Molly And The Magic Umbrella

Like with most girls growing up with imagination and spirit, Sammy and Kris’ worlds that are inside their heads are so much cooler than the world which they live in. To escape, the two play imagination games together, feeling in their hearts that it was real, but knowing in their heads it couldn’t be. One day those ideas completely reverse, the world of spies and mysteries coming vibrantly to life after being played for only moments. Now Sammy and Kris must live through their fantasy and find out it’s not as whimsical as they thought it would, but with even more depth than they could have imagined. Can they make it through Shades and Xo7’s schemes to find the objective? They’ve pretended to be heroes before, but now they have to be them.

Cherry Denman has spent her life trailing husband Charlie round some of the world's most remote outposts and can ask for the lavatory in eleven languages. While some aspects of living abroad will always puzzle her - saunas, tofu and circumcision, to name just three - she wouldn't have missed it for anything. Lessons learnt range from the practical (possessions belong either in the suitcase or the skip: storage is for wimps), to the truly useful (how to avoid the drinks party bore) and the truly bizarre (the episode with the goat . . .). Charming and witty, these hilarious tales of global misunderstsanding are illustrated with over seventy original line drawings.

A collection of twenty-nine stories and poems from a variety of sources with accompanying notes suggesting ways of reading or telling each selection aloud.

Molly's fairy godmother gives her a magic fishbone that will grant one wish, which the resourceful girl saves until she really needs it.

Miranda gets a magic umbrella for her sixth birthday that carries her off on an adventure.

“A delectable mixture of ice cream and romance.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “For fans of Jenny Han.” —School Library Journal “A rare, enjoyable portrait of a woman-run business.” —Kirkus Reviews From the author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World and The List comes a bold and sweet summer read about first love, feminism, and ice cream. Summer in Sand Lake isn’t complete without a trip to Meade Creamery—the local ice cream stand founded in 1944 by Molly Meade who started making ice cream to cheer up her lovesick girlfriends while all the boys were away at war. Since then, the stand has been owned and managed exclusively by local girls, who inevitably become the best of friends. Seventeen-year-old Amelia and her best friend Cate have worked at the stand every summer for the past three years, and Amelia is “Head Girl” at the stand this summer. When Molly passes away before Amelia even has her first day in charge, Amelia isn’t sure that stand can go on. That is, until Molly’s grandnephew Grady arrives and asks Amelia to stay on to help continue the business…but Grady’s got some changes in mind…