to avoid them all - except admit that she's scared. Her new friend Mouse Ellis, champion of Tarrytown, thinks she's chicken. But Sheila is determined to show everyone that she can be Sheila the Great.

An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter are away on a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer inhabitants but the very island itself.

Huckleberry Finn had a tough life with his drunk father until an adventure with Tom Sawyer changed everything. But when Huck's dad returns and kidnaps him, he must escape down the Mississippi river with runaway slave, Jim. They encounter trouble at every turn, from floods and gunfights to armed bandits and the long arm of the law.